Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Maliki Fiqh Issues in Water Clothing and Spaces Ribat 03062019
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So read the title of the Baab first,
then say
because most of the old books I don't
know about this book in particular. Most of
the old books, the names of the Abab
are actually part of they're
like made later.
The separation and the names like Sahih Muslim.
Now he's the one who who separates the
chapters and gives them names.
This is the same thing, and it's in
old books and relatively recent ones also, you
know,
the
I've been told that
Habib Omar's father is the one who gave
the titles of the
to it because Mawlana Yousaf Khan Louis
gave him a copy to look over,
and he asked him to do that. So
he gave the names of the.
So, yeah, go
Okay.
So this is this is again,
what's it? It's
like holistic approach to the deen.
The fit is not like
laws in a vacuum.
Rather, he says,
The is is going to speak
to the lord. And here, is,
the hadith like the hadith
of.
Right?
Is like to call call, yell at someone
from far away,
like a lecture.
Right?
Is to come and say something close like
you say to your loved ones.
So the is going to, come and speak
the the the speech of intimacy with his
lord. So he should prepare for that
with, either or
here as it says the same wasn't of,
and it's the same meaning as as well.
That,
he should prepare for that.
Now it may not look like
may not look like much, but essentially, this
is the right? Because the the there's a
interplay between the the legal ruling and between
the,
the conception of that of that act, and
then the spiritual reality of that act.
So if you don't understand the spiritual reality,
you don't understand the
aspect of it, then the the rules of
are burdensome, and there's no point in learning
them.
Whereas,
here,
he's explaining, like, that if you want that
to happen, there's a protocol. There's a for
for for how it needs to happen.
Right? Who here has been who here is
married?
Right?
So you're not like a slob.
Right?
The first time the first time you you
know, it's pretty sweet. You're like,
So you're not, you know, like, in high
school, you're not, like, you know,
opening your mouth in places it shouldn't be
opened. Right? So this is the first time
you you you're gonna, like,
be close to your wife. You brush your
teeth. You put on Ither. You know what
I mean? Why?
Because that would be horrible if you come
near the first time you get a like,
talk to a girl and, like, she's, like,
home like, taken aback even if she's being
polite about it. You know?
And, unfortunately, many many brothers, not all of
them, not most of them, but some of
them don't have that much common sense. So
for those of you who haven't had the
yet,
take note, clean yourself,
and and look good, look nice, smell nice,
do all of those things. If you can't
look nice, some of us have
some of us are more
fortunate in that department than others. At least
try to smell nice, be clean, etcetera. Right?
So that's that's that's that's what this is.
You don't want to present yourself in front
of the Lord
in a way that's in a way that's
not
that you come with a with good expectations,
but, like, you present yourself in front of
the Lord in a way that's not pleasing
to him. Another part of this is what
is the salat is? The greatest the greatest
means to attaining,
the barakat from Allah.
Right? Salat, also one of its meanings is
prayer. One of its meanings is blessings in
What does it mean?
Sends blessings in,
upon him,
It's like somebody, you know, like the gas
can, the lid is still on the the
the gas tank for the car, the lid
is not is still on it, and someone
sees other people filling gas in their car.
So with the lid still on, he just
pulls the the nozzle, and he's spilling gas
all over the place. None of it's getting
into the tank. Why it's not it's not
ready to accept the what's being pumped into
it. So if you don't have wudu, you
can pray,
and there's inevitably someone from amongst the imams
who justified whatever shortcut you took
and, you know or some ignorant person who
claimed to use an imam and you trusted
him because you're pious people and you trust
everything everyone says. Malik also says this. He
said that some people are so pious that
if they raise their hands to the heavens
and, prayed for rain, I have no doubt
that it would start raining immediately, but I
don't narrate their hadith because they don't know
what they're talking about.
Meaning what? Certain types of pious people, they
imagine that everybody's telling the truth because they
always tell the truth themselves.
It's like lie being a liar is not
within their
so many people in our community are like
our community is filled with pious idiots.
And this is not I mean, this is
like it's bad in some ways. It's very
frustrating. Like, politically, it's very frustrating.
However,
there's hate in it. Right? The Rasul
himself
described the that he is he is, like,
gullible and he's generous.
If you ask him for you know, if
you have 10 bucks and he asked him
for a day, he'll give you all he'll
give you everything he has. When you ask
him tomorrow, he'll give it to you again.
That's that's the quality of the believer.
So, I mean, you're not gonna avoid that,
but the point is is that sometimes somebody
fools you.
So what will happen? You're not gonna get
the.
Legally, you'll be off the hook.
If you really trusted someone knows what they're
talking about, even if they're blowing smoke from
somewhere,
legally, you'll be off the hook, but you're
not gonna get the you're not gonna get
the,
you're not you're because you didn't prepare, you
didn't make the
you didn't prepare for that that with the
the Lord,
the will, like, roll off you like you're
wearing, like, you know, like it's raining and
you're wearing a a a jacket or something.
It's not gonna touch
you. Like, your Gore Tex up, it's not
gonna it's not gonna touch you.
So the the believer has to prepare for
it,
inwardly as well, but outwardly as well in
order to receive the inward
blessings they have to outwardly,
prepare for. So go ahead.
Okay. So the
the the the that that or
meaning what?
Has to be with pure water that's,
not mixed
with with
with ritual impurity.
Yeah.
Go ahead.
So the,
so it cannot that water cannot be first
mixed admixed with anything,
not just ritually impure, nor can it be
admixed with anything that is ritually pure that
will alter 1 of 3 one
of 3,
attributes
of the water.
The smell, the taste, or the color
of the water.
So
even then that that rule has exceptions, which
is what the the naturally
occurring things that alter the
the the taste, smell, or color of the
water. So for example, if you look into
the ocean, right, and we're not in the
Caribbean. Right? If well, hey. We're not anywhere
near any ocean for that matter. But, like,
if you look into the lake, right, is
it gonna be, like,
crystal clear blue straight to the bottom
where you can go swimming with the dolphins?
No. There's, like, a Asian carp is gonna,
like, jump out of the water and knock
you out. Right?
Yeah. True. True story.
So
so
obviously, the the color has changed. Even the
taste has changed. The the the water from
the lake is, like, somewhere halfway between what
I consider freshwater and ocean water. It is
a very sale it's like more to the
side of salinity from drinking drinkable water. Right?
However, those things are excused. Why? For the
purposes of Tahara,
because they're the natural they're the natural condition
of water.
Salt marshes,
muddy springs.
Right? These things, these are excused. So for
example, in Mauritania, there are a number of
wells.
Some of the wells are crystal clear. The
water is horrible. It's very salty and brackish.
Some of the wells are like it's like
really murky, but the water tastes wonderful.
So these are two examples of what one,
the first example is the alteration in the
taste, and the second is an example in
the alteration of the color of the water,
but they're excused. Right? Ocean water, it's excused.
Have you had any has anyone collected rainwater
before in a
cup? Is it, like, crystal clear? I did.
Is it crystal clear?
I don't even know. You don't know? Does
anyone remember? It wasn't clear, though. No. It's,
like, murky. Right? It wasn't. Yeah. It was
it's murky. That's how that's that's how rain
droplets fall. Oftentimes is that the water will
condense around some sort of impurity. Right?
So but that's excused.
That's excused. That that that change in the
taste,
smell, or
attribute or or sorry, taste, smell, or color
of the water is excused. What's not excused?
The water was soap and oil. Soap. Right?
Well, oil is not gonna mix with the
water. You can
flick the oil off the top, but, like,
yeah. So that's an exact orange juice.
Things like that. Those are those are you
cannot make woulou from orange juice. You you
know, you cannot mix water half and half
with oranges and say, like, I'm making citrus
wudu. It doesn't
it doesn't work that way. Yeah.
Go ahead.
Right. So you say you say the,
the water that comes from the heavens.
This is, for for those of you who
are, like,
in, like like, whatever ancient Semitic studies,
the expression
is very interesting, and we're not gonna talk
about it right now because we have to
talk about, but, anyway, go on. And then
the
the water of springs.
Right? Anyone here been to, Yellowstone?
Oftentimes, the water in springs has a horrible
smell because it's sulfur. It's good for you
too. You bathe in it, it, like, it
clears up a lot of skin issues or
whatever.
But, so, yeah, that's but that's excused because
it's naturally it's it's naturally the the state
the water comes out from. The water of
wells which we spoke about, the water of
the sea.
So he says that it's it's it's pure,
it's clean, and
you can make from it.
Yeah. So he says, as for
as for the water that is
that has the admixture of something that is
richly pure like orange juice or soap or
whatever,
that water is
pure and clean, but it it you cannot
make wooloo from it,
and you cannot.
And he talks about you can't, like, wash
Najasath off with it. You can't wash ritual
impurity off with it. There's a difference of
opinion
about this. The the the the the when
Nejasa comes on to something, the point is
that you just get rid of it.
It doesn't it itself is not it's just
you have to get get rid of it.
It itself doesn't it's not a ritual process
to getting rid of najasa from things. So,
so so you can you can you can
use something other than water in order to
do that. But, anyway, go
Yeah. So he says that he says the
water that has in it, the the water
that has,
impurity in it,
It is neither
purifying nor is it pure in and of
itself.
And he says that even a little bit
of Nejasa
in in in a in a small amount
of water here, little bit of Nadasa is
anything that you you you you you can,
like, detect,
as small as that may be. And a
little bit of water is, like, something other
than, like, a really, like, large container of
water.
And what is a large container of water?
Then there's differences of opinion regarding what that
means. This is a small amount of will
will make
a small amount of water,
neither pure nor purifying.
This is not the.
The madheb is what? Is that a small
amount of if it comes into
a small amount of water, like less than
a lake or whatever?
It will not make that water not just
until and unless it alters 1 of the
3,
one of the 3,
attributes of it. It's color, taste, or or
smell.
So, theoretically, if someone puts, like, you know,
I don't know, a drop of urine in,
like, like, whatever, you know,
20 gallons of water,
the water is still
and it's still. It's not considered and it's
still you can make from it. But it's
the hokum is
That if you have an alternative, it's to
use that water.
You shouldn't use it because
a, there's there's a couple of issues. One
is that the other imams all said that
it's
the the other imams I shouldn't say all
of them, but the preponderant majority opinion is
the same as the one ibn Abi Zaid
takes, which is that they say that that
small amount of
will make it all
as well. And another reason is that a
person should have a natural from it because
they know that that that that is in
there somewhere. But in the sense, Malik didn't
consider it to be. He didn't consider it
to be enough to make it
So you we have these issues, like, for
example, like like, I I'm not a chef.
You can go,
verify this from one of the brothers or
one of your chef
friends and relatives
that you have on your 5 favorite phone
numbers list or whatever. Right? So but my
understanding of the Shafi
school, for example,
and someone touches something that just
and then they
they they dunk that hand in or dunk
that hand in water,
and then,
you know, I don't know, that wet hand,
they touch the doorknob with it. And then,
like, 2 weeks later, someone else touches that
the doorknob with a wet hand, then their
hand becomes nudges, and then whatever else they
touch becomes nudges. And it's like this infinite,
like, unending chain of, like, 10 g's, basically.
Right? So that's, like, another another, like, extreme,
if you will. So Malik Malik didn't consider
that to happen. He says there there has
to be some sort of detectable trace of
of that in order to render
it with a hookah. Otherwise, the entire world
is nudges if you just pay attention closely
enough.
And this is one of the reasons, by
the way, and so the the the by
the way, the the the
the
heeding dissent in opinions. I mean, it's a
it's an important
it's an important thing for a person's taqwa.
It's
itself not a replacement for the law, but
it is a it is a consideration at
any rate. So for that reason, people should
be more careful about the way they use
the bathroom and the way they they segregate,
you know, like, whatever. Some people will have,
like, slippers in their in their in their
bathroom that that are separate than the ones
that they use outside or they'll separate,
the place where they make wool from the
place where they,
you know,
whatever, defecate and urinate and things like that.
The reason for that is what is because
of a a desire for this not to
happen,
for for this not to happen. This is
why, you know, old school masajid, the bathrooms
bathroom a is not part of the masjid,
and b is not even the same building
as the masjid. Anyone you guys been to
Masjid. Right? Mhmm. Yeah. Right? The bathrooms are
they're literally separate building,
for that reason.
And they built that Masjid, I think, in
a time that there weren't so many purpose
built masads in America. So they built them
like they build them in the Muslim world.
Like, if you're gonna go to, like, the
masjid of the prophet
and it's not like the bathroom is gonna
be part of the building. You have to,
like, exit and then go down and just
just some, like, sub basement or whatever.
And even that's kinda like a modern thing.
Go
on.
Yeah. So
he says that using a small amount of
water
while making,
like, making your wudu properly
with control and with with in a correct
way, like, fully and completely
is
better.
Is is not better. It's sunnah.
And it is
and is
is like, is
is is
it's excessive, and it's haram,
and it's a.
And so what is
what is the
amount of water
more than that of which is becomes a.
It's a mud. So mud is the volumetric
measure of the 2 Mubara cupped hands of
Rasulullah and it's a lot less water than
most of his use.
And,
this is not just Ibn Abizaid like saying
this,
rather
there is
a
hadith in which the prophet
himself
himself
does not condone
using using an excessive amount of water and
rubble.
The most famous of which is,
the, you know, the question came up
that is there such a thing as wasting
water in. The idea is that if water
making
is an act of worship,
then perhaps the more water used, the better.
Like, the more you give, the better.
And so the prophet
corrected that notion
by saying,
that that yes. No. I'm using too much
water and we'll lose waste.
Even if you're making we'll lose from a
running river, meaning that it's there's, like, a
potentially endless supply of water, still don't use
more than what is necessary.
And, there's a hadith in Tiramizi,
in which the prophet
actually mentions
and describes using too much water
being a source of waswasa in the prayer.
And so how are we gonna deal with
that?
We're gonna deal with it by,
you know, I guess the easiest thing to
do is
to just
make the flow of water slow.
Make a very small drip of water that
comes out.
It takes a little bit more time, and
you actually have to, like, rub the limbs
with the water in order for the water
to get in,
but that's that's how you're gonna be it's
very possible. People oftentimes are like, well, it's
impossible to make, like, wool open so much
water. It's impossible to make, like, 2, 3
wool pools from that much water. Just pour
the water slowly and rub the
rub the the the the water on the
limbs,
and, you you can do it. You can
do it. The old way people used to
make is that they would fill a container
and then make would do from that container.
The good good thing about that is you
can visually assess how much water you've you've
you've used and things like that.
Or people would pour would do for one
another
from different,
from different containers. I don't know if anyone's
ever experienced that before, but if you have,
like, a like, a pitcher or something like
that, when you pour the water for somebody
else
who
used to be the one who poured the
water of the prophet
This is a beautiful
it's a beautiful,
tradition practice. Unfortunately, we've
murdered it. We've killed it. It's dead. I
don't even know how you're gonna do that
nowadays. If you try doing it here, you're
just gonna make a big mess. So I
don't know when one of you guys become,
like, some sort of big baller.
You know? Like, you become, like, the whatever
executive administrator of the next, like, Muslim country
bombing at the ground or whatever with your
PhD in milk,
you know, then maybe she can build a
master or something like that to try to
dig yourself out of your grave in, and,
we can have some sort of
way way to, like, pour the water for
each other afterward. I don't know. But,
you know, for now, what what are we
gonna do? Alright.
Go ahead. So you by the way, he
used the word rassel. What is the difference
between rassel and rassel?
Yeah. Means washing. And what does mean?
Washing hour.
Is the the ritual act,
the ritual bath.
I mean, in the context of in in
normal
speech, it means a bath,
but means to wash something.
Go ahead.
So so his his
was from Assa,
which is
for Amdad. So it's like like a like
a liter and some change.
So again,
not a whole lot of water, but if
you make whistle the way he's gonna describe
the whistle afterward, you can do it.
It's good. In fact, this is one of
the fun things, you know, like fun fact.
Right? Because it's cold outside.
Fun fact is that if you wanna not
be cold during the day, this is not
like a fit issue, so you can take
it or leave it. But, if you wanna,
you know, if you wanna not be cold,
finish your shower with
not freezing cold water, but like cooler water.
Because it will like it will give, like,
your skin, like, the signal that you should,
like, seal up, tighten up, ready for the
cold rather than your pores be open and
blast blast all your heat out right away.
Right?
So,
one of the things if you ever have
to shower with cold water,
which all of all of everyone has to
shower with cold water at some point or
another.
If you ever have to shower with cold
water, how do you do it? Okay? I'll
give you a tip because I've taken many
cold showers,
and not for the reasons you guys take
them. But for,
for, like, just the reason of, like, not
having facility because you go to weird places
in order to read books like this. Right?
So what you do is you dip your
hand in the water and, like, just rub
it on your body. And what does it
do? The places that they'll get wet with
that,
they will be, like, ready themselves for the
the blast of cold that's about to come.
Then you can turn the shower on, shower
and water as cold as you want to,
you'll be fine.
And so the same thing with the whistle.
If you have, like, a bottle of water,
even if it's cold.
Right, take fill instead of pouring the bottle
straight on your head, pour a little bit
on in your hand
and and just let it come down on
your head. And then as it drips down
your body, just wipe it. And then afterward,
you can pour the rest of it, and
it will it's not gonna get cold. It's
not gonna, like, harm you. It's not gonna
affect you as much.
There is, like, a number of issues here
that are not fiqh related, but, like, have
to do with the weak state of the
ummah. The fact that young men, you know,
will be like, I don't wanna do this
because I have to take a cold shower.
You
know, there's a lot of things in the
Ooma that need to get done. And if,
we'll still we can't do, we'll still that's
like the like, you're we're like, DOA on
the first chapter of, like, Vic. Right?
Imagine
the rest of them, what are we gonna
do about it? But anyway,
go on.
Okay. So,
Yeah. He talks about the
he's
yeah. Okay. If you look at that, we'll
we'll talk about that later. The the difference
between the Kufan and the Madani
volumetric measures. Go ahead.
Okay. So he'll mention 2 things. There's there's
more there's more detail to the
of these things that we're gonna mention right
now.
But, like,
as quick
as a quick,
I guess, introduction to them.
The the is the area, the place you're
gonna pray in. Right?
And then the,
what's the second? The the
the cloth that you pray in, the clothing
that you pray in.
They also they have to be clean.
They have to be free of of ritual
impurity.
But their freedom of ritual impurity is conditioned
on,
a, inability to clean them, and, b, like,
the the the the knowledge of
of what their state status is. So if
a person
is, for example,
like, caged in a cage
and they're stripped naked, and they have no
access to clothes to cover themselves.
Then
well, even though, I guess, he doesn't mention
the clothing itself. Right?
Then there's
then the the prayer is accepted without without
the clothing, whereas it wouldn't be accepted without
clothing your nakedness.
What he mentions is, like, for example, if
a person is caged in a place where
it's ritually impure,
Right? There's an najasa spread in it. There's
nowhere else to pray. Then that's forgiven because
they can't do anything about it. Or the
only clothing that they have has some sort
of najasa that they cannot get rid of,
and there's no other alternative, then that's forgiven.
Why? Because there's no ability to do anything.
Right? So that's
and then the other the other the other
condition of of those things being condition of
the validity of the prayers of vicar. You
have to know that there's something there. For
example, if a person prayed
and there was something some nudges there or
there's in the clothing or there's some nudges
in the place that they're praying, and they
were unaware of it.
Then then the prayer is,
you know, retroactively,
you know, it's not invalid. If they had
known that that was there, then it would
have been and and they were able to
do something about it, it would have invalidated
it. But if they didn't know or they
were unable to do something about it or
both,
then then those conditions are also conditioned on
on dhikr and Qudra. There's more detail to
it than that, but this is, like, the
real simple
simple way of going through. So for example,
a person sees, like, there's, like, a big
stain of blood inside of their clothes,
but they see it way after the salat.
After the salat time is over or whatever.
Hey. You don't know. Did it come from
before or after? Oftentimes, you have an idea.
It probably was there from before. The fact
that you didn't know for sure itself means
that that condition was waived.
Things like that are usually they're usually
That if this the most our time of
the prayer is still in, it is it
is customarily,
recommended
to repeat that prayer while you're inside the
prayer time. Once the prayer time is gone,
even the recommendation to repeat this It goes
away.
Okay. So he mentions now certain places where
a person shouldn't pray.
So the first one he mentions is the
the pen in which the camels are kept.
It's to pray there just because there's so
much eroth, there's so much animal waste.
Now the animal the waste of an animal,
the excrement and urine of an animal that
is edible
is actually in the It's not it's not
nudges,
But it's
still to pray just because it's disgusting.
It's pray there. Meaning, if you're a camel
herder, which I don't think any of you
are.
No? Okay.
This guy, he's like his sense of usual
bright and effervescent sense of humor is somewhat
somewhat down today as if
a person of, like, a different gender,
like, spat in his, like, dreams or something
like that. I don't know. Inshallah, we'll talk
about it later, or maybe we won't. You
know?
At any rate, so the the the idea
is that, that, yeah, just don't pray there
because this gets gross. Right?
So you know how I learned that the
the hookahum is
is that they're they're tired.
As when I was in Mauritania, we went
to go visit 1 of the,
the Sheikh Mohammed Hassan with Ahmed Al Khadim.
He's a commentator
he's the commentator on, on all of the
Mohammed Malloud books.
Muhammad Malloud is, like, one of, like, prolific,
like, early 1800 late 1700, like Muertani and
Masha'if. He's the one who wrote the, the
purification of the heart, which is very famous
now and a number of other books. He
wrote Al Kaffaf.
It's a a book in verse
in Malekifep,
which is even longer and more, like, richly
detailed than the Muftasr Khalil. The more tanians
enjoy it because it's in verse, so they
memorize all of its 4,000 some odd lines.
Anyway, so he was, like, he was pretty
he was pretty smart guy and pretty spiritual
guy to summarize, like,
in a way that I think people today
probably can't conceive of. So we went to
visit the sheikh who's one of his,
descendant of his house, and, also,
he's a commentator on his whatever great grand
uncle's books.
So on the way there,
what happens in Mauritania,
if you can't get the Uber black,
then you travel
in the in the the choice
conveyance of the locals,
which is a Toyota Hilux. It's a Toyota
Tacoma
in which there's, like
like, 10 people sitting in, like, the 6
seats inside. And,
then
the rest of the what they do, they
fill the back of the bed of the
truck with stuff, and then they'll put, like,
a a rope net on top of it,
and you just sit on top of the
rope net. And that there's no limit. Sky's
the limit. However many people you cram in
there. Right?
So
so I was, like, literally hanging off the
back corner for my life.
I didn't wanna go. The brother who was
going with me, he's like, it's gonna be,
like, an hour till the next car goes
and, like, just suck it up. It's not
that long of a ride. So I'm, like,
hanging on for dear life.
And next to me,
there was a burlap sack that was tied
to the side of the the the bed
of the truck and actually hanging out the
side of the the pickup truck. And there's
a hole in out the hole, the head
is the head of a goat. There's a
goat, and that burlap sack is chewing on
the side.
So what happens is, we're you know? So
it's me hanging off the corner, and then
there's, like, goat next to me. And, we're
we're we're driving,
and we're going to we're going to Tigint,
which is the the
the city off the road from which it's,
like, whatever, like a 3 mile walk to
the Mahdhar of the Sheikh.
So, like, an hour into the ride to
Tigin from,
it's like it starts to rain.
Then I realized it's not raining.
It's just the goat is taking a piss,
and it's getting all over my face and
in my eyes and,
you know, and my and my clothes.
And and Mauritania is not a place that
has a lot of water, you know, that
you're gonna be like, oh, look. I'll just
toss it in the washing machine. There's no
washing machine. There's no water. It's it's just
more time here. Right? So when you get
pissed on, it's like,
that's kinda your bad you know, your your
problem at that point. So I started banging
the side of
the banging side of the the truck, and
the guy actually pulls over, and he's like,
what's wrong? What's wrong? I go, you go
just taking a piss. And so he started
laughing, the driver. And he goes, well, it's
done now.
You know, like, it's not gonna piss again.
So what are you gonna do? Let's just
keep driving. So he keeps driving,
and then,
you know, like, after 45 minutes, same thing
happens again. So I start banging the side
of the truck, and he just rolls the
window down. He's like, okay. He'd pissed twice.
I'm gonna piss again the 3rd time.
And then it take you know, like, after
it's, like, half an hour, it takes a
piss the 3rd time, and I bang the
side of the truck, and he just laughs.
He doesn't even roll his window down. He's
just laughing at this point.
So, I have my, like, white white,
and
we're walking, you know, in the in the
desert. And, like, every place we stop, I
ask, does anyone have water? Nobody has water.
It's freaking Sahara. Right? So,
they're like, why do you want why do
you want water? I go, go go go
pissed on me, and they all laughed, and
they said they said,
And it says, no. Don't worry Hamza. The
the the urine of an edible animal
is is ritually pure,
which is little
little consolation to me, but
that's how illness learned. You never forget that
after that. Right? That's how illness learned.
You guys have to drive from Hyde Park
or from Midway or whatever.
That's not like, you know, you'll, yawn, you'll
forget everything you learn today, tomorrow. I'll never
forget that.
Yeah.
So the the the
is because it's, like, not a clean place.
You shouldn't pray there. Even though it's not
it's not Nejis, but it's still you shouldn't
pray there because it's gross.
The
the middle of the the the pathway that,
you know, people come and go on, like,
the middle of the street.
Why? Because
animals come and go. They urinate. They defecate.
People are animals too. They urinate and defecate.
Unless unlike ghosts, their urine and feces are
are, like, pretty
squarely,
impure.
You know, people people it's so funny. Like,
the whole Arab world is, like, awesome in
this way. Right? I say Arab world because
in the non Arab world, it happens too,
but, like, it's just different. It's not in
Arabic though, so it's not as fun. So
there's a there's a, you know, like, you'll
see, like, a wall
that has big, like, letters written.
It will say, like, it's it's it's it's
it's it's a little to urinate on this
wall. And, like, there'll be, like, 3 or
4 people taking a piss underneath that with
those letters. You know? You just gotta and,
Mortanya, that's that's, like, all day. That's all
day. They actually did this. You know, they
did this, in in a different country. I
think in Bangladesh, they did this.
They would write even
though but but Bengalis in general don't speak
Arabic. Why? Just because because people would think
that it's a Quran or something like that,
so they wouldn't urinate on the wall. So
it works in the non Arab countries. In
Arab countries, they know better. So,
you know. So so yeah. So that's for
that that reason. That's one of the reasons
that the is is to pray. It's obviously
haram if you know for sure that that
place has an in it, then it's invalid.
And if you know for sure that it's
not, then the has lessened, but it's still
there. Why? Because you're obstructing the path.
Obstructing the path in which people come and
go as Makruw, the prophet disliked it. It's
not a good thing
to do. It's not a good thing to
do when you're in the airport,
when you're in, you know, when you're driving,
you should be considerate about the path you
should give away to people and not obstruct
the flow of of traffic,
as much as is possible.
It is invalid to pray on the top
of the
because you're commanded to face the
And so,
you cannot do it from inside the Kaaba
or on top of the Kaaba.
Because the prophet
prayed inside of the Kaaba,
because of that, the say that it's permissible
to pray inside.
But he never prayed the farthest prayer inside
the Kaaba either.
And because there's a as to whether you're
facing the properly, as well, the Maliki, my
masha'a considered invalid to pray for the prayer
from inside the Kaaba, and they considered invalid
to pray any prayer from atop of the
Kaaba.
Now
someone might say this is irrelevant
because which of us will ever get to
pray inside of the Kaaba.
Right? Is it you you were were you
thinking that?
Were you thinking that?
No?
Will you ever will you ever pray inside
of the Kaaba?
Maybe one day, you'll be a leader. So
Maybe one day. Maybe. There's a there's there's
a easier way than becoming a leader.
When you're clean.
There's easier way than even when they're cleaning
it.
The
the semi circular wall
that borders the northwest side of the Kaaba.
That
that that area, not all of it, but
much of it is technically within the boundaries
of the Kaaba.
This is why they actually
the guards will force everybody out of that
place during the time of the salat.
Not because they're jerks.
There are a lot of things people interpret
them as doing as them doing jerks whereas
really they're necessary things that have to happen.
And some of them might be, I don't
know, but, like, you know,
a person shouldn't go in a bad attitude,
you know. Not everybody not everybody in Saudi
Arabia is, like, whatever
the the crown prince, and not every one
of us is Jamal Khashoggi.
You know? There are certain reasonable
things that they do and that we do.
Just as a matter of rational necessity, I'm
not defending or offending or whatever. I'm just
saying that, you know, not everything they do
is wrong. So that's one of the things.
They'll push everybody. I know nobody wants to
listen to orders ever. So they'll push everybody
out of out of it for this reason.
Because the Allah will consider it valid to
pray your father's prayer inside of the Kaaba
in that area. Most of it is inside
of the Kaaba. So whoever wishes to pray,
whoever wishes to pray, 2 rakas inside of
the Kaaba, let them go and wait their
turn to pray inside of the Hadim
because the Kaaba is not bricks. These bricks
are not we're not there. You know? These
bricks that are there are not the ones
that were put up by Sayna Ibrahim alaihis
salam. The building of the Kaaba has been
destroyed and remade again and again,
mostly through natural disaster flooding and things like
that. They had to rebuild it again and
again and again. But the Kaaba is is
like a it's it's a place.
And so the what's inside of that semicircular
wall is part of that part of that
place.
So we have actually there is one of
the brothers, one of the I went went
to Hajj with. He mentioned, he said, I
have an who
says 4 times I've prayed in the inside
of the and
I've made in the Quran and 2 rakas
by Allah's father.
I was like,
wow, that sounds pretty like gee, you know?
And he goes I go, is he still
alive? He goes, yeah. So he says his
name is Mufti Musli Haddeen. He's one of
the senior
in the Darulum in Dewsbury.
So I thought this guy is gonna be
some like g, like, you know, like
25 gallon turbine, like, you know, big big
shot, like, you know, like dude. And then
when I met him, he's he's he's maybe
like the size of Omar. He's not like
a he's not like a big imposing guy.
And he's like he's like, Omar is a
little hardcore. You know, he hardcore. You know?
The the sheikh Musa Haddini is like soft
like ice cream. Like, you know, like, one
of the sweetest people I met. Like, I
thought this guy, I'm gonna, like, you know,
tremble in fear, you know, like, when I
see him. But, like, he was he was
just like, I just saw him. I go,
this guy looks like ice cream. And strangely
enough, then he, like, insisted he wouldn't let
me go without eating ice cream,
which is one of those weird things, you
know?
But, there are people like that in the
Ummah as well.
But in this do this in what?
In in in in your nawafil. Don't do
it. Don't do any farther because the farther
is not permissible. They probably won't let you
stay inside anyway. But if you ever become
a g or whatever and things that you're
actually the big leader or whatever,
and you're, you know, running for your 5th
term after you're, you know, like and you
haven't, like, been in your own country for,
like, the last, like, whatever, several years and
you're getting, I don't know, getting, like, whatever,
blood infusions from, like,
babies in, like, Switzerland or whatever,
then don't don't pray the farthest prayer inside
the Kaaba, and don't pray anything on the
on the top of the Kaaba. It's not
valid.
It's not valid.
And the next the next the next thing
he mentions is what? Is the hamam?
Hamam is a bathhouse
in the western imagination, very sensual and very,
like,
weird, like,
almost perverted *,
like, you know,
set of context
contextual, like,
you know, things come up when a person
thinks of the the bathhouse and the hammam.
It's just a place people used to go
to take a shower back in the day.
I've been to a hamam in the,
you know, where I study where our madrasa
was in the in the village.
Like, the night the the barber had a
had basically, like, couple of stalls in the
back where he had, like, a water heater
that was heated with, like, wooden
a wooden fire.
And, you know, just there's, like, like, 16
showers for, like, 700 students. So instead of
waiting in line for, like, an hour and
a half or whatever, I just go and
spend, like, you know, 5 rupees and take
a shower with the hamam. You know? Nothing
erotic, homo, or hetero, or otherwise about it.
You just go take a shower over there.
And it's very clear to see why you
wouldn't wanna take a shower over there or
you wouldn't wanna pray over there because,
you know, people go to take a bath
when they're not so clean,
and that's why you'd wanna pray there.
Again, like the,
it's
to pray there.
Although the prayer is valid if you're sure
if the place that you prayed in has
no and
the prayer is definitely invalid if you know
that the place the spot you're praying in
is has an in it, but it's not
a it's not a proper place to
it's not a proper place to say your
prayers. Exactly.
Right?
Then he mentions,
what
Masbala, garbage dump, same thing.
Majzara,
butcher.
Again,
even though the blood the the the spilled
blood of a properly slaughtered animal,
and the
the other the other stuff that comes from
inside the animal is not necessarily nudges per
se, but it's gross. So don't pray there,
unless you can't escape it. Like, if you're
a butcher and that's what you do all
day, then a little bit of it is,
like, forgiven as long as there's no other
over there. But, like, a person shouldn't, you
know, should it's better not to pray there.
And,
what can I see him?
It is
the graveyard of the of the here.
Means any because
even an atheist is a.
So how can you be a mushrik? He
doesn't worship anything. I don't make shirk with
Allah His
shirk is his own nafs is on that,
that he puts himself in a position to
dismiss
Allah. So,
Ali, you like coffee?
How about you?
Yeah. You like coffee?
Somatira
Organic.
You have to risk, like, taking my germs,
my exotic diseases from Mauritania and
other places from
but it's good coffee.
It's a good try.
Try it. You got my hands up.
What does it taste like, though? It looks
delicious. It's it's it's good. Right? We just
I just ground it, like, less than 24
hours ago on the I'm
not left reflection. When you pass it around,
whoever wants them can have some.
But now you get his diseases too. So
I don't know. You know?
Yeah. So
don't you know the hadith of the prophet
that the the
the the the the the the the water
that's the water drink from the the vessel
of the believer is.
Yeah.
So
the,
but he but people who don't wanna drink
are also excused. Know, it's not like you
can't be like, oh, look, you have no,
you don't wanna drink. But if you don't
wanna drink, that's that was the process that
would accept that. That's fine. It's not like
you even force people.
So,
so so the the the the the the
makbaratul
mushrikeen
the makbaratul mushrikeen, you don't have to drink
if you don't want to. It's not like
it's not like truth or dare or whatever,
you know? Truth
or dare or a test. If you just
if you want something, you can have some.
So,
I mean, it is good coffee though. It's
good coffee. The,
the the why?
Because that's a place of adab.
And because perhaps they're not
particular with their with their with their tahara
as well. But in general, it's a place
of it's a place of adab as well.
Even if you know that it's completely clean,
like, they spray down the whole marble or
whatever with the pressure washer, still it's a
place of.
And so that's why it's not it's not
it's not a
befitting place for this to come down on.
Rather, the obstructed because of those people, the
that they're
in.
And their places of worship.
It is to pray in a church.
Okay? Now I want you to understand that
the word
in in many places where it's
connected with
a badat, the word means,
that that the act is valid, but it's
it's devoid of reward.
You understand what I'm saying? So you don't
have to make it up. You won't be
punished for missing it per se, but
the is enough to make it completely devoid
of reward. There are 3 separate issues. The
is the responsibility of the act as charged.
Yes or no? That's a separate issue. The
second issue is is are you gonna get
reward for that act? Yes or no?
That's a separate issue. And the third thing
is is the act going to be accepted?
That's a separate issue.
If Allah doesn't accept it, he can he
can give you whatever reward of, that that
that that act has in this world and
you're gonna be empty handed,
which is what happens to the kuffar. Allah
doesn't accept anything from them. So if a
kafir is a virtuous person in this world,
Allah whatever good they did, Allah will give
them blessings in that
even if that person doesn't receive it in
their life, their their progeny will receive it,
which is really like evolutionarily, you know, it's
a good bargain duniya for the way the
duniya works. Right? But after that, you'll be
high and dry. You'll be up the creek
in in Mafi Mafi Badal Hajid.
Mafi.
So
the no paddle. Right?
The,
so that that's, you know, those are 3
separate issues.
So
I'm not super excited about, like, all these,
like, people praying Joanna Church.
It's not valid in the Malachi School anyway,
but even if you were to, you know,
take some intermed hub dispensation because of whatever,
it's not it's not a it's not a
place where Joanna should be prayed. Joanna's
Or or you're. Yeah. There are a lot
of places people people pray Jaman at church,
man. So I'm not like in the basement
of a church where there's no crucifixes or
anything? Not like in the actual like there
in the sunblock? Not in not in the
not in their yeah. Not in the sanctuary.
I would think it's less less bad. That's
what we see the whole time at the
university. I would think it would it would
I would think it's less bad. Oh, yeah.
But, yeah, again, it's not befitting that. Right?
Jumah is like the, like,
like, the
of Allah is like Rahma and Faful come
down in that place.
So you're not gonna have that when they
have, like, ajee blasphemous images and graven images
and shirk is happening in that place and
things like that. That's that's like,
you know, at that point, you you know,
the fokaha someone from the fokaha may
opine that the is valid, but it's not
befitting,
that it should happen over there.
You know? And so if you're not if
you're not practicing a holistic
practice of Islam, that's not gonna make sense
to you. But if you're considering that the
laws are there in order to facilitate a
a spiritual thing that happens,
then,
you know,
then then then that's, that that that then
you're gonna consider those things. You have to
think about that type of stuff. Right?
The salat is a is a is a
is an act of worship. Imagine the holy
communion. Right? Yeah. Imagine the holy communion.
They say that the the the wine is
like whatever the blood of Christ would and
they say the bread is his body or
whatever.
What if, like, some Christians like,
no. It's just bread and wine. We're just
gonna eat and drink it. Then it's noise.
The community is no longer holy nor nor
is it any communion. You're just having lunch.
You know? You're just having your alcohol alcohol
alcohol. It's lunch. Right?
That's you know, which is really kinda what
it is, but I'm that's what the the
idea is, like, if a person has been
fooled about it, then you can excuse them
somewhat. If they're not even fooling themselves, then
it's just dumb. It's just, like, dumb on
all sides at that point. So
try not to let your
your salat be like that. The idea is
that this is, you know, we believe that
the prophet said about about the the barakat
of the salat are true.
And,
we're not we're not just, like, whatever, doing
some sort of yoga stretching routine or whatever.
Anyway, so there's a lot to talk about
there, but we're not gonna talk about
any of that. So go ahead,
Yeah. So the the the minimum that a
man prays in
is a piece of cloth.
The word phobe doesn't mean this thing I'm
wearing.
It's people turned that into that. That that's
like that's a flick Philly.
That's like a very Philly usage of the
word though. That's not a Arabic usage of
the word though.
That's a Philly basically, someone from the hood
asked, like, an Arab, and they didn't like,
neither of them communicated with the other very
well.
So they're like, you know,
and then Arab is like,
it's
it's, I don't know, a piece of cloth.
Right? And then, like, you know, whatever,
you know,
Mohammed, you know, Abdul Wahabu, Bonnie Jenkins,
like that.
That tov is the name of the piece
of piece the article of clothing whereas it's
just means cloth. Okay?
So here, we just thought of what he
says,
the least that a man can pray in,
is
a
piece of cloth.
Like a shirt or a which is just
an unstitched piece of cloth.
And he explains here what
what That's why the the big Mauritanian the
thing that the Mauritanians
wear, they claim that this is, like, the
traditional dress of the, like, ancient Yemeni highlanders
that are their forefathers or whatever.
It's essentially like 3 thobes worth of cloth
in the Philly sense.
Right?
It's like 3 of them stitched together
to make a big poncho, and there's like
a cutout for the neck and it's open
on the sides. And you, like, wear it
kinda like like Mortenian sari, basically.
You have to kinda, like, hold it together.
The OG, like, old school Bedouins, they don't
wear nothing underneath it.
But then, like, nowadays, you know, people wear
a a Sirawal that wear, like, whatever
traditional Bedouin capri pants
and, like, possibly a shirt,
underneath it.
When the weather gets better, I'll start wearing
my again.
But
but yeah. So that's
means what?
Means Go ahead.
Okay. So and so he says
pray. So a person's nakedness is from their
navel to their knees.
And as
a issue, the Malachi
picks the
position that
the are not.
So your navel is not part of your
nor your knees part of your but they
start after them.
But,
that's your
and the is the actual private parts, front
and back.
But the point is he's saying, like, if
you just have 1 piece of cloth or
if you just print 1 piece of cloth,
like, someone's like, oh, look. I just
we're in the 50 hokum, so I took
this one piece of cloth and wrapped it
around
between my navel and my knees. And I'm
walking around, you know, like, islander, you know,
without without a shirt on or whatever.
He's it's to do that
unless you have no choice.
So there is this, like there's a hadith
in the prophet
in which a man wanted to get married,
and he,
he had, like, basically,
he he had only one piece of cloth,
which was between his navel and his knees,
or barely even that if that.
And so the Rasool
said, do you have anything for a Mahar?
He says nothing. He goes, don't you have
even another piece of cloth? He goes, this
is all I own.
And so he asked a woman if she
wanted to marry him,
and as Mahar, he would give teach her
some part of the Quran.
And so she assented. She said yes.
Someone came to me and wanted to marry
my daughter.
I'd probably be like, I don't know.
But, like, you know, those are people that
was their circumstance and they're sincere in it.
But at any rate, coming back to this
issue, if you're in that situation that that's
all you own, then
one would hope that the Carahaha wouldn't be,
wouldn't be
wouldn't be so much.
But, you know, for us, we have the
means to cover up.
This is something if you look in traditional
Muslim societies.
There is no traditional Muslim society I've seen,
except for the men who will cover what
the women are obligated to cover.
That the only thing you'll see in the
traditional dress of most Muslim societies, except for,
like, a laborer who's actually doing labor while
they're doing labor is that they'll have everything
covered except for their face and their hands.
Their heads will always be covered. You won't
see people walking around in short sleeves or,
you know, with their, like,
clothes hiked up so high or whatever.
So he's mentioning this. He says that that
if you only have he's he's said that
if you it's he he he's cautioning you
just because it's the bare minimum doesn't mean
that you should just wrap something around your
your midsection and then
pray without a shirt on. It's.
It will sap the the the the the
reward of your
prayer. So put something on
on the
is the shoulders.
Put something on the shoulders to the point
where the, you know, people the the I've
seen this written in a
once that even if all you can find
is a piece of rope to put on
your shoulders,
then cover yourself.
The idea is that obviously not all of
us can find something more than a rope.
Masha Allah.
Although he, like, has, like, he looks like
he's ready to be, like, professor of, like,
medicine in the Ottoman Empire or whatever. You
know?
Like, all of us can do better, so
just just do that. You know?
Don't be like, oh, I don't have to
do this. I don't have to do that.
I read it. Right?
Go ahead.
Narrow,
you will be. Yeah.
So,
the the minimum that a woman has to
pray in
is a shirt.
That that,
a shirt which is heavy enough, thick enough,
that you can't see through it.
And,
loose enough that it doesn't describe
the contours of the body.
Don't think about it too much, young men.
So if a woman does that, the prayer
is
it's valid,
but it's not it's it's it's it's Makuru.
It's as if she's saturated, the the reward
of her prayer. And
unfortunately,
women's clothes are extremely fitted. Men's clothes are
extremely fitted. This is something I get into
with people from time to time.
People say, oh, if Rasool
Allah was alive today, he'd wear like a
suit. Like, I I don't know how a
person can say that because given the fact
that
Rasulullah's sunnah is itself a form of I
don't know how people can very you know,
even though something may they seem be seem
relatively assured in what they're saying, but still
a person should have a little bit of
fear before opening their mouth about stuff like
that.
No.
Actually, the they consider,
even for a
man, the the thing that,
to be.
So whatever
that that you would see the the the
shape, the the outline, or the silhouette of
the aura
through it,
that's
which is, you know, a lot of pants
out there.
So
when I, you know, when I
actually wear pants for, like, work or for
some odd reason that I have to, which
is not a whole lot, like, I used
to teach English when I was studying and
things like that. So, like, I showed up
for work the 1st day in Fobe, and
I was politely told by my, like, hyper
secularist Arab boss that, like, don't ever do
this again.
So,
you know, I just go to, like,
buy some ridiculous, like, oversized
pair of pants
and then
buy a belt.
Basically, wear it like a and then you
wear, like, a long shirt that you don't
tuck in afterward.
You get away with something for having an
American passport, you know, and maybe, like, our
some of our brothers and sisters couldn't get
away with. You get something, you know, even
though I'm not, like, you know, we're not
really Americans to them or these guys or
those guys, but you get away with something
because you have paperwork. So,
but yeah.
So think about that. Like, when you buy
your you know, I'm not saying I'm not
saying, oh, look, pants, haram. I'm just saying
if you're gonna wear pants and things like
that, you're gonna dress up like no immigrant.
I'm you know, whatever. That's fine. Good good
for you. Don't dress up like an immigrant.
But, like, you know, just
don't buy these kind of like
these these tight pants that that the words
for which are very not politically correct.
Yeah.
This yeah. This is what buy loose loose
loose pants. Like, because it's so, you know,
people from traditional Muslim cultures wear pants too,
but, like, the crotch of the pants is
much lower. It would look awkward
and but if to a lot of people.
You look like you look at even the
Turks. They have the the the the the
the clothes that they're whatever the
wear. I mean, they wear essentially suits with,
like, a really long the is essentially just
a really long coat, and the pants are
really baggy or whatever. So just get something
a little bit baggier. But anyway, for the
sisters, it's also
I guess, in the old days, the menu
didn't used to do it because it was,
like, not manly,
and it's still not manly. But now men
are not really in the manliness anymore. They,
like,
ask each other what weird cream they use
or
talk about their favorite apricot scrub or whatever.
You know? I'm sorry. You know? I'm sure
there's gonna be, like, 5 guys that are
gonna be, oh my gosh. Shoot me from
the Africa's Club, man. It's not I live
the process of views here wouldn't have been
in front of Africa's Club. Like, you know,
like and then they're never gonna, like, talk
to me again, and then they're gonna start
badgering me on Twitter or Facebook or whatever.
So I don't know. I'm sorry, man. I'm
sorry. But, like yeah.
I'm just telling the hook them at any
rate, objectively speaking, that you're they used to
have to say this to the women because
their form is beautiful to look at. Whereas
a man, I have to see this. It
does not.
Yeah.
The the Greeks used to think that the
ideal, like, aesthetic ideal is, like, the the
the the male
body, which explains why, like, you know, there
was such a preponderance of, like, * and
pederasty amongst them. Right? I'm like, we don't
belong to that civilization.
Those of our people who have, like, strayed
in that direction have indeed strayed far from
the path.
So yeah, so this is this admonition is
for the men and the women, but there's
a time that people understood
that it only made sense to give it
to the women. Now the men can take
it as well. So the the there a
Hasif that it shouldn't be see through nor
should it describe the,
nor should it describe the the the silhouette
or the contour of the body of a
woman.
Sabbath,
and it should cover everything. Shouldn't have any
holes in it.
That that,
such a shirt that covers all the way
to the tops of her feet.
So the the woman is everything except for
her face and her hands.
According to the hadith of the prophet,
the Hanafi is exempt from that defeat.
For whatever reasoning they have, you can go
and ask them. It's, I think, a rational
exemption, but
the Maliki say no. You even the tops
of her feet are are.
So one way of dealing with that is
that the dress should go attached to the
ground so the feet are covered. The soles
the bottoms of the the soles of the
feet are not, but the tops of the
feet are. Or then socks and things like
that, you can use that as well if
you wish to.
But,
the ideal is that they should be covered
by the the the the cloth as well.
So one is a a a a shirt
that covers everything,
except and it goes to the wrist, everything
except for her hands
and include but it doesn't cover her hands,
but it doesn't cover the top tops of
her feet.
And a. What is a
is like a article of clothing,
which is like
covers the head, but it's like a cloak.
It drapes down long enough
that,
it drapes down long enough that it covers
over, like, wherever the opening in the neck
and things like
that is. So the the the the thing
with the is what? Is it it it
can cover her hands,
but her hands can still touch the ground.
You understand what I'm saying? The hands are
part of the sides that they should touch
the ground.
So funny story about him, and then we
can wrap up. That one time one time
I was in
in the Emirates, and the baton cab driver
got cut off by an Emirati going, like,
a 1000000 miles an hour in a Land
Cruiser,
Lexus, like, the Lexus 4 by 4 or
whatever.
And so he started yelling,
It's obviously not the same thing we're talking
about here.
Any
any questions?