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As we carry on our journey

in the series of Hazza, entitled correcting concepts, we had mentioned a few concepts in the past foodbuzz And for those of you that have missed, you should go and listen to the three hotbars that preceded the squat bar, in which we lay the foundation of the entire sunnah, the entire education system and the pedagogy of how Islam teaches us things. There is a big spectrum in which Allah subhanho wa Taala and messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam are trying to rectify our concepts.

When we hear them or as Vinci a year Island fella

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What is the definition of success in our lives? Hey, I la sala Salah come to Salah what is the definition of Salah?

What is the Salah prayer is a dua Is it the five daily prayers what is it? So these concepts have to be cleared so that we are pegged to not what I think what I saw what I was brought up on, but rather what Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and the Sahaba a Koran where they left the deen on. And that's what we attach ourselves to.

The concept for today is the concept of morality.

Morality, what is morality? Who defines morality?

Where do we get our morality from?

And this, this conversation is also going to interlace into the upcoming Pride Month.

And the stances of over 150 scholars in a statement that came out two days ago, most of you may not have been aware of it in reference to where Muslims stand when it comes to being American Muslims and the issue of LGBTQ.

And I've also signed that statement, including many other scholars, it's called the navigating and differences.com. You can go there and you can look, look up and read that article. Every Muslim living in North America should actually read that article. It was written by a consortium of scholars to define the most balanced approach that very unequivocally sets in stone. Where do we as Muslims stand on this issue? But before we tackle that, we must understand the concept of morality

who tells us what's good?

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the bigger question, what is good Ness?

How do we know that when we say something is good that it has goodness in it?

And these are key concepts that we must understand.

The entire Quran is filled with passages but I present to you a small passage today from the Quran.

Allah subhanho wa Taala he says,

Well Cavalli, Tatiana Nikolina beggin I do when I like likewise, I eat this has been the custom from the time of either Miley salaam until Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and now as the bearer of the message of Nabina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, that's the custom that is going to be applied to us as the ummah. What is Allah subhanaw taala made li Kulina be in for every Nabil or his message, I don't one enemies.

Where are these enemies from shayateen.

Ins, human shaytans

people who are going to be from our own lines that are going to come

come out on TED talks, and they're going to say, there is no such thing. Oh, there is nothing to discuss about homosexuality Islam is okay with it. These type of statements that are coming and our children are consuming this content they go and listen to TEDx about technology, about education about this and that and then about this.

A child that is sitting at home doesn't know how to decipher that information.

So that moral code of ours or Allah subhanaw taala says this has been the case there are going to be Shayateen l ins Allah brought in sun first well, Jin, the shaitan of Jin after so the enemies of the message of Islam are gonna be from human beings first.

And then, in Shayateen, Elgin's you he ba boom Illa out

the converse and plan with one another, their shape on of gin and ends they work together. You either inspire one another for evil,

but they encapsulate this evil to you zu rueful toll. They beautify this in speech. That is, this is so beautiful, but allow hurrah, but it's a deceptive speech.

Love is love.

You go to these places, they have these slogans, love sees no boundaries.

Beautify. But Hooroo there is deception in these statements.

Then Allah says, What OSHA will come after I know, Allah is like Allah if Allah had intended, Allah would stop them right there and then

there is a permission of Allah in this. Allah is allowing this to happen.

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leave them with that which they fabricate.

And then he says, and this so leave them and carry on doing your things. Why? So that the hearts of these people are letting in Allah Umino and I will here are the ones who do not believe in akhira they might be pleased while you study for my homework, telephone, or the me carry on committing what they commit and leave them as is.

You focus on your moral code as Muslims, we focus on what is right and apologetically.

Even if even if there's consequences

then Allah subhanaw taala says why do we sometimes submit to the pressure of the society? Why is it that the parents are not standing up when when profane books are being allowed to be read two grade three and four year old children will love me if I was to bring that book over here, it is okay to be different than if I was to open and read pages. Many of you would say she stopped reading this. This is pornography. But that book is allowed for a grade three grade four school system here in Fulton County.

It's allowed, by the way we're not the only ones that are concerned. Yesterday I was with the chaplains, the Christian chaplains and they're trying to find Muslim chaplains for the prisons. And they were all concerned equally concerned.

They were like how do we protect our morality? Many of them they don't send their kids to public schools. These are Christians that I was with yesterday. They're like we don't send them to we send them online schools and we teach them morality at home.

So this is a very difficult time that we're living through. Especially the monks that is coming ahead.

Allah says Allah Allah He evidently Hagaman the reason why we get inclined we are okay with is we're trying to find Allah is like are you trying to find a legislator other than Allah subhana wa Tada. Well, who will lead the Anza Lele Komal Kitab and Mufasa Allah, Allah has revealed this book with absolute details that you need to run your life

the sad reality is we don't touch this book we don't know this book we don't understand this book. We don't have a connection with this book. Every other book we have a connection with except this book of Allah.

We're living in it now humble Kitab Allah is like the ones who are given the book. How do they react? Well Lavina RJ you know whom will Kitab Ayala moon? They know the book.

They are aware of the book.

And no one has Zillow Mira pick it has been revealed from the Arab bill have

and it is the truth.

In this whole concept of morality, we have to do

take a position of this is right and this is wrong.

We have to take a position we cannot be as a Muslim community, we go with the flow.

Not going to happen.

It's already too late for Muslims in Canada.

And Imam cannot talk a person. They've passed the bill in its federal law Bill C 16. You cannot talk a child who's thinking of contemplating homosexuality as an Imam, as a pastor, as a rabbi, they cannot say this is haram. This is not allowed. It's a federal crime in Canada right now.

And it's coming down here.

Let's not fool ourselves

and the homeowners Zillow, mira, Big Bill help, fella takuna Minh and Taku Nana Minelli muttering Do not be from the ones who ever doubt upon this truthfulness. And this help.

Why is this true? Allah say what I'm mad galima to own a big girl said the goal is

the word of Allah the gum the rule of Allah subhanho wa Taala has been fulfilled.

It ain't gonna change, it's not going to change.

And this commands of Allah Siddiq Anwar I dilla. They are the true reality.

And they are just, however, in our minds, we may think that it's injustice, that is justice.

La MOBA de la Liga anima t, you can change the commands of Allah. You can try, you can convert, you can try to do coarseness, you can go around, you can bend, you can do all mental philosophical gymnastics. What we see some of the scholars doing today with this whole issue of LGBTQ, we're talking about mainstream Masonic scholars that are taking positions and they're okay with certain things.

It is our position, it doesn't matter if they come and close the semester down. It doesn't matter if they come and take you. It is the definition of standing up for the truth.

And it is the constitutional right that has been provided to you by this land, freedom of your religion.

You can't be afraid.

When I was talking to the constable, the captain yesterday he said we have so many Muslims but you know, they don't express their faith. I mean, we will allow them and facilitate everything but their schools so scared of their jobs. This is a captain saying that I know that these people want to practice but they're so afraid of losing a job if they're seen as a Muslim.

Allah says La Moomba De La Nina kalima it, his words are not going to change. Well, who was semi, you know, Lolly, but he knows what you're saying about him. He knows what your heart says about Allah. He knows when you hear these commands, how are your hearts reacting to it?

Then Allah says to Prophet sallallahu sallam, we're in doTERRA Oh prophet of Allah if you were to follow XR Rahman. Phil, if you were to follow everyone, the majority, this is the majority the masses are doing this all profit if you were to follow the majority, if you were to follow the masses,

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you would have lost your path. I eat rasool Allah ha he's never going to follow the majority. But this is a hypothetical scenario for you and I to understand that even if prophet who is divine and guided by Allah is supposedly in the wildest imagination, which is an impossibility in the heart of Rasulullah if he was to even do that he would then be misguided with all the help that he would have. Then what about you and I?

E W, your honor a loved one. All they're following is assumptions and conjectures. We're in home in so on, and all they're doing is wild guessing this is right or wrong, right? Wrong, maybe okay. And this keeps on moving.

So as Muslims, our morality and our source code comes from Quran and Sunnah. I can give you passages on from the Quran. That's not the point of the hotbar today, but we want to peg it to some Quranic verses because this is the kalam of Allah and His Deen. Then, when our source code is

Quran and Sunnah Allah Musa de la de Cali Marathi. There's no change that are ever going to happen in the source code.

How do Muslims

adopt the position? And where do they stand on the issue of LGBTQ? First, we must understand as Muslims in these lands and this is an important understanding that we must have in these lands that Allah subhanaw taala. He brought us to these lands, many of us we came to these lands, and our main purpose of leaving our back home and coming over here was so that we can be provided the freedom of religion.

And the constitutional right in these lands is that you can practice your faith. And if there is any discrimination that happens, you have procedures and legal ways that you can defend yourself in these lands.

So hold your head held, hold your head up high as Muslims and be proud of the fact that you can practice your religion in these lands and there is going to be an event here and there where you will be discomforted, but in for you will be definitely rewarded for that discomfort if you stand up to that.

That's number one.

Number two, as Muslims.

Islam's position on gender and sexuality is as follows. It can be found in Surah, Tara Nahal, naman, and Surah Nisa, the all these verses talk about it, which is

that sexuality is confined ie one's one. And their ability to fulfill their sexual desires is confined by the governance and the rules of Allah subhanaw taala. And what He permits and what he doesn't, number one, number two, it is only between a man and a woman.

That's the only acceptable sexuality. Number three, the third position is that a person shall not make public, even their permissible sexuality.

You are not allowed to share your relationships with your spouse's online in public. It is haram. So any expression of that in public is haram, whether that relationship is illicitly haram, or explicitly halal.

That's number three. And that's the position that we take as Muslims on this matter. Number Number four, our constitutional rights give us the ability to follow whatever.

And it also gives us the freedom

to not to affirm somebody else's beliefs with respect.

So we don't need to affirm, we don't need to be in the position to say I agree with this or agree with that. We hold the position as Muslims over here in these lands. And I'll read this, this is directly from

the this is directly from the article. And I think this is well put for us to be able to understand this in the context over here for all of us, collectively, articulation of Islam's position on sexuality and gender essays as a religious minority that frequently experiences bigotry, and exclusion. We reject the notion

as all the scholars over here, we reject the notion that moral disagreement amounts to intolerance.

I repeat that we reject the notion that moral disagreement equates to intolerance. What does that what do I mean for that? I don't agree with transgenderism, all you're transphobic

so that bigotry, they attack you right away. And because of the fact that way, we are attacked, we get defensive and reclusive as Muslims that Oh, it's okay. It's okay. Because I don't want to get attacked.

So just a fact that I have a moral disagreement with you. It does not does not equate to intolerance. It does not equate to incitement of violence. We are not saying that all Muslims go out and kill

or go out and make their lives miserable, because they are sinful. That's not the stance of Muslims anywhere in the world.

The stance of the Muslim is that we hold our grounds but we have the right to say we don't agree with you,

respectfully and we will not hate you. That's number three.

Number four, to our Muslim community. This is a message to all of us over here.

You're going to see

Many of the Muslims publicly before I say this, I have to do a premise and set a foundation.

There is a general spider if the brothers can please move up and because there's brothers that are standing at the back, so if you can just move up, stand up and make some move and fill in the gaps this way the brothers are there

so to the Muslim community, their messages to photos?

Number one,

it has been an understood source code of legislation. They call this our alpha pa

principles of faith. Okay, CA, alpha PA, the maxims of FIP how are they driven? They are driven by understanding all of the Sharia and then there are certain universal principles irrespective of even the Shias will agree to these universal principles. For example, Lao Bharara, Allah, there are anytime a religious legislation is causing harm to people, then that legislation has to be removed, like Omar Radi Allahu and during his reign, people were hungry and stealing he put a moratorium on cutting hands

he said because people are in famine right. So, that is not your job in my job, but this provider there. So there is a PA ADA that you have to outweigh the pros and cons I will masala how well Masada everybody all this all the different schools and this difference we are going to agree on this Muslim after that this is the car this is the principle

Okay, which means I look in an issue and I take a position

and as a leader, religious leader, I will take a position my position is probably going to be a more conservative position. I would look at a particular situation example. All of our texts, our Hadees our Quran and Sunnah text, and the understanding of the first three generations prohibit video cameras and photo cameras.

But now the Muslim of Sudan

What's the benefit if we do not use those video cameras? We're we're we're excluding entire benefit. And that's why majority of the scholars have allowed us off camera.

But if you remember those of you that are well you remember this conversation, this is haram just like there was photos that were being transferred all across the world. They were being the there was an entire gym out in India and Pakistan and Bangladesh they weren't even using any cameras.

But then the tide changed. And now the pros and cons. The pros of using the camera has outweighed the cons.

So even though we have religious grounding, we will follow the pros because the benefit to the OMA is a lot more.

Okay. Now, we must agree on that, that this is a masala well Masada that pros and cons. It is a decision of every individual in power. So when you would look at a scholar like Yusuf al Qaradawi, you would look at some of the greatest scholars of the past or Medina use of His law he one day take a position, they're taking it from their entire understanding of shedding out and they will say this is more beneficial. But that same QA ADA principle, when a political person engaged in political conversations, when they take a position, they're looking at it from a different lens. What we as a Muslim community needs to understand that as long as that our brothers and sisters they follow the

same principle, the application of this principle will differ in these lands.

And just because you disagree with somebody's application, see that that brother will have the exact same principle with you. He is also trying to evaluate and in Weigh pros and cons, and another person is also do the application may differ. But the differences of the application of a unified principle does not give you and me allowances to disagree, to humiliate, to dehumanize to character assassinate the other person.

And the reason for that is this recent concept of controversy one of the speakers has been invited in one of the conferences that is happening now conferences, and there's a whole buzz on internet and Twitter about Why is she being invited.

Like entire YouTube videos of these YouTube diaries talking about it. Oh, this organization is supporting such

and such and that is doing this and that this conversation is really saddening.

And I go further to say that when the racist mob, they decided to kill this Congresswoman that wears hijab, when they decided to kill her. At that point, I may have a fundamental disagreement with her application of how she applies pros and cons of Sharia. But she is not the source code of morality for my ummah, for our community, we must understand that, that if somebody is in politics, or somebody is in a senior position in administration, we don't take our good and bad from that Muslim. In that position. Our morality comes from the scholars of the Masjid.

But yes, she is, is that a good step for the Muslims, for sure, there are some pros and cons. But having a representation of Muslim on that table is very important for the Muslims.

But when everybody attacks her, we as a Muslim community will defend her, despite our differences, because she's a Muslim, brother, sister of ours. But when she comes to these spaces, then we'll have our fundamental differences. And we must grow as a community in our intellectual capacity to deal with these differences. And these are going to be even more exacerbated in the next few years.

So we can start throwing labels, or she's not a Muslim anymore, or he's not a Muslim anymore, or that person is not a Muslim anymore.

Because they might have taken a position of evaluating pros and cons in their life in that particular situation.

And they might have taken a position, maybe around position.

But they did that balancing math in their mind, because we're living in a space where do we don't have a political Islamic leadership.

And that is something very important. But when it comes to the matters of unequivocal morality,

where do Muslims stand on LGBTQ, then this is a matter that we should all be equal, openly express. Even if some of our Muslim brothers and sisters on the other side are with them, even if they are we cannot exit them out of Islam because of this. Second, and I'll take five minutes extra. But this is an important topic because you have an entire month of propaganda coming to us. The second part,

Islam is the only religion

that actually affirms

the challenge of an individual that he might be attracted to the same sex.

Islam does not allow them to exercise their desire. But it affirms that there is a fundamental problem. And just because of your thoughts, you don't become a bad Muslim.

Just because you have this inclination, it does not make you a bad Muslim, when we become a bad Muslim is when we

look at these thoughts of ours and start implementing them, number one, and start promoting them.

Number three, for those brothers and sisters that are listening to this, that are struggling with that,

that are struggling with this situation. Wallahi I've had so many people come to me, right, they're struggling with this. In private, they don't want to know their they don't want to expose their identities. For those who are struggling understand that this world is temporary. You're going to live for 3040 50 years, and every person has been tested with a different test.

For those who are married, some people are not happy with one wife.

For those who are not married, they have other issues. For the people who are crypto maniacs, right, there's a disease called crypto mania, ie whenever they see something, they steal it, there's actually medications for that. They have this Impulsive Desire to steal. They're tested by other people's possessions. So all of us are tested. And we were sent in this lab this earth Lee habenula Come Are you commerce and who am Allah so which one of us is the best in our actions? When is the best ie when it's difficult for me to in perform that action? When it is difficult for me to conform to that command of Allah, that's when the test is.

And lastly, for the Muslim community,

if we hear about a case like that Wallahi please do not spread it.

Because you don't want Allah subhanaw taala to expose your sins.

This habit of ours will add to justice who is not a good habit. A brother came to me and he said, You know I heard some people they were talking I recorded their conversation. They were talking bad about you. I said you have committed a bigger haram brother. Well, I tell you

SSL, don't do digesters. The other part is well fitna to a shut domain and cattle

causing fitna is far greater. If that person is tested and Allah has exposed you have that person sin, go silently in your house and pray for that brother or sister.

Rather than spreading rumors about them, rather than even if it's fact don't do that, because you don't know if Allah Allah He each one of us over here, the reason you are sitting next to the other brother is because Allah has conceded our sins.

If you remove the Citadel this concealment nobody would sit over here

so be afraid of that day when Allah decides to uplift that curtain of yours may Allah protect us from that day

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this villa will hamdu lillah wa salatu salam ala Mala Anna be Avada in the end we ask Allah subhanaw taala that he sends his choices blessings on W Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, we ask that Allah subhanaw taala blesses his soul, and he provides the light and the new of the new booyah of Muhammad Sallallahu Sallam and his love in the hearts of every single one of us. We ask that Allah subhanaw taala forgives all those who have passed away I have received multiple requests for two hours instead of enumerating will they make a collective dua, we ask that ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada forgive any one of our relatives, any one of our friends and brothers and sisters that are here if

they have lost their loved ones that Allah forgives them, and Allah makes their grave a source of expiation of their sins and a piece of Jannah we asked that if any one of us have our parents passed away that Allah subhanaw taala opens their graves and turns it into a piece of garden from Jana and opens a window for them for they are able to see their MACOM in Ghana, we ask that Allah subhanaw taala grants every single one of us Iman and Camila what is Hannon sadaqa work has been Hoshyar, we ask that Allah Subhana Allah Tala protects the Eman of every single one of us and for those of us who are sick and dealing with sickness, whether they are here or their relatives that Allah subhanaw

taala cures them she felt and Camila and Allah gives every single one of us that which they desire if it gets them closer to Allah and keeps them away from that which they desire. If that turns them and takes them away from Allah, we ask that Allah subhanaw taala protects our youth as they go into the summer and occupies their times with productivity and gives them the Tofik to practice the practice the deen and stay connected to the masjid according to Kali hada was still a futile Allah howdy, welcome what is that? Elon Musk? I mean first of all Pharaoh for Inaho who will have a photo Rahim wealthy masala