Ali Ataie – Losing My Religion How to Grapple Postmodernism

Ali Ataie
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The speakers emphasize the importance of understanding the principles of the post historic culture and the use of transactional sex, "will" in media coverage, and the concept of "will" in media coverage. They advise parents to be compassionate towards children and to pass on advice to children, and to be mindful of their own potential. The speakers stress the importance of remaining within Islam and maintaining a degree of compassion towards people, and advise parents to be learned in various disciplines and have a strong foundation before entering a public university.
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Our topic today is Losing Their Religion, The

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Cause and The Cure for Apostasy

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Renta

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in Western Academy,

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from Western Universities.

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My presentation is

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going to be very direct, very honest.

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I don't pull any punches. I don't beat

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around the bush. I'm a pretty straight shooter.

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Whatever else cliche you want to use.

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I'm going to tell you straight up what

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I think is happening

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in these colleges and universities

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and what our responses and our defenses,

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should be.

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Also

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I would say that,

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if you're 13

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or younger,

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this lecture may not be appropriate for you.

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It's,

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this doesn't work.

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We have to go through the obligatory microphone

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problem.

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The lecture

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is

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the lecture is, rated PG 13. So,

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parental discretion is advised.

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Alright.

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Again,

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I want to begin by reiterating

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some of the things I said in a

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quipa about a month ago here at MCC

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to, set the table as it were metaphysically.

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I'm new with technology, so if I do

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something wrong, if I forget to switch a

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slide or something, please let me know.

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I'm kind of a techno peasant.

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But we need to grasp our own metaphysics.

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So even Ajeeba, who was a great metaphysician

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in our tradition,

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he said that every name

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and title of Allah

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has three aspects that relate to his creation.

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And Imam al Azadiq says something similar. He

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has different terminology.

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But the terminology of the Banaji, but he

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calls them taalbuq, tahadbuq, and ta habuq.

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You can translate these something like association,

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appropriation,

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or assimilation,

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and actualization.

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So for example, he says, in his book

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on the commentary of the 99 names of

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Allah

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he says one of the names or titles

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of Allah is Al Melek, is the king,

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that how does this name associate

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with us. Well, it's simply a,

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recognition that Allah

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is the king and we are subjects and

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that's it. Right? It's it's being cognizant of

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that fact

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To,

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be resigned to that fact. You might say,

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well, that's

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axiomatic. That's just self evident.

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That's just a clear and distinct idea as

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Descartes might say. But you'll be surprised how

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many people don't,

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don't are not resigned to that. What we

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would consider to be a self evident truth.

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So it's tagl. And then, taglado,

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appropriation or assimilation.

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So,

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how do we assimilate

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as it were this name of Allah

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at our level?

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Well, just as Allah

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is the king of everything,

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we also must be kings of our subjects.

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Right?

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So what are our subjects?

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Our faculties,

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our limbs.

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Right? Imam al Fazali uses the analogy in

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the

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ajatil Qal, the marvels of the heart, the

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wonders of the heart,

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uses the analogy of the heart,

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being

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the castle in the kingdom and there are

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certain inroads,

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to the heart that destroy the heart.

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For example, the eyes, the ears, the tongue,

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the stomach, the *, the hand and the

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feet, these must be protected.

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These are our subjects.

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And then tahaku is actually to master

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the self. Right? And to truly actualize

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being the king

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of our subjects.

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So this is the end or the purpose

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or the telos,

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of the human being on this earth is

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to mirror the divine names and attributes

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according to our metaphysicians.

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There's a tradition, there's weakness in it, but

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true in its meaning,

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adorn yourselves with the character of Allah

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as the prophet

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did.

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In the Quran,

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Allah describes the prophet

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These are 2 divine names, but there are

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no definite articles.

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The prophet

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is, as it were, a mirror of the

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divine attributes at a human level. Whereas Allah

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for example, is Arashman.

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He is the infinitely

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merciful, the indiscriminately

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compassionate, the all loving in an absolute

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sense.

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We should be people of rahma. We cannot

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be all rahma, but we are people of

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rahma.

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Right? We mirror this divine attribute because this

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is an attribute of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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So this is true in all Abrahamic religions.

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Whether it's, you know, talking about Fazali in

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Islam or Aquinas in Catholicism

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or Maimonides

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in Judaism,

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this is called a teleological

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metaphysic,

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an end or goal oriented

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metaphysic.

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Now our metaphysicians identify

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4 causes of the creation of the human

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being.

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There are 4 causes of the creation of

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the human being. The efficient cause, which is

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the

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direct force of production,

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and that is Allah

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He is al Fa'il,

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as Imam al Ghazali calls him. He is

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a totally free agent.

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His absolute volition

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within his nature to do what he wants.

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In Arabic, this is called, the

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efficient cause.

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Then you have the material cost,

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which is the stuff or the material from

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which something is produced.

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Right? So Aquinas calls this prime matter,

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materia prima.

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What is the stuff

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from which,

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creation is produced?

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Well, it's nothing.

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According to the Abrahamic

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theological positions, creation is is

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it is from nothing.

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So there is no material cause

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of creation.

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Right? That the angel tells that this

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is easy for Allah

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He created it before when you were nothing,

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you were not one thing.

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How do I take this out? Okay. So,

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modern science

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or Newtonian physics

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stops here.

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They only recognize

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efficient and material causes.

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So everything is just matter and motion.

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It is a purely mechanistic or materialistic

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conception of existence.

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But our scholars, they continue, they recognize a

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third cause, which is called formal cause.

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And this deals with the essence of that

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which is produced.

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What is it essentially?

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Right? It's Mahia in Arabic. It's quiddity.

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It's what ness.

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Right? So for example, if we use the

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analogy of a Aristotle uses analogy, the statue.

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Let's use the analogy of a statue. The

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efficient cause

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of a statue

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is the sculptor

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the efficient cause, the force of production, or

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you can say sculpting.

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What is the material cause

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of the statue? Well, marble, let's say, as

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opposed to wood.

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What would be the formal cause of the

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statue? What is it? What is it essentially?

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Well, it's the figure of a human being,

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for example, that's the

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apotheosis

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of George Washington,

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which is a statue in Washington DC.

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So what is the formal cause of the

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human being according to our meta physicians? It

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is it is the khalifa,

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the viceroy,

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the representative

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of Allah

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in the earth.

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Now modern philosophers

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tend to be nominalistic.

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You see that term up there? Nominalism?

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In other words, they deny universal.

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They deny essential natures.

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They deny human nature.

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So there's no fitra

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to tap into according to that. There's no

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innate disposition.

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There is no a priori knowledge.

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In other words, there is no knowledge without

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experience.

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And experience according to them is solely through

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the senses.

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This is also called empiricism.

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That nothing else informs the intellect other than

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the senses, and you have experience,

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and you have memory. So there's nothing innate

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within us.

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Right? So like John Locke, he called it

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he called our minds a tabula rasa,

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a clean slate.

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Nothing innate.

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Right? And this is in in contrast to

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someone like Plato, who's a realist, who said

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that we're actually born

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with all of the knowledge of the forms

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or the essences of things within us. And

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we have to use dialectic to draw those

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meanings out. Those meanings are true.

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They're real. We'll talk more about this idea

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of dialectic inshallah.

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But the position of the nominalist is that

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there is no axiomatic,

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no self evident,

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no irresistible

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truths to recognize.

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So one of the names of the Quran

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is adhikr.

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It is a reminder.

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What is that imply?

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When we are reminded

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of truths in the in the Quran,

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we find that irresistible

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and we embrace them because they tap into

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our fitra, our human nature. They are irresistible.

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Unless the fitra has been damaged, and there's

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a difference of opinion about this, but somebody

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heard him say that our human nature can

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actually be changed and damaged through socialization.

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Right? So

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they call to that which is Ma'av. And

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Ma'av literally means that which is known.

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Right? It's a it's a passive parsable.

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Means to re recognize.

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Recognition.

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You recognize something you already do.

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Quran is in Dhikr.

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Right? These are axiomatic

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self evident

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truths.

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Like Thomas Jefferson, he says, the preamble to

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the Declaration of Independence, he says that,

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we hold these truths to be self evident

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that all men are created equal

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and they are endowed by their creator with

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certain inalienable rights,

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namely life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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So according to, to Thomas Jefferson,

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when the human intellect comes into contact with

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these ideas, equality of humanity,

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life, liberty, like freedom, the pursuit of happiness,

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they are irresistible.

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As long as a person's fitra has not

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been damaged, they will immediately gravitate and embrace

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these ideas.

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Okay.

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However, nominalists, they reject

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human nature. Right? And this leads to a

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denial then of objective morality.

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So everything then is subjective.

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Everything becomes a social construct.

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Right? Morality is as they say, then what

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else did we get wrong?

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Right? The very foundations, that which is axiomatic

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have been shaken.

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Everything is questioned.

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So this has further led to a neutering

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or distrust of human intellect itself.

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A neutering of human reason.

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So that reason cannot be trusted. So then

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finally, the logical conclusion is a philosophy known

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as volunteerism.

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A philosophy which gives primacy to the will

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over the intellect,

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whereas Nietzsche said, the will to power.

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Right?

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The will, from our perspective,

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should never exceed

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the jurisdiction of the intellect.

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The purpose of the intellect, the atl, is

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to keep the will, the desire in check.

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Even the word atl in Arabic, one the

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the etymological meaning

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is to is to limit or hobble something.

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Remember the the

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the famous hadith

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of the the Bedouin who came into the

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Masjid, his camel was outside running around the

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prophet he said, whose camel is this? The

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Bedouin said, that's my camel.

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I trust Allah He

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said,

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hobble her first. Tie her down.

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Right? We're ata related to this. The ata

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is supposed to keep our will in check.

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But if you don't trust the intellect,

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then the will runs crazy

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like a candle that bolts away from you.

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So,

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I mean, stoic philosophers would also say,

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that the purpose of the intellect is to

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keep the emotions

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in check as well. People who are highly

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emotive tend to be less rational.

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So then, the principle becomes, do what you

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want,

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not what is right,

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because we can't know what is right.

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We can't trust the intellect.

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So the worship of the nafs, this is

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inevitable. Worship of the Hawa, of desires, of

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appetites, of the will. You see you see

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the Quran wants us to think about things.

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There's a type of sentence in the Quran

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called the Jumbla istikhamiyah.

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Right? An interrogative sentence, which is a type

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of,

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Jumlah in sharia, effective sentence according to the

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nomenclature of of English grammar.

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This is what Allah

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will ask us a question,

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because we're supposed to think about the answer.

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Do they not look at the camels, how

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they're created?

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In another ayah, where are you going? Look

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at your life. Where do you think you're

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going?

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Stop and do a self audit.

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Have you seen the one who takes as

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his god his will, his desire,

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his passions,

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his caprice.

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Right? This is the most common type of

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idolatry.

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Worship of the self,

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egolatry,

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selfism.

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We'll talk more about this inshallah.

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The intellect is neutered, the will takes primacy.

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So this happens when you deny a formal

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cause.

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There's no essential nature.

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We affirm a formal cause. Liquidity

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of madness. What is it? And then there's

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the final cause.

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Why is it?

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Why is it? It's purpose. It's talas.

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Right? So if we go back to the

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analogy of statue,

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what is the final cause of that statue?

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It is to adorn a museum.

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The Smithsomnia in this case, if we're talking

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again about the apotheosis

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of George Washington.

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So the purpose of the creation of the

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insan, in other words, our final cause, is

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given in the Quran itself.

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Atfariyah,

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Surah 51, Ayah 56.

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Allah

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says this in the first person singular,

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which is very rare in the Quran for

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to speak in the

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first person singular, usually he's in the plural,

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and then he gives an affirmation after a

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negation.

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Very strong statement rhetorically in Arabic. I did

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not create the jinn and hints except to

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worship me.

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And of course, we're, of course,

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familiar with

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the, opinion of Ibn Abbas. This is mentioned

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by Imam al Bawawi in his tafsir.

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Ibn

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Abbas, he said that

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is understood as

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That in order to worship me is understood

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as in order to know me, have intimate

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knowledge of me because he argues that true

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worship of Allah

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is predicated or excellent worship of Allah

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is predicated upon

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deep intimate knowledge of Allah

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And if you had intimate knowledge of Allah

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Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, then you wouldn't necessarily

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love Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. But how do

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we know Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala? As we

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said, by associating,

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appropriating,

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and finally actualizing

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the divine names and attributes to truly be

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representatives,

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of Allah upon

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the earth. To have here at Isom,

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a firm grip of the Kitab of Allah

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to have itiba,

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which is adherence through imitation,

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adherence through mimesis,

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imitating the prophet

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So,

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Allah says in the Quran, surah number 3,

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I under 31.

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Ayatulintihan.

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Say, if you really love Allah, then follow

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me. You're biblical law. Then Allah will love

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you. So the final cause according to our

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tradition is wilayah,

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To love God and to be loved by

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God.

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This is the final cause of the creation

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of the human being. The final cause of

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the creation of the human being

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as it relates to this existence, to this

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earth.

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Okay. All of that was introduction.

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I'm gonna take a a breath

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and drink.

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Okay. So this is our metaphysic.

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It recognizes human nature.

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Human nature is unique.

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It's dignified,

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and it is goal or end oriented.

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By contrast,

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the dominant epistemology

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today in Western Academy,

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specifically

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American Colleges and Universities,

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is known broadly as post modernism.

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Post modernism includes various philosophical

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movements such as critical theory,

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everything is challenged,

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especially religious tradition.

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Deconstructionism,

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which is the literary method of of post

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modernism.

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We'll talk about what that is.

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Post structuralism,

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which seeks to end hierarchical

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structures.

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About that.

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And of course of course, Neo Marxism,

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a political ideology.

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This is really our challenge, postmodernism.

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We need to understand what it is,

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how to deal with it,

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or else this pandemic of ridda, of apostasy

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will continue

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and continue.

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In contrast to pre modernism

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and modernism,

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post modernism

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is a revolt against faith and reason,

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against religion and rationality.

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First of all, a quick book recommendation. A

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book that I greatly benefited from is this

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book here. It's called Explaining Post Modernism. You

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can take a look at it after.

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Explaining Post Modernism, Skepticism and Socialism

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from Rousseau de Foucault

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by Stephen Hicks, who's at Rockford University, Illinois.

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It's a brilliant book that not only deals

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with,

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the philosophy of postmodernism,

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but its historical development

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and political underpinnings as well.

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I've been through 10 years of graduate school

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in the Bay area.

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I'm a professor in a very academically rich

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environment at Berkeley,

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so I interact with undergrad and grad students

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all the time.

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So I have a bit of experience with,

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the academic culture,

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really the monoculture,

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if you will, of modern universities

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and its detrimental effects upon religiously

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confessional

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students,

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whether they're Muslim,

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Christian,

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or Jewish.

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This is an Abrahamic crisis.

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It is an Abrahamic crisis.

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Postmodernism

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is everywhere in the academy,

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really since 19 nineties.

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If you ever attended a public university,

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it doesn't matter if you were an English

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major or a History major or a Chemistry

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major, or a Math major.

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You have been suddenly indoctrinated

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by professors espousing

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post modernist

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theories and ideas.

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There is really no way around it. It

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is an all pervasive monoculture.

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These ideas, in my opinion,

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are nothing short of satanic,

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albeit

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implicitly satanic.

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And thus absolutely poisonous

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to religious traditionalists

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in the academy.

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This is what the shaytan does.

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So we need to understand the modus operandi,

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the MO of the shaitan.

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It calls through infidelity,

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quoted in the Quran.

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As shaitan says to the human being,

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disbelief.

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So apostasy,

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ridda, which is spreading in academia,

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like butter on toast,

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is usually commensurate

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with a with a satanic presence.

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Apostasy and Satanism

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go hand in hand.

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And when you hear about Satan,

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don't be dismissive,

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don't roll your eyes and disdain and ridicule.

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About a minute ago, when I first mentioned

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satanic,

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I actually noticed in this room, people kind

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of

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smiling,

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rolling their eyes.

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This is a greatly important matter

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if we're believers.

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In the Quran, Allah

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he he refers to the prophet Muhammad

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as Usmatun Hasanani,

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one time in the Quran.

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A beautiful

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example.

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Allah mentions

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Al Islam, the name of our king, 8

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times in the Quran.

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Yet Allah

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refers to the shaitan

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as

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at least 15 times

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in the Quran.

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A clear,

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open,

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unambiguous

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enemy. Just look at the concordance.

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We need to take satan

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seriously.

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Allah

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does not mince his words.

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He is direct. He is straightforward.

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There is a reason for this repetition.

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There's an old saying from a popular movie.

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It says,

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the greatest trick the devil ever pulled

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was convincing the world that he didn't exist.

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Even a lot of Muslims, you know, if

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you say, for example, you know, don't go

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out at night, you know, the demonic presence

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is very active or if you say protect

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yourself with Wugu,

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with Avkah, with Awra, they say, really? This

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day, age?

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One of my favorite sayings, is actually

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from Paul in the New Testament.

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Go figure.

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Ephesians.

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Very interesting. He says, our battle

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is not against flesh and blood, but rather

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with principalities

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of darkness

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in the world

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and against spiritual wickedness in high places.

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End quote. I agree.

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Ours is a spiritual battle against dark forces.

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So we need to be spiritually powerful, intellectually

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formidable.

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Now, explicit satanism,

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in theory and practice, is very much alive

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in the world today,

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whether in the form of Cralian

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black magic, which is called Goisha, which is

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literally conjuring of demons,

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also known as Saleima. Saleima in Greek means

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will,

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w I l l.

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Right? Because there's credo. It's do what you

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will.

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Again,

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intimating the primacy of the will over the

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intellect.

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You also have something called Latvian

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Satanism,

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also known as selfism or egolatry. I referred

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to that earlier, also known as the Church

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of Satan,

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which is essentially taking your Hawassa

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referred to as being Dionysian.

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Right?

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In contrast to being Apollonian.

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Being Apollonian, after Apollo,

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means to give

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reason, prime as reason is your guide. To

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be Dionysian

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means to let your desires be your god.

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After the Greek god, Dionysus,

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the son of Zeus, who was born from

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his father's thigh near his crotch,

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thus he's the wine he's the god of

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wine, entertainment, pleasure, frivolity,

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self indulgence.

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Right?

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So freedom from religious law

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and absolute self determinism

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are the dual principles

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of satanists.

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Freedom from religious law and

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absolute self determinism.

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This idea, I don't need God

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and I can do whatever I want.

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Or as Elsa sang

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in the popular Disney movie,

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Frozen,

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no right, no wrong, no rules for me.

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I am free.

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So if Satan is our enemy and we

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wish to do battle against him,

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then we need to know our enemy, his

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ways, his mentality, his philosophy, his tools, his

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minions. How can you make spiritual warfare against

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an enemy if you're ignorant of that enemy?

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Know your enemy.

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It was advised then, Khungfu Tzu, also known

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as Confucius,

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the greatest of the Axial Age, sages of

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the the Iron Age.

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He said, and I love this quote from

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him. Tradition symbolizes us.

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Education

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perfects us.

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There's incredible profundity in that statement.

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In other words, we must look to our

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past,

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our golden age,

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and determine which principles

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and virtues

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led to such human flourishing.

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Captured the zeitgeist of that age. This is

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not to, you know, foolishly romanticize

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the past. That's not the goal here.

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There's certainly aspects of pre modernism that we

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want to avoid.

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No. We're talking about

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virtues

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that led to intellectual

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and moral flourishing.

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Not type of a cultural or political aspect.

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We need to identify those virtues

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and then

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every single device of education

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should be utilized

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to inculcate those virtues

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within our within our children in the present

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age.

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So our pedagogical

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methods

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must rely on tried and tested

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tradition. The word pedagogy in Greek comes from

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pais, meaning child,

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and agro, which means to lead. To lead

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a child. Right? We say tariyyah

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in Arabic.

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Right?

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Means to guide someone in stages.

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Right? Allah

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is He's

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the one that takes care of us in

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stages.

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Your parents are a type of arba,

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a type of,

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of lower to lower case l.

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Right? So we say the du'a that Allah

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taught us in the Quran, have mercy on

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these have mercy on

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them as they raised me up in childbirth.

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So tarbiyah is very important.

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This is why hadith of Rahma, which I

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have here on the slide in English,

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the hadith of compassion for Mustaq Ahmad is

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the first hadith that Muslim children learn

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according to traditional Islamic curriculum.

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Rahma is the greatest witch.

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Underline the word compassion.

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The most compassionate shows compassion to those who

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show compassion

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show compassion to those on Earth, and the

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one in heaven will show you compassion. Compassion,

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compassion, compassion,

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compassion, compassion. This was chosen by our ulama

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because they want to drill into the mind

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of the child.

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Compassion is indeed the greatest,

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virtue.

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So the ulama, they look back at the

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prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, it was a

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paradigm of virtue.

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He said, ana nabeur Rahma,

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I am the prophet of mercy.

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I am a gift of mercy. They look

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back at the Quran.

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These

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ayaats.

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However, in contrast to this Confucian deliberate tradition,

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as it is called, deliberate tradition.

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Traditional value systems,

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in general,

00:29:20 --> 00:29:23

are perceived as the enemies of humanity

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by post modernists.

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Traditional value systems

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are inherently

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oppressive, they claim,

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Because they are hierarchical

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and patriarchal.

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So we have to get into these terms.

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These are the buzz words.

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Right? We have to understand the nomenclature

00:29:42 --> 00:29:45

of the postmodernists. They love these two words,

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especially the Ba ri.

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I imagine postmodernists

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rewording that profound Confucian aphorism to say, tradition

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oppresses us,

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and education

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should

00:29:58 --> 00:29:59

politicize

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us.

00:30:01 --> 00:30:02

Because postmodernism

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and politics are inextricable,

00:30:05 --> 00:30:06

cannot be separated.

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I'll come back to this idea.

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This postmodern revolt against tradition tradition

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has now actually infected our popular films.

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So hypocritical

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Hollywood,

00:30:20 --> 00:30:22

you know, sometimes called Hellywood,

00:30:23 --> 00:30:24

hella weird,

00:30:25 --> 00:30:29

with its putrid and shameless culture of transactional

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*,

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prostitution,

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self aggrandizement,

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holds in its hand one of the most

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powerful tools

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by which to indoctrinate

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masses of human beings.

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When you just think about the popularity

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of the Star Wars franchise,

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Tens of millions of people,

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over the last 40 years

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are obsessed with Star Wars.

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But ever since Disney

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has taken over

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in 2012,

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Star Wars has noticeably changed its tone.

00:31:01 --> 00:31:02

For example,

00:31:03 --> 00:31:04

in The Last Jedi,

00:31:05 --> 00:31:06

Kylo Ren says to Rey,

00:31:07 --> 00:31:08

both millennials,

00:31:09 --> 00:31:12

we would call them, quote, let the past

00:31:12 --> 00:31:12

die.

00:31:13 --> 00:31:15

Kill it, if you have to.

00:31:17 --> 00:31:18

That is quintessentially

00:31:18 --> 00:31:19

postmodernism.

00:31:21 --> 00:31:22

Now, when I say that postmodernism

00:31:22 --> 00:31:24

is poisonous to religious traditionalism

00:31:25 --> 00:31:26

in colleges and universities,

00:31:27 --> 00:31:31

again, I'm referring to Judeo Christian Islamic

00:31:31 --> 00:31:32

tradition.

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The Abrahamic faith tradition.

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Okay.

00:31:38 --> 00:31:38

Abraham

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is pronounced Abraham

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in Hebrew.

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It literally means father of many nations.

00:31:45 --> 00:31:46

Right?

00:31:47 --> 00:31:49

Ab Abub means father.

00:31:50 --> 00:31:52

The word for father in Greek and Latin

00:31:52 --> 00:31:52

is Ateil.

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Abraham is the patriarch

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of our religion.

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Right? It is the tradition

00:32:02 --> 00:32:06

of the pig, your patriarch, your father, Abraham.

00:32:07 --> 00:32:10

Isa alaihis salam is quoted to have said

00:32:10 --> 00:32:11

a New Testament in Greek,

00:32:16 --> 00:32:18

He says to the Pharisees, if you were

00:32:18 --> 00:32:20

truly Abraham's children, you would do the works

00:32:20 --> 00:32:21

of Abraham.

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So when you hear post modernist professors

00:32:25 --> 00:32:27

of the social sciences

00:32:27 --> 00:32:29

rage against the oppression,

00:32:30 --> 00:32:30

tyranny

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and eventual

00:32:33 --> 00:32:33

overthrow

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of the patriarchy,

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the rule of the father,

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now you know who they're talking about.

00:32:42 --> 00:32:42

Abraham,

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Ibrahim

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who was called the friend of God

00:32:47 --> 00:32:48

in the Tanakh,

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the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and in the

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Quran.

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Aleister Crowley, who's the famous Satanist,

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he said, and he said this in the

00:32:56 --> 00:32:58

early 20th century,

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he said, we are moving away from the

00:33:00 --> 00:33:02

age of the patriarch

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and into the age of Horus,

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as he called it. The age of the

00:33:07 --> 00:33:07

child.

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Horus is the son of Osiris

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and Isis,

00:33:12 --> 00:33:13

the age of rebellion,

00:33:13 --> 00:33:14

irresponsibility,

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and hedonistic

00:33:16 --> 00:33:17

self indulgence.

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An age of

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when a girl will give birth to her

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master.

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The age of extended adolescence.

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The age of the phenomenon of the 40

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year old man child

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or woman child.

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What's known technically

00:33:36 --> 00:33:37

as paraphilic

00:33:37 --> 00:33:38

infantilism.

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Check this out. There's actually an entire subculture

00:33:43 --> 00:33:44

of adults

00:33:45 --> 00:33:47

who choose to live as children.

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This is also called

00:33:50 --> 00:33:51

age play.

00:33:52 --> 00:33:53

Most famous example,

00:33:54 --> 00:33:56

a 52 year old man recently in Canada

00:33:56 --> 00:33:57

with 7 kids

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decided to leave his wife and children

00:34:01 --> 00:34:03

to live as a 6 year old girl.

00:34:04 --> 00:34:05

He has pigtails,

00:34:06 --> 00:34:07

and he wears dresses.

00:34:09 --> 00:34:09

Right?

00:34:12 --> 00:34:14

This is what's happening.

00:34:15 --> 00:34:17

You also have an entire subculture of adults

00:34:17 --> 00:34:18

living as dogs.

00:34:19 --> 00:34:20

It's called pup play.

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And what a surprise, the vast majority are

00:34:23 --> 00:34:24

homosexual men,

00:34:26 --> 00:34:27

smelling each other with the kinds.

00:34:28 --> 00:34:30

I try not to use the word gay.

00:34:30 --> 00:34:32

I don't allow people to pressure me

00:34:33 --> 00:34:34

into using politically

00:34:34 --> 00:34:35

correct language

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unless I want to.

00:34:38 --> 00:34:39

Gay has a good meaning.

00:34:40 --> 00:34:42

I will not equate it with sexual perversion.

00:34:44 --> 00:34:46

The word gay is found in iconic Christmas

00:34:46 --> 00:34:47

songs.

00:34:47 --> 00:34:49

Dech le ho.

00:34:49 --> 00:34:51

John, we now are gay apparel.

00:34:51 --> 00:34:53

When I was a kid, we watched reruns

00:34:53 --> 00:34:54

of the Flintstones.

00:34:55 --> 00:34:57

Right? We'll have the gay old times.

00:34:58 --> 00:35:00

Christmas and children have nothing to do with

00:35:00 --> 00:35:00

*.

00:35:01 --> 00:35:03

I will not associate the 2.

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So this is an age of shamelessness,

00:35:06 --> 00:35:08

of doing what thou wilt, which is, of

00:35:08 --> 00:35:11

course, again, the credo of Proloan Satanists.

00:35:12 --> 00:35:15

Interesting is the hadith narbaheena bimal Nawawi, the

00:35:15 --> 00:35:15

prophet

00:35:16 --> 00:35:18

says, I'm going to tell you something that

00:35:18 --> 00:35:19

every prophet told his people.

00:35:23 --> 00:35:24

And if you have no shame,

00:35:25 --> 00:35:26

then do what thou wilt.

00:35:27 --> 00:35:29

Right? So it's not okay, I don't have

00:35:29 --> 00:35:31

any shame on you. No. The point is

00:35:31 --> 00:35:32

you have to have shame.

00:35:33 --> 00:35:35

You can't do what thou wilt.

00:35:36 --> 00:35:37

Them. Now with that said,

00:35:38 --> 00:35:38

imagine

00:35:39 --> 00:35:42

an 18 year old or aunt who shook

00:35:42 --> 00:35:43

out the beaten students

00:35:43 --> 00:35:45

entering into these institutions.

00:35:47 --> 00:35:49

Institutions that have literally declared

00:35:49 --> 00:35:50

ideological

00:35:50 --> 00:35:52

warfare on Abrahamic morality.

00:35:53 --> 00:35:55

What do you expect will happen to his

00:35:55 --> 00:35:57

fate if he is not prepared for the

00:35:57 --> 00:35:58

intellectual battlefield?

00:35:59 --> 00:36:00

To be ripped apart,

00:36:01 --> 00:36:03

chewed up and spit out.

00:36:05 --> 00:36:07

Let's talk more specifically about postmodernism.

00:36:08 --> 00:36:11

Let's unpack the ideology a bit more.

00:36:15 --> 00:36:18

Now chances are you've come across names like

00:36:18 --> 00:36:19

Michel Foucault,

00:36:20 --> 00:36:21

Jacques Derrida,

00:36:22 --> 00:36:23

John Francois Lyotard,

00:36:24 --> 00:36:27

Stanley Fish, Richard Worthey,

00:36:27 --> 00:36:28

Frank Lentrichtia,

00:36:29 --> 00:36:30

Andrea Wharton.

00:36:31 --> 00:36:34

Their names are not familiar. Their ideas will

00:36:34 --> 00:36:36

be, certainly. They are the major players.

00:36:38 --> 00:36:39

Point number 1 about postmodernism.

00:36:40 --> 00:36:41

Postmodernism

00:36:41 --> 00:36:42

rejects

00:36:42 --> 00:36:44

ultimate or absolute truth.

00:36:45 --> 00:36:48

There is no ultimate or absolute truth, they

00:36:48 --> 00:36:49

say.

00:36:50 --> 00:36:52

You have to find your own subjective

00:36:52 --> 00:36:53

truths.

00:36:54 --> 00:36:56

Plural with a lower case t.

00:36:57 --> 00:37:00

Live your truth, as Oprah says.

00:37:01 --> 00:37:02

There is no,

00:37:03 --> 00:37:04

true self

00:37:05 --> 00:37:07

in God's image to be actualized

00:37:08 --> 00:37:10

by disciplining your desires.

00:37:11 --> 00:37:13

As I mentioned earlier, tahluk and tahakuq,

00:37:14 --> 00:37:16

You must invent your true self.

00:37:17 --> 00:37:18

Self invention

00:37:19 --> 00:37:21

by engaging your desires.

00:37:24 --> 00:37:25

I saw another movie

00:37:25 --> 00:37:27

about a month ago called Adventures. It was

00:37:27 --> 00:37:28

a commercial

00:37:28 --> 00:37:31

before the movie that caught my eye.

00:37:31 --> 00:37:34

The 32nd commercial, you have this young woman,

00:37:34 --> 00:37:35

millennials, who has a t shirt with a

00:37:35 --> 00:37:38

rainbow on it, homosexual advocate.

00:37:39 --> 00:37:42

And these are direct quotes. She says, look,

00:37:42 --> 00:37:44

here's the thing about diet Coke.

00:37:45 --> 00:37:46

It's delicious.

00:37:48 --> 00:37:49

It makes me feel good.

00:37:51 --> 00:37:52

Life is short.

00:37:53 --> 00:37:55

Just do you.

00:37:56 --> 00:37:58

They love that. Just do you,

00:37:59 --> 00:38:00

whatever it is.

00:38:00 --> 00:38:01

Diet Coke,

00:38:02 --> 00:38:03

because I can.

00:38:04 --> 00:38:05

It's beautiful.

00:38:06 --> 00:38:07

Yeah.

00:38:07 --> 00:38:08

Quintessential

00:38:08 --> 00:38:09

post moderns.

00:38:10 --> 00:38:12

Right before the movie. I couldn't even enjoy

00:38:12 --> 00:38:13

the movie.

00:38:14 --> 00:38:16

Just do me. Okay. What if I like

00:38:16 --> 00:38:18

to torture animals? Just do me.

00:38:20 --> 00:38:22

Achim and Pradeep.

00:38:23 --> 00:38:23

Postmodern's

00:38:24 --> 00:38:26

philosophy here is actually self contradictory. To say

00:38:26 --> 00:38:28

that there is no absolute truth is to

00:38:28 --> 00:38:30

make a statement that is absolutely true.

00:38:31 --> 00:38:33

In other words, they're saying the only absolute

00:38:33 --> 00:38:34

truth

00:38:34 --> 00:38:36

is that there's no absolute truth.

00:38:37 --> 00:38:41

Because modernists tend to be radically skeptical about

00:38:41 --> 00:38:42

everything.

00:38:42 --> 00:38:44

Right? Except their own skepticism.

00:38:46 --> 00:38:48

However, contradictions don't seem to bother them

00:38:48 --> 00:38:51

because the intellect has been devalued.

00:38:52 --> 00:38:53

Point number 2,

00:38:53 --> 00:38:54

postmodernism

00:38:54 --> 00:38:56

denies objective

00:38:56 --> 00:38:56

morality.

00:38:58 --> 00:38:58

As we said,

00:38:59 --> 00:39:01

you have this strain of nominalism,

00:39:01 --> 00:39:04

where where formal and final causes are rejected.

00:39:05 --> 00:39:07

Morality is totally fluid, they say, and relative.

00:39:09 --> 00:39:12

Now the Assas, the foundation of Abrahamic of

00:39:12 --> 00:39:13

the Abrahamic tradition,

00:39:14 --> 00:39:16

is love of God and love of your

00:39:16 --> 00:39:17

fellow human being.

00:39:18 --> 00:39:20

And that is absolutely fundamental. You read the

00:39:20 --> 00:39:22

New Testament, you read the biblical writings,

00:39:22 --> 00:39:24

talk to a rabbi, talk to a pastor.

00:39:25 --> 00:39:28

Imam al Razi, he defined Islam. He said,

00:39:31 --> 00:39:33

He said, Islam is the worship of the

00:39:33 --> 00:39:35

creator and showing compassion

00:39:35 --> 00:39:36

towards the creation.

00:39:38 --> 00:39:40

However, as Abrahamic believers, this is a very

00:39:40 --> 00:39:41

important point.

00:39:42 --> 00:39:43

We don't conflate

00:39:44 --> 00:39:45

acceptance

00:39:45 --> 00:39:47

with love, necessarily.

00:39:48 --> 00:39:49

We don't conflate

00:39:50 --> 00:39:50

acceptance

00:39:51 --> 00:39:54

with love. In other words, we can love

00:39:54 --> 00:39:54

people

00:39:55 --> 00:39:56

and simultaneously

00:39:56 --> 00:39:58

consider some of their behavior

00:39:59 --> 00:40:01

as morally reprehensible.

00:40:02 --> 00:40:05

Because modernists tend to inflate love with acceptance

00:40:06 --> 00:40:08

with this idea that if you really love

00:40:08 --> 00:40:09

your transgender cousin,

00:40:10 --> 00:40:11

you would accept him totally

00:40:12 --> 00:40:15

for who he or she or she

00:40:16 --> 00:40:16

is.

00:40:17 --> 00:40:18

Ze, the actual

00:40:18 --> 00:40:19

pronoun.

00:40:19 --> 00:40:21

One of the many pronouns

00:40:21 --> 00:40:21

that,

00:40:22 --> 00:40:24

people in the academy have fabricated

00:40:25 --> 00:40:27

that are now, at least in Canada, have

00:40:27 --> 00:40:28

proposed laws

00:40:28 --> 00:40:30

to compel people to use.

00:40:32 --> 00:40:33

Now this leads to another contradiction

00:40:34 --> 00:40:34

in postmodernist

00:40:35 --> 00:40:35

philosophy.

00:40:36 --> 00:40:36

Postmodernists

00:40:37 --> 00:40:38

are highly intolerant

00:40:39 --> 00:40:40

of intolerance.

00:40:41 --> 00:40:44

It is as if they say, respect everyone,

00:40:44 --> 00:40:45

you idiot.

00:40:47 --> 00:40:47

I remember

00:40:49 --> 00:40:50

so, you know, just do you, that also

00:40:51 --> 00:40:52

that that's called virtue signaling.

00:40:53 --> 00:40:56

Right? That sounds like the right thing to

00:40:56 --> 00:40:59

say, but they don't actually practice it. What

00:40:59 --> 00:41:01

they mean is just do you as long

00:41:01 --> 00:41:02

as you agree with me, and if you

00:41:02 --> 00:41:03

don't, then you're a fidget.

00:41:04 --> 00:41:05

You can change your beliefs.

00:41:09 --> 00:41:10

I was a tutor

00:41:11 --> 00:41:13

at the GTU for a while, tutoring,

00:41:14 --> 00:41:16

a sister, a Christian sister in Hebrew,

00:41:18 --> 00:41:19

kind of strange Muslim

00:41:19 --> 00:41:20

Muslim

00:41:21 --> 00:41:24

guy tutoring, a Christian student in Hebrew. Anyway,

00:41:25 --> 00:41:26

she saw me a few months after our

00:41:26 --> 00:41:28

tutoring session from a distance, and she said,

00:41:28 --> 00:41:30

Adi, Adi. She wanted to give you a

00:41:30 --> 00:41:30

hug.

00:41:31 --> 00:41:33

And I said, no. I I don't I

00:41:33 --> 00:41:34

don't hug.

00:41:34 --> 00:41:36

She said, what? I don't I said, I

00:41:36 --> 00:41:36

don't hug women.

00:41:38 --> 00:41:39

And I had to explain it to her.

00:41:39 --> 00:41:40

She said, really? She put out her hand

00:41:40 --> 00:41:43

and wanted to shake my hand. So, you

00:41:43 --> 00:41:45

know, I don't I don't shake my hand.

00:41:47 --> 00:41:48

So she said, I'm so offended.

00:41:49 --> 00:41:50

She was serious.

00:41:50 --> 00:41:53

I'm so offended. You won't shake my hand

00:41:53 --> 00:41:54

because I'm a woman?

00:41:54 --> 00:41:56

So I I turned the tables on her.

00:41:57 --> 00:41:57

Right?

00:41:58 --> 00:41:59

I played the victim.

00:42:00 --> 00:42:02

Right? And I told her I was doing

00:42:02 --> 00:42:03

this. I said, what?

00:42:04 --> 00:42:05

You're offended?

00:42:05 --> 00:42:08

I'm an oppressed minority in America. I'm proud

00:42:08 --> 00:42:10

to say that I'm Muslim. And my religious

00:42:10 --> 00:42:12

beliefs offend you? I'm offended you're offended.

00:42:13 --> 00:42:15

She said, oh my god.

00:42:16 --> 00:42:18

You're so high. He said, well, I'm just

00:42:18 --> 00:42:18

kidding.

00:42:25 --> 00:42:27

So this is why traditional or religiously confessional

00:42:27 --> 00:42:29

students, what we need,

00:42:30 --> 00:42:31

are so reluctant,

00:42:31 --> 00:42:32

that is to say afraid,

00:42:33 --> 00:42:34

to take a theological

00:42:34 --> 00:42:37

or moral stance in a university classroom.

00:42:38 --> 00:42:40

To say, for example, that pantheism

00:42:40 --> 00:42:41

or incarnationalism

00:42:42 --> 00:42:43

is incorrect

00:42:44 --> 00:42:44

theology,

00:42:45 --> 00:42:46

Or to say that homosexuality

00:42:47 --> 00:42:49

is sexually perverse

00:42:49 --> 00:42:51

is to invite upon oneself.

00:42:52 --> 00:42:53

A hailstorm

00:42:54 --> 00:42:55

of ad hominem

00:42:56 --> 00:42:56

FFS.

00:42:57 --> 00:42:58

Such as arrogant,

00:42:58 --> 00:42:59

ignorant,

00:42:59 --> 00:43:00

antiquated,

00:43:00 --> 00:43:01

dogmatic,

00:43:01 --> 00:43:02

homophobic,

00:43:02 --> 00:43:03

transphobic,

00:43:03 --> 00:43:04

bigoted, traditionalists.

00:43:06 --> 00:43:08

Those modernists are dogmatically opposed

00:43:08 --> 00:43:09

to dogma.

00:43:10 --> 00:43:11

Point number 3.

00:43:12 --> 00:43:13

Postmodernist

00:43:13 --> 00:43:14

literature is often

00:43:16 --> 00:43:16

convoluted,

00:43:18 --> 00:43:18

incoherent,

00:43:20 --> 00:43:20

and condescending.

00:43:21 --> 00:43:24

It is formed way over substance.

00:43:25 --> 00:43:27

It's pseudo profundity is often perceived by young

00:43:27 --> 00:43:28

believers in

00:43:29 --> 00:43:32

college as just too deep and insightful for

00:43:32 --> 00:43:34

me to understand. They think to themselves, you

00:43:34 --> 00:43:34

know, I must be an

00:43:35 --> 00:43:37

idiot. I just don't get it.

00:43:38 --> 00:43:39

It's kinda like modern art.

00:43:40 --> 00:43:41

I don't know if you've ever been to

00:43:41 --> 00:43:43

a museum of modern art.

00:43:44 --> 00:43:45

My daughter took the class with she did

00:43:45 --> 00:43:48

the college class, so we did a field

00:43:48 --> 00:43:49

trip to the MoMA

00:43:50 --> 00:43:52

in San Francisco, the Museum of Modern Art.

00:43:52 --> 00:43:54

We were there for about 15 15 minutes.

00:43:54 --> 00:43:56

We scratched our heads and left.

00:43:58 --> 00:44:00

So there's this there's this portrait.

00:44:01 --> 00:44:02

It was completely blank,

00:44:03 --> 00:44:04

and it's called the mirror.

00:44:06 --> 00:44:08

And there's this crowd of people looking at

00:44:08 --> 00:44:09

it going, oh, wow.

00:44:12 --> 00:44:14

What is this? It's so profound.

00:44:14 --> 00:44:16

I gotta look at my car right.

00:44:17 --> 00:44:19

Are we looking at the same thing?

00:44:20 --> 00:44:21

There was

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this Isle of Sticks in the corner.

00:44:25 --> 00:44:26

Isle of Sticks

00:44:26 --> 00:44:28

that people are looking at.

00:44:28 --> 00:44:29

Amazing sculpture.

00:44:30 --> 00:44:31

Amazing sculpture.

00:44:32 --> 00:44:33

There was another one, Waubati. I felt like

00:44:33 --> 00:44:34

my 4 year old would have done a

00:44:34 --> 00:44:37

better job. It was crayon scribbles, Waubati.

00:44:38 --> 00:44:40

It was crayon scribbles. Yeah. And people look

00:44:40 --> 00:44:41

at that,

00:44:44 --> 00:44:46

wow. People were like having these

00:44:47 --> 00:44:48

cathartic experiences.

00:44:49 --> 00:44:51

We assume it must be deep and profound

00:44:52 --> 00:44:53

because it's in a museum,

00:44:54 --> 00:44:55

but it's the Emperor's New Clothes.

00:44:56 --> 00:44:57

There's nothing there.

00:44:58 --> 00:45:00

This is how their literature is, postmodernist

00:45:00 --> 00:45:03

literature. It sounds deep and profound. It is

00:45:03 --> 00:45:04

nonsense.

00:45:05 --> 00:45:05

Nonsense.

00:45:06 --> 00:45:09

They actually give an award, an annual reward

00:45:09 --> 00:45:11

to who can write the most incoherent text.

00:45:12 --> 00:45:14

And this professor at UC Berkeley has done

00:45:14 --> 00:45:16

this professor. She's winning the award.

00:45:17 --> 00:45:19

It's just this kind of speed they have

00:45:19 --> 00:45:20

amongst each other.

00:45:21 --> 00:45:24

They purposely write incoherently to impress each other.

00:45:24 --> 00:45:25

It's nonsense.

00:45:27 --> 00:45:29

Anyway, these believers,

00:45:29 --> 00:45:32

they because of this, they feel a sense

00:45:32 --> 00:45:35

of a strong sense of inadequacy and embarrassment

00:45:36 --> 00:45:38

for both their inability to grasp

00:45:39 --> 00:45:42

the convoluted literature and for their quote, simple

00:45:42 --> 00:45:43

belief in God,

00:45:43 --> 00:45:44

morality,

00:45:44 --> 00:45:46

right and wrong and accurate. I'm actually scared

00:45:47 --> 00:45:49

to say I believe in this, I think

00:45:49 --> 00:45:51

this is right, I think that's wrong. They're

00:45:51 --> 00:45:51

ridiculed.

00:45:52 --> 00:45:53

Right?

00:45:54 --> 00:45:55

For many of these young believers,

00:45:56 --> 00:45:58

there are only 2 viable options.

00:45:58 --> 00:46:01

I call it selling out or checking out.

00:46:01 --> 00:46:03

In other words, attempt to change

00:46:04 --> 00:46:05

the very face of the religion

00:46:06 --> 00:46:07

in order to mitigate

00:46:07 --> 00:46:09

the hurt feelings

00:46:09 --> 00:46:10

of certain individuals

00:46:11 --> 00:46:14

who are offended by the morality in religious

00:46:14 --> 00:46:14

texts,

00:46:15 --> 00:46:16

or to leave the religion

00:46:17 --> 00:46:19

altogether because they just don't want to deal

00:46:19 --> 00:46:19

with it.

00:46:20 --> 00:46:22

So the Saba says, yes, I'm Muslim,

00:46:23 --> 00:46:23

but

00:46:24 --> 00:46:26

I don't believe in this or that verse

00:46:26 --> 00:46:29

in the Quran, or this or that hadith.

00:46:30 --> 00:46:30

The checkout

00:46:31 --> 00:46:31

says,

00:46:32 --> 00:46:32

Muslim?

00:46:33 --> 00:46:34

No, not anymore.

00:46:35 --> 00:46:37

I used to be, but now I'm enlightened.

00:46:41 --> 00:46:42

The most infamous

00:46:43 --> 00:46:44

of the postmodern philosophers

00:46:45 --> 00:46:46

was a Frenchman,

00:46:47 --> 00:46:48

one Michel Foucault,

00:46:49 --> 00:46:50

died in 1984,

00:46:50 --> 00:46:54

but continues to be an absolute rock star

00:46:55 --> 00:46:55

in universities

00:46:56 --> 00:46:57

all around the world.

00:46:58 --> 00:47:01

He famously said, quote, it is meaningless

00:47:01 --> 00:47:03

to speak in the name of

00:47:03 --> 00:47:04

or against

00:47:04 --> 00:47:05

reason,

00:47:05 --> 00:47:06

truth,

00:47:06 --> 00:47:07

or knowledge.

00:47:08 --> 00:47:08

Meaningless

00:47:09 --> 00:47:11

to speak of or against

00:47:11 --> 00:47:13

reason, truth, or knowledge.

00:47:13 --> 00:47:15

And he was a product of the trend

00:47:16 --> 00:47:16

what's known as a continental

00:47:17 --> 00:47:19

philosophy in the history of western philosophy, who

00:47:19 --> 00:47:22

studied it. This is philosophy from the mainland

00:47:22 --> 00:47:24

of Europe that was prevalent in the 19th

00:47:24 --> 00:47:24

20th

00:47:25 --> 00:47:25

centuries.

00:47:26 --> 00:47:28

A philosophy that was becoming less and less

00:47:28 --> 00:47:29

confident

00:47:29 --> 00:47:31

in truth, reason, and objective

00:47:32 --> 00:47:32

reality.

00:47:33 --> 00:47:36

A philosophy that's represented by Immanuel Kant.

00:47:36 --> 00:47:39

Right? The critique of pure reason or Kierkegaard,

00:47:39 --> 00:47:43

meaning to crucify reason. However, Kant and Kierkegaard

00:47:43 --> 00:47:45

both believed in God, they were Christians.

00:47:45 --> 00:47:46

But then you have the atheistic

00:47:47 --> 00:47:47

irrationalist

00:47:48 --> 00:47:49

Friedrich Nietzsche,

00:47:49 --> 00:47:51

who called the human intellect,

00:47:51 --> 00:47:52

quote, pitiful

00:47:53 --> 00:47:54

and that emotion,

00:47:55 --> 00:47:55

drive,

00:47:56 --> 00:47:56

ambitions,

00:47:57 --> 00:47:59

will and desire should be our guidance.

00:48:00 --> 00:48:03

Foucault is even more radical.

00:48:03 --> 00:48:06

By the way, Foucault was a drug addicted,

00:48:06 --> 00:48:07

homosexual,

00:48:07 --> 00:48:07

malice

00:48:08 --> 00:48:09

who died of

00:48:09 --> 00:48:11

AIDS in 1984. He actually fell in love

00:48:12 --> 00:48:14

with the pre AIDS San Francisco gay bar

00:48:14 --> 00:48:16

scene, in the early 19 eighties.

00:48:17 --> 00:48:19

Foucault also had a profound effect

00:48:20 --> 00:48:23

on the Muslim majority world as well.

00:48:23 --> 00:48:25

He was a professor of psychology at the

00:48:25 --> 00:48:27

University of Tunis

00:48:27 --> 00:48:28

from 1966

00:48:29 --> 00:48:29

to 1968.

00:48:31 --> 00:48:33

Alright. Truth, reason, and knowledge.

00:48:36 --> 00:48:36

And

00:48:37 --> 00:48:38

are meaningless,

00:48:38 --> 00:48:39

he says.

00:48:40 --> 00:48:42

Noam Chomsky is interesting.

00:48:43 --> 00:48:45

He actually says, Noam Chomsky, you know you

00:48:45 --> 00:48:47

know him Chomsky, he's a professor of linguistics

00:48:47 --> 00:48:48

at MIT.

00:48:48 --> 00:48:49

He says that postmodernism

00:48:50 --> 00:48:51

is even more quote, protest

00:48:52 --> 00:48:53

in the Muslim world

00:48:54 --> 00:48:56

than in the Western world.

00:48:57 --> 00:48:59

Right? He says he gives he goes to

00:49:00 --> 00:49:00

universities,

00:49:01 --> 00:49:02

and Middle East all the time

00:49:02 --> 00:49:05

and he's always called naive because he speaks

00:49:05 --> 00:49:08

about truth and objective history. He said that's

00:49:08 --> 00:49:09

old fashioned.

00:49:14 --> 00:49:16

So reason is meaningless, they say.

00:49:17 --> 00:49:20

Now reason is limited, that's true, but is

00:49:20 --> 00:49:20

it meaningless?

00:49:21 --> 00:49:24

Can we really not know anything?

00:49:24 --> 00:49:26

So how many times do we find in

00:49:26 --> 00:49:27

the Quran

00:49:27 --> 00:49:28

phrases like,

00:49:33 --> 00:49:35

You must place some confidence

00:49:36 --> 00:49:37

in the intellect in reason.

00:49:37 --> 00:49:39

Now, Muslim theologians like Igit Tania,

00:49:40 --> 00:49:41

he said that,

00:49:42 --> 00:49:44

reason and revelation are not in conflict. The

00:49:44 --> 00:49:47

proper use of the formal former

00:49:47 --> 00:49:50

will lead to the recognition of the latter

00:49:50 --> 00:49:52

because they come from the same source. They're

00:49:52 --> 00:49:52

both from Allah

00:49:54 --> 00:49:55

Imam Abu Ghazali says in his

00:49:56 --> 00:49:59

that the Quran itself appeals to logic

00:50:00 --> 00:50:01

through syllogistic

00:50:01 --> 00:50:01

arguments

00:50:02 --> 00:50:04

long before Hellenistic influences

00:50:05 --> 00:50:07

upon Muslim theological discourse.

00:50:07 --> 00:50:10

The prophets in the Quran use logic and

00:50:10 --> 00:50:13

reason to appeal to their respective communities

00:50:13 --> 00:50:16

because logic and reason have efficacy.

00:50:17 --> 00:50:18

For example, in the Quran,

00:50:21 --> 00:50:22

Badir is called Badir,

00:50:22 --> 00:50:23

which is the efficient

00:50:24 --> 00:50:25

cause, the origin,

00:50:25 --> 00:50:26

originator

00:50:27 --> 00:50:30

of the Ulesia community shape. There is nothing

00:50:30 --> 00:50:33

like him whatsoever. He transcends space, time, and

00:50:33 --> 00:50:33

materiality.

00:50:34 --> 00:50:36

Cause and effect do not apply to him,

00:50:36 --> 00:50:39

or else you're stuck in infinite regress, which

00:50:39 --> 00:50:41

is redundant to the intellect.

00:50:43 --> 00:50:45

That's just one example. So if you're a

00:50:45 --> 00:50:46

Muslim educator,

00:50:47 --> 00:50:48

professor, a chaplain,

00:50:49 --> 00:50:50

a teacher,

00:50:50 --> 00:50:53

from graduate school to Sunday school,

00:50:54 --> 00:50:56

It is your duty to save these young

00:50:56 --> 00:50:57

people.

00:50:57 --> 00:50:58

It's salaam alayhi.

00:50:59 --> 00:51:00

Allah speaks the truth.

00:51:04 --> 00:51:04

Follow.

00:51:06 --> 00:51:07

What is ittiba?

00:51:07 --> 00:51:09

Adherence to imitation.

00:51:10 --> 00:51:12

Adhere to the tradition of Ibrahim

00:51:13 --> 00:51:15

the archetypal monotheist.

00:51:16 --> 00:51:18

Edward Lane, he actually says that in his

00:51:18 --> 00:51:21

famous lexicon. That ittibak always has

00:51:21 --> 00:51:23

an element of imitation,

00:51:23 --> 00:51:24

nesis.

00:51:25 --> 00:51:25

Now, Allah

00:51:26 --> 00:51:27

also says in the Quran,

00:51:32 --> 00:51:35

Don't adhere to the footsteps of Satan.

00:51:40 --> 00:51:43

Because he calls or he orders to

00:51:43 --> 00:51:43

perversity

00:51:44 --> 00:51:45

and falsehood.

00:51:46 --> 00:51:47

Perversity

00:51:47 --> 00:51:49

and falsehood. So these words are in the

00:51:49 --> 00:51:50

Quran.

00:51:50 --> 00:51:51

They have meanings.

00:51:52 --> 00:51:54

They're normative definitions.

00:51:55 --> 00:51:57

They are defined by the Quran and sunnah.

00:51:57 --> 00:51:59

The Quran is theologically

00:52:00 --> 00:52:01

and morally judgmental.

00:52:02 --> 00:52:05

You cannot avoid it. Everybody is judgmental.

00:52:05 --> 00:52:06

Everybody.

00:52:06 --> 00:52:07

The Quran

00:52:08 --> 00:52:08

is theologically

00:52:09 --> 00:52:10

and morally

00:52:11 --> 00:52:13

judgmental and we must be prepared

00:52:13 --> 00:52:14

with reason

00:52:15 --> 00:52:18

to defend those judgments without apology.

00:52:19 --> 00:52:22

Even if people have discounted reasons,

00:52:22 --> 00:52:23

continue to be reasonable.

00:52:24 --> 00:52:26

It is our reason that makes us human.

00:52:26 --> 00:52:29

It is our differentia, as Aristotle said, you

00:52:29 --> 00:52:32

are the rational animal. Reason will win in

00:52:32 --> 00:52:33

the end.

00:52:34 --> 00:52:34

Emotional

00:52:34 --> 00:52:35

incontinence

00:52:35 --> 00:52:36

cannot be sustained.

00:52:37 --> 00:52:39

People get tired of motion,

00:52:40 --> 00:52:42

but they will not tire of reason.

00:52:42 --> 00:52:45

So we must employ dialectic. Dialectic is the

00:52:45 --> 00:52:46

Socratic method.

00:52:47 --> 00:52:48

What is dialectic?

00:52:48 --> 00:52:50

Dialogue and debate

00:52:51 --> 00:52:53

based on asking and answering questions

00:52:55 --> 00:52:57

to stimulate critical thinking

00:52:58 --> 00:53:00

in order to tease out the truth.

00:53:01 --> 00:53:02

True knowledge

00:53:03 --> 00:53:04

as opposed to rhetoric.

00:53:06 --> 00:53:06

Dialectic

00:53:06 --> 00:53:08

leads to knowledge.

00:53:09 --> 00:53:09

Right?

00:53:10 --> 00:53:10

Rhetoric

00:53:10 --> 00:53:12

leads to opinion.

00:53:12 --> 00:53:14

What is rhetoric? Sophistry.

00:53:15 --> 00:53:17

Just trying to get your own opinion across.

00:53:18 --> 00:53:19

You don't care about truth. It's like a

00:53:19 --> 00:53:22

defense lawyer who knows his client is guilty,

00:53:22 --> 00:53:24

but he doesn't care. He's not trying to

00:53:24 --> 00:53:26

get to the truth. He's trying to get

00:53:26 --> 00:53:27

his client

00:53:27 --> 00:53:28

acquitted.

00:53:28 --> 00:53:30

He only cares about persuasion.

00:53:30 --> 00:53:33

So Aristotle said there are 3 modes of

00:53:33 --> 00:53:33

persuasion.

00:53:34 --> 00:53:36

They're very important. Three modes of persuasion of

00:53:36 --> 00:53:36

effective

00:53:37 --> 00:53:37

communication.

00:53:38 --> 00:53:41

These are the Greek terms. They're pronounced logos,

00:53:41 --> 00:53:42

ethos, and pathos.

00:53:43 --> 00:53:45

Logos or logos

00:53:45 --> 00:53:47

is a reference to logic.

00:53:47 --> 00:53:49

You're using facts and figures.

00:53:51 --> 00:53:54

Right? Ethos is a reference to the speaker

00:53:54 --> 00:53:55

himself or herself

00:53:56 --> 00:53:57

That they have a good disposition,

00:53:59 --> 00:54:01

that they have a good reputation.

00:54:02 --> 00:54:05

And then pathos is its emotional appeal.

00:54:06 --> 00:54:07

So the rhetorician,

00:54:08 --> 00:54:09

the sophist,

00:54:09 --> 00:54:10

primarily

00:54:11 --> 00:54:12

appeals to pathos.

00:54:13 --> 00:54:15

He wants to emotionally

00:54:15 --> 00:54:16

manipulate you.

00:54:17 --> 00:54:18

Whereas the dialectician

00:54:19 --> 00:54:20

primarily

00:54:20 --> 00:54:22

appeals to logos

00:54:22 --> 00:54:23

and Ethos

00:54:24 --> 00:54:26

because he wants to get to the truth.

00:54:27 --> 00:54:28

In the Quran,

00:54:30 --> 00:54:32

Call to the way of your Lord. With

00:54:36 --> 00:54:39

wisdom. And The urlamasei here, the meaning of

00:54:39 --> 00:54:40

this is with Dalahil,

00:54:41 --> 00:54:42

rational apli

00:54:43 --> 00:54:45

and and scriptural proof texts.

00:54:46 --> 00:54:47

Right? With logos.

00:54:49 --> 00:54:50

With a good disposition,

00:54:50 --> 00:54:52

with good f off.

00:54:55 --> 00:54:57

And debate with them in ways that are

00:54:57 --> 00:54:59

better than what they're doing. They're gonna they're

00:54:59 --> 00:55:01

sophists. They're betteritians.

00:55:01 --> 00:55:03

They're going to play the victim.

00:55:03 --> 00:55:06

You offended me. They're gonna use ad hominem

00:55:06 --> 00:55:07

attacks.

00:55:08 --> 00:55:11

Keep your cool and use facts and figures.

00:55:11 --> 00:55:13

Use logic. Use logos.

00:55:14 --> 00:55:14

Use

00:55:16 --> 00:55:17

appeal to the intellect.

00:55:18 --> 00:55:21

So our young people need prophetic advice. The

00:55:21 --> 00:55:21

prophet

00:55:29 --> 00:55:31

Speak the truth even if it's bitter.

00:55:32 --> 00:55:33

There is truth.

00:55:33 --> 00:55:34

It's not relativism.

00:55:35 --> 00:55:37

He says speak the truth even if it's

00:55:37 --> 00:55:39

bitter, and don't be afraid of people.

00:55:40 --> 00:55:41

Morality is not subjective.

00:55:42 --> 00:55:45

Truth is real. Falsehood is real. We need

00:55:45 --> 00:55:47

to stand up for it. Stop being afraid.

00:55:47 --> 00:55:49

A man came to the prophet to give

00:55:49 --> 00:55:51

me some advice. He said,

00:55:54 --> 00:55:54

He said,

00:55:55 --> 00:55:57

say, I believe in Allah

00:55:58 --> 00:55:59

and be

00:56:00 --> 00:56:00

theologically

00:56:01 --> 00:56:02

and morally steadfast

00:56:03 --> 00:56:03

upon that.

00:56:05 --> 00:56:07

And I always say this, if people think

00:56:07 --> 00:56:10

you're weird, that's fine. The prophet said, flat

00:56:10 --> 00:56:11

tidings to the weirdos.

00:56:12 --> 00:56:14

We should be weird. In this day and

00:56:14 --> 00:56:14

age,

00:56:15 --> 00:56:17

if we're not if we're not weird, we're

00:56:17 --> 00:56:19

doing something wrong. Ridhulah.

00:56:19 --> 00:56:21

We should be. We should stand up.

00:56:23 --> 00:56:25

And if people disagree with you,

00:56:26 --> 00:56:26

fine.

00:56:29 --> 00:56:30

You ever heard of that? You ever thought

00:56:30 --> 00:56:31

about that?

00:56:32 --> 00:56:34

You have your religion, I have my religion.

00:56:35 --> 00:56:36

You have your way of life,

00:56:37 --> 00:56:38

I have my way of life.

00:56:39 --> 00:56:40

You have your,

00:56:40 --> 00:56:43

theological beliefs or lack thereof. You have your

00:56:43 --> 00:56:45

ideas of morality, and nature, and nurture, and

00:56:45 --> 00:56:47

all of that, and so do I. Don't

00:56:47 --> 00:56:50

tell me what to say or do. I

00:56:50 --> 00:56:51

won't tell you what to say or do.

00:56:51 --> 00:56:53

This should really be our attitude.

00:56:53 --> 00:56:55

Right? Because we're living in a Meccan phase.

00:56:55 --> 00:56:57

It was revealed in Meccan,

00:57:00 --> 00:57:02

Whoever wants to believe, let him believe. Whoever

00:57:02 --> 00:57:04

wants to disbelieve, let him disbelieve.

00:57:05 --> 00:57:07

You will hear Anan Kathirah, Allah

00:57:07 --> 00:57:09

says, in the Quran. You will hear a

00:57:09 --> 00:57:11

lot of annoying discourse

00:57:13 --> 00:57:15

that's going to grieve you. Right?

00:57:20 --> 00:57:22

But if you are patient and you guard

00:57:22 --> 00:57:25

against evil, that's going to be the determining

00:57:25 --> 00:57:28

factor. That's what's going to come. Be patient

00:57:28 --> 00:57:30

and guard against evil. Don't be a seller.

00:57:31 --> 00:57:33

Life is supposed to be a bit difficult.

00:57:34 --> 00:57:36

The dunya is supposed to be difficult.

00:57:36 --> 00:57:39

Dunya means the low that's the low world.

00:57:40 --> 00:57:43

The lowest world. That's what happens here. The

00:57:43 --> 00:57:44

prophet said

00:57:47 --> 00:57:50

that Surat Hud, walaha watu, had turned my

00:57:50 --> 00:57:53

shayyamit. So the these these group of Suras,

00:57:53 --> 00:57:56

they turned my hair gray because the Tanzil

00:57:56 --> 00:57:58

was so strong upon them. And then he

00:57:58 --> 00:58:00

singled out one item in particular,

00:58:00 --> 00:58:01

item 112

00:58:06 --> 00:58:08

Be upright as you have been commanded.

00:58:09 --> 00:58:11

He found that difficult,

00:58:12 --> 00:58:14

Physically, it's difficult,

00:58:14 --> 00:58:16

but we have to go through it. Life

00:58:16 --> 00:58:17

is short.

00:58:17 --> 00:58:19

Don't sell out.

00:58:20 --> 00:58:21

Don't check out.

00:58:23 --> 00:58:23

Okay.

00:58:24 --> 00:58:25

Now, the literary

00:58:26 --> 00:58:27

method of of postmodernists

00:58:28 --> 00:58:29

is called deconstructionism.

00:58:32 --> 00:58:33

According to deconstructionism,

00:58:34 --> 00:58:36

no one interpretation

00:58:36 --> 00:58:37

of a text,

00:58:37 --> 00:58:39

such as a religious text,

00:58:39 --> 00:58:40

I. E. The Quran,

00:58:41 --> 00:58:42

should be privileged

00:58:42 --> 00:58:45

over other readings. They love this word privilege.

00:58:47 --> 00:58:48

Social Sciences

00:58:49 --> 00:58:49

aside,

00:58:50 --> 00:58:52

even the hard sciences

00:58:54 --> 00:58:55

are feel like physics,

00:58:56 --> 00:58:56

biology,

00:58:56 --> 00:59:00

they're feeling the pressure of post modernist thinkers.

00:59:01 --> 00:59:03

There's a French feminist philosopher. When I say

00:59:03 --> 00:59:06

feminist, I'm talking about 3rd wave feminism.

00:59:06 --> 00:59:08

I'm not talking about first wave, where there's

00:59:08 --> 00:59:10

equal rights. We have no problem there. 2nd

00:59:10 --> 00:59:13

wave is a revolt against gender rules, a

00:59:13 --> 00:59:14

little problematic.

00:59:15 --> 00:59:17

3rd wave is about body autonomy

00:59:17 --> 00:59:20

and taking down the patriarchy and replacing it

00:59:20 --> 00:59:21

with a matriarchy.

00:59:21 --> 00:59:23

What does that mean? The right to abort

00:59:23 --> 00:59:24

babies

00:59:25 --> 00:59:27

and taking down men

00:59:27 --> 00:59:29

and ruling them. This is the essence of

00:59:29 --> 00:59:30

3rd wave feminism.

00:59:31 --> 00:59:33

There's a French 3rd wave feminist philosopher

00:59:33 --> 00:59:35

named here by Gary.

00:59:35 --> 00:59:37

She said, get this, can't make this stuff

00:59:37 --> 00:59:38

up,

00:59:38 --> 00:59:39

folks. The equation

00:59:40 --> 00:59:43

e equals mc squared is sexist.

00:59:54 --> 00:59:54

Why?

00:59:55 --> 00:59:56

Because it privileges

00:59:57 --> 00:59:59

the speed of light over other lights.

01:00:01 --> 01:00:03

Apparently, there are now an infinite number of

01:00:03 --> 01:00:03

genders.

01:00:04 --> 01:00:06

You know, Athal and Nakhl,

01:00:06 --> 01:00:09

reason and scripture. See, there are 2 genders,

01:00:09 --> 01:00:09

x

01:00:10 --> 01:00:11

y, x x,

01:00:11 --> 01:00:12

beka, luwinsa.

01:00:13 --> 01:00:14

We are told by postmodernists,

01:00:15 --> 01:00:18

social scientists, we're told by Zuckerberg, we're told

01:00:18 --> 01:00:18

by

01:00:19 --> 01:00:23

gender theorists at the university gender theory, interesting.

01:00:23 --> 01:00:25

We're told by gender theorists at the university

01:00:25 --> 01:00:26

that people who maintain

01:00:27 --> 01:00:28

this rigid binary

01:00:29 --> 01:00:29

are bigots.

01:00:31 --> 01:00:32

They're just not woke.

01:00:33 --> 01:00:34

Get woke.

01:00:37 --> 01:00:40

Get a book, not get woke. Why Gender

01:00:40 --> 01:00:40

Matters,

01:00:41 --> 01:00:43

doctor Leonard Sachs,

01:00:43 --> 01:00:44

extraordinary

01:00:44 --> 01:00:45

text.

01:00:45 --> 01:00:47

Before it's banned,

01:00:48 --> 01:00:49

and I mean that,

01:00:49 --> 01:00:51

California Assembly Bill 2943

01:00:52 --> 01:00:53

already proposed

01:00:53 --> 01:00:56

a banning of books that are offensive

01:00:56 --> 01:00:57

to the

01:00:57 --> 01:00:58

LGBTQIA community.

01:01:03 --> 01:01:04

California

01:01:04 --> 01:01:07

legislation is trying to ban books that seek

01:01:07 --> 01:01:07

to reform

01:01:08 --> 01:01:08

homosexuals

01:01:09 --> 01:01:11

and declare them big speech.

01:01:13 --> 01:01:14

What is the natural progression?

01:01:15 --> 01:01:17

This makes Christians very nervous

01:01:18 --> 01:01:19

because homosexuality

01:01:19 --> 01:01:21

in the Bible is immoral.

01:01:21 --> 01:01:24

I said, well, you know, good written Christianity,

01:01:25 --> 01:01:27

no. Wrong attitude. They come for you tonight.

01:01:27 --> 01:01:28

They come for us in the morning.

01:01:29 --> 01:01:30

We're next.

01:01:32 --> 01:01:34

A great American Muslim scholar once said,

01:01:35 --> 01:01:37

Shaitan wants to change

01:01:37 --> 01:01:38

from mutables

01:01:38 --> 01:01:39

to mutable.

01:01:41 --> 01:01:43

Shaitan wants to change tawabit.

01:01:43 --> 01:01:44

What are tawabit?

01:01:44 --> 01:01:45

Tawabit are

01:01:46 --> 01:01:48

underlines, principles, axiomatic,

01:01:48 --> 01:01:50

self evident truths.

01:01:51 --> 01:01:54

He wants to change those into variables. Mutarayyarat.

01:01:55 --> 01:01:56

These things can change.

01:01:56 --> 01:01:59

He wants to lay to waste our underlying

01:01:59 --> 01:02:00

principles.

01:02:00 --> 01:02:02

There are classical laws of thought,

01:02:02 --> 01:02:04

such as the principle of identity,

01:02:04 --> 01:02:06

the principle of non contradiction.

01:02:06 --> 01:02:09

So male is male and not male is

01:02:09 --> 01:02:12

not male. There are 35 100 biological differences

01:02:13 --> 01:02:14

between men and women.

01:02:17 --> 01:02:19

The Quran says, the human the the man,

01:02:19 --> 01:02:22

the male, is not like the female.

01:02:22 --> 01:02:24

There are gender roles

01:02:24 --> 01:02:26

rooted in biology.

01:02:28 --> 01:02:30

Rooted in biology. What I've just said could

01:02:30 --> 01:02:33

get me expelled from a university class,

01:02:33 --> 01:02:34

by the way.

01:02:34 --> 01:02:36

There are gender roles

01:02:36 --> 01:02:39

rooted in biology and are

01:02:39 --> 01:02:39

are.

01:02:41 --> 01:02:43

It is not purely a social construct

01:02:43 --> 01:02:44

or a feeling.

01:02:45 --> 01:02:47

There's an article in the Huffington Post,

01:02:48 --> 01:02:50

some people call it the Huffington Compost,

01:02:52 --> 01:02:54

where there's a picture of a man

01:02:54 --> 01:02:56

sitting on a park bench,

01:02:57 --> 01:02:58

looks like a man,

01:02:59 --> 01:03:02

with a blood stain in his crotch

01:03:02 --> 01:03:05

holding a sign that says, men get periods

01:03:05 --> 01:03:05

too.

01:03:07 --> 01:03:09

Turns out, that is a biological

01:03:10 --> 01:03:10

woman

01:03:11 --> 01:03:12

dressed up like a man.

01:03:13 --> 01:03:16

So the headline should be, woman gets period.

01:03:17 --> 01:03:17

Wow.

01:03:19 --> 01:03:20

If you're a man,

01:03:21 --> 01:03:24

putting on your grandmother's shoes doesn't make you

01:03:24 --> 01:03:25

an old woman

01:03:26 --> 01:03:29

any more than barking like a dog makes

01:03:29 --> 01:03:30

you a dog.

01:03:30 --> 01:03:30

American

01:03:31 --> 01:03:31

slaves

01:03:32 --> 01:03:34

living in the Antebellum

01:03:34 --> 01:03:35

South,

01:03:35 --> 01:03:36

the pre civil wars

01:03:37 --> 01:03:39

out, had a suicide rate that high.

01:03:40 --> 01:03:42

People who are separated from their families,

01:03:43 --> 01:03:44

treated like animals

01:03:45 --> 01:03:46

and utterly brutalized

01:03:47 --> 01:03:49

do not have a suicide rate,

01:03:50 --> 01:03:51

the rate of

01:03:52 --> 01:03:52

some suburban

01:03:53 --> 01:03:54

transgender of 2018.

01:03:56 --> 01:03:57

Interesting.

01:03:58 --> 01:03:58

Clearly,

01:03:59 --> 01:04:01

gender identity syndrome, which is what it used

01:04:01 --> 01:04:03

to be called, now they call it gender

01:04:03 --> 01:04:03

dysphoria.

01:04:04 --> 01:04:06

Gender identity syndrome is a mental illness in

01:04:06 --> 01:04:07

adults.

01:04:08 --> 01:04:11

But how But now it is politically incorrect

01:04:11 --> 01:04:12

to say that.

01:04:13 --> 01:04:16

It is politically incorrect to say that. Something

01:04:16 --> 01:04:17

that will help people.

01:04:17 --> 01:04:18

You cannot say.

01:04:19 --> 01:04:21

There is a confirmed mental illness, according to

01:04:21 --> 01:04:25

the ADA, called body integrity identity disorder.

01:04:26 --> 01:04:27

Body integrity

01:04:27 --> 01:04:29

identity disorder. This is when a person feels

01:04:29 --> 01:04:32

to then feels the need to amputate

01:04:33 --> 01:04:35

his or her healthy body parts.

01:04:36 --> 01:04:39

But when a 12 year old girl feels

01:04:39 --> 01:04:42

like she's a boy and wants to amputate

01:04:42 --> 01:04:43

her *,

01:04:43 --> 01:04:45

she is called brave,

01:04:45 --> 01:04:46

courageous,

01:04:47 --> 01:04:48

and a hero.

01:04:48 --> 01:04:49

Be yourself.

01:04:50 --> 01:04:51

Do you.

01:04:52 --> 01:04:54

Just go get it.

01:04:55 --> 01:04:56

Get it.

01:04:57 --> 01:04:57

Amazing.

01:04:58 --> 01:05:00

There was a Google engineer,

01:05:01 --> 01:05:02

James Damore, I don't know if you've heard

01:05:02 --> 01:05:03

of him,

01:05:04 --> 01:05:05

who was fired from Google

01:05:06 --> 01:05:07

because he wrote a memo

01:05:09 --> 01:05:09

suggesting

01:05:09 --> 01:05:12

that biological differences between men and women

01:05:13 --> 01:05:15

help explain the differences

01:05:15 --> 01:05:16

of their career choices.

01:05:17 --> 01:05:18

He's absolutely right.

01:05:19 --> 01:05:21

And he was fired. Because it's not PC

01:05:21 --> 01:05:24

to say that. In other words, the STEM

01:05:24 --> 01:05:28

fields, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, contain more

01:05:28 --> 01:05:30

men than women because women are not nearly

01:05:30 --> 01:05:33

as interested in those fields as men are.

01:05:34 --> 01:05:37

There are also a lot more men in

01:05:37 --> 01:05:37

construction,

01:05:38 --> 01:05:39

sanitation,

01:05:39 --> 01:05:40

and plumbing

01:05:41 --> 01:05:43

because women are not interested in those jobs.

01:05:44 --> 01:05:47

From a theological standpoint, it is Satan

01:05:47 --> 01:05:49

who wants to blur the lines of gender.

01:05:50 --> 01:05:51

This is why Bahamet,

01:05:51 --> 01:05:54

which is the official symbol of the Church

01:05:54 --> 01:05:54

of

01:05:54 --> 01:05:56

Satan, is usually depicted as androgynous.

01:05:57 --> 01:05:59

Clearly the body of a man with female

01:05:59 --> 01:06:00

*,

01:06:00 --> 01:06:03

because he shatters the gender binary.

01:06:04 --> 01:06:05

Offerman is woke, apparently.

01:06:06 --> 01:06:09

Here's a good hashtag for you. Hashtag, Offerman

01:06:09 --> 01:06:10

is woke.

01:06:11 --> 01:06:13

Now, I'm gonna come back to deconstructionism,

01:06:14 --> 01:06:16

but I want to talk more about homosexuality.

01:06:18 --> 01:06:20

This is a big, big issue in the

01:06:20 --> 01:06:21

Academy.

01:06:23 --> 01:06:25

This is the social issue.

01:06:26 --> 01:06:28

Homosexual advocates are making this into a civil

01:06:28 --> 01:06:29

rights issue.

01:06:30 --> 01:06:31

Now, as believers,

01:06:33 --> 01:06:34

when we engage,

01:06:37 --> 01:06:39

as believers, we should we should engage in

01:06:39 --> 01:06:40

dialecting.

01:06:41 --> 01:06:44

We should know that if we appeal to

01:06:44 --> 01:06:44

the Quran,

01:06:45 --> 01:06:47

it is then a logical fallacy.

01:06:47 --> 01:06:49

Someone who doesn't believe in the Quran is

01:06:49 --> 01:06:51

asking you, why don't you why don't why

01:06:51 --> 01:06:53

don't you accept homosexuality

01:06:53 --> 01:06:55

as a lifestyle? And if you say, well,

01:06:55 --> 01:06:57

that's in the Quran, that's called an argument

01:06:57 --> 01:07:00

from the qualified authority because they won't believe

01:07:00 --> 01:07:00

in that authority.

01:07:01 --> 01:07:03

You have to give secular arguments. You have

01:07:03 --> 01:07:04

to use dialectic.

01:07:06 --> 01:07:06

Okay?

01:07:07 --> 01:07:07

There's this conservative,

01:07:08 --> 01:07:10

YouTuber. I don't agree with everything he says

01:07:10 --> 01:07:12

obviously, but that's an interesting thing where he

01:07:12 --> 01:07:15

goes around interviewing people on the street.

01:07:15 --> 01:07:16

Usually, they're

01:07:17 --> 01:07:19

millennials or in that age range.

01:07:19 --> 01:07:21

I hate to pick on them, but

01:07:21 --> 01:07:23

it's okay. My my kids are almost at

01:07:23 --> 01:07:26

that age. They're all the same. Right?

01:07:27 --> 01:07:29

So, he goes up to someone and he

01:07:29 --> 01:07:30

says,

01:07:30 --> 01:07:31

how do you feel about a man marrying

01:07:31 --> 01:07:32

another man?

01:07:34 --> 01:07:36

How do you feel about a man marrying

01:07:36 --> 01:07:37

another man?

01:07:37 --> 01:07:39

And this person says,

01:07:39 --> 01:07:40

why not?

01:07:42 --> 01:07:43

2 consenting adults.

01:07:43 --> 01:07:46

What's wrong with that? To each his own.

01:07:46 --> 01:07:47

Whatever floats your boat.

01:07:48 --> 01:07:51

Right? He said, okay. 2 consenting adults. That's

01:07:51 --> 01:07:52

right. Of course. Okay. Wait. How do you

01:07:52 --> 01:07:54

feel about a man marrying his daughter that

01:07:54 --> 01:07:56

are both consenting adults?

01:07:57 --> 01:07:59

And they say, no, no, I'm I'm a

01:07:59 --> 01:08:01

Greek. And he says, what? Are you an

01:08:01 --> 01:08:02

* phobe?

01:08:03 --> 01:08:05

That's all you have to do.

01:08:06 --> 01:08:07

Throw out the ad homement.

01:08:08 --> 01:08:10

Are you an * phobe? Oh, no?

01:08:10 --> 01:08:12

Or I guess I guess it's, you know,

01:08:12 --> 01:08:13

as long as they don't have kids.

01:08:14 --> 01:08:14

What?

01:08:15 --> 01:08:17

Are you denying my right to have children?

01:08:18 --> 01:08:20

No. No. And you can see that one

01:08:20 --> 01:08:23

by okay. Nothing wrong. There's nothing wrong with

01:08:23 --> 01:08:23

that.

01:08:24 --> 01:08:26

There's nothing wrong. As long as it's not

01:08:26 --> 01:08:27

hurting anyone.

01:08:29 --> 01:08:30

The CDC.

01:08:31 --> 01:08:32

What is CDC?

01:08:33 --> 01:08:36

Center of Disease. Center of Disease Control. According

01:08:36 --> 01:08:36

to that,

01:08:37 --> 01:08:38

homosexuals are 2%

01:08:39 --> 01:08:42

of the population, homosexual men, yet account for

01:08:42 --> 01:08:43

78%

01:08:43 --> 01:08:45

of HIV cases.

01:08:46 --> 01:08:48

2% account for 78%

01:08:49 --> 01:08:50

of HIV cases.

01:08:50 --> 01:08:52

83% of syphilis.

01:08:53 --> 01:08:55

Here's a group, Americans with Truth About Homosexuality,

01:08:55 --> 01:08:57

Aftab, you can do some research on.

01:08:58 --> 01:09:00

More than 1 out of 10 homosexual men

01:09:00 --> 01:09:01

is incontinent.

01:09:02 --> 01:09:03

If You don't know what that means, look

01:09:03 --> 01:09:04

it up.

01:09:04 --> 01:09:07

I've read from 12% to 25%

01:09:08 --> 01:09:10

of homosexual men are incontinent.

01:09:11 --> 01:09:14

McKinsey Institute published a study by Feldman Weidberg

01:09:15 --> 01:09:15

from 1978,

01:09:17 --> 01:09:19

saying that finding that promiscuity

01:09:19 --> 01:09:22

among homosexual men is through the roof.

01:09:23 --> 01:09:24

Check this out. 28%

01:09:25 --> 01:09:27

of homosexual men have had sexual

01:09:27 --> 01:09:28

encounters

01:09:29 --> 01:09:29

with 1,000

01:09:31 --> 01:09:32

or more partners.

01:09:35 --> 01:09:38

Multiple studies have shown that casual * causes

01:09:38 --> 01:09:39

depression,

01:09:39 --> 01:09:41

anxiety and mental illness.

01:09:42 --> 01:09:43

Now, 79%

01:09:43 --> 01:09:44

of that 28%

01:09:45 --> 01:09:47

said that more than half of their partners

01:09:47 --> 01:09:49

were complete strangers.

01:09:51 --> 01:09:53

So if you go to like, those gay

01:09:53 --> 01:09:55

bars, movie gay movie theaters,

01:09:57 --> 01:09:59

gay dance clubs. They have these bathrooms

01:09:59 --> 01:10:02

that actually cater to this type of thing.

01:10:02 --> 01:10:04

This is clearly a mental illness.

01:10:05 --> 01:10:05

Allah

01:10:06 --> 01:10:07

intubates that homosexual

01:10:08 --> 01:10:11

homosexual promiscuity is a mental illness in the

01:10:11 --> 01:10:11

Quran.

01:10:13 --> 01:10:13

Allah

01:10:14 --> 01:10:14

says,

01:10:15 --> 01:10:16

directly to the prophet

01:10:17 --> 01:10:19

and this is the only time which Allah

01:10:20 --> 01:10:21

takes an oath by the life of the

01:10:21 --> 01:10:22

prophet

01:10:23 --> 01:10:24

So this is a big oath.

01:10:29 --> 01:10:32

By your life, they are indeed, in their

01:10:32 --> 01:10:32

wild

01:10:33 --> 01:10:33

intoxication,

01:10:34 --> 01:10:34

wandering

01:10:35 --> 01:10:35

blindly.

01:10:37 --> 01:10:38

Homosexuality

01:10:39 --> 01:10:41

is transforming the very fabric of society.

01:10:42 --> 01:10:44

It is destroying the traditional nuclear family.

01:10:44 --> 01:10:47

It spreads disease and a culture of irresponsibility.

01:10:48 --> 01:10:51

Several studies have shown that same * relationships

01:10:52 --> 01:10:55

do not last nearly as long as heterosexual

01:10:55 --> 01:10:56

relationships.

01:10:56 --> 01:10:59

So children end up suffering due to these

01:10:59 --> 01:11:01

highly dysfunctional relationships.

01:11:02 --> 01:11:04

Use the argument from nature, from natural selection.

01:11:05 --> 01:11:09

Put 1,000,000 homosexual men on an island, give

01:11:09 --> 01:11:10

them the best technology,

01:11:11 --> 01:11:15

cutting edge, health care, in 100 years, everyone

01:11:15 --> 01:11:17

is dead. Nature selects.

01:11:21 --> 01:11:23

Now, a common argument, this is coming from

01:11:23 --> 01:11:24

Muslim homosexual colleges,

01:11:25 --> 01:11:28

is that why would Allah create them like

01:11:28 --> 01:11:28

that?

01:11:29 --> 01:11:30

Right?

01:11:30 --> 01:11:32

Now, first of all, there's no scientific evidence,

01:11:32 --> 01:11:34

whatsoever, of a gay gene.

01:11:35 --> 01:11:37

So this whole idea of born this way,

01:11:38 --> 01:11:39

right, Lady Gaga and the

01:11:40 --> 01:11:41

is a lie.

01:11:42 --> 01:11:44

One can certainly make the argument that homosexuality

01:11:45 --> 01:11:47

is the result of trauma suffered

01:11:47 --> 01:11:50

during the development of one's brain in early

01:11:50 --> 01:11:51

childhood.

01:11:52 --> 01:11:55

So something like divorce, rejection by a father

01:11:55 --> 01:11:56

or mother,

01:11:56 --> 01:11:57

sexual molestation,

01:11:57 --> 01:11:59

being physically abused.

01:11:59 --> 01:12:01

Doctor Omar Johnson,

01:12:01 --> 01:12:04

who counsels African American youth, he says that

01:12:04 --> 01:12:06

he's a clinical psychologist for something like 20

01:12:06 --> 01:12:07

years, to 95%

01:12:09 --> 01:12:10

of the black youth that come to him

01:12:10 --> 01:12:12

that identify as homosexual

01:12:12 --> 01:12:15

are victims of trauma in childhood.

01:12:16 --> 01:12:17

The other thing is, how would a gay

01:12:17 --> 01:12:20

gene even survive natural selection? Wouldn't

01:12:21 --> 01:12:21

nature

01:12:22 --> 01:12:24

weed it out eventually? It doesn't seem to

01:12:24 --> 01:12:26

be happening. It seems to be growing.

01:12:26 --> 01:12:28

Evolutionary biologist and

01:12:32 --> 01:12:34

anti theist palleticist, Richard Dawkins,

01:12:35 --> 01:12:37

over at Oxford University, evolutionary biologist,

01:12:38 --> 01:12:40

he really doesn't have an answer. He doesn't

01:12:40 --> 01:12:42

know. He has some theories

01:12:43 --> 01:12:44

that I won't go into, but one of

01:12:44 --> 01:12:46

them he says is, well, maybe it's because,

01:12:47 --> 01:12:49

maybe babies that feed from a bottle turn

01:12:49 --> 01:12:50

gay again.

01:12:51 --> 01:12:53

Those who breastfeed are straight. This is this

01:12:53 --> 01:12:56

is called Richard Dawkins. This is their main

01:12:56 --> 01:12:56

man.

01:13:00 --> 01:13:02

Interesting. Well, going back to this question, why

01:13:02 --> 01:13:04

would Allah create them like that? Let's just

01:13:04 --> 01:13:06

entertain the premise for now. Okay. That's how

01:13:06 --> 01:13:07

they were created.

01:13:07 --> 01:13:10

This is similar to the transgender thing.

01:13:10 --> 01:13:12

What about a child born in the Congo

01:13:13 --> 01:13:15

into abject poverty

01:13:16 --> 01:13:19

to a single mother who is HIV positive

01:13:19 --> 01:13:21

because of a vaccine that she took,

01:13:22 --> 01:13:24

yet that child never complains.

01:13:26 --> 01:13:27

Welcome to the dunya.

01:13:29 --> 01:13:30

Life is hard.

01:13:31 --> 01:13:32

We are in no position

01:13:33 --> 01:13:34

to judge Allah

01:13:36 --> 01:13:38

There are children born blind

01:13:39 --> 01:13:41

with major mental and physical disabilities.

01:13:42 --> 01:13:43

This is qadr.

01:13:44 --> 01:13:46

There are men who are born with proclivities

01:13:47 --> 01:13:47

towards children.

01:13:48 --> 01:13:51

Do we ask why did Allah create them

01:13:51 --> 01:13:54

like that? No. We expect them not to

01:13:54 --> 01:13:56

act out on their perversion.

01:13:59 --> 01:14:02

Okay. Switching gears here. Go back to

01:14:03 --> 01:14:03

deconstructionism.

01:14:05 --> 01:14:06

According to deconstructionism,

01:14:08 --> 01:14:11

there are no right and wrong readings of

01:14:11 --> 01:14:11

any text.

01:14:12 --> 01:14:14

There are no true and false readings.

01:14:15 --> 01:14:18

The idea of a meta narrative. Meta narrative

01:14:18 --> 01:14:19

is to say,

01:14:20 --> 01:14:21

the standard interpretation

01:14:22 --> 01:14:23

of a text

01:14:24 --> 01:14:26

that shaped religious orthodoxy.

01:14:26 --> 01:14:29

These are summarily rejected by postmodernists.

01:14:30 --> 01:14:33

All readings are valid and equally important, they

01:14:33 --> 01:14:34

say.

01:14:35 --> 01:14:36

What is demanded,

01:14:37 --> 01:14:39

according to what is only demanded, according to

01:14:39 --> 01:14:40

another infamous post modernist

01:14:41 --> 01:14:43

American professor named Stanley Fish,

01:14:43 --> 01:14:45

is to be quote, interesting.

01:14:46 --> 01:14:47

Just be interesting.

01:14:48 --> 01:14:52

Not to be right or correct, because right,

01:14:52 --> 01:14:52

correct,

01:14:53 --> 01:14:53

normative,

01:14:54 --> 01:14:54

orthodox,

01:14:55 --> 01:14:56

these do not exist

01:14:57 --> 01:14:58

according to them.

01:14:58 --> 01:15:00

Just be interesting.

01:15:00 --> 01:15:02

As long as it's entertaining.

01:15:03 --> 01:15:04

As long as it feels great.

01:15:05 --> 01:15:07

So, now we have in religious departments and

01:15:07 --> 01:15:08

seminaries,

01:15:08 --> 01:15:10

a method of interpretation

01:15:10 --> 01:15:12

known as radical hermeneutics.

01:15:14 --> 01:15:15

Radical hermeneutics

01:15:15 --> 01:15:17

of sacred texts. Like queer hermeneutics.

01:15:18 --> 01:15:20

For example, we have Muslims in the seminary,

01:15:21 --> 01:15:22

justifying homosexuality

01:15:22 --> 01:15:24

based on the Quran. I don't know how

01:15:24 --> 01:15:26

on earth one would even do that, but

01:15:26 --> 01:15:29

they managed to do it somehow. They say

01:15:29 --> 01:15:31

things like, no, the Quran is not forbidding

01:15:31 --> 01:15:35

homosexual acts. It's only saying not to *

01:15:35 --> 01:15:35

each other.

01:15:36 --> 01:15:39

Which is interesting because in the Quranic narrative,

01:15:40 --> 01:15:40

Lutz

01:15:41 --> 01:15:43

he says to the men that are coming

01:15:43 --> 01:15:44

to,

01:15:44 --> 01:15:46

seduce the other men, he says to them,

01:15:46 --> 01:15:48

take my daughters instead.

01:15:50 --> 01:15:52

They say the meaning of that is, marry

01:15:52 --> 01:15:53

the women of my Umma

01:15:54 --> 01:15:54

instead

01:15:55 --> 01:15:55

of having,

01:15:56 --> 01:15:58

relations with the men. That's the meaning of

01:15:58 --> 01:16:00

that. If the Quran is only denouncing their

01:16:00 --> 01:16:03

*, then what is Luz alaihi alaihi salam

01:16:03 --> 01:16:05

actually saying? * my women? * my daughters

01:16:05 --> 01:16:07

instead of the men? No. That's not what

01:16:07 --> 01:16:07

he's saying.

01:16:08 --> 01:16:10

But this is as long as it's interesting,

01:16:10 --> 01:16:11

don't worry about contradictions.

01:16:12 --> 01:16:13

You can put it out there and get

01:16:13 --> 01:16:16

your master's degree and get a professorship and

01:16:16 --> 01:16:17

you can travel around the country and you

01:16:17 --> 01:16:19

can engage in this nonsensical

01:16:20 --> 01:16:22

academic speak, but nobody understands except a few

01:16:22 --> 01:16:24

of your colleagues and you can get back,

01:16:24 --> 01:16:25

go back to the back room and drink

01:16:25 --> 01:16:27

and laugh about it later.

01:16:28 --> 01:16:29

Queer hermeneutics,

01:16:29 --> 01:16:30

transgender hermeneutics,

01:16:31 --> 01:16:34

3rd wave feminist hermeneutics, neo Marxist hermeneutics. It

01:16:34 --> 01:16:34

is a

01:16:35 --> 01:16:37

So the quest for truth

01:16:38 --> 01:16:38

or the intended

01:16:39 --> 01:16:41

authorial meanings of a text are abandoned.

01:16:43 --> 01:16:46

Rather sacrificed upon the altar of self interest

01:16:46 --> 01:16:47

and feelings.

01:16:48 --> 01:16:51

So things like grammar, logic, rhetoric, syntax,

01:16:52 --> 01:16:52

definitions,

01:16:54 --> 01:16:54

consistency,

01:16:55 --> 01:16:55

context,

01:16:56 --> 01:16:57

who cares?

01:16:58 --> 01:17:01

Scripture now bends to accommodate us, not us

01:17:01 --> 01:17:03

to accommodate it. Rather than interrogating

01:17:03 --> 01:17:05

our own positions in light of scripture,

01:17:06 --> 01:17:07

we interrogate scripture

01:17:08 --> 01:17:09

in light of our own positions.

01:17:10 --> 01:17:12

In short, scripture can now mean whatever we

01:17:12 --> 01:17:13

want it to mean.

01:17:13 --> 01:17:15

The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he said, there

01:17:15 --> 01:17:17

will come a time upon the people,

01:17:22 --> 01:17:25

that nothing will remain of Islam except its

01:17:25 --> 01:17:28

name. It's just a namin, a name without

01:17:28 --> 01:17:29

a reality.

01:17:29 --> 01:17:30

No essence.

01:17:30 --> 01:17:32

No normative definition.

01:17:33 --> 01:17:34

Totally subjective.

01:17:36 --> 01:17:38

This hadith indicates that there is indeed an

01:17:38 --> 01:17:39

orthodox

01:17:39 --> 01:17:41

normative definition of Islam.

01:17:43 --> 01:17:45

It's not defined by our feelings.

01:17:46 --> 01:17:48

It's defined by Allah and his messenger. Walayafa

01:17:48 --> 01:17:51

bin al Quran ila rasmo. Nothing will remain

01:17:51 --> 01:17:53

of the Quran except its script.

01:17:54 --> 01:17:56

It's just words on a page

01:17:56 --> 01:17:58

deprived of their true meanings.

01:18:00 --> 01:18:02

Couple of hadith of our master, Muhammad

01:18:15 --> 01:18:16

At the end of the time, there are

01:18:16 --> 01:18:17

going to be flagrant,

01:18:18 --> 01:18:18

habitual

01:18:19 --> 01:18:20

liars, impostors

01:18:21 --> 01:18:23

who will make statements that neither you nor

01:18:23 --> 01:18:24

your ancestors or forefathers

01:18:25 --> 01:18:27

have ever heard. In other words, according to

01:18:27 --> 01:18:29

the Huronama, they will say things that are

01:18:29 --> 01:18:29

absolutely

01:18:30 --> 01:18:30

irreconcilable

01:18:31 --> 01:18:32

with our faith tradition

01:18:32 --> 01:18:35

that no Muslim has ever heard,

01:18:35 --> 01:18:37

yet they will justify themselves religiously.

01:18:38 --> 01:18:41

This is already rampant in biblical studies.

01:18:42 --> 01:18:44

I have an MA in biblical studies. My

01:18:44 --> 01:18:46

former academic adviser,

01:18:46 --> 01:18:48

who is now the director of New Testament

01:18:48 --> 01:18:51

studies at the College of the Holy Cross,

01:18:51 --> 01:18:53

a Jesuit school on the East Coast.

01:18:54 --> 01:18:56

This man said, and there's a huge uproar

01:18:56 --> 01:18:58

about it, he said, I'm not gonna say,

01:18:58 --> 01:19:00

but one of the greatest prophets, he said,

01:19:00 --> 01:19:03

was, quote, a gay gender fluid

01:19:03 --> 01:19:04

drag king.

01:19:06 --> 01:19:07

This is postmodern,

01:19:07 --> 01:19:09

radical hermeneutics

01:19:09 --> 01:19:10

at its worst.

01:19:18 --> 01:19:20

Them. Lest they misguide you

01:19:21 --> 01:19:21

or

01:19:22 --> 01:19:24

involve you in their fitna.

01:19:26 --> 01:19:29

What is the role of the Iberlaba during

01:19:29 --> 01:19:30

this troublesome time?

01:19:43 --> 01:19:47

This sacred knowledge will be borne by reliable

01:19:47 --> 01:19:47

authorities

01:19:48 --> 01:19:50

of each successive generation.

01:19:50 --> 01:19:54

They will remove from it the alterations of

01:19:54 --> 01:19:55

those guilty of exaggeration,

01:19:56 --> 01:19:59

the plagiarism of the corrupt, and the interpretations

01:19:59 --> 01:20:00

of the ignorance.

01:20:02 --> 01:20:04

We're coming down to the end, folks.

01:20:06 --> 01:20:08

And we'll open it up for some comments

01:20:08 --> 01:20:10

and questions. A little dialectic.

01:20:13 --> 01:20:14

We haven't given 4 o'clock, so

01:20:15 --> 01:20:17

this is my 10th slide. I only have

01:20:17 --> 01:20:17

11.

01:20:19 --> 01:20:21

Another pillar of postmodernism

01:20:21 --> 01:20:23

is named Frank Lentrichia.

01:20:28 --> 01:20:30

He said that the very purpose

01:20:30 --> 01:20:31

of a college education

01:20:32 --> 01:20:33

is to exercise

01:20:34 --> 01:20:35

power

01:20:35 --> 01:20:38

for the purpose of social change.

01:20:39 --> 01:20:42

Not to pursue virtue or truth. Why? Because

01:20:42 --> 01:20:43

truth is meaningless,

01:20:44 --> 01:20:45

and virtues are relative.

01:20:47 --> 01:20:49

Everything is our place.

01:20:50 --> 01:20:52

Life is all about our place.

01:20:53 --> 01:20:54

Human beings act,

01:20:55 --> 01:20:58

human beings don't act out of piety or

01:20:58 --> 01:20:59

morality.

01:21:00 --> 01:21:01

They just want power.

01:21:02 --> 01:21:03

In other words, according to postmodernists,

01:21:04 --> 01:21:05

the only worthwhile

01:21:05 --> 01:21:06

purpose

01:21:06 --> 01:21:08

of a college education

01:21:08 --> 01:21:11

is to create political activists.

01:21:13 --> 01:21:13

So postmodernism

01:21:14 --> 01:21:15

clearly has Marxist

01:21:16 --> 01:21:16

underpinnings,

01:21:17 --> 01:21:18

which are further highlighted

01:21:19 --> 01:21:20

by its relentless

01:21:20 --> 01:21:22

demand for radical

01:21:22 --> 01:21:23

egalitarianism

01:21:24 --> 01:21:26

in order to create some sort of

01:21:26 --> 01:21:27

communist,

01:21:27 --> 01:21:28

godless,

01:21:29 --> 01:21:30

raceless, genderless, classless,

01:21:31 --> 01:21:32

utopia on Earth,

01:21:33 --> 01:21:35

where technology reigns supreme.

01:21:36 --> 01:21:38

No. You have to pursue justice.

01:21:38 --> 01:21:40

No doubt about it.

01:21:40 --> 01:21:41

But,

01:21:42 --> 01:21:43

infinite justice,

01:21:44 --> 01:21:45

spoiler alert,

01:21:46 --> 01:21:49

will never be recognized, will never be achieved,

01:21:49 --> 01:21:51

will never be actualized in the dunya.

01:21:52 --> 01:21:54

Never. That's the whole point of Yom al

01:21:54 --> 01:21:55

Tayyam.

01:21:56 --> 01:21:59

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is al-'Adil.

01:21:59 --> 01:22:00

He is the

01:22:00 --> 01:22:02

absolute least jannah. It's only on that day

01:22:02 --> 01:22:04

will it will manifest. This doesn't mean that

01:22:04 --> 01:22:06

we should have worked towards justice on the

01:22:06 --> 01:22:07

earth. Of course we do.

01:22:08 --> 01:22:09

Imam al Quirtebay said the basis of our

01:22:09 --> 01:22:12

Sharia is ada and is justice. Of course.

01:22:13 --> 01:22:14

But this unnatural

01:22:14 --> 01:22:15

obsession

01:22:16 --> 01:22:17

for earthly justice,

01:22:17 --> 01:22:18

to the point where I go to an

01:22:18 --> 01:22:21

MSA at a university and the students aren't

01:22:21 --> 01:22:24

praying. They'd rather go protest than pray.

01:22:25 --> 01:22:28

What's going on? Very strange. And when I

01:22:28 --> 01:22:30

tell them we should pray, it takes priority,

01:22:30 --> 01:22:31

they'll look at me like I'm some sort

01:22:31 --> 01:22:32

of

01:22:32 --> 01:22:33

Buddha.

01:22:34 --> 01:22:35

What is this Buddha talking about?

01:22:37 --> 01:22:38

He's out of touch. He's he's an old

01:22:38 --> 01:22:39

man.

01:22:39 --> 01:22:40

Not as old as us.

01:22:43 --> 01:22:44

So

01:22:45 --> 01:22:47

they espouse the misguided proposition

01:22:48 --> 01:22:49

that inequality

01:22:50 --> 01:22:52

is always due to inequity.

01:22:53 --> 01:22:56

In other words, if another social group is

01:22:56 --> 01:22:59

doing better than your group, then you must

01:22:59 --> 01:23:01

be victims of their oppression.

01:23:02 --> 01:23:03

This is this type of explanatory

01:23:04 --> 01:23:04

monism.

01:23:05 --> 01:23:06

There are no other factors,

01:23:07 --> 01:23:09

they say. It's always oppression.

01:23:10 --> 01:23:12

Why are these ideas detrimental to believers?

01:23:14 --> 01:23:15

Because they completely eliminate

01:23:16 --> 01:23:17

gratitude.

01:23:18 --> 01:23:18

Shukum.

01:23:20 --> 01:23:22

They they they they foster this idea that

01:23:22 --> 01:23:24

everyone's out to get me and I'm a

01:23:24 --> 01:23:25

perpetual victim.

01:23:25 --> 01:23:27

There's no time to be grateful.

01:23:28 --> 01:23:28

Shukr

01:23:29 --> 01:23:31

and Kufur are just juxtaposed

01:23:32 --> 01:23:34

in the Quran. They're antonents.

01:23:34 --> 01:23:35

They're opposites.

01:23:40 --> 01:23:42

Remember? Or have regard for me so that

01:23:42 --> 01:23:43

I might have regard for you.

01:23:44 --> 01:23:46

Be grateful to me and don't disbelieve. In

01:23:46 --> 01:23:49

other words, to be ungrateful is to disbelieve.

01:23:49 --> 01:23:52

In other words, the word kafir in Arabic

01:23:52 --> 01:23:53

means ingrate.

01:23:55 --> 01:23:57

They eliminate this philosophy

01:23:57 --> 01:23:58

eliminates

01:23:58 --> 01:23:59

shukur. It eliminates

01:24:00 --> 01:24:00

humility.

01:24:01 --> 01:24:04

Tawadur, this idea of if I'm not progressing

01:24:04 --> 01:24:07

in the dunya, maybe I'm doing something wrong.

01:24:07 --> 01:24:08

What have I done?

01:24:09 --> 01:24:11

Eliminate No. You're a victim. They're out to

01:24:11 --> 01:24:12

get you.

01:24:13 --> 01:24:15

It eliminates introspection, muhazaba,

01:24:15 --> 01:24:18

the self audit. Sit down for 5 minutes

01:24:18 --> 01:24:19

and think about

01:24:19 --> 01:24:21

what am I doing to aina 10th haboom?

01:24:21 --> 01:24:23

Where am I going? What have I done?

01:24:24 --> 01:24:26

It eliminates personal responsibility.

01:24:27 --> 01:24:28

The prophet

01:24:35 --> 01:24:37

All of you are shepherds, and all of

01:24:37 --> 01:24:38

you will be questioned.

01:24:38 --> 01:24:39

All of you are responsible

01:24:40 --> 01:24:41

for your flock.

01:24:42 --> 01:24:44

Who who are your flock? Your your intellect,

01:24:44 --> 01:24:46

your faculties, your limbs, your children, your spouses,

01:24:46 --> 01:24:47

your parents.

01:24:48 --> 01:24:50

It'll be questioned personal responsibility.

01:24:51 --> 01:24:54

These ideas coming out of university, they promote

01:24:54 --> 01:24:55

self victimization.

01:24:56 --> 01:24:58

And to and to play the victim,

01:24:58 --> 01:25:00

according to Roger Scruton,

01:25:00 --> 01:25:03

is an assault on rationality

01:25:03 --> 01:25:04

in the public discourse.

01:25:06 --> 01:25:08

It is a cop out. It is lazy.

01:25:08 --> 01:25:10

We must take ownership for ourselves.

01:25:10 --> 01:25:13

We must stop blaming other people for our

01:25:13 --> 01:25:13

problems.

01:25:14 --> 01:25:15

The prophet

01:25:16 --> 01:25:17

did not victimize

01:25:17 --> 01:25:17

himself.

01:25:18 --> 01:25:20

One of my teachers mentioned that the Satan

01:25:20 --> 01:25:21

versus Adam

01:25:21 --> 01:25:23

paradigm, the satanic

01:25:23 --> 01:25:24

versus Adamic

01:25:25 --> 01:25:25

paradigm.

01:25:26 --> 01:25:27

That that,

01:25:28 --> 01:25:29

shaitan,

01:25:29 --> 01:25:30

when Allah

01:25:31 --> 01:25:33

expelled him from the garden, he said,

01:25:34 --> 01:25:34

because

01:25:37 --> 01:25:39

you caused me to error,

01:25:39 --> 01:25:40

you did this.

01:25:41 --> 01:25:43

I will lie and wait for them.

01:25:44 --> 01:25:44

Your servant

01:25:45 --> 01:25:47

will come at them from all directions.

01:25:48 --> 01:25:49

Shifts responsibility.

01:25:49 --> 01:25:50

Victimizes

01:25:50 --> 01:25:53

himself. You did this. It's like this. Why

01:25:53 --> 01:25:56

would why would Allah create people like that?

01:25:56 --> 01:25:58

Why didn't Allah do that?

01:25:58 --> 01:26:00

Allah will well, yes, alumnmaguri.

01:26:01 --> 01:26:04

Allah can do whatever he wants. Who who

01:26:04 --> 01:26:07

the heck are you to question Allah Nothing.

01:26:08 --> 01:26:09

You don't need to exist.

01:26:10 --> 01:26:11

If you die tomorrow,

01:26:12 --> 01:26:13

your neighbor

01:26:13 --> 01:26:15

will be eating his Cheerios,

01:26:15 --> 01:26:17

and you'll think for a second, oh, that

01:26:17 --> 01:26:17

guy died.

01:26:18 --> 01:26:19

Can you pass the milk?

01:26:20 --> 01:26:21

You're not that important.

01:26:25 --> 01:26:26

Really? Sorry to be so

01:26:27 --> 01:26:28

expressive.

01:26:29 --> 01:26:30

But Adam.

01:26:32 --> 01:26:34

Allah is a doer of everything. That's that's

01:26:34 --> 01:26:37

the theological point. He does everything. But look

01:26:37 --> 01:26:37

at the attitude,

01:26:38 --> 01:26:40

because you did this to me. That's that's

01:26:40 --> 01:26:44

shaitan. What what Adam, alayhis salaam. Rabbanah and

01:26:44 --> 01:26:46

Eve, Rabbanah is plural. This is this is

01:26:46 --> 01:26:48

a first person common plural. So,

01:26:49 --> 01:26:51

Eve alayhi salaam is also making this dua.

01:27:02 --> 01:27:04

And if you don't have mercy on us,

01:27:04 --> 01:27:05

we'll be lost.

01:27:05 --> 01:27:06

See the difference?

01:27:07 --> 01:27:08

One self victimizes.

01:27:11 --> 01:27:14

One, makes toba, wala subhanahu wa ta'ala.

01:27:14 --> 01:27:16

The most dangerous thing about this philosophy coming

01:27:16 --> 01:27:17

out of universities,

01:27:17 --> 01:27:20

it cuts off Torah. Because if there's no

01:27:20 --> 01:27:23

objective morality, you can't break any moral laws.

01:27:23 --> 01:27:24

There's no need for Torah.

01:27:26 --> 01:27:27

It's like,

01:27:28 --> 01:27:29

well, even though he's a Christian,

01:27:30 --> 01:27:31

president Trump

01:27:32 --> 01:27:34

who was asked, have you ever asked God

01:27:34 --> 01:27:34

for forgiveness?

01:27:35 --> 01:27:37

I don't feel the need to

01:27:39 --> 01:27:41

I don't think I've ever been wrong.

01:27:43 --> 01:27:43

Okay.

01:27:45 --> 01:27:45

Christians.

01:27:46 --> 01:27:47

These postmodernist

01:27:47 --> 01:27:48

ideas

01:27:48 --> 01:27:52

caused major conflicts between human beings,

01:27:52 --> 01:27:54

pinning them against each other

01:27:54 --> 01:27:57

in a never ending grab for power.

01:27:58 --> 01:28:00

Black man against white man,

01:28:01 --> 01:28:03

Male against female. Rich against poor.

01:28:04 --> 01:28:04

To paraphrase,

01:28:05 --> 01:28:08

Professor Jordan Peterson, I tend to agree with

01:28:08 --> 01:28:09

him on this point.

01:28:10 --> 01:28:12

If you're sitting in a university classroom,

01:28:12 --> 01:28:15

and you hear things like white privilege,

01:28:16 --> 01:28:17

toxic masculinity,

01:28:18 --> 01:28:19

oppressive patriarchy,

01:28:20 --> 01:28:21

cultural appropriation,

01:28:22 --> 01:28:23

mansplaining,

01:28:24 --> 01:28:24

intersectionality.

01:28:26 --> 01:28:28

You should know that you're being ideologically

01:28:28 --> 01:28:29

and politically

01:28:30 --> 01:28:30

wounded.

01:28:31 --> 01:28:33

That is more properly indoctrination

01:28:34 --> 01:28:35

than education.

01:28:35 --> 01:28:38

Don't play the dirty game of identity politics.

01:28:39 --> 01:28:41

We need to interrogate ideas

01:28:41 --> 01:28:42

irrespective

01:28:43 --> 01:28:45

of the identity of the person

01:28:45 --> 01:28:48

who is espousing those ideas. In other words,

01:28:48 --> 01:28:49

treat people as individuals,

01:28:50 --> 01:28:52

not as part of groups. That doesn't work

01:28:52 --> 01:28:52

anymore.

01:28:53 --> 01:28:54

I give you a story. I I I

01:28:54 --> 01:28:56

was in a I gave a lecture one

01:28:56 --> 01:28:59

time, and I said something about Christianity in

01:28:59 --> 01:28:59

the lecture.

01:29:00 --> 01:29:03

And a brother from the audience after the

01:29:03 --> 01:29:05

lecture, he is a convert. He came up

01:29:05 --> 01:29:06

to me and he said, you should never

01:29:06 --> 01:29:07

talk about Christianity.

01:29:08 --> 01:29:10

He He doesn't know anything about my background.

01:29:11 --> 01:29:12

I said, why not? He said, because you

01:29:12 --> 01:29:13

were never Christian.

01:29:14 --> 01:29:16

I said, I have a an MA in

01:29:16 --> 01:29:18

New Testament. I have a PhD in comparative

01:29:18 --> 01:29:18

religion.

01:29:19 --> 01:29:20

He said, it doesn't matter.

01:29:21 --> 01:29:22

You are not allowed

01:29:23 --> 01:29:24

to talk about Christianity

01:29:25 --> 01:29:26

if you were never a Christian.

01:29:28 --> 01:29:29

What did I say? Did I say something

01:29:29 --> 01:29:31

wrong? No. What you said was correct.

01:29:32 --> 01:29:33

Yeah?

01:29:34 --> 01:29:36

Look, if a straight, white, Christian man

01:29:37 --> 01:29:38

criticizes

01:29:38 --> 01:29:38

Islam

01:29:39 --> 01:29:40

or Muslims,

01:29:40 --> 01:29:42

that does not make him a racist.

01:29:43 --> 01:29:45

It is a non sequitur argument.

01:29:46 --> 01:29:48

Don't play the dirty game.

01:29:48 --> 01:29:51

I actually agree with Sam Harris on this

01:29:51 --> 01:29:51

one.

01:29:52 --> 01:29:54

Do you remember what happened on Bill Barr's

01:29:54 --> 01:29:56

show with Batman,

01:29:58 --> 01:29:58

Backflick?

01:30:01 --> 01:30:03

So Sam Harris was criticizing Islam,

01:30:03 --> 01:30:05

and he says that's racist.

01:30:06 --> 01:30:07

It's not racist.

01:30:07 --> 01:30:10

Islam is a set of ideas. It's not

01:30:10 --> 01:30:13

a race. People can criticize it. Don't be

01:30:13 --> 01:30:15

so quick to jump the gun and call

01:30:15 --> 01:30:17

people racist. That's a cop out.

01:30:17 --> 01:30:19

That doesn't work. That's a weakness.

01:30:21 --> 01:30:22

And if you say that a white man

01:30:22 --> 01:30:24

is not allowed to speak about Islam,

01:30:25 --> 01:30:27

that ironically is racism.

01:30:28 --> 01:30:30

Look at his statement.

01:30:30 --> 01:30:33

If it's wrong, rip it apart. Don't rip

01:30:33 --> 01:30:36

him apart. Don't go after the man. Don't

01:30:36 --> 01:30:37

be ad hominem.

01:30:37 --> 01:30:38

Look at the argument.

01:30:40 --> 01:30:41

Sometimes ad hominem

01:30:42 --> 01:30:42

is,

01:30:43 --> 01:30:46

effective and rhetoric. It has to be tempered.

01:30:48 --> 01:30:49

Now

01:30:49 --> 01:30:52

now we have post modernist talking about

01:30:53 --> 01:30:54

the elimination

01:30:54 --> 01:30:55

of hierarchical

01:30:56 --> 01:30:56

structures,

01:30:57 --> 01:30:59

even within the family unit.

01:30:59 --> 01:31:01

This is what they learn in social sciences

01:31:01 --> 01:31:02

class.

01:31:02 --> 01:31:04

Because according to them,

01:31:04 --> 01:31:05

gender

01:31:05 --> 01:31:06

roles are an impressive

01:31:07 --> 01:31:08

social construct

01:31:08 --> 01:31:10

and just another manifestation

01:31:10 --> 01:31:12

of the evil patriarchy.

01:31:13 --> 01:31:15

And if Judith Butler at UC Berkeley says

01:31:15 --> 01:31:17

it, then it must be true. She's the

01:31:17 --> 01:31:18

one that always wins the award for the

01:31:18 --> 01:31:20

most incoherent book ever written. Every year she

01:31:20 --> 01:31:21

writes it.

01:31:22 --> 01:31:24

And check this out. Postmodernist professor

01:31:24 --> 01:31:25

Andrea Dworkin

01:31:26 --> 01:31:28

compared a married woman

01:31:29 --> 01:31:31

to being a man's, quote, chattel.

01:31:33 --> 01:31:36

She said, quote, a mere a normal man

01:31:36 --> 01:31:39

operates in the mode of predation,

01:31:40 --> 01:31:41

end quote.

01:31:41 --> 01:31:43

In other words, a normal man

01:31:43 --> 01:31:44

a normal man

01:31:45 --> 01:31:46

is a predator.

01:31:47 --> 01:31:49

This is what college students are reading.

01:31:50 --> 01:31:53

So a further assault upon traditional marriage

01:31:53 --> 01:31:54

and a reinforcement

01:31:55 --> 01:31:57

of the man versus woman paradigm.

01:31:58 --> 01:32:00

You see, our religion does not pit men

01:32:00 --> 01:32:01

against women

01:32:01 --> 01:32:02

in some radically

01:32:03 --> 01:32:03

antagonistic

01:32:04 --> 01:32:05

battle of the sexes.

01:32:06 --> 01:32:07

They're not in competition.

01:32:08 --> 01:32:10

They excel in different areas

01:32:10 --> 01:32:12

and complement each other. You ever heard of

01:32:12 --> 01:32:13

Hadid? Hadid?

01:32:14 --> 01:32:16

Right? You're not a complete person unless you're

01:32:16 --> 01:32:19

married. Based on their huddle, based on their

01:32:19 --> 01:32:19

biology,

01:32:20 --> 01:32:20

their hardwirings,

01:32:21 --> 01:32:23

Where it suits them, post modernists pretend like

01:32:23 --> 01:32:26

biology doesn't exist and everything is a social

01:32:26 --> 01:32:29

construct. There is some social instruction,

01:32:29 --> 01:32:32

but it is limited. It is certainly not

01:32:32 --> 01:32:32

everything.

01:32:33 --> 01:32:34

In our tradition,

01:32:34 --> 01:32:37

men and women are equal spiritually,

01:32:38 --> 01:32:39

but not the same

01:32:39 --> 01:32:40

biologically.

01:32:41 --> 01:32:42

You ready for the

01:32:43 --> 01:32:45

and and I forgot to give the disclaimer.

01:32:45 --> 01:32:48

My views do not necessarily represent those who

01:32:48 --> 01:32:49

that's easy.

01:32:50 --> 01:32:52

I'm gonna drop them off on you. Ready?

01:32:52 --> 01:32:55

There are not equal rights in the sharia.

01:32:57 --> 01:32:58

There are not

01:32:59 --> 01:33:00

equal rights

01:33:00 --> 01:33:03

in the sharia, but equitable rights.

01:33:08 --> 01:33:10

And and for her

01:33:10 --> 01:33:11

are rights

01:33:11 --> 01:33:13

equitable, and for

01:33:14 --> 01:33:16

her and for her are rights similar to

01:33:16 --> 01:33:18

what is against her, equitable, according to what

01:33:18 --> 01:33:21

is known, self evident.

01:33:22 --> 01:33:24

For example, a woman must cover her head.

01:33:25 --> 01:33:26

Do I have to cover my head?

01:33:27 --> 01:33:28

Do I have to?

01:33:29 --> 01:33:32

We have unequal rights. It's, by definition, unequal.

01:33:32 --> 01:33:34

And man can marry 4 women.

01:33:34 --> 01:33:36

Can a woman marry 4 men?

01:33:37 --> 01:33:39

A man must support his wife financially.

01:33:40 --> 01:33:42

Can he elect not to and have his

01:33:42 --> 01:33:43

wife support him financially?

01:33:44 --> 01:33:46

A woman is excused from prayer during her

01:33:46 --> 01:33:47

menses.

01:33:47 --> 01:33:50

You see, we live in reality.

01:33:51 --> 01:33:52

We live in reality. These

01:33:53 --> 01:33:56

gender theorists and social justice activists,

01:33:56 --> 01:33:57

SJW,

01:33:58 --> 01:34:01

social justice warriors, they live in La La

01:34:01 --> 01:34:01

Land.

01:34:01 --> 01:34:03

They live and I'm done. Don't don't don't

01:34:03 --> 01:34:04

mean Los Angeles.

01:34:05 --> 01:34:07

Some of them do though.

01:34:08 --> 01:34:09

Some of them even say that men and

01:34:09 --> 01:34:12

women are exactly the same, even physically.

01:34:15 --> 01:34:17

I'd like to see where this goes.

01:34:18 --> 01:34:19

Right? Because I want LeBron James to wake

01:34:19 --> 01:34:20

up tomorrow morning.

01:34:21 --> 01:34:23

I want him to say, you know what?

01:34:23 --> 01:34:24

Gender is a social construct.

01:34:25 --> 01:34:26

I feel like a woman.

01:34:27 --> 01:34:28

I'm gonna join the WNBA.

01:34:31 --> 01:34:32

Good luck.

01:34:34 --> 01:34:35

Good luck. Wilt Chamberlain's

01:34:36 --> 01:34:37

record is going down.

01:34:40 --> 01:34:43

There is an MAM, a mixed martial arts

01:34:43 --> 01:34:44

fighter, Falon Fox,

01:34:45 --> 01:34:45

biologically

01:34:45 --> 01:34:46

male,

01:34:46 --> 01:34:48

but identifies as a woman,

01:34:49 --> 01:34:51

and is sending women to the hospital,

01:34:52 --> 01:34:55

beating women up. This this is a man.

01:34:55 --> 01:34:57

He has the the the frame of a

01:34:57 --> 01:35:01

man. Men have bone density that's thicker, huge

01:35:01 --> 01:35:02

edge, incredible

01:35:02 --> 01:35:03

muscles.

01:35:04 --> 01:35:06

Sending these women to the optic gets anything.

01:35:07 --> 01:35:08

If you say, oh, this is a mess.

01:35:08 --> 01:35:10

Oh, you're a transphobe. You're a bigot.

01:35:12 --> 01:35:13

So on and so forth.

01:35:14 --> 01:35:15

Remember this guy, John McEnroe?

01:35:16 --> 01:35:18

He was, he actually heard him on TV

01:35:18 --> 01:35:20

today. It's the US Open. The commentator.

01:35:21 --> 01:35:23

He got in some hot water because he

01:35:23 --> 01:35:25

was on a radio show and he said,

01:35:25 --> 01:35:27

you know, I think being, Serena Williams is

01:35:27 --> 01:35:30

the greatest female tennis player of all time.

01:35:30 --> 01:35:33

That's what he said. That comment got him

01:35:33 --> 01:35:33

hot water.

01:35:34 --> 01:35:35

Isn't that a compliment?

01:35:35 --> 01:35:37

Yeah. The host said, what do you what

01:35:37 --> 01:35:39

do you mean by that? It's like, what?

01:35:40 --> 01:35:42

Because I know it's like, what?

01:35:43 --> 01:35:43

What?

01:35:45 --> 01:35:47

Why didn't you say she's the greatest? Period.

01:35:49 --> 01:35:51

And he said because She's a female. She's

01:35:51 --> 01:35:51

not.

01:35:52 --> 01:35:55

And then Venus Serena Williams was asked later,

01:35:55 --> 01:35:56

if you played with the men, how would

01:35:56 --> 01:35:59

you fare? She said, I wouldn't even be

01:35:59 --> 01:36:00

in the top 100.

01:36:02 --> 01:36:04

That's it. That's Yeah. But people want to

01:36:04 --> 01:36:06

equalize. I mean, if you mean that she's

01:36:06 --> 01:36:08

the greatest pound for pound,

01:36:08 --> 01:36:09

you know, they say like,

01:36:10 --> 01:36:11

what's the guy? Mayweather.

01:36:12 --> 01:36:15

Mayweather is the greatest boxer pound for pound.

01:36:15 --> 01:36:17

In all things being equal, he's better than

01:36:17 --> 01:36:19

let's say Mike Tyson or Muhammad Ali.

01:36:19 --> 01:36:20

Right?

01:36:20 --> 01:36:22

If she meant it like that No, she

01:36:22 --> 01:36:23

didn't mean it like that. Just say she's

01:36:23 --> 01:36:24

the best of it.

01:36:25 --> 01:36:26

But she's not.

01:36:27 --> 01:36:27

Interesting.

01:36:29 --> 01:36:31

Men and women differ physically.

01:36:32 --> 01:36:37

They process emotion differently. Usually, women process emotion

01:36:37 --> 01:36:38

better than men.

01:36:38 --> 01:36:41

Their brains work differently. Their brains are different

01:36:41 --> 01:36:41

sizes.

01:36:42 --> 01:36:43

They have different interests.

01:36:44 --> 01:36:47

Men have more interest in things,

01:36:47 --> 01:36:48

women with people.

01:36:49 --> 01:36:52

That's why children tend to play little boys

01:36:52 --> 01:36:54

tend to play with trucks, and women with

01:36:54 --> 01:36:57

dolls, girls with dolls. You heard the Scandinavian

01:36:57 --> 01:36:59

studies. Right? Or if you look at the

01:36:59 --> 01:37:00

countries in Scandinavia,

01:37:01 --> 01:37:03

and doctor Peterson also brings this up a

01:37:03 --> 01:37:05

lot, very interesting study because European studies are

01:37:05 --> 01:37:07

interesting because there isn't a lot of religious

01:37:07 --> 01:37:09

baggage there, but not very religious people.

01:37:09 --> 01:37:10

And

01:37:10 --> 01:37:12

ethnically, it's very homogeneous.

01:37:13 --> 01:37:14

So there's there's

01:37:14 --> 01:37:17

incredible equality in these countries, as it were,

01:37:17 --> 01:37:18

between the sexes.

01:37:19 --> 01:37:20

And it shows that

01:37:21 --> 01:37:23

that when people are left to their own

01:37:23 --> 01:37:24

devices,

01:37:24 --> 01:37:28

women gravitate towards traditional female occupations

01:37:29 --> 01:37:31

and men gravitate towards traditional

01:37:31 --> 01:37:32

male occupations.

01:37:33 --> 01:37:35

There are 20 male engineers to every one

01:37:35 --> 01:37:38

female engineer in the Scandinavian countries. There are

01:37:38 --> 01:37:38

20,

01:37:40 --> 01:37:40

teachers

01:37:41 --> 01:37:42

and caretakers and nurses.

01:37:45 --> 01:37:47

The Fincher now comes through. You can see

01:37:47 --> 01:37:48

that.

01:37:48 --> 01:37:49

It's very interesting.

01:37:50 --> 01:37:52

Gender roles are determined by biology.

01:37:53 --> 01:37:55

Women are naturally better caregivers

01:37:56 --> 01:37:57

than men.

01:37:58 --> 01:38:00

Again, that statement there will get me thrown

01:38:00 --> 01:38:01

out

01:38:02 --> 01:38:03

of a psychology,

01:38:03 --> 01:38:04

sociology,

01:38:04 --> 01:38:04

anthropology

01:38:05 --> 01:38:07

class. How do we know that no one

01:38:07 --> 01:38:09

may have *? That's one vision.

01:38:09 --> 01:38:11

Right? That's just obvious.

01:38:12 --> 01:38:15

Right? Men are more suited for manual labor.

01:38:16 --> 01:38:16

That's why,

01:38:17 --> 01:38:19

men have 40% more upper body strength than

01:38:19 --> 01:38:21

women on average.

01:38:22 --> 01:38:24

And so, back to date, US Open,

01:38:24 --> 01:38:27

he hit the ball a 140 miles an

01:38:27 --> 01:38:27

hour

01:38:28 --> 01:38:29

on a serve. Even

01:38:30 --> 01:38:32

the Fed was like, woah. It's getting fed.

01:38:33 --> 01:38:33

Right?

01:38:35 --> 01:38:36

He's the GOAT.

01:38:40 --> 01:38:41

Men deal with stress,

01:38:42 --> 01:38:42

men,

01:38:43 --> 01:38:45

deal with stress better, yet they have

01:38:45 --> 01:38:46

shorter lifespans,

01:38:48 --> 01:38:51

but they process emotion in a worse way.

01:38:52 --> 01:38:54

Multiple studies have shown that the IQs of

01:38:54 --> 01:38:56

men are less predictable

01:38:56 --> 01:38:58

than that of women. Men are all over

01:38:58 --> 01:38:59

the place in the IQ.

01:38:59 --> 01:39:00

Women

01:39:00 --> 01:39:02

tend to cluster around the meaning.

01:39:03 --> 01:39:06

We are different because we complete each other.

01:39:07 --> 01:39:09

So reality is, net,

01:39:15 --> 01:39:17

Charles University, which is in Prague. Again, you

01:39:17 --> 01:39:19

know, South European studies are very, very interesting.

01:39:21 --> 01:39:22

Studies on married couples,

01:39:23 --> 01:39:24

Charles University.

01:39:25 --> 01:39:27

They found that marriages in which one spouse

01:39:27 --> 01:39:28

was dominant,

01:39:29 --> 01:39:31

by dominant, I don't mean oppressive

01:39:31 --> 01:39:34

I mean they had the final authority, the

01:39:34 --> 01:39:35

recognized leader in the household.

01:39:36 --> 01:39:39

The study found that marriages, where one spouse

01:39:39 --> 01:39:40

was dominant,

01:39:44 --> 01:39:46

were the happiest of narrative,

01:39:48 --> 01:39:48

and 77%

01:39:49 --> 01:39:51

of them were male dominated.

01:39:52 --> 01:39:54

So there's a good reason why

01:39:55 --> 01:39:55

Allah

01:39:56 --> 01:39:56

said,

01:40:00 --> 01:40:03

That men are the supporters of maintainers, men

01:40:03 --> 01:40:06

stand over women. There's a reason why Paul

01:40:06 --> 01:40:07

says in the New Testament, I don't agree

01:40:07 --> 01:40:09

with everything that Paul says. He says the

01:40:09 --> 01:40:11

head of the woman is the man. The

01:40:11 --> 01:40:14

head of man is Christ. The head of

01:40:14 --> 01:40:15

Christ is God.

01:40:16 --> 01:40:17

These weren't written.

01:40:17 --> 01:40:19

These texts were not written by misogynists

01:40:20 --> 01:40:22

trying to oppress women. They were written in

01:40:22 --> 01:40:24

accordance with reality.

01:40:24 --> 01:40:28

That leads to greater happiness according to secular

01:40:28 --> 01:40:28

studies

01:40:29 --> 01:40:31

done in 2016, 17, 18.

01:40:32 --> 01:40:32

Hierarchies

01:40:33 --> 01:40:35

work. They are a part of life.

01:40:35 --> 01:40:38

Most of the time, they're based on competence,

01:40:38 --> 01:40:40

not biological factors,

01:40:41 --> 01:40:42

not power dynamics.

01:40:43 --> 01:40:44

They work in the market, they work in

01:40:44 --> 01:40:47

the workplace, military, they work in school and

01:40:47 --> 01:40:48

in the household.

01:40:49 --> 01:40:51

And here's another problem.

01:40:51 --> 01:40:54

Young men are constantly being told

01:40:54 --> 01:40:56

that they are violent rapists.

01:40:58 --> 01:40:59

Now, it is true

01:41:00 --> 01:41:03

that men are a lot more violent than

01:41:03 --> 01:41:03

women.

01:41:04 --> 01:41:06

If you look at the prison population,

01:41:07 --> 01:41:09

90 to 95% of prisoners are men.

01:41:11 --> 01:41:12

And again, that's because

01:41:13 --> 01:41:15

women tend to deal with their emotions in

01:41:15 --> 01:41:16

healthier ways than men.

01:41:17 --> 01:41:17

Right?

01:41:18 --> 01:41:19

The answer, however,

01:41:20 --> 01:41:22

is not to feminize men.

01:41:23 --> 01:41:25

It's very interesting that

01:41:25 --> 01:41:27

testosterone levels are down 30%

01:41:28 --> 01:41:29

from just 30 years ago.

01:41:31 --> 01:41:31

30%.

01:41:33 --> 01:41:35

Men are becoming more and more effeminate.

01:41:36 --> 01:41:37

They're eating more and more soy.

01:41:38 --> 01:41:39

Don't eat soy.

01:41:41 --> 01:41:43

Soy increases estrogen.

01:41:43 --> 01:41:45

It's given to postmenopausal

01:41:45 --> 01:41:45

women.

01:41:46 --> 01:41:48

Don't eat soy. I was taking these men

01:41:48 --> 01:41:49

vitamins

01:41:50 --> 01:41:51

for a while,

01:41:51 --> 01:41:53

and I was like, let me just look

01:41:53 --> 01:41:54

at the ingredients. First ingredient,

01:41:55 --> 01:41:57

organic soy flour. Don't

01:42:01 --> 01:42:03

eat soy. Soy sales

01:42:04 --> 01:42:07

in 1990 Soy food sales in 1992 were

01:42:07 --> 01:42:07

300,000,000

01:42:08 --> 01:42:10

in the US. Now, they're 4,000,000,000.

01:42:12 --> 01:42:13

4,000,000,000.

01:42:13 --> 01:42:15

It is feminizing men.

01:42:16 --> 01:42:19

You see, masculinity is like a martial art.

01:42:20 --> 01:42:23

So so masculinity gravitates towards risk taking,

01:42:23 --> 01:42:24

ambition,

01:42:25 --> 01:42:25

assertiveness,

01:42:26 --> 01:42:27

competition

01:42:27 --> 01:42:28

and physicality.

01:42:29 --> 01:42:31

It's like a martial art. It's it can

01:42:31 --> 01:42:34

be used for murder, *, oppress,

01:42:34 --> 01:42:36

but also to protect and defend.

01:42:37 --> 01:42:39

If men are feminized, who will check the

01:42:39 --> 01:42:40

oppressors?

01:42:41 --> 01:42:43

We need strong,

01:42:43 --> 01:42:44

highly

01:42:44 --> 01:42:45

masculine men.

01:42:46 --> 01:42:47

We need them.

01:42:47 --> 01:42:49

The answer is not to feminize them. The

01:42:49 --> 01:42:51

answer is to,

01:42:52 --> 01:42:54

reform the masculinity and be truly masculine.

01:42:56 --> 01:42:59

And women actually prefer masculine men, despite which

01:42:59 --> 01:43:01

you prefer. She'll pick this. A woman at

01:43:01 --> 01:43:03

random, you want this guy? You know,

01:43:05 --> 01:43:07

a very, very, very thin with skinny jeans.

01:43:09 --> 01:43:12

You know, he's got a pink jacket on,

01:43:13 --> 01:43:15

and a little love patch.

01:43:15 --> 01:43:17

Sorry if people have frosted tips. Sorry if

01:43:17 --> 01:43:19

people have that. What do you want this

01:43:19 --> 01:43:22

guy? He does, you know, he's he's muscular

01:43:22 --> 01:43:23

and,

01:43:24 --> 01:43:25

you know, he's got decoys.

01:43:26 --> 01:43:28

He he plays rugby.

01:43:29 --> 01:43:29

Be honest.

01:43:36 --> 01:43:36

Be honest.

01:43:37 --> 01:43:38

That's the problem.

01:43:39 --> 01:43:40

Now,

01:43:41 --> 01:43:42

social constructionists

01:43:42 --> 01:43:44

are taking it to even crazier levels.

01:43:45 --> 01:43:47

Now, the trend is that children

01:43:47 --> 01:43:48

are seen

01:43:48 --> 01:43:50

as equal to parents

01:43:51 --> 01:43:51

in the household.

01:43:53 --> 01:43:55

There are 7, 8, and 9 year old

01:43:55 --> 01:43:55

children

01:43:55 --> 01:43:57

with gender dysphoria,

01:43:57 --> 01:43:58

demanding

01:43:58 --> 01:43:59

hormone therapy

01:44:00 --> 01:44:03

from their parents and their parents giving into

01:44:03 --> 01:44:03

the predator.

01:44:04 --> 01:44:07

Never mind the fact that hormone therapy

01:44:07 --> 01:44:08

sterilizes

01:44:08 --> 01:44:09

children,

01:44:09 --> 01:44:12

and that that out of the small fraction

01:44:13 --> 01:44:13

of children

01:44:14 --> 01:44:15

that have gender dysphoria,

01:44:16 --> 01:44:16

80%

01:44:17 --> 01:44:19

of them grow out of it.

01:44:19 --> 01:44:21

It's a phase that they come out of

01:44:22 --> 01:44:22

naturally.

01:44:22 --> 01:44:24

Said Nahdi said,

01:44:24 --> 01:44:26

childhood is a type of junun,

01:44:26 --> 01:44:28

is a type of insanity.

01:44:29 --> 01:44:29

They're children

01:44:31 --> 01:44:31

for a reason.

01:44:32 --> 01:44:33

We don't listen to children.

01:44:34 --> 01:44:36

A child who wants to touch a stove,

01:44:37 --> 01:44:38

right, goes, well,

01:44:40 --> 01:44:41

okay. No.

01:44:42 --> 01:44:44

But I wanna be a boy. Like my

01:44:44 --> 01:44:46

daughter, 4 years old, like last year, and

01:44:46 --> 01:44:48

she wanted to be Minnie Mouse.

01:44:49 --> 01:44:51

So what do I do? Start pumping her

01:44:51 --> 01:44:51

with,

01:44:52 --> 01:44:53

mouse hormones?

01:44:55 --> 01:44:57

And, you know, it's it's a new generation.

01:44:57 --> 01:44:58

They know better than us.

01:45:00 --> 01:45:03

80% of them grow out of it. 80%.

01:45:04 --> 01:45:05

Right? And those that don't grow out of

01:45:05 --> 01:45:06

it become,

01:45:07 --> 01:45:07

incredibly

01:45:08 --> 01:45:08

suicidal.

01:45:10 --> 01:45:12

Can't go back. I mean, maybe you could.

01:45:18 --> 01:45:20

I'll end with 2 pieces of advice

01:45:21 --> 01:45:23

for Muslims in colleges and universities. Now, going

01:45:23 --> 01:45:24

back to activism,

01:45:25 --> 01:45:27

when I give you sincere advice, in particular,

01:45:27 --> 01:45:28

Alisha,

01:45:28 --> 01:45:30

maybe you don't agree with a thing I

01:45:30 --> 01:45:30

said today.

01:45:31 --> 01:45:32

That's fine.

01:45:33 --> 01:45:34

I don't really care.

01:45:34 --> 01:45:37

And if I've offended you, don't care.

01:45:39 --> 01:45:40

Beware of activists.

01:45:41 --> 01:45:42

My first piece of advice.

01:45:42 --> 01:45:44

Beware of activists.

01:45:44 --> 01:45:46

Now tempered activism is effective.

01:45:47 --> 01:45:49

That activism without sacred el,

01:45:50 --> 01:45:52

without Tasqiatom nus,

01:45:52 --> 01:45:54

right, purification of the self,

01:45:55 --> 01:45:56

is very very dangerous.

01:45:57 --> 01:46:00

You're in college to gain knowledge, to grow

01:46:00 --> 01:46:01

intellectually,

01:46:02 --> 01:46:03

not to become these

01:46:03 --> 01:46:04

radicalized

01:46:04 --> 01:46:06

neo Marxist activists.

01:46:07 --> 01:46:09

To paraphrase a wise man, if you're going

01:46:09 --> 01:46:11

to march down the street and shout at

01:46:11 --> 01:46:14

people and wave signs, you have to really

01:46:14 --> 01:46:17

make sure that people is truly outside of

01:46:17 --> 01:46:19

you and not in your own heart.

01:46:20 --> 01:46:22

And quite often, activists who claim to be

01:46:22 --> 01:46:23

working for our best interests

01:46:24 --> 01:46:26

as Western Muslims are actually arming

01:46:27 --> 01:46:29

us as they ignorantly or deliberately

01:46:29 --> 01:46:30

antagonize

01:46:31 --> 01:46:32

entire groups of people.

01:46:33 --> 01:46:35

The vast majority of whom are totally innocent

01:46:35 --> 01:46:36

of any wrongdoing.

01:46:37 --> 01:46:38

Their postmodern

01:46:38 --> 01:46:39

race baiting,

01:46:40 --> 01:46:42

rhetoric of power, identity politics

01:46:43 --> 01:46:45

and obsession for earthly justice

01:46:46 --> 01:46:47

actually serves to galvanize

01:46:48 --> 01:46:50

groups of people against our Muslim communities,

01:46:51 --> 01:46:53

people who otherwise would have no problems with

01:46:53 --> 01:46:53

us.

01:46:54 --> 01:46:56

And not only do they contribute to our

01:46:56 --> 01:46:57

society's polarization,

01:46:58 --> 01:47:00

they also tend to misrepresent us

01:47:00 --> 01:47:03

as they form alliances with organizations and individuals

01:47:04 --> 01:47:06

whose positions about God, morality,

01:47:07 --> 01:47:09

and human life are disturbing, to say the

01:47:09 --> 01:47:10

very least.

01:47:11 --> 01:47:12

They are the quintessential

01:47:12 --> 01:47:13

products

01:47:13 --> 01:47:14

of the postmodernist

01:47:14 --> 01:47:16

university system.

01:47:16 --> 01:47:18

Be aware of them. The prophet, salallahu alayhi

01:47:18 --> 01:47:19

wasalam, he said,

01:47:28 --> 01:47:29

honor the scholars.

01:47:30 --> 01:47:32

They are the inheritors of the prophets.

01:47:32 --> 01:47:33

Whoever

01:47:33 --> 01:47:37

honors the scholars, honors Allah and His Messenger.

01:47:37 --> 01:47:38

Follow activist scholars.

01:47:39 --> 01:47:42

Activist scholars, people who have traditional training.

01:47:42 --> 01:47:43

People who are not going to do more

01:47:43 --> 01:47:44

damage than good.

01:47:46 --> 01:47:47

2nd piece of advice,

01:47:48 --> 01:47:50

form alliances with and brotherhoods

01:47:51 --> 01:47:52

and sisterhoods

01:47:52 --> 01:47:55

with Christians and Jews on campus.

01:47:55 --> 01:47:56

I think it's,

01:47:57 --> 01:47:59

time for the people of faith,

01:47:59 --> 01:48:02

the children of Abraham to come together.

01:48:02 --> 01:48:04

This is how we can change the monoculture

01:48:05 --> 01:48:06

of postmodern universities.

01:48:07 --> 01:48:09

In my opinion, in the English speaking world,

01:48:09 --> 01:48:11

the Ahmadidah days are over.

01:48:12 --> 01:48:14

Maybe in the Farsi speaking world, there's some

01:48:14 --> 01:48:15

utility for that.

01:48:16 --> 01:48:18

We can still debate, obviously, but with sophistication

01:48:19 --> 01:48:21

and academic rigor, not with hardcore

01:48:21 --> 01:48:24

polemics, and this is obviously a Quranic imperative.

01:48:24 --> 01:48:26

But at the end of the day, we

01:48:26 --> 01:48:28

must maintain a strong sense of respect

01:48:29 --> 01:48:31

for and solidarity

01:48:31 --> 01:48:31

with

01:48:32 --> 01:48:33

the Akhmed Pitah,

01:48:33 --> 01:48:36

because they are experiencing what we experience in

01:48:36 --> 01:48:37

these universities.

01:48:38 --> 01:48:41

They embrace the God of Moses and Jesus.

01:48:41 --> 01:48:44

They honor Abrahamic morality. When we attack Jews

01:48:44 --> 01:48:47

and Christians and disrespect their beliefs, their scriptures

01:48:47 --> 01:48:50

and traditions, we are playing right into the

01:48:50 --> 01:48:51

hands of the post modernists.

01:48:51 --> 01:48:54

They want us to eat each other.

01:48:54 --> 01:48:57

They're setting a trap for us, and we

01:48:57 --> 01:48:58

walk right into it.

01:48:59 --> 01:49:00

All this talk about banning the Bible and

01:49:00 --> 01:49:02

whatnot. You say, well, that has nothing to

01:49:02 --> 01:49:03

do with us.

01:49:04 --> 01:49:04

Soon it

01:49:05 --> 01:49:06

will. You'll see.

01:49:06 --> 01:49:08

You know, people going into homosexual

01:49:08 --> 01:49:11

people going purposely into Christian bakeries,

01:49:12 --> 01:49:13

right, and trying to run them out of

01:49:13 --> 01:49:14

business.

01:49:15 --> 01:49:18

You know? I mean, in Catholicism,

01:49:18 --> 01:49:19

marriage is a sacrament.

01:49:20 --> 01:49:22

You don't mess around with sacraments.

01:49:22 --> 01:49:23

And this is different than, like, if a

01:49:23 --> 01:49:25

black person comes into your bakery and you

01:49:25 --> 01:49:27

kick them out. Because then you're you're totally

01:49:27 --> 01:49:29

judging them based on their physical appearance.

01:49:29 --> 01:49:31

But here, it's the action that they want

01:49:31 --> 01:49:33

the baker to condone. It's an action.

01:49:34 --> 01:49:35

It's not based on their appearance.

01:49:36 --> 01:49:37

Right?

01:49:37 --> 01:49:39

In other words, one of the Christian bankers,

01:49:39 --> 01:49:40

he said, look, if they came in and

01:49:40 --> 01:49:42

say, bake me a birthday cake, I would

01:49:42 --> 01:49:43

do it. But if he say, bake me

01:49:43 --> 01:49:46

a wedding cake, that's a sacrament. I can't

01:49:46 --> 01:49:48

violate that. I'll go to *. I don't

01:49:48 --> 01:49:50

care what he what he says. And this

01:49:50 --> 01:49:52

person won. He took it to the Supreme

01:49:52 --> 01:49:54

Court and he won. They won for now.

01:49:58 --> 01:49:58

So,

01:49:59 --> 01:50:00

I mean, I used to teach at Saint

01:50:00 --> 01:50:03

Mary's College, which is a Catholic college.

01:50:03 --> 01:50:05

And Christian students would come to me all

01:50:05 --> 01:50:06

the time for advice,

01:50:08 --> 01:50:09

and I would just quote the New Testament

01:50:09 --> 01:50:10

to them.

01:50:12 --> 01:50:15

If the world hates you, Christ said, speaking

01:50:15 --> 01:50:17

to the disciple, if the world hates you,

01:50:17 --> 01:50:19

remember it hated me first.

01:50:20 --> 01:50:22

That's the nature of the dunya. The a'il

01:50:22 --> 01:50:24

of dunya always hate the a'il of the

01:50:24 --> 01:50:27

law. The geocentric, as it were, always hate

01:50:27 --> 01:50:28

the theocentric.

01:50:29 --> 01:50:30

So when apostasy increases,

01:50:31 --> 01:50:32

depression increases,

01:50:33 --> 01:50:36

despair increases. We have to give people hope,

01:50:36 --> 01:50:38

give them a sense of purpose,

01:50:38 --> 01:50:41

a goal. People nowadays are emotionally incontinent.

01:50:42 --> 01:50:44

A lot of it is due to social

01:50:44 --> 01:50:45

media addiction.

01:50:46 --> 01:50:49

Right? It's that dopamine, you know, that that

01:50:49 --> 01:50:52

light, that little bit of dopamine.

01:50:52 --> 01:50:54

My advice is, and I practice what I

01:50:54 --> 01:50:57

preach, get off completely of Facebook. Completely get

01:50:57 --> 01:50:59

off. Get off of all social media. That's

01:50:59 --> 01:51:01

just my advice. Maybe it's not practical for

01:51:01 --> 01:51:01

you,

01:51:03 --> 01:51:05

But, you know, when I was,

01:51:06 --> 01:51:08

on on Facebook 2 hours a day, and

01:51:08 --> 01:51:10

I'm trying to answer questions, and I'm trying

01:51:10 --> 01:51:13

to be the arbitrator of debates between my

01:51:13 --> 01:51:13

friends,

01:51:14 --> 01:51:16

it suddenly occurred to my mind. I was

01:51:16 --> 01:51:17

talking to brother earlier.

01:51:18 --> 01:51:19

It suddenly occurred to my mind,

01:51:20 --> 01:51:22

I'm not getting paid for this. What am

01:51:22 --> 01:51:24

I doing? Yeah. It got me.

01:51:25 --> 01:51:26

Shut it down.

01:51:27 --> 01:51:28

Had a nice

01:51:28 --> 01:51:29

cup of tea,

01:51:29 --> 01:51:31

fell into a deep

01:51:31 --> 01:51:31

sleep,

01:51:32 --> 01:51:34

and never missed it. Never wanna go back.

01:51:36 --> 01:51:39

So but, you know, self control, doctor Sacks,

01:51:39 --> 01:51:41

he said that the greatest indicator of success

01:51:42 --> 01:51:44

for a person later in life is self

01:51:44 --> 01:51:45

control as a child.

01:51:46 --> 01:51:47

Self control.

01:51:51 --> 01:51:53

We all have most of us have children.

01:51:53 --> 01:51:54

This is a big problem in all the

01:51:54 --> 01:51:55

houses. There are no exceptions.

01:51:56 --> 01:51:58

Big big issues. I think I

01:51:59 --> 01:52:00

buckle up here.

01:52:04 --> 01:52:06

We have about 15 minutes or so.

01:52:07 --> 01:52:08

We can maybe

01:52:09 --> 01:52:11

take some questions and more comments.

01:52:15 --> 01:52:18

So, Shaul, we, passed around a couple of

01:52:18 --> 01:52:19

baskets with,

01:52:20 --> 01:52:21

pens and cards.

01:52:22 --> 01:52:23

If you

01:52:23 --> 01:52:25

could, write your question down.

01:52:39 --> 01:52:41

Okay. Can you, first one is can you

01:52:41 --> 01:52:42

be liberal

01:52:42 --> 01:52:44

and follow the principles of Islam

01:52:45 --> 01:52:46

at the same time?

01:52:50 --> 01:52:50

Yeah.

01:52:52 --> 01:52:54

As long as, you know, as long as

01:52:57 --> 01:53:00

you don't advocate a type of belief that

01:53:00 --> 01:53:02

is clearly in violation

01:53:03 --> 01:53:04

of essential creed.

01:53:04 --> 01:53:05

Right?

01:53:05 --> 01:53:06

So,

01:53:06 --> 01:53:07

for example,

01:53:08 --> 01:53:10

you know, I I don't know how Muslims

01:53:10 --> 01:53:11

can justify homosexuality.

01:53:12 --> 01:53:13

I don't know how they can justify

01:53:14 --> 01:53:15

the late term abortion.

01:53:16 --> 01:53:19

These are all liberal causes. They're the cornerstone

01:53:20 --> 01:53:21

of the Democratic party.

01:53:24 --> 01:53:24

You know,

01:53:25 --> 01:53:26

I think I think we need to come

01:53:26 --> 01:53:27

together with conservatives.

01:53:29 --> 01:53:31

Really do. I we have so much more

01:53:31 --> 01:53:32

in common. Maybe this is not what you

01:53:32 --> 01:53:34

want to hear, but we have we have

01:53:34 --> 01:53:37

much more in common with Sarah Palin

01:53:37 --> 01:53:39

than we do with Hillary Clinton. A lot

01:53:39 --> 01:53:40

more in common.

01:53:41 --> 01:53:42

We can work with them. We can. And

01:53:42 --> 01:53:44

I'm not talking about the people of the

01:53:44 --> 01:53:47

extreme alt right. Right? I'm not talking about

01:53:47 --> 01:53:48

these extreme leftists, obviously.

01:53:49 --> 01:53:50

People have, you know, Antifa, things like that.

01:53:50 --> 01:53:52

I'm talking about people who are right of

01:53:52 --> 01:53:55

center, believe in god. They practice traditional morality.

01:53:56 --> 01:53:57

Right? They believe in scripture.

01:53:58 --> 01:54:00

The problem with them, however, is they have

01:54:00 --> 01:54:02

a total of this apprehension about us. Many

01:54:02 --> 01:54:04

of them, they think we're satanic and, you

01:54:04 --> 01:54:05

know,

01:54:05 --> 01:54:06

they think we're anti Christ.

01:54:07 --> 01:54:09

But a lot of them are reaching out

01:54:09 --> 01:54:10

to us. This is what I've noticed from

01:54:10 --> 01:54:13

my teachers. You have, very powerful,

01:54:14 --> 01:54:16

evangelical lobbies reaching out to some of my

01:54:16 --> 01:54:18

teachers saying, look, there was this incident, a

01:54:18 --> 01:54:20

16 year old boy or whatever, somewhere in

01:54:20 --> 01:54:22

the United States, who wanted to have hormone

01:54:22 --> 01:54:25

therapy. His parents said, no. The state removed

01:54:25 --> 01:54:27

him from the house. They're coming after our

01:54:27 --> 01:54:29

children. This is gonna happen to you,

01:54:30 --> 01:54:31

because you're a Muslim.

01:54:34 --> 01:54:35

So I think, ultimately,

01:54:35 --> 01:54:39

aligning ourselves with leftist is probably a mistake.

01:54:39 --> 01:54:41

I think it's done because of the mutual

01:54:41 --> 01:54:43

hatred of Trump. But when Trump is gone,

01:54:43 --> 01:54:45

they're gonna eat each other.

01:54:47 --> 01:54:49

Do Muslims have to be homophobic?

01:54:51 --> 01:54:53

So phobia means to be afraid.

01:54:54 --> 01:54:56

To quote doctor Omar Johnson, I'm not afraid

01:54:56 --> 01:54:57

of anybody.

01:54:58 --> 01:55:00

Supposing your neighbor is a homosexual

01:55:02 --> 01:55:04

or your friend. So, I think maybe what

01:55:04 --> 01:55:06

you mean is, do Muslims have to

01:55:09 --> 01:55:11

be unaccepting of the homosexual lifestyle?

01:55:12 --> 01:55:14

My understanding of orthodoxy,

01:55:14 --> 01:55:16

and I believe in orthodoxy, I believe in

01:55:16 --> 01:55:17

normative definition,

01:55:18 --> 01:55:19

is that homosexuality

01:55:19 --> 01:55:22

is completely inconsistent with the teachings of the

01:55:22 --> 01:55:24

Quran and the teachings of the Prophet

01:55:25 --> 01:55:25

Now,

01:55:26 --> 01:55:27

everyone's a sinner.

01:55:27 --> 01:55:28

Everybody.

01:55:29 --> 01:55:30

Kulubani adam khatamu

01:55:31 --> 01:55:33

is hahi. And there is an exception, of

01:55:33 --> 01:55:34

course, Uleiman the prophets.

01:55:35 --> 01:55:36

Right? Everyone's a sinner.

01:55:37 --> 01:55:38

Everyone needs a tawba.

01:55:39 --> 01:55:41

Right? So a man who's attracted to other

01:55:41 --> 01:55:43

men is still Muslim.

01:55:44 --> 01:55:46

It's not actually haram for a man to

01:55:46 --> 01:55:49

be attracted to other men. What is haram?

01:55:49 --> 01:55:51

It's to act out on that,

01:55:52 --> 01:55:53

desire inclination.

01:55:54 --> 01:55:56

Just as, like I said, there are men,

01:55:56 --> 01:55:58

grown men, who have proclivities towards children.

01:55:59 --> 01:56:02

Right? The important thing is not to act

01:56:02 --> 01:56:03

out on that.

01:56:03 --> 01:56:04

Uh-huh.

01:56:05 --> 01:56:08

So if one denies that so the difference

01:56:08 --> 01:56:08

between,

01:56:11 --> 01:56:12

if if if one

01:56:13 --> 01:56:13

denies

01:56:14 --> 01:56:14

clear

01:56:15 --> 01:56:18

indication, clear injunction in the Quran and the

01:56:18 --> 01:56:20

hadith, If they deny that, then this is

01:56:20 --> 01:56:22

kuhu, no no longer Muslim.

01:56:23 --> 01:56:24

But if one recognizes

01:56:25 --> 01:56:27

even if one engages in the act, but

01:56:27 --> 01:56:28

they recognize that it's a sin in the

01:56:28 --> 01:56:30

maketobah, they still remain within Islam.

01:56:32 --> 01:56:34

Right? Because an act does not take you

01:56:34 --> 01:56:36

out of Islam according at least according to

01:56:36 --> 01:56:38

the Hanafi, no act takes you out of

01:56:38 --> 01:56:40

Islam, only a denial

01:56:40 --> 01:56:41

of what page you booked in in the

01:56:41 --> 01:56:44

first place. The only exception to that is

01:56:44 --> 01:56:46

if you violate the sacred symbols of God.

01:56:46 --> 01:56:48

Like, for example, you you,

01:56:49 --> 01:56:50

you insult the prophet

01:56:50 --> 01:56:53

or you desecrate the Kaaba or desecrate a

01:56:53 --> 01:56:55

musha or something like that. It can still

01:56:55 --> 01:56:58

remain within Islam. Just make Tawba. People have

01:56:58 --> 01:57:01

inclinations. People make mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes. Don't

01:57:01 --> 01:57:02

leave Tawba.

01:57:07 --> 01:57:10

As a student taking a philosophy course in

01:57:10 --> 01:57:10

college,

01:57:11 --> 01:57:13

saying morality is relative, no real truth,

01:57:14 --> 01:57:15

What can I do to not fall into

01:57:15 --> 01:57:17

this convincing argument?

01:57:21 --> 01:57:22

Well,

01:57:23 --> 01:57:25

you can use the argument that,

01:57:27 --> 01:57:30

even atheists, people who don't recognize God,

01:57:30 --> 01:57:33

many of them will admit

01:57:33 --> 01:57:35

that there is objective morality.

01:57:36 --> 01:57:37

Right?

01:57:37 --> 01:57:39

The Quran, I I believe, calls it a

01:57:39 --> 01:57:40

mahu.

01:57:41 --> 01:57:43

In Jewish tradition, it's called the Noahitic laws.

01:57:43 --> 01:57:45

I'm talking about things like murder. I'm talking

01:57:45 --> 01:57:47

about things like theft.

01:57:47 --> 01:57:48

I think it's axiomatic,

01:57:49 --> 01:57:50

wherever you go around the world.

01:57:51 --> 01:57:51

Irrespective

01:57:52 --> 01:57:54

of a person's religious belief or lack thereof,

01:57:54 --> 01:57:57

that murder is wrong, stealing is wrong, adultery

01:57:57 --> 01:57:57

is wrong,

01:57:58 --> 01:58:01

wronging other people, oppressing other people is wrong.

01:58:02 --> 01:58:04

Right? There's something there.

01:58:04 --> 01:58:07

Right? I mean, theists would call that human

01:58:07 --> 01:58:07

nature.

01:58:09 --> 01:58:09

Right? So,

01:58:10 --> 01:58:12

I mean, I would certainly,

01:58:13 --> 01:58:15

take a course in the history of western

01:58:15 --> 01:58:15

philosophy

01:58:16 --> 01:58:17

and,

01:58:19 --> 01:58:20

and familiarize yourself

01:58:21 --> 01:58:23

with different thinkers that,

01:58:24 --> 01:58:24

would,

01:58:26 --> 01:58:29

recognize that there's an essential human nature even

01:58:29 --> 01:58:31

if they don't recognize that there's a deity

01:58:31 --> 01:58:33

that's the source of that human nature.

01:58:34 --> 01:58:35

So it's not, you know, it's it's not

01:58:35 --> 01:58:37

a black and white issue.

01:58:43 --> 01:58:44

How do you raise

01:58:45 --> 01:58:47

the faith with a child, family member who

01:58:47 --> 01:58:48

identifies as LGBT?

01:58:50 --> 01:58:51

With compassion,

01:58:54 --> 01:58:56

you know, as I said earlier, there seems

01:58:56 --> 01:58:58

to be according to many researchers,

01:58:59 --> 01:59:01

there there seems to be a link between

01:59:01 --> 01:59:02

childhood trauma

01:59:03 --> 01:59:04

and sexual perversion.

01:59:06 --> 01:59:07

So

01:59:07 --> 01:59:09

we have to tread very lightly,

01:59:10 --> 01:59:11

you know.

01:59:11 --> 01:59:13

Continue to give advice to the child.

01:59:16 --> 01:59:18

Continue and you know, it's it's a difficult

01:59:18 --> 01:59:18

thing because,

01:59:19 --> 01:59:21

children are very sensitive. You don't wanna sound

01:59:21 --> 01:59:22

very preachy

01:59:23 --> 01:59:25

because it might drive them further away.

01:59:25 --> 01:59:27

Right? I think the best thing you can

01:59:27 --> 01:59:28

do is continue to be compassionate

01:59:29 --> 01:59:30

to them

01:59:30 --> 01:59:33

and continue to pass this qiqamah upon your

01:59:33 --> 01:59:33

religion.

01:59:34 --> 01:59:36

Continue to pray. Make sure that they know

01:59:36 --> 01:59:37

you're praying.

01:59:38 --> 01:59:40

Make sure that they they know that you're

01:59:40 --> 01:59:42

following the halal and you're staying with the

01:59:42 --> 01:59:43

haram.

01:59:43 --> 01:59:46

If they see that and they and and,

01:59:47 --> 01:59:49

they they see your good character,

01:59:50 --> 01:59:50

then,

01:59:51 --> 01:59:53

you know, they'll come out of that, or

01:59:53 --> 01:59:56

they'll they'll learn to embrace and submit to,

01:59:58 --> 02:00:01

Islam in a fuller way because they wanna

02:00:01 --> 02:00:02

imitate you.

02:00:03 --> 02:00:04

Now that's a difficult

02:00:04 --> 02:00:07

situation. The short answer is continue to be

02:00:07 --> 02:00:10

compassionate towards people, give people advice, but don't

02:00:10 --> 02:00:10

overdo it.

02:00:11 --> 02:00:12

But really with your actions,

02:00:13 --> 02:00:14

being a practicing

02:00:14 --> 02:00:15

person with your actions.

02:00:17 --> 02:00:18

And there are people here that,

02:00:19 --> 02:00:20

I know that can get much better advice

02:00:20 --> 02:00:22

on on these types of questions.

02:00:26 --> 02:00:27

At student college,

02:00:27 --> 02:00:29

is it worth to raise our ideas and

02:00:29 --> 02:00:32

beliefs and discussion that contradicts them or silence

02:00:32 --> 02:00:34

a better option? That's a very good question.

02:00:35 --> 02:00:36

I think if,

02:00:37 --> 02:00:39

if you can maintain

02:00:39 --> 02:00:40

your sort

02:00:41 --> 02:00:42

of base and

02:00:45 --> 02:00:46

really

02:00:46 --> 02:00:49

feel like engaging in a classroom conversation

02:00:50 --> 02:00:52

will not lead to greater good,

02:00:52 --> 02:00:54

then I wouldn't say anything.

02:00:55 --> 02:00:58

You know, in my PhD seminar classes,

02:01:01 --> 02:01:03

we're we're we're expected to

02:01:03 --> 02:01:06

teach the class and whatnot, give our opinion.

02:01:06 --> 02:01:07

But many of the times, I just wanted

02:01:07 --> 02:01:09

to sit there and say nothing, you

02:01:09 --> 02:01:12

know, Because I think it's sometimes, it actually

02:01:12 --> 02:01:14

will benefit myself and others if you just

02:01:14 --> 02:01:15

think twice.

02:01:16 --> 02:01:19

So that's a that's a game time decision

02:01:19 --> 02:01:21

that you have to make.

02:01:21 --> 02:01:23

Right? Certainly, I think if a professor,

02:01:24 --> 02:01:25

says something that is,

02:01:27 --> 02:01:29

like, something that ridicule,

02:01:30 --> 02:01:32

or the Quran or the sunnah or something

02:01:32 --> 02:01:34

like that, makes you feel uncomfortable, then I

02:01:34 --> 02:01:36

think one should, with Adam,

02:01:38 --> 02:01:40

make some sort of comment to clarify to

02:01:40 --> 02:01:41

let people in the class, especially if you're

02:01:41 --> 02:01:43

a professor, know that you're Muslim and you're

02:01:43 --> 02:01:45

a practicing professional Muslim.

02:01:48 --> 02:01:50

But that's that's something that you have to

02:01:50 --> 02:01:51

decide at the time.

02:01:51 --> 02:01:53

Sometimes silence is better.

02:02:01 --> 02:02:03

Can you please comment on Cecil's birth of

02:02:03 --> 02:02:03

the clinic

02:02:04 --> 02:02:05

with regards to his major ideas

02:02:07 --> 02:02:09

and relate that to any issues

02:02:09 --> 02:02:11

we'd see with modern medicine?

02:02:12 --> 02:02:13

Oh, I can't comment on that. I haven't

02:02:13 --> 02:02:14

read that thing.

02:02:16 --> 02:02:18

I'm not an expert in Michelle Cook.

02:02:22 --> 02:02:24

What do you think is our responsibility as

02:02:24 --> 02:02:26

Muslim parents for choosing to live

02:02:26 --> 02:02:28

and raise our children?

02:02:29 --> 02:02:31

This western world where everything seems to be

02:02:31 --> 02:02:34

against our Muslim beliefs. I don't know if

02:02:34 --> 02:02:36

everything seems to be against your Muslim beliefs.

02:02:37 --> 02:02:39

I mean, there's still like I said, there's

02:02:39 --> 02:02:41

still Christians and Jews out there,

02:02:42 --> 02:02:44

right, that follow traditional morality,

02:02:45 --> 02:02:47

that believe in God, believe in the prophets.

02:02:51 --> 02:02:52

How do you think it's a responsibility?

02:02:53 --> 02:02:54

Responsibility is simply to

02:02:56 --> 02:02:57

convey the message.

02:02:58 --> 02:03:01

Right? You can't force someone to embrace something

02:03:01 --> 02:03:03

in their part, even your own child.

02:03:05 --> 02:03:06

You simply have to teach them

02:03:07 --> 02:03:08

the best that you can according to the

02:03:08 --> 02:03:09

prophetic model.

02:03:10 --> 02:03:13

And the prophetic model is one of of

02:03:13 --> 02:03:15

gentleness. The prophet of the bodies are not

02:03:15 --> 02:03:17

straight children, leading and raising voice,

02:03:18 --> 02:03:20

and one of action, of orthopraxis.

02:03:21 --> 02:03:22

The prophet

02:03:22 --> 02:03:25

was he was a doer. Right? He wasn't

02:03:25 --> 02:03:29

passive. Muslim means active part of work. Active.

02:03:36 --> 02:03:38

The STEM fields have been thriving for at

02:03:38 --> 02:03:40

least the last 30 to 40 years. Others

02:03:40 --> 02:03:43

won't reconcile that. In fact, the postmodernists don't

02:03:43 --> 02:03:43

recognize,

02:03:45 --> 02:03:47

what to do away with reason.

02:03:49 --> 02:03:51

Math is Yeah. I mean, they will they

02:03:51 --> 02:03:53

will attack even science. Like I said, I

02:03:53 --> 02:03:55

mean, you might say, well, there's, you know,

02:03:55 --> 02:03:57

there are there are axiomatic

02:03:58 --> 02:04:00

principles in science and hard sciences, even in

02:04:00 --> 02:04:01

mathematics.

02:04:02 --> 02:04:03

All of these things are under scrutiny by

02:04:03 --> 02:04:04

postpartners.

02:04:05 --> 02:04:06

They They don't accept any of it. They'll

02:04:06 --> 02:04:09

say, for example, you know, this this theorem

02:04:09 --> 02:04:10

in math,

02:04:11 --> 02:04:14

is just another manifestation of the evil patriarchy,

02:04:14 --> 02:04:16

and a way to keep women down, minorities

02:04:17 --> 02:04:19

down. Everything is very important.

02:04:19 --> 02:04:21

It's just a manifestation of, you know,

02:04:22 --> 02:04:23

the

02:04:23 --> 02:04:25

white dominant culture and how it wants to

02:04:25 --> 02:04:28

keep keep the color down, like a math

02:04:28 --> 02:04:28

theory.

02:04:31 --> 02:04:32

So they don't accept,

02:04:32 --> 02:04:33

you know,

02:04:33 --> 02:04:35

main main line mainstream science.

02:04:37 --> 02:04:39

It's it's it's now being under attack.

02:04:43 --> 02:04:45

The common argument for Muslim support of LGBT

02:04:45 --> 02:04:48

community is as oppressed groups, we're all in

02:04:48 --> 02:04:50

this together. You know?

02:04:51 --> 02:04:53

What is the best way to refute this?

02:04:57 --> 02:04:58

Are we really oppressed?

02:04:59 --> 02:04:59

No.

02:05:00 --> 02:05:01

I don't think so.

02:05:02 --> 02:05:03

I mean, if you look at the history

02:05:03 --> 02:05:04

of Islam,

02:05:05 --> 02:05:07

I mean, what happened in our history,

02:05:08 --> 02:05:10

and there are Muslims that

02:05:10 --> 02:05:11

were slaughtered,

02:05:13 --> 02:05:13

you know,

02:05:15 --> 02:05:18

Muslims that had genocide committed against them, Muslims

02:05:18 --> 02:05:20

that were exiled from different places.

02:05:22 --> 02:05:23

I think we need to take, like I

02:05:23 --> 02:05:25

said, a self audit. We're really living in

02:05:25 --> 02:05:28

gap. This is really we're living in blessing.

02:05:29 --> 02:05:29

Right?

02:05:30 --> 02:05:30

And,

02:05:32 --> 02:05:32

you know,

02:05:34 --> 02:05:35

a lot of the a lot of the

02:05:35 --> 02:05:37

things that Muslims point to are sort of

02:05:37 --> 02:05:38

anecdotal.

02:05:38 --> 02:05:40

You'll hear, for example, you know, I was,

02:05:42 --> 02:05:43

I was in,

02:05:44 --> 02:05:46

the Taco Bell, and

02:05:47 --> 02:05:49

somebody said, hey, you *.

02:05:51 --> 02:05:53

And, you know, I went home and I

02:05:53 --> 02:05:54

put it on Facebook, and I blogged about

02:05:54 --> 02:05:57

it, I put it on my Instagram and

02:05:57 --> 02:05:57

Twitter.

02:05:59 --> 02:06:00

You know, I mean, how many times it

02:06:00 --> 02:06:01

actually happened?

02:06:02 --> 02:06:03

Obviously, it's

02:06:05 --> 02:06:06

it's something that is disturbing.

02:06:07 --> 02:06:08

But I'll tell you right now,

02:06:09 --> 02:06:11

from my personal experience, only if you want

02:06:11 --> 02:06:12

anecdotal evidence,

02:06:13 --> 02:06:16

the most severe racism I've ever faced was

02:06:16 --> 02:06:17

in Muslim majority countries.

02:06:18 --> 02:06:20

You can let that one marinate for a

02:06:21 --> 02:06:22

minute.

02:06:22 --> 02:06:24

I was barred from going into certain places

02:06:25 --> 02:06:26

because I was born in a certain country.

02:06:27 --> 02:06:30

That's never happened to me in in America.

02:06:32 --> 02:06:34

So are we really oppressed? Who is oppressing

02:06:34 --> 02:06:35

us?

02:06:37 --> 02:06:37

I'm not

02:06:38 --> 02:06:38

oppressed.

02:06:39 --> 02:06:40

I don't agree with that premise.

02:06:57 --> 02:06:57

Too long.

02:07:00 --> 02:07:01

That's a dissertation.

02:07:08 --> 02:07:09

Yeah.

02:07:09 --> 02:07:11

How do you advise kids to stay away

02:07:11 --> 02:07:12

from social media?

02:07:12 --> 02:07:14

It's so rampant. I don't know. You have

02:07:14 --> 02:07:15

to I have the same problem.

02:07:16 --> 02:07:17

I have a kid also.

02:07:18 --> 02:07:20

It's it's difficult. There has to

02:07:21 --> 02:07:23

be some engagement or else that feel like

02:07:23 --> 02:07:23

they're

02:07:24 --> 02:07:24

living

02:07:26 --> 02:07:27

in North Korea or something.

02:07:30 --> 02:07:32

How can an 18 year old college enter

02:07:32 --> 02:07:32

a

02:07:34 --> 02:07:37

claim to his fate? Well, there has to

02:07:37 --> 02:07:37

be

02:07:38 --> 02:07:40

some sort of traditional or formal studies. My

02:07:40 --> 02:07:41

advice

02:07:41 --> 02:07:43

is to have some sort of traditional studies

02:07:43 --> 02:07:45

before one enters into a

02:07:46 --> 02:07:47

public university.

02:07:48 --> 02:07:49

But there's a strong foundation.

02:07:50 --> 02:07:52

And then your your point, your purpose in

02:07:52 --> 02:07:54

college is to get your degree and get

02:07:54 --> 02:07:54

out.

02:07:56 --> 02:07:58

And, you know, maybe it's not good advice,

02:07:58 --> 02:07:59

but, you know, I wouldn't

02:08:00 --> 02:08:02

probably not good advice. I would not join

02:08:02 --> 02:08:04

any clubs, and

02:08:06 --> 02:08:07

I would not only hang out.

02:08:08 --> 02:08:09

I work better

02:08:10 --> 02:08:11

by myself.

02:08:12 --> 02:08:13

I was part of a gang in high

02:08:13 --> 02:08:15

school called ABM, all by

02:08:15 --> 02:08:16

myself.

02:08:17 --> 02:08:18

I'm just kidding. No. It's not good to

02:08:18 --> 02:08:20

isolate yourself either. But you don't need a

02:08:20 --> 02:08:22

lot of friends. You can have one good

02:08:22 --> 02:08:24

friend. That's all you need. One friend.

02:08:24 --> 02:08:26

Right? Then that's fine.

02:08:28 --> 02:08:28

So,

02:08:29 --> 02:08:31

get in and get out. Get your degree.

02:08:31 --> 02:08:32

You know, you're gonna have to take these

02:08:32 --> 02:08:33

elective courses

02:08:34 --> 02:08:36

in social sciences. You're gonna hear a lot

02:08:36 --> 02:08:37

of this type of thing.

02:08:38 --> 02:08:38

Right?

02:08:39 --> 02:08:40

Like I said, use your judgment. You can

02:08:40 --> 02:08:42

choose to engage. If you feel that there's

02:08:42 --> 02:08:44

some merit to doing that, or you can

02:08:44 --> 02:08:45

sit in the back and sort of get

02:08:45 --> 02:08:47

the work done and get out.

02:09:03 --> 02:09:06

All religions claim to be Oban.

02:09:07 --> 02:09:09

How do we explain to our kids that

02:09:09 --> 02:09:10

Islam is Oban?

02:09:10 --> 02:09:12

The only true religion.

02:09:17 --> 02:09:19

Well, you have to be learned in,

02:09:20 --> 02:09:21

several disciplines.

02:09:22 --> 02:09:23

We have to know our scripture. We have

02:09:23 --> 02:09:25

to know history. We have to know other

02:09:25 --> 02:09:26

scriptures.

02:09:27 --> 02:09:29

We have to know a comparative theology. This

02:09:29 --> 02:09:30

is a whole

02:09:30 --> 02:09:32

curriculum that you have to become

02:09:32 --> 02:09:33

familiar with.

02:09:33 --> 02:09:35

Because, you know, kids aren't that stupid,

02:09:36 --> 02:09:38

even though childhood is a type of insanity,

02:09:38 --> 02:09:39

you

02:09:39 --> 02:09:40

know.

02:09:40 --> 02:09:42

You know, if it's just sort of lip

02:09:42 --> 02:09:44

service, you know, this is the true religion.

02:09:44 --> 02:09:44

Okay?

02:09:46 --> 02:09:48

You know, the Quran is the word of

02:09:48 --> 02:09:48

God.

02:09:49 --> 02:09:51

And a lot of times it's, you know,

02:09:51 --> 02:09:53

sort of the uncle generation.

02:09:55 --> 02:09:57

Because back home, you know, there was no

02:09:57 --> 02:09:59

Internet. Everyone was Muslim, basically. All the questions

02:09:59 --> 02:10:00

were about fiddler.

02:10:01 --> 02:10:02

But nowadays,

02:10:02 --> 02:10:03

you know, with America,

02:10:04 --> 02:10:06

with the Internet, they're looking things up online,

02:10:06 --> 02:10:09

the questions are about, is there a God?

02:10:09 --> 02:10:11

Not, how do I pray to God? Is

02:10:11 --> 02:10:13

there a God? Not what does this ayah

02:10:13 --> 02:10:14

mean?

02:10:14 --> 02:10:15

Is this the word of God?

02:10:16 --> 02:10:17

Right? That becomes difficult.

02:10:18 --> 02:10:20

And so, as Terrence, you might have to

02:10:20 --> 02:10:21

go back to school, if it were.

02:10:22 --> 02:10:24

Build our foundation, be able to,

02:10:25 --> 02:10:26

you know. And and we have to we

02:10:26 --> 02:10:28

have to have our

02:10:28 --> 02:10:30

stuff together with these kids,

02:10:30 --> 02:10:33

because, you know, 98% of what they hear,

02:10:33 --> 02:10:35

they're not going to tell you. They'll phrase

02:10:35 --> 02:10:36

it a little bit differently, sort of get

02:10:36 --> 02:10:37

your

02:10:37 --> 02:10:38

your answer.

02:10:39 --> 02:10:40

But we have to we have to be

02:10:40 --> 02:10:42

able to give answers. We have to be

02:10:42 --> 02:10:44

able to read that, right,

02:10:44 --> 02:10:46

and give substantive

02:10:46 --> 02:10:46

answers.

02:10:47 --> 02:10:49

That speaks to the very sort

02:10:50 --> 02:10:52

of intention that's in your mind.

02:10:53 --> 02:10:54

That's a difficult thing to do,

02:10:56 --> 02:10:57

but it takes a lot

02:10:58 --> 02:10:59

of learning in that area.

02:11:00 --> 02:11:01

You know, there's truth in other religions. I

02:11:01 --> 02:11:03

would also stress that.

02:11:03 --> 02:11:05

Right? I mean, certainly, Isa Alaihi Salam is

02:11:05 --> 02:11:07

a prophet of God. There are stories in

02:11:07 --> 02:11:09

the Quran that confirm things in the New

02:11:09 --> 02:11:11

Testament. But I wouldn't be this sort of

02:11:11 --> 02:11:12

rigid exclusiveness.

02:11:13 --> 02:11:15

Or not perennialist, or not this idea that

02:11:15 --> 02:11:17

all the religions are basically the same,

02:11:18 --> 02:11:19

and there's no supersessionism.

02:11:20 --> 02:11:22

In other words, the Quran has not canceled

02:11:22 --> 02:11:23

the act of

02:11:23 --> 02:11:24

the previous,

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religions. We're not of that position.

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Islam is the

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greatest manifestation of truth. However, there is truth

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in other religions, even in things like Hinduism

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and Buddhism that we can't really deny.

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So

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I would sort of abandon this,

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methodology

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of rigid exclusivism.

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Right? Because, again, it sort of

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it puts in the mind of the child

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this idea of supremacy. My parents think they're

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better than everyone else. You know, they tweet,

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my parents are

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homophobic, transphobic Muslim supremacists who want to institute

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Sharia law in America.

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And look how oppressed and poor I am.

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Somebody, please liberate me with your Marxism.

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Where are you, Karl Marx?

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We ask you, oh, Allah, to

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accept,

02:12:26 --> 02:12:28

all of our actions,

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that are sincerely done for you, and those

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that are not not sincerely done for you.

02:12:33 --> 02:12:34

All Allah,

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we ask you to increase our knowledge.

02:12:37 --> 02:12:38

We ask you to,

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to to benefit us from gathering likeness.

02:12:43 --> 02:12:44

We ask you to remove from our hearts,

02:12:45 --> 02:12:47

any type of of anger, any type of

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enmity that we have for any other person.

02:12:50 --> 02:12:52

We ask you to forgive for us to

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be able to deliberate, debate, get to the

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truth of things,

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the objective truth, and to embrace that truth.

02:12:59 --> 02:13:01

We ask you for the ability of to

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be able to see the truth, embrace it,

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and see falsehood and reject it.

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