Akram Nadwi – Weekly Q&A 25-08-22

			Salam alaykum. Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh everyone welcome back to our q&a hosted by SLM Institute's
		

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for joining us handlers Nice to have you back. Let's start with
		

			let's see
		

			okay, let's start with this question on the screen. So now I can Why isn't a quitter not mentioned
in total Kath? It is it true people said it's because Mozart's RAM is much better than him and Mosa
is a messenger and hydro is not
		

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			are handled by Allah Muna was slid out there was salam ala Saudi Mohammed Vida Ali he was hobbies in
		

			my life.
		

			So you know, this question actually is important in the way that many people when they do tafsir of
the Quran and also when they expand it any any text, this how narrowly they look very narrow.
		

			You know, just think, if somebody the name is not mentioned, could be only one reason because he is
less important than somebody else.
		

			Out there people who are less important their names mentioned because the names actually are
identity. You need to identify the people
		

			in the Quran, there are in the middle of Allah, their name had been mentioned, they have no
importance at all in the eye of Allah. Abu Lahab I didn't mention do Abu Bakr has never been
mentioned, Omar has never been mentioned, Schaeffer these are all these wipes that the person
doesn't they never had been mentioned. But Ebola was mentioned. They had even a Haritha a celeb of
the professor lawless alum who got free later on, he's mentioned his name is mentioned. You know
Qarun is mentioned in the Quran. And there are many messengers and prophets they are not mentioned.
But people are that then they may have mentioned Lokmanya dimension many people think it was not a
		

			prophet. So if somebody's not mentioned by the name, and the reason not it's not important
		

			that because of Quranic way is the Quran mentions a story for a purpose. So names are not important
unless, you know they are in you know, they had some information to a story of Musa alayhis salam
about his sovereign patients, and the other person is part of the story, but whether we know his
name or don't noise and then it doesn't make any difference anyway, in this story, you know, the
story will be same either we mentioned named know the name of we don't know the name. So that way
the Quran did not mention the name because many many palapa Quran had mission to voice at the parcel
al Islam in Surah, taurine and very clear to why's that the person hasn't mentioned in a duel, you
		

			know, focus Guru bakoma into tuba, Allah He to do it. But Quran did not measure the name, because it
is not important to know the names of these wives. What important is the lesson that you can take?
		

			The not mentioning the name should not reason because you notice there's somebody lower or inferior?
No, it could be because the internet is doing their contest. It's not important, but the person
himself will be very important that why in the Hadith or the parcela Listen, name of Hydra has come
but though we don't know really whether the name, Hadith name, or the title could be Navy, something
else some people think his name is something else and other is a title. By the way, you know, simple
matter is whenever you do Tafseer of the Quran
		

			on explaining a textbook, find out many, many more things behind that. Don't narrow yourself to some
111 thing or two things. That is a mistake many people don't have seen. Anyway, the simpler thing is
that the reason the name is not mentioned, because in that story in that context, knowing the name
is not important
		

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			from Faheem Han and his question is, are people who have depression so accountable for sins they
commit due to their depression, for example, believing everyone is better without them and
potentially cutting family ties in the process.
		

			The finger there's so many lists in the world high
		

			rise in marriage, because of our social problems of personal problems, many of those things, you
know, so people think they are not important that this is thinking that we are not important that a
big bigger disease, it actually goes against the Command of Allah subhanaw taala which is not
something which cannot be treated. You know, people have to learn this thing in order to use the
Quran understand the Mercy of Allah subhanaw taala. And Allah has made every human being very
important for us the warlock or the Karana Bani Dharma, we have made human beings important, we have
given them honor and respect. And that why so many may suggest game and just as serving the human
		

			beings, Paradise and hellfire had been made, Day of Judgment had been made. And if you do so, to
Ramana, Allah will remind you how much he had made for the human being, you know, Kurata, also
arrival was Sahana we have made in the service of the human being all the mountains on Earth, stars,
moon, sun, so many things they're serving as rain, cloud, every human being is very, very important,
really. But the problem is, we measure our importance, with some external measures. We think we are
important if other people give us important importance. So that's the big mistake. You are not
important because if other people did nobody in the world is still you'd be important. In you're not
		

			important because your related respect to you. Because your friends respect you because your parents
respect you, your children respect, you know, your input on your own, your importance inside you.
		

			You're being a slave of Allah makes it important, you're being a human being, it also makes it
important, you have been given the nature Fetullah my sound mind that makes it so important that we
are able to receive a last command to understand his address all those things, and you can go to
paradise. So this big thing, trees will not go to Paradise, Sun and Moon will not go to Paradise
mountains will not go to Paradise, but you can go to Paradise, if you serve him. And what needs to
you know, to be qualified paradise is not external,
		

			whether people are giving you important importance or not, it doesn't make you eligible to go
paradise. Until even if people don't give importance, it couldn't be one of the reason that you go
to paradise. Because then you do somebody patient and Allah so hot and Grigory would you to go to
paradise. So to be able to be qualified to intern to Paradise, a big big thing is how important
people are. So I will say really the something these things should be treated properly. People
should be taught they are important. And their importance is not in the hands of other people, their
importance in their own hands. They're important because they are alive made important. Whether your
		

			parents, your children, your brothers, your sisters, your colleagues, your friends, they give you an
important note, it is their duty, they should make important, they should cancel if they don't do it
in their mistake, they will be accountable for that, not you. So every daughter major US importers
will have that access distance. And it's going going on more and more. I really feel very silly.
When people you know when people become happy that they have gotten I actually I don't know how to
use whatsapp any better. I had all this news to somebody than what I read on Facebook. And they have
gotten so many likes, the little happy enough people still liking you don't like not liking doesn't
		

			make any difference anyway, is not really important or important that Allah likes you not. So think
about that. The most of these days we have created because we you know don't understand who we are.
So I would advise really that I will I don't know really how great this illness for the person is.
Sometimes they'll miss it like emeritus people to convert you or they're not accountable for
anything. We've done. This is something that we killed you
		

			will be accountable like some people that are angry very quickly. They'll be accountable the concept
that no my temporary like that, no, you can control you can learn about it. So similarly, you know
this thing you shouldn't be not really that everybody's very important and don't measure yourself
because the behavior and attitude of other people towards you
		

			Zack, no question, Jeff. I think this was a reality check and a reminder that maybe all of us need
at some point in our lives.
		

			Okay, Inshallah, let's move on to the next question. It seems like the questions we're getting today
are very, very interesting, very different panela. Maybe we need to take another long break. Okay,
all the good questions and Okay, let's see if we have a question from let's have a look.
		

			We had an interesting question. Okay. Let's take this one from even Mohammed. And his question is
what is the difference between having Tawakkol upon Allah and having Roger in Allah? When should we
have to work with and when should we have Anja?
		

			People in our in the languages, the words actually keep changing the meaning. So when people say in
English language, we hope
		

			it really doesn't mean anything. Because people always say hope, let's have hope. They say hope or
when they don't want to do anything, just to basically live to a limit that difficult gotta work
with the people should understand the meaning of tours. Tawakkol and Tawakkol. Tawakkol is that you
trust in Allah, while trusting in the ability that he has given you? What are the abilities, he has
given you mind fitrah will intention, you can make effort. If you do all that. And then trust in
Allah desta could use his abilities to for example, you want to study, you want to learn, you make
your admission, in one of the good school, or college, and then you make all that and then after
		

			that you've trusted Allah that you will pass. So you use all the abilities, and you trust in Allah,
that caterpillar, that the real hope that otter LaMotta wants people to build hope to hope is built.
When people have got all the effort, effort in the US all the effort Allah, you know, all the beauty
that Allah has given them, the trust in Allah and then the hope.
		

			But the wrong who probably is you don't do anything, just think something will happen. So Derek
Tawakkol debacle means you basically don't use ALLAH given ability to trust in Him. You just think
in the Bible says something will happen without any effort. So Allah did not make well like that to
Raja that using the Quran, the Quran said that believers are those who expect reward in the
hereafter. They are the people who believe they work hard, they prayed in the day and night, they
spent the money they do all the good deeds, and they trust in Allah then the hope or love to go into
paradise. So you know that that's the right hope. But the people who don't do anything, and still
		

			the hope that something will happen, it is deception that are calling Khurana guru, all it means is
you put your hope
		

			in illusion, you didn't do anything. There's nothing, you know, an iPhone or Apple, I'm sitting here
and I'm thinking maybe, you know, from my roof, what a million pounds to drop here to accomplish.
And then I'm sitting here this could be possible because of luck and validity. But this is a rural
Mr. Deception is not based on any
		

			reality that Allah has made. It is just, you know, run thinking to people do many of these internal
rules that first Schatten does a lot of you know use your abilities. You know, find out what Allah
has given you all the efforts you see from him, and dentist in him, then didn't make that a real
hope. But
		

			what when I see the people use the word hope in English language, my mind is really they don't know
what they mean by hope but something laziness I think I don't have one thing is just simple hope it
reminds me the story of
		

			Jehovah that once somebody gave to her
		

			yogurt in a container
		

			in in a clear container and he hanged it on the on the roof that how people used to in the past. And
yeah, that is sticking his hand and he thinks that I'll sell the yogurt then I get so much money
then from that I will buy him and then I'll get so many hence the from the inside by a sheep and the
frog sheep I get many many shifts and this and then I'll buy you know camels and horses that this
and that. Then I buy farm and this type can be ritualistic and I build a big house. Then after that
I get married and
		

			denial have no children. And if my child does not behave properly, I'll use my stick to hit him. And
when he took the stick, he hid the container. And all the yogurt fell down to his say when he said
to him that you destroyed all the yogurt, he said, not a yogurt, all my family and all my money, all
of my business, everything has gone, you know, because of this. So this is actually not this what
people think I hope that this not really hold this rule, you know, deception. So, Tavakoli is really
when people use all the ability that Allah has given them. And then the think that this effort, the
effort will not result in anything unless a law was justified.
		

			And Tawakkol is that when people don't use any ability and just surrender, something will happen.
That actually is false hope it tobacco is very dangerous for any individual or any nation. I think
it must be clear by now.
		

			Yes, handled I think that makes it very clear Japanese, I've no one. Okay, let's move on to a
question from Facebook. I think we have a question from sociopathy here. It is quite long, but we'll
try and get through it because our questions always good. Okay, inshallah. She says, Can we actually
take part of any RESNA for and to be quoted as supportive evidence supportive evidence to what we
think it fits in, for example, and she quotes verse 70, from sutra and fell? Yeah, you have never
Yoko Lehmann VAD comedian meaning us ra e Allah may Allah Who vehicle OB come hire you to come hire
me met with them income we have finlaggan Allahu la foto Rahim. And when Allah says He will give you
		

			better than what is taken from you whereby this verse continues saying and forgive you, which
indicates it must talk about a specific matter. For example, the captives in the Battle of butter.
		

			I think share high notes it's a long question. But I think if we go back to the first sentence,
maybe it makes it more clear.
		

			You know, think that the question is
		

			the Quran actually has taught people everything that they need for guidance, anything that people
need for guidance on to the deaf, glioma, it all in the Quran. And we need to understand the little
many things are mentioned in the stories. Stories are never a specific to the person with whom it
happened. In the original meaning if people do same thing, other people, they will get the same
result, to follow for their story of somebody true and honest. And then he gets success. So meaning
if you do the same, you will look at the success. If their story of slavery and Taqwa like is very
strong in the horror story, it means that if you do that over and over, you get the same result.
		

			That why the Surah Yusuf was revealed to the professor lesson before conquest in Makkah thermocol
Rama before he did his Euro, two, he could think really, that if he follows use of foodstuffs, and
the stock one server, he will be successful.
		

			So certainly when Allah says, Allah subhanaw taala said that what he gives you better than what you
take from you. So it is a contest. But you have to learn from that contest, meaning if people do
obedience, if they obey lots of Motala they don't rush for the worldly matters. They don't, you
know, don't sacrifice Allah's commands for the sake of money, rather, they prefer last two months
over the money, you know, then Allah subhanaw taala you know, give them more than what they put for
ticket because sometimes people just want quick result. Like you know, you've come to us just want
the money to Allah will say that what is going to give you too much more than that. So don't rush
		

			for that. Your intention should be to obey Him
		

			and listen to him.
		

			So people can take from the column, take full folding, full thing, don't think that think Allah,
Allah will give you more than he takes from you know, it only happens when you obey. If you obey
Allah subhanaw taala certainly, he will give you more than the part that you spent money in the path
of a lead sadaqa he's going to give you much more, you know, you spend years your time in the path
of Allah, you know, to obey Him, then He will give much more than that. You know, like the
Companions they spend so much time that Allah gave them all the treasures of Roman Empire and
Persian Empire or came to the feet. So that happened but it conditioned on obedience. And there were
		

			Quran said that, you know, awful Brd Ooby article is you have to fulfill My covenant, and I'll
fulfill your covenant, unless covenant that we must obey and the karma that he made with us, if we
obey Him, He will give us success in the hereafter answer in this world, inshallah Tada.
		

			Okay,
		

			All right, let's move on to a question from YouTube again.
		

			Is it permissible to wear an idle cozy pendant around the neck Salah and dua are prohibited in the
bathroom so what benefit is there in this practice?
		

			Yeah that people should not leave we are something like that. In my two courses beneficial when you
read understand I act upon it. But not just you hang on your neck on the wall or somewhere you know
to basically like anything Allah has made. If you use it either Allah wants you to use any benefit.
If you misuse it don't benefit to for example, the cure in honey.
		

			To when we take honey right where it amount, it really kills for many many illnesses is very
helpful. By if we buy different types of the honey from all over the world and adorn our house with
honey we put honey in a jar everywhere in the house. And we make a photo that pictures are put on
social media there are so many honey nothing will happen you know what to kill you because only
kills you when it inside you and in right amount of right time. The scenario peer Quran is the
guidance. If people learn the Quran as Quran said if you understand follow it, you get you get
America. If you understand the Quran, you get a Baraka.
		

			B if I put a different copy of the Quran all over my house, didn't know Baraka Baraka will come when
I make effort to understand the Quran and to upon it, the prophets Allah some never handwriting
Christianity, the Nick Abu Bakr Siddiq or mother Farrokh with Manali. I shall Khadija all these
women, none of them did Abu Hanifa Malik Shafi are young and humble. Even a Tamia when you look at
all these people, none of them hunger, any Crusader but they understood it, they acted upon it, they
made advocacy part of their belief and trust in Allah subhanaw taala. To that what you need to do,
really you don't need to write either because you're hanging your neck or somewhere else. This this
		

			is not going to help anything anyway, I'll tell you truth of the matter. If you put 100 times as you
could see, in your neck, nothing will happen. No single will change will happen your life what you
even understand one watt hours of course see hola hola, hola. Illa who that will change your life
that will make impact to make effort to understand Allah the worst and make effort to act upon this
to make Baraka understanding and then acting upon.
		

			Chef just to go a little bit more further. So you mentioned about people using the Koran for
decoration like I know some people they will gift even at weddings I've seen it's actually like
really very very small. Maybe compact for and sometimes the necklaces sometimes very nicely
designed, but it's kind of for like to have an propped up somewheres decoration in your house.
Sometimes it's so small is slightly impractical. Would you go as Would you go so far as to say this
would be simple for people gifting things and they're not even practical. They're just they're just
decoration.
		

			There could be good good purposes but for that particular reminder to live for Apple you put it of
course in a place and you think every time you look it reminds you if it reminds you and you make
effort to understand then yeah good reward. But if we just decoration you know nice calligraphy and
this and that in your think about that never understand. You have to use less some equity is
helpful. We don't know if we don't respect it. It could be sinful. What my what I'm trying to say is
the baraka of quranic verse or utricle See comes when people understand it out there act upon it, if
they just put somewhere you know, in the house or in the neck, it doesn't make a difference.
		

			Okay, that doesn't make sense, especially the honey analogy hunger that does. That's very, very good
example. Okay, let's see if we have a mortgage question. I know we've we've covered this quite a few
times. But this question is quite different. I don't think it's maybe been asked before
		

			I will just read it out because I can't put it on the screen. But this this is asking. I wanted to
ask if an individual has a conventional mortgage, what are the priorities paying that back? And
whether that takes precedence over other things like going on holiday or buying a car in short,
should the person take all means necessary to pay that mortgage back as quickly as possible?
		

			in Lhasa firstly understand riba you know, usually is a haram and a mortgaged River. It is no doubt
it's one of those haram you know, we have no doubt or that to motivate the the Haram insurance is
haram there's no doubt in these things being haram but something haram could be allowed, you know,
far people fall in with certain conditions. To Latin buying a house. You know, people don't have
enough means no money to buy the house.
		

			And house if
		

			Under the important need for the people so for that purpose we have allowed people to buy house on
conventional mortgage. Similarly, you know, you can't have a car unless you have insurance so we
allow people to have a car because clearly we're not unusual in modern world people need for the
family for so many reasons to this day now people should not relax really this you understanding
haram by to allow for for needy, so they should pay back as soon as possible. Now you're in all the
mortgages, then you go around all the world and pick up in the country traveling and all those
things enjoying the life, you know, you should have used that money to pay back your mortgage so
		

			that we don't like our people go hogyan humara and all those things, how did not only get the money
right not obligated on you. First thing is pay back your your debt. So that these types of the tests
they are more urgent than other Khadija ROM. So you have to pay the bank as soon as possible. You
will not get seen if you make effort to pay back. People get seen in Morgan, if they relax, they
don't care. The Addendum simple because in what LaMotta allows you for a reason need to you have to
play by it, I suppose because you are not. You don't have enough money, but you got the money still
don't pay and you're relaxed. This is not right. The people should not, you know, waste their money
		

			in other activities until they have period. They're launching bank loans properly. Unless you know,
there's something usually like some time traveling could be need. Sometimes some of that is kind of
convenient. By the No need, the priority should be to your mortgage.
		

			Okay, well, we'll try and take maybe one or two questions Sharla and then wrap up. We have a
question from John Cox. And his question is, I understand if a person's parents are non Muslim, and
they die in that state, that one is unable to make die for them. However, can someone give charity
on behalf of non Muslim parents hoping that the reward will reach them
		

			then thing is really you know, when your parents are alive, and they're not Muslims, you can benefit
them, you can give them money, they can benefit, you know, you can, you should be nice to them, you
know, use a nice word salad, don't don't hurt them, you'll get reward, you can looking after the
parent is a big big commander plus motto other people must make effort to please their parents. So,
and they also benefit from your service because, you know, they if they get money from you, it is
good for them. If they, you know, help nice and kinda was on the farm, you did make them happy. But
when they die, and they have died, certainly either unbelievers very clearly. Then whatever good you
		

			do, nothing reached them. You can't benefit them when they're alive. But once they die, you're all
good deeds, whether you do sadaqa charity for them or maybe to offer them it really helps when they
are Muslims that is Muslim,
		

			but the diagnosis to nothing can help.
		

			So my advice to you be that you know that charity you give you will know for yourself, your
children, those who are in around you Muslims, you know, you know, make intention, Allah will help
you inshallah Satara and for your parents after the death you know, you cannot do anything not even
you really nobody could have done even the Prophet Ibrahim and Islam he could not help his his his
father when he died I don't believe so nobody can help anybody.
		

			Crassula zero was rotten visit Ultra nobody will carry the burden of other people. But when the
people die the grievous Yeah. Then some help. Could it be come from related and other people?
		

			Okay, I think we will end it there in sha Allah and just make a few last. Last few announcements and
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chef will be joining us, hopefully next week in sha Allah, same time Thursday 6pm BSc in sha Allah
so somebody comes here, we'll see you next week in sha Allah.
		

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