Abu Taymiyyah – Hot Panel Discussion LGBTQ, Feminism, Hijra, BLM, Haram Money & Challenges of The West.
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Alhamdulillah, it's a pleasure and an honor, inshallah,
to present this final panel discussion
of what has been a very successful summer
conference Alhamdulillah, where we challenged
and discussed many of the things that face
the Muslims in the West.
And in this panel discussion insha'Allah we are
going to further
discuss some of the questions that arrived and
just take our mashaikh's opinion and we are,
Alhamdulillah,
joined by this great mashaikh sha Allah at
this beautiful masjid, masjid furqan. And as you
know the dawah of this masjid runs solely
on the will of Allah azza wa jal
and then the hard work of the brothers
and then your generous donations. And we've been
promoting for the last few weeks months trying
to get brothers
to sign up on a monthly direct debit.
Whether it is £5, £10, 20, 30 that
can help continue the dawah and the great
work that this masjid is doing insha Allah.
So you can sign off at the back
there are some forms there for you to
fill out insha'Allah
and start today supporting this masjid to continue
to excel and push the boundaries of the
dawah to the maximum viability and output insha'Allah.
The second thing tomorrow we're going to be
having a dawrah, a one day intensive dawrah
with our Shaykh,
Shaykh. Shaykh Haytham Surhan Hafida'Allah who's going to
be with us from Salatul Durr until Salatul
Aisha where he's going to be going through
3 different books, 3 different works inshaAllah. So
we encourage all the brothers to come and
benefit from these masayikh inshaAllah.
Now I have to starting from the last
person inshaAllah on the panel my Shaykh, Shaykh
Abu Usama, may Allah Azzawajal bless him and
reward him for joining us. And then we
have next to him, Sheikh Mustafa Abu Rayyan.
And all of the panelists are Ghaniyuna Alikareef.
They don't need much of an introduction, but
we continue insha'Allah tomorrow we have Ashaikh Abu
Tamia and then our very own Ashaikh Muhammad
Ali HafidahumullahJamiyah.
These Masha'ikh, Masha'Allah all of them
come and graduated from the Islamic University
of Al Madina.
And we know Sheikh a lot of the
challenges from the West maybe starting from Sheikh
Abu Usama.
A lot of the challenges of the west,
or a lot of the challenges we face
as a Muslim.
These challenges come down to the lack of
knowledge, and how do we deal with these
challenges and problems. And we know everyone here
or all of the masha'iki on the panel
went to the Islamic University of Madinah and
learned that knowledge of how to deal with
these challenges for the general Muslim
unable to travel.
What's your advice for them? How do they
learn how to deal with these challenges inshallah?
The vast majority of us, we're not going
to be able to go to study, and
that is a fact.
But going to study in Medina, or anywhere
else for that matter, no doubt,
it is a tremendous nama. I consider my
days in Medina as the sweetest days of
my life.
The time that I've been walking on the
face of this earth, when I look back
retrospectively, they
were the.
But most of us won't get that opportunity.
And I know a lot of the youngsters,
they want to do that,
but what we always advise people
is to be realistic
and deal with your reality and try to
get in where you fit in right now
because
we don't have any passive participants
in LS land.
2 things. The best of you is he
who brings benefit to others, so try to
bring benefit to others. If you can't do
that,
then try not to hurt other people.
So in summary, I would say this.
I would say this.
The statement of Allah in the Quran
Everybody
has a path that Allah has put you
on.
So being a race in your path. I
went to Medina, he went to Medina, he
went to Medina, he went to Medina. These
people have memorized the Quran.
I'm the only one who didn't memorize the
Quran.
They memorized the Quran. You didn't memorize the
Quran.
But although I didn't memorize the Quran, there's
something else that I can do, whatever it
happens
to be. I wanna go to Lebanon and
help Muslims
who have been displaced and kicked out of
Syria. So that's what I'm gonna do.
The he's going to give the adhan in
this masjid.
These brothers here are gonna be on the
1st row on the right side in most
of the prayers.
You can't get on the 1st row, get
on the 2nd, on the on the left
side of the 1st row.
There's a brother over there. He has money.
He gives.
There's another he's a of the Quran.
There's another one in this audience who he's
really good at,
and no one's going to be him in
his khidma for his mom or his dad,
and on and on and on. So you
have to get in where you fit in.
That's the point.
You look for what Allah ta'ala has given
you that other people don't have and you
go ahead and you make it happen.
The prophet says,
He said, there is a tree, and that
tree,
its leaves don't fall off of the tree,
and that tree is like the believer.
And that tree is the,
the date palm tree,
which is a tree that
is like the believer in many ways. We
don't have time to go through all of
that, but one of the things about the
date palm tree one of the things about
the date palm tree is
it brings benefit.
He sits his back and rests his back
on the date palm tree,
and he takes the shade that the palm
tree is providing for him. You cut that
tree down and you use the wood to
make furniture.
Use it for firewood.
The leaves of the tree, the arrows made
fans out of it. The dates, you eat
the dates, take the seed, plant it. There's
nothing about that tree that's going to be
jammed up. It's all benefit.
That's the Muslim.
He comes to this masjid,
and we have a dora right now. We
have a lecture. Look at the cameras and
stuff. Look at the lights. Use the bathroom.
Give some.
Benefit the people. They're the people who come
every Friday. They don't give anything. But on
Friday, they go and eat every Friday. I
don't say that's haram. He has 2 mobile
telephones.
Why can't his money some of it go
to the local Masjid? The point is, you
have to get in where you fit in
and just be realistic. So my advice to
you
is, don't be a bum.
Don't be a bum.
A bum is a person who saluk
all he has
is the cup is half empty, the cup
is half empty. Oh, it's too hot, oh,
it's too cold.
Get in where you fit in and help,
al Islaan. If you go to Medina, inshaAllah,
go to Medina, you come back, and you
try to help. And Allah's
Sheikh Mohammed,
Sheikh Abu Samah mentioned that, alhamdulillah, we have
her father amongst us and we know it,
Yani, because we always
benefit and listen to your recitations.
But we know Sheikh you memorize the Quran
here long before you went to Madinah.
So that shows that you can actually benefit
and make out of yourself even if you're
still in the UK. You don't have to
board a plane. So what advice do you
have for those that you're on is the
opportunities yet to open up for up for
them to go abroad? How can they make
the most of the UK?
I'm
aware that the time is of the essence.
And but as the local imam,
and I just want to also take this
opportunity before I answer the question that mister
Azaw Bayd has just asked me. I wanna
take this opportunity and thank all the masha'if,
those of them who were here yesterday and
those of them who are here with us
today beginning with Sheikh Abu Usama, Sheikh Mustafa
Abu Rayyan, Sheikh Abu Taymiyyah,
and Sheikh Sajid who has just left, another
who were here yesterday as well. I wanna
thank all of them from the bottom of
my heart on behalf of this wonderful congregation,
and I wanna say to them
for coming and accepting our invitation. And
this is your masjid. We want you to
consider this as your masjid. I know sheikh
Abbasama is from Birmingham and from Leeds and
and all all the way from the States.
I know sheikh Mustafa is from Birmingham. We
have sheikh Abu Tamia Masha'allah from Leicester, from
London, and
here I am from Sheffield and from Manchester.
Both of them, we got people from Sheffield
with us,
And also we
have our wonderful brothers from the city of,
Manchester.
Answering the question, if I come back to
the question that was just asked,
and what do you need to do, like,
before you go to, for example, the Islamic
University of Medina? Can someone can you actually
study and learn and benefit yourself before you
go?
This is one of the things that I
used to say to young brothers. If a
young brother wants to come to me and
take a reference from me, for example, to
go to the Jannah. One of the questions
I ask him is that, what do you
do right now? Are you studying locally? Are
you studying here, for example, in the UK?
Are you studying the Quran? Are you going
to the Masjid? Do you attend the study
circles even if it is once a week?
Or you just wanna start studying when you
go to Medina? If somebody says to me,
I wanna start learning when I get to
Medina,
that person, I'm not gonna give him a
reference because you're not you're not being serious.
If you start working here, if you start
studying while you're still in the UK or
in the States or in America, wherever you
are, if you study locally with the that
you have and benefit from them,
you'll be able to excel when you go
to Madinah. We know many students
that went to
Madinah the same time as we went, and
even before us, like when was there. I'm
sure he can remember a list of names
or brothers who went to the at the
same time as him. Many of them, they've
never completed the. Maybe they left the halfway
or at the beginning of the. Maybe some
of them, they didn't use to study back
home, so they just got accepted and they
went to the jammer, and then they found
it hard from the beginning and then they
went back.
Some of them had good reasons to go
back. So,
yes, you can achieve a lot. And we
have seen in our masjid, the masjid of
masjid of. We have seen youngsters who have
memorized the Quran here in the UK, in
our masjid. Youngsters who are only 10 years
old, say
We have 10 year olds,
who have completed the Quran. 11 year olds
who have completed the Quran. We have in
our masjid
some of our teachers
who have
got for
and even all the
So you can see you can achieve a
lot. Just imagine a 22, 23 year old
right now, like, I was
I said to him, now you've got more
than a degree,
If you have memorized the whole Quran and
you've got the
now if he goes out for
he will be able to achieve a lot.
Same as
as well and others who have memorized the
Quran.
Quran. So young brothers,
do your best here and then when you
go abroad to study whether it is in
Madina, whether it is in Mauritania, whether it
is somewhere else in Egypt, for example, you'll
be able to excel.
I mean, I just want to follow-up,
on these,
2 giants of,
tough
act to follow, like they say.
But I wanted to give practical advice.
When we speak about
traveling for knowledge, when we speak about seeking
knowledge,
this is a path that
many hope to thread upon,
few actually do, and of those few even
less succeed,
may Allah forgive our shortcomings.
And often
the regular
and the person that comes to the masjid
and wants to pray his 5 and is
trying to get a career and have a
family, this conversation of traveling and they might
feel like, well, maybe this is not targeted
at me because I am not the one
memorizing the text, and I am not the
one trying to do the. And to be
honest,
we will always encourage you to learn
the prophet,
like the hadith of Anshul Numeric said,
Muslim seek knowledge is an obligation upon every
Muslim. Now now that doesn't mean every Muslim
has to learn the and may Allah protect
and preserve those who did Allahu Akbar
but
there is so much you can do,
you are meant to know your
that is
learning that and memorizing your adkar for the
day you are meant to
every year every few months learn more Quran
and learn the meanings of the ayahs that
you recite in your prayers so you can
attain more Khushur it's something achievable and you
can do, you are meant to know more
about your prophet
so listen to a Seerah class, attend fajr
reflections, these beautiful reflections that happen here every
fajr, and listen to them. These things are
not
hard things that one can do, but over
time, you will learn so much. There is
a man, he is not a Muslim,
He's actually a Christian
missionary and he calls towards Christianity,
but he's among one of those Christians
that targets Muslims and calls them away from
Islam.
He also rides bikes, so he bikes, a
lot, and he used to listen to the
seerah of the prophet, salarai alayhi wasalam, and
he finished a whole series.
Someone that is not a Muslim
managed to listen to a whole series from
a to said about the prophet, and he
had not good intentions. But the thing is
it can be done.
You can learn more about your deen just
by attending the regular programs happening here in
the masjid, if you can give one day
a week, if you can focus on your,
if you can have achievable
smart goals, this is for everyone here without
any distinction. Among you, those that are more
interested,
the Masha'ik have mentioned the path that you
should be
upon.
I just wanted to ask, can Allah offer
subhanAllah, underestimate what we have in the UK
in terms of mashi'ikh, in terms of senior
talabutulail.
And even sometimes you find the brothers that
actually have a bit of knowledge, or have
recently graduated,
they come and dispute the hard miles that
these mashaikh put in. So do you have
any advice for someone, as someone that recently
graduated from the University of Madinah, and mashAllah,
perhaps the youngest on the panel, Allah Maberek.
Do you have any advice for the brothers
that are just, getting that knowledge about respecting
some of the senior scholars and even the
senior Masha'ayikh in the UK?
It's good that he asked that because I
was about to comment on him saying everybody
here
has graduated from the universities, right? And that
is the case. However,
when somebody says all of them are graduates,
should we be looking at them the same
way? Oh, we need to understand brothers and
sisters, they are Tabakat.
When Sheikh Abu Samah and Sheikh Mohammed graduated
from the universities,
right, I think at the time, Abu Taim
was being chased by a helicopter in London.
It's not right
for everybody to look at graduates the exact
same way.
Some of these,
Mashayah,
they have decades
of experience under their belt that shouldn't be
undermined.
Sometimes,
us young brothers who graduated from the universities,
we begin to think
about ourselves that we have the knowledge and
we've probably maybe what
even surpassed some of these elders.
This is one of the traps of the
Shaytan,
and he forgets that he should always go
back to the elders. The poet even says,
If you see an issue that is being
managed only by youngsters
without the consultation of elders, you will always
find a deficiency
and that which they are carrying out.
Right? No matter how much knowledge you acquire,
something that can't be bought is what experience,
right? Not so long ago something happened to
me that brought me a lot of pain.
Sheikh Mohammed knows what I'm speaking about. I
think the rest of the brothers as well
because I consulted them in the WhatsApp group.
I asked the different brothers
the same question.
I remember a piece of advice that Sheikh
Mohammed gave me when looking back in hindsight,
I came to realize that it was the
best possible advice in how to react
with what had happened to me.
Right? And this brothers and sisters
is years of experience
that you can't buy with money,
right? You may become extremely knowledgeable,
but because of one bad move when giving
dawah to the people, when speaking to others,
it could be the reason why your whole
Dawah
becomes X.
Allah, we've seen many in the past, they
have a lot of knowledge,
however, because of how
they conducted themselves,
all of the doors were shut in their
face,
right, and even myself, I'll be
happily happy enough to admit I personally made
some mistakes. Right. And I really wish that
I took the advices of some of our
elderly mashaikh. And even until this very day,
Sheikh Abu Sammah says this to me when
we have discussions from time to time, I
used to tell you,
right, I used to tell you.
And and I really, really appreciate that about
our elders,
right, so it's important that we realize that.
Likewise, when fit and take place,
trials and tribulations, these challenges that we have
in the West,
again, it's very important that we seek
advice from those who are older,
Right? Age is something very important. Likewise, knowledge
is extremely, extremely important as well.
Right?
Someone may be knowledgeable as I said, but
he doesn't have the age.
He may be able to give you a
good answer. However,
don't forget those who are older in age.
Right. Don't forget that. And I think that's
extremely, extremely important
that we, touch on at this moment in
time, insha Allah. Yeah.
Assalamu alaikha, may Allah reward you all for
the beautiful beneficial answers.
One of the challenges that a lot of
the brothers and sisters messaged about
was work,
and how you live in an environment and
society, your 9 to 5 lifestyle,
doesn't really cater for your needs as a
Muslim.
It doesn't really factor in you have to
go out to pray Jum'ah, it doesn't factor
in that you have to pray your 5
daily prayers, Some of the sisters are even
saying that I can't dress as I would
want to dress in a workplace
because there's strict
sort of
uniforms
and requirements, how does a Muslim balance
work with
that which Allah has
required from him? How can we live that
this Western lifestyle, and also be Muslims first?
As Muslims we have to understand that, Huwani,
I heard the talk of
Sherab Urian, about the Islamic personality.
His talk was
important, that topic is important because normative Islam
is being chiseled out,
chiseled away
as we live here.
Pretty soon in the next 5, 10 years
don't be surprised
if a lady
is given
the or making the
or she's standing in line with us.
Because they have rights
and I've seen this happen with an African
American lady in America, she came here
and these real liberal people, you know, entertained
her, but those
were people who were on the fringes of
al Islam. I'm talking about
the normal masjid. This stuff is happening, it's
going to happen.
So I think it's important for all of
you to understand that Islam is our identity.
Allahu
Ta'ala mentioned in the Quran.
We reveal this book making everything
clear to you. We don't need anything
from
anybody else.
Animals, animal rights, we don't need people to
tell us that. European, African, we don't need
Christian and Jewish people telling us that.
Women's rights,
everything is in our deen.
So, I don't wanna sit here and just
give some slogans and some ayaat and it's
just, that's what it is, just ayaat,
but we are in the mud right now.
We're in the dirt, the reality of it.
But just remember, yeah, Aqi Abdulah Mottola,
if you put a nominal,
sincere effort forward,
really, really trying to please Allah, Allah will
make a way for you.
He mentioned in the Quran,
Those people who make jihad naming efforts
for him, he's going to guide you to
the right way. It's what Allah said in
the Quran.
That is a fact.
I mentioned during my talk that hadith about
Allah's characteristic.
If you come walk into Allah, Allah will
come running to you.
You make an effort and Allah Azwajal
will give you tofir.
That is a fact.
The
prophet
we think
was flying around with the and his companions
were no.
They were getting chopped up and killed and
stabbed.
What happened to Sumaya
and her family, her husband, that's real talk.
That's real stuff.
Become a Muslim back then, you go out
your house, it's the last time you're gonna
go out your house. You turn around a
corner, you get stabbed in your stomach, kicked
in your head. You're talking about right now
Islamophobia
right now, this stuff is a walk in
the park.
I don't want to minimize those Muslims who
really suffered really bad,
but this stuff is a walk in the
park right now.
Some serious anti
Islamic sentiments
during the time of Mecca, and what did
Allah do? He revealed those Quran,
those ayaat and those Suras,
told us a story about
Yunus,
told us all of these stories about Yosef
and all of these stories where
they were being told. These ayaat and these
lessons, take it easy right now.
None of those prophets and messengers were asking
Allah for anything in those surahs in their
lives except
for forgiveness
and vigor
and praising a lot.
But we want, you know, the society, the
time we're living, we wanna put it in
the microwave
and push the button and bing bing bing,
it comes out and we wreck. That ain't
work. It don't work like that.
Doesn't work like that.
So put your best foot forward.
Day by day, every journey begins with 1
step.
One step, man.
So if you come to the average person,
unfortunately, and you said to him because of
lack of fiqh,
fiqh is not just, it's haral, it's haram.
That's part of it,
and knowing the daleel, why is haram haram.
What's the root of kat? It's haram. What's
the daleel?
No, man.
You have to know the
connection.
But real is, real
is
being able to weigh the benefits,
and the harms,
and making the right decision.
Should I take another wife?
At the expense of losing my first wife
and her babies, my babies,
that's fick.
Someone comes to you and says, you know,
this is a y d right here, y
d, y d, like where the river used
to go, but there's no water now. No
water.
And it's pitch black, can't see. We have
to cross from that side to this side.
Pitch black, you can't see. Someone comes and
say, hey, Amanda,
here is a lantern. I'm gonna give you
this lantern, it's gonna have light. You'll only
be able to see in front of you
one foot, that's all, but it will guarantee
to be
lit until you get to the other side.
Do you want this?
And Abbotany was talking about the helicopters in
London chasing him.
It's like, I know what time it is,
some people don't know what he meant by
that.
I even didn't know that was his background.
I didn't know him because Abutame is Habibaba
right here, that boy right there. I love
this brother right here, like my own son.
And what about the person who says, okay,
take the lantern or
the helicopter
is going to beam the light down, and
you can see every small particle from heat
to the air, every glass, scorpion,
cactus, every rock, everything.
You'll see everything, but
at any moment, they can cut that light
off.
Most of the people want the rah rah.
Most of give me that light.
Give me the light, the rah rah. Hip
hop. Look at the jewelry.
Look at how she look. Look at all
of those fake this, fake that. Everybody is
watching,
but the faqiya is the one who says,
give me that lantern, man.
Give me that lantern.
So,
take it easy
and just learn the basics
and just be normal people, and this is
from the hikmah of Allah about our deen.
He said, this
There's a Ummah illiterate. We can't read and
we can't write.
We can't read. What he meant by that
is, vast majority of Muslims,
from that time to now
are not graduate They're not graduates of college
and universities.
This is not a religion for
rocket scientists, this is a religion for regular
people.
Last thing I wanna mention now, because I
think I'm gonna go before this is over,
I wrote these points so that I won't
forget.
Point number 1 is, as I look at
this panel,
it goes to show what I've always been
saying, and that is black lives matter. I
gotta mention that.
Other lives matter. I don't have other lives
matter,
but everybody's from Africa up here at Hamdila,
including an Aqal Hadib or Ubaydah.
I remember Ubaydah when he was 10 years
old. The other thing,
these Sumaris.
I gotta say this. Allah said in the
prophet,
Aisha said,
We've been commanded. Put people in their proper
place. Don't treat your mother and your father
like kids. Don't treat the cafe like a
Muslim.
Don't treat the po po who has a
gun like he's some knucklehead on the street.
You better treat him like he got a
gun.
These Sumani brothers,
I have to say this,
no matter where you travel in the earth,
in Europe,
Sweden, Denmark,
Canada, America,
some Sumadias are off the meat hinges
in Minnesota and other places. Antisocial
behavior, terrible.
Bloods and Crips, terrible, but
wherever you go and you find that somatic
community,
they beat us in two things. They beat
everybody.
They're sharp.
They're comb,
and that is that Quran,
and you'll find that their women generally
dress better than all the other Muslims.
Generally.
Now you got some Sumadis who eat pork
on TikTok.
You got Sumadis who be bugging, going into
the house, and beating up people in their
house. When did that ever happen With Africans.
When that ever happened?
When did that ever happen, that Africans went
into someone's house and started fighting them and
their moms was there? When did that ever
happen? Like in New York, family from Gambia.
The lady
migrated from
Gambia to America.
Harlem, New York.
Four boys and one mother by herself,
and the oldest boy was wildin' out. His
mother kept saying, you gotta get a job,
you better stop being a bum, you gotta
get a job, and he would get upset.
He came home one day, took out his
hammer, took out his gat, and blasted his
mother in her face,
and shot his mother dead.
When did Africans start doing that?
When they came here,
in the diaspora,
and they lost their deen, and they lost
their culture, and they lost their connection,
and they started getting high, and they lost
their identity.
So I just wanna acknowledge and recognize the
Sumani community for that, because
I've been to their communities all over,
and
outside of Somalia,
these people, the Quran,
the Duxi, we all know that word, It's
in we all know it. Duxi. I never
heard Duxi, so I hooked up with Sumani's.
That's the Madrasah for the Quran.
So may Allah bless you, Sumani, inshallah, community
me with the good, and you continue to
work on that evil stuff that,
is inside of our community. May Allah help
every Allah's.
May Allah reward you and bless you for
that.
Do any of other other panelists wanna focus
on that, I think, work and in work
and balance in terms of deen and religion
inshallah.
This is the Sheikh, right?
My brothers and my sisters,
when it comes to balancing between
not compromising on your religion,
right?
And also
chasing after world affairs.
And I think maybe using the term chasing
has a very negative connotation. Let's say maybe
fulfilling your duties,
right, there is no harm in taking from
the Dunya
that which is going to aid and assist
your hereafter.
Right? And we need to always remember this
Hadith, and I think it's in its place.
It is my favorite hadith
up until this very day, I make Dua
for the one who taught me this, and
I don't know who he is. I can't
remember who taught it to me.
Before I went to Alim and everybody was
saying,
if you drop out of university or you
drop out of school, because I was in
college at a time, 1st year college,
you will fall behind, everybody will progress.
They will be in high paid jobs while
you're just scrambling around looking
for a basic minimum wage?
A lot of people are saying that I
didn't know anything at a time other than
this hadith
and a little Quran that I memorized. What
is this hadith when the prophet said,
you don't leave something for the sake of
Allah
doing it out of Taqwa, being conscious of
him,
Allah a za'ud the Almighty,
except he will always give you that which
is better.
Wallahi take that from me brothers and sisters.
Even Al Nukaym in his Kitab, Zadul Ma'ad,
he speaks about
sometimes
doing something
for his sake,
right?
Doing something for his sake. If you think
that Allah is not going to give you
that which is better
alongside leaving something off
for His sake if you think Allah is
not going to give you that which is
better
He has indeed had bad thoughts of Allah
You will find yourselves, this is a very
general answer, and I know people are in
different situations,
and some of you are probably wondering,
I need that one last push
in order for me to detach myself from
the Haram that I'm involved in.
You may be involved in Haram and you're
trying to balance between Deen and Dunya,
Wallahi brothers and sisters,
you leave it for the sake of Allah
Azza Wajal, Allah will always give you that
which is better.
I'll quickly tell you guys Insha'Allah Ta'ala a
quick story
of my neighbor.
Right? May Allah Azza Wa Jal bless him.
I remember back in 2014, he went on
Hajj with me. He was on my Hajj
group and
he only had his last £4,000
or was it £5,000
and he was putting it towards the Hajj.
Uncertain times, right? What is he going to
do
when he comes back? Because he just left
his job. You know why he left his
job? Because he involved writing down Riba,
he was an accountant.
Well, I remember he used to go to
his house, he told me teach me some
books in tawhid and akhida. So he used
to go to his house and I would
see him sad. His in laws would look
at him as someone who
right? You know, the Sheikh used the term,
I don't know, another term for it like
being a bum sitting at home,
Right?
Ullah would see him like that and his
in laws would give him a hard time,
but he left it for the sake of
Allah. He went for Hajj. As soon as
he came back, he had a job offer
to go and teach English
in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. You know,
brothers, the 6 years I spent in Al
Madinah,
I only came to know about
English teachers who teach either in Riyadh,
some are fortunate enough to teach in Al
Madinah,
and others were in different places. I never
came across a brother who teaches English
in Makkah,
other than his brother.
The bigger the sacrifice, the bigger the gift
from Allah.
That's how I look at it. Well, I
remember he went there, he was earning very
good money, 20 +1000,
I can't remember, but I think it was
mid 20.
Right?
And he was only maybe at times working
once a week because the kids were careless,
they don't want to come to class.
Right? Him and his wife, they're going back
and forth to the Kaaba every other day.
They stayed there a couple of years, they
came back, Wallahi, they bought the biggest house
on the road.
The biggest house on the road.
And I put this down to leaving it
for the sake of Allah.
Is it really worth
for a small portion of the Dunya? You
give that you you end up giving up
your Deen for a small portion of the
Dunya.
May Allah
possess it is far greater,
only a matter of time what's good I
seen,
you guys will watch bash heads with one
another
and we see that in Job
spaces,
a woman or a man decides not to
pray because I don't want to get into
my boss's bad books.
It's only a matter of time.
Does that make sense?
Wallahi put Allah
always first
and you will see Insha'Allah
the doors of provision
being opened up right before your eyes.
I just wanted to add one thing because
this has reminded me a powerful statement that
was made by.
Islam and Mutaimir. Sheikh Islam, Temir was alive
around 700 years ago, and he wasn't around
like this a 100 years ago. He was
around he was around and a life,
almost like 700 years ago.
And he was telling the Muslims of that
time, he said there are certain Muslim communities
that used to live with non muslims.
And any one of them who practice their
religion to the best of their ability, they
used to get the most respect from the
non believers.
And how long ago was this like, 700
years ago? He was saying that. He said
those people who who were acting upon their
religion, those people who are practicing their religion,
those people who are leaving things for the
sake of Allah, they used to get the
utmost respect from the non believers that they
were living with at that time.
And to me is the one who's saying
that.
So I want you to put that into
your mind as well. Whatever you leave for
the sake of Allah,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will replace it for
you, something a lot better than that, like
Masha'Allah Sheikh Abu Tamy has just mentioned and
also Sheikh Abu Samah,
And just diverting a little bit, we live
in an age and a time of ideologies
and thoughts,
and a Muslim is challenged on a regular
basis in terms of,
their belief, their identity.
Sadu gave us a workshop or a talk
rather about the Muslim identity.
How does a Muslim stand up to their
identity and face up and protect themselves from
all of these conflicting views and thoughts that
get thrown their way? And how do you
remain firm to your Muslim identity?
So
there are a lot of
ways of life out there,
but we have a very specific way of
life, and like I mentioned earlier in the
talk,
we are Muslims and we submit our will
to our creator Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, and
we live our lives according
to al Islam. This is what we do,
and
the
our values
and our laws
and our rules
and our rights and responsibilities
are all present
within
the Quran and the Sunnah within that framework,
And we have to understand that and we
have to believe that,
that whatever rights you believe you are owed
are the rights Allah gave you, whatever responsibilities
you have or the responsibilities
Allah put upon you,
whatever values that we have when compared to
other ways of life, our values come from
the Quran and the sunnah. So we do
not look elsewhere.
So when, for example, we see these movements,
and there are so many movements.
Right? We have a movement that is trying
to separate
our lives
from the deen.
Right? Leave your religion at home. It is
between you and your creator, but outside of
the home, no religion. It's just us and
our thoughts and what we agree upon.
We say no.
Our religion follows us everywhere to work in
our,
everywhere. Everywhere we go, our religion follows us.
We are submitted to Allah
and similarly, our and everything. So you'll have
someone, pushing secularism or the lecture that
gave on feminism, for example, these ideas,
they are not for us. We we we
are in no need of someone else to
tell us of the our responsibilities
nor our rights.
We do not need elder people to advocate
for these things. We have Allah and his
messenger
who have clearly given us our roles and
responsibilities.
Let that brothers and sisters be enough for
you.
For this is how you are a true
worshipper of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Be content.
You know what?
Yes. Maybe you need a movement for your
rights. I have Islam.
Maybe you need to think of what how
to live your life. I am not gonna
separate my religion from my life, nor am
I gonna separate religion from anything else. We
are Muslims,
we have prophets we follow, we have values,
this is who we are, it is your
complete package,
and this is the way our prophets were.
If you wanna end up like where they
ended up, Insha Allah,
join them in Jannah, Insha Allah, be forgiven
by Allah, Insha Allah,
then we have to live our life not
according to our whims and desires, nor according
to what the social,
pressure of the time is, rather
we take it
back to our Quran, the statements of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and the sunnah. This is
how we navigate
and operate within these spaces.
Hey. Let me ask some, I want the
of the Quran to remind you brothers of
this tremendous ayat. I don't remember the beginning
of the ayat.
The ayat says,
this is important, guys, you try to memorize
this ayat. Remember this ayat because the prophet,
he was confronted with this stuff.
They used to try to come and bribe
him.
When they saw Islam kept growing
and they couldn't stop it, they came and
say, I'm Mohammed.
Okay. Your religion is growing. We see that.
We can't stop. It's divine.
Look, what we'll do is you worship Allah
and we'll worship with you for a whole
year,
and then the next year you worship with
us.
And the ayah came down
Nope. We don't do that.
That's not the I want you to
we they're gonna bring to the table.
And the says something like,
those people,
they don't believe in the
they said,
they said
to the
And if the Quran is read to the
kuffar,
these non Muslims, with the different ideologies,
the ayat, the dean read to them.
Those people who don't believe in meeting us,
they say to Rasool Allah, bring us other
than this.
Give us something else. Don't bring that Quran.
Bring us something else. LGBT
progressive
bring us something else.
The prophet said Allah told the prophet
It's not for me. I don't have the
right to change this Quran or this deen.
It's not mine. Can't change this deen.
So
this thing about these people trying to change,
don't be one of those people who you
give up your religion because once you give
up your religion,
you are in trouble.
And maybe you should take the time out
using these, computers and all of this stuff
to gather those ayaat like that, that prohibit
us. And Allah threatened the prophet
that if he was to change something like
this, he would take him with the his
right. What is that?
The beginning of the ayat?
Allah told us, and if Rasulullah changed anything
about this religion,
we're gonna do what?
If he said some, just change some of
it, we're gonna take him a serious grab,
* him.
And he would never do that.
So don't be one of those sellouts.
We call them in America coconuts and stuff
like that. It don't have to be a
coconut, it could be inverted, it could be
whatever. Don't be one of those people. Hold
on to your religion more than anything else.
One of the hadith I wanted to remind
you of concerning his talk, he said,
Islam is over everything,
and nothing goes over Islam. I'm a Muslim
who is
African American.
I'm a Muslim
who's a doctor.
I'm a Muslim
who is
a chef at Burger King.
Islam first. Not
Amirpourri.
Not any Islam
is first. You guys remember that before your
tribe or any of that stuff.
Can
I just add something, right? Brothers and sisters,
have non Muslims
who are holding on to their values and
their morals.
I'm just here to quote, I don't express
my own views and opinions.
Let me quote something to every single one
of you, and this was found on the
BBC.
Which party runs the country? The Conservatives, right?
There are 363
conservative
MPs, over half of them, a 136
of them, did you know brothers and sisters,
voted against same * marriages, and that's just
me quoting,
they voted against it,
they are holding on to their values and
morals, from amongst them was an individual called
Jacob Rees Mogg,
who is one of Boris Johnson's right hand
men,
they invited him over to the good morning
show, which was at the time being hosted
by the Khabib, Piers Morgan,
and they kept on asking him
what is your view on same * marriages?
And I quote,
every single time he would say,
according to the teachings of the church
and his posh accent.
Every single time he would respond like the
according to the teaching of the church, and
then they asked him, why are you scared
to give your own view? Look, they're trying
to what?
Put him in a pit.
He says, it doesn't matter what I believe
with a smile,
according to the teachings of the church.
I believe it was 208
Jewish rabbis, they call themselves the Torah Jews,
right, alongside
mental health experts
and also medical doctors, they all unanimously
came together and signed a declaration
saying that we are against
these practices as they are considered harmful
and immoral.
I'm just quoting again.
Likewise, the Christians,
they are holding on to their values and
morals, brothers and sisters.
Why are we so scared
to quote the Quran? The Quran says this
and that's it.
Right? As Umar Al Khattab mentioned, we are
a people that have been honored through
The moment we begin to desire Adhan Islam,
Allah will humiliate us.
Look how loud this minority group is on
social media, they're so loud,
and you think that they are the majority
when they are like a raindrop compared to
everyone else, and that is because
every single member of this minority group is
playing their role,
but we aren't, we are asleep.
We have been what?
Terrified, they've used fear mongering tactics to shut
us down, scared, not even realizing that we
can what? Quote the Quran.
So, Kolokha,
my next question was actually directed at Yousef
Abutaimia.
Looking at the topic of feminism, and I
was doing a bit of research, and it
seems
with a lot of these popular ideologies, there's
always a group of Muslims
that
almost jump on the bandwagon,
and go as far as I found some
articles on the internet,
going
that the prophet Muhammad was
a feminist.
Can you be a Muslim and a feminist?
Trying to get into trouble here. Right?
Feminism, or should I say 2nd wave feminism
because there's 1st wave feminism,
2nd wave feminism, and also 3rd wave feminism.
Today I spoke a little bit about 2nd
way feminism,
which stands on 2 pillars.
Number 1,
equality,
right? This is what
they stand for and request.
Number 2, they are anti
the patriarchy
system
that is not just exclusive to Islam. In
fact, every mainstream religion
has this patriarchy
system within their religions,
right.
Is it possible now to be Muslim
and also a feminist at the same time?
I'm not going to make takfir on anyone,
right? However, what we need to realize brothers
and sisters,
Islam
has principles that it stands on
and one thing I will say to you,
Islam did not come to
establish equal rights, it came to establish
justice and fairness.
Who even said that the yardstick that we
have to use is that which
the Westerners have set for us as standards?
Who said that?
Why do Western standards
have to determine as to what is correct
and what is not?
The Quran brothers and sisters, it calls to
justice, it calls to fairness.
Right? And let me give you guys an
example, if a woman is a multi billionaire,
she doesn't have to contribute a single penny
to the bills and the expenses of the
house.
What happened to equal rights here? This is
Islam for you.
Right? There are cases, and in the lecture
today we gave 4 different scenarios. There is
a scenario where the man, he inherits more
than the woman. Agreed?
2nd scenario is
they inherit
as equals, the same as one another.
The third, the woman inherits more than the
man.
And then the 4th case is brother and
sister that the man doesn't inherit but the
woman does.
Hey, where's the equal rights here? The sharia
is Hakim. Brothers and sisters, let me just
conclude with one point, right? And I think
it's important that I quote this,
the way this whole system has been structured,
it is there to destroy the
comprises of 3 things her soul, intellect, and
likewise her body, they just care about her
body and they use that as a marketing
tool.
You may see that a toothbrush is being
sold and a half naked woman is holding
it. Are you buying the toothbrush or you're
buying the woman?
Right? The whole system is designed to really
strip her of her haya, her shyness, and
our sisters don't seem to be getting that.
Right? Look how they are being objectified.
And let me read this very very quickly.
Have you guys heard of the Rockefeller
family?
Who is the Rockefeller family?
The Rockefeller
family is an American
industrial, political, and banking family that owns one
of the world's largest fortunes.
One of the members of the family, his
name is David Rockefeller. Look what he said.
We started and funded the women's movement
or the women's movement
so we could tax both sexes.
That way we could put women to work
and take their children to control.
This is what they want.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala told you for over
1400 years ago as mentioned in the Quran
remain in your homes because there is what?
Salvation in that. Abdullah ibn Mas'uri said
a woman hasn't worshiped Allah Azza Wajal, will
they worship better than having taqwa of Allah
and and also remaining inside of a house
because your salvation is in that.
How is it that you now want to
accept what this kafir is saying?
But Allah told you over 1400 years ago.
Right? There's so much that can be mentioned,
InshaAllah ta'ala. One time, I'm going to conduct
a lecture
speaking about it in detail, and we'll upload
it, bi idhnillahuaihi ta'ala.
Yeah.
Saqqlekha.
Just kind of leading from the point that
you mentioned in terms of taking the children
to school, or taking the children
into primary care, and educating them in a
way and indoctrinating
them, insha'Allah.
I wanted to follow-up this question with
schooling, and we mentioned one of the challenges
and one of the issues that we tackle
here is relationship
and sexual education.
With all of these things that are being
taught from a young age, and the issue
of atheism yesterday when we discussed it, we
spoke about a lot of the challenges coming
from school.
Should Muslims start considering homeschooling?
Inshallah? I think starting from Ustad Mustafa Aburayyan.
Should we start considering homeschooling? I I think
it's
definitely
a very, very good option,
and I've met several people that have chosen
to homeschool their children
and all they've got to report is that
good things good things about it.
The
our children,
they are our future. They are in a
manner. They are our responsibility,
and we are responsible
more so for their deen than we are
for how what they look like and what
they're eating.
So just like you are ensuring that you're
providing for them, you need to also give
them nourishment for their soul
and educate them. This is a responsibility
upon both parents,
and any means that will aid you in
that do so, especially in these difficult,
situations you're in. So,
because,
it has worked for some people and because
the challenges
that are affecting our children are mainly outside
the home, although we tend to sometimes bring
it inside
with tablets and phones and not enough supervision.
So sometimes you'll bring the shaitan into your
home, and you think you solve it just
by locking them in the house. So there
is a lot more oversight that we require
and a lot more forethought about how we
are raising our children in the home, and
we need to make changes.
And among the best changes you can make
is leading by example. If you're using your
phone constantly, so will your child.
If you're, on the TV or watching, then
they will be busy with that as well.
If you're not careful and busy, then then
someone else will raise their children. Someone actually
one time said to me, the TV helps
me raise my kids.
That I need a break from them, you
know, 4 hour, good 4 hours rest,
fair Allah
with regards to your children, right? If you're
going to have children, then no Allah will
ask you about them.
But
there is I wanna share with you something
that brother Yousef Patel said to me earlier.
Right? He came here and he spoke, and
I know some of you attended this workshop,
and I asked him a question,
and
this is not everyone
is able to homeschool,
right, and not everyone is able to afford
Islamic school. Sometimes we have to be realistic
and many parents at this very moment
are taking their children to public school,
and they are worried,
and they are asking what should we do,
and they are looking for options. May Allah
aid all of them. Right? He mentioned the
he said to me
that
the effect
of the child's upbringing
as it relates to the school
and any wrong ideas that they can get
is
very miniscule
compared
to what will happen when they are with
you at home. Meaning,
you have the larger portion and more influence.
The 80%,
70%,
they are with you if you put the
work in, give them tarbia. He used the
word vaccinate them. If you vaccinate the meaning
if you teach them the right values, if
you teach them about Allah, about his messenger,
not just memorize Quran, but why we are
memorizing, what we are memorizing,
and you attach them to the masjid. I
see very a lot of young people. If
you do that
and you give them a good support system
Islamically at home and the masjid
and you are on top of your parenthood,
then
the amount of damage that can come from
the school, you have already minimized it, then
look for options, and maybe homeschooling will work
for you. Maybe you'll be able to afford
Islamic school, maybe, maybe, maybe, but at the
moment whatever situation you're in, take responsibility.
Okay.
Yeah.
I just wanted to add,
on to what the sheikh has said.
And as a personal experience,
I have, home educated my children for 7
years.
And,
and then
there's so many
beautiful fruits that you can reap from doing
so,
But it is not
easy thing.
It's not an easy option. It requires a
lot of effort, a lot of a lot
of time, a lot of patience,
and both parents, the mother especially, the mother
has to be willing to put the effort
and the hours in. It's very very important.
And as as as a parent, the mother
and the father, they need to negotiate. They
need to talk to each other about this
before they take the decision if you want
to home educate your children.
And and also the other things, one
of the things that you can benefit at
the time that I used to homeschool my
kids and the problems that we have schools
these days, we didn't have them.
And and and, subhanallah, that's when I've started
them. I started homeschooling them, and right now
it it it is, subhanAllah,
more incumbent upon us,
to to homeschool our children. If anyone is
able to do so,
and if if the wife and the the
the father, they are able to do so,
they should do they should take that option.
Like, Sheikh Mustafa Aboureya also said, yes. It
doesn't mean homeschooling it. Just lock them in
the house, and that's it. While you kind
of, like, give them every other thing that
they need, and then you do not supervise
them and you just leave it leave them
with the with the with the with, let's
say,
the the the tablets and the the mobile
phones and the TVs and things like that.
So you have to supervise them as much
as possible, and it's doable. And if more
if more of us are doing it, it's
it's gonna be easier. If many of our
parents are homeschooling,
we can actually,
establish
an, a forum where the parents can come
together. They can come together, let's say, in
the Masjid and and and share ideas and
work together as a team. So this is
something practically that we can do.
So if some of the parents are willing
are wanting to do this,
do it, but also seek help from other
parents as well who are doing it at
the same time. So if anyone is homeschooling,
I would advise you if you can come
to the Masjid and let us know, and
we can set up,
let's say,
a database where we know how many families
are doing it so we can we can
actually direct those families to,
to get to know one another and
and and help each other.
And and as a masjid,
we'll try and facilitate that.
I think Sheikh Musaam might want to add
something to
it. Very quickly, very quickly, I think most
of you have heard of,
the late,
Al Hajj Malik Shabaz,
Malcolm X. Anybody heard of Malcolm X here?
You people from the UK,
he's not a part of your culture like
he is a part of our culture.
Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali the boxer.
Muhammad Ali when he was boxing guys,
he was an iconic figure for African Americans
who were being
told, you people are nothing, you have no
rights,
we're in slavery, we still have to this
day,
to this day we have a lot of
social problems.
We're getting shot down like dogs to this
day.
While the youngsters want to be like,
you know, Jay z and things like that.
They're killing us. My daughter, she's driving. She
could be shot in her face
for having a tail light that's broke. That's
real talk as it relates to African Americans.
But when men like Muhammad Ali and Malcolm
X came,
they started saying things that weren't heard of.
Muhammad Ali started saying I'm the greatest, I'll
beat everybody up.
I don't care who it is. I'll beat
you up, and when he used to fight
white people, there was a lot of racism
in that. He used to say he used
to beat them up, and beat them up
bad to pay them back for slavery and
what they're doing to our people, so we
grew up loving Muhammad Adi. One of the
genesis why I became a Muslim, he was
my hero.
They gave that man
the walk of fame. You know that thing
on, in Hollywood, they give it to famous
people?
He said look, I'll accept that from you
people, but my name is Muhammad.
That's the last prophet and messenger.
His name shouldn't be on the floor where
people walk on it. You put it on
the wall, I'll take it. They put it
on the wall.
It's the only one on the wall right
now.
That's taking and being proud of your identity,
man.
Hamid Ali can read sort of through Fatiha.
Hamid Ali was kind of going to Nakshim
Bindiya later on, and things like that,
but he gave up his belt.
He gave up his belt. I like Mike
Tyson. I like what he stood for, and
I like his rawness. He's funny,
but I can't support Mike Tyson and what
he says and does now. He doesn't compare
to Muhammad Ali, tremendous.
Similar to him in his point,
Malcolm
X. You guys should read the biography of
Malcolm X.
It's a must reading for you. It's a
must read.
That's how and why I became Muslim. That
book right there. Anyway,
he said this hadith of Malcolm X,
Hadithany
Malcolm X,
he said
anyone
who takes his children
and allows his enemy to educate his children
is a fool.
He's crazy.
Anyone
who allows his children to be educated
by his enemy
is a fool.
So when our children are doing what they're
doing with our supervision and we're cast we're
kiss lamb with it,
You as Allah mentioned in the Quran.
Destroy your houses. We destroy our homes with
our own hands,
But, I want to be a voice of
reason and balance.
Muhammad Ali,
Muhammad Ali,
I travel with Muhammad Ali, I got a
chance to know him, my shawl.
It's just don't tell me. He he was
talking about me all that time.
But I'm still alive.
I I traveled with this brother, and I
got a chance to know him from traveling.
I saw a lot of him that people
don't know.
We we didn't have the same hotel rooms,
right? We didn't, we had our own rooms,
right? Yeah, sometimes we had. Yeah.
We had yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We had a
room because I know what you don't know.
I know that he snores, man.
You never know a man until you travel
with him.
You do business with him. Here's he. Last
permission.
Last permission. I
mean,
anyway,
anyway. That's the least he knows about. He
is
an an an above average
intellectual person. I saw that in the trip.
Because when I travel, I'm always saying, where
we going next? What are we doing now?
Where's it going? I mean, Hajj with the
brothers every year, they never let me leave
the group because I'm gonna go the wrong
way. I just I'm like that. That's me.
So I give talks, but don't leave me
to take the pilgrims because we're gonna go
the wrong way. And I'm cool with that,
but
this brother and other people homeschool their children,
it's not easy.
I was married to a lady who had
a masters degree in education, and she was
good at teaching,
and I wanted to take all of my
children, my sons, and sit them with her.
Her children and the other children.
They ran over that lady.
They ran over her,
and around her, and through her,
and she was committed,
and I tried to help, but I'm traveling
here, I'm doing it,
so the vast majority of us,
realistically,
we may not be able to homeschool, because
I don't even have a high school diploma.
You know, they just came out recently, like
GCECC's,
what is it called again? You know what
I'm talking about? In America, high school, mother
can't read, mother can't write. She's a divorced
woman. Her father, her husband abandoned
her with 4, 5, 6 kids.
So what do we do?
Alright. If you can't homeschool, then come up
with a group of people
who homeschool.
Okay. You can do that, then let us
get the masjid school. Let's get a school
of Islam.
The thing is get serious about the dean.
Get serious about it. That's all. If you
can't, you know, as they say it's more
than one way to skin the cat.
Now, most of our women,
and I'm not saying the glass is half
empty. You know your wives and you know
you. Some of our women are mujahi, that.
They take the kids to school in the
morning. They iron, they
shoot, they shop for the food, they they
clean the dishes
all day, and the husband is not doing
anything. He doesn't even work.
He doesn't even work. So the women in
our community are suffering. How is she going
to homeschool those kids?
She's not muta'ahili,
she doesn't have the knowledge or the wherewithal
or the know how. Okay.
Then get a group of people who, they
know what they're doing,
or we come to the masjid
and put our money where our mouths are.
That's the point. That's the point. So if
you can homeschool, homeschool, but the mass majority
of us can't do that. I'm gonna lie
to you. Wake up and smell the coffee.
That's the real deal right there. So what's
the next best step? And that's where
the hicma
of the administration
of our mischief comes in, and that's where
the people who have it, the hustles, your
specialty,
that's where you gotta bring your piece of
the puzzle to the table. Absolutely. Just don't
throw in the towel. Just remember, Malcolm X,
anybody
who takes his kid and gives him over
to your enemy to educate them is
a fool.
Saq Lachair, you mentioned the word of Al
Hikma,
and I wanted to go back to a
point about,
sort of ideology and everything that's around.
With all of these outspoken people and outspoken
personalities,
Muslims often struggle to find the balance between,
do you go overboard, do you start speaking?
You mentioned some of these people like Piers
Morgan, Andrew Tate,
Jordan Peterson, and these sort of people that
go way overboard in terms of that which
they say and almost go to extremes. And
then you have other Muslims
that
any ideology, any new mainstream ideology, they throw
in the towel and say, you know what?
I'm behind this. I'm a feminist. I'm this.
I'm that. I'm a liberal Muslim.
Where is the Hikma? Where's the middle line
for a Muslim? Where do you kind of
put yourself so you're not a sellout and
at the same time you don't get yourself
canceled?
No, no, Sheikh. I'm not answering this one.
I've spoken about it too much. Let's hear
the Mashaikh insha'Allah.
You want to hear the viral video? It's
on the Mischief channel.
The clickbait.
Yeah.
The Muslim is balanced Ikhwanim. He takes the
heart from wherever it comes from.
That's our religion.
The Jews
said to our mother Aisha,
near Macom
and to Muslim or my and to Mashal
Muslimim,
except that you make shift with Allah.
You say Masha'Allah
and Shaa'a Muhammad.
Basically she said to our mother Aisha, you
Muslims are good people, but
you make shirk, you make shirk
with the people of Tawhid.
Aisha said, what?
You know what you talking about? When the
prophet came, she say, yeah, Rasulullah.
The Jewish lady said this about us.
Rasulullah
said
she told the truth.
If you say ma sha Allah was Shah
Muhammad, you may shirk.
The man said, maasha'Allah,
washi to You Rasulah, is as Allah wanted
in you.
Rasulah took his finger
and did that man like this.
You made me a partner with Allah?
Say it's only Masha'Allah.
So when that lady who was a Jew
said what she said, he didn't say no,
it came from a Jew.
No.
He was making the
umrah
and those kuffas stopped him from making umrah
and the soul of Al Hudaybiyah
happen.
He told the companions take off your Ihram.
Companions didn't want to, they wanted to fight
because they were there and they were ready,
and they didn't listen to him. Not in
disobedience,
but from Ezra. They wanted to show him,
we're gonna fight these people, but it wasn't
time. He went into his tent tent, he
was upset. His wife saw his anger in
his face.
Not in his hands,
not in his lease, and
she saw it in his face.
She said, you Rasoolah, what makes you upset
made my mother and my father be sacrificed.
He said, I told the people to do
something, they didn't listen to me. She said,
you Rasool Allah, why don't you just take
off your ihram and go out to them?
Those are your companions.
The optic
of them seeing you out of Iram, and
them in Iram, they go, and that's when
he took the advice of the lady.
And, I know some of us are like
that.
When you drive, your wife say go this
way, you go the other way.
Go this way, and I do that with
my wife all the time. I play with
them. I'll get something out and say, what
hat should I wear? Say, that one. I'll
pick up this one. And we laugh all
the time because I have to listen to
them.
I I have to listen to them. Point
is, the haqq is the.
It's our property.
Ayatul Kursi
came from the knowledge of it to Abu
Herrera. Who gave him that knowledge?
Shaitan. Shaitan.
That doesn't mean we go and learn from
people of
innovation, doesn't mean that. The point is point
is
these names that are out there that just
been mentioned, what they say of the truth,
we take it.
Some of them are saying the truth,
but we don't go overboard.
I saw a thing going around right now
where some people from Ethiopian, Christians, they're making
record and say shit done like that.
You saw that? You saw that video?
On social media, some
some Ethiopian Christians are praying somewhat like us,
and people are spreading around, look at this
salah. Look at this.
That's not
salah in
Islam. Clapping hands and whistling. That ain't salah.
They're making shirk at the Kaaba.
So take the truth of what they say,
but
don't let those people be our leaders
and we get behind them, and this is
something that I've been hearing
many muslims are doing. Black Lives Matter,
yes,
but I'm not talking about the ethos of
the people who came up with that.
Lesbianism,
and I don't talking about that.
Black lives matter, I'll buy no.
Black lives matter as an African American to
me is
that they police us.
Double standards. That's what it means to me.
It means I can get killed,
and the way they deal with me, and
my daughters, and my sons,
I swore everything they No, I don't believe
in that.
I don't believe in that. Ferraun is a
brother?
Ferraun, Ferraun, black man from Africa. He's a
brother? When I talk, I say, you know
Ferraun, those brothers were really doing it over
there. Building them pyramids, man, them brothers was
on it.
Fin, I don't need my brother.
My own family, my own family who are
kafar, who come against Islam,
I'm a dead them.
They come against Islam.
I'm a dead them.
Like Abu Bakr said to his son,
oh, Abi Abi, in the battle in the
battle of Uhud, I could have gotten you.
I could have gotten you Abi. I could
have got you. He wasn't looking,
but because you're my father, I turned away
from you. He became a Muslim, and he
said, when we were Kofa, I could've got
you.
Abu Bakr said to Mowyer,
if the tables had been turned,
I'da deaded you. I'da gotten you.
I would have got you.
So have filters, man. Don't listen to what
these people saying. You drink it and you
absorb everything they say without
filters, without filters. Shaa Allahu Khayr Sheikh. The
last topic I wanted to come to before
we close, inshaAllah, God's alaikayr.
Is with all of these challenges, and all
of these tests in the West, is it
time to consider Hijra?
Before I
comment on this question,
I want to add to what
my Sheikh Abosama was saying.
Sometimes
you will find the truth being said by
someone who does not share our values and
our faith,
and the sheikh gave plenty of examples.
That doesn't mean you seek it out from
them to begin with.
Abu Huraira wasn't looking for shaitan
to learn,
nor was,
seeking to learn
this act of shirk from the lady that
was from the.
You never seek out guidance except from the
people that are meant to give guidance. You
never go to them. But if something comes
from this from the Haqq, first of all,
many people will not know it's the Haqq.
They will not know that, and they will
just let you know what? I like his
vibe. You know what? I think I think
I think he's telling the truth. You know,
he speaks to my heart. These are not
standards that we benchmark things with. He makes
me feel good. He makes me feel empowered.
Allah, he's telling it how it is. Right?
And then
my brothers,
let the standards be your deen. Let for
you guys hear the standards be your ima
and the masajid. Come to them. Ask them.
Sheikh, what do you think about this? Don't
number 1, don't share these videos.
2, don't be overly impressed with them.
We have an inferiority complex.
Only when such and such tells
did we not know that we are meant
to be men and be strong
before one person told us?
Was it him that invented that?
Or that certain
sometimes it's embarrassing how much we are in
have you seen this new video of the
Sheikhul, it was amazing he said this
let's slow
down. Have some more
of our masajid, our
our scholars, our du'at, our mothers and fathers,
our elders have more have more wisdom, have
more advice than these people that you're scrolling
and seeing on TikTok for 2 minutes.
They are nothing,
and we made them something.
7,000,000 views.
You gotta watch this. No, you don't.
No, you don't.
For you to watch a beneficial fajr reflection
is more better for you.
So let's not hype this up.
Let's all collectively get off this hype train
and forget these people, not mention their names
and go on with our lives. We have
and Quran and that
we can listen to, that you can hear
advise
like Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the Quran.
That's my 2¢. So sometimes, yes, they will
say something that's truthful, Alhamdulillah,
but we never seek it out from them.
As it relates, and I will keep it
very brief Can I just say he couldn't
have said it better?
I know they gave me the mic,
right? But he couldn't have said it better,
lahu barik.
So just cancel him. He's already canceled. Just
take him off any downloaded playlist inshallah
As relates to hijrah,
I'll let the masha'ikh comment on it, but
it is
important that we understand
why hijrah is made.
I will tell you why it's made. The
Sahaba, their first hijrah, who can tell me
where they went
to? Nam.
They went to Abasini Al Habashah.
Why?
Because they couldn't freely,
comfortably,
practice their faith, worship Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
and be in service of Him. And the
moment that aspect is threatened, you pack your
bags. Now
the the packing of your bags and you
going
is dependent on your ability.
It dependent on your ability and of of
course it's not easy
and with I don't wanna create a
a picture where
it's easy and do it tomorrow,
but
understand
this concept.
The people that are packing their bags and
traveling,
the Sahaba that went through the desert to
Habasha,
Rasool
if she's making Hijra, it's one of the
exceptions. That's how important it is.
If she's making Hijra, it's an exception.
That's how important it is. But why are
we travelling? Why are we going? Why are
we talking about it?
We are trying to preserve our faith and
our children's faith.
That is the priority. So whether you do
or not, the
the goal
is to preserve your faith. Do it when
you're here, do it when you're with your
children, do it in your home, and plan
for the future. And Hijra is an act
of worship that is an option and I
let the
expand upon that inshallah.
Very quickly and we'll let the brothers end
with this.
About the hijra issue.
Look at the metamorphosis
that that that happened with us
15, 20 years in this country when we
came from Medina
and we started giving dower in these host
countries
I was here in Brixton
and at that time we used to have
the cassettes,
we would do the class and it would
be on the cassette.
You would hear the lesson being done and
in the background
from Brixton, you always heard the police siren
in the background because Brixton was a hotspot
but alhamdulillah, I mean, we had the people
for that,
Afro Caribbeans, we were in Brixton, we were
making it happen
by Allah's permission
and we were militant.
Our sisters had
the job of me, cop gloves
and combat boots.
That was a sign, you know, you wanna
marry your sister, you come to the conference,
you look at her you look at her
her her shoe game.
If she had combat boots,
she was on it.
I'm telling you guys,
and her sister's side, it was combat boots,
the black ones. They just kept them polished,
ready to stomp you out. They were not
aggressive, but
our mantra was, hijrah, hijrah.
And imam, khutbah, hijrah,
hijrah,
hijrah, hijrah.
Because of all of those ayaat and ahadith,
If you make hijrah, it wipes away everything
from your sins that went before. It's the
ultimate sacrifice,
so we don't downplay its importance. This is
our din.
Don't play around with the din
like
voting. They say you can't vote,
and these people say you can vote,
but with conditions.
Don't look at those people as being with,
and don't look at these people being with
the.
Both have.
Pay attention to it. Those who say you
can't vote,
it's about. It's serious. Ezra is serious.
It is serious.
The prophet said we're talking about
teaching your children.
He says
I am free from every Muslim who lives
with the polytheists
because their fires don't coexist.
If you were living with them in their
lands,
their fire, their behavior, their norms, their culture
is gonna hit you. You're gonna cut your
beard, you're gonna not wear hijab,
you're gonna try to melt into the melting
pot,
but if they're with us that is what's
gonna happen. If they go to Somalia, they're
gonna be affected by us,
they won't come outside in any way.
Allah mentioned in the Quran,
Those people in the Malaika come to them
and they were oppressive to themselves,
living with these kofar and it was just
normal. The Malaika would say what was your
condition that you die like this? We were
weak, we were oppressed, we didn't have any
representation in the parliament, we were just here,
we made it go, we got it, we
made it do what it had to do.
One kid is getting high, another kid got
tattoos over his body, the daughter got 3,
4 babies out of wedlock, that one over
there is a heroin addict, this one over
here is an atheist.
What was your condition? Oh, we was weak,
we were oppressed. Those men that say, wasn't
Allah's earth spacious that you could have gone
and you made hijra? Those people being the
hellfire with
a terrible end,
So Hidra is serious. But now the question
is, where are we gonna go?
My wife told me the other day, Abu,
Abu, after what happened to my daughter, Abu,
Abu, Abu, look, we gotta make hijra. Where
you wanna go, mamacita? Little mama, where you
wanna go?
She said let's go to Kenya.
I like Kenya. I've been there. I've been
in Nairobi. I've been to,
Mbasa. I've been to Harife, Malinde. I went
all the way down in them joints. I
was swimming everything, beautiful place Kenya. My wife
said let's go to Kenya
and put them in the duxy over there.
I said, sister, you know we don't have
people in Kenya like that and you know
it's gonna cost money for, well, they ain't
got no NHS over there.
You gotta pay for everything, you have to,
I'm not putting anybody down.
It's tough going to Kenya. Now, if you
have some support in Kenya, that's different, but
I ain't going to Kenya like that. I
give down when I'm a tourist, and I
say, oh, wow. Look at this beautiful as
a tourist. But if I had to live
there,
I'd be walking around like it ain't so
beautiful no more because I'm not a tourist
now, I'm not a diyeg. I'm a diyego
there. They give me water, I eat everyday
nice, and really they take care of me,
but I gotta live in Kenya and take
no. I'm not putting Kenya down.
Kenya is beautiful as a country.
So, the issue is
hijra is wajib for some people,
but some people is not wajib. So we
have to look at these issues with fit.
Last thing I mentioned
about this, the prophet says
and the real the real
the real immigrant, the one who made hijrah
is the one who abandoned what's haram.
You made hijra if you, you know,
do those things
that, waj up upon you and you leave
those things but some of us do have
to make hijrah, be balanced in the issue.
I
just wanted to ask the last question inshallah.
There was an opinion that went online, from
one of the masha'if,
or one of the brothers is that Hijra
is Wajib
upon the people in the UK.
I'm not sure if your brother's heard this,
but do you have any comments about this?
Is it wajib
upon us to perform Hijra?
You know sometimes the sheikh acts like we
are same age and same level.
The sheikh, like I said, graduated a very
long time ago.
When those things going up in the air.
You
know, when Sheikh
Abu Samba spoke about the issue of hijra,
something that I do want to personally
add.
Exploring different avenues of where one could move
to is something that should really be
kept open,
right?
And I don't think the sheikh,
meant it like that, right? That we shouldn't
go, he didn't say that at all.
But keeping that door open of exploring different
avenues is something that really should
be in my mind,
right, as time goes on. As you guys
are aware it's getting more and more worse
over here.
There doesn't come a time except at the
time that comes after,
it's worse.
I know there are some individuals, even here
in the Masjid with us, they took their
wife and kids to a different country like
in Somalia.
I think Sheikh Abu Hasan,
did that, and he's here
working to support his family over there. So
there are different
avenues that can be explored.
Even myself, I personally don't want to bring
up my 2 daughters over here. I honestly
don't.
It scares the life out of me, wallahi.
When I see that which is happening
to different
young girls, it really really scares me. I
have some very close friends that are teachers
in colleges,
in secondary schools.
Allah he says, he looks at these girls,
Allah if I had a time I would
have read
some things that are happening in Sydney, I
just came back from Australia, it's absolutely shocking
what's happening in the schools.
Right? However, to say that Hijrah is wajibah,
this has implications.
To say that Hijrah is mandatory, and we
know what those they say with regards to
something being wajib. If you don't do it,
you're going to be sinning.
This is an issue, my brothers and my
sisters, I honestly believe if Umar ibn Khattab
radhiallahu ta'ala an was alive, he would have
gathered the participants of Badr,
and he would have sought their consultation.
To say it is wajib, it is a
very big thing that really needs to be
reconsidered.
For someone to come out online and say
that it is mandatory,
something that involves
24,000,000
Muslims
in Europe,
in his backyard,
that really should be reconsidered. There are certain
issues that the bigger ulama today are not
speaking about. Why are none of the scholars,
right, who are major in
giving a fatwa pertaining to the situation
of the people in the west? Maybe because
the situation in the east has become really
really bad, like the Sheikh mentioned, where the
people going to go? It's very very what?
Limited
and narrow down.
So this is a fatwa,
even when they now speak about the huge
issue, you find 6 names that are written
on the fatwa paper, agreed?
On issues that are very very big.
Right? So it's very very important when it
comes to these sensitive issues, there is not
just one individual
who,
begins to comment on this issue, but rather
he consults, he speaks to the elderly. As
I mentioned before, it's very very important.
And likewise the people of knowledge,
nam.
So it's something that, you know, really needs
to be looked into, we should keep that
door open, right? You guys can see what's
happening here.
Explore different avenues. Allah
may make it easy for you, but others,
that might not necessarily be the time.
May Allah make it easy for every single
one of us. I mean,
sorry Sheikh Hivay stepped over the line
with what, if anything, you said, Sheikh. So
Sheikh looks angry.
He's
apologizing. Sheikh Ivais stepped over the line.
Just taking a quick,
comment from our mashiach, Ustadh Aburayyan, and then
concluding with our very own Sheikh Muhammad Ali,
InshaAllah. And apologies we went well over the
time. I think Asia was what time?
I
think it's only appropriate that the last word
is,
for our
imam
and our resident sheikh, Sheikh Mohammed Ali Mourid.
I just wanna make, one point just to
clarify and give context.
The the scholars in the past and many
of the contemporary scholars today
and a lot of Fiqh councils, they have
answered this question and they discussed it, and
they will always say they give you principles.
They will say that Hijra becomes Wajid
when you cannot practice your faith freely
and you are unsafe
to practice your deen, and we cannot have
the shiaar of the muslimin.
So once it gets
there is a level that when things reach,
you gotta go.
And the and who goes? The one who's
able.
But that's just for a general rule to
remember.
But there's a and
yourself and your family.
And one of the greatest ways to do
that is by moving to a place where
it is more conducive for your family and
yourself to live as a Muslim. This is
the advice inshallah to Allah that I wanna
conclude with, and I let
Sorry, my man. Just my last words because
I I don't feel I see these brothers
again. Okay. Dealing with old issues and stuff
like that. Absolutely.
Death is closer to all of us than
what we realized. COVID was crazy.
Absolutely. Thought I was gonna check out COVID.
Yeah, man. Yeah.
My wife got COVID, man. And I came
home. My wife was struggling to breathe, pull
her breath. She was going to check out.
We called the EMS.
I wasn't thinking about no hijab or any
cop when those EMS came to get my
girl,
I just told my little boy, I was
like wow, and then we had these people
talking about COVID ain't
real. How many of us lost someone close
to us who had COVID? How many of
us? I don't know. Yeah. My wife almost
checked out, man. Talking about, like, this keramibal
hijra. Leave that to big people who know
what they're talking about, not every armor, buckers,
buckers, eve from the people conspiracy theorists, anyway.
I mean, I'll never see you guys again,
and if I don't, I wanna tell everybody
here,
the only Islam Allah is gonna change accept
from us is the one that resembles
what Abu Bakr, Omar Rahman, and Aidi, and
the rest of those companions were upon.
Yes.
You come with this slam
that you can't show. They understood this I
at that way, they did this ayah that
way, this idea, this concept,
you can't refer it back to those companions.
It will be thrown back in your face,
your mukliama.
Everything you believe in,
maled,
khatam,
yarmi,
whatever,
whatever.
If those companions were not doing that thing,
don't do it.
It's called Salafiya,
but not Salafiya group of people would know.
Throw that word up. Alul Hadid, if you
will.
Alul Sunnah, if you will, but all those
names, be that stuff.
But let the reality of your existence be,
we all make mistakes,
but your religion,
your Akita
has to be what those companions were doing.
If it's not like that,
you are
done, done. Stick a fork in them.
It's up to Allah to forgive you or
not forgive you,
but you have a ticket and you have
the right to go to the * fire,
and there are ayaat and a hadith for
that.
Stay on the and
stay balanced, and avoid all of those other
subal, all of them.
A group of sedifi people who love and
hate based on the name is one of
those
lines that are not on the it's in
the * fire. A shaitan is on it,
but the ID and the concept,
I bite my tongue for no one. I
don't talk out of the side of my
neck.
Beyond set of fear
with, you know, seriousness,
meaning
don't play around. Hold on to it with
your so
that when people try to come and grab
your dean, you got it.
Not hold on with your hands and they
take it from you, take it out of
your pocket, you hang up your shirt or
your jacket, and they take your jacket and
your religion is gone. He said,
hold on to your religion, because when you
live to this time, a lot of ikhtiraf.
That's my advice to you brothers and your
sisters,
may Allah bless my brother,
sheikh Mohammed Adi and the daughter here. I
have to give a special special special shout
out to Abu Hassan,
who since I've been coming here, and FYI,
they told me today I was the first
person who came to this masjid and gave
an English
lesson. Wow. I didn't even know that.
That's humbling. That's humbling.
Bless you guys in your admin. Just
Get behind these brothers
and help the machine to go forward.
I just don't wanna add anything to it.
They have done it so well.
Just finally, I just want to apologize to
our congregation. I'm sure you've enjoyed it. And
our elders,
for having the patience. Also, finally, I want
to thank our media team for doing excellent
job. Also, I wanna thank our Sisters Corner
and all the volunteers who have been helping
out. May Allah reward them greatly our uncle
Hajj Umar if you can make the adhan
for us please inshallah so
just
Just a quick announcement inshallah before our Sheikh
Omar and then the Sheikh stands up inshallah
we wanted to just again once again thank
all of the speakers all of the brothers
that participated
and the sisters that have participated in making
this conference a huge success. And inshallah, tomorrow
from Salatul Duhr, we're going to have a
one day dawra with our Sheikh Sheykh Ayta
mister Khan,
about 3 books summary of rights called for
by fitrah, why is the purpose of life,
and explanation of the important lessons for every
Muslim, inshaAllah, from Salatul Duhr. And if you
are not aware of the talks and the
events that happened in the masjid please go
onto our facebook our youtube insha'Allah and stay
up to date jazakamulla khairah