Akram Nadwi – Weekly Q&A 25-04-2024
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The title of Islam is based on the same title as the modern day, with the Sira of Islam being the most important aspect. The importance of understanding the title of the book and its two parts is discussed, as it is difficult to read and learn about the title. The importance of learning from the Bible and finding local experts for further understanding is emphasized. The importance of not interfering with others' rights and not giving up on one's own success is also emphasized. The importance of learning the language and avoiding sinful behavior is emphasized, along with various tests and punishment methods used in various situations.
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Bismillah Alhamdulillah Wassalamu
Alaikum
to everyone and welcome back to the ASI
weekly q and a with Sheikh Akram Nadwy
on every Thursday
at 6 pm BST.
Sheik will begin with a few anonymous questions
as people begin to roll in and ask
more questions in the chat box.
So Sheikh the first question is why did
Bani Israel get so many prophets and Islam
received only 1?
It is not a new name. It is
the name given by Ibrahim alaihi salam.
Even Jews used to call it Islam, and
you can see Yaqub alaihis salam and his
Ibrahim alaihis salam said to their children,
don't die unless you are Muslims.
And Yusuf alaihis salam when he died, he
said,
Oh, my lord, make me to die as
a Muslim.
And the real name of,
Judaism did not Judaism.
That is the name given by enemies.
So if you look at their name in
Hebrew language,
I might wanna sum up one of the
expert of, in Judaism. He said, actually, the
name of religion in Judaism is same,
The same name.
It's not a different name. So now the
question not that if Muslims have less profit,
than than the people before. After the question,
why Bani Israel have less
than Bani Israel, Bani Sahar.
Yeah. So the the reason is that, you
know, wanted
to,
you know,
make one side of the family of Rahim
al Islam
to settle in the urban areas,
get the prophet's messengers
until they become corrupt and, you know, then
I must not have turned away from them.
And he choose a bunny Ismael Ismael.
So the bias between both of them is
that though Bani is Bani Israel have got
many, many prophets,
but,
Bani Israel have got the last messenger
who is more important than most of their
prophets, you know, the prophet Musa alaihi sallam.
Second thing is Bani Ismail got a limited
time,
You know, so their prophet told in their
family finished it,
you know, by
Aisalehi Salam. After that, they are not no
more chosen people
while banis banis mali will remain chosen
until the day of the army. Their family
will remain in power
and, you know, in the chosen by
until the last time our our banister had
been cast. So if you look in, you
know, and, and, compare properly,
you will see that,
Bani Ismail have got more,
benefits. You know, their kingdom was much bigger
than the kingdom of
the Jews
and I think now,
and, they had more pious people, more generations
of generations of scholars,
compared to the Jews. And Jews had been
cursed so many times by their prophets and
messengers
while Balis Mahi never had been cursed by
the prophet messenger.
So if you look at his whole, you
can see
this
side of Ibrahim's family
is a much better and actually more chosen.
That way, you know, it is is the
is the more important.
Jews are making every effort to prove that
is.
So they are corrupted by the, you know,
they lied, but still, bible is very clear
that the,
the one
is his mind, not his heart.
The next anonymous question we have is how
much emphasis
should people place on studying the Sira of
the prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam? How important
is it?
Yeah. You know, when you the most important
thing with guidance you know, people will study
the Quran. They understand the guidance of Allah.
So that is the most important thing in
the Quran, the guidance.
And and then the the guidance had been,
revealed to the prophet Musa Allahu Salam
and, applied by him.
So people need to know the time of
the prophet
and his life in much detail because many
Quran will refer
to the prophecy left in the context.
Like many of writers offered the birth of
hand. They
are referred. Many dispute questions are referred
So many customs and cultures are Arab people
are the target of the nation.
And the prophet, salafam, conditions are mentioned. Sometimes
the prophet, salafam, had a grief or problem.
So you can see the Quran, you know,
sometime where the prophet
is upset with his wife.
All these things are there. So the the
seerah of the prophet actually is the context
of the Quran. You have to understand the
external
external context of the Quran. So if you
have internal context
in Iran, it's important, but you also need
to know,
you know, the, the prophet to whom the
Quran will be revealed. What were his context?
Then it will help me to understand the
Quran.
So recently, I had finished
writing a book on Seerah for Islam Institute.
Because in Seerah, what happens is that then
people become, you know, lose in conditions
and then include many stories which have nothing
to do with the Quran. You know, they
don't explain anything, and they are very difficult
to prove. So I made it, you know,
effort in my book,
to include only those stories which are most
authentic.
I'd either part of them are in the
Quran
or they are Sahihan, Sahih Bukhari, and Muslim.
And also, you know, you know, understanding that
Quran depends upon them. So, you know, the
story which are weak or fabricated,
you know, they are not mentioned in my
book.
So that, effort,
now when people read this one,
this book will be the first thing in
their mind. So when they have a new
story which are weaker, then question what where
they come from. But, at the moment, what
happening is people get in their mind all
the, you know, weak stories, strange story, and
they think this is
how the. So that is in that sense,
my book is different. And also the book
has got 2 parts. One part is
just,
you know, explaining to you the stories
of the sira, the most sound one. Then
the second part
is. It is the lessons that we derive
from the sira, you know, are very important
for us to understand.
So these are the two parts of the
book. It is short, but not very, very
long. It will be
after now on the the printing, you know,
one of the provisions that would,
the publishing institute.
So it will be nearly 150 pages, something
like that. Not pretty easy to teach and
study in the classroom.
Inshallah, jazakAllah, and sheikh look forward to that
book. We'll start taking the audience's questions now.
The first question is,
can you explain when the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam went to Mi'raj? He ascended the
heavens. So were all the prophets in Jannah?
I thought Jannah is only after judgment day.
You know, saying either, you know, this is
the
judgement day. You know, saying is the you
know, this world is a different world. I
mean, the world that Allah had made, you
know, and
there's so many different worlds already. So you
cannot apply the law of this world to
other universal.
The prophet
when he went to
Then same prophets, most of them, he meets
also in the heaven. So same people in
the grave, same people in the Jerusalem, same
people in the in in the heaven.
So this is the figure. How this happened,
how
the Allah has met, we have no idea.
We would believe in this thing because that's
how the hadith has come. But it is
very difficult to interpret this thing in the
light of the laws
that we know in this world. To what
we know really, that he satan, he saw
Musa alaihi salam
playing the grave, then he saw Musa Alaihi
Salam after in Jerusalem,
then he met him in the 6th heaven.
But how he's in all these places, how
the connection happened, how Allah made his grave
to be connected to the heaven. And, love,
doesn't matter. You know, the laws that we
understand
are submitted by Allah. So that law that,
you know, somebody in the grave, but at
the same time, he could be
in another space or somewhere else.
That also can be made by law. You
know, it's so easy for Allah to make
things like that anyway.
You know,
nowadays, you know, when people,
you know, use,
you know, Zoom meeting and this meeting, that
meeting, same person, you know, could be in
one place, seen another place, and know what
happening there. So another word is much, much
more powerful. It could be the same person
in the grave, and at the same time,
he also in Jerusalem and same time he
in the heaven. It's
so easy for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. There's
something authentically believing there. How it happens, Allah
knows the best.
Stays alone while her husband has gone on
Tabuliri Jamaat? Is the hadith authentic that Allah
sends angels to guard their house?
Until certainly God, all Muslims anyway, all human
beings, everybody got it. Otherwise, Jin will kill
and so many
things. So there's nothing to do with.
You know? Every human being is guarded, and
the believers are guarded more and more. Every
believer. So there's nothing.
You know, tab there is a mark, you
know, and also all the preaching is good
really if people understand the violence. So
people should actually understand the rights of their
wives and the family.
There are people who leave their house, their
wives at home, and they go outside with
their friends. They spend the whole night. Sometimes
they do,
you know, play enough of their, in congregation
with their friends. Sometimes there is a.
Sometimes in Taravi, they go for Taravi, and
they lead the wives at home. So this
is not Islam really, you know. The prophet
said it. All the prayers of the people
at home is better,
than the Masjid except the father prayer. Why
he said this? Then because he wanted people
to get home with their family, their wife.
So similarly, people who go far away from
there is a mark.
There could be some good reason that, you
know, they go to learn and study and
understand, then the wife shouldn't have sacrificed. And
if they make sacrifices, then they'll get removed
for that. But sometimes, it's unnecessary. The cabin,
you go to the area,
but you don't learn anything. But more than
that, you can learn at home. You can
learn from your wife or you sit with
them. Sometimes you can have a local scholar.
You know, you just go and learn from
there till you go and
Just become like customer, culture, tradition.
That nothing could do. So after people have
to understand really, sometime people who go into
could be actually doing more since than any
reward if they neglect their wives and their
children and their family. So they have to
look at it that what if they're going
to get if they really got getting something
more important, it is going to benefit them
and their family, then they should go. Otherwise,
they should stay at home and make arrangements
to learn at home. And now the reason
you can do many learning online.
If somebody does not know how to read
Quran, he can find a local scholars. If
he does not find someone, he he can
find somebody online. You can learn, but there's
no need really to leave your wife and
children unnecessarily.
If they're needed, we get to. So I'm
saying, generally, I'll answer the question like that.
But if you have got your own personal
condition, then you can consult me or consult
an eye. He advises.
The next question is by Shahriar
who asks,
when I am preparing for marriage, I am
thinking about the marriage ceremony, married life, my
spouse, and other self centered thoughts. How can
I motivate myself to make my nia of
marriage for the satisfaction of Allah?
Israeli. It's all connected together, you know. If
somebody
marries for the sake of all that, that's
good intention. If somebody marries because he has
got desire, so fulfilling the desire, halal will
get faster. Good intention. If somebody married because
he think he can remarry and then he
look after a wife, a woman, and provide
accommodation.
There's good need for that. If somebody married
because he go to her children and raise
their father's mouth, that's also good. So anything
I know, even the desire, if somebody think
I married for the desire
to fulfill the desire, that's
actually fine. You just reward for every money
expense and all those. So there's no contradiction
in all the we like food. You know,
if you food for the sake of our
love, that's good. If you eat food because
you want to be healthy, that's also good
thing. If you eat food because you desire,
you love it. That's also fine because Allah
made halal for you. You don't eat haram.
So don't make all the tensions I've contradicting.
They are at the same thing. They're very
similar to each other.
Barak Allahu Fiksha. The next question is,
by Abdul Rahman who asks, is it haram
to have relations with one's wife when she
is pregnant, and how long after delivery is
it unlawful?
Yeah. There's nothing like that. It's not really,
you know. It depends on the health of
the people and their
intention to that. Don't force anybody for anything
because you don't know. Maybe the woman has
pain or something like that. But if the
people are happy, they're, you know, and they're
not Islamically, they're no harm to have relation
in the one separate treatment or whatever. You
are not allowed to have relation
when in the when you are in a
situation,
or, you know,
post, you know, birth bleeding, nephast.
So if they're bleeding, then that's condition you
are not having,
But any other condition there in nursing this
child or
if they're happy or they're they're no harm
on the health, you could consult a doctor,
consult your wife, and to the it's not
it's not they're not interfering
these things. Anybody, you know, can have relations
whenever they like if it does not harm
them. The next question also by Abdul Rahman
is, did the prophet learn to say
after
receiving Surat al Nas?
You know, they really we don't have exact
proof of it. The prophet
created our Shaitan regime. There are some weak,
but it's not so strong.
And the general rate of, all the must
say, you start the prayer with
even know this
Though Imam Hanifa said this billah should be
said quietly, but Imam Malik said that no
this billah at all. And the professor,
wrote a letters to the people, did not
write any.
He told people he never said.
Never written the muskaf in the Quran.
So when you say in the name of
Allah, you're taking refuge, well, you don't need
to say exact words.
Even when you say
you are taking refuge to Allah. So when
a Quran said when you read the Quran,
take refuge to Allah, it does not mean
you said, oh, the worst. You need to
take refuge. Take a refuse could be by
your practice, action, your saying this will Allah.
This will Allah also all will Allah. Same
thing. There's no difference.
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that. With that, we'll move on to the
next question.
Shef, the next question is by Junaid who
asks,
why is child marriage allowed? Why is
the woman's consent not taken? And what if
she rejects the marriage at the time of
starting the marriage? And did Omar
marry Umqul Qum, the daughter of Ali?
No no doubt, indeed. The marriage is like
a competitor.
It it must have the consent of the
both parties
either the man or the woman because they're
going to get married. So that's the main
thing you have to understand.
But at the same time, you know, any
contract can be done on the behalf of
the other person if there's interest. So, like,
for example, when you buy or sell to
your consent, but sometimes your father can buy,
you know, from your own money on your
behalf on your child. You know, with my
end or something, and he figured in your
interest, he can do. To contrast what can
be done on other people's behalf,
you know, if it is understood to be
in the interest.
In the marriage,
because marriage is a no suggest matter,
so not anybody can do this. But the
people who have, you know, love for the
child
and understood the matters properly like father
or grandfather,
so they are allowed in certain conditions
to marry their child or grandchild.
It's the thing that because sometimes our husband
says, the father is responsible for his son
or his daughter, and he has got cancer
or something and he thinks he's going to
die soon.
And then he got someone. He said he
said, prepare marry your daughter to my son.
So he think, you know, if he married
before he died, he'll be at peace. So
sometimes he does. Like, if there there are
could be some other young news. By generally,
it is not incorrect. So that you find
really child of marriage was not very common
among us. It was, but not so common.
Actually, in whole society,
if you look in Europe,
just before modernity,
yeah, people used to marry, you know, their
daughters very, very early. Everybody used to do,
you know, that was so common. And with
the
Islam did not encourage so much,
but it allowed it. Now then we have
a a reality that people exploit
even the parents sometime in the greed of
the money. They married their daughter to someone
who cannot be suitable for her. So then,
you know, my father is I've written, you
know, in my book, I thought this army
was in there.
It's still to be published
written
that it should be done,
you know,
with the,
consent of the authorities. So like a judge
or court
or you know? So then they can do
clearly their father will not,
you
know, expecting his power.
So sometime could happen, but generally, we don't
allow people to marry, you know, minors. You
know, it should be done when people are
grown up, it should be their own consent.
And one of the last of the years,
I think he married.
Yeah. And we're done. And his father was
happy, and she was happy also return. So
that's not for many years. Yeah.
There's 2 questions that are linked, so I'm
gonna ask them both.
The first one goes, what is bida'? Please
recommend any of your lectures or resources to
learn about it. The second question is Assalamu
alaikum Sheikh. How are we to understand the
following hadith?
If anyone introduces an innovation or gives shelter
to a man who introduces an innovation in
the religion, he is cursed by Allah, by
his angels, and by all the people. What
does sheltering mean here? What type of innovator
is it referring to? Is it someone who
fell into mistake of innovation
or innovator who is liable by punishment in
Islamic law?
Yeah. You
know, we have to understand really.
If anybody invent something in the religion,
then it will be the objective.
So
if you make something part of the religion,
you are not allowed because only Allah can
make something part of the religion, and his
prophet can explain to the people. Nobody has
any authority
to say something has a reward or something
has sinned.
That's only Allah and the messenger have got,
this authority.
But if you don't make a part of
a million
rather than just in helping or do do
not take any reward, then that's fine. If
for example,
you know, the people used to travel to
Makkah for a Hajj
on the train wheels are walking.
Now we go by airplane.
So that's fine because we don't say if
somebody goes by airplane or by, you know,
ships or they get more reward. If somebody
said they get more
reward, it will be there. But when you
are facing reward
or sin, it gets, you know, yeah, it
becomes a be there. It's it's not allowed.
So it's already understood, really. Whenever people add
something to religion and they attach any reward
or sin to it, then it is making
that thing part of the religion. And nobody
has got any authority
to be rejected,
you know, to the not allowed.
The people who used to also, you know,
do invention,
if there's somebody who invented,
you give him protection,
you know, for example, somebody,
you know,
reverse against Muslim ruler, you know, with the
name of Islam or something like that. So
if people defended him, I'll give him give
him protection.
Yet in bigger, he he mentioned because it's
not does not allow
this type of rebellion.
You know, and, similarly, like in Mecca and
Medina, All these places, they are haram. There's
somebody introduced something which goes against the former,
sacredness of the blessing. It's invention. The people
like that should not be
getting any protection.
Anyway, the sim summary of the matter is
whenever you invent something
and you make it part of the religion,
it does not
allow, and nobody has authority.
But if something is done
to help people, support people with how to
make it part of religion and don't affect
any reward.
That's fine. People in all way have been
doing so. That we are now teaching, you
know, online.
But this is not for the final prophet,
But if you don't say if you learn
online, you get a more reward. If I
start saying something like that, yeah, then it
will be the heart. So whenever you apply
something, you know, reward or sin to an
action,
then it's because of the
The, do you have any recommended resources or
books that you recommend to learn about Bida?
Yeah. I know. There are other things, but
I don't know if if you want another.
You know, the good book actually is a,
book of the song by.
Maybe it's not published
fully, but whatever published is very, very good
book.
And I'll say you can find that there's
so many things in the writings of
about.
Most of the writing, there'll
be somebody who's, you know, on
so you can but the best thing is
maybe the ultrasound is starting with the ultrasound
or.
If somebody had transferred in English, I don't
know. That can help me. So these 2
people are very good people in explanation of
the art. In Mashati and in the.
The next question is by Anwar
who asks,
Salamshay, can I go to Hajj,
by taking a loan or borrowing money from
someone else?
You can do it. You have to leave
it. Like, there's no need
because, you know, has it not if you're
not obligated,
why you take a loan and all those
things go for high unnecessary trouble for you?
And if you die or something happens, then
who's going to pay back? I will never
advise you to do this. And I said,
no. You just stay at home. You know?
Unless you get money. You know, take do
things which are obligatory upon you. Allah
will not ask you on their agenda. Why
didn't you do Hajj? It's not obligatory upon,
but he will ask about tests which are
obligatory.
Looking after your family, parent,
you know, your prayers, fasting, zakat,
you know, things like kindness to the people,
teaching people, preaching the religion. These things are
obligated upon you. You should be more keen
to do this. Don't add one more obligation,
which I'll never get. You add something, and
then you do, and then you suffer, unless
you're suffering. And then you're asking.
I will never advise anybody to go for
a Hajj if they don't have any means.
Jazaklal Okeiran Sheykh.
The next question is by Madiha who asks,
how far should I learn the science of
Tajweed for my daily reading?
Is it okay making the mistake of the
shkil,
moharedj and sifat and sinful
while
mistake of Tashkil Madaraj and Sifat sinful while
reading the Quran. You know, not every mistake
is sinful, so people have to be careful.
But, you know, certainly, you should learn,
you know, right pronunciation.
The.
Some Sifa. The Khmer Sifa also basically directed
mirror by the people.
The some Sifa
to know that people who are hearing Arabic
language.
So that is enough for you, and and
spend more time on understanding the Quran because
the messenger of Allah has been revealed to
you. You need to know what Allah said,
how you are going to when you understand
it, then you remind yourself
stronger, and then you obey and learn his
messenger. So obedience only can come if you
understand the message.
So, anyway, summary that, people should learn,
you know, reading the Quran in a way
that they pronounce properly with the
and since the father of the group, which,
you know, can help people to understand that
you're reading Arabic, not in Urdu in English.
The next question is,
by Nayaab who asks,
in Islam, problems are either trials or punishments,
but for an infant child to go through
them, I e growing up in abuse or
neglect,
it distorts one personality. Why would God allow
that to happen to a child?
You know, I think whenever a problem, I
think it's a trial happens.
There are many, many people tested.
So it is not that, you
know, somebody, you know, sometime, he will get
a problem. You know? He will get hired
a lot of people
for advisory for him, something like that. But
through him, many were tested
as property.
You know, people go and cut the trees
and destroy the houses. The houses have no
sin. Trees have no sin. So why the
suffering comes? The suffering coming because of the
people. The people are going to suffer. So
by this, the people who destroy the household,
they are tested.
And those whose houses are destroyed, they are
also tested. How patient they are, what they
will do. Similarly, the child is hard.
The people who do this, they were they
are tested
on the child's parents and relatives. They are
also tested how they're going to behave, how
they're going to protect, or whatever they're going
to do. So there are so many tests
around it. Do not worry about that. The
one who test, he knows the best. He
knows what he's doing. We have to be
like a celeb.
Think of what we need to do. You
know, how we can stop, all these,
wrong killings,
how can we stop injustice in the world,
and how we can support the, people who
are having wronged.
That's what our duty is. So we should
not worry about that rather than counsel advising
Allah what to do. He knows more than
us. You know, he less child more than
mean a child children. He was the he
was the who created them. So don't worry
about Allah Subha Tala. He knows the best.
We have to worry about ourselves.
And the last question we'll take for today,
is did the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
carry out rajam only before the revelation of
Surah Nur or also after it too?
Yeah. No. After the Sura Nur, really. And
there's no contradiction between Sura Nur and between
Rajin. So people don't understand that. Right? Sura
Nur is
is more about,
normal when somebody had desire and that's, you
know, is generally they're not married.
By people married, they do. They see their
matter. It's not easy. That had a mission
in social mind, and
that's not
and that the chair heading of.
So to so to to understand, the 100
that
comes in social media.
That in in general, unmarried people.
That comes, that is yeah.
Who Zani
and Zaniya will be married because they're not
married.
But the worst absolute Maida is,
about the,
of the married people. That's rebellion.
Then the punishment is very severe, and the
resume is the most significant thing. So both
are regime is fine and judge is fine.
Both, you know, don't contradict
It's not done against when they don't go
against the boss officer to move. So to
move is talking something else, I'll write with
something else.
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we can aim to answer it next week.
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