Abu Taymiyyah – Hot Topics Panel Vapes, Marriage Apps, Satanic Wispers, Prayer @ Work & More
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Okay.
By the way, my 2 year old daughter,
she listens to him.
She gets excited when,
we come close to the video. She gets
very excited, father Mohammad.
My dear brother, may Allah make you from
the people of the Quran, and may Allah
give us all the inspiration to be from
the people of the Quran and connect us
to His book.
Firstly, Assalamu alaykum
I wanted before we start in today's
topic, just kind of recap a little bit
why we actually presented this opportunity of hot
topics, and the opportunity for people to ask
and answer their questions.
Asking questions is a huge element of knowledge.
As a matter of fact,
Al Imam al Hazra al Mahzra al Mahzra
al Mahzra al Mahzra al Mahzra al Mahzra
al Mahzra al Mahzra al Mahzra al Mahzra
al Mahzra al Mahzra al Mahzra al Mahzra
al Mahzra al Mahzra al Mahzra al Mahzra
al Mahzra al Mahzra al Mahzra al Mahzra
al Mahzra al Mahzra al Mahzra al Mahzra
al Mahzra al Mahzra alahi alahi he said,
And Imam Al Hafiz ibn Hajar Ahmadallai
he said,
knowledge is asking and getting the answer.
And Ibn Abbas, when someone when
someone asked him, he said to him, how
have you attained knowledge?'
He said, 'By 2 things
That by a tongue that asks and is
persistent in asking.
And then the second thing,
by a heart there is accepting and understanding
of that which is being asked.
The scholars detailed and spoke about the etiquette
of how you should ask questions, what questions
you should prioritize.
And from it
is
He said that it's about the importance of
asking questions that are relevant.
That if Allah
wants good for a servant of His, He
guides him to ask the questions that are
relevant to Him.
Rather than
someone that's a brother facing issues that are
related to brothers, asking about the rulings of
hijab.
And he doesn't have any Maharam that it
relates them, just out of curiosity,
and forgetting that which is important. So there's
also,
in terms of starting by asking that which
is important to you, and yourself, and what
is relevant to you.
And,
also one of the etiquette of
asking is,
appreciating those that you ask, and also choosing
your word, and asking, and asking in the
best manner.
And one of the imam, Maimun ibn Mahalan,
he said,
The way you ask, and your question being
good is half the question, and the way
it's word is being good. So this was
the opportunity, and this is why we actually
went with we could have decided to do
any series, anything that is going to get
people in in terms of the day of
judgment and these sort of things, but we
wanted something that's an opportunity for people to
ask and answer their questions. And alhamdulillah,
so many questions come on a weekly basis,
and there's only so many that we can
select and go through,
and it's a limited time that we have
with our masha'ikh, and we appreciate
all of the time that we have with
them. And alhamdulillah, today we have our first
returning guest
Sada Arbaid starts throwing the questions, I just
want to say the following.
The fact that we have so many brothers,
uncles, elders, all attending the Masjid
while the World Cup game is going on,
it is something that is worth mentioning. May
Allah bless
every single one of you.
We know that the Shabaab especially are obsessed
with football.
So for you to sacrifice
Messi and his Argentina to come to the
Masjid,
it's indeed something that should be commended. May
Allah bless you.
Right.
I've been giving small little reminders at the
masajid,
even in Makki Masjid. Today after the Jum'ah
I decided to grab the mic
to
remind them of the following.
I don't want to go into because I
know one of the questions he wants to
ask me is what is the ruling on
watching football? I'm not going to answer that.
Right? I don't want to go into the
ruling itself. However,
one thing that we all agree on my
brothers and my sisters is the following
when the World Cup game is going on,
and then the time of the salah kicks
in
It's a difficult one, or is it really
difficult?
Right. Allahu Akbar,
what does that mean?
Allah is the greatest, Allah is the greatest.
When you continue to watch that game, and
you know you should be attending the Masjid,
every day you pray in the Masjid, right?
But you choose to continue watching Neymar,
or Mbaha
or Cain?
Say, hey, I know brothers. I'm very well
up to date with what happened in the
world.
I'm not outdated.
You choose to watch these
disbelievers.
Even though you are not going to say
with your tongue that Neymar is greater than
Allah, what are you actually saying with your
limbs? Let's be honest
with your limbs that you're saying that
let me continue watching you, Allah, keep waiting.
Let me finish and then I'm gonna come
to you later
agreed brothers and sisters
when you hear Hayya Alas Salah or Hayya
Al Falah
right, hasten to success,
right,
the interaction with your Lord
the Prophet
would say, right
right?
When one now stands up in prayer, he's
interacting with his Lord, sahay
he's interacting with his Lord
it's an interview between you and Allah
when you go for a work interview, let's
be honest brother, it says you go suited
and booted
looking absolutely
slick if you normally don't have a shower
right you're going to have a shower that
morning
Sahir
looking absolutely slick your hair, Shah Rukhan
right?
You're going to make sure that you look
very very good
You're rehearsing
how to respond
to the questions
that the interviewer will most likely ask you.
You're focused on concentrating, Sahih.
This is the meeting with your Lord, my
brothers and my sisters, that you are putting
on hold,
Sahih.
Let that sink in for a moment, my
brothers and my sisters, and I'm sure
a lot of us, we are better than
that, and the fact that we all chose
to sacrifice Messi in Argentina,
they are playing against the Netherlands, I'm from
the Netherlands, and I can see a lot
of you guys are from Netherlands as well,
especially if you're from Somalia,
So hey, a lot of Samadis, they come
from Netherlands to the UK,
and it's hard. But you're sitting here, even
though you didn't have to sit, you could
have gone straight after the salah.
Right.
That clearly shows that there's a law of
goodness in all of your hearts, and ask
Allah, his word, to bless you all.
I mean so bear that in mind, insha
Allahu ta'ala, the next couple of games is
bound to get even more interesting.
Semi final,
then the final.
Right.
One of the things that we've seen as
a rising trend
amongst young people and amongst just generally the
UK
is vaping,
vape pens.
This is something that I've been wanting, and
it's asked various speakers about, and one of
our speakers actually gave his take, but I
wanted to hear from you as well.
You're much more connected to the youth and
see and understand, and I'm sure you've seen
the rise in the number of youth that
use it. There are reports of kids as
young as 7 and 8 being addicted to
these things, and using them in primary schools.
What is the ruling in on vaping?
I
should have said that before, but
I was itching to speak about football.
Alla, brothers and sisters,
the new pandemic,
right,
is this issue of vaping.
Not so long ago, I did a program,
and I was absolutely
flabbergasted,
shocked to the core. In Masdid Farqhan, Lester.
Right?
They had their monthly sleepover,
and I happened to be in Lesta,
and alhamdulillah, you know, it was a beautiful
opportunity to for once, you know,
engage with the youth over there.
Because normally every Friday I'm giving a khutba
somewhere around the country, but that week I
was in Lesta, and it happened to be
on the same night when they were sleeping
over. So we had a session,
and I was absolutely shocked.
Oh, parents, please
give a moment out,
really
ponder about
what I'm about to say.
One of the kids, you know what he
said to me?
He said 95%
of kids in year 7, they are what?
Doing the vaping.
Allahu'alam whether the figures are actually accurate or
not
but
when I asked the rest of the students
who were there is that true they were
like yes you know sometimes you ask someone
a question and he thinks
like that no they were like yes yes
yes yes so hey
Everyone is doing it. This was their response.
They've even become extremely creative
in how they hide
the vapes.
They would put it, you know, when you
have a hoodie,
and you have that, what do you call
it, a string, they will put inside there,
so they could smuggle it into the schools.
They're not smuggling drugs into prisons,
la, smuggling the vape into the schools.
Also now it's being smuggled
through pencil cases.
Excuse me, youngsters. You might think that
I'm exposing your plots, and,
I don't know, maybe the teacher, when they
hear this video, they're going to check your
pencil cases. But this is exactly what's happening,
brothers and sisters.
Right.
It has become the new pandemic.
A lot of them, they use these vapes
because it's become a new trend. Everyone is
doing it.
Let's do it as well.
Seems pretty cool. Right?
So for the last week or so,
I was trying to really figure out
some practical
steps, because a youngster is asking me how
can I advise my friend?
He's in year 7, and he's constantly messaging
me on Instagram.
Did you find the answer? Did you find
the answer? Did you find the answer?
What can he do?
These are the following
solutions that I can maybe, Insha Allahu Ta'ala,
suggest.
Right?
Number 1, brothers and sisters. Right?
Stop hanging around with these people who use
these vapes.
Cut yourself off completely from these individuals
because you are on the religion of your
friends.
He is doing it or because he's called,
let me go and do it as well.
Right. You have to identify the root cause
as to why you may be doing a
certain act,
and a lot of the time it is
because everyone else is doing it.
Right. Be a leader. Stop being a follower,
brothers and sisters.
We are in need of leaders.
Right we are in need of those who
set trends
positive ones
not people who are just like sheep oh
he's doing it let me go do it
as well
And when you are someone, my brothers and
my sisters, who sets
a positive
trend,
you will be respected in the eyes of
the people, Muslim and non Muslim,
as opposed to someone who's just like a
sheep. He does it, I'm going to go
do it as well.
You know a hadith comes to mind when
one is placed inside of the grave.
After you are placed inside of the grave,
and those who dropped you off have now
left.
You will hear their footsteps walking away.
2 angels will come to the individual and
they sit him down
and they will say to him
what did you used to say about this
man? Meaning the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
you know what his response would be?
I heard the people say something, so I
said it as all,
right,
I heard the people say it,
so I said it as well, whatever the
people were saying.
You know what's going to happen?
Right?
An iron hammer is brought.
In between his eyes smashed.
Right? He will scream. Everything will hear it,
except Athaqalayin,
the jinn and names.
You can clearly hear, see my brothers and
my sisters that
everyone was doing so, so I done it
as well.
And look where it got him.
Right?
What I strongly advise my brothers and my
sisters who may
be trying the utmost best
to stop this vaping
is to sincerely make
to Allah Azza wa Jal from the bottom
of your hearts
you know, ibn al Qayyim Muhammadunlaiyin
is Kitab Dua with Dua
the spiritual sickness and the cure
he says
Adwa
from the most beneficial of cures is what
Adwa
Sometimes we look at the concept of du'a,
Allahia, Insha'Allah,
and when he makes du'a, he's half hearted.
His heart is not there.
No, my brothers and my sisters, when you
do it from the bottom of your heart
and you
have conviction in Allah that He's going to
respond to you, He will respond to you.
Right?
Messenger he told us in Hadith.
Right.
Hadith Salman al Farisi, I believe it was.
Allah is too shy,
and he is too generous that when you
raise your hands up to Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala
that He sends you back empty handed.
And to our brothers and sisters,
I can say with hands on heart that
du'a changed my life,
and I really, really want you guys to
take this opportunity as well.
If you're not someone who's making du'a, then
what I can say is that you are
missing out.
Of course, there are points that prevent your
du'a from being accepted.
Right, that should be taken into consideration.
If you want an accepted dua,
Ibn Uqayy ibn Muttalayhi
couldn't have put it any better. I've explained
it on my YouTube channel. It's called The
Spiritual Sickness and the Cure Part 1.
I took that passage from a Dawah Dua
and I just explained it.
How to get your dua accepted, brothers and
sisters.
That's what number 2 right.
Number 3, my brothers and my sisters,
if you can wake up in the last
3rd of the night, the messenger sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam said,
Upon you is the night prayer, indeed this
is the way of the righteous before you.
What does it also do?
It removes,
right, sicknesses.
Whether they are physical sicknesses or spiritual sicknesses.
Many of those who are messaging in, right,
they have now become addicted. He doesn't want
to do it anymore. He feels like now
it's become what? Something part of him, and
it's killing him.
He doesn't want to anymore. It all started
as a cool trend. Everyone's doing it. Let's
go and do it as well. Up until
he became addicted.
You know what's so shocking my brothers and
my sisters, I came across these stats
which I want to share with you guys
inshallah, wa ta'ala.
There was a survey that was done, it's
called the truth initiative survey,
right, which showed
a link between
quitting nicotine
containing e cigarettes
and improved
mental health outcomes.
Allah brothers and sisters,
I've never seen from the time I started
giving Dawah up until Dawah,
a rise in mental health as it is
at this moment in time is gone through
the roof. Mental health.
Every other person that you meet, he's saying
that I'm suffering from mental health.
Right.
These are the kuffar who are saying what?
That there is a link between the 2
the sharia tells you anything that harms you
is haram
and without a shadow of a doubt this
is harming a lot of people
Now look at the connection.
Right?
They said 90% of those who quit
said they felt less stressed,
anxious, or depressed, 90%.
47%
of respondents who quit vaping
vaping
reported that when they quit vaping, they felt
more in control.
What are some of the other practical solutions?
I think we're on number 4. Right?
Reach out for help.
Reach out for help, my brothers and my
sisters.
When you fall sick,
right,
what is the,
the common thing to be doing, you'd go
to the GP. Right? Oh, I've got this
ailment. I've got this sickness. Please help me
out. This is also a sickness, and you
need to reach out for help.
Right?
It may well
be that you have to speak to some
of your relatives to help you through this
journey.
Right?
And I ask
parents who are here to be a bit
understanding.
All the kids are doing it, what are
we going to do? We're going to kick
them out of the house. Let's be a
support system.
If this is the child who's now actually
suffering from this addiction.
Also join a quit
vaping program.
Right? There are programs. You Google it, you
may come across some programs that inshallah will
be extremely extremely beneficial.
Right?
Join it. There's nothing to do about it.
We are sick. Let's find
the solution for it. It's one thing, my
brothers and my sisters,
identifying the problem is another
finding a solution.
First, you have to accept I am sick,
right? Stop being in denial.
I need to do something about it. Are
you going to wait till you become mentally
disturbed?
Later on down the line, it begins to
affect your personal life, it begins to affect
your marriage, your relationship with people.
Is that what you really want my brothers
and my sisters? I've seen enough people like
that.
And a lot of the time the root
cause for it was,
like we said, doing things that are harmful
to your body.
And it has consequences whether it may be
weed, which has consequences long
term, right, alcohol.
So moving on a different direction,
like now that we're in the winter, time
is finishing.
Last time, I think we were here for
1 hour, 20 minutes. And
if if you guys are lucky, you'll probably
make it to the penalty shootout if it
makes it to death. Until then, we're here.
As well bless you guys, brothers. I I
I and sisters who have also attended sisters
as well. I don't know if they watch
football, but
right.
I honestly thought nobody was going to attend.
Even the other day when I gave a
lecture in Derby,
first time I've been there in maybe, what,
over 6 years.
The masjid was packed all the way till
the back.
Youngsters.
They told me we've never seen this many
youngsters in the masjid.
And it was at the same time when
Argentina was playing as well.
Right.
So the fact that we see so many
youngsters and brothers and sisters attending these programs,
it clearly, you know, shows us that there's
still a lot of khair in the ummah
in our youth. May Allah bless you all.
Do you have something, Ganya, against Argentina that
you keep scheduling
I was saying, just with regards to now
winter and salawat time are so close together,
it becomes difficult to pray in the workplace,
and some people generally find it difficult to
pray in the workplace.
Is there any advice, any nasiha for that,
to
how to overcome that, almost the fear of
praying in a working environment?
There is fear of being judged?
People's reason is different. Some people just prefer
not to even have that confrontation.
But I think it's just that environment that
a lot of people are working 9 to
5 in an office, and now if you
if you were to look at it, Duhur
Asar and Maghre fall into that time space.
So when it comes to praying in the
work environment,
you find people sometimes try to find ways
around, they say, oh, I can combine Duhr
and Asr in the winter, or potentially I
can stretch Maghrib time till I make it
home.
So generally, is it, Yani,
obviously the fardhu is always going to be
a No, this question was actually asked to
me as I was walking at the Masil
Maghrib time.
1 of the brothers who,
works as a delivery driver, same question he
was asking.
My brothers and my sisters, we have to
understand that we were created for one sole
purpose. What is that one purpose?
To worship Allah I was not created to
go to university, not that I'm saying you
can't go to university.
I was not created to
work in the corporate world,
not that I have anything against anyone working
in the corporate world, or as a delivery
driver or someone who works in the warehouse.
No. You have to, of course, work in
order to provide for your family.
Right? But that's not what we were created
for. I hope you guys see the difference
in what I'm saying. Our sole reason of
existence is none other than worship. That's number
1.
When I wake up,
the first thing on my mind is how
can I fulfill my sole reason of existence,
which is what? Ibadatullah.
To worship Allah as a way and to
please Him.
He is my
master, and I'm his servant.
And when you have that kind of mentality,
my brothers and my sisters,
bear this in mind.
The messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam, he said,
Whoever makes the dunya his main priority,
Allah Azza wa Jal will make his affairs
fall apart.
Yes.
Allah will make his affairs fall apart.
Constant issues.
In between his eyes.
It could be that you end up just
living in this box life where you constantly
keep losing
whatever you're making.
Or my brothers and my sisters,
another type of fakkar,
poverty of the heart,
where you become empty,
right? There's never ending box life that just
keeps going
in circles and circles and circles, and I
don't seem to be getting anywhere in life.
And only thing that you're going to get
from the Dunneh is what was written down
for you
but look at this other person who has
tweaked his mentality
and his thought process about life in general,
he says
Whoever makes the hereafter his main priority, his
main focus.
He wakes up, first thing on his mind
is what can I do now to get
closer to Allah
That doesn't mean that you're going to forsake
your responsibilities
and your duties as a father?
Right? No. I'm not saying that. There's no
harm taking from the dunya that which is
going to aid and assist you hereafter. Absolutely
nothing wrong with that.
But when you just tweak the way you
think, your thought process,
Allah will take care of everything for him.
And Allah will place richness in his heart.
The dunya will be dragged to him.
The dunya will be dragged to you. Things
will come your way, which wasn't even expected.
Where did this come from, subhanAllah?
And most importantly, you have that richness.
Right?
You have
that contentment in your heart which can't be
bought with money.
Many people that I speak to, my brothers
and my sisters, they are working 9 to
5.
They are all complaining about the same thing.
He says make du'a for me, wallahi, I
feel I feel like this. And he's doing
this with his hand, meaning I'm empty.
Spock's life everyday doing the exact same thing.
Right?
And then subhan'Allah it's not rocket science to
actually realize what the problem is. It's not
rocket
science.
He is lacking in his relationship with Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Right? So now that we understand, my brothers,
that my sole reason of existence is what
Allah
to worship Him.
And if I do the right thing,
right, then the dunya will be dragged to
me. We wouldn't hesitate when it comes to
fulfilling
our
sole reason of existence, which is time of
the prayer, I have to
go and fulfill my duties.
Right.
And let me put it this way, and
I'm someone who's worked in the corporate world.
You guys will be surprised some of the
job roles that I've had in the past.
Right.
When you
respect yourself by
requesting
a place to pray or a time to
pray, a lot of the time they will
respect you.
Right.
As opposed to someone who just what conforms
to what people say.
Right. People will respect you.
The boss may well respect you.
You'll be surprised my brothers and my sisters,
some of the rights that we have as
workers.
Did you know my brothers and my sisters,
they go out for a cigarette break every
5 minutes?
Every 5 minutes,
right? They go out for a cigarette break.
Say, do you guys see that work?
They are entitled legally for a cigarette break
every now and again. And what? You're not
entitled to your prayer?
When you dig deep,
and you do some research,
you'll come out
with some rights that you are oblivious
of. Do your research.
Allah tells us,
All the salawat have been given its prescribed
time.
Fajr time has this time, Duhr has a
beginning time and he also has what? End
time. You can pray in between that time.
No one is saying that you have to
pray at the beginning time even though it
is better. It's flexible in that sense, but
it has to be carried out in that
time.
Delaying
the tawat, my brothers and my sisters, to
outside of its appointed time is from the
major sins.
It's actually from the major sins.
Right? So we have to be praying at
this appointed time. Bad that to you my
brothers and sisters.
Right? And that's my number one priority as
I was created for that.
And when you play around with the salah,
my brothers and my sisters, expect everything else
to go downhill.
May Allah bless you all. Ameen.
When it comes to salah, for someone that
doesn't pray, how do they practically start praying
and and start,
sort of fulfilling the 5 daily prayers at
that time? Because I see some stuff online,
and and sometimes you find, like, people give
their own experiences and generalize it as advice.
I saw someone on Twitter saying start by
one salah, and once you're comfortable then add
another salah.
But Islam's got, yeah, 5 salawats, you can't
just pick and choose when you're going
to pray what? Well I strongly suggest that
you come to the Masjid.
When you see people doing a certain act,
it becomes a lot lighter on the nafs.
Would you guys agree with
that? Look at the month of Ramadan,
right? And outside the month of Ramadan. In
the month of Ramadan,
do most of us have any difficulties fasting?
Everyone is doing it, it's a hype, right?
You'll fast.
But then when you have to make up
a fast outside a month of Ramadan, can
you see how much of a burden is
because you're by yourself?
So when you do Ibadat collectively,
it really is a lot lighter on the
soul.
Also when you look at the hadith of
the one who killed 99.
Famous hadith.
Guys accustomed with it?
What did the scholar say to him? This
is after he found a monk. He killed
the monk because the monk said to him,
oh, no. There's no way for you to
be repent forgiven,
so kill them as well. And then eventually
he ended up at a scholar. The scholar
said to him
Go to that land.
There is a group of people in that
land who worship Allah, worship Allah with them
being around that system
really really help
So come to the Masjid.
Do you see at the time of the
sun, anyone just sitting around doing their own
thing? People get up and they pray.
Right?
That's something that I can suggest. Male and
female.
Right? You see the women, they're going to
be at the Masjid as well,
especially on Fridays.
Worship Allah has the wajid with them.
A sister is asking what she should do
if her husband
isn't praying and is not fasting and is
basically not fulfilling the farayb?
What should the sister's position be? What should
she do?
So the husband doesn't pray? No. Does she
have any kids with him?
She didn't specify, but we can we can
go back and find that.
You guys know Sheikh Abdul Basit?
From Lestar?
He was actually speaking about this yesterday,
and I didn't know they was gonna ask
this question.
I was having a discussion yesterday,
and, I don't know whether the Sheikh,
is going to be okay with me mentioning
his name, but
my brothers and my sisters,
we need to understand that a salah is
not like the rest of the obligations.
Leaving of the salah is not like leaving
or fasting or hijab,
and you know the companions, if they saw
a sister
not wearing the hijab, they said, oh, maybe
she's new to Islam. Yeah. There's no one.
Someone's not fasting or maybe sick,
Someone not going out for Hajj or maybe
he's poor,
doesn't have the capability, not paying zakat,
incapable.
But when it came to the salah, there
was no excuses.
And that is because as the messenger of
salah, alayhi wasalam, said,
I'm not saying this by the way. Prophet
salallahu alaihi wa sallam said this. The difference
between us and them is a salah.
Who's them? The agnostic, the atheist,
right?
The Hindu,
the Buddhist, and the Jew, and the Christian,
the difference between us and them is a
salah.
Whoever leaves the office, he has committed kufr.
Right.
No way.
No way a brother who comes and asks
for my daughter's hand in marriage,
am I going to even
entertain or consider him
if this guy is not praying?
Imam Ahmed Rahmatullahi, alayhisaw, no difference
between Muhammad who doesn't pray,
and John, the non Muslim,
who's a Christian. No difference between them.
Oh, you know Charlotte?
Charlotte, the non Muslim.
I have to specify, because last time around
I said something like this, the video
went viral, and people are commenting, oh, I'm
a revert. My name is Mark, and then
you said, Mark. No. I'm not speaking about
the revert.
I'm speaking about a non Muslim, Charlotte, Jane,
John and,
Craig.
There's no difference between them and also Muhammad,
Khadija, Fatima
that don't
pray. Imam Ahmad saw them no different.
So how am I even going to consider?
Sometimes you hear parents saying, Oh, Allah, He
will pray later.
Allah will guide him.
But when he's an alcoholic, you shut your
door. Which one is worse? Leaving off the
prayer or being an alcoholic?
The sin of leaving on the salah is
far worse, brothers and sisters.
Right.
If you die upon alcohol and you have
to hid right, you're under the will of
Allah
Right? You're under the will, under his mashiya.
Allah may forgive him, Allah may decide to
punish him.
Right? However, when it comes to the salah,
you're messing around with kufr brothers, you're flirting
with it.
Some scholars, they behold that this guy, you
can't even marry him off class. This guy's
a wagal.
He's this believer.
Right?
And because of this hadith, also in the
prophet
Between shirk and kufar is what? Leaving of
the salah. Prophet
said this. Abdul Abin Shikikh, Arqaidi said
They never used to see the companions he's
talking about. Right?
Abandoning anything to be an act of kufr
other than the salah.
Salah is not a lie matter my brothers
and my sisters.
Extremely extremely dangerous.
Does that make sense?
Right.
So when it comes to salazar,
I'm not giving a fatwa. Let's make that
very very clear.
A lot of these issues
require
a discussion with both parties involved. Let me
make that very clear.
No one walk into this messian and I
said, or quotes me and says, oh he
said,
I didn't say anything.
Right?
You would have to sit with both the
spouses,
both the husband and the wife, and you
need to do ta'akkut to habwut.
Sometimes a sister who wants to get married,
she says, oh, my father cannot be the
guardian because
he doesn't pray.
Mashallah.
Or he's a fasik because he watches Aljazeera.
He's a transgressor. All these kind of things
that I mentioned,
by sisters from time to time, may Allah
forgive them
just so they could overstep
the guardian.
No. You need to do takkut in all
of these cases that I'm speaking about.
Is that really the case?
They need to sit in front of a
judge. Qadar al suhayth * kasmani aardanabeinidil Hakim
as Abdulai mizdabeinid said.
The prophet judge
that both the defendant and the claimant, they
have to sit in front of the judge.
I'll sit next to or in front of
Sheikh Mohammed Ali,
or you have, Sheikh Hafiz Ar Rahman from
Makki Masjid
who is part of the, Sharia Council,
go sit down,
before you request a separation.
Right? This is after long periods of advice,
you've tried, you made dua, this, that, and
then it reaches a breaking point,
something needs to be done.
Speaks to his people insha Allah, but this
is a very, very serious matter. Leaving off
the salah.
It's not even something that is up for
discussion.
My Allah is the way to guide the
Muslims.
We live in a day and age, I
think the phrase parenting by iPad
has been coined, and there's even a marketing
strategies,
iPad for parents and kids to go together.
So I think you see a lot of
parents, sometimes it could be labeled lazy parenting,
could be just a cop out, where they
give their kids the iPad and it's YouTube
all day,
and let the child sit on the iPad.
Is there any advice that you have for
You know brothers and sisters, in today's day
and age, the child has 3 parents.
The father, the mother, and also the iPad
or the phone, 3
parents. The mother and the father are no
longer educating the child.
Because they've become addicted to the phone,
take the iPad, leave me alone.
And then from the age of maybe what,
one and a half, 2 years,
2 and a half, 3 years,
they become
devoted to this iPad
that teaches them so much. Wallahi
my brothers and my sisters.
Kids as young as 1
year and what? 6 months, 7 months,
right?
They know how to use iPad.
They'll go on to Instagram,
click on this. They don't even know what
to press, what they want to actually really
do. They know what to do.
Right?
And then they become exposed to all of
this from that age.
Kids as young as that, my brothers and
my sisters, did you know that they pray?
Put your hand up if you've seen a
1 and a half year old child praying.
Not of course walking into the Masjid and
praying. You guys know what I'm talking about.
Have you guys seen a 1 and a
half year old pray? Yes. I
see it. Why?
Why does a child start praying? Who could
tell me?
Because
he sees the parents praying.
I always I love using this proverb. It's
a Samadhi one.
Wherever the camel goes, you find that, the
children go the exact same direction.
The only thing that a child sees throughout
the day is who
at that age none other than the parents.
So if the parents are behaving a certain
way, what do you expect from a child?
Don't expect any difference.
Right.
Screen time needs to be limited as much
as we can brothers and sisters.
Right.
Someone may say now, but oh, the kid
starts crying when I take the phone. For
how long does he cry? What?
2 minutes? 3 minutes?
When you give the child time, when you
start playing with it, you take a book,
you'll see it behaving very differently. But when
he gets used to the iPad, that's all
he wants.
It's as simple as that. Today, parents, you
hear them saying
that this is like, oh, it's a must.
Before the Ipads came along, how were the
kids living their lives? Or these toddlers, how
were they functioning?
Right? Sometimes again, we're in denial. We tell
ourselves that this is the only way.
Walamru lisqidariq.
How were the children living before aipas? Let's
ask ourselves the question. How?
So make sure you take it off them.
Even when it comes to the IQ level,
it affects it.
Their brain
cells, constantly in front of that
bright light.
There's research that has been done on all
these things.
And now what did you say they have?
They've got both the parents and the child,
they can buy together.
Buy 1, get 1 half price,
sir? Sir, Clokey, I think just sticking on
the topic of,
technology
and
Ipads, phones and that sort of thing, and
maybe just taking it more to,
the older crowd and marriage apps.
Do you have Islamic
metformulial
apps?
You have also of, Like Tinder
and Muzmatch?
Muzmatch.
Do you think the other one called? There's
another one now as well.
Some brothers said that Some brothers said that
very quickly,
Don't act like you don't know, brothers. Come
on. What's the other one? Let's mention on
the mic.
What's the other one called?
No. No. I'm not talking about the Sharia
compliant ones. I'm talking about the ones that
make it look like it's Islamic.
There's one with an m.
Yeah. I've said Muzmatch. I know Muzmatch. No.
Muzmatch, Tinda, Minda.
Those the other one, Islamic finder? Is that
what it's called? Uh-huh. Single Muslims? I think
Islamic finder is the prayer time. Oh, no.
Not that.
I
meant I meant the, there's there's Single Muslims.
Hadah, the single Muslims.
Not Muslim finder.
Single Muslims, that app.
But it's all of these ones are like,
what, tomato,
tomorrow.
What's the difference between tomato and tomorrow?
Is there much of a difference, guys? It's
exactly the same.
Read
Irathatul lathan
fimusaydish
shaitan.
Avi Nultan Rahmatullahahi,
which talks about the tricks of the shaitan.
One of the tricks of the shaitan is,
right,
changing the names of that which is haram.
Alcohol has a different name today. Who can
give me the different name? Spirit.
Spirit.
Likewise, there was once upon a time when
you had this I put this in quotation
marks. Right?
Muslim boy band.
Right?
The something squad. I don't wanna drop any
names.
Right?
What do they call it? Halal hip hop.
Look at the oxymoron here. Halal hip hop.
I can change the names, my brothers and
my sisters, as much as I want, but
does that actually change the reality? No. It
doesn't.
The names don't change the reality of something.
It really doesn't. No matter what you end
up calling it.
Right.
This is how the Muslims what? Attract. Musmatch,
right? Meaning Muslim match.
Even if it has the name Islam in
it, it doesn't really change the reality.
All of these apps, my brothers and my
sisters, are no different to Tinder and all
of these other
non Muslim
apps,
and they all should be what? Thrown or
put down the train.
However, you have alternatives. Again, it's one thing
identifying the problem is another finding a solution.
And by the way, I'm not getting paid
to promote these apps at all.
You have apps such as, I believe it's
called Pure Matrimonial.
You guys heard of it?
There's another one called Sunnahmatch.
Sharia compliant.
I know brothers and sisters that are on
there. Good. Go on it.
I think you should speak to your parents
before you go on the door.
Speak to your parents before you go on
it.
Right. A potential spouse may come out of
that. It is Sharia compliant.
You have all of these youth today on
these haramans, alhamdulillah, there are good ones as
well.
Right?
So these are the alternatives inshallah.
Last time you were here we spoke about
student loans.
I think,
I wanted to just follow-up.
Are student loans
Our student
loans.
Do you guys have any idea what
he's speaking about here?
So basically what's happened is
student
loans have been like into Bayamudaraba
which is
an Islamic
based transaction. What is Bay Al Mudaraba? Let's
just say
our brother said the rebaid.
He has the skills, he's a carpenter.
I, the Meskeen, just have the money.
I don't know how to carry this work
out.
Right?
I put down £10,000
to buy all of the equipment and
whatever else is required.
He puts in his work,
his skills to the table,
or he puts that down onto the table.
I brought the money, he's got the skills.
Is this
a legitimate
type of partnership? Yes, without Sharad Waza. Perfect.
Great.
It is lawful in the religion of Islam.
Providing that we agree
on a set amount
of how much
we will take from the profits.
It could be 60,
40,
70, 30, or 50, 50. We have to
agree.
Right, how
much
how much
we will both take
once we make the profits. We're not talking
about a set amount from the capital.
Brothers and sisters, this is what?
A haram money making scheme.
When someone says to you, put in 10,000,
and I'll give you 7% from your capital.
Right?
A lot of these investment schemes, you find
them
putting this forward. You put down
£10,000
and I give you 7%. What's 7% of
that every month?
10%
sorry. 7% of £10,000.
£700.
It's basic
mass. £700.
As returns every month,
It is haram.
However, the percentage
for the,
share of profits needs to be from
the profits itself. Like, if we make, for
example, £10,000,
we're gonna split it 70,
30,
40, 60, and so on and so forth.
So this has actually been likened to student
loans.
And I must ask you guys.
Right, for those who
have maybe looked into it.
Is that really the same model?
Student loans?
When they give you now, for example, £10,000
a year,
is this really like Bay Al Muzharab? No.
It's not.
Because at the time you have to agree
how much you guys are going to
split amongst yourself and this must be stipulated
now.
So it's not that.
Sheikh Lokey,
I wanted to ask, and I think you
just kind of taken it a little bit
to a different route, but it's just a
yes or no, and I'll follow-up.
Can someone be possessed?
Is this a thing? Yes, of course.
Some people doubt the whole concept of or
the whole experience, and Allah
knows best. Well, you have the Quran, the
sunnah, you have it happening amongst people as
well. Do you not see it? So It's
not that reaction. What is it? If someone's
possessed, what should they do? Him having a
emotional sit down or or madah? What do
you call it? It's
so I think it's the question comes up
a lot, the element of possession, and there
are some people that undermine it.
Is mentioned in the Quran, one becoming possessed.
Also
Allah says in the Quran,
Even though it's not asari as the other,
the shaitan only has authority over those who
befriend him.
Right.
And those who commit shirk, how do you
befriend the shaitan? By doing the things that
he loves.
Right.
So jim possession is ruined, my brothers and
my sisters.
It happens. People get possessed. When the shaytan
takes over them, you start reading Quran on
them, and they start
reacting. Do we not see that happening? That's
in possession.
If someone's possessed,
or they experience something, or they feel like
that there is
an ulmah possession, or they they are convinced,
what should they do? What is it that
they should do?
If someone is possessed, what should they do?
Yeah.
I strongly suggest my brothers and my sisters
and this is just a very quick answer.
Right?
You have this self rakya program that was
translated by our brother Ustad Muhammadu Mambu.
That was put together by a Sheikh Adil
Mukbir. Right? That's the name.
The famous Iraqi expert that resides,
overseas in the kingdom.
He's an expert in this. He's come to
the UK multiple times as well.
Self ruqya program. Type that into Google and
it comes up.
Yes. Others may read on you,
which is inshallahuta'ala
going to impact,
positively.
How are the 3 points that we need
to take into consideration in order for this
rakhiya session to be extremely effective?
What does that mean? The one who's doing
the ruku is someone who
is doing it sincerely.
If he's just coming to the house because
he knows they're going to be providing Amboola,
they're going to be providing food at the
house, as some may do, or there's going
to be food after, let's go. And then
they give him a must have and he's
reading.
This guy wants food.
It's not coming from his heart. He's not
doing it sincerely.
It's not going to be effective, my brothers
and my sisters. Here, the sincerity part is
very, very important.
Sometimes we want to help, so we hire
out a raqi to read on some of
our relatives. There's nothing wrong with that.
But you have to make sure that you
choose someone who, inshallah, has the good shaka
record. Otherwise, you're going to be wasting a
lot of money.
Right?
The one who the ruqih is being read
on, he must have yaqeen.
Certainty that the cure is going to come
from Allah.
Sometimes you hear a brother who's possessed saying,
no, Allah, I want you to do it.
I want you specifically because I feel like,
you know, you have something.
Insha Allah.
Come.
It's
from what? Allah
You have to believe that. You becoming attached
and connected to a human being,
thinking that he may well be
the, the the the core reason as to
why you might become cured. This is very
dangerous as well, to have this kind of
belief.
Does that make sense?
So have the talk, it's Allah, no matter
who comes, it's Allah, Azzawaj is going to
cure me.
Allah
Number 3, sahatul markibi. That which is being
read is what authentic.
Right? Not some gibberish that is being read
on you.
Well I remember I was speaking to my
one of my neighbors, Juju. His name is
Juju.
That's what I call him.
And he goes, it just it just confused
me and then people are actually trusting this
guy.
So that's very very important.
So try to do the self rukhiya, rukhiya
on yourself. Okay? Rukhiya on yourself.
Type into Google self rukhiya program.
Muhammadimhamble,
it comes up, that link,
and then he translated something that inshallah will
be extremely positive.
Okay.
And impactful.
Or maybe someone can find you someone to
and I will read the ruqih on you.
And number 3, which is very very important,
my brothers and my sisters, try to wake
up in the last 3rd of the night.
As we mentioned before,
while matradhatumlida,
it removes any physical or spiritual sicknesses.
Right? Try that.
It's very very impactful, inshallah.
Another very common thing that occurs and, and
a lot of the people are experiencing and
dealing with is wusswas,
especially when it comes
to the Ibadat and,
like probably the most common one is wudu.
What advice do you have for people that
are suffering from that?
Wasawis with regards to my faith, wasawis in
my brothers and my sisters is, the doubts
that an individual now begins to experience when
making wudu.
Right?
Let me give you guys a principle.
In dealing with wudu's.
The fuqaha they say,
You know when we make wudu, we have
to make sure that we've done every part
properly. Right?
We have to make sure that you've done
it properly.
And if you've missed out anything, double check,
and then wash your eye.
It's very, very important
and fundamental when it comes to the wudu.
However,
the person who's suffering from wudu wasa, and
may Allah cure them as they are many.
We say to make wudu and get out
of the toilet.
If it means that someone drags you out,
then let it be it.
Wallahi brother and sister, it broke my heart
seeing some people go into the bathroom,
and they stay in there for hours. Some
wake up before fajr, and they don't leave
the bathroom except after sunrise.
It's Ibtillamin Allah.
Right? So
make wudu.
Cut out the whispers. Get out of the
toilet.
That's how insha'Allah
you're going to what?
Overcome is wasawis when it comes to the
wudu.
Right?
Then you also have, my brothers and my
sisters, that which relates to the salah. We
have a hadith for this.
Uthman ibn Abi Aas, radiAllahu ta'ala, and one
time he came to Prophet and he said,
in the shaitanah
The shaitan has managed to get in between
my recitation of the Quran and my prayer,
keeps irritating me.
It's causing me a lot of problems.
Right? What shall I do? Masina salalahu alaihi
wa sallam said,
This is a shaitan called khintzab.
Right? If you feel this faith, says toufata'awwabilahimin.
Seek refuge in Allah and say,
Right?
And then also dry spit on your left
three times.
Not phlegm.
Not that. Talking about what? Dry spit to
your left.
So Hafun ibn al Aas, he says,
I did this.
Allah has really removed it.
Right. While you're inside of your salah, the
shaytan comes
and begins to give you doubt about you
having lost your wudu.
Messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam also taught us
a very important principle. In the hadith, it
says,
If you now begin to feel a disturbance
in your salah,
or should I say in your stomach,
right, begin to feel a disturbance, sometimes you
feel like that, right? Have I lost my
wudha, have I not?
Right?
Masjid
said,
He should not leave the salah.
Here, masjid means salah.
Sultan, up until he hears a sound, or
he finds what? A rih,
smell.
The principle here is, and it's a
leading legal maxim.
Something that has been established with certainty,
should not be dismissed
due to some doubt that has arisen.
What does that mean? Did you not just
come out of the toilet and make You
went, you made and then you started prayer.
Has that been fulfilled with certainty, brothers and
sisters?
Certain, right? We just saw the guy walking
out, I just made wudu now. Like me,
father, I made wudu. Went into Surah Salah,
and then shaitan starts playing with me, oh,
maybe you've lost it, I begin to feel
that doubt. Should I give this doubt any
consideration?
No.
Because
what has been established as certainty cannot be
dismissed due to some doubt that has arisen.
Does that make sense?
And that's not just specific to the salah,
it could be outside of the salah. You're
doubting, wala have I lost, have I not?
You go back to the asal, which is
you made wazoo, and that's what stands.
Very, very handy principle, my brothers and my
sisters.
So many questions that I receive all the
time pertaining to this.
And then the third I think is, which
is very, very common, having doubts about
Allah
Right?
1 of the companions one time came to
the Prophet
Prophet he said,
Indeed, O Messenger of Allah, we have these
conversations with ourselves.
And,
you know, it's it's something that is really
disturbing to mention.
Right? Or to be vocal about it. We
feel very
uncomfortable to say it with our tongues that
which we are speaking to ourselves about.
The messenger
he
said, wajatamu, this is what you found?
He said, yes. The messenger said, that kasarihul
iman.
These Wazawis,
they come to anyone who turns to Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
SubhanAllah.
Right. And then he says, upon
him is
to be firm,
to be patient,
and to occupy himself with dhikr,
with the remembrance of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Right? Whenever he feels that, straight away he
starts remembering Allah as a wajal.
In another narration we are told
in another narration, my brothers and my sisters,
we are told
that the shaitan comes to you and he
says,
Who created this? Who created that?
Right?
Up until he says,
Who created your Lord?
Messenger
said, whoever experiences this, then let him say,
and
let him cut this out. Stop thinking about
that. And turn towards the remembrance of Allah
Right?
Even Sheikh Al Samtaimi was asked, Inna, al
yahuda wa nasaara,
the Jews and the Christians,
they claimed that they don't suffer from waswasa.
His
response was,
What is the shaitan going to do to
a heart that has already become corrupt?
Why should the shaitan busy himself with them?
He will come to people of iman,
people with faith,
always trying to pull you into a shirk
and al kufr.
Right? So some of the solutions my brothers
and my sister is to rush into dhikr,
to rush into reading Quran.
Abu Huraira
as they reported by Darimi, he says,
The how the house becomes a comfort zone.
You know when?
Right?
In yukraafi'il
Qur'an. When the Quran is recited in it,
the malaika, they come there.
And also the shayateen,
they will run away from this kind of
place.
That's when you recite the Book of Allah,
Azza wa Jal.
And then the opposite was mentioned as well.
It becomes a place that is so uncomfortable.
The shayateen, they come to this place, and
the angels, they run away from it.
Quran when the Quran is all recite. A
dhikr,
a Quran my brothers and my sisters,
Right? And also rush into prayer.
Rush into prayer. Isn't this what the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallamahu alaihi wa sallahi wa
sallahi wa sallahi wa sallahi
he'll rush to the prayer.
And that will ease, insha'Allah,
a lot of that which we are experiencing
at the time.
InshaAllah, we're gonna go down to the last
two questions.
What minute is the game on? Just to
make sure that we
You mentioned something about waswas when it comes
to religion, and people doubting, questioning themselves when
it comes to
Islam and even Allah
I think one question that often comes up
is we see so much suffering
around for Muslims,
We see Muslims are targeted, we see Muslims
are in a hard
in in difficult spots in a lot of
the Muslim land
being killed,
salvations,
whatever else there is suffering with that, we
ask Allah to ease their affairs, but why
is Allah allowing this to happen to the
Muslims?
I spoke about this,
in a in a lot more detail
in the lecture that I've been delivering at
the universities. You can find on my YouTube
channel, it's called Surajousaf. Put my name in
Surajousaf.
Right.
Even when I came to Manchester not so
long ago, I kinda touched on this. When
speaking about
the statement of Allah
Allah sent down revelation upon Yaqub
to allow
the brothers of Yusuf to take him.
That you might ask yourself the question now,
my brothers and my sisters.
Allah
knows that the brothers of Yusuf are looking
to
get rid of Yusuf alaihis salat wa sama.
Right?
They're trying to get rid of him. They
hate him with a passion. They've got jealousy
towards him.
And
Allah knows this. He is what? Al Aleem
Hakim.
And these two names were mentioned 3 times
alongside one another in Surat Yusuf, and that
doesn't happen
by chance or for no reason.
Allah is all knowing,
and he is also all wise.
Right? You may ask yourself the question, why
is Allah going to allow
Yaqub
to suffer
for decades decades decades?
Because he went through a lot. He lost
his most beloved son.
Right? But Allah sent down revelation telling Yaqb,
allow them to take him. Let them take
him.
And he was the reason as to why
he suffered.
Right?
Say why? Why would Allah allow that, brothers
and sisters?
Please watch that lecture, insha Allahu Ta'ala, as
we speak about
all of the positive things that happened
to you, Yusuf
and what he ended up becoming. And then
later on,
then being in a poor place, Allah
took them to the palace as a family,
and that's where they resided.
Everything, my brothers and my sisters, that happens,
happens for a reason.
Even Sheikh Usim Taym Rahmatullah says,
there isn't anything that Allah creates which is
purely evil. Nothing.
Whatever you see you, you as a human
being as evil, it is subjective.
What does that mean? You may look at
something and think, oh, only evil is going
to come out of this situation. Someone else
will look at it, and he will see
the positivity in it.
Right?
Let me ask you guys a couple of
questions.
Some
of our parents
who came to the UK,
what were the,
the lives that they were living at a
time?
Was it an easy one?
See a lot of brothers here, they come
from well their parents, they come from homes
and lands
that was struck with never ending wars. Agreed?
When these wars were happening, did it ever
cross their minds that maybe one day they
will be walking around the streets of Manchester,
and their children would probably be sitting in
a Masjid,
and also going to university,
attaining education,
right,
which will give them better futures and so
on and so forth. Do you think it
ever crossed their mind?
They're probably thinking at a time, walaiman, why
is all of this happening to mizayah?
But it was that evil, that war, that
was the reason why
they will end up having better lives maybe
in the future.
Agreed?
You know, my friend
got shot a very long time ago.
Shot in the head.
I lived in London in an area where
there was generation of gangs, one after the
other.
You had the elders, and then their youngers,
and then their youngers, and and I think
I was part of the 4th generation.
It seemed like that we were going to
have youngers as well, and then they were
going to have youngers, Yaani.
Generation after generation,
gangs.
The parents were suffering.
Wallahi there was suffering.
Mainly from Somali and Yemeni backgrounds.
They suffered a lot in Camden, brothers and
sisters,
up until this brother was shot in the
head.
When this brother was shot, no one done
anything.
I asked myself the question, where are all
the bravehearts at?
All these guys who will run from one
area to another to come and defend you.
No one done
anything.
That incident was the reason why many people,
they go and study abroad.
When you look at it from the appearance,
someone dying, oh, it's evil, right, according to
how we think, sahe?
Can you see now all of the positivity
that came out of it?
So many people, they
left that area to go and study abroad,
someone to Yemen, someone to Egypt, someone to
Medina.
I remember at a time my parents, they
moved me out of London to Leicester.
It was one of the greatest things that
ever happened to me.
Everything happens for a reason.
Whether you see it or not, how many
times have we been in a position, my
brothers and my sisters,
where we really want something? I'll give the
example that everyone can relate to. You want
this sister so badly.
Princess Charming.
There's no one better than her. So
hey. Can you try everything in your power?
You will make the east come to the
west and the west to the east just
so you can have this wonderful,
beautiful
lady.
But then it doesn't happen, and to make
things worse, your friend comes along,
and he snatches her from under your nose.
Oh.
Couldn't get any worse,
Years go by and Allah blesses
you with a lady that the mind can't
imagine.
And this is when you say, oh, if
that didn't happen, I wouldn't have this today.
Does that not happen, brothers and sisters?
At times, it doesn't make sense to us
why this is happening. Later on, SubhanAllah,
if that didn't happen, I wouldn't have this
today.
Think about that for a moment. Another thinking.
Everything happens for a reason.
Right? Because of how limited our intellects are,
my brothers and my sisters, we just don't
see the good in things
at the time. Later on, we might see
it. This is why
leave these issues to Allah. He's the one
that created everything. Right?
And he's all knowing. If you now invent
this new phone, my brothers and my sisters,
you invented a new phone.
And someone else comes along and he says,
you. You're the owner. Right? No. No. No.
No. No. This is not how you do
things, and it should be done like that.
How would you feel?
You
know? To tell me what is right and
what is wrong, how to use the phone
that I invented, that I created.
You are more knowing because you are the
creator of that.
Allah
created everything so perfectly.
Right? With his wisdom.
And everything that he chooses to happen, happens
for a reason whether you see it or
not.
Barak Lafiq,
the final question I wanted to ask is
how do you find a dunya,
a balance between your dunya and your akhir?
That's a very broad question.
Very broad.
Can you make that a little bit more
specific? So the example that someone gave was
maintaining your prayers on time without it affecting
work and study,
or for example Nikhana spoke about that, right?
That when I wake up, my number one
priority is what my salah. Everything revolves around
the salah.
You know the righteous, the way they speak
is,
let's do this after Duhr, let's do this
before Duhr, let's do this after Maghrib, and
before Isha.
Everything else is structured around the prayer.
We, as human beings, need to have timetables
and schedules.
If we just wake up and you just
go with whatever happens, you're just gonna going
to be all over the place.
Your salawah is your number one priority. Everything
happens around it.
A dunya this dunya is cursed, my brothers
and mothers, everything in it is cursed, except
a few things, Number 1, the dhikr of
Allah
The one who is an alim and scholar
and the one who learns his religion.
Right?
I am a disbeliever
in someone's thing I don't have time.
I'm a disbeliever
in that.
I don't believe that this is something my
brothers and my sisters.
Right?
That is actually possible because everyone
can find time for that which is most
important to him.
If it means that you sacrifice maybe an
hour of your sleep or an hour of
your playing around FIFA or watching the football
game or whatever have you, and let it
be it. You will find time.
Also, you may want to check your screen
time.
For those who have Apple, I don't know
about Samsung.
I've got nothing to do with it.
But Apple,
I'm a
loyal Apple fan for many years, maybe over
a decade.
It tells you the screen time, brothers and
sisters.
May well be that you have to cut
certain things off,
in order for you to find time.
May Allah bless every single one of you.
Nasid Wathir.
I think it was the question about,
with Medina University being so competitive,
what alternatives
are there
for people that are seeking to
to to take a journey on Talabaylan?
Well, some of the alternatives to Medina College,
Medina University. No. I was gonna say alternative
to Medina College.
Medina College in South London. You can maybe
go there, but I think it's very far
for a lot of you guys.
You guys have a lot of programs
here in Manchester.
Right. I think Ali was speaking about
Farquhar College.
Right.
Furqan College, they have Arabic now as well.
Brothers and sisters, we have to start here,
and I think when Sheikh Abu Sam was
here and Sheikh Mohammed Ali,
when we had that panel discussion,
they were speaking about this, that you have
to start here. If you really want in
Medina, show Allah azzawiyah that you are what?
Suitable for it by starting from now.
Okay.
You have programs that the different tulabul alaihilm
are carrying out in the masjid and outside
of the masjid, you will find it, I'm
sure if you speak to the prophets they
will connect you be it in the lightta'ala,
right? So start
here, also you have online
courses like I'm a teacher on
Knowledge College,
right, it's an online,
course,
it's like a 1 year where you go
through the essentials.
Essentials, hadith, fiqh, siraat, wahid, and so on
and so forth.
Gives you the basics of what you are
in need of. So there are also these
online courses that you will find inshallah to
Allah.
Does that make sense? Also earlier we forgot
to speak about
the issue of the apprenticeships.
We just,
came back from
a Japanese pancake shop.
They invited us, they insisted we come, and
may Allah bless them. They really hosted us
as their guests.
Everything was free, but I think you guys
would have to pay for it because you
live in Manchester.
And, and the brother, subhanallah, he showed me
an alternative to,
was speaking about the whole university stuff.
They have these
well, it's not them, they're just the link
between
the people who are interested and also the
government.
Government funding
for apprenticeships
that also come with a degree, sir. Yeah.
You do apprenticeship, you work,
you learn the trade, and you're doing your
degree at the same time,
without having to take a loan.
It's another alternative. By the way, remember I
said last time, I'm not saying that it's
haram, halal, and whatever have you. That's not
my place. However,
what I can do is provide alternatives and
apprenticeships are without a shadow of a doubt.
A wonderful alternative that so many people have
benefited from.
Even Ibrahim was currently in Madinah,
Ibrahim from from here, I think what? Was
it engineering? It was
engineering apprenticeship.
And he was working. He was earning ridiculous
money,
and we used to make jokes about his
wage. Said he need to fund the dawah
soon.
Allahumabarak
was it, and now he's in a Medina.
So he was
doing apprenticeship
on a very high wage, now he's going
to a Medina. So there are alternatives with
that Sharavada.
What's it called? Halal alternative, if I'm not
mistaken.
It's called halal alternatives on Instagram.
You type in halal alternatives, it has, like,
these blue images and
what's it called that? Yeah. Yeah. Halalalternatives
on Instagram.
Barak lavee, Sheikh Mehul, I reward you for
your time and bless you.
It's a pleasure to have you here again
at the masjid and
maybe inshallah we'll have you in the near
future and if Allah wills, you move to
Manchester
and you do your hijrah. You started from
London to Leicester, I think now is time
you upgrade,
so you're more than welcome here at your
masjid. Brothers, can I make a request?
Allah, I would love to meet every single
one of you, kiss you, and hug you,
and whatever have you.
Right?
My wife is actually still in hospital. She
gave birth 2 days ago, and I was
so close to canceling this program, but I
know Sheikh Mohammed Ali would have slaughtered me.
Right.
She's still in the hospital and my because
my there was a bit of a complication
with my newborn,
right, and I have to show off. I
really do. And my daughter now is being
looked after by someone else, my second daughter,
or the first, you know, the older one,
Tamia.
So I'm really going to have to show
up. I know there's always brothers
that have questions after. I don't know why
they don't ask it, but they always ask
it at the end.
We can do it inshallah next time. I
will be coming back on the 1st January.
Right?
Say first, is it?
Oh, sorry. I'm not allowed to expose the
dates. So the sheikh has given it away,
so we may as well give an exclusive,
inshallah, that the Al Furqan, Mashil Furqan winter
conference is coming up, insha'Allah,
on the 31st
December and the 1st January.
The post and the details are gonna be
released over the next few days.
There's gonna be a few speakers.
I can can you guys guess the first
one?
Just checking if you're paying attention. Jazakam Makayo
for listening. So, inshallah, when I come then,
you know, I'll be there for the whole
day,
and I'm teaching a book as well and
some other lectures. We're gonna go through feminism
part 2 as well.
We went through part 1, alhamdulillah, it's blown
up. I've had feminists message me saying that
they've repented to Allah.
The video has over a 100000 views on
my channel.
So we're gonna do part 2 now speaking
about qiwama, the man being the maintainer and
the provider,
and being the person of authority in the
house,
which is an ayah that has been rejected
and negated
by some of our sisters, may Allah forgive
them, part 2
in a lot more detail,
Can I just emphasize, inshaAllah, what the Sheikh
requested? Please, please just give him, inshaAllah,
safe passage out of the Masjid.
Brothers, will I want to kiss all of
your heads
and hug you all but I'm so mentally
tired I haven't slept much and I have
to rush back and pick up my daughter.
Yeah