Assim Al-Hakeem – An evening at Sheikhs home – Question & Answer
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The speakers discuss the importance of strong relationships and finding loved ones in small office settings. They also touch on the benefits of living in Mecca, Australia, including medical services and life extension, finding one's heart, and not drinking from old ideology. The speakers emphasize the importance of learning about Islam and finding a Muslim country, while also discussing the benefits of diversifying one's income and finding a Muslim country. The conversation ends with a brief advertisement for a gym and a video about bench press.
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First of all, I'm a big fan.
They have so much dead hearts and black
hearts, and you find people in the heart
of Medina and in Mecca with zero Iman.
This is a guy, a taxi driver, 15
years working in Al-Haram, taking people and
pilgrims and people of Umrah to the Haram
for 15 years, and they've never entered the
Haram.
The souls are like soldiers in an army.
I don't like their guts.
I don't like their vibes.
And he says, Allah loves this individual, so
love him.
Why is this particular individual loved by so
many people?
You might be a swifty, and she has
she has like 70 million followers.
There is a difference between having a friend
and having a colleague.
The problem, and the biggest problem, is to
be loved.
The problem is, does Allah love you or
not?
When you say Allahu Akbar, it has a
different meaning.
So talking about hijrah, do you think every
Muslim should consider making hijrah?
I have three stents in my heart since
2017.
I used to bench-press 100 kg.
So I just keep a physique that when
I put my jeans and t-shirts, that's
it.
Relatively speaking, yes, we're much more conservative.
But this is not something that would make
a huge difference.
Except for someone who's a bit sick and
too *.
Excuse my French.
Normal people say, okay, I go to Canada,
and I see things.
I go to London.
I go to Europe.
Okay.
Yeah, it's outrageous, but this is your test
from Allah.
Do you have a father?
Okay.
You have a mother?
Is she a sweet person?
And you're kind to her?
Imagine if your mother was the sweetest woman
on earth, giving you a thousand US dollars
every day.
Your mom, I don't need this.
No, no, no.
I would like to have it.
And she serves you.
She serves your wife and children.
And she goes around the relatives and friends
saying, my son is the best man on
earth.
He's so generous.
He's so kind.
He's so brave.
Would it be difficult to be dutiful and
respectful to her?
Where's the test?
I'm wise, huh?
See, this is what Allah created you for.
If you're living in utopia, there's no fun.
But when there's temptation, and you stand for
the sake of Allah and say, no.
Yusuf, if you go through the Quran, Sheikh
Samir, most likely I've told you about this.
Yusuf was sold as a slave when they
found him in the well, bought by the
king of Egypt, raised by him, then as
a foreigner, as a young man full of
energy, seduced by the wife of the king
when they were alone, and he was harshly
tempted.
Now, no one would stand.
So, he passed the test with
flashing stars.
Alhamdulillah.
This is the same that's happening to all
of us.
Life is a test.
Allah tested, created us to be tested.
And all what you're gonna live is like
60, maximum 70 years of age.
Then what?
Six feet under.
But if you made it, you've made it
for good, forever.
So, there is no point of, again, excuse
my French, I'm whining.
Yeah, and you say, oh, we have so
much fitna.
Okay, welcome to the club.
You have fitna.
Let's go to Ghazakhi and see the people
there.
What fitna are you talking about?
You've got benefits in Australia.
You've got life.
You've got medical services, free, I think.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Education, you blah blah, infrastructure.
You've got the power of the passport.
That maybe 90% of the population of
Earth are envious of.
And then you're saying, oh, Sheikh, Wallahi, we
want to do this.
We want to do...
You have it made.
So, all what you have to do is
identify the glass you're drinking from.
Is it half full or half empty?
It's the same.
It's the same glass, but it depends on
how you look at it.
I don't know if this makes sense.
This is what you think.
Unfortunately, if you ask Sheikh Samir or Sheikh
Abdullah, how many of the people living less
than two kilometers from Al-Haram have lived
for 40 years and not entered it?
Of the locals.
It's in the heart.
What were you drinking of just a while
ago from your...
A large bottle of water.
Of Zamzam.
Zamzam, yes.
And one of the shuyukh was asked by
his student.
And he said to him, Sheikh, why is
Zamzam not tasteful?
Zamzam is not tasteful, is it?
I like it.
It's not that sweet.
You know, it's just a prayer or whatever.
It's a little bit salty and it...
So why is it not that tasteful?
The Sheikh said, so that Allah knows who
drinks it for his sake.
Yes.
This is your test.
Wow.
People living in Mecca, they don't know even
the Haram, how to go to the Haram.
They have so much dead hearts and black
hearts that they don't feel the urge to
go.
So many...
I know people in Jeddah of my own
relatives that have been here for 60 years.
They went only once for Hajj and once
for Umrah.
One in their lives and it's a stone's
throw to us.
So when you come and say, oh, I
wish to come here and live here.
You don't know what will happen after five
months or six months of seeing it.
I remember 20 years ago when I used
to work with the corporate companies, I was
an executive and my office was in the
sixth floor overlooking the seaport of Jeddah.
One of the fanciest offices and locations in
Jeddah.
Everyone and it was a huge office.
It was for the CEO when he left
to another place.
I said, I'd like to take it.
He said, take it.
So even the directors and the vice presidents
don't have this office.
Everyone who came into the office was mesmerized
by the view for about 15-20 seconds
and I just sit there and watch them
and I say, you like the view?
He said, wow, the view is magnificent.
He said, I've been working here for five
years.
I don't even pay attention to it.
Why?
The heart is dead.
I've seen it so many times.
So unfortunately, what dictates your level of Iman
is not attributed to the land.
It is attributed to your own heart.
You find people in Sydney and Melbourne in
London and Paris and even in Monaco with
the highest level of Iman that anyone would
expect.
And you find people in the heart of
Medina and in Mecca with zero Iman.
So be careful.
I'm not saying that coming to the holy
lands and living there is not a plus.
Of course, it's the best thing ever.
But again, don't make it a maker or
breaker of a deal.
It's all here that you have to fix.
Learn your religion, increase your Iman and then
whatever Allah puts you, you become a beacon
of light.
This is a guy, a taxi driver, 15
years working in Al-Haram, taking people and
pilgrims and people of Umrah to the Haram
for 15 years, and you've never entered the
Haram.
And you're just a few steps away.
For context, obviously, I'm a revert as the
brothers mentioned.
So I've grown up with like Western, you
know, like wives tales, Western sort of Western
culture, wives tales and all these things.
And one thing I've been curious about prior
to being Muslim, but especially from this trip,
and since being Muslim, is the old sort
of ideology of Deja Vu and what Deja
Vu is.
Is there anything in the Qur'an or
the Hadiths?
No, it's just like the karma.
So there isn't anything as Deja Vu because
Deja Vu means that I've been there, I've
done this.
No, this is your subconscious and as Muslims,
we do not believe in a previous life
that you've been in.
So, okay, maybe I've been, I met one
of those Druze from Lebanon and the Druze
is a cult that claim to be Muslims.
They're not Muslims.
So I met one of them and he
was trying to get closer to me and,
you know, being courteous.
I'm courteous to everyone and I don't face
people with hostility.
So once we were talking and I said
to him, why don't we see you in
the masjid?
He's a neighbor.
He said, you know, I'm Druze and we
don't pray in your masjid.
Oh, subhanAllah.
And I played dumb.
And then he said to me, you know,
I love to go to the beach and
to swim and to ski.
So I said, hmm, they believe in reincarnation.
So I said, hmm, you might have been
a fish in a previous life.
And the guy laughed his head off.
You guys, you're dangerous, man.
You know too much.
So we do not have this concept.
We know that we're born, we live and
we die.
But your subconscious, a movie you saw, a
dream you've dreamt of, this gives you a
recollection of, hmm, I think I've been there.
I think this would happen.
And it's just a coincidence that takes place.
Your subconscious plays games on you.
Okay, interesting.
What about the hadith of like the souls
that meet before we're born?
There isn't any hadith to my recollection of
souls meeting before birth.
But the Prophet said in a hadith, الأرواح
جنود المجندة ما تعرف منها اختلف وما تناكر
منها اختلف The souls are like soldiers in
an army.
Whatever knows one another, it would find this
bond and chemistry.
Some people I meet and they're might be
da'is or great scholars of Islam with
many followers.
When I meet them, I feel, hmm, I
don't like their guts.
I don't like their vibes.
And I usually I'm a peaceful guy, you
know, not that peaceful, but I just, you
know, try to be polite and diplomatic, but
keep my distance.
Sometimes you meet people and you feel that
you know them forever and you go out
of your way to help them and to
be with them and to give them gifts
and blah blah blah.
So this is what the hadith says, but
no deja vu.
Is this before creation?
No, no, no.
This is now.
This hadith is an explanation of why would
I find chemistry with someone?
Why would I like someone?
And this is in accordance to a hadith
of the Prophet ﷺ when he said that
when Allah loves an individual, He calls Jibreel
and said, Jibreel, I love this individual, so
love him.
So Jibreel loves him and he calls the
angels of the heavens and he says Allah
loves this individual, so love him.
So the people of the heavens love him
and acceptance is placed for him in this
life.
Why is this particular individual loved by so
many people?
And we're not talking about people of sins
and kufr because you might be a swifty
and she has she has like 70 million
followers, but this doesn't mean that she's loved
by Allah.
We're talking about the people of Islam, of
righteousness, of the masjid.
Why do they love this particular individual?
Because Allah loves him and Allah placed acceptance
for him.
Sometimes you find a da'i, a scholar,
a professor of Islam and people hate his
guts.
Why?
Because there is no acceptance for him.
There's an attitude.
There is a bad seed in his heart,
but we can't point it out.
So Allah Azza wa Jal puts this rejection
of people in people's hearts.
I don't know if this makes sense.
First of all, I'm a big fan.
We have air conditioners, Alhamdulillah.
May Allah promote you to an A.C.
The question is, obviously, you know, us brothers,
we live in Australia.
So we got, a lot of us might
have non-Muslim friends.
What do you think about having a friend
like this very close to you?
There is a difference between having a friend
and having a colleague.
So, I have Christians who I know.
Sometimes if I go to the gym, I
may work out and they come and we
chit-chat.
They're not buddies.
They're not my best friends.
I don't hang out with them.
I don't confine in them and tell them,
oh this happened with my relatives, my wife,
my blah blah blah.
No.
But they are like you guys say, good
day.
That's as far as it gets.
And we may, maybe play a squash game
together.
Maybe just exchange greetings.
But to be close to them, take them
as allies and can confidants.
No, this is not permissible.
Now, if you have relatives or Shia or
disbelievers and you think that if I speak
to them, I may be able to attract
them, to bring them closer to Islam, to
Sunnah, blah blah blah.
That's a win-win.
This is the role of a Muslim to
be a magnet to all good things.
And if it doesn't work, I have so
many people to divert my effort and work
to, rather than focusing on this individual, why
would I invest in a losing company?
We have a question from a follower.
It says, what acts of worship increase the
love of Allah in my heart and make
me beloved to him?
See, the problem is not to love.
The problem and the biggest problem is to
be loved.
Everyone, even the Jews and Christians, claim that
they love Allah.
So, good luck.
The problem is, does Allah love you or
not?
So you can do so many things and
you claim that you love Allah, but does
Allah love you?
This is the acid test that you have
to ask yourself.
All acts of worship gets you closer to
Allah.
The most beloved is to recite the Qur
'an, to memorize the Qur'an, to understand
the meaning of the Qur'an.
The most noble science of all in Islam
is aqeedah.
Aqeedah is an elastic word.
Tawheed is part of aqeedah.
The Qur'an?
The Qur'an, yeah, but the most beloved
science to Allah Azza wa Jal and the
most noble of all is the knowledge of
Allah's beautiful names and attributes.
Because the value of the science relies entirely
on what you're studying.
So if you're studying Allah Azza wa Jal,
what could be better?
And this is the cornerstone of Tawheed.
You can understand Tawheed, but without knowing who
Allah is, you have nothing.
So when you know Allah, when you spend
and devote your time and effort to know
what are Allah's beautiful names and what all
are Allah's attributes, when you say Allahu Akbar,
it has a different meaning.
So many Muslims, I ask them, how many
names does Allah have?
99.
This is what the Hadith says, but Allah's
names are unlimited.
They're far more.
But the things that the Prophet told us
about, 99 names, if you count them, memorize
them, implement them, know the meaning of them,
you will enter Jannah.
Good.
Then I ask my second question.
How many of these names do you memorize?
People say, 15, maybe 10.
I said, no problem.
So you are 10% knowledgeable of Allah.
Of these 10 names, how many do you
know the meaning of?
Then I said, one or two.
So, why are you complaining that my prayer
has no sweetness?
I'm unable to enjoy it.
Sometimes I skip it.
I don't find the motive and the drive.
Because you don't know Allah.
Very simple.
If you knew Allah, all these fitnahs you're
complaining of will disappear.
You'll have full trust in Allah.
Because, oh Sheikh, I have to work in
an interest-based bank.
I have to sell liquor.
I have to deal with haram.
I have to go to a synagogue or
to a temple and pretend to be a
Hindu.
I have to do that.
Why?
Because if I don't, I will not have
salary.
I will not have money.
I will be kicked out of the house.
If you had trust in Allah, if you
knew Allah, none of this would have happened.
So people don't know Allah.
And this is how you increase your iman.
Number one, know Allah.
Beautiful names, attributes.
Number two, aqeedah.
Number three, Quran.
How many times do you finish the Quran
a month?
People say a month.
I finished Quran about like in 2019 in
Ramadan.
But I'm working on it.
I'm working.
Aqeed, the minimum you finish Quran is once
a month.
This is the minimum.
One juz' every day.
Bare minimum.
I know people who revise five juz' a
day.
Every six from memory.
Every six days they finish the Quran from
memory just to keep it steady.
Six days.
So you come and tell me, yeah, but
I'd like to make hijrah.
What have you done?
Zero.
So start building the foundation before you think
of and make hijrah.
What's your income?
What's your finance?
So nothing, Shaykh.
I'm a cab driver.
So you're gonna come and work in Makkah
doing what?
I have saved money.
Yeah, you live for six months, deplete your
money, then start begging people, then go back
to Australia.
You don't have a job.
And then you start begging people over there.
Then you resent Islam.
Then you say maybe I should go back
to my old ways.
Yeah, it's difficult.
It's a test.
So play your game well, if you want
Allah Azza wa Jal to take care of
you.
I don't know if this, I'm good at
diverting from questions that I don't feel like
speaking of.
Yeah, so just like, I mean if you
want to answer quickly or whatever.
So talking about hijrah.
You got four minutes.
Yeah, so talking about hijrah, do you think
every Muslim should consider making hijrah?
See, hijrah was directed to us by the
Prophet, peace be upon him.
He said, I
have nothing to do with a Muslim who
lives among the disbelievers in the proximity where
if they light fire for cooking, they can
see each one's fire.
They're so close.
Of course, we live in building blocks.
We live in neighborhoods.
We live in so many places that are
so close to one another.
Drink with your right hand, my friend.
Sorry, this is an old habit.
When I see something like this, I have
to point it out.
So the Prophet, peace be upon him, told
us to migrate.
Now, migration is essential, but if a person
was born and raised there, and there is
no better alternative, meaning if he goes to
a Muslim country, they'll kick him out in
six months, or he would not have a
suitable job, or his social status and an
economic level would be so bad that his
wife would divorce him, his children would go
astray.
We say, no.
Stay where you are if you're able to
practice Islam.
You are able to pray on time.
Your wife is able to wear the niqab.
Your children can go to Muslim schools.
Nobody's forcing you to do something haram per
se.
So remain where you are.
Try your level best to improve your income.
Maybe, you know, diversify your investments so that
you will have steady income that allows you
to go to a Muslim country, whether it's
Egypt, whether it's Turkey, whether it's Malaysia, whether
it's Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia is very expensive.
We don't accept people.
And if you have $300,000, you can
get a golden permanent residency.
Maybe a little bit less.
But again, if you have this amount of
money, so yes, once you are able, come.
Asalaamu alaikum Shaykh.
First of all, I love your content.
It always makes us laugh.
And as always, it's very good for the
zin.
But my question is, because we don't have
time, so I'll just say a quick one.
You talked about gym and how you go
there.
What's your PR for bench?
I have three stents in my heart since
2017.
You know what stents are?
Your arteries become blocked, so they insert three
stents to keep them open.
So, before that, I used to bench press
100 kg.
After my operation, doctor said, no more heavy
weights.
So I reduced like 70% of the
weights I do, due to the fact that
doctors, all my cardiologists and heart surgeons said,
no weights.
So I just keep a physique that when
I put my jeans and t-shirts, that's
it.
And just off that, one thing I realized
while coming here, there isn't many gyms and
those facilities are not, I don't know, maybe,
no?
One of the Madinah make?
No, no, no, Jeddah and Madinah and all
over Saudi Arabia, we have the best gyms.
My grandson goes to one of the gyms.
What's the name of your gym?
Fitness Time.
Fitness Time?
We're endorsing the ad.
Fitness Time is one of the gyms.
They have like maybe 40 or 50 outlets
all over the country.
And the fun thing is, if you're a
membership, a member in one of them, anywhere
you go, you can be admitted.
So it's like, oh good, you've changed from
left to right.
I was almost gone.
I could see the shock.
He's already got cold ones by the imam
of Mecca.
He was drinking with his left hand.
So we have lots of gyms and we
have lots of sports clubs, paddle outlets, football,
small courts for eight players and the likes.
We're everywhere, everywhere.
It's very important for the deen in terms
of praying and et cetera.
It's not an essential thing.
It is a subsidiary.
It's something that's a third or a fourth
in the priority list, but it is essential
to have.
Because we are running out of time.
We ran out of time already.
The adhan is called.
This is a quick one.
Every 30 second answer.
Does Islam allow child marriage?
Is it legal?
Anywhere in the world?
So what's the point of the question?
This question is posed by Islam haters.
So it's a legal thing.
It's like, does Islam endorse concubines?
Can I buy one?
No, it's prohibited worldwide.
So why are you asking?
First of all, was child marriage allowed 15
centuries ago?
Yes or no?
All over the world, Christians, Jews, and so
why are you guys jumping the gun on
Islam?
Secondly, what's the legal age for in Peru,
Mexico, France, Japan?
You will find that it goes down to
12, 13, and 14 years of age till
date.
So what's the problem?
I know you're not saying, those who's asking,
because they want to bring you back to
why did Prophet Muhammad A.S. marry Aisha
when she was nine years of age?
Let's say if I have a five-year
-old daughter, and I wanted to marry it
off to him.
I'm allowed to do that?
You'd be a stupid schmuck.
Let's say Aisha comes down, the end of
times, okay?
I say I want to marry my daughter
off to Aisha, five-year-old.
If she was even five months old, yes.
Aisha, who's in the right mind would reject
Aisha?
Come on, give me a break.
But those who ask such questions, you look
at their agendas.
It's not one plus one equals two.
No, no, they have a reason.
And if you're not qualified, or equipped, or
know the background, you would put yourself and
others in trouble.
Masha'Allah.
I think we've still got time.
You guys lost Maghreb, you're used to it.
No pun intended, but...
Can we take a final photo maybe together?
Sure, sure.