Akram Nadwi – Weekly Q&A 12-07-2024
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The speakers discuss the importance of covering one's body during prayer to avoid negative emotions and the need for healthy behavior. They stress the importance of not allowing sex during prayer, finding affordable housing, and avoiding bad media. The importance of community support and funding for poor people is emphasized, along with the need for people to find affordable housing and learning from experiences. The transcript also touches on the use of words like "by the way" and "weird" to indicate good news and negative experiences, and the importance of learning from people's experiences to achieve their goals.
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To everyone, and apologies for the slight delay.
We had some technical,
issues before beginning and, welcome back to another
ASI Q and A session with Sheikh Akram
Nadwvi
on every Thursday 6 pm BST after a
brief hiatus.
So without further ado, let's begin. Sheikh, we
have 2 private questions.
We'll start with those while more questions come
in the chat box.
Sheik, the first question is,
is it permissible to be buried in another
land to where you die if it delays
burial? My father passed away, and he would
like to be buried with his family in
Bangladesh
after he passes. Is that permissible for him?
Can you actually repeat the question? You know,
where they want to bury I I didn't
understand it. Can you say that? So, the
father of this individual, he he remains in
a different country, maybe the UK,
but he has the wish that when he
passes away, he would like his body to
be transported to
Bangladesh
and be buried with his family there. Is
that permissible for him? Yes. I think, actually,
the kind of the most abused,
kind of people should be buried where they're
dying.
Kind of some people, you know, you can,
you know, follow the work will, and you
can take them to where they want, but
it's not very good really because, you know,
it's a lot of problem. I will personally
advise that, people should be buried where the
that I there's no need to spend so
much money because, you know,
all the lands are land of the lost
of the.
And in the day of judgement, the people
will be raised from everywhere.
So, anyway, simple answer is if they want
to bury him in Bangladesh,
they can take him, but the prefer
I prefer that they should be buried. We'll
be right.
The second question is that recently, a lot
more Muslims have been engaging in politics in
the West.
And as part of that, many Muslim politicians
have made alliances with communities
that either stand for sin and sometimes
those
sometimes they are asked to commit actions
actions which might be considered kufar,
such as visiting Hindu temples
and bowing to idols.
Is this permissible for Muslim politicians to do
for the sake of being involved politically?
No.
No good end. You know, people have some
good, ending thinking.
It,
never can justify,
you know, by the means. So it's haram.
It's haram. You know, just because we want
to, like, you know,
in the Arab Jahili
period,
Arab people used to drink wine
and do gambling.
And the intention was, you know, when they
win and they make money,
they spend on the poor people. So when
Islam came and Islam made, you know, gambling
and
drinking haram.
So Arabs start saying how this religion is,
you know,
it does not even support the, poor people.
We used to gamble and, you know, just
to spend money on the poor people. So
Allah Subhanahu said, you know, you know, the
embenning and these things are sinful.
You can't achieve a bullet through the sinful
act.
The smell, the you know, if people want
to achieve some good goals,
they have to go through right
right means.
So no good end,
they know, can justify
the arguments. It's not allowed in Islam unless
some people are forced for the matter.
But another thing really is you should not
ask question about other people.
You know the the patients who are doing
this thing, if they are not concerned why
are you asking about them because they're not
going to bother your question or my answer
because they already know the answer. So it's
simple matter. We should do our work of
teaching and,
you know, and
whatever best we can do. But don't worry
about other people because they're not going to
listen to you.
We'll now move on to the questions in
the chat box.
The first question is,
why does a woman have to cover when
she's praying at home?
Yeah. Because the thing is, you know, when
you are not covered, your mind goes to
your body and, you know, to the prayer
should be full cons consultative. People should consultative
and worship and that. No
wrong ideas can come in mind. Just think
of it. There's somebody playing wide naked.
Nobody sees you, but just imagine really that,
you know, your mind will not be in
worship now. You bother. You could be thinking
about your body or something else.
So that's why it is important that,
you know, people should cover,
in a way so they can focus on
their body. But not jirbag when we call
them.
Women need to have jirbag when they go
outside, but at least cover their body so
their mind cannot be occupied by some ill
force or something else. So that way to
help you basically, You know, everything in the
prayer is to help you to concentrate,
you know, on your prayer.
Assalamu Alaikik Sheik.
Is it the same as hunger when not
eating or does it differ?
You know, hunger is one desire and sexual
desire is another desire. Sexual desire is stronger
than hunger.
You know, it's a very, very strong desire.
So that way, it is very important
that when people read the area of marriage,
they should marry. Otherwise, it's a.
While when when when when Hungary,
very often they can control for a while.
And also even you're hungry, haram becomes lawful
to you. But, when people have desire for
their marriage, haram never can be lawful. They
have to still marry. They can they can't
do anything without merit. So sexual desire in
this matter differ from the full. It is
very strong,
and it only can be fulfilled through the
halal means. There's no haram way. While in
food, if you are dying out of hunger,
you can eat haram food just to save
your life. But in sexual desire, you are
never allowed to commit anything which is haram.
Haram.
The next question, which is a follow on
question from Mohammed Aqib. He asks,
with the high cost of living in the
west, it is difficult to provide independent accommodation
and expenses for a family with a single
income.
How can we navigate this for people looking
to get married?
Yeah. To them, actually, if this is okay,
so then,
you know, the Muslim community should come together
and make effort how to help
people getting married. But this is actually social,
problem.
You know, you just because you can't afford
a marriage, you know, we're never going to
allow you to make your wife to suffer
because there's no reason,
to you know, you have to provide accommodation
expensive to her. But if you cannot earn
enough money, then the other way, the people
should help you. Community should support you. There
should be some funding for poor people, you
know, how they can look after their wife
and children,
and how they can find accommodation. I didn't
know we have the card fund and this
fund if somebody is poor. You know, so
so zakat fund should be directed to some
of these poor husbands.
The next question we got is by Fariha
who asks,
I am pondering over the Hadid in the
I do so many good deeds instantly without
doing near, like giving food to the poor,
feeding street animals and many such things. Do
we have to do near before every good
deed we do to be accepted in the
court of Allah? And moreover, what near should
we do before performing any good?
You know, the thing is,
no actions are,
accepted by Allah unless people intend to please
him. It's a simple matter. Any action you
do. And if you don't intend to please
him, it will not be accepted, not rewarded
by him. So that that was your anemia
is from your heart, you know, from your
just think you don't need to say verbally,
you know, just when you spend money on
the poor people, think you're doing for the
sake of Allah Subhaqala. When you help somebody,
you can't but if you don't make intention,
just do good deeds with intention. It's not
good to help you.
My teacher, Abu Hassan,
used to say that the problem of Muslims
is not
that they do they have bad media. You
know, the problem is they don't have media.
That's the problem. When you have media, then,
you know, you are really
close to Allah Subha'ala. So force yourself
to make a good. With a good, even
a small action,
they are paid worthy. They have so much
reward.
So as you make effort to do good
deals, you have to make also effort to
have good meal. And good meal only means
to please Allah's mother. You're doing good deeds,
not
expecting a reward from the human being, but
rather expecting the reward from Allah's father,
paradise or something like that or Allah's forgiveness.
Anything that Allah gives, if you make intention,
that is good in
you.
The next question is by Fatihah
who asks,
Could you please explain how we could take
shaitan as our enemy
as mentioned in verse 6 of Surah Fathir,
whereby the verse before it warned us not
to be deceived,
by this worldly life and Alhurur.
Yeah. To make Shaitan, you know, your enemy
is a very clear thing because, you know,
there are something Allah advises or something Shaitan
Kamath.
What Shaitan come out, Allah has made it
very clear in the Quran. That Shaitan ask
you to do this, Shaitan ask you to
do this, and what I'll like come out,
that's very clear.
So just,
and, you know, because he's a Rahmaan, he's
Rahimi, the one who loves you. And Shaitan
never made you, never created you. You did
not make anything for you. You did not
like you. He hates you. So there's no
reason for human being to obey Shaitan.
You know, and, as you mentioned that, you
know, Uhuru, you know, shaitan is more inclined
to make human beings to work for the
this house, this world, this dunya.
So wherever you see, really, your intention becomes,
to, you know, impress people, to become famous,
you know, to just keep earning more and
more money.
So then it means that Shaitan is very
close to you. So one has to check
your intention and make effort to do right
things, especially if you do things haram. So
that's very clear for Shaitan.
So all I understood is Shaitan's path and
Allah's path. Both are very clear. So when
people work work on Shaitan's path,
that alert reminding you don't do this because
he's your enemy. Come to my path. I'm
the one who loves you. I'm the one
who made you. I'm the one who want
to reward you. Shaitan laughs laughs at you.
And in the day of judgement, he will
make very clear that, nothing you don't ask
me anything. You know, I ask and you
listen to me, but I don't don't do
anything. I don't fulfill it from it.
So it's very dangerous, really. There are enough
people who still follow shaitan. It's very dangerous.
The next question is by Falah who asks:
Should we first get financially stable and then
find ways to contribute to the world, for
example, teaching Quran to family? Or should we
do should both be done simultaneously?
You know, it depends on how your conditions
are. If you have enough means
to teach or maybe you get salary, somebody
pays you to teach, then you should teach
it. But if nobody pays you and you
don't have enough money and your family and
other responsibility,
so the first thing is, you know, get
enough money, start earning.
And then after that, you know, when you
are, you know, relatively,
stable, then start doing other, things like that.
But, I had why the community should,
you know, make a effort
to find good teachers or support them
Because the teachers are, you know, are not
supported,
and they have to make their own, you
know, somewhere else.
So a lot of teaching will be wasted
and the people will be not, you know,
going to learn from the teachers.
So community always should be worried
to have Madrasa, the schools,
centers of learning
and, you know, and give a good, you
know, salaries to the teachers
so they can,
devote their life to to teachings.
That's the duty and the community. It's very
important to do this. Wherein with the teachers,
sir, if they don't can't afford them and
they don't have any way to pay them,
then they have their own priority. They must
go for their family and the other money
for them. The
next question
asks,
in the Quran, Allah says meteorites are thrown
at devils, but we know they are stones
that fall due to gravity.
How do we understand this?
Oh, yeah. Okay. You know, saying really is,
in all the causes that you know for
something,
they are not the only causes.
So sometimes people think that, you know, we
know this hypercar that, no, Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala had made many other core things connected
to that.
It is only shown to you one thing,
but at the same time, that causes that
how many things it causes by how many
things, we don't know really. So many things
are
hidden hidden from us.
So for example,
that, you know, you have money and you
want to pay your zakat and you think
I'll go, you know, and spend money on
such and such
person.
And, you give him, you know, money
but Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala had made him
that that person to be there, you know,
because
somebody else actually connected to him. And Allah
lost that person. So Allah using this this
person
to make the money to reach to someone
else. So it happened many, many times really
that, you know, you see a cause, but
there are many, many things hidden
behind that. So one cause that you see
is one cause for your purpose, but it
does not mean just only cause. You know,
they never think that one thing, you know,
caused by something to the cause and effect
are just single thing and what you see.
No. Every effect has many causes and every
cause is caused by many other things. Some
of them we know, some of them we
don't know.
The next question is by Ibn Mohammed
who asks,
what is the meaning of when the prophets
of the hadith, when the prophet, sallallahu alayhi,
the prophet, sallallahu alayhi wasallam, said, if you
love me, then prepare for a drought, for
poverty, for poverty comes to those who love
me faster than a torrent to its end.
I don't look at this wording of the
hadith, but there was a hadith, you know,
that,
somebody came to the prophet
said, I love you. So the prophet said,
think what you're saying.
If you love me, then the poverty will
come to you. I, the faster,
I, the water, falls from the hill, you
know, down. So that's how the poverty will
come. Meaning is when people love Allah
then they want to spend time with him,
and all those things, so they will have
very little time to earn money. So that's
why because their love is so deep that
they don't care about the money. So they
lose money, they lose many opportunities,
and they have they have to be patient.
And now if they are not patient, they
will live the love. So they will not
love the person as anyone because they want
money.
So if we really are through your love
to know, soon you're going to lose your
money, more likely. Not all the time, but
it could be possible.
The next question is by Aisha who asks,
a convert sister has asked the question, is
it sinful to watch an eclipse
to marvel at God's creation?
Maybe this is in light of, instead of
praying.
You know yeah. And when eclipse happen,
you know,
you know what is that. Anyway, you don't
need to look really and watch it. You
know, you do what
you know,
to understand something, you don't need to see
it.
You know, to understand the sign of Allah,
you don't need to watch, start watching with
your eye. You know something's there. Start the
prayer. Think about that and how Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala does that. You have got millions
of signs of Allah anyway. This is one
of them. You know, you can see your
eye, you can see your face, you can
see your hand. Millions of signs we saw
see everything.
To avoid people needed to, you know, see
more science.
Understand new science is enough that, you know,
there are science and philosophical enough. You don't
need to watch it. Even if you worship,
you can't know more than what you know
anyway.
JazakAllah Khairn Sheikh. The next question
is,
asked is, Salam, what is the wisdom behind
unmentioned names
of important people like Khadija and Hajar in
the Quran?
The question should be if the names are
mentioned, what intention to make a name? Because
the Quran does not mention something unnecessary.
Why name of Khadija should be in the
Quran?
Why the name of, Hajjesh should be in
the Quran? There's no need
name of us here. Quran only mentions,
you know, the names that, you know, without
them, you cannot identify. I cannot understand the
story. But if you can understand the story,
you got the whole purpose to understand the
story and take lesson to when Quran mentions
Abulham,
it is enough to say wife of Abulham.
You don't need to actually
Similarly the prophet Muhammed alaihis salam is known
and he has so many wives that, and
if the Quran has to say which wife
then Quran will mention the name but Quran
in general just say wife of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Uh-uh and in the case of Zaynab bin
because Quran mentioned
whole whole story that she was married to
Zayed, and Zayed wanted to divorce. That is
only true to Zaynab. Nobody else. So if
the names are known already, there's no need
to, you know, mention the name. And sometimes
names are not needed. The Quran does not
mention the name. Even the wife of Adam,
even Eve, however, Quran never mentioned because there's
no need for that. In other words, Allah
against women and women,
His mother never mentioned, but there are prophets
whose whose genealogy mentioned. The Quran mentions things
where they're needed,
you know, not just because, to make a
point or, whose wife are the, prophet.
Quran does not do this.
The next question is by Iqra who asks,
I take some medication whose side effect is
sleepiness,
and because of this, I misfudger.
What should I do?
This actually you have to find you know,
while you are thinking about your illness and
disease,
go to your doctor and complain to him
that, you know, to you how important is
the prayer of the father.
So, you know, how what is the best
time to take the,
the the the prescription
so at least you can wake up at
the time of the fudge. I don't know
you because I'm not a doctor. So I'm
just thinking that you should be worried about
that concern doctor. Still, if there's no way
on your sleep, there are lovely for giving
you. But listen, make effort.
Find out for the doctors, complain to them
that even further time is
between, at least 2 hours. So within this
2 hours, you need to wake up for
at least for 10, 15 minutes, do do
a prayer, and then say, look again. If
they can find a solution,
follow the solution. If they don't find, then
hopefully a level for you, Insha'Allah.
The
next question is by Fallah who asks,
in
chapter 4 verse 138 of the Quran, the
ayah begins with the word bashiril munafiqin.
Bashar is usually understood as to give congrat
good news. How come painful punishment is something
the hypocrites
punish them. So sometimes punishment becomes more severe
because everybody using the good news.
And then Allah said to this, your good
news is hellfire.
So you can see really how painful it
is that you become happy with the word
good news and what is coming is hellfire.
So it is more punishment to use the
word like that. Kariba, this word will make
you happy, but the truth really is what
is coming is not a good news. To
Allah, there's a good news.
But these people, their good news is hellfire.
So sometimes people use these words, it is
called balaga, you know, eloquency,
you know, the way.
So to make more effective
in on the hearing.
So they call. I assume it's a. So
what
is good news? And then what coming in
the hellfire, then you measure how much Allah
hears it is the purpose that you you
know, the word good news is used for
them because they don't have any good news.
So the only news, they have got the
hellfire.
You know, so but Quran knew the word
good news because they that's what they expected.
But what I Allah is going to give
them is not good news, bad
news. So when you use it like that,
it is very, very effective.
So Allah said in this,
repent. So everything that Allah said in the
Quran actually is to be kind to the
people, to make them to repent, to understand,
to make them realize that in the day,
nobody going to help them. So they have
to repent in this world.
The
next question is by Ali who asks, Salam,
Sheikh. Certain groups like the deal bandi claim
that the door for each they had is
closed. What is your opinion on this?
You know, the thing really, the the one
big people ask them, are you Muqaddi or
Muftahi?
If they said they are Muqali, how can
Muqali then close the door of his? Muqali
Muqali, he should follow him.
And if they say, then you should tell
them if you are doing, why you close
everybody else? So they have no argument. Anybody
who said the door of it has closed
closed, they have no single argument on the
face of that. The door of it has
had never been closed. It always I think
the colleague is the one who is sinful.
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should make effort to understand the argument.
If you don't know, at least ask those
who know. But to follow people blindly, you
know, without asking them, that is what actually
they should
think
they didn't
see. Until 400 years in Islam there were
no Taqid.
Taqid actually became like that nearly after 400
years. Sahaba and Taba, they used to ask
people what Quran said, what Sunnah said, what
they said. Anyway, simple matter really is that
nobody has any authority
to close the door of Istihad, to ask
those Durban Deep people who closed the door
of Istihad. Then you find out they they
have no argument.
That's all for today. Unfortunately, if your question
hasn't been asked, please remember it and we'll
endeavor to answer it next time. JazakAllah Khairn
Sheikh for your time and JazakAllah Khairn everyone
for listening and InshaAllah
we'll be back next Thursday at 6 pm
BST as always.