Akram Nadwi – Weekly Q&A 26-05-2024
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The Q&A session discusses the meaning of "naught" in Islam, with a focus on serving parents and not being a woman to lead a woman in the public eye. The speakers also discuss various topics related to Islam, including the use of the right hand for good deeds, the treatment of people with severe illness, and the importance of religious leaders and actions in bringing forward religion. The segment also touches on the importance of staying focused on one's thoughts and not being distracted by others, as well as the use of "upbeat yourself" in Islam, with a focus on staying focused on one's thoughts and not being distracted by others.
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Bismillah walhamdulillah wa salatu wassalamu ala rasoolillah, assalamu
alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh everyone and welcome
back to the ASI weekly Q&A session
with Sheikh Akram Nadwi on every Thursday 6pm
BST after a brief hiatus.
So we'll continue Sheikh with the questions that
we've received, please if anyone has any questions
please post them in the comment box and
the Sheikh will answer, I will ask them
to the Sheikh who will then proceed to
answer them.
So the first question that we have Sheikh
is from Fala who asks what is a
daughter obligated to do if her parents can't
look after themselves specifically in physical activities and
because of her marriage or higher education and
she ends up living far from them, unable
to commute daily and she can't hire a
helper as well.
Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, so we have
to understand that serving the parent or looking
after the parent is actually one of the
great obligations in Islam, it's like a Ibadah,
so in the Quran after the rights of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, the most important
right is the right of the parents, people
must look after them.
When people look after their children, it could
be some selfish reason, but when people look
after their parents, that's a pure Ibadah, they
only can do for the sake of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala because they don't expect
anything from the parent in the future, they
become old so not expected and the way
the duty lies more on the sons, on
the male descendants rather than the female, but
if there are no male descendants, no son,
then the daughters they should do whatever they
can do easily because they have their own
family, their own husband and children, so whatever
time they can spare or any money or
anything they can do, but if they are
far away, you know she's far away with
her husband and with their family, it is
not necessary for her to come there, then
it could be other relatives they can take
care of, some other system, but she's not
obliged to leave the family and husband and
everybody and then come to look after the
parent, it's not her duty, but whatever she
can do easily, that she should do money
wise or serving when she is there.
JazakAllah Khairan Sheikh, the next question that we
have is Salam, can women who are knowledgeable
in Fiqh or Hadith become leaders of the
country or should they just take care of
the women's affairs more than anything else?
No, women also can teach men and they
can lead, even if they are qualified and
they have ability, they should do, in Islam
there have been women who led their nation
and their community, even the Quran mentioned a
woman who was a leader for people, so
there's no harm for a woman to lead
a people as long as she's qualified, actually
same thing for men, just being a man
does not make somebody qualified for leadership, the
people think if somebody man is qualified, no,
leadership is another quality, knowledge, piety and some
other skills, if people don't have even if
they are men, they are not qualified, so
leadership is not just being a male or
female, it is more other qualities, most important
among them is the knowledge, the piety and
the personality, there are some people actually are
very weak, so they can't lead anybody, sometimes
some women are much stronger in personality than
the men, like Aisha, she led the army,
she's a woman, and under her were the
great companions, similarly many times in the history
of Islam, there have been, once there was
a queen in India, she was the ruler
of whole India, and there were a few
women who led the state of Bhopal, one
of the Indian kingdom for a few decades,
so people can do this if they are
qualified.
Jazakallahu Khairan Sheikh, the next question is by
Ibn Muhammad, who asks, what is the meaning
of Man Kana Yuridul Izzata Falillahi Al-Izzatu
Jamee'a Ilayhi Yas'adul Kalimu At-Tayyibu
Wa Amal, As-Saleh Yarfa'uhu?
So Al-Izzat means the Ghalaba, meaning the
upper hand, the power, dignity, honour, so people
want dignity and power in this world, they
can't get actually, unless they serve Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala, because every dignity, everything is
owned by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, so
people should seek from him, and the way
it is, that people have to get Iman
first, Ilayhi Yas'adul Kalimu At-Tayyibu, the
pure Kalima, that is the Kalima of the
Iman, La ilaha illa Allah, people have to
believe in Allah, that he is Ma'bood,
no one to worship other than him, and
then after that, good deeds that people do,
that will help them, so these things elevate
people and make them to become nearer to
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, when the closeness
to Allah comes, then people get honour from
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, people don't get
respect from Allah, because they own money or
they have some position, this does not give
dignity and honour in the eye of Allah,
it only comes from the Iman and the
righteous action.
BarakAllahu feekh Sheikh, the next question is by
Fatihah, who asks, Salam ya Sheikh, what are
the wisdoms that we can learn when Allah
put this verse in the story of Dawood
and Jalood, and how can we anticipate the
impact of this lesson in the world we
live in today?
Yeah, you know, the way of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala is that he uses the
people, you know, to remove the evil of
the people, so always happened in the history
of mankind, when some people become very arrogant,
too much power, then he brings another power,
which removes this one, and they act for
a while, if they are just, they remain,
if they are unfair, then they are removed
by someone else, so Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala keeps doing, you know, bringing a new
power, removing the corrupt one, and the arrogant,
and those who, you know, create mischief and
corruption, remove them and bring a new one,
it always happens, sometimes people exceed the limit,
and there's no way that they can be,
you know, brought to justice, because, you know,
corruption is so big, and they're so arrogant,
then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala destroys them
by himself, then he does not bring any
power, so like, you know, he destroyed Pharaoh
and people like that, similarly what happened now
in the Middle East, you know, in our
time, the arrogance has reached to its highest
level, and all the arrogant power, they support
these arrogant people, so there's no way that
anybody can bring any, you know, any change,
you know, to basically exceed a limit of
the human being, so only one thing we
can expect is that, you know, Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala himself directly, you know, he
removes the wrongdoers and arrogant people, and bring
justice to them, because his ways always provide
a space for the people, so they can
breathe in, and they can worship him, so
when Zulm becomes too much, and people exceed
the limit, either he removes that by the
people, or he removes directly by himself.
The next question is by Shahriar, who asks,
I read in Surah Hijr, ayah 6, some
people are addressing the Prophet ï·º as, O
you to whom the reminder is revealed, I
want to understand why they are addressing him
like that?
You know, they're just mocker, you know, to
the Quraysh, so, you know, people who are
arrogant, so they don't think it's a reminder,
they think you claim that it's a reminder,
so, you know, they're using the same word
as the Prophet ï·º used to use, so
he said to Dhikr, reminder from Allah, they're
using the same word, just to embarrass him,
to, you know, to make mockery and fun
of him, they're laughing at him, they're not
serious.
JazakAllah Khairan Sheikh, the next question is by
Faiza, who asks, can I use my left
hand to eat or drink, even if my
right hand is perfectly fine?
Yeah, it could be allowed, but the thing
is, Allah has made Sunnah, you know, the
chosen way, is a preferred way, is the
way of the Prophets and Messengers, and the
Sunnah of the Prophets and Messengers always have
been to use the right hand for good
things, like eating, drinking, combing your hair, beautifying
yourself, to use the right hand.
Things which are used for, things which are
not so good, like cleaning yourself, ginger, for
this, you use the left hand, so that
is the Sunnah of the Prophets and Messengers,
and the Prophet ï·º always loved to eat
with the right hand, and people have so
much reward when they eat with the right
hand.
And he has mentioned, you know, that, and
once somebody said in front of him, I
can't eat with the right hand, so he
became angry, and he said, you never can
be able to eat with the right hand,
and then his hand was paralyzed, so we
should be very careful.
If somebody is able to eat with the
right hand, they must eat with the right
hand.
I don't understand why you can't eat with
the right hand, if you know there's no
disease, nothing, no problem.
Yeah, somebody's got some defect or something, they're
fine, but if your right hand is good,
then you should make an effort and intend
to eat with the right hand, and comb
your hair with the right hand, use your
right hand for every good thing.
JazakAllah Khairan Sheikh.
The next question we have is by Sufian,
who asks, Sheikh, what are your thoughts on
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad?
In my opinion, he defended the religion against
Christians, but became mentally ill at the end
of his life.
Any thoughts?
Then really, we don't know really if he's
ill or illness, but what we know from
his books, he claimed that he's a messiah,
he claimed that he's a prophet.
If this is true, then he's a liar,
then, you know, it is kafir.
But if he was mad or ill, Allah
knows the best.
But if he did intentionally, and he had
got followers, and he wrote books, the books
tell that he was not mad, he was
not mentally ill, he remained in the claim
for a long, long time, not one or
two days.
And then his followers did not say it
was mental illness or something.
So you know, people do sometimes good deeds,
but Allah can destroy good deeds by something
evil.
People do evil and then good, all good
deeds are destroyed.
Maybe he defended the religion in the beginning
against Christians, but his claim that he's a
prophet is a big lie.
You know, there's no lie worse than that.
Quran says, who is more wrongdoer than those
who in the mental lie against Allah, to
say that I'm Allah's prophet, and he did
not send you.
It is the biggest lie, because then people
will seek guidance from you.
And you don't have guidance, you are full
of error, guidance with the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wasallam.
So I don't know if this, what you
say is true.
But what I can see that, you know,
he remained on his claim for all his
life and his followers are all over the
world.
And they believe that he's a prophet.
If they believe like that, it is clearly
kufr.
But we should no doubt invite the people
to Islam, explain to them well.
So when you do dawa, be kind and
nice to the people, don't need to, you
know, give the fatwa of kufr all the
time, as people many often do.
So even people who are kafir, still we
have to be nice to them.
You call them, ya yuhannas, you know, people
and then go to Islam.
But we are not to judge here.
So if you start something like that, then
basically any kafir people can find an excuse.
Even Firaun, like in Arabic, think he's a
god.
Anybody can have an excuse.
But Allah is the one who's going to
judge.
Jazakallah Khairan Sheikh.
The next question we have also by Sufian,
who asks, was Nazir Hussain Dehlavi and Siddiq
Hassan Khan extremists?
No, they're not extremists.
You know, they are among the best ulama
in India.
Those days, they, you know, spread so much
knowledge.
They taught hadith.
You know, in that time, Nazir Hussain was
in Delhi and Siddiq Hassan Khan was in
Bhopal.
In the time of these two people, you
know, Bhopal and Delhi became centers of hadith.
And people from all over the world, not
only India, they came to Delhi and Bhopal
and studied hadith there.
All the good people, every sanad in India
goes back to these two people.
You know, Siddiq Hassan Khan, he also called
Sheikh Hussain ibn Muhsina al-Sari al-Yamani
from Yemen.
He settled in Bhopal and so many books
published and people from all over India, they
came to Hussain ibn Muhsina al-Sari al
-Yamani and they read us six books and
many other books with him and they got
a jaza from him.
So, all the sanad of Indian people, most
of them, they go back through these two
people, Nazir Hussain ibn Muhsina al-Sari al
-Yamani and Siddiq Hassan Khan and Hussain ibn
Muhsina al-Sari al-Yamani.
You know, English, British people call them extremists
because of their own interests, but Muslims don't
call them extremists.
They are, you know, moderate people on the
right path.
Ahsanullah alayka Sheikh.
The next question that we have is by
Shahir who asks, what could be the reason
for earlier scholars like Imam al-Shafi'i's
fatwa that a man doesn't have to pay
for his wife's medical treatment?
I don't know.
I don't know about this fatwa, but what
I remember is, you know, because the Quran
and hadith are not very specific in this
matter.
What we understand is, men are responsible for
all the expenses of their wives and some
people think expenses means clothes and food and,
you know, the housing is there anyway.
So, maybe this is the reason they think
that medical treatment is not included.
But I don't know if this is fatwa.
What we understand is, this basic medical treatment,
they should be done by the husband.
Sometimes, you know, people get very severe illness
which actually costs a lot of money, like
thousands or maybe more than that, which is
actually beyond the capacity of the husband.
Then maybe he's not obliged.
But sometimes more like people get fever and
some pain or something like that or delivery
of the child.
This should be taken care of by the
husband.
The next question that we have is from
Shadman who says, Salam Sheikh.
By any chance, have you read the works
of Muhir Baddin Al Khateeb?
I don't remember any book really, but I
read, I think, some maqalat or something that
he wrote.
He was one of the good writers, you
know, of the last century.
So, that I don't know much detail about
him, but what I know is he was
among the good people who defended Islam and
did a good service of Islam in the
last century.
The next question is by Khadija who asks,
my question is, does laughing aloud in prayer
invalidate wudu?
Al-fiqh al-Islami states that it does,
but other scholars say it doesn't because there
is no sahih hadith for it.
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Onto the next question.
We have a question by Fatiha Sheikh where
she asks could Sheikh elaborate about the story
of Dawood and Jalut.
Was Dawood a young adult when he killed
Jalut?
That's the narration I knew.
Yeah because Dawood was a young man.
You know he was an archer.
He was looking after sheeps.
He was a young man.
He was a very strong person and from
a very young age he was known for
his bravery and in this battle he killed
Jalut and that's how he became famous.
So then Talut married his daughter to Dawood
and in that time Dawood also became a
prophet and he succeeded Talut and he became
the king of Jewish people and in his
time Jews have such a glory which never
happened before that and then it extended to
the time of his son Suleiman.
So Dawood and Suleiman's kingdom is the best
time for Jews.
Then after Suleiman it again declined but Jews
are people really.
They never grateful to Allah and they're always
mean.
So what happens is whenever they do something
whenever Allah gives favor to them they become
arrogant and they become very mean.
So very quickly Allah takes away the favor
from them.
Other nations favor remain with them for many
many centuries.
Like you see in Islam there are Ottoman
Empire which lasted so many hundred years and
even before the Roman Empire lasted so many
hundred years but Jews hardly had any kingdom
for more than 70-80 years.
Every time they get they become arrogant, create
corruption in the world, mischief you know and
they disobey Allah and they don't care about
any life or kill people and you know
they misuse power so much that Allah deprived
them of the power very quickly.
So like this kingdom that they've got now
it is just 70-80 years old and
see how much corruption they have done already.
The next question we have is by Faraz
who asks, Can you suggest some practical ways
to improve focus in Salah?
You know there's a way is basically just
make effort you know see what you're doing
you know when you stand thinking you're standing
in front of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
when you do Hukoo you think you're bound
to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala same thing
Sajda you know and when you read Tasbeeh
think what you're saying when inshallah look at
think about the meaning when you read the
Quran you know understand it and when you're
behind the Imam at least you know be
humble and calm down focus yourself and then
when your attention goes somewhere else bring it
back.
So if you make effort Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala will reward you and one day
inshallah you can get more concentration but the
way is to keep making effort.
The next question by Fatiha again is she's
asking and also what kind of Hikmah was
granted to Dawood as mentioned in the verse
Yeah so Mulk is the kingdom and Hikmah
is you know the ability to you know
to judge rightly and justly so you know
so Hikmah basically is all those things which
are based on the sound nature and sound
reason.
If people make any judgment or any action
which is based on the sound reasoning and
sound nature that is called a Hikmah.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives to
special people even people who are not prophet
like Luqman a.s people say not a
prophet but he got Hikmah.
So Hikmah is something which could be given
even to the people who are not prophet
but if people are prophet you know certainly
they get you know most portions of the
Hikmah.
So all the prophets have a Hikmah in
Ibrahim a.s and Musa and Isa and
the prophet Muhammad s.a.w also he
got a Hikmah in the Quran mentioned his
Hikmah and when Ibrahim a.s made Dua
he said new prophet when he comes he
teaches people the rulings and the Hikmah behind
it.
So Hikmah is you know all the wisdom
which is based on the sound nature and
sound reasoning.
The next question we have is by Faizan
who asks how do we beat Waswas?
Yeah just force yourself away to whenever any
wrong thought come just move it push it
away don't think about that that way about
or take your mind some force your mind
to something else start thinking about Allah's favor
or something else you know Allah's power Allah's
mercy think about paradise think about the Quran
think about the prophet s.a.w life
you know force yourself for out of that
once you do you know for a while
then the Waswas whispering will go.
I had myself you know when I was
young is 200 but that is the way
so it remains six months or something but
I force myself out and finish and now
it never comes Alhamdulillah many many people the
way is only this whenever Waswas comes don't
look at it don't think remove it away
how you remove by think because the mind
is can do only one thing at a
time so when your mind is occupied by
Waswas and you keep thinking more and more
it becomes dominated by Waswas but if you
push it away and start thinking something else
then Waswas will go and finish so but
in the beginning it is not easy it's
very hard and the way is always to
force yourself.
BarakAllahu feekh shaykh the next question we got
is a private question so I'll read it
out for you shaykh the question is we
have lots of hadith that encourage Muslims to
look different from the disbelievers the colors of
the clothes the style of the beard the
color of hair but we also have hadith
that mentioned that from far Aisha couldn't differentiate
between the prophet and Abu Jahl meaning he
looked and dressed like him so how do
we reconcile this and how important is it
for Muslims to be identifiable as Muslims in
their community yeah you know when Muslims actually
not necessarily need to be different from unbelievers
in appearance they should be different from unbelievers
in the belief and action so everybody can
know the piety fear of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala the prayer so when you see
you know he's a Muslim adhan they say
all those things when people get you know
Muslim society then we need more you know
distinction because we need to know who we
say salam who we invite so the Muslims
should have you know their way very clear
to the people anybody who sees in the
street he knows that you are Muslim that
was the meaning otherwise the real thing is
that Muslims should be distinguished by other people
you know by their iman and islam the
prophet did not make any distinction to same
people though actually with the hadith that you
say the prophet saw the prophet she did
not distinguish so this is not right i
don't think Aisha ever said something like that
uh that you know she did not distinguish
between Abu Jahl and the prophet it could
be some misunderstanding but anyway the prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam and Abu Jahl and Abu
Lahab these people had same clothes same language
same food but when he came to Medina
he liked that Muslims should be more clear
so he can be treat them Muslims can
treat each other differently like the way of
salam you know could be different uh you
know something like that when people wear the
trousers you know it should be uh above
the ankles uh so something like that but
it does not mean that colors i don't
think the hadith about the colors of the
of the clothes and the difference that people
make these days is unnecessary there is no
no no proof for that generally believers and
believers they used to have same dress same
same food everything same but the actions are
iman used to be different barakallahu feek sheikh
i believe we've answered all the questions in
the comment box so i think we can
conclude here jazakallahu khairan sheikh for your time
jazakallahu khairan for the audience for tuning in
and inshallah we'll be back with the q
and a next week 6 p.m bst
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