The Halal & Haram Labels
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The speakers discuss various topics related to the term "iosal label," including the negative impact of "iosal label" on behavior and behavior, the use of "iosal label" in religion and culture, and the harm of pork. They also touch on the issue of "any product" being considered "any product" and the use of "monkey" in sharia law. The speakers emphasize the importance of learning and developing one's higher qualities to achieve their goals. They also discuss the use of cosmetic products and alcohol in relation to addiction and the potential consequences of it.AI Generated Transcript ©
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de la wa Salatu was Salam ala rasulillah All praise is due to a law in my last piece of blessings when the last prophet muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
the topic
halau labels, clarity,
or insanity
was, for me a bit of a
surprise.
I didn't choose the topic was chosen for me.
But
it's a topic in from another perspective, which
I have spoken about on a number of different occasions
addressing different aspects of the same topic.
The issue of halaal and
today,
in virtually all of the stores that I've been here, in Malaysia, I'm seeing the halaal label and everything you know, from socks,
to shoes, shirts.
It's been it's become very popular to put that halaal label on it. Actually.
I began about two years ago, a program of intense or Intensive English
It was called the help program ah being halaal English language program. So I'm guilty of putting the halaal label there too. Because of course, people would always ask me Well, is there a haraam English? Yes, there's harami
out there, you know. So reality, of course, is that
Islam does judge everything in terms of halal and haram.
Though when we're using these terms, we're usually talking about food products. This is where we're commonly using it. But in fact, the term halal and haram is basic to our shadia to our
Islamic law, in governing everything on the basis of five principles.
These five principles, four of them come under the category of halaal and one under the category of
the four which are halaal. I'm sure you've all heard about them.
The first is wajib
or sometimes called fahrrad.
The second is, was the hub
also called Mandoo.
Also called Suna
The third is move on
and the fourth is mcru.
All of these are under the general heading of halaal.
They represent what is obligatory, what has been commanded by a lion is messenger,
what has been recommended
what has not been commanded, recommended, disliked or forbidden, but remain in a neutral category.
You can do it or not do it. No problem. There's no reward. It's just a neutral category. And then there is my crew
that which is disliked this like not because the profits are low or something
I'm personally disliked it because there are things which he disliked, which are not considered to be my crew.
They were disliked because Allah had instructed the messenger sallallahu Sallam to inform the oma that these were among the things that would be better not done.
In fact, you are rewarded if you don't do them.
But there is no sin on you, if you did.
Okay, so from a reward and sin, or punishment perspective, we can say the fraud is obligatory, if you do it, you are rewarded, if you don't do it, you are in sin.
The second most the hub,
if you do it, you are rewarded, if you don't do it, there is no set
MOBA if you do or you don't do it, zero, nothing
for or against you.
But every MOBA thing could be turned into something which is rewardable
and it is something which could be done in such a way that it becomes sinful
depending on intentions,
when when you do it, how you do it, where you do it, you know, it can shift that category, that neutral category into something which is in fact disliked, or
forbidden,
etc.
And then the last category, which is not from the hell is that?
It is what has been forbidden by Allah and His messenger.
Forbidden because there is harm in it.
Not forbidden just to make life difficult for us.
Because this is how it is sort of presented by some in Islam. You hear people saying, in Islam, everything's Haram. Everywhere. Your turn is haram Haram is just haram Haram.
But it's not true at all.
What is haram? What is forbidden? It's a fraction.
A fraction.
What is halal is huge.
So you find in the Quran, that when Allah talks about the Haram things,
or the prophets of Salaam, he speaks about the Haram things. He identifies them specifically.
Whereas when he talks about the halaal, when a law talks or talks, he would, they would say everything other than that.
Huge. everything other than that
is
just like the Garden of Eden.
In the garden, there were many trees. It wasn't just one tree in the garden and the law said don't eat from that tree. The garden was filled with trees, but only one tree was specified not to be eaten. And that is the symbol
or symbolism of halaal and
the symbolism of halaal
that the haraam is only a fraction.
Whereas the halaal is
many for every harroun thing. There are 1000s of halaal things.
The only problem is Satan is busy.
And Satan will whisper in your ear as he whispered in the ear of Adam.
You know that tree
which our Lord told you not to eat.
It is the tree of eternal life.
He gave it a name I'll never call it the tree of eternal life.
Alive never call it I just said don't eat from that tree. He didn't give it a name. Satan gave it a name
and attractive name.
And he called it the tree of eternal life.
Now, Adam, up until that point, he hadn't even been thinking about eternal life and, you know,
and a life which would end
he wasn't thinking about that. That was not in his thinking processes.
Oh, Satan put that thing in.
So, of course, everybody would like to live forever.
And Satan further enhanced it to say that, if you eat from it, you will be like the angels
never die.
So, Adam is now of course, afraid, afraid to die. So now he feels he must eat from that tree. This is a tree that the Lord told him in the very beginning do not eat from it. And he was fine eating from all the other trees here not and
but now. He is now impelled
to eat from that tree.
The modern example of that for us is Riba.
This is not food again. But we all know rebuys haram
Riba is haram,
forbidden.
In English, Old English, it was called usury.
usury
and usury doesn't sound nice
usury.
So at the appropriate time,
along came Satan, again,
to people to tell them that we don't need to call it usury anymore.
We need to call it interest.
Now interest sounds nice.
Something is interesting.
It is in your interest to do this.
That's very attractive. No. Everybody wants to do what's interesting and in your interest.
So now
the whole world is drowning in interest.
After a time you go back, you know, 500 years, 600 years,
then
interest was forbidden. The only people who are dealing with it, were the Jews.
And the Jews were actually told in their book.
In the Torah, they were told not to take interest.
Allah told them don't take interest.
But as he said,
they change the book with their own hands.
So the text which says, Do not take interest
was modified to say, Do not take interest from your bredrin.
From your breath when they inserted this term,
do not take interest from your breath. Meaning what? You don't take interest from fellow Jews. They're your brethren.
But for those who are not Jews, the name they use for the rest of us is going
we are the goyim do ye m
it is permissible for you to take interest from the goyim
not from the Jews.
But okay from the guardian.
They changed the book.
But even though they were practicing it, they were doing it
the rest of Europe
they saw it as evil they understood from the commandments that it should not be done.
So you find
story's written Shakespeare, you know The Merchant of Venice is about that evil Jewish moneylender
wanting his pound of flesh.
So they were always looked down upon, they would be operating in the dark corners of the society in the ghettos and, you know, they would stay out of people's way. Eventually, they were able to come to the forefront. When the King of England ran out of money, he needed some money to broke away from from
the Holy Roman Empire, broke ties with the pope created his own church, the Anglican Church, and he needed finance. Now he had broken away.
The Jewish moneylenders came to him.
And they made
loans attractive because he needed the money and the rest is history.
The rest is history.
So, the halal and haram
are basic principles governing everything in Islam.
As the prophet SAW, Solomon said, Albion will haraam obey.
Hello is clear,
and haraam is clear. But he went on to say that between them, there are gray areas,
which are confusing for most people.
Whoever avoids the gray areas,
has protected his honor, her honor, and their deeds and their religion.
And whoever falls into the gray areas
will eventually fall into hierarchy.
And then he gave a simile that it was like
shepherds grazing their sheep near the boundary of the ruler, the king has his area, which has a boundary.
And the gray area is like that boundary. People who come close to it those who take their ship close to the boundary to eat because there's plenty other places to eat. But now when you go close to that boundary, eventually one will jump over and be in there. Maybe you'll get it back, another time one jumps over, you see nothing happens
then another and then another and then all of a sudden you're over there grazing in the land.
That is the nature of human beings and human society.
So,
we understand when we look at the halal and haram
that as I said, these were not arbitrary labels which are law put on things
they have to do with what was beneficial
and what was hot.
We see that
in 95% of what has been labeled Haram in Islam, when you look at 95% of what has been labeled Haram, you will see that it is harmful
harmful to the majority of people
their society, their families,
their religion,
their mind
their health, one way or another it is harmful.
So it is not an arbitrary level.
There is a 5% that we cannot see the obvious harm.
So when people speak about pork, of course there are issues and people have raised things about pork etc.
You know, people think oh pork is nasty. It's this is not the other
way.
Well,
let me tell you that
I, as a non Muslim, ate pork.
And it tasted good.
It wasn't nasty.
Maybe the pig on the farm is nasty. But when it comes as pork chops
so obvious harm from pork
is not
evidence. It's not clear. I know there are cases for IT people have read, you know, raised, you know, medical issues trichinosis and in other things around it, but, you know, these are, you know, marginal things.
They're not conclusive. I mean, they do show that the pork pig does seem to have a propensity to, to fail.
But we can say that the harm is not clearly evident.
Otherwise, you know, there would be more
people giving up pork.
Like they gave up cigarettes. Initially, the harm wasn't clear.
Some people were speaking about it from early times.
But eventually the body of scientific evidence built until there was no doubt that smoking was harmful.
So it for us as Muslims, it became harder, because whatever
is harmful from the Islamic perspective is going to harm you, then it becomes
something we should avoid.
Unless
that harm produces a greater good
that harm produces a greater good.
For example, if somebody takes a needle,
a big needle,
comes and sticks you with that needle.
It's painful.
You're gonna say, Why? Why are you doing that? Why are you sticking me with this?
However, if you need a vaccination, you go to the doctor and say, Please stick me with that needle.
Right?
So we're not asking the doctor to stick us with the needle. Like the pain. There are some people who do like it. They're called masochists. Right? People who like pain, that's not the average person, we don't like pain. So this sticking of the needle, we're tolerating it, because we believe that from it will come a greater good.
But where there is no obvious greater good, then what is painful, what causes us to suffer, etc, we consider these things to be wrong. So
on the basis of that, you know, we conclude assuming that
this is a fact, in virtually all of the things that we see around us, which are
that even that tree in the garden
a lot prohibited it. Because there was harm in
the fact that we don't know because some people say, actually, the tree was
something that says to Apple, but there are others who say because of the harm, which came in the end from it, they think it was really
opium
or some other drugs.
You know, they tried to give it some other
obviously,
harmful qualities.
The point for us is that Allah forbid it.
When we know where the harm is, or we don't know where the harm is.
We avoid it. We believe that the law is done so for good reason. He has created all the things in this world. He knows what is useful, what is beneficial, and what is harmful.
So
we deal with
on that basis,
Now
in terms of
products
that we consume, because this is where the halaal label first showed up,
identifying the products, which were on the market.
In earlier times, there was no need to put any brand halaal brand. Know, the Muslim world, we knew whoever killed the animals or Muslims are killed according to Islamic way. And that was it, this was clear, you bought from Muslims, Muslim community, wherever Muslims were, they would create some little slaughter area where they would slaughter the animals and on this side of themselves, within families, the males are sometimes country's female slaughter, this
had been going on for generations.
But in modern times now, where
the societies the role, roles of slaughtering, etc, are no longer in the hands of the individual. The way it was in the past, some countries is still unanswered individually in many countries, especially in western countries. You know, people don't want to animals.
People are far away from that whole slaughter process.
In fact, they're so far that they consider the process of slaughter of animals as being something evil.
You know, you have the Society for prevention of harm to animals, you know,
it's a very big an active society in America. I mean, of course, it's focused primarily on cats and dogs, because these are the animals that people tend to hover around themselves, mostly. And, you know, sometimes people become abusive with these animals. So they have this society for prevention.
But that society, I know, in the States, you know, and other Western countries, as society, you know, does reach into the areas of
any kind of slot.
So I remember there was a case a few years back,
where front page news,
they had this picture
of the Moroccan in New York
Police struggle, the police are holding him down. He's holding a chicken in his hand, and they're trying to get this chicken away from him. And
that caught him.
His neighbors had observed him, you know, every weekend, bringing live chickens into his apartment.
And he wasn't producing eggs.
And the chickens were not coming back out again.
So
they would hear the chickens at certain points. squawking, you know, and then silence. So it said, you notice some terrible stuff going on during his apartment. So they called the police. They timed it, when they came back with this chicken to get to the house. And
they timed it to the point where they know it's gonna slaughter you to record your times. So when he was about to slaughter, broken his door, police came rushing in and there he was, you know, with his chicken, you know, in the sink with his knife ready to cut the chicken, and they grab him and then find the
Muslim
slaughtering animals.
And, of course, their view is that, you know, this is our method is so inhumane, you know, taking a knife to the neck.
Of course not most, most people have never been to a slaughterhouse. what goes on inside the house anyway. So
but the point is that the methods of slaughter is no longer in the hands of the average person in the West.
So now, it became an issue for Muslims. You know, where is this meat coming from? Who slaughtered it?
So, initially, people tried to
get some
Muslims who would be would act like butchers, they would go to the slaughterhouse, they would kill the animals, and they bring it back for us. But when the communities got so big, was no longer practical for them to be doing it anymore. So this issue of having a halau level became important. And, you know, at the same time, it's just like the 70s going into 80s, this time, oil is found in the, in the Gulf, and, you know, they became now prominent, they start to import, you know, animals from across the world, into the country countries growing at a faster rate, it became important for them to know, where these animals are coming from the slaughtered animals, which are frozen or put
in, you know, different formats sent, they're cooked. And
so the halaal industry was born.
Some countries, you know, sign it,
business, good opportunity, and
the
Malaysia became number one,
they captured the market, they became basically the hub for the global hub for halaal industry.
In exporting pure Islamic products, to Muslim countries, to European countries, West Muslim communities, mainly in those countries, you know, as well as to China, these are the main three areas.
And
the
technology
was developed
to be able to determine the products now.
What were the contents? Where did these contents come from?
Actually, the people people in the West, it was mainly people coming from India and Pakistan, who were very particular, you know, about wanting to know, where all of these elements, they had numbers, g three, three, x, this one and P that and why did these things come from so they started doing research and checking into it, you know, and then they start to write books, they put out these books with which, which exposed what all these numbers meant, you know, these ones which came from originally from pork products, and, you know, animals which were not slaughtered. islamically. And, you know, it reached a point where if you look at this book, basically, you couldn't buy
anything,
you reach the point where you couldn't, it had a number, it had one of these numbers on it, you know, you could hardly eat anything in the supermarkets anymore.
The
technology, to be able to identify in the Gulf areas, they started to use it and to identify, you know, where poor products were coming from, where they were coming. And they,
they built up for the world.
And in this industry, which we call the industry,
some people were not trained.
They just had an organization, they were the first one to get to the government, the government recognized them because they needed to get a sticker on these things. And they were giving stickers.
Some of them were scientists who were doing this other hand,
but they didn't really have an in depth knowledge of Sharia law. So they were judging things merely on a chemical etc, basis. And they were labeling also.
And then there were some more from shahryar basis, good solid tree of backgrounds, etc. But they didn't have
science basis, biology, chemistry, etc. So they're just judging according to the obvious what is external, they couldn't really understand what is actually going on or processes are going on. And they know people have more trust in them. Right, and their rulings, but eventually, it became clear that the rules were not accurate. You know, to some degree, there was accuracy, but then there were some areas that they really didn't know what was going on.
What chemical processes were going on.
So then
we started to find some courses being offered when they're trying to combine or they brought people from both sides to work together to be more effective in
labeling things, hello, and
from the consumer products, etc.
And
out of that
we have now on a global basis, the halaal industry with labels now, which don't seem to anything we said, Now, the labels have recharged shoes and socks, and in everything we seem to label because it's no big business. It's big business, I mean, they said basically, Muslims represent about 25% of the world
that in 2013,
The War of the World Food Market 17%, was
labeled food.
And that
was basically $1.1 trillion.
You're talking about serious money here. And they expect by 2018 to be $1.6 trillion.
It's just growing in leaps and bounds
hamdulillah my university, the Islamic online university, we're in the process of developing a Bachelor's in halaal 13 certification
which will combine science and shediac all graduates will need to know biochemistry they need to understand chemistry and biology and the process involved as well as be grounded in the Sharia, in the
soil, etc. To be able to make proper judgments. So we want to try to develop that because it's being done to some degree here. It's being done in Pakistan also, but the mass of the world they don't have access to this information. So they're just relying on the local malanez movies, you know, chefs, whatever, whatever they said whatever they thought, you know, so you have so many different ideas out there people contradicting each other, etc.
So we're also not from the perspective of trying to you know, rake in some more money you know, when I look into try to make the money, that's where the money is no, because the motto of the Islamic online university is changing the nation through education. So it's about educating the oma
not milking them.
Anyway, the
issues that might be worth looking at
where people commonly are confused,
they are the issues that have to do with
small amounts of Haram in spoken about this before
small amounts of haram material in
now, heroin material, we have alcohol,
we have blood,
meat of pigs,
the meat of carnivorous animals which have been forbidden
birds of prey, which are also forbidden
animals which die of themselves
we call them carcasses. So, any food product
or cosmetic products,
which uses elements of this this is this these are considered to be the Haram areas for
consumption.
So, this comes up in the area the issue of food and it comes up also in the issue of cosmetics etc.
We have a general principle
that the prophet SAW suddenly
clarified for us.
That if water reaches a large amount to use the term Kunal attain scholars have not really been
you know clear on exactly what cool attain is but it is a larger
amount of water a big vat of water
that
it will remain pure, even if filth
is dropped.
This is the basic principle
from Sharia authentic concerning some use also the Hadees that you know if the color taste or smell of that water has not changed
then it remains pure. But if any of those characteristics change, then now, this is no longer considered to be water pure water anymore, which could be used for will do for consumption etc.
However, this hadith which is used commonly is not authentic
color smell, taste is not authentic, but scholars have
law, they use it commonly
you find it used across the board anyway, the point is that the general principle is that large amounts of oil
are not affected by small amounts of
that's the general principle.
So,
the idea
that there may be in products,
minute
quantities of
making the whole thing how long this idea is out of Indian Pakistan, this is
this is a way of thinking, the example they will give you is that if you have a glass of milk
and you take a an eyedropper, you know,
and with one drop, you drop one drop of urine in that glass of milk when you drink it.
Of course most people would say no,
no, I wouldn't drink it.
But this is not the basis for determining halala.
You wouldn't drink it but other people will drink it.
There are other people, they need milk they need to drink, they're gonna drink it. They don't it's not a problem.
But for the average person, yeah.
glass of water.
one drop of urine, you can't see it anymore. It's not completely gone. You can't see it.
The color didn't change smelling things change.
Okay,
you can deal with it.
That's personal.
This is not lost.
We don't base the law on how you feel and how that one feels.
It's about principles of health.
So when we consider
as the province clarified that fact of water not affected, technically speaking, that glass is
not considered to have become haram by that one drop of urine.
Who would go and do that anyway.
But that's not the point. It's just the concept. It's not.
And that's the point that people need to get to.
Because if you're able to get to that, then life becomes so much easier.
If you're stuck on the other point, life becomes very difficult. You're walking a tightrope.
Does it have this number? Does it have that number does it have
that reality is that we're talking about molecules.
We're talking about molecules, which are so small, that they really don't impact on the
majority
quantity of material which is Hello. That's the reality.
Now when it comes down to alcohol,
The example that I give
from the prophet SAW sunlamps time
we know he told us
kolomoisky in Cameroon Cameron wakulla hamrun condo Cameron haraam
every intoxicant.
Is calmer, we'll take that same level, this is the Islamic label for intoxicants
and all forms of hammer
is forbidden.
And then he also said mascara kathira who
for
Peleliu Hara
what will intoxicate in large amounts, small amounts of it
are hot off.
Okay, these are clear principles.
Now
we have on the marketplace
non alcoholic beer,
non alcoholic wine.
These were known to be intoxicants before. But now
for some segments of the society who wants to be able to pick up that wineglass with their non Muslim friends, but they want they feel they're Muslims, or at least, maybe they're drinking with a left hand.
They have that glass of
non alcoholic wine so they can partake of the wine along with their friends. So there was a market for it. Those who developed a taste for wine
and beer
common drinks, alcoholic drinks of the West. So the West say you like it,
but you can't drink it, okay, we'll make a version of it that you can
industry now, non alcoholic beer and wine.
So, now, the question is that so called non alcoholic beer and why
is it really zero alcohol?
Or is it you know, point 00 1% there is a percentage of alcohol there.
So, this is what the others hold up is it calling it non alcoholic?
There is point 01 or point 00 percentage of alcohol drinks. So,
what if we go back to the principal?
What will intoxicate you in large amounts
is forbidden in small amounts.
This is in reference to drinks and other products
that non alcoholic beer
if you drank a gallon
of it,
would you become intoxicated?
No.
He would not.
You would not be intoxicated,
you would end up killing yourself. Before you are able to become intoxicated in any way shape or form from it.
That's what would happen.
It will not intoxicate you.
And in reality, in yogurt
and yogurt. If you go and check chemically, you will find there is a percentage of alcohol in yogurt.
Yogurt,
eating yogurt
and insoluble hearty.
The Sahaba came to the province
and he they asked him about the drinks that they were drinking called Nabhi.
So
They wanted to him to give a ruling to this drinks.
Levine was made from dates, you know, the dates would be mashed up and
left in water.
And after a day,
bubbles would start to form.
After two days, more bubbles would start to form.
The first day it was like Sweetwater
second day, it was starting to be a little tiny.
And by the third day
when you drank it, you would get a buzz, as they say.
So they brought it to the process and he said, Bring the drinks here. So they brought it to him. And he tasted them. He said, Listen, okay,
the first day, you can drink it.
Second day, you can drink third day throw it
don't keep it for more than
two days 30 you have to get rid of it.
Now,
we know modern science
that from the time that the bubbles started,
that is the sign of the fermentation process taking place.
Once fermentation starts to take place, what is produced alcohol.
That's reality.
So the province has
permitted the Sahaba to drink those drinks
after fermentation had started
for the first day, and the second day, by the third day, when it's reached the point where if they drank enough, they could get intoxicated, they told them get rid of it
as is the fifth that is based on
the statements of the province on solemn what we know of modern science, we know that the prophet SAW Selim had permitted them to drink those drinks, even though some alcohol was present.
So what we understand from this is that when we talk about alcohol
we're talking about
the creation of alcohol which involves a distillation process by which the water is removed and only the pure alcohol alone is left that is really what is clearly forbidden.
Now if you have that,
you sell it you produce it, it's how
you sell it it is how you transported is how long you drink it is
all of those people who are involved in the process of making it they're all in
that is forbidden without a shadow of a doubt.
Anything else?
Which is not
alcohol, it has not been it is not alcohol, it's produced your you have a variety of different drinks, etc around the world.
Even coconut,
right? The coconut and I love coconut.
I was born under a coconut tree in Jamaica.
Even the coconut
you leave it for a few days
starts to get tiny. No, my wife did you tend to get rid of it?
No, it's just the first day you know, it's just started a few bubbles. I love my coconut I don't like to waste coconut water. So I still drink it anyway after the second day, okay? It's not possible anymore. But
all of these other
drinks, beverages etc. Winner the beverage itself is not an alcoholic beverage.
It is a beverage which you may have in it a minute quantity
according to the principles that were laid by the column, it is these are all permissible products.
And the gene is easy. Allah made the DNA easy. We can make it complicated and fight over these molecules. You know, I mean, which now
We call alcohol because alcohol is taken on a chemical name. Now, once you have the O h molecule, you know, that's what is now called alcohol.
But there's some forms of this alcohol, if you drink it, you'll go blind.
You know, it's not enough, not drinkable, it's not gonna intoxicating, will make you blind. Nobody has that oil molecule. It's called alcohol. So, you know, we don't need to pry into the fine details of each and everything. You know, when the woman in Medina, she offered the prophet SAW some, you know, some soup, which had meat and stuff in it.
She's Jewish, he took it and ate it. He didn't ask her. How did you slaughter?
or What did you feed the animal? Yeah, some people go to the point of what the feed feed for the animal, you know.
So we don't need when a law has said that the slaughter of the Christians and the Jews are allowed for us, we don't need to go into the kind of details that we have done, of course, it's very good for the airline industry, they love the details, because they become the experts in all these companies have to pay them so they can get that label. So they're making lots of money.
It's very financially rewarding. But to be fair,
we have gone overboard. And when you saw the halau sticker on socks, you know, really reached the end, you know, you can't get any further than that.
This is this is the reality of our
industry.
So
my advice is, you know, whenever you come up with issues, you know, people say, Well, you know, in our cosmetics, because here it comes now, because cosmetics, because it becomes a comes into everything. So the cosmetics, which the women may use, somebody has proven that it has, you know, some famous brands have some percentage of alcohol in it.
So
you can't use it anymore.
People asked me, I get emails,
Facebook inquiries all the time about it.
If when you use this cosmetic,
you're not getting intoxicated.
Don't worry about it.
Don't worry about it.
You know, they have some perfumes Of course, you do have to make this condition to because, you know there are some perfumes
in the west where people can't get alcohol, they go and buy these perfumes and they can drink it and get it and get intoxicated with it.
It's not a very good high according to them, but it still gets them there you know, but, so, there is this issue of intoxication. But otherwise the issue of alcohol, whether alcohol itself is not just something that scholars have discussed, debated about, you know, because it's included in a category of other things, which are not considered to be nudges in and of themselves you know divining arrows, which are used for fortune telling
these arrows are they themselves
gambling tools, I mentioned the crime in the middle Cumberland, Mesa All right, I mean, all these other instruments for gambling, these are not you know, cards or cards considered
a lot of rich, rich family shape.
So,
it is sufficient for us
to
avoid what is doubtful.
You know, if, after this explanation you still have your doubts, your read so many other things which says no, you can't do this. So so you don't feel you know, comfortable anymore. You don't want to use these things and better you don't use it as a process.
You just leave it but now the problem is, after you decided to need it, leave it and your best friend wants to use it.
You know, then you're going to pester her and pester him and, you know, be on him all the time making life difficult for him to eventually gives it up just to stop hearing from you know, we don't need to do that,
you know, you it's a personal choice, you want to make a difference. Some scholars with regards to it, it's not a clear point anymore, it's what what you felt comfortable with, you know, then you can go with it. If you have a doubt, then you go and find out what is clearly in the Haram categories, then, of course, we have to avoid them.
And what is
in the
molecular
tables,
we can ignore them
and live with peace of mind, inshallah.
And in the end, if we ask ourselves,
why did a law make?
Why did he not just make everything
couldn't be everything around because then we wouldn't be able to survive?
So the only option is everything.
Why didn't he just make everything
and we wouldn't have to be bothered about all of this.
Reality is that this is a part of the test of this life.
It's a test of faith,
commitment,
love of a law, trust in a law,
all of the higher qualities and characteristics which raise the human being from being an animal.
We are and have an animal side.
But Allah has given us under capacities that these
tests some halal and haram bring out in us the better
and
to be able to appreciate
the halaal there needs to be heroin.
Because if everything was held and
where would be
the test, there is no appreciation of what the law has given us when a lot when we can see all of the lines giving us from his bounties, etc, you know, then this should also engender in us, you know,
gratitude and loving the law, for the blessings that he has put in our lives. Regardless of the situations that we may be faced with. There are so many blessings around us that we always should say
Alhamdulillah
all thanks or gratitude, All praise is due to a law
should be the heartbeat of our lives.
And with that
understanding
our lives will find
peace,
tranquility
and purpose.
So, Allah did not make halal and haram
just to make life difficult for human beings.
For the animals, there's no
they do whatever they do by instinct, okay? It's all okay.
But for us, law made that distinction.
And the ultimate goal of our creation is paradise. We were created to worship a law, but to worship Him in order to get to paradise that is the ultimate goal.
And these tests
the tests of halal and haram, they bring out the higher
qualities, characteristics, human characteristics, which if we are able to develop them, we earn our way to paradise through them.
Through the mercy of Allah, Allah, of course, which encompasses
Is all of its features.
I'm going to stop here halau labels,
clarity, or insanity.
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