Ahmad Saleem – Prophetic Traits – 005
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The Prophet servitor's clothing choices are discussed, including long sleeves, buttons, garments of the same nature as the person they are wearing, and du SOI Alaihi Alaihi Alaihi Wasallam as a symbol of admiration. The clothing is white and reflect light, and the speaker discusses the history behind the wearers and their clothing choices. The segment also touches on the use of hair and hair samples, the importance of acceptance in religious affirmations, and gifts for Christmas.
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We're going to carry on our readings in
this book called Khulasa.
So, did we talk about his garments?
I think we did, right?
No, we didn't.
We touched upon it, we touched a little
bit upon it.
His garments, i.e. the garments of Prophet
ﷺ, his favourite garment was what?
Qamees.
So, Qamees was something he wore the most,
right?
Qamees was a thawb that we wear today
in Arab world, a jalabiya or a thawb
that you see, those are considered thawb, it's
like a long robe, it had slits on
the end.
Many of the garments that he wore, the
sleeves, they reached all the way to the
wrists, so he preferred to have long sleeves.
Why would you think you would need long
sleeves in a desert?
Sunburn, yeah, to protection from the sun and
stuff.
And Prophet ﷺ, oftentimes, he would have buttons,
and obviously because they did not have air
conditioning, so he would sometimes unbutton the top
two buttons in order for some ventilation and
to cool himself off.
We're on page 33, by the way.
Also, he preferred wearing garments of this nature,
which I talked about before, Yemeni threads, garments
that were dyed in various different textures, sorry,
various different colours, and if you actually look
at the texture of this, this is not
considered a very fine, it's not very fine
cotton, you guys can pass this around, you
guys can see that it's not a very
fine cotton, it's like a, it's a coarse,
it's like, um, so he ﷺ used to
prefer wearing something of that nature with stripes,
sorry, and he would place it on his
shoulder, right?
So the sunnah was that he would take
the shawl, there were multiple ways that have
been mentioned about how to wear the shawl.
When I get the shawl back, I'll explain
to you how Prophet ﷺ used to wear
that.
If you remember, I told you in the
last class that he once bought a shawl
with how many camels?
Yes, so Abdullah did the math on that
after the class ended, that's close to six
hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
Yeah, I mean inflation adjusted today, obviously camels
I don't think would cost the same price
as back in the day, but today, even
if you were to say a hundred camels,
that is around six hundred and sixty thousand
dollars, right?
That's a lot.
Now Prophet ﷺ had multiple ways that have
been mentioned in the books about wearing the
shawls, so one of them was obviously he
would have the shawl, um, so he would
have it wrapped like this and he would
just sit on his shoulder like this.
The other way that he would wear is
if the shawl was longer, you'd have the
shorter portions folded like that and the longer
portion like this, and he would place the
shorter portion like this so that it's not
hanging too much at the back, otherwise it
becomes annoying and it falls off.
And the third, which was his favorite way
of wearing the shawl, was that he ﷺ
would have the shawl opened up and he
would have the shawl wrapped around like this
and that was his preference, that he would
sit with the shawl completely wrapped around.
Sometimes he would toss it up on his
top shoulder, but he would, this way it
would give him the warmth that he needed
and this was a very versatile cloth.
Why?
Because this was also used as a weapon.
How?
Have you ever never seen, no, have you
ever seen in Kung Fu?
No, have you ever seen in Kung Fu,
they can use the cloth and if somebody
attacks, they can like wrap the sword in
the cloth, right?
Yeah, so not choking, but this can be
used as a towel whip.
Yeah, maybe.
I don't think they had such refined cloths,
but so if like if somebody attacks you
and if you have this, if you had
this like this, you want to, let's try
it, let's try it.
Come, come, live, okay?
So if you're there, all right, come, attack.
Yes, you died a long time ago.
Well, you can kill me with that.
Okay, and if you're Pakistani, you wear the
shawl like this.
If you're a desi, that, no, that's where
all the, huh?
What if you go, I don't know.
Okay, the second thing is whenever Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam would wear new clothes, he would
make du'a, right?
And when somebody else would see, so when
you see someone else wearing new clothes, what's
the du'a you give?
Okay?
The difference is Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said
that.
No, you're making du'a for the person.
Wear something new.
May you live a very praiseworthy life, right?
And then may you die as a martyr.
So this du'a is very comprehensive.
And when he, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam would wear
something new, he would say, Oh Allah, praise
be to you the way you have.
You have given me a cloth to wear.
Okay?
And this is very important.
You praise Allah.
I ask the best of this cloth.
Right?
Cloth can be worn for evil purposes.
It can be worn for, you know, there
are so many clothing that exists today, especially
in the Western world, right?
That is not very, it's actually meant for
profanity and it's meant for evil purposes.
So you're asking Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta
-A'la that, Oh Allah, I praise you
for with that which you have clothing.
And I ask you for the good in
it and good for what it was made
for.
And I seek refuge from the evil of
this cloth.
Any cloth of ours could be used for
evil purposes too, right?
Anything that we functionally use, if you think
about it, if a person has a really
disgusted mind, they can twist that and it
could be used for evil purposes too.
So may Allah protect us from that.
Now 47, his favorite garment included those which
were made from striped cotton and linen, habara,
which is striped cotton.
It's not linen, but I also have a
softer version of this that you can actually
see and it's also similar to that, okay?
Number 48, he wore a red garment and
also wore green mantle, i.e. green stripes
that you're seeing right now.
And he also had a red, you know,
hulat al-hamra.
He had a red.
Now when they say hulat al-hamra, some
people think you wore like a, you know,
a red cape.
It was more a garment, it was dark
or less bright colors, but it had a
stripe of more prominent stripes of red.
So it from far looked like it was
red, but it was not fully red, okay?
He, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, dyed, so he,
salallahu alayhi wa sallam, wore various different types
of clothes.
Keep in mind back in the day, you
had thread-bearer clothing, you had clothing that
was dyed with saffron, saffron, right?
Have you ever touched saffron?
If you touch it and hold it for
even one petal of that, you know, one
little stalk of saffron, you hold it for
maybe a minute and you'll have color in
your hand.
So they used to use saffron to dye
the clothing.
Why would they use saffron?
Why would you need saffron to dye clothing?
Why would you want to dye white cloth
yellow?
How does that help?
Fashion.
Yeah, to hide stains.
Pure white color becomes a lot more prone
to dirt, but if it's like creamish in
color, yellowish in color, it's still white enough
to to reflect the light.
So it will, you know, reflect most of
the light, but it's enough in its color,
there's enough tint that, you know, you can
hide and you can wear that cloth for
maybe a couple extra days, okay?
They did not have, you know, obviously dryers
and washers that they can toss their things
in.
However, most of his clothes were white and
he commanded us to wear white and use
it for our burial shroud.
So most of the cloths the Prophet ﷺ
owned, i.e. his main garments, they were
predominantly white.
And that was also the reason why, the
reason he chose white and he preferred white
was it is more pure.
Why is it pure?
Because if there's any najasa, if there's any
blood stains, if there's anything like that, it
becomes a lot more visible, okay?
On a black cloth, you don't know if
there was a blood stain, you don't know
if you spilled coffee, okay?
He also wore garments that were made of
black wool.
So this was during the winter time and
he also had a Roman jubba, i.e.
the thobe that we wear.
He had a thobe from Rome that was
gifted to him and it had very tight,
narrow sleeves, okay?
Now, coming to the leather socks, Prophet ﷺ,
he wore various different things.
When it came to his foot, he had
leather sandals, right?
Have you ever seen those sandal shapes that
sometimes people have?
You know, they have it as an emblem.
Have you ever seen what I'm talking about?
The sandals of the Prophet ﷺ?
The emblem of the sandal of the Prophet
ﷺ?
So those, who knows what I'm talking about?
The emblems.
Okay.
We might have it here on the thing,
maybe.
Huh?
Yeah, it's not here.
But I'll show you guys.
So there's an emblem that you can have.
It looks like a sandal like that and
that was the sandal of Prophet ﷺ.
Husna is showing you what it looks like.
So those were the sandals that he ﷺ
wore.
Those sandals were leather and his khuf, this
was different than socks.
So he wore socks, which was cloth, but
he also wore leather socks, but they were
really thick.
They were extremely thick and they were something
that you can actually wear and walk in.
They're thick enough for you to walk in
them.
Okay?
And he ﷺ would wear those.
Prophet ﷺ had a black khuf, leather socks,
and it was given to him by Najashi.
When the Muslims went, Najashi gifted Prophet ﷺ
leather socks and he ﷺ wore those.
The Prophet ﷺ did wudu and wiped over
them and prayed with them without investigating whether
they were from a skin of a legally
slaughtered animal.
Why did the author say this?
That when Prophet ﷺ was gifted something from
a Christian king at that time who became
a Muslim, but the predominant industry over there
were Christians, he gifted a leather socks and
Prophet ﷺ never investigated what the leather was
from, whether it was a legally slaughtered animal,
whether it was a halal animal or haram
animal.
Why did the narrator say this?
Yeah?
How do we go from socks to meat?
You're hungry?
No, I'm just wondering.
Okay.
I get the point.
Yeah, so I get the point.
The idea is, you wanted to say something,
Maisha?
Beautiful.
So the point is leather, if it's leather,
if it's tanned, if it was an alligator
leather, if it was pigskin leather, any of
these leathers, as long as they've gone through
a tanning process, some fuqaha, some of the
jurists, they would say that it's still najis,
but majority of them will follow this hadith
that Prophet ﷺ got leather.
And sometimes what happens, we become so investigative.
Muffin.
Muffins.
Oh, what are the ingredients of the muffins?
I need to go and read all the
ingredients of the muffins.
This ingredient over here, this one's new one.
I've never heard this.
Maybe it's haram.
Right?
So our predominant position for Muslims is, if
you're picking up a butter tart, okay, unless
it says made from absolutely 100% pure
pig lard, right, and it's on there screaming,
you are not required things that are obviously
halal.
You're going to a bakery shop, right?
Unless you have specific allergies and you want
to ask, right?
Now, you want to live a life like
that?
Absolutely perfect.
Fine.
Somebody wants to be cautious about every single
thing that they're doing?
No problem.
You can do that.
Actually, it's very rewarding if a person wants
to be so careful with what they eat,
right?
But to expect that everybody's going to follow
that high standard is not acceptable, okay?
Not practical.
Number two, when it comes to leather, doesn't
matter where it comes from, as long as
it's been tanned and it's gone through the
tanning process, then leather becomes halal or pure,
okay?
He continued to wear them until they became
torn, i.e., he wore them so much
that the leather socks, they became torn, okay?
The sandals of our Master, the Messenger of
Allah ﷺ, they had two straps, qibal, okay?
So you know sometimes sandals have one strap,
so you have like, you know, if this
is your thing, huh?
Slip-ons, they have like one strap.
Prophet ﷺ had two straps.
So one was in, so if this was
his foot, one was here in the middle,
so it was like this, okay?
These two.
So it had two qibal, two straps, okay?
I believe there is, if you look at
it, they actually have the sandal of Prophet
ﷺ in one of the museums in Turkey.
Yeah, this one.
Yeah, sorry?
So see, this was the sandal of Prophet
ﷺ.
It was actually preserved, and if you see
here, this is the two straps that it's
talking about.
So you would put one finger, like the
two fingers, the thumb and the finger after
that in your, whatever, toe?
No, index in your foot.
You have an index in your foot?
Hey, look at my index.
When was the last time you see somebody,
you know, waving that finger?
It's like...
So you have these two straps, and there's
different variations that you can actually see of
this online.
Here you go, you can actually see a
much better version of this over here.
You can actually see the much better version
of the two straps, okay?
So that's what it's talking about, two qibal.
Everybody got that?
Two straps, okay?
So the Prophet ﷺ had two qibal.
Qibal is basically strapped between the middle toe
and the one next, okay?
And the strap passed over the foot, so
it was more firm, because it was not
one strap, it was two straps over the
foot.
And then it criss-crossed.
It criss-crossed, so it created a very
tight grip, okay?
There were no hair on them, okay?
i.e. they were pure leather.
The hair from the leather, sometimes animals have
hair.
You know, sometimes you tan the leather and
you have hair.
So it was leather that was pure, and
the hair were removed from it.
It was removed by the tanning or some
other process.
He would pray in his sandals, which were
patched.
So this was interesting.
So he did not take off.
Many times he would be in the desert.
He would sometimes, many times, pray in his
sandals, okay?
Which is the predominant opinion.
It is okay for you to pray in
your shoes if the need is that you're
outside in the grass, and you know, and
you can comfortably pray your salah in it.
Coming into the masjid, right?
This is taking off the shoes is something
very recent, because we have carpets and we
don't know where the shoes have been, so
we take them off.
But in reality, back in the day, people
did not take off their shoes.
People kept the shoes on when they prayed,
or many times they would take out their
foot and they would stand on the shoes,
okay?
They would stand on their shoes because the
ground was too hot.
The ground was too hot for them, okay?
Now another thing is, he ﷺ forbade.
This is where adab comes in.
This is something practical for us.
You're not allowed to wear one shoe or
one sandal.
He forbade wearing one sandal, and one should
either wear both or become completely barefoot, okay?
And there's a hadith related to that, that
shaitan basically, this is the fashion of shaitan.
Shaitan dresses like that.
He wears one sandal, okay?
He ﷺ, he forbade a person from eating
with his left hand, okay?
He forbade eating from his left hand, and
he commanded, yeah?
That's different, that's different.
You still have a cast on.
This is in normal circumstances, right?
The person, yeah, normal circumstances is fine.
He commanded that one begins by putting on
the right sandal, and when removing, you start
off with the left, okay?
So the basic adab is, you start with
your right, you start with your right foot.
You put your right foot into the shoe,
sandals, socks, pants, whatever right foot goes in,
right leg goes in, right hand goes in.
And then similarly, the left foot.
So you put the right shoe on first,
and then the left foot, left shoe on.
When you're taking them off, what do you
do?
Reverse.
Which one comes off first?
The left comes off first, and the right
one comes off in the end, okay?
So he ﷺ, he had, right, a ring,
okay?
So he ﷺ, initially, he wore a gold
ring.
Keep that in mind, okay?
But then he threw it away and forbade
it from wearing it.
There's a long story attached to that, that
he was wearing it.
Jibreel ﷺ came and told him that it's
something that, something to do with the angels.
I don't remember the hadith off the top
of his head, but you know, something to
do with the angels.
And you know, Prophet ﷺ then took it
off, and then Jibreel ﷺ came and spoke
to him.
And then it said, you know, this has
been kept exclusively for men.
Gold has been kept exclusively for men in
Jannah, okay?
Then he had a silver ring made, which
had stone, okay?
The stones were onyx or agate, and they
were brought from Abyssinian mines.
Today, if you look at agate stones, they
can go for like sometimes 1,000, 1
,500, just a stone, piece of stone.
And sometimes some even more expensive than that,
right, depending on how rare they are and
what's the texture of them.
So he had a stone, and he ﷺ
wore the ring inside.
So the stone was inside.
It was not up here.
So if you had the ring, the ring
part was here, and the stone was in
the bottom.
It stayed inside.
The other ring that he had, which was
the stamping ring, it had what written on
it?
Allah, Muhammad Rasulullah, okay?
But instead of writing Muhammad Rasulullah, Muhammad Rasulullah,
it started from Muhammad Rasulullah.
You must have seen that image.
Now, we don't have any, it's a very
commonly mis-spread, a common information spread amongst
the people, okay?
We don't have any recollection or any true
authentication of whether it was Muhammad Rasulullah.
That's how it was written.
We don't have any authentic narrations about it,
okay?
It is now so common that nobody cares
about it.
It's not a big deal.
It was, it wasn't.
It shows that Rasulullah ﷺ had a respect.
What was the actual name and how it
was written?
Allah Allah, okay?
That was called the seal.
Yes.
Did he have reason?
That's what he preferred.
He preferred to have it inside.
Now, for the seal, you all know how
the seals work, right?
They used to have candles.
They would wax.
They would burn the wax.
It would go onto the letter, and then
you would take that indented, that grooved ring,
and you would just press it, and because
of that, that press would become the seal,
and they would know that this letter has
been sealed and the message has been sealed,
okay?
So, he had a silver ring whose stone
was of silver, too.
So, that tells you that he had multiple
rings.
One was agate.
One was silver.
He would keep the stone in the inside
of his palm.
That's what I mentioned to you.
Sometimes, he did not wear it.
So, it was not something that he wore
all the time, okay?
He used to seal the letter to the
kings because they only accepted sealed letters.
He had engraved, Muhammad is the messenger of
Allah, each word being engraved in a separate
line.
That is Muhammad on one line, Rasul on
the next line, and Allah on the third
line.
Because of this, he removed it, i.e.,
because of the name of Allah ﷻ, he
removed it when he entered into the bathroom
or washrooms.
Sayyiduna Abu Bakr had it after him, and
then Sayyiduna Umar ﷺ had it after him,
and then Sayyiduna Uthman ﷺ had it until
it fell off his hands in the well
of Aris.
You guys know the story of the well
of Aris?
So, he was making wudu from the well,
and the ring fell.
And there was this understanding between the Sahaba
that this ring was sacred, i.e., if
we lose this ring, this ensured passing down
of the power of the Khilafa from Rasulullah
ﷺ to every other person.
And the loss of the ring meant fitna,
beginning of fitna.
So, while he was making wudu, it fell
off his hand, Uthman ﷺ.
So, what did he do?
He gathered the entire city of Madinah, and
they literally took out all the water until
they went down all the way to the
source of where the water was coming.
And they searched the well for three days,
non-stop, shift after shift after shift, because
it was something that belonged to Prophet ﷺ.
And that tells you how much reverence that
he had for Prophet ﷺ and his belongings,
that it was just not something average.
So, today, we have people, when Prophet ﷺ
died, right?
So, before his death, he went to Hajjatul
Wida, and he shaved his head, okay?
For Hajj.
So, when he shaved his head, people, because
Prophet ﷺ said, you will not see me
next year.
So, when he shaved his head, people took
the hair of Prophet ﷺ, right?
Because people took every single thing that was
related to Prophet ﷺ, they took care of
that.
The handkerchief that he had, people, there are
people that have, hold that.
Like, everything that you can think of that
Rasulullah ﷺ used, the kameez, the shoe, everything,
they preserved it because it meant that he
was more beloved to anything than the life,
than their own lives.
And I remember today, like I've met people
in America, there are eight, you know, famous
places within America where they still have the
original, not fake.
Because, you know, if you go to India
and Pakistan, everybody has it.
I got it from the donkey, right?
Like, you know, everywhere, how do you know?
So, you verify this by a sanad, you
verify this by a chain, okay?
By the chain of narration.
Abu Bakr radiyallahu anhu, he used to have
these hair.
And he kept his, and every time he
would wear, he would actually, Abu Bakr radiyallahu
anhu would place it in his helmet, or
in his shirt, or in his, sorry, in
his imamah, the turban that he wore, he
would always keep it in the turban, okay?
You know, Abdullah has seen the hair of
Prophet ﷺ, he was with me once in
a gathering, and we met somebody who actually,
same thing, like Abu Bakr radiyallahu anhu, he
took, he opened his turban and he's like,
look, I've got the authenticated, like I was
with this person, he is from the lineage
of Prophet ﷺ, he's one of the main
scholars in Yemen, Habib Umar, and basically, he
gifted that to him.
So, it's something very, like, you cannot imagine.
Yeah, and he was like, why is he
taking out, you know, this thing from his
head?
Use the mic, people online can't hear.
So, basically, what happened was, he went back,
and that night I slept, and I found
myself in a dream, in the exact same
room, and I saw that shaykh, exact shaykh
that was sitting next to him, he was
holding the hair of the Prophet ﷺ, he
showed it to me, and he was like,
this is the hair of the Prophet ﷺ,
and I looked at him like, wow, and
just because of that hair, it like affected
me, and I didn't even know it was,
but even because of that hair, that hair
affected me all the way.
I was once in a place where there
was the hair of the Prophet ﷺ, and
basically, they keep it sealed, but then the
shaykh that was there, and everybody, and they
said, you know, we're going to open it,
and this is something we don't usually open,
but you know what, we're not going to
tell you what's going to happen, but we
want you to tell us what happens, right?
So, you don't know what to expect, because
if they tell you, well, this is what
people have gone through, the experience, you're subliminally
primed to have the similar experience, right?
So, they lifted that, and you know, one
box, and then glass, and then the crystal,
and I'm like, where is the hair?
Like, it just kept opening and opening and
opening, subhanAllah.
You know, we were there, I think we
were around 40 of us, and it was
something that, the fragrance that came out from
those hair, something that I have never felt
or smelt in my life.
It was, it just literally, everybody around, like,
you know, you were like, and again, you
can also go to a lot of fake
hairs of the Prophet ﷺ, right?
Some guy who doesn't even know, who doesn't
have, even have a clean house, and tahara,
and stuff, and the guy's like, yeah, this
is the hair of Prophet ﷺ, come, give
me 150 rupees, or dollars nowadays.
So, the hair of Prophet ﷺ, we're very
blessed, go ahead, that have authenticated hair.
Yeah, yeah, with sanad, with a proper chain
of narrations, and in Maqasid, you can get
al-Maqasid in Allentown, you can get, that's
one of the other places, yes.
Khalid ibn Waleed also, yes, 100%.
Everywhere, yeah, it's a very powerful story.
Because they revered Prophet ﷺ so much, that,
like, there are stories, and stories, and stories
about them.
We're going to get to those stories, insha
'Allah.
Last part, what time is it?
8.30. We'll open it up for Q
&A, I'll just do the last part.
The Prophet ﷺ wrote on his right hand,
the Prophet ﷺ wore, sorry, the Prophet ﷺ
wore it on his right hand, or on
his left hand.
Whoever saw him in a particular state described
him according.
So there's multiple narrations, we have around, I
think, nine narrations that talk about, nine different
narrations that talk about Prophet ﷺ wearing the
ring on the left hand, on the right
hand.
Again, depending on whoever saw Prophet ﷺ whichever
state, they described that he wore it in
a certain way.
Okay, I'll stop over here, we have 18
minutes.
Do you guys want to just do, go
ahead and ask questions.
Questions.
Yes, please.
No.
They could not find it, and that's why
they were super sad.
And then right after that, all the fitnas,
within all the trials, and tests, and khawarij,
and all of that began, historically.
When they murdered Uthman, yes.
Sorry, next session is the last session, right?
Yeah, it can, it doesn't have to be
related.
What question?
Yes.
But, sometimes we have friends that are fitna,
that they buy a new fitna.
So, when
it comes to Christmas, Muslims living in the
West, we have to understand that we don't
live in a Muslim majority country.
Okay, that's something very important for us to
understand.
Many of the religious rulings, right, they are
predicated on the fact that you're living in
a majority Muslim country.
So, preservation of Islam is one of the
principles, one of the maqasid of sharia, right?
And because of that, you cannot partake in
any of these things.
Now, having lived in these lands, now, the
second part you must understand about this is,
back in the day, if I said Merry
Christmas to someone, so it was more than
just a religious affirmation, it was seen as
treason.
Because, like imagine, crusaders and Muslims are fighting.
You're in the Muslim camp, crusaders are in
the Christian camp, and one Muslim goes up
and says Merry Christmas to you.
Like, what?
Right?
For the Muslim side, it would be seen
as what?
Treasonous.
Like there are, like you can't, no, you
can't do that.
So, basically, back in the day, you also
didn't see Christians coming and saying Happy Eid
to you, right?
Oh, Muslims, Happy Eid to you.
They did not do that.
Why?
Because that meant, I agree with your religion,
okay?
Because most of those places, back in the
day, they ran on a theocratic basis, i
.e. they were theocracies.
You know what a theocracy is?
It's different than a democracy.
It is something that is a governance system
that is based on religion.
Theology, democracy, democrats, not democrats, but they lost
really bad.
We don't want to get into that.
But theocracy, so what meant was if I
said Merry Christmas, it meant I agree with
your theocratic state.
And hence, back in the day, it was
banned by Prophet ﷺ and everyone else.
Today, when I say Merry Christmas, I don't,
when a person says Happy Eid to you,
right, they are not intending to enter into
your religion.
Because no longer are we living in states
where religion and, remember they said the separation
of church and state?
That thing has happened.
Back in the day, the separation of church
and state did not happen.
So, state and church were one.
So, when you said Merry Christmas, you affirmed
the Christianity of that state, i.e. they
were together, now they are separated.
So, when I say to someone, when somebody
says Merry Christmas, I simply say to you,
right, the same.
I don't need to say Merry Christmas to
you to have you as a blessed Merry
Christmas.
I don't have to go all the way.
Same to you.
If you want to say just an affirmation
of that, that, in my opinion, and many
of the scholars right now that I studied
with, and they are mainstream scholars by the
way, they are on the top 500 most
influential lists of Muslims in the world, they
have come out and they have said that
this must be changed.
So, because when I say Merry Christmas, nowhere
inside my heart am I saying I believe.
Because, you know, the argument you hear, when
you say Merry Christmas, that means you are
saying you believe in Christ who was born
on that day, the Son of God.
I'm like, no, I don't believe that.
I'm just responding, my intention is to respond
to this person.
Okay?
So, that's one part.
Number two is when it comes to gifts,
you want to look at it from a
da'wah angle.
Don't I want this person to enter Islam?
Right?
So, if they give you a gift and
you say, I'm sorry, you're a kafir, you
know, I can't take this kafir gift of
yours.
I'm so sorry, you're going to *.
I know you're going to *, you know,
but, you know, I'm sorry, you know, you
can take your little gift and your kufr
back.
Right?
It's bad, right?
You take the gift, now you wait for
the opportunity and you go and give them
in Ramadan a book of the Qur'an,
like a copy of the Qur'an, and
give them a Ramadan, you know, happy Eid,
all of that.
It's an opportunity for us to sit.
Yeah, and to give da'wah.
Right?
So, that's where I stand.
I think if you are not legitimized, no,
I'm not at all saying you should attend
Christmas parties.
If I hear one parent call me and
say, oh, the Sheikh said, you know what,
Christmas parties are okay.
I never said that.
Okay?
All I said is, you're not allowed to
attend those parties.
You're not allowed to intermingle with them.
But if they come to you, you reciprocate
and say, oh, same to you.
That's it.
You're not saying anything other than the fact
that you're keeping that cordial relationship because we
are in this country and my purpose is
I want this person to become a Muslim.
Okay?
That's probably from, you know, Bida'a police,
but it's all right.
We don't, we're not the Bida'a police
here.
Watch the YouTube video is going to get,
like, so many weird likes now.
You see a Muslim friend?
Pakistani?
I don't know.
Culture.
It's definitely culture.
There's no such thing as not being able
to cook something when somebody dies.
I've never heard of that Hadith.
There's nothing like that.
You're allowed to grieve for up to three
days.
That's what it is.
You're allowed to grieve up to three days
and that's about it.
It doesn't mean that you starve yourself for
three days too.
I'm in the process of grieving.
I'm going to starve myself now.
Okay.
Anybody else?
Eight?
Yeah, you can end the stream.
Start wrapping up.
As-salamu alaykum.
Abdullah asked me to say bye to you.