Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Hall Foundations Fiqh Facts Fictions Fibs MSI 03082020
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First of all, before
beginning,
the content of this
talk, I wanted to thank Allah for
allowing me to be present.
I wanted to thank Allah
for allowing me to take a part in
this work. I wanted to thank Allah
for giving me this
that I did not earn and I didn't
deserve,
in order to speak about this
issue and to do the work on this
topic.
This work which is treated like a diseased
leper
even by our own fraternity or and students
of knowledge.
Even by the,
aspirants to the spiritual path,
even by the people. If I told you
today that big Sheikh with a 25 gallon
turbine is giving out his today, the message
would be filled.
And if I told you the grand Mufti
of Congo came and he's giving out Sanads,
and,
Ijazat,
the message would be filled. And for some
reason or another, all of the those things,
the thing that they're built on,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala only chooses a certain
number of people to come. And I can
see even the irritation from amongst my own
peers
with regards to this,
topic. Not all of them, but many of
them.
Why why are we talking about this? Why
are we bringing this up? Literally, once I
was talking to a very famous speaker y
type individual, somebody whose,
honorarium is in the, you know, 5 figures
for 1 band,
there are many people like that.
I met I talk I speak at MSI
so you know I'm not one of them.
Right? So he came and asked me a
fit question about about something in the Maliki
Med had regarding halal and haram.
And literally another another person come up. Why
do you guys have to talk about this
all the time? Why do you have to
talk about this all the time? It's not
such a big deal. I said to you,
maybe it's not a big deal. I appreciate
that. I understand that. You know, like, I
try to see things from other people's point
of view. To you, it's not a big
deal to us. It's dean.
It's our religion.
So if it's not a big deal to
you, I only I'm only speaking about it
with him because
he asked
me. But for me, it's my deen. Don't
tell me it's not a big deal. I
don't go and insult your religion that you
follow. Please don't insult the one that I
follow.
So if you wanted, here it is. You
know, in the old days, you know, the
filafa used to be given what what was
it? The filafa and the tariqa
that everybody says, oh, so and so is
like a big shave or whatever. What was
it?
The shave would give his his right?
Here. Take it.
Who wants it? Go ahead.
Okay. Put it on.
It's yours.
By the way. He
is an excellent imam and he also,
read from me at Darroqasim
The
point is is what?
If you don't if you don't want to
build the foundation of your deen,
what's the point of talking about all of
those other things?
If you're going to fill yourself with haram,
what's the point about talking about all of
these other things? What's the point about Khalafat?
What's the point about this? What's the point
about that? What's the point about Assad and
Sheikh Hadith and,
fantastical stories about people,
flying in the air and floating on the
water and all of this other, all of
this other stuff. This is not what you
and I came here for,
as,
as slaves of Allah
I don't want to belabor the matter.
Muhammed Musayev did a very good job,
you know, driving that point home.
The the title I was given is
of the matter, the fiqh of halal. It
should be sufficient to you what the bizarre
calamity and tribulation were in, That the fiqh
of halal is the topic given to the
one maliki in in in the organization?
Where where are all of our Muftis? Where
we let them come inshallah and let them
also speak to the people, and let them
also get shoes thrown at them. Let them
be banned from masajid. Let them be, the
annoyance of everybody also if they actually believe
this is a deen. Let them carry this
cross as well. Don't you know the people
who carried the cross, the people who carried
the cross for the sake of Allah
Those are the ones that go to Jannah.
Let them let them take it. This is
our deen. I don't care what another person
says or thinks about it. So fine. You're
here.
I don't see except for by,
Sadiq. I don't see any other malakis in
the room. Is there?
All the rest of us are Hanafis, I'm
assuming.
Right?
So let's talk about Hanafi fiqh. I read
the hidayah as well. Right? Allah ta'ala,
his messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said what?
Whoever Allah Ta'ala wish is good for,
he teaches them understanding of the religion.
And this fiqh, marsala, people have taken a
couple of issues and,
you know, that that become
hot topics
on social media
and
in chai related discussions across the,
across
America and across the Muslim world, and that's
what they think about FIP. The actual study
of FIP is very exhaustive.
It's if you think reading Nakhon Sarf is,
like, tedious, the actual effect to read it
is extremely tedious. So we have the same
Luspav that used to teach us,
the Hidayah,
and the same Ustad that used to he's
taught us the 4th jewel of the Hidayah
and the same Ustad he taught us the,
the back half of the Mishkat Al Masabi.
The Mishkat Al Masabi is a book of
hadith that you read. It's a book of,
I guess, technically speaking,
there's no with the hadith. You just read
the text of the hadith.
And whoever goes through it will have gone
through a majority of the the mutuum, the
texts of the hadith of the.
That way, when they read the, at least
in theory, they should be able to focus
more on the transmission,
of the hadith, the chain of narration, etcetera,
and not have to spend so much time
explaining what does the hadith that's being transmitted
mean. Right? In the Mishkaab Darce, everybody would
listen avidly. Why is the stories?
When it's time to actually analyze them critically
and, you know, look at things and invoke,
like, all of the stuff that you learned
in terms of logic, in terms of grammar,
in terms of, you know, all of the
other kind of technical,
foundational sciences that allow you to objectively say
what does this mean, what does this not
mean. It became too tedious. At some point
or another, the students would sleep in their
darsh, and the the sheikh said to them
he said, if you wanna come, you can
come. I won't take role anymore. Whoever wants
to come, come. Whoever doesn't wanna come, leave.
And something like maybe 5 or 5 or
6 students used to attend that. Darsai was
one of them. And all I could think
of is what?
Whoever Allah wants to go for, he has
a firkhandil. So this is the majlis. The
firkah is being
given out freely. Whoever wants to come and
listen, let them come and listen. And if
you want to only go to the majlis
where the cool people are and where you
come to Islam as you are as it
is and all this other, good stuff, then
push each other out of the way in
order to have not with cool people.
Okay? Read the read the chapter with regards
to the Ba'ih,
regards to slaughter in the Hidayah.
It's very clearly mentioned.
One of the differences between
between the,
slaughter and between,
hunting
is what?
Is that the nia, the intention that a
person is required to make in order to
slaughter the animal has to be made on
the animal.
You're slaughtering an animal. You make a intention
on the animal before slaughtering it that I'm
going to slaughter this animal.
Whereas in, for example, if you go hunting.
Okay?
You know, by,
Wasim sees, like, Lord of the Rings and
he goes out and gets his, like,
a long go and he knocks his arrow
and he, you know, aims it at whatever
wild turkey. Right? Our Masjid, Marshall, in Cleveland
is like a little, like, Garden of Eden.
It's like little Jannah. There are literally
deer and wild turkeys and, like, all sorts
of things. It's and it's really fit befitting
that the masjid is itself like kind of,
like a franchise of Jannah. And
so it's literally literally like that. I sometimes
wanna grab one of the animals and, like,
then I say, you know, how could you
how could you shank something in the house
of Allah? You know? So okay. Somewhere else,
he knocks his arrow and he's he's gonna
shoot the turkey.
The intention is not on the turkey. The
intention is on what?
It's on the arrow. Why?
This is a very subtle point by the
way. I know many people here are not
like Madrasa graduates, but you'll actually understand something
that maybe the Mavisab who is Imam and
your Masjid slept through or didn't show up
to class for. It's a very subtle point.
I'm spoon feeding you. The thing that you
should be by that time able to, like,
you know, learn 40, 50 points like this
in an hour. I'm gonna take, like, a
good 15, 20 minutes to just teach you
this one point in order for it to
sit in your head and understand something.
Something. So you make it with conviction afterward.
You can explain to other people as well.
Which is what? The reason there's a difference
between the 2 of them is because when
you slaughter an animal Right? You slaughter an
animal
because,
the animal is mustatnus. It is
domesticated.
It's docile. You have control over the animal.
That's why the nia is made on the
animal because you have control over the
animal. It's domesticated.
Whereas when you're hunting, you cannot just hunt
a domesticated animal. You can't just be like,
oh look, the Quran has law about like
hunting.
So here is, like, the cow, you know,
on the farm and I'm gonna roll up
to it with, with a bow and arrow
or with a spear I'm gonna say,
and I'm just gonna, like, this thing. You
know, like, that's it. I'm gonna hit it.
You know? You're not you can't do that.
The animals may die if you do that.
The reason hunting has certain rules and regulations
that allow those,
procedurally, those matters that slaughter doesn't that that
doesn't is what? Because those animals are wild.
You don't have control over them. If you
go up and, like, try to, like, lay
a wild zebra on inside, it will kick
you in the mouth, break your jaw. It's
not a joke.
Right?
So there's some different rules and regulations. So
the difference between one of the differences keys
differences between,
slaughter and between hunting is that in slaughter,
you make the nia on the animal
and in hunting, you make the nia on
the ala, on the tool, or the weapon
that's used in order to kill the animal.
You following so far? Is there anyone confused?
Want me to explain that again?
Why?
The reason for the difference between the 2
of them, the Sahibul Hidayah mentions is what?
You know that the Hidayah was a big
book back in the day. If you didn't
wear it in, like, Central Asia, if you
didn't read the Hidayah, you were not allowed
to wear a Jamba in a turban. You
know, you became a man by reading that
book.
Now many of our bullies will sleep through
it, but because the public itself is, like,
so clueless, they they don't realize who read
it, who didn't. The difference between the one
who read it and the one who didn't
is, like, day and night.
So what happens? He's he he he he
explains this and he explains why. Because you're
able to control the animal, and so the
animal is one step further. You, you know,
you have the neon with the tool and
the animal versus when you're hunting, you can
only make the neon the tool. You can't
make the neon animal because the animal is
not in your control. The reason one is
demanded in one case is because it's possible
and the reason that it the it's not
demanded in the other case is because it's
a relaxation from Allah in a situation where
it's not possible for you to actually control
that animal that you're going to
kill.
And so,
tell me something
now. Tell me something now. And this is
maybe perhaps a remedial, point that that that
bears repetition,
which is why is it in the first
place that
intention is needed for either of these two
scenarios.
And the reason is what is that our
Sharia says that the slaughter of an animal
is a a ritual act.
It's like it's not
It's a ritual act. Like salat is a
ritual act.
Right?
Then
the analogy
holds really well. Like, for example, if you're
gonna walk up to the
the the the the and you're gonna pray
if you make the nia in your head
like, okay, is gonna say and
I make nia for whatever prayer,
I need to pray right now. Is that
valid?
No. You have to make niyah for a
particular prayer and then that salat will count
for that particular prayer.
What if, for example,
you, Allah, forgive us, but this is the
case with many of us. We come to
the masjid now with, like, award winning beards
and jubdas and, you know, whatever
fashion,
designs and whatnot that make us look like,
you know, some sort of, like, extra from
the message or whatever. But,
you know, before there are too many of
us have missed years of salat.
So if you're making up the salat, are
you required to like, you have years of
salat to make up. Are you required to
know, like, which particular date you're gonna make
up? No. You just say I'm making up
a that I missed.
Some people have 100, if not 1000 of
them. Why? Because of the inability to pinpoint
which
which is the word it is.
The sharia gives a relaxation
just like the inability to cook to grasp
the animal
in particular
gives a relaxation that you can put the
nia on the tool that you're using to,
kill it rather than on the particular animal
itself. Just like a person who has many
years of makeup prayers is allowed to make
the niya for, like, the jinns of the
salat that that they have to make up
rather than the particular salat itself. Whereas if
it's actually time for right now, you have
to make the niya. I'm praying the for
right now because there's no excuse not to.
You know exactly which prayer you're going to
be making up. And the reason for both
of them
requiring a niyah, requiring an attention
is what?
It's because they're both ritual acts of worship.
In the in the case of salat,
the non performance of salat is a sin.
You absolve yourself from the sin by this
act of obedience.
In the same way, the eating of meat
in general in our Sharia at Mutlaqan is
haram.
All of it's haram.
There's only an exception to that rule which
is because this is an explanation of what
one of the things Mufti Musayb said Molana
Musayb said is what? Is that, the meat
has all these regulations. He didn't what he
didn't mean to say is that everything other
than meat is halal. What he meant to
say is that the default ruling of meat
is haram except for the meat that's gone
through this procedure. Whereas the default ruling of
other things that is halal, you can assume
it's halal except for an exceptional cases. Right?
So it's a ritual act that requires niya.
Now tell me something. This is all a
very long term heed, 15 minutes we've taken.
My goal is, by the way, to end
this talk, like, far short of the amount
of time I was assigned.
But if the the act of slaughtering an
animal is a ritual act
that requires an intention.
And
if we now understand why it is that
every animal every particular
animal requires an intention
for slaughter,
in order for that animal to be halal.
Now tell me something.
According to this,
we're all Hanafis here. Right?
Lombard, if you let you know, if you,
pray with her with 2 salons, you know,
there's a mob out to, crucify you. I've
actually there are people who have made several
masajid in within, like, a 15 mile radius
of this mustard. I've been actually, the mustard
boards have been asked not to allow me
to beat it out because I'm ruining people's
prayers because
x y z. Right? So if you're Hanafis,
you're Hanafis. Right? Now tell me something in
in the Hanafi mad hub.
If this is the case, then every single
particular animal requires an intention.
And when you have a animal slaughterhouse, is
that the is that slaughter or is that
hunting?
Is is it slaughter or is it hunting?
Okay.
According to the Hanafi school,
is there any way
is there any way
that turning on a machine
and having 200,000 chickens being slaughtered
by that machine in an 8 hour shift,
whether the person who turns the machine on
says or not.
Is there any way that that can be
Jai's? No.
There is no way that it's Jai's.
This is not a difference within the Madhab
as far as I can tell.
This is just haram.
This is not a difference within the madhab
as far as I can tell. This is
just haram.
This is one of those issues I hear
everybody invoke, Shaykh, why you make a big
deal out of it. It's a difference of
opinion. It's a difference of opinion. It's a
difference of opinion. Hey. That's how fit works
for taxi drivers.
How does fit work for scholars?
Not everybody who who issues an opinion, that
opinion is worthy of being hated.
However,
if nobody issues the opinion in the first
place,
then it's as if that opinion doesn't exist
at all.
I have yet to see anybody bring any
of the nusus from the books of because
all all bodies of law are built on
precedent.
Don't tell me all of this modernist nonsense
that, oh, look, you know, Sheikh, you're talking
about something from 1400 years and the world
has changed and blah blah blah, the other
thing, the other thing. You know the people
who changed the world? It wasn't you and
me. It was somebody else.
You know the people who changed the world
and who dominate and, like, run the world
right now?
The ones that everybody in,
back home countries are saying, oh, look how
good their system is. There's no corruption. There's
no this. There's no that. In the supreme
court, when they
decide a a matter,
you think all of the, justices, 9 justices
agree on,
agree on every matter? No. Oftentimes, the decisions
are split 54.
What are the things that they talk about?
What did their framers intend by this? What
did the people who drafted the law intend
by that? They'll petition literally the the the
transcripts of the debates in congress to see
what was the intention behind this and behind
that. What were the judgments that we gave
in the past?
Why? This is a unique,
attribute of the American legal system and it's
called a legal system.
That's how every legal system works.
The rest of it is like just conversation
while you're driving a taxi.
So I have yet to find a person
who's shown me a nasa in which, any,
scholars,
authoritative scholars of the past have explained to
me how this is going to be permissible.
Someone might say, well, Sheikh, how are you
gonna get a, nass from Ibn Dactik al
Ayd and all of these people that Masha'a
Muhammed said mentioned in his in his talk.
By the way, Ibn Dhatik Al Aed is
who? Who is he?
He's not the imam of Masjid Usman.
Ibn Dhatik Al Aed is one of the
associates, Sultan
Isibin Abdul
Salam.
Who is this is it Abdul? Why did
they call him Sultanulullah?
Because that was his, like,
handle on Twitter?
No.
During their lifetime,
the slave army
of the Ayyubid state overthrew the government because
the crusaders and Mongols were about to overrun
Egypt and Syria.
And they took Bey'a at the hands of
the Ullama and they said we're going to
protect the state. Otherwise, these people are going
to take the deen away from us. They're
gonna completely destroy Islam. Right? The Mongols, by
the way, before You know when they were
still pagans? Before they accepted Islam?
The tribal code
of Genghis Khan, It was called his yasa.
There were some a 100 over a 100
different laws in his yasa that he established
for the Mongol Empire.
Right?
Remember, a main stop. Right? That little shrine
in the the Mongol empire. Right?
Ironic.
Ironic.
Ironic. Why?
Because they had over a 100
a 100 laws in his in his tribal,
Yahsa, that he gave for his people.
These people respected him so much to this
day. He's like a respected person to them.
A little shrine for him in in, like,
this halal restaurant in Lombard.
One of the laws is what? He saw
the Muslims have a ritual way of slaughtering.
He's like, this is great. We should have
our way of slaughtering too. So his way
of slaughtering that he,
mandated as a law is that you have
to cut the cut the stomach of the
animal and reach in and pull the beating
heart out and like, hold the beating heart
until it stops.
Over a 100 some odd laws, only one
punishment. Guess what it is?
Yes,
Haastar?
Death.
Right?
So they were about to overrun they were
over about to overrun the heartland of Islam.
These slaves overthrow them.
And Sultan Al Ullama himself was from Halab.
He was from,
from Al Aqo, allat to Allah free it
from the usurpers that occupy it right now.
The Amir Khallab made a deal with the
Crusaders. This is all while the Mongols are
ransacking the central Muslim lands.
He made a deal with them that what?
You come
and
help me take Damascus from my brother
or from my nephew. I forget which one
it was.
And we'll give you Jerusalem. And Sultanul Ullama
got up in the Masjid. He says that
anyone who had any bay'a with this person,
the bay'a is null and void. This person
has sold the the holy land. It's weird
because it's all halal,
Palestine, all these like hot button issues all
coming into 1.
Right? So he go he he he said
he said that, you know, your Beihai, your
oath of allegiance with the emir is null
and void. The emir wants to come kill
him. All the people,
they they're gonna rebel if the emir kills
such a respected scholar.
And so it's very tense.
And finally, after diplomatic pressure from other places
as well that you cannot kill such a
respected scholar,
They come to an agreement. Just leave. Just
leave. They exiled him.
And so the Mamluks who had already overthrown
the Ayyubids from Egypt, they say come to
us and, we'll we'll honor you. We won't
do this nonsense with you. And so what
did he say? He said that, my condition
for coming to your lands is that
I get to say what I want and
rule how I how I please,
and I don't have to ask the permission
of the emir for anything. And it was
immediately granted to him. That's why they called
him Sultan ul Ullama. The idea was there's
like a normal Sultan that rules the the
the dawla, the government.
And then there's another sultan from amongst the
ulama who does as he pleases.
And it was their army that was the
first army that beat the,
the Mongols in the battlefield
all the way from you know, imagine how
far Mongolia is. It's very far away. From
Mongolia all the way to the,
Angelut, the battle of Angelut would happen somewhere
in, like, southern, southern Shan.
That was the first the first army that
beat them was that army of Sayfidil Khotsuz,
who was the patron of Sultan Al Ulamah.
And ibn Datit al Ida actually was a
maliki originally.
But because because Sultanul Ullama, he had so
much Mahabba from his he's like a close
associate.
He had so much love for him. He
learned the and he would give the fatwa
because he was a as well because of
that, which is probably the only
one of the only few times I would
sanction or condone somebody becoming a Shafi'i from
from really anyway, let's not go there. So
the point is is what? The point is
is that these people these people I mean,
when you go and take the battlefield and
you wipe the floor with,
with the Mongols,
Like, they didn't just beat them. They, like,
mocked the they took them to school. They
kicked a blank, and they took names.
Their commander, Atit B'hotat,
literally,
they they beheaded him and sent his head
on a plate to, Karakoram, to the Mongol
capital.
Tell me, are they just like some
movie that's,
harping on halal because, you know, but we
have better things to deal with?
No.
Those were the heroes of Islam.
Those were the people,
the companions, and the Aslaf,
the will be proud when these people, when
they see them. This is from this is
from our ummah. These are the fruits of
our tree.
He's the one that Mohan Hussein was talking
about. He's saying
from from the and things like that.
Right?
So coming back to this issue we talked
about, tell me, is it possible you turn
on the machine in the morning?
Do you know what 200,000 chickens means?
It means that the chickens that will be
slaughtered at the end of the shift haven't
even arrived to the plant yet, probably,
when someone
said turn the machine on.
Someone said,
so and so placed maybe there's someone standing
at the machine and saying bismillah over every
bird as it passes and touching it.
It's very funny because it's interesting. Those people
who say like, you know, difference of opinion,
difference of opinion. I say, bring me the
Nas. If you can't bring me the Nas,
then bring me Fatwa from a living scholar
because, you know, some people say there's not,
there's not, authoritative
precedent,
based texts
that, we can quote about these issues because
they're new. Actually, interestingly enough, if you read
it enough, you'll find that there are opinions
about all sorts of things that you never
thought existed.
However, fine.
Bring a fatwa from a living scholar.
We should have the right to scrutinize what
they've said and not just take it as
if it's, you know,
something revealed from, above the cover of the
heavens. We should also read it and see
what's there.
Nobody writes the fatwa. They just say it's
a difference of opinion. Everybody goes home and
eats something,
doubtful, and that's being very charitable. I feel
it's really I feel
it's haram. But, oh, he's a fanatical guy,
you know.
Don't lose okay. It's at least it's doubtful.
If nobody's willing to own up to the
own up to the, fatwa, it's very doubtful.
Actually actually, it doesn't even exist. Like I
said, that's the way cab drivers discuss fit.
The way the forecast
it, if nobody's even willing to, own up
to the opinion,
the opinion doesn't even exist.
Then we see people there are some people
who are quick to open their mouths
and quick to say, you know, Sheikh, you
know, whatever. I say it's permissible and
the the the sin will all be on
my head.
I see people say crazy things like this.
You know?
There are places I've seen this for all
sorts of issues. People will pray.
Before
Zohar comes in. People will moonsighting
calculation.
Every single issue under the sun, even if
it is a difference of opinion, they'll take
what's admittedly the weaker of the 2 opinions
and they'll say, oh, the sin is on
my head.
And the Quran actually describes such people
that they tell you this and they're going
to get the sin. Don't worry. But it's
not gonna absolve you of yours.
So they say, well, maybe someone's standing. So
now they're they're imagining a machine
that slaughters animals that doesn't actually exist in
real life. But they're imagining Why? Because they're
trying to, you know, like
you know, extricate themselves from what's otherwise an
embarrassing situation.
Maybe someone's saying bismillah over every chicken as
it goes.
There's a recording that says bismillah over every
chicken as it goes. Can the tape recorder
or MP 3 player,
Spotify?
Can it make an?
No.
Otherwise, me and Hafizdara would be out of
a job. They just have Spotify lead us
a lot. You know?
We'd be driving Uber like the rest of
the old Lamar.
I'm not joking, by the way, about that.
So the idea the idea is, like, maybe
someone you know how fast those chickens go
by on the on the belt?
You wanna talk about 5th and halal?
The slower plants, maybe 80 birds per minute.
The, like, actual, like, industry standard is somewhere
like a 160 and a 100,
40 birds a minute.
Tell me, who's saying,
Bismillah Allahu Akbar, like, in less than half
of a second for an 8 hour shift?
This person, you know, like anyone who's read
the books of the Sufis before, this person
will have Ishrak. They'll be illuminated by taking
the divine name so many times,
in every minute until they'll see Nur in
every one of their four directions. Well, they
would if such a person existed, but it's
like not it's not possible except for through
miraculous means and those people are not at
the chicken plant. If they are, they're the
ones we should go and try to take
take the from.
Because it's something very abnormal.
These these are these are and and on
top of all of that because somebody is
like, you know, and this is the I
love this. I love this. People, oh, the
are so backwards. They don't talk about any
their only their minds are stuck in a
couple of old ancient books that are like
this and, you know, a 100 of years
old, and, you know, we have real problems
nowadays. You wanna talk about real problems? You
know, one of the biggest machine slaughtered
chicken, wholesalers in this country.
You go ask the ask the, like, how
all guys, they all know the coach. Coach.
It's not coach. It's it's not it's Koch.
It's Koch.
It's k o c h, but it's pronounced
Koch.
Right? Koch
brothers
are 2 of the most caustically, accurately like,
neo conservative.
Like, you know, like, the the the guys
who, like, wanted to, like, put everyone, like,
whose name was Mohammed into, like, Guantanamo. The
people who introduced, like, the, like, fight ban
list and, like, taking citizenship away from people
and all this other nonsense. Like, the the
the the this whole country now is like,
oh my god. China's about to overtake us
and Russia has, like, hacked our elections and
whatever. How were they able to do all
of that? It's because they were, like, spending
1,000,000 of dollars on surveillance of, like,
you know, Ahmed who drives a taxi driver
a taxi cab because of these Koch brother
type people's, like, rational irrational fear of Islam.
But, you know, you may be brown. You
may be white. You may be black,
but everybody's money is green. Right?
The Koch brothers literally realized, man, these Muslims
are stupid. These are some dumb people. These
are some really dumb people. Why?
Because
the machine turns on.
No one cares if someone said
or not.
Really?
And even if they did, what sweat is
it off of our back?
And we can slap this halal label on
it, and they all buy it from us.
And Janaad Jabal Jamat is eating it. Sufis
are eating it. Students of knowledge are eating
it. Their teachers are eating it. Musalis in
the Masjid. The Mu'addan is eating it. The
imam is eating it. Everyone's eating it, and
someone brings up, you know, hey. You know,
we're actually funding these people who literally
are multibillion dollar donors
to
as far as what I can tell, everything
evil in this country.
We're funding it as a part of our
deen.
And then people tell me they tell me
after our ulama don't, aren't relevant and they
don't know, you know, what's going on and
their their heads are stuck in all of
these old, like, 100 of year old books.
This is one issue, by the way. This
is just one issue. There's so many issues
like this. There's so many issues like this.
You guys, anyone remember mad cow disease from
the nineties?
Jack in the Box almost got shut down.
They almost went out of business for it.
Why?
Because they're feeding feeding dead cows to other
cows, dead rumen into other room. They actually
had to ban it because people started dying
from it. Why?
Why is it that we can't, like, look
in our own Sharia and see these, rules
and regulations and believe in them?
Why is it that those people who are
competent that actually beat the Mongols and, like,
held the crusaders at bay?
You know, by the way, you know, when
the the the the commander of Putu's army
that that,
trashed,
like, horde
and sent his head to,
sent his head back to Mongolia.
Do you know who who the who the
who the architect of that victory was?
The ruler who ruled after Putas.
You know who Baybars is?
Anyone here been to Medina?
You've seen the dome, the green dome? Apparently,
some the historians say use it was originally
purple. They painted green later on, which I
think, you know, it's a nice update.
But,
that old part of the masjid, that's, like,
beautiful,
that everybody, like, fights each other to, like,
pray in. That's what it was built from.
That's who built it. It was neighbors who
who built that part. This is a from
Allah Those people were were,
concerned with these things. And now what do
we have? We have old people, people, you
know, Sheikh, it's hard in America. We have.
We have this. We have that. Those were
literally all slaves. Was born into slavery.
Babers was born into slavery. Al Mansur Palawun
who,
who, was one of his lieutenants. He was
born into slavery.
He he basically,
Not the Christians. We don't have a problem
with the Christians. We have the problem with
the with with the Farangi. Don't leave any
of them. And he finished the job except
for one fortress. He was sieging it and
he was on his deathbed. His son, Ashraf
Khalil, he made him swear an oath. I
don't care if they promise you all of
the silver and all of the gold in
Europe.
You will kick them out. You will not
accept it from swear to me before I
die that you will not accept it from
them. And he swore and they threw them
out. They were slaves.
None of us are slaves. I mean, someone
may have to, like, you know, like, get
like a job at Walmart, you know, when
times are tough or whatever. None of us
are going through that much difficulty. Right?
These are the people who are concerned with
these things.
These are the people who are concerned with
with eating right. Why? Because like the the
hadith of Muslim that Moana Musaib quoted
that the person
spreads his hands in front of the heavens
and he says, oh my lord, oh my
lord, and his food and drink and his
clothes, all of it is haram. How is
going to answer his duas? How is it
practical? We need the help even more than
other people did in the past.
We're not the ones who, conquered Constantinople.
We're not the ones who,
you know,
unite the crowns of Rome and of Persia
under our rule. We're not those people.
We need all the help that we can
get.
Why is it that for them, it was
for us, it's impractical to eat a halal
and for them, it was impractical not to
eat it?
I literally have this discussion because I I
I tweeted this program
from my Twitter.
Anyone
who has the misfortune of following me on
social media
knows the fun and games that are going
on outside.
And if you don't, please don't.
Please stay not following you.
Right? He's really he he understood. He gets
it.
The fallout just from tweeting this program, I
actually had
a a a detailed talk with another scholar
who said, why is it you guys are
the only ones who, make this machine solder
thing in a big into a big deal,
this, that, and other? You know, I I
went through the entire discussion with him and
he's showing me who's the one who says
this is Jairz. Well, Sheyf Fulan said it
was Jairz. This is Sheyf Foulan. I actually
I spoke to him through his representative
and he said that, well, I didn't say
it was Jai's. I was just saying that
you guys are in America. You're in a
difficult situation.
And so I was trying to see is
there a way that it could be halal
for you. This is not what the Sharia
prescribed. It's not what the Sharia mandates.
He doesn't know anything about the Koch brothers.
He's just talking about the the the very
basic masala itself.
And why is it the Egyptians say this?
Why
is
it that the Mauritanian say that? Why is
it that the Algerians say this? I said
it's all it's all based on this assumption
because the Mufti only answers the question that
is asked of him
or her.
Right? Modern moldy. Right?
Our sisters are very knowledgeable, some of them.
Right?
So
if you ask them and say like everyone's
dying or whatever Yeah. Okay. Don't die. Go
ahead and eat it. You know, maybe it
somehow kind of dies or whatever until you
can find a solution.
Somebody on Twitter is like, yeah, you know,
Sheikh,
I asked so and so. I'm studying in
Egypt right now. I asked so and so
again. And he says, yes, the is based
on. It's based on necessity.
Right?
We have a
a a a no dearth of Urdu speakers
in the room.
IPhone key. That's not what means in the
Sharia.
Is what? You're gonna die. You're gonna lose
an eye.
You're going to be tortured until you have
to give your up.
You're going to have to sleep, like, outside
in the winter,
you know, and you're gonna suffer from hypothermia,
so they're gonna have to cut off your
your your toes.
That's what the is in the sharia.
I said, listen. Bye. I had a caesar
salad for lunch. And,
what did I have yesterday for lunch? I
had a Caesar salad and I had I
cut a cucumber and,
ate that. And I ate one more thing.
I'm trying to think about what it yeah.
I ate a egg frittata from Trader Joe's.
There's 2 of them. It's very high in
protein.
I'm telling you which death am I going
through right now.
If someone listens to this Bayan on SoundCloud,
you know,
I assure
you,
tales of my emaciation are greatly exaggerated.
This is not a daroorah.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has given us those
types of food and those means to eat
and drink that nobody else had in the
past.
No one's gonna die. You're gonna in fact,
you're gonna die from eating that that that
stuff.
You're not gonna die from not eating it.
I have a degree in biochemistry. Nobody wants
to hear about the biochemistry from me. Who,
we sent to South Africa to train. He's
like our, quote, unquote, ingredients guy or whatever.
Right? If I tell you what what what
idea do you have, like, a chicken that
lives under stress,
in the dark,
has a abnormal life cycle,
puts on weight so fast that it can't
even walk anymore?
And,
on top of that, it lives in such
a filthy condition
that such a filthy condition
that it has to be given antibiotics in
its feed, which is also, by the way,
made out of other dead animals.
What do you think? You know, like, if
you're like a big modern science man, you
know, Mullahs are backwards. They only sight the
moon because they don't know about technology type
of weirdo.
What do you think? What do you Hey,
science guy. What do you think about that?
You don't have a beard.
You wear a suit and tie. You must
know more about science than me. You tell
me what do you think is gonna happen
to the person who eats that.
So brothers and sisters, this is a very
long discussion. The person who and the the
fact of the matter is is that not
everyone's going to listen to it. The one
who does listen to it I I am
very proud of it, by the way. There's
someone put this like, if you put back
the where's the if you put back the
I mean, public. You put back the slide
that has the names of the presenters, you
know, and the program on it, who are
these people? Okay. This halal advocates started myself,
Mufti Abdul Anana,
Mana Taher Anwar,
Hamar Saheb Zakaria,
Right? It was started so long ago with
no name, with no logo.
How can I tell you this logo, who
was it designed by? It was written by
a who was a student of
my sheikh. Allah give, rahma and mercy and
to our sheikh. His student, I remember he
went and studied from our
So me and Bayat Nan Faiz who's studying
right now, Allah Taqib him his protection,
complete his studies and bring him back with
aatiya.
I said, we'll ask him about the sheikh.
You know, he'll tell us about him. And
so,
I say, can you,
can you tell us about the sheikh? And
he just he just, like, started trembling. This
is in England. This is in this is
in in Luster. He just started trembling and
he cried for a good, like, 2 and
a half minutes. It was really awkward. No
one said anything. And then, like, when the
tears stopped, we just changed the subject and
whatever. Right? What can I tell you about
these people?
Who is this Maulana Musayid?
Right? Who is this Hayab al Ghani?
Who is this by Hamzal Arsi? What who
are our inspectors, these people? What can I
tell you about these people? These are the
Khulas Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala brought me the
best of the home. I don't need everybody.
I don't need everybody. We don't need to
fill up the Rosemont,
convention center with this ficker.
We just need a small number of people
who will make sure that whatever food comes
into the message is halal. We need a
small number of people who will put pressure
on the businesses and who put pressure on
the masajid in order to make sure whatever
comes in is halal is halal. If there's
another organization doing a better job than halal
advocates, I have better things to do with
my Sunday than give people a bayan about
meat.
People have this idea that some of the
that the are just a poor backwards class.
They have nothing else to do. They couldn't
afford a real education till they went to
the madrasa. It's actually true about some people.
It's not true about me.
I have other things to do. Let them
take care of it. But make sure that
this thing is
is is is treated like deen.
The people who wanna have like taxicab and
corridor, don't let them hijack the deen of
the ummah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
On top of that,
what's the reward for for carrying this cross
that nobody nobody's gonna offer their daughter to
you to marry because of this? Nobody is
going to,
elect it must have president because of carrying
this burden. Nobody's gonna invite you to give
chutba or,
you know,
whatever, have a high station or elect you
to any, office because of this. What's the
reward? The reward is this.
If you convince one of the businesses to
switch to halal,
everybody
people have to eat, like, several times a
day, many of them. Right? Well, they don't
have to, but they do anyway.
Some of them shouldn't. They do anyway.
Imagine the person, you know, Hafiz Tahir, he
recites Quran like an angel, everyone say. Right?
How many how many,
people in the Masjid saying after his
so many in the days. You know?
Who do you think there's a greater number
of? Muslims
that pray or Muslims that eat?
Unfortunately, it should be the same number. It's
Muslims that eat by, like
if we want to be idealistic, like, double,
but it's actually probably more like 4 or
5 times the amount at minimum.
On top of that, that, do non Muslims
eat as well?
Halal. I love halal. Halal is amazing. Right?
Was talking about I eat halal. I love
I get some halal. You know?
My
anyway, I told you I was gonna end
the band, so I'm gonna end it. Right?
No. No. Why?
Let people have a break.
So
the the,
they eat everyday.
The Muslim eats, the non Muslim eats. Everybody
that I know who became a Muslim with
only one exception.
Every convert I know with only one exception.
There's one exception, friend of mine.
He said, I had bacon in the morning
on my way to the shahada and I
just had to give it up and that's
it. Every other person I know who became
Muslim stopped eating haram.
So I became a vegan, I became a
vegetarian, I started eating kosher, I this, I
that. And then one day somebody told me
about Islam and it just made sense.
Right?
Who's the one who's gonna get the reward
for all of that? Even more than Hafiz
Tahir made khataq al Quran and tarawih.
Who's gonna get that? The few people from
the qaum that make sure that this thing
is straight.
Make sure that this thing this thing gets
implemented.
And the beautiful part is what? If someone
was gonna
real hard about it, you know, like, give
you real congratulations
and, like, extol you, put you on a
pedestal like you would be if you're a
master
or a great or a, you know, like
a celebrity.
Right?
A celebrity.
People say, Sheikh, you should talk about this
and that. It will bring people into the
masjid. I go, listen, if the objective was
bringing people into the masjid,
I know I'll get banned from MSI for
another 2 years for saying this, but it's
the truth and I'm gonna say it anyway
and they'll call me back after 2 years.
If the object objective is to bring people
into the masjid, just have a stripper give
the chutba. I promise you the entire masjid
will be back.
Is it true or is it not? Whether
or not I should have said it. If
you say I shouldn't have, you're probably right.
But suspend that matter for a moment. Is
it true or not?
It's true. Right?
But it doesn't mean you should do it.
Right?
If you were that type of person and
everybody loved you for it,
it would just increase your punishment.
If you're a good person and you packed
the masjid and everyone adored you for
it, at best that adoration and adulation would
have been a fitna for you.
It would have been a fitna for you,
it would have been a danger.
It would have been like someone just gave
you a $1,000,000
in cash in a bag and there's like
40 thieves
surrounding the Masjid. Who's gonna make it out
without losing at least some of it?
But this, my friends, nobody is ever going
to pat you on the back. Your own
mother and father are probably gonna cuss you
for this.
I know.
Trust me, I know. Your own mother and
father will probably cuss you out. Your own
brothers and sisters will probably cuss you out
for this. So in that sense, there's no
thieves waiting around to steal your reward.
And you know, not everybody is like at
iman high like they are in the masjid.
You know, we're in the masjid, everyone's thinking
Allah, Rasool, you know, beating the Mongols. Let's
do this Islam, Muslim, umrah, rah, rah, rah.
Right? You go home and then Netflix turns
on and, like, you know, you see a
funny cat video and God knows what thing
leads to another and people are, like, backbiting
someone, someone says something funny, we all laugh.
Things kind of go downhill. Right?
You can't be praying all the time.
Someone's going to be eating something halal all
the time.
So that when those not so bright moments
happen in your
garden, you have like an insurance policy to
back you up.
This is what the what the, the benefit
is. I'm not just here to entertain you
for 15 50 minutes and then move on
or to offend you for 50 minutes and
move on. There's a for this gathering that
this effort is there.
And this is wonderful. I love this. I
love this. You go into a restaurant and
you ask them is the food you have
halal except for some very Madzuk people, you
know, some
99% of people, they get really upset even
if you ask in the nicest way possible.
Freedom of information act. You're not I'm not
gonna say nothing. I just wanna know. That's
all. I'm not gonna judge you. Nothing. They'll
still freak out.
Brother, why he certificate?
Yeah. I mean, I am Muslim. I say
What did I do? Have asked me.
I said, brothers, this is not how Islam
works. That's how Protestantism
Certain branches of Protestantism
works. It's based on like the the freedom
of the rugged individual.
Right?
In Islam, we're an ummah, we're a community.
The sharia works with a qanun. The sharia
is theoretical and usuli set of it's a
paradigm. It's a model based on which
a system should work and it can be
applied to any time and any place.
The application has to take a set form.
If somebody else is doing this work,
if anybody else is doing this work, If
anybody else can make a poster with this
many words in it and without any severe
spelling or grammatical mistakes
other than us, show me so I can
support them instead.
Because Allah's witness, I don't wanna do this
work.
That's why I wanna do it but we
already went over that. Right?
And if not,
then take this as a part of the
implementation of your dain. Take it seriously, make
dua when it's mentioned.
Think about it. We couldn't establish the Ottoman
caliphate, but this is our small piece of
the puzzle
gave us. Who knows? Maybe another person will
come with another piece and we'll put it
together and it will show, like, you know,
a clearer and bigger and bigger picture. Maybe
Allah will give us one day. Trust me,
not only is it the piece of the
puzzle, it's
one of the one of the, out of,
like, the whatever, a 1000 piece puzzle is
like one of the 3 or 4 most
important pieces.
Allah
give all of you, Tawfiq. We thank you
for your support. Please give not only your
time, share this talk inshallah when it's posted
from the MSI website and from SoundCloud.
Listen to the other talks, call and text
people, tell them to come inshallah to the
later
presentations.
Look for the seal. When you see the
seal in the restaurant, tell them, you know,
we're happy that you guys do this. You
know, people people people will invent all sorts
of nonsense. They used to say about the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam that, like, you know,
he,
I don't know. He he's a sorcerer and
he's a poet. They lie about him.
Right? People say, oh, we can't take the
certificate. It costs too much. You know how
much the certificate costs?
My my my,
opinion in the mushroom was that it should
cost what it cost us to actually inspect.
The brothers who actually do the inspection, they
said no. We're volunteers. We'll hustle and we'll
take the cost on ourselves.
It costs $25 a month. Right? $25 a
month? Yeah.
$25
a month for 2 random inspections,
weekly inspections, and full audit of what goes
in and out of the restaurant.
Anyone who comes to us and says, I
can't afford it.
We make a deal with them.
We will let you pay after 2 years.
And if your business collapses before that, more
than half of restaurants, by the way, collapse
within the 1st 2 years
which means what? We're doing it for free
more or less.
If your business collapses within the 2 years,
we'll write it off just like you write
off your expenses.
Anyone who tells you they can't afford it
is a liar. The only one who wouldn't
take it is the one who doesn't want
this nizam to be implemented.
Allah give us hidayah. The only one is
the one whose nafs and ego is getting
in the way of their wanting this nizam
to be implemented.
If they don't, let them have someone else
inspect their, store randomly twice a week and
and do all of this work.
There are many certificates that are photocopies of
somebody's, like, you know, uncle's death certificate.
Let them you see the seal? Tell them,
thank you. Thank you.
You have the seal. I eat at your
at your restaurant. Now I'm happy that you're
actually concerned with the deen with Islam, whether
they're Muslims or non Muslims.
On top of on top of that, if
you have the goal, if you want
to live the Meccan period where the Muslims
used to get, like, shoes and entrails and,
like, rocks thrown at them, then go into
a business and say, hey. You know about
this salah certificate.
You might wanna look into
it. Someone might throw something at you, but
it'll be in the in the path of
Allah
But this system this system
has to prevail.
It has to prevail.
This is not a story time bayan. This
is us doing it. All of us, we're
doing it together. Whoever wants to do it
inshallah, raise your hand. Who will do it
inshallah? This is not like one of those
things that, you know, like you hide it
because of your piety.
Raise your hand. This day the person who
is a coward.
Right? That person do everyone will be witness
against them, yawmaqiyama insha'Allah. Participate in it. If
you can't
inshaAllah.
Participate in it. If you can't do anything
else except for just be happy about it
and make dua, do that much inshaAllah.
Allah give all of you so much tafit.
Allah give all of us so much tafit.
Allah accept it from us whoever raised their
hand. Yeah, Allah. Whoever eats,
you know, a piece of lettuce from
between Alaska and Florida,
that that that is sold under the seal.
Allah give all of those people raise their
hand
a reward every single time. Allah raise
a rank every single time. Allah ta'ala forgive
all of their sins every single time. From
here until,