Akram Nadwi – Weekly Q&A 23-01-2025

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The speakers discuss the importance of following laws and privacy, avoiding disrespectful behavior, and following laws. They also touch on the topic of the Prophetipping of Jesus and the importance of providing evidence in religion to make decisions. The segment ends with a discussion of lottery prize and the importance of community development in society. The speakers emphasize the need for people to respect privacy and turn to Him to make the best decisions.

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			Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem As-salātu wa
		
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			s-salāmu ʿalá ashrafu l-anbiyā' wa-l
		
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			-mursalīn Sayyidinā Muḥammadin ﷺ ʿalá alayhi wa-sallam
		
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			ʿalá alayhi wa-sahbihi ajmaʿīn Amma ba'd, we're
		
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			all here.
		
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			Shaykh Akram, jazakallahu khayr for your time, Shaykh,
		
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			for the weekly Q&A session.
		
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			So I'm going to get straight into it
		
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			and start with the first question.
		
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			So the first question we have is about
		
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			marriage.
		
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			Can you display the question on the screen
		
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			as well?
		
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			The question is, is it permissible to let
		
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			your father or others pay for your mahr
		
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			if one cannot afford a mahr themselves?
		
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			Does it indicate unworthiness for marrying that certain
		
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			person?
		
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			Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem So as we
		
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			know, one of the conditions of the marriage
		
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			is that there must be mahr.
		
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			It is not really obligatory that the mahr
		
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			must be from the income of the husband
		
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			or from his own savings.
		
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			So anybody from the family, they can help.
		
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			But one should make very clear their status
		
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			to the girl because in the future, you're
		
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			going to look after her and provide accommodation
		
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			expenses.
		
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			So if you don't have enough money, it
		
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			will always be a problem.
		
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			Sometimes what happens is when your parents help
		
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			you for a longer period, they put like
		
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			a, you know, remind the favour to the
		
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			girl and she always feels inferior.
		
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			So if it just happens one thing, that
		
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			your father pays mahr, but later on in
		
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			your life, you provide your wife accommodation expenses,
		
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			then I don't think there's any harm.
		
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			But if you can't afford the marriage, then
		
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			you should make it very clear to the
		
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			girl.
		
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			If she wants, that's fine, she doesn't want,
		
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			then it's up to her, but you have
		
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			to make it clear.
		
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			The next question is from Farooq Fahad and
		
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			it's about financial provision.
		
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			Is my financial provision predestined?
		
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			You know, everything in this world is predestined.
		
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			Everything, whatever we say, whatever we do, it's
		
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			all decided by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			He knows everything, He does everything.
		
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			But what we need to do is we
		
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			have to find out His commands.
		
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			We are His slaves, we have to obey
		
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			Him.
		
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			You know, it doesn't matter what He writes,
		
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			what He doesn't write, what matters is what
		
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			His commands.
		
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			So, you know, your financial thing, how much
		
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			money you get, how much you're going to
		
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			eat and drink, it's all written.
		
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			But your command of Allah is that you
		
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			look for the provision in this world and
		
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			eat halal food and avoid the haram food.
		
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			This is command, so you have to follow
		
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			the command.
		
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			How both works together, Allah knows the best.
		
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			So, we should not be worried what Allah
		
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			does.
		
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			We should be worried what we do.
		
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			If we are right, then Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala will change our condition.
		
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			So, always think that in this certain matter,
		
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			what Allah's command.
		
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			Then follow that, that's all.
		
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			You don't need more than that.
		
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			A question from Abdullah.
		
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			Salam Sheikh.
		
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			So, on the issue of gender interactions in
		
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			women liberation, there seems to be a difference
		
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			amongst Muslims.
		
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			So, in the subcontinent, in the Indian subcontinent,
		
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			people seem to be more strict but more
		
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			moderate in the rest of the countries like
		
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			Egypt and Malaysia.
		
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			Do you think there's a reason behind this?
		
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			You know, religion is from Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala.
		
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			And religion always needs to be understood properly
		
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			and then practiced upon.
		
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			That's why it's always important to understand everything.
		
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			Go back to the sources, understand what Allah
		
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			commands, what the messenger commands, and then act
		
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			upon it.
		
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			But what happens in a very religious community
		
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			that people start religion with understanding and thinking
		
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			and then after that, what they do, they
		
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			start religion with understanding and then after that,
		
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			it becomes like habit and culture and then
		
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			they keep out of convenience.
		
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			They hide many things from their own society,
		
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			from their own habit, from their family.
		
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			So, then religion comes with many, many things.
		
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			So, for example, people find it easier if
		
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			the women stay at home, they don't study,
		
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			they don't learn.
		
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			Sometimes people think it is easier to control
		
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			them and sometimes people think it is good
		
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			for their piety.
		
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			Sometimes they think there must be somebody who
		
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			can look after the house, the elderly people,
		
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			the weak people.
		
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			So, then after generation, that becomes the habit
		
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			and then women think their role is just
		
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			to be at home.
		
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			So, in India and many places really, many
		
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			things became the culture of the people, people's
		
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			liking and disliking, habits of the family, all
		
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			these became part of the religion and that
		
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			is where the harm has come.
		
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			So, it is important for us to go
		
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			back to the sources and do things that
		
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			are actually right, not what the culture says,
		
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			what the parents say, what anybody else says.
		
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			And that is why you have to ask
		
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			the question, that you people are teaching this
		
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			thing, let us go back to the society
		
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			of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in Medina.
		
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			What did he do?
		
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			How were the women in Medina?
		
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			The women in Medina, they used to do
		
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			businesses, they used to go for war, fighting,
		
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			jihad, horse riding and so many things, travelling.
		
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			Everything that men do, women have been doing
		
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			in Arab world and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam approved that, he does not mind that.
		
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			So, to bring Islam to your own culture,
		
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			that is a very bad manner.
		
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			The way is to reform your culture and
		
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			go back to the original sources, to the
		
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			city of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, when
		
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			he arrived and how he acted upon.
		
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			So, another question, Sheikh.
		
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			Someone who does business and trade is asking,
		
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			are there any books you recommend about Islamic
		
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			finance and trade or anything where they could
		
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			learn more about Islamic finance?
		
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			You know, the thing really, there are so
		
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			many mixed things.
		
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			People have made something like Islamic finance and
		
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			many of these things which actually I don't
		
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			approve.
		
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			So, I would say the best thing is
		
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			to read the books of Hadith where there
		
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			is a Kitab al-Buyur, the chapter of
		
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			buying and selling.
		
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			So, many principles are there.
		
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			As long as your business doesn't have any
		
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			interest, usually you don't have any gambling, you
		
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			don't have cheating, deceiving, you know, these main
		
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			things.
		
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			Then most of the time, you know, your
		
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			financial matters, you follow the law of the
		
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			country, wherever you are, what the custom is,
		
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			what legally is approved, follow that.
		
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			But keep in mind that, you know, you
		
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			have to avoid interest and gambling and what
		
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			we call gharar.
		
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			Gharar means where people, you know, don't have
		
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			a clear, proper idea of what they're selling
		
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			or what they're buying.
		
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			So, something like that, if you keep in
		
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			mind, most of the time, inshallah, your business
		
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			will be fine.
		
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			Hello?
		
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			Apologies.
		
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			Another question from Abdullah Sheikh, which is about
		
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			the mothers of the believers.
		
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			Why did they take Niqab as an obligatory
		
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			practice or why was it obligatory upon the
		
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			mothers of the believers?
		
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			You know, the thing is not Niqab, actually.
		
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			This is not Niqab.
		
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			Actually, once Aisha was in Niqab and the
		
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			Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam recognized her.
		
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			So, he asked her, Oh, Aisha, why you
		
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			are in Niqab?
		
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			So, Niqab is not obligatory.
		
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			But what was obligatory for them was to
		
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			cover their face.
		
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			And the reason was because they are mothers
		
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			of the believers.
		
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			So, like they are, you know, wives of
		
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			the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and he
		
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			is the master, he is the leader.
		
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			And people have more desire, you know, for
		
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			the wives of the one who is a
		
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			king or, you know, a master.
		
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			And the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's house
		
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			was visited by the hypocrites, by everybody.
		
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			So, Allah does not want any bad intention
		
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			to come to the mind of the people
		
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			when they see the wives of the Prophet
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			So, that's why it became more strict for
		
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			them because for more desire.
		
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			And they are like mothers.
		
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			So, people have to respect them.
		
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			And house of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam was not restricted for only good believers.
		
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			Anybody can come to.
		
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			Very often hypocrites used to come.
		
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			So, that's why the rules for the covering
		
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			of the face became more strict for the
		
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			wives of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			But still they did not have niqab.
		
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			What they used to do, they used to
		
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			go outside uncovering their face.
		
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			When somebody passes by who is not Muharram,
		
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			they will cover their face by the part
		
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			of the cloak that they are wearing.
		
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			But not niqab.
		
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			Interesting.
		
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			Jazakallah khair.
		
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			This question is about Kitab al-Tawheed.
		
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			So, should Kitab al-Tawheed be banned?
		
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			I think there might be a background to
		
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			this because for a period of time in
		
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			Syria, Kitab al-Tawheed I think was banned
		
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			for a while.
		
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			He is saying here that Sheikh Yusuf al
		
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			-Qaradawi said that Muhammad bin Abdul Wahab is
		
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			a reviver in the Arabian Peninsula.
		
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			Could scholars be wrong about him?
		
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			I did not read actually the Kitab al
		
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			-Tawheed of Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Wahab.
		
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			But I never found any criticism against it.
		
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			I don't know why the book needs to
		
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			be banned.
		
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			And Muslims don't need to ban anything.
		
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			People should have good freedom of scholarship.
		
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			Somebody's ideas and views are different from you.
		
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			So, learn how to respect it and bring
		
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			your own opinion.
		
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			There have always been differences of opinion in
		
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			the past as well between Malik and Abu
		
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			Hanifa, Shafi'i and Muhammad.
		
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			But they did not ban anybody's book.
		
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			You can express your difference.
		
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			It's a good and healthy scholarship and discussion
		
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			going on.
		
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			So, if there is something people don't agree
		
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			with Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Wahab, there is
		
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			no harm to have their own ideas and
		
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			teach it.
		
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			But banning something intellectual is a very bad
		
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			manner really.
		
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			It makes communities very narrow and they become
		
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			prejudiced.
		
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			Then they basically lose their respect and tolerance.
		
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			It should not ever happen.
		
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			We should allow the people.
		
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			Like Islam, most people like to write their
		
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			books.
		
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			So, people don't agree with them but they
		
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			still did not ban their books.
		
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			Things will continue.
		
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			Scholarship continues.
		
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			You should not ban anything.
		
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			Just before we go into the next question,
		
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			I wanted to mention that with As-Salam,
		
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			there is an upcoming Islamic Heritage tour of
		
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			Uzbekistan where there will be a 10-day
		
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			tour.
		
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			Actually, 9 or 11 days depending on which
		
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			package one is to choose.
		
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			With Sheikh Akram Nadwi.
		
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			We are going to start the tour.
		
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			It is a 5-city tour starting in
		
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			Takshent and then moving on to Bukhara, Samarkand,
		
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			Khiva and ending in Termez for those who
		
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			want to stay for the duration.
		
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			The options are either 9 days or 11
		
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			days.
		
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			InshaAllah, we will all be there to benefit
		
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			from the knowledge of Sheikh Akram.
		
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			There will be plenty of activities and great
		
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			sohbah and people to be around.
		
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			For whoever is interested, please do make sure
		
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			you book because there are limited spaces left.
		
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			JazakAllah khair.
		
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			Another question about calamities.
		
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			This one is anonymous.
		
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			Some calamities that befall us is from Allah
		
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			SWT and it is His mercy.
		
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			But some calamities befall us because of our
		
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			bad deeds so if a calamity befalls us
		
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			is it due to our bad deeds or
		
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			is it Rahmah from Allah SWT?
		
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			I think this is the question.
		
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			The thing is in this world how the
		
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			events go we cannot know by certainty.
		
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			The way Allah has made it believers should
		
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			always turn to Allah SWT.
		
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			If anything goes wrong always think it must
		
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			be because of our sin and that we
		
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			don't behave properly.
		
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			Maybe our Lord is not happy with us.
		
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			So turn to Him and make dua.
		
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			Every time when Allah sends a calamity or
		
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			any problem, any hardship the intention is to
		
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			make your Iman weaker.
		
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			To make you turn to Allah SWT.
		
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			It's not Allah's love to make you suffer.
		
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			Allah wants you to turn to Him.
		
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			So if you think this has come with
		
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			nothing to do with me then you lose
		
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			the purpose of the hardship and problem.
		
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			So always understand that's why the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			he is sinless, no sin.
		
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			But whenever any sun eclipse happens even moon
		
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			eclipse, any problem he will turn to Allah
		
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			SWT.
		
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			He makes the prayer, long Salah.
		
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			So that's how the good people are.
		
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			Good people when they see any problem they
		
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			turn to Allah SWT.
		
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			They ask Him to forgive.
		
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			But it is because of our sin or
		
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			something else Allah wants.
		
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			He knows the best.
		
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			Our duty is to turn to Him to
		
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			ask Him to forgive.
		
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			It all actually helps us and makes us
		
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			clean and turn to Allah SWT.
		
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			Insha'Allah.
		
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			Another question.
		
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			Salaam Alaikum Sheikh from Said.
		
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			Salaam Alaikum Sheikh.
		
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			Is the physical barrier between men and women
		
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			or religious gathering an ideal?
		
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			As in is it something we should attempt
		
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			to practice?
		
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			If not, how would you respond to those
		
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			saying that the Prophet ﷺ did not have
		
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			such a setup at the time?
		
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			Islam does not have any barrier between men
		
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			and women.
		
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			But it's what Allah has made very clear.
		
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			When women come outside they have to cover
		
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			their body properly.
		
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			And also men should cover their body properly.
		
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			And when they come they should have Taqwa.
		
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			Fear of Allah SWT.
		
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			Respect of each other.
		
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			That's how the campaigns have been.
		
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			But we never find any example of any
		
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			barrier between men and women in the prayer
		
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			or in the classroom or in the learning
		
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			and teaching.
		
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			But people need to respect everybody.
		
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			They used to go for Hajj.
		
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			Even Tawaf you see so much mixing.
		
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			But there never has been a barrier between
		
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			men doing Tawaf and women doing Tawaf.
		
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			So this barrier idea is a new idea.
		
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			The way is to develop Taqwa and fear
		
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			of Allah in the society.
		
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			And if somebody is not wearing the proper
		
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			decent clothes then you can advise the people.
		
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			Don't be harsh because people have different cultures.
		
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			If you advise them InshaAllah in the future
		
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			they will respect you.
		
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			But I don't advise people unnecessarily to force
		
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			a barrier.
		
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			Unless you think really there is a need
		
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			or women themselves want a barrier for any
		
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			reason.
		
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			It's not haram to have a barrier.
		
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			It's allowed if you want.
		
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			But it's not a religious requirement to have
		
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			a barrier.
		
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			JazakAllah Khair.
		
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			Before we go into the next question we'll
		
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			have two more questions.
		
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			But before that I just wanted to talk
		
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			about an upcoming short course with the Salam.
		
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			It's going to be with Dr. Sohaib Saeed
		
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			and it's an in-depth seminar that is
		
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			going to look at certain overlooked perspectives or
		
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			underrated perspectives in the Tafsir traditions.
		
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			And it's going to look at case studies
		
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			from Surah Al-Baqarah and it's going to
		
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			delve into the alternative interpretations from scholars like
		
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			Ibn Taymiyyah and Abu Muslim al-Isfahani.
		
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			So the deadline to sign up to this
		
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			or the deadline to sign up with the
		
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			early bird discount is coming up.
		
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			It's on the 25th of January and the
		
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			course starts on Saturday the 8th of February.
		
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			So I would encourage everyone who hasn't signed
		
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			up yet and is interested in looking at
		
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			Tafsir and different opinions in Tafsir to sign
		
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			up.
		
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			Moving on from that let's go on to
		
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			the next question.
		
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			This one should be a quick one.
		
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			What is the difference between Ummah, Qawm and
		
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			Qariyat?
		
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			Each of them is mentioned in different places
		
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			in the Shia Sharia.
		
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			Qawm means people people who are together.
		
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			It could be tribal people people of a
		
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			tribe.
		
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			There are also Qawm.
		
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			So any society like Qawm there's Qawm.
		
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			And Qariyat is a town or city where
		
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			the people live.
		
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			So Qariyat is always actually population.
		
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			Like Makkah al-Mukarramah is a Qariyat where
		
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			the people live.
		
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			So just people are not called Qariyat.
		
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			Qariyat will be always in the context of
		
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			a place, a city, a town.
		
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			Qariyat is the people who live proper settlement.
		
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			Like people who are Bedouin they move.
		
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			So where they live it's not called Qariyat
		
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			because it's not proper settlement.
		
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			So Qariyat is a place which gathers the
		
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			people.
		
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			Gathering of the people proper residence so they
		
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			live there.
		
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			So that's Qariyat.
		
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			Ummah is a concept developed in Islam later
		
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			on which means people who follow the same
		
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			religion and same leader.
		
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			So that's one Ummah.
		
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			So basically Muslims are supposed to unite behind
		
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			the Quran and the Sunnah of the Prophet
		
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			and one Ameer one single Khalifa one single
		
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			Ameer.
		
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			So it makes them an Ummah.
		
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			But if people are divided around Madhhabs and
		
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			schools and many things and they hate each
		
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			other.
		
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			Like somebody asks question can we ban the
		
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			book of Muhammad even as Wahab.
		
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			If these things are there we really harm
		
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			the Ummah.
		
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			Whenever Muslims support sectarian ideas or schools or
		
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			Madhhab they basically make the Ummah weaker.
		
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			The strength of the Ummah is that you
		
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			make your minor differences unimportant.
		
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			You can express them you can write about
		
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			them but always think really what is the
		
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			most important common things between all the believers.
		
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			We are united about them.
		
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			That's what should be our concern not the
		
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			minor issues.
		
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			Another question this one is from Dilwah Ali.
		
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			Question is is it considered gambling in Islam
		
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			to participate in lotteries?
		
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			Like those on Facebook for example where you
		
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			buy something and it enters you in a
		
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			competition to win a Umrah or at shops
		
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			where you buy something and then you enter
		
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			a competition and you can win a big
		
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			prize.
		
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			Is that considered gambling or not?
		
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			These are the money where you spend money
		
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			and you get profit by chance.
		
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			It is not buying or selling.
		
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			Like buying there is profit but you get
		
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			what you buy you pay a price which
		
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			is agreed upon.
		
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			But here what is happening if you are
		
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			buying something and expecting that you get a
		
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			ticket for Umrah among 1,000 people or
		
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			10,000 people one person will be selected
		
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			two people will be selected you are buying
		
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			the item.
		
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			So basically you are not paying the price
		
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			for that item you are also paying the
		
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			money for something we don't know really one
		
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			person will get.
		
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			So that is called gambling.
		
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			All lotteries that happen in the world all
		
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			of them are gambling and Islam does not
		
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			approve anything like that.
		
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			Because these things are going to harmful to
		
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			the business.
		
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			What Allah wants is people do business properly
		
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			you know you buy things and you sell
		
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			things and that how you know communities develop
		
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			and that how the financial matters becomes better
		
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			and better and better and that how the
		
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			community so that is right way Halal way
		
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			is that you maybe you provide your services
		
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			that I am a teacher or I am
		
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			a you know this service and you get
		
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			money for that so at least there is
		
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			a contribution to the society.
		
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			People who do gambling they don't contribute anything
		
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			to the society you know this actually wrong
		
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			habit then many people depend on this chances
		
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			which you know not right we have to
		
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			get money by your effort you make effort
		
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			you sell something or sell your services or
		
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			some ability then you get money anyway so
		
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			the question that you ask about this Hajj
		
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			Umrah you know all lotteries and gambling it
		
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			is haram.
		
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			JazakAllah A question from Yasin Samara so the
		
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			question is can the experiences of companions and
		
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			righteous people ever be used for evidence or
		
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			as evidence in the religion um should it
		
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			should we allow it to make our opinion
		
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			or change our opinion on the topic um
		
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			so should that be what guides us?
		
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			Oh just a minute let me think about
		
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			the question can experiences of so I think
		
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			it means I am a sahaba no no
		
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			the thing is you know religion basically is
		
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			the Quran and the Sunnah of the Prophet
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam you know practice of the
		
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			companions or righteous people they can be used
		
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			as support but not as evidence the meaning
		
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			for example is like you know you learn
		
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			that Quran said the prayer should be with
		
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			khushu Qadaful harum uminoon alladheenuhum fis salati wa
		
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			khashioon and then you have stories of the
		
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			companions and pious people how they used to
		
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			pray with khushu that's fine because the real
		
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			command is in your practice based on the
		
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			Quran and these things are like support similarly
		
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			you know about zakat about anything in the
		
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			community you know you base the ruling on
		
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			the Quran and the Sunnah of the Prophet
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and then you use other
		
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			people's saying you know as support then no
		
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			harm that is what Bukhari has done in
		
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			his Sahih so he base he make he
		
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			bases all the you know teachings on the
		
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			Quran and the sound Sunnah of the Prophet
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam then after that he also
		
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			uses sayings of the Sahaba Tabi'een and
		
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			the Ulama and the practices as support but
		
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			he never bases any ruling on saying of
		
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			Umar or the Abu Bakr or people like
		
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			that you know he just uses them as
		
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			support so that was should be the Prophet
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam the only one who is
		
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			Masoom protected he cannot do mistake if he
		
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			did any mistake Allah has corrected him but
		
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			after that anyway even the Sahaba they can
		
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			do mistake though their mistakes compared to later
		
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			people is very very very very few but
		
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			still they can do mistake so that why
		
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			you know Allah says in Quran if you
		
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			have any dispute then refer to Allah and
		
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			his messenger so that that was the source
		
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			the source is the Quran and the Sunnah
		
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			and other people's practices and their sayings they
		
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			only should be used for support but not
		
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			to rely on them not as evidence Jazakallah
		
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			so just a follow up question really on
		
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			the gambling question on the lottery question if
		
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			a person is to contribute to charity or
		
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			to society through charitable donation and they win
		
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			a prize so maybe they contribute a small
		
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			amount and they win a large prize does
		
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			that also count as lottery or yeah any
		
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			money that you get by chance by giving
		
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			some money then it is all gambling but
		
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			if people give you prize for example you
		
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			know those people who serve their communities I'm
		
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			going to select among them the best person
		
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			and I give them prize that's fine as
		
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			long as it's not from your money if
		
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			you do not contribute the money and you
		
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			get a prize that's fine that prize is
		
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			fine so for example you know two people
		
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			are racing and you say you know you
		
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			are third person you say among these two
		
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			people whoever wins the race I will give
		
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			him one thousand pounds that's fine that's a
		
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			prize award but if these two people they
		
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			give money you know one thousand each and
		
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			they say between us whoever wins get all
		
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			two thousand pounds that's gambling that's not allowed
		
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			so to always understand if people contribute any
		
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			money they cannot get the prize if they
		
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			get that's gambling but if they don't contribute
		
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			anything third party contributes other people contribute and
		
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			they only get if they win that's fine
		
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			that's a prize award respect that's fine that
		
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			can be allowed JazakAllah Khair one final question
		
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			about tahajjud so the right way to offer
		
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			tahajjud is it like any regular two rak
		
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			'ah prayer and is it allowed is it
		
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			possible to recite any shorter shorter surah or
		
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			do you have to recite longer surahs no
		
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			tahajjud can be just two rak'ah and
		
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			it could be any surah you can read
		
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			I can't do your time if you have
		
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			time more time you read more and more
		
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			and tahajjud should be after isha between isha
		
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			until fajr time you can do tahajjud anytime
		
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			but the best thing is that after isha
		
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			you sleep and then wake up late night
		
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			before fajr that is the best time for
		
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			tahajjud but tahajjud can be done also after
		
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			isha especially you know in the summer in
		
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			in these countries where the night is very
		
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			very short so sometimes cannot people cannot wake
		
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			up late night so they can do tahajjud
		
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			after isha JazakAllah Khair Sheikh we'll end there
		
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			and and we'll meet again soon inshallah next
		
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			week with a new Q&A please keep
		
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			sending us your questions and see you next
		
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			week JazakAllah Khair Fareed Walaikum Assalam wa rahmatullah
		
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			wa barakatuh you