Akram Nadwi – Weekly Q&A 25-07-2024
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To everyone. And welcome back to another ASI
q and a session with Sheikh Akram Naidwee
on every Thursday, 6 PM BST.
Without further ado, Sheikh, we have 2 private
questions that have come in. One's a slightly
long one, so I'll start with that one.
Sheikh, we have lots of hadith that encourage
Muslims
to look different from the disbelievers.
The colors of the clothes, the style of
the beard, but we also have haditha mentioned
that from far away, Aisha couldn't differentiate between
the
prophet
and Abu Jahal, meaning they looked and dressed
similarly.
So how do we reconcile this and how
important is it for Muslims
to be identifiable
as Muslims in their community?
You know, one thing we have to keep
in mind that,
you know, Islamic teachings
and the commands of the prophet,
they belong to different context,
not all are from the same context.
So many things that the prophet emphasized
so he could not teach people to differ
from unbelievers and to
oppose them. Like in Medina, he said, when
you're walking on a street,
an unbeliever comes up, force him to the
narrow path. That he could not be Makkan.
Makkan people force him to narrow path. He
cannot do this.
Second thing is there are basic teaching of
Islam. So
that always should be observed.
So about the cloth, what is the aura?
People must cover the
aura in men and women. So that's the
important thing. But there could be some clothes
become identity for Muslims.
So in those cases where Muslims are a
majority
or the Muslims are big number, it is
helpful to know who's a Muslim, then you
can say salah.
So, that could be a or some types
of clothes that they can be helpful for
the people,
but not all the time.
So Arab people generally, they used to wear
same clothes. Abu Bakr, and Abu Jahl and
everybody had same clothes. The prophetess did not
change that,
but he defers mostly
from Jews in
real culture. You know, real things like that
he,
differ. We people are more
on this more thing like what people look
like, you know, but we don't emphasize on
the culture and the hybrid
and out on the sunnah. The real thing
is that sunnah should be different.
Actually, many, many, they
would not like to eat, you know, on
a, sit on a chair and table to
eat.
But they eat all the food and they
eat a lot.
While the sunnah really, the real sunnah that
follow is that,
you know, eat less
and eat only one type of the food.
But they have so many food so that
again the sunnah. But with sunnah they fall
easy sunnah not to sit on the chair
or table and this and that. So this
thing that you wear cloth,
this way or that way, that's easy.
But, you know, to be not to be
arrogant and when you walk, you know, being
soft and nice,
that's so not, people don't follow.
And if you look really
in India and everywhere else,
the dress that Muslims wear, none of them
are sunnah. It's actually local dress which became
Islamized.
So, like, you know, you are in the
west that people have trouser, shirt and coat.
One day, there'll be slaming.
Just
like I'm very pushed out. This is never
sunnah the person, listen. The prophet
generally used to wear 2 unsewn clothes, 2
sheets.
Mostly he had to do. Nobody wears like
that. They're like a haram cloth.
So when people say that we follow sunnah,
that means people don't follow sunnah. People are
following their own culture which for a long
time has become Muslim culture, but that's not
what the prophet used to do. So, anyway,
simple matter is
understand the halal, halal, and,
be more worried about the real sunnah, internal
sunnah, the sunnah, sunnah, the culture. Not just
simple thing like, you know, wearing the cloth
and this and that. In that, when they
follow halaha,
the real thing, you know, should be different
meeting in the right hand,
intention to worship Allah Subha
To any always go for the pure and
real real things. Don't go for the superficial,
you know, simple identity.
JazakAllah,
we'll move on to the questions in the
question box now because we've got quite a
few to get through.
The first question, Sheikh, is, Assalamu alaikum Sheikh.
Please explain the ruling of sunnah at Jumaa,
the opinion that
stood out is Jumaa is a gift, and
we should only pray 2 rakat, Jumaa, and
then the optional 2 sunnah and nafar.
I don't know what the question is. I
didn't know Jumai is is it true that's
fine. Far away. But, Sunnah, you know, there's
no Sunnah. Some people say there's no Sunnah
in Jumuah because the student people come from
far. They just put it to the car
sooner, but to the car further. And then
they start to, you know, because Zohar used
to be 4
to go to Turaka. And before the the,
Futaba, people attend the Futaba and then pray
to to the. But Futaba should be proper
food by speech. Not the Khudwah that people
read from the book. They have no life,
nothing, no mercy. The Khudwah should live proper,
put back proper is peace and
further.
Some people said there is sunnah before
for the 4 rakah, some people says less,
some people say more. And the sunnah in
Hanziwa
after Jumuah 4aka and Sisera,
but none of them had come from the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Companions used to
do differently,
but there are nobody left anything from the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. What we learned
from the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is
just tour a car for them and and
a footwork before that.
Assalamualaikesh
Sheikh. The next question is,
Assalamualaikesh.
Please explain what are the rulings regarding women
covering their feet
in prayer and outside of prayer?
Yeah. The people differ really is covering the
is the feet of the women or not.
So some people say we make sure to
cover their feet anyway, but in a
feet, you know, covering the feet is not,
obstructed,
you know, feet are not. That's what I
prefer, really. That feet are not.
The next question is by Fatihah
who asks Salam You Sheikh, what are the
affairs that we can entrust to Allah
as mentioned in Surah Ghafir verse 44?
Is it okay if we entrust our worldly
matters too?
Even if it's for the success of this
life only like business,
competition between countries, politics, etcetera.
The way that that you know whenever you
want something,
So
Allah has made a legal way, lawful way
to to achieve those things. So you have
to make a for that one to become
medical doctor.
So that way, you have to get, you
know, study
in primary school, high school, and whatever until
you get the degree. So people must follow
the procedure
properly. I don't I've been made.
And then,
refer the success to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So similarly, if you want to achieve something,
you don't have enough means. So whatever you
can do, do it and then ask Allah
to complete it. But if you don't do
what you can, then it is very bad
because Allah has already given ability.
So always understand. For example, if somebody wants
to get married,
it shouldn't be a dua, but see what
you can do. You can look for someone.
You can propose. You can ask somebody to
help you. To whatever you can do, you
must do. Then after that, Allah will help
you. But it's not right here that whatever
Allah already have given you, you don't use
it. The symbolic politics and all those matters.
Muslims have got so much, you know, ability
and means.
They don't use them. So Allah is not
going to fix them unless you do what
you can do. Then refer to Allah because
he already has given you to what he
he's he's giving it differently. You know, he's
giving to human being different. Meaning, he has
made all the things available. Now you need
to get effort to make effort to get
it.
Sometime when people really need and just, you
know, desperate and,
you know, and they don't they are not
able to really do much effort. Oh, some
sometimes they are, you know, stuck with something.
Yeah. I thought
that helped them directly. But generally, his way
is do whatever you can do at your
best and ask Allah to complete it.
JazakAllah Khair and Sheikh. We'll move on to
the next question now which is,
is not covering your mouth while yawning a
sin?
Like a sunnah to cover the mouth, but,
you know, people don't do the sunnah. We
don't say that you want to get sunnah.
But to me, you say, by the minor,
really. But if you don't do once or
twice, I'll, you know, get nothing. But if
you insist not doing, get it by the
minor because
the prophet came to teach people right manner.
The people should not make the following.
The next question is by Sofian who asks,
Salam, is saying here, Ali Madad permissible?
Has been allowed by Subqi, Ramli, Suyuti, and
many other olema? Yeah.
Same that really even if people are allowed
to meet it very, very ugly. I don't
understand why you ask help,
those who you know, in this
world, you know, you don't have water. You
ask someone to bring water. That's what Allah
has made. So you you can ask entrepreneurs.
There's no harm in that. But when somebody
has died,
Allah never admit that they're going to help
you.
So, you know, to the in those matters,
it just go remember somebody is not there
like I'm your chef and you are somewhere
else and ask
You know, do everything possible and ask Allah
to help you. But to ask someone else,
you know, Ali or Sahaba
And all these people, they ask Ali to
help, but they never ask Abu Akasiddik for
help, Omar.
You know, they never ask Aisha to help
them. So I don't understand why Ali is
the only one in the world whole world
who can help them, and Abu Bakr cannot
help. Usmar cannot help. Musa, alaihis salami, they
never call you, oh, Musa, help. Who are
them help? If this is permissible, why not
all the other names? There are so many
names anyway.
Only things which some people have invented, they're
where they go. So, you know, firstly, I
don't like this thing anyway, but you can
see the contradiction
that they are following some people's way. They're
not following the reason. If they follow the
reason,
then a very profit is better than Ali.
So you should call Adam. Why don't you
call Adam? And then
Abu Bakr and Omar Usman are better than
Ali, Why don't you call them? You only
call 1 person. That's very clear you're taking
from somewhere else. So anyway, even if the
people say, yeah,
some people, prove that but I think a
Muslim should have enough
I will not listen. He said, I will
listen. So just
call him.
Assalamualaikeshir.
The next question
is
salaam, how to maintain
good relationship
with vulnerable people whom we can't help much
even though
we are more blessed than them, like we
have more risks than them?
Yeah. You know, sometimes
life is worse, you know, kindness.
Sometimes you are far away to let do
for them if you can say something. So
this thing also can be very helpful. So
good words are very
You know, say nice word. Sometimes you go
and sit with the sick people, ill people,
I know,
people like that. That is very, very helpful.
So there are so many desperate people, weak
people, old people,
people in the old age home. You know,
if you go and sit with them, you
know, they'll be so happy.
So not every help can come with the
money. Many help can come with the words
and your correct your,
behavior and your,
the way you look at the people. So
there's so many times that you can share
your food with the people, they can be
so happy.
The next question is,
there are authentic hadith about the virtues for
dates and zamzam.
For example, if we eat 3 dates, poison
won't work. Are these hadith to be taken
by their exact wording
or should be taken as
like the saying an apple a day keeps
the doctor away?
You know, the hadith, you know, there's 7
days, Ajiva, they eat and, you know, with
the name of and the the father will
not work. To that Hadith, I wrote whole
article on that.
You know, the thing that I already written
in detail,
that is much more helpful, you know, to
you people than my answer now.
So answers I wrote properly with the reference.
It's taking time, you know, and answering every
question.
The best thing is to go and find
that article and read to me. That that
will be more helpful.
So in Australia, you know, I I can
answer something I still remember. But best thing
is to read that article, then you are
you will be more satisfied, inshallah.
The next question
is by Fariha who asks does having foods
from restaurants and hotels reduce
our taqwa as it said they don't make
food with the name of Allah. I also
heard having outside food will the name of
Allah. I also heard having outside food will
make us lose our husho in our Ibadah.
I think really, you know, whenever you buy
the food from outside,
yeah, it could be that nothing and that's
the name. It's not so good. I the
people who cook with another
name. But,
that way, the best thing that Aisha did
not on her, she if she used to
get a,
black, you know, Muslims, she used to get
cheese
from made from by non Muslims. So Aisha
everybody said that, you say, miss Linda, then
miss Linda has come.
Non Muslim restaurant,
when you eat, say,
now it become full of the barakah. The
Allah, near and last name brings barakah.
But similarly, when you say you will drink
water, say, maybe the water bottle came from
now Muslim people. They paid it. You see
Viswila.
Nobody asked about the money. You know, people
get money from all the non Muslim source.
Nobody asked, should we get it or not?
They take it.
If you can't take money, why not everything
else?
And then you spend the money, you follow
the way of Allah, come on of Allah
and
say this simple
matter here, whatever you drink and eat, say
this in Allah that in the.
The next question is by Lukman who asks,
salaam, Sheikh.
Could you give some advice on how to
maintain and increase levels of taqwa?
No. The thing, you know, it is really
I cannot,
advise so much to deny myself. I don't
I don't think I got a great level
of taqwa or something like that. But the
only way is to obedience, force yourself to
obey Allah. That's all. But even you're alone,
anywhere you are, just think what Allah commands.
If you have 2 choices, see which one
Allah chooses. Just go for that. It ever
seem to fight a force in so forth
to do what Allah wants.
You know, to drink and eating and poking.
Sometimes you want to beg bite, to think
really that Allah allowed me to beg bite.
If you're not allowed, then don't don't beg
bite. You want to lie and then think
it. But Allah allow me to lie in
this matter. If it does not allow, then
don't lie. You want to delay the prayer?
Think, does Allah allow you to delay the
prayer? If it is not allowed, then don't
delay. In every single matter, force yourself to
obey Allah.
Hopefully, inshallah, your level of will,
rise. Otherwise, if people think that I I've
got an magic
so I tease you and then you become
more.
So that did not happen. Even actually, that
happened to me. I don't have any magic
for myself. The only way for me works
is to force to get lucky and nothing
else because I human being are,
you know, thinking people. So they have to
understand and think, and then force themselves to
do.
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with the questions.
Sheikh, the next question is,
I sometimes get very anxious when I try
to go through
Hadith and sacred texts.
Should I not jump in too much?
Or what's the way forward? How should I
how should this person go about,
you know, reading these sacred texts? I don't
know why you become so anxious, you know.
I
because people learn English.
You learn
and
try to understand what Allah wants from you
and what the prophets wants. And then make
effort to act as much as possible because
then you can't do every single thing, but
do as much as possible. Try to understand
the meaning
deeply.
So somehow, I couldn't understand why you think
and why you become anxious.
And the second thing is, you know,
the sacred text in in a mean, this
is the Quran and the Hadith.
Sometimes they are not so strong. Sometimes they'll
be with the kind of sacred. So you
have to be careful about using the word
sacred unless something proven to be performed the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
But, there's no need to be scared of
anything, you know, but why why you're obnoxious.
You know, it's a good luck, a good
knowledge, you know, to to read Quran that
will help you anyway. And the prophet says
that the teachings are wisdom and Hikma.
So why you are so anxious? Yeah. I
think she'd be happy.
Sheikh.
The next question is by Mohammed Aqib who
asks, Sheikh in your experience can you expound
for us please,
that how when young people fall in love
it is often very superficial and doesn't last.
Yeah. That's in the really in this world,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has
made all the success of the human being,
to understand their nature, and
to use their reason
and to follow the revelation.
And the desire had been made as indication.
So for example, when I
had desire for food, when I'm hungry, So
there's good indication, indication that I must eat.
That's all. But, desire cannot decide to me
what to eat and how much to eat.
Then after that, I had to use it
my mind
and, you
know, a revelation
to halal food
and earn properly and, you know,
this and that. That what I need to
do. I don't, have to eat whatever I
like Besides, similarly, if somebody falls in love.
So that's good indication
that you desire,
you know, to get married.
But who to marry,
when to get married, and all those things,
you need to think and understand what your
needs are, you know, the who can be
the in your partner and who can be
the mother of your children
because
your wife soon will become mother. So is
she a really good person to be a
mother?
Or similarly, if you want to marry mine,
your husband is going to become father. He's
not going to remain just husband forever. He's
going to be the father. He's a good
person as a father.
So all of these things you have to
look at properly and consult people and then
get married. Just because you desire someone does
not mean you'll be the best person. Desire
is different matter. Like, I desire food.
But if I know it is has poison,
can I eat it? No. I will never
eat it. Even if I desire, if I
pass by the nice biryani, good smell coming,
looks very nicely, and I want to eat
it, then somebody tells me to be filthy.
Somebody will renate in it. I will never
go to eat it. Or somebody said, you
know, it's a lot poison. I'm never going
to eat it. Even if I fall in
love with the biryani, I will not eat
it. So similarly, if you fall in love
with a minor woman and then you find
out, you know, you're not right person, she's
not right person, then find somewhere else. You
know, this is important. If you don't use
your mind and you just follow the desire,
you will regret.
You will deduce it. Everybody who follows the
desire without using the reason, mind,
you know, they always are losers.
The next question is,
what are your thoughts on
Abu Kalam Azad, Rashid Rida, and Mohammed Abdul?
You know, they are great reforms at that
time and people should respect them and learn
from them. So, you know, Muhammad Aftu was,
you know, before these two people,
Muhammad Aftu's teacher of Raqizera,
and, you know, he's a really great reformer
and thinker. But, you know, Egyptian people are
later on, people, they got a burden for
him and the thing is past part of
conspiracy.
No. Really, he puts. He's a good person.
You think? Yes. I tell you, his time
are different. You know, to the coronavirus and
has started French ruling in Egypt. To the
way they think
differently. Back in the UK,
and I give some Fatima in order to
adjust Muslims in UK.
Then after, you know, sometimes some people call
Sheikh Arambal very much scared of Europe and
British
He became, you know, more Islamic, you know,
you know, in different way. Sirimona Azad, you
know, he was a great thinker and a
great lecturer in mind,
and he was a politician. So his thinking
was in Indian context, but not the same
he got revelation.
You know, later on, you know, there's so
many things happen in India where he was
not successful.
And he and you can see now really
that, these people, they are such great people.
But the world they imagine about India, you
know, it didn't happen. So people do their
best,
and we ask Allah to forgive them, and
we take lessons from their failure and success.
And we make effort not to follow them
when they fail. We have to improve ourselves.
The next question is by Adil who says
some scholars say there was a mistake in
the haraqat in,
in Surah 43
verse 61.
It should be
as in the word sign
in the word sign as ibn Abbas used
to recite it, not ilmun, meaning knowledge. What
is your analysis? No, no. Alam both mean
the same thing. Both mean the sign
they are available.
So I'm also not a mistake. It is
also the same meaning. In Arabic language
many many words cannot say meaning. If you
could it's like a new sign, a new
sign, aalam new sign, aalamatul
new sign. So many words in new sign.
So in that way, you know, it's just
one word. That way people read differently. Some
people read the
signs, some people read the Alim, like Malekhi
Omidyim, Malekhi Omidyim.
Both have similar meaning.
So any
No. I'm also gonna sign. I can acknowledge
you set this aside.
The next question
is,
by Fala, who asks,
do contemporary
Islamic armed resistance movements
fully aligned with the Islamic principles of war?
The thing really is in this world, that
Allah had made it. He is, you know,
first thing is the da'wah
for all people to worship Allah.
The next thing is the hijrah.
The Muslims should leave to a place where
they can have safety and they can,
you know,
we we work from there. And then we
have jihad.
Jihad is not the spirit writing and give
a speech that people
do anything anywhere. There's not jihad. It should
be organized properly. In fact, but fasting.
The Muslims are not doing. There's so many
people who don't pray, don't fast, don't do
anything. So people like that, they can't do
any jihad. You know, they do the hard,
they will fail.
But if sometime people
do
war against you, like war have been imposed
on Afghanistan
like that, Yeah. Then you can defend it.
But you don't have the war unless,
you have done, you know, this stage. Firstly,
the, you know,
the hour. So the professor doesn't do not
even easy. You
just want to begin in the hour.
The next question is by Abdul Rahman who
asks,
I have 120
grams of gold,
which includes gifts from my parents.
My son recently
received 32 grams of gold as a gift.
Does this gold require zakat?
Should I pay zakat on his gold separately?
No. Your son is different from you. He'll
pay his a cut for him. His property,
you know, the property that's everybody is different.
You know, father is the property different from
the son. The mother is different. The sisters
and brothers are different. Every individual has to
pay his own zakat if they become owner
than itself. So if your son does not
have 85 gram of gold
or or some or all the money equal
to that, he does not pay the car.
But you pay the car for your thing.
So but you don't add your sons as
a as a car to yourself. It everything
different. Everybody is independent.
The next question is by Mohammed who asks,
in my country, there is an option for
parents to make an account for their child
where they deposit money and the bank will
add 20% of that money
which can only be used
for university.
Is this river?
You know, it's a very complicated issue really
how much the river is there or not
really because sometimes what it puts in the
money also,
in terms of inflation.
So the money that you deposited not necessarily
going to be same. It it's a value
go go down.
So people have to pay you more than
that anyway.
It could be possible just just a gift
card. And,
and they, and they want to pay you
the fees.
Fees itself in the form of it. So
people that are allowed to
borrow money from the and then test for
the field. So if these people pay themselves
forever, then you do that. We do anything
anyway. You have got money.
So I I think if there is a
facility like that in a in a country,
there's no harm to use it for for
purpose of the field and something like that.
JazakAllah Khairan Sheikh for your time and JazakAllah
Khairan everyone for tuning in and Inshallah we'll
reconvene next week Thursday 6 pm BST as
always.