Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Riyd alSlihn Order in the Ranks Ribt 12302018
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It's a chapter regarding the virtue of the
first row
in the Masjid
and the completion
of the
front rows first
and
the straightening,
of the of the rows
and the, closing of gaps
in between them.
As was his habit
that his Masjid,
was surrounded by rooms.
And, those rooms opened one door to the
outside and one door into the masjid.
And,
he had no, room of his own. Rather
those rooms were allotted to the different
And so the
the wife he was staying with that day,
he would come out
from the door and he would,
enter the Masjid. So he came out from
one of those doors one day, and he
asked his companions
will you not, form ranks
in the same way that the angels form
ranks,
with their lord? And the as
narrated by Jabir bin Samura
they asked, oh, messenger of Allah, and how
do the angels,
array their ranks,
with the lord?
And, he said
that they fill the first ranks, and then
they close the gaps,
within the ranks that they're in. And it's
a hadith narrated by
Muslim.
And so
you see a couple of things. One is
that the the salat is
an act of worship. It's an act of
Ibada.
One of the meanings of Ibada is is
what? That it's not something that's
known.
What the reason it is the way it
is rather,
it's transmitted.
The person who made Mushahada, who witnessed
the the acts of worship is the Messenger
of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
and they're transmitted to us. So they're not
known through a person's own reasoning and their
own logic,
in the issue.
Rather,
what the benefit of them is and what
the way that they're performed
is only known through,
through and through Ruya,
through
transmission,
and,
and through
passing being passed down through the the chain
of narration.
So the idea is here that the salat
itself is something that's performed by the angels,
and the people perform it as well.
And the way the angels do it is
the way that the people,
the way the people do it so that
the people can benefit like the way that
the angels benefit. And that's not known because
you can't see the angels yourself. It's not
known except for through except for through transmission.
And,
so this is a a job, and it's
an answer to,
those people who when you tell them things
like, oh, how do I take off my
socks and wash them in the sink at
work? Or how do I pay, you know,
in this situation or that situation,
you know, and we, you know, you know,
we can't do it like the old days,
etcetera, etcetera. This has nothing to do with
the old days. This has nothing to do
with Arabia. This has nothing to do with
the,
with the, whatever 7th century,
of the
of the common era or the
1st century of the Hijri era. It has
nothing to do with any of those things.
This has to do with something,
that is a reality that transcends this universe.
It transcends,
time and space. It transcends,
the the Saba'as, and the Arshadim.
The angels conform to it, and the people,
if they wanna benefit, they have to conform
to it. If they don't conform to it,
then you're just making a fool out of
yourself,
making these movements in the day, and you're
wasting your time. So the Sahaba
and whom they understood that. Right? This is
not a of
a. Right?
The will tell you what the details are.
How do you do this? How do you
do that? How do you do whatever? This
is telling you what? This is telling you
what the spiritual reality of the of the
salat is, is that it's an act of
worship that is,
done by the angels so that they can
receive and they can receive
the divine aid,
and support from Allah
and so that it comes down on their,
on their bodies and on their minds and
on their hearts.
And so the Ummah does the same as
well. So
didn't
complain about the time and age or the
angels are, you know, they speak Syriac, and
we speak Arabic, or whatever,
GB and A, types of things people can
think of if if they want to think
of stuff, which is exactly what the people
of Banu Israel did when their facade came.
Unless the person say, oh, look. You know,
we're being anti Semitic right now. It's not
about anti Semitism. First of all,
other than the obvious fact, Arabic is also
a Semitic language, but it has nothing to
do with saying bad about the.
The reason that the the the the the
are mentioned in the Quran,
and the are mentioned in their Quran, they're
in.
The deviance from the the the path of
Haq. It's not in order to say bad
about them. They're human beings like we're human
beings as well. Rather, the mentioning of their
in head office understood through the prism of
a hadith of the prophet
that you'll follow the people who came before
you.
Hands breath for hands breath to the point
where if they went into a lizard hole,
you would have gone into the lizard hole
with them as well.
And so this is exactly what what happens
if you read the if you read the
Torah,
and you read the,
the Hebrew bible,
the the the people of Banu Israel,
they would do that. They would ask,
or or try to make excuses with regards
to the of Allah. The point is is
that
the the of Allah, the commandment of the
lord comes through revelation,
in order to,
in order to teach him what he doesn't
know. So if you try to put your
own logic and rationality and reasoning into it,
you know, it's like, it's like it's like
somebody gave you,
you know, somebody gave you, like, a gallon
of of orange juice, and you try to,
you know,
say, oh, I want more orange juice. I'm
gonna mix water with it, or I'm gonna
mix mix gasoline with it. It just doesn't
work. Your,
your idea about it is is completely
incongruent to what the reality of the thing
is. So
weren't weren't like that.
Rather, they wanted to know how is it
that the angels pray so that we can
also receive that, receive the that the angels
receive.
And so the prophet
said that that they,
complete the first the first stuff first, and
then they close the gaps, in that in
that first stuff. They complete the first rank
first, and then they complete the gaps in
that rank.
And this is something this is a very,
like, deep reality that the entire universe it
underpins the entire universe. To the point where
even if you look at the the
the the the way that the electrons,
cloud
around the nucleus, which,
I guess in the old days, people used
to think of it like planets orbiting, a
sun. But, unfortunately, at that small level, things
don't behave the way that they behave on
the macro scopic level. But the idea is
that there are literally there are orbitals. The
first orbital is filled up first, then the
next one, then the next one. If there's
disruption, you inject some sort of, like, free
energy into the system. What will happen is
that energy will be absorbed by the by
the electrons, and they'll jump out to high
higher orbitals. And at the first opportunity, they'll
jump back down to the lower ones, and
they'll release the energy again.
But the natural order of things is what?
Everything every the first surface filled first in
in a pair and then and, you know,
like, the s orbital and the p orbital,
etcetera, going through going through all of these,
all of these different
level levels and layers, everything is filled in
order. The entire universe is filled in order.
The entire universe,
works on some type of order.
The animals, the plants, the trees, everything, there's
an order. When something happens, there's a predictable
set of outcomes. The only thing that's that
that seems to be,
have somewhat of a long tether, not exempt,
but has somewhat of a long tether when
it comes to these these matters is what
is.
And so the who wishes to,
not be lost in the creation.
Also, Allah
gave, that away of what
worshiping and receiving madad
by coming back into the order,
not by by protesting against it or or
or trying to run away from it.
And so this whole idea of protesting the
order running away from the order, this is
like
this is you know, because the thing is
people think, what's the big deal? Why all
these stupid Muslims, like, look, the whole world
has gone by and there's nuclear weapons and
there's, you know, iPhones and Facebook, and these
guys are still talking about how to make
the the stuff straight.
The fact of the matter is that these
are 2 very, diametrically opposed
philosophies of how to think about life. If
you're a person who wishes to to know
what the order is and benefit from it,
that's one philosophy. And if you're a person
who wishes to boycott the order and to
run away from it, that's a very different
philosophy. That's that's Shaitan's philosophy.
I'm not gonna make sajdah. I'm not gonna
whatever this, you know, you know, creation, this
plan you have for it. I'm gonna try
to knock it up as much as I
can, and And there are Satan worshipers. There
are always Satan worshipers. The person thinks that
Satan worshipers is someone who's, like, evil and
wants to whatever. No. They have children as
well. They have families as well. They they
get happy as well. They cry when they're
sad. They poke them. They bleed. You know,
like, all of these things. But what is
it? It's a philosophical difference, and it it
leads to complete facade. It leads to selfishness.
It leads to it leads to individualism. It
leads to isolation, and, ultimately, leads to the
hellfire.
And so but there are people who they
have either in whole or in part. They've
adopted that that of
not wanting to conform to the order. So
why is it that a man has to
marry a woman? Why is it that I
have to be one of 2 biological genders?
Why is it that I have to, you
know, play fair with other people and and
not have, you know, not abuse my privilege?
Why is it that, you know, if I
wanna do something that I can't do? Why?
There's order. It's because of the order, the
desire to see the order in the universe.
This is this is a a a a
desire which is in line with that of
the angels.
And the, desire to,
break free from the order
and to,
embrace, the chaos,
and to see in it creativity and goodness
and and to see in it some sort
of freedom,
from oppression,
that is that is what? That is the
satanic,
world view.
From a perspective, it has nothing to do
with, like, sacrificing children and drinking their blood
or whatever.
You understand what I'm saying? It has nothing
to do with that. What is it? It
is a basic breakdown in order, the rebellion
against order, the distrust of order, the hatred
of order.
And,
it will lead ultimately
It will lead to all sorts of horrible
things.
It's not a way you're going to be
successful in this world or in the hereafter.
In the hereafter, it leads to the hellfire.
And in this world, it will lead to,
chaos, and it will lead to suffering, and
it will lead to misery.
But
but it's it's a it's a way of
thinking about things.
And so there's there's a lot of, like,
you know, like,
Satanism light
that floats around both in the,
community, Muslim community and the non Muslim community.
It's not part of Islam, but Muslims as
a people are
are not immune to the the, you know,
immune to evil as unfortunately we found out.
And the hadith of the prophet proves that.
In fact, if anything, these,
small things, habits we picked up, pick up
with regards to the salat and with regards
to fasting and with regards to hearing the
Mubarak hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
reciting the Quran with all of these things.
They preserve in us,
a sort of respect and love of order.
And other people, they,
you know, they don't have those things, and
so they don't know what the sweetness of
order is. In fact, there's entire civilizations right
now. They're they're
completely,
you know, they they have suzerainty over the
world,
and they don't like order.
They dislike order. They hate order. Why? Because
order was
abused on them.
So you have a pope who's infallible, like,
whatever,
infallible
representative of god in the earth, and he's
doing weird things like marrying his daughter or,
like, pilfering money or selling indulgences for sins,
and and other types of,
other types of messed up things.
Those sins are worse than just committing the
sins themselves. Why? Because you're sinning them and
you're attacking them you're attacking them on to
order. You're making people hate order. And if
a person hates order, then what's the highest
what's the highest order in in the universe?
It's Allah himself.
Allah is the perfection that every created thing
can never have but it strives for. Allah
is the the the the only force in
the universe that can dissipate chaos. Otherwise, the
entire created world spontaneously moves toward chaos. This
is a physical property of the world.
You never see, you never shake a a
bottle of salt water and then find salt
on one side and water on the other.
It all gets mixed up.
It always works the other way around. You
never you never take a baseball bat to
to broken glass and hit it, and it
becomes a a a jug or a pitcher.
Rather, you take a baseball bat to the
jug or the pitcher, and it shatters
it. There's, like, all kind of weird YouTube
videos people have, like, you know, too much
time on their hands in Internet connections,
like, like, shamefully, sometimes me.
You see that, like,
if you if you watch, like, like, you
can have a panel of glass, like,
whatever, like, 10 yards long. Right? If you
if you if you if you take, like,
pliers, like, pliers and just squeeze it enough
to to crack it on one side, the
crack will will will shatter the entire glass.
It'll run through the entire glass at, like,
Mach 6.
Right? I mean, literally, we'll we'll go faster
than, like, a supersonic jet.
That's how ready everything is to break into
pieces in this universe.
The no matter can be created nor can
it be destroyed.
Everything spontaneously moves toward chaos, yet all disorder
all around us.
This itself is a proof that Allah exists.
Everything spontaneously moves toward chaos, yet the most
complicated
of things, they exist, and they float around
around us
to the point where we're, like, physically very
complicated, chemically very complicated.
And, also, we can think about things in
abstract and talk about about order and chaos,
whereas, like, dumb matter, literally, like, weird, like,
beta decay, like, literally, atoms are falling apart.
If you live long enough, you'll watch every
atom that exists, it will fall apart. Every
star that exists, it will burn and it'll
collapse. The entire universe, there's no reason that
the entire universe shouldn't all be like some
dense soup of, like, matter, like, that's so
dense a teaspoon of it is, like,
more massive than the entire sun. But yet
we see order everywhere.
Allah is the the the the the ultimate
manifestation of order. The person who hates order,
that person,
will logically hate Allah. Why? Because he is
the he is the origin of of order
in the world and the guardian and the
protector of order in existence. Without him, there's
no there's nothing that can make order. Everything
Everything in the creation is is perishing.
It's decaying. It's falling apart. It's gonna literally
evaporate. It's gonna go away.
And the only thing that will be left
is the face of your lord, possess it
of, of majesty and of of honor.
And so this is these are, like, simple
things. People don't understand what they are, so
they may go through their entire life. There
are I've seen, like, I've seen masajid in
Muslim countries before.
They don't even you know, they they they
they they
will wait for the imam
if he's late and be very angry. Why?
Because none of them even bother to learn
the.
There are Muslims like that that live and
die like that as well.
Because of some some other their forefathers' sacrifices
or whatever the duas of the the and
the and the
etcetera
that, that they now hang on to these
rituals and they have no idea what the
meaning of them is. There are people like
that. But how much better would it be
if if you're going to go ahead and
actually pray and fast and do all of
these things that you actually understand what the
what the point of them is, what the
meaning is. So the prophet took the the
the the the the the the straightness and
the the the
the,
the tightness of the the the sufuf very
seriously.
And so this is also one of the
teachings of the wahi that in order to
make your, salat conformant to the salat of
the angels,
you have to, close the the the ranks
like that. Just like, you know, an atom
doesn't have
doesn't have
electrons,
you know, dancing around. God knows how far
away.
Just like that, the the and the also
have to be in order.
And this is an opportunity that we have
that we're exiles in this in this land,
in this earth,
from our homeland. This is opportunity that we
have to establish that order again. And you
see that actually the sufuf are not actually
straight lines. They're circles. They're all concentric circles.
They start from the masala haram itself, and
they go out like that just like the
planet's orbit around the the the sun.
And just like, and so but even the
planets, their their orbits are so
regular. Right? First of all, all the planets
that that at least we know of, their
their orbit is is is in the same
plane. They're all they're all they all share
one plane, which means that what? The matter
is all the same.
The matter that the sun is made of
and the matter that the planets are made
of, they're the same mass that got broken
apart somehow. Why? Because their their orbits are
all in the same plane.
Secondly,
you see that they're circular. The further planets
out like Neptune has a Neptune and Pluto
have a very erratic,
with a a, very erratic,
orbit.
Meaning, their orbits actually cross one another.
So there are times in the in the
in the Neptunian and Neptunian and and and,
Plutonian year
that that that,
Neptune is actually,
further from the sun than Pluto is.
What's the problem with that?
What's gonna happen eventually unless they're completely synchronized?
What's gonna happen eventually?
They're gonna crash they're gonna collide with one
another.
This is actually a theory. This is a
theory about, like, the weird, like, cyclical extinction,
extinction,
episodes that happened that there maybe there's some
planet that has such an erratic orbit
that it goes out and gets all the
gunk from all the outer, like,
regions when it's far away. And then after
so many millions of years when it comes
back around, it will bring all that junk
with it and and destroy the,
destroy
the, you know, destroy whatever lights life is
there on the earth. Allah Allah knows best,
you know, if there's any any any
correctness to that or not. And, like, before
all of our, like, physicists and astronomers and,
like, geologists and paleontologists, whatever, jumped on my
throat. Okay. I'm a Moby Sab. Okay. Fine.
If you wanna know more about it, go
ask them. Okay? I'm not, like, I'm not
Niels Bohr here who's gonna, like, tell you
all the intimate details of the the the
the, you know, whatever,
electron neutron. Don't take my word for it,
but this is my whatever. As a very
elementary basic student of chemistry,
this is what I see that everything has
this order, and the lack of the the
the lack of the order will always make
ugliness and chaos always ugly.
If you mix all the colors up, it
always becomes the same kind of disgusting, like,
type of brown. Not the beautiful full type
of brown like, like all of you.
Again, don't if you're black or white, don't
feel left out. My my hamza critical race
theory is that black and white are social
constructs. Everyone's just a different shade of brown.
So we we we all have good reason
to be friends with one another. Right? So
we're not talking about that brown. That's beautiful,
Marcela. We're talking about, like, the whatever mud,
that if you mix all the colors, it'll
all just become the same thing. The the
maintaining of everything in its place is what
what causes the beauty. If the the orbits
of the planets were not synchronous like that,
if the orbits of the, of the electrons,
which admittedly are not like the orbits of
the planets. Right? If they're orbitals, I should
say, weren't
weren't,
synchronous like they are. You know? If the
if the whatever the p orbitals of the
of the of the carbons,
in in, like, whatever in the benzene or
ring or the phenyl group were
dancing in, like, 2 circles,
around the, around the the ring. It wouldn't
have been stable. If it wasn't stable, none
of the,
you know, basic most basic of, like, hormones
and, like,
you know, types of different, like, chemicals that
the body needs in order to in order
to to to be alive would be possible.
All of these things are the Barakah of
order.
And this is one of the reasons. Right?
This is one of the reasons so many
things. Right? If you're a musician, you're not
gonna just grab the musical instrument and just
be, like, just start blasting all the notes.
What do you do? You learn scales.
You learn arpeggios.
You learn thirds. You learn different you you
learn all of these different things that are
what order. Right? You learn more about music
rather than sitting on the piano and crunching
all of the all of the notes. You'll
learn more about what? Music by by hitting
all the keys of the piano and order
1 from
one all the way down to the to
the end. Right? The the the the ivory
keys and the ebony keys in order. You'll
learn more about about what what what this
thing is to order. Right? Rather than taking
a drum and just banging it like a
like a like a like a like an
animal or animal from the Muppets. You'll learn
more about it by just,
you know, putting a a straight bead and
then cutting it half.
Why? Because you understand the relationships
of things between
one and the other through what?
Through order.
And so this is one of the one
of the beauties of the the salat.
The person who prays like that and feels
like I'm in my place right now.
This is where I belong.
The person to the right, to the left,
we're in a straight line. The are
arranged like the of the Malaika.
The imam is standing in front of us
as an intermediary
between us and the lord,
not in the sense that, like, we worship
him and through his worship, we get a
lot rather, but the the Anwar and the
are channeled through that person.
The Anwar and the field of the are
channeled to through that person.
So what does that mean? Should we just
hire the person with the best voice?
No.
Why?
Because the Anwar of the salat and the
Madad of the salat and the the fuyud
of the salat,
they have nothing to do with
how wonderful a person recites.
What do they have to do with
spiritual reality? Has to do with some capacity
that person has in their heart. And, obviously,
what's in someone's heart at some point or
another breaks down into a secret that's between
them and the lord. But you can tell
by the by by what? By the people
who,
live a certain way or have a certain
amount of tofiet or have a certain amount
of knowledge at the at any rate, that
there's more chance that that something will come
through. And if you have someone who's
able to deliver an operatic performance
that's,
you know, worthy of the,
whatever, $100,000
chandelier and the acoustics
that you build into into the building, then
everybody will have a very wonderful recital.
But the, if they don't go through the
imam, they're not gonna go anywhere else. Why
it's a bottleneck?
And so so so, you know, classically, the
said that you should make sure that the
person who's leading the prayer is at least
a. Why? So that the prayer is valid.
If the prayer is not valid, this person
is not making wudu properly,
then nothing is getting through.
Someone's saying, oh, Sheikh, what do you mean?
Is the prayer invalid? No. That's a fit
issue.
Maybe Allah will forgive everybody because you did
your best, you know?
But the the the Anwar didn't hit your
heart. You didn't get that madad. You didn't
get that help. And then you're gonna wonder
why why is this none of this stuff
working out for me? Why is it deen
not working out for me? Why is life
not working out for me? Why is Islam
not working out for me? Like,
you know, I I I'm I'm I'm I
I hear the type stories and that's why
I come to the Masjid and, like, I'm
I'm I'm I I'm I'm trying to pray
my salat and, like, my wife won't even
listen to me. My kids won't even listen
me. Why? Because,
because, if the pipe you know, the the
the the the bottleneck is constricted to the
point of 0, nothing's gonna get through.
But this is a a part of, of
the understanding of the deen that people have
left because of that. They just they don't
know how to work it
properly for their for their benefits. So whoever
it it whoever it brightens their eyes and
makes them happy that they should pray the
salah of the angels, then let them make
sure that the the first is filled up
first,
and let them, make sure that they stand
shoulder to shoulder,
and feet to feet, and let them, make
sure there's no gap between them. And let
them let them take it seriously. Don't get
up on people. This is one thing I'll
be very frank with people. Please don't be
offended. Don't get up on people. They all
look. This is something Salafis do. I hate
it going to Salafi Masjid because he they
always yank you to the side and make
you this and that and the other thing.
Look. If Salafis do something that's correct, good
for them.
Reward them. Reward
them. This is part of the deen.
It's part of the deen. Whoever says I'm
a Sufi and you're you're you have
gaps in your sufuf, shame on
you. Whoever says I'm I follow a and
you have gaps in your sufuf, shame on
you.
This is not the teaching of the messenger
of
Allah.
Whoever wishes to pray like the prayer of
the angels, then they'll pray in their the
the the the the lines straight, and they
will fill the gaps.
That's why I don't want you wandering so
far away. I always pull you when you're
praying and you, like, wander so far away.
I'm talking to you, buddy. When you wander
so far away and Baba pulls you back
toward him. Why? Because you should
stand tight.
That the messenger of Allah said if the
people knew what the virtue was
and making the first sorry. In making
And what the virtue was in in in,
getting a place in the first row, in
the first rank of the salat.
There'd be such a commotion in order to
do those things that there's no way they
could have, maintain order except for by drawing
lots. You just sign up and have a
random drying, and those are the why? Because
there'd be such a commotion. People would fight
every salat. It would be like the black
stone, like in every masjid.
But what is it? People people, what do
they fight over? I wanna give the chutba.
I wanna be president.
I wanna be on the board.
Right? I wanna have my name up on
the the the the thing, my face on
the plaque stuff. And then we brought pictures
into the masjid as well,
which the who never had any pictures in
their masajid. They knew how to draw. I
mean, they maybe they're not gonna it was
more like on the Picasso end of the
spectrum than than perhaps something,
you know,
realistic, but they knew how to do all
of those things. For god's sakes, they used
to have idols in the in the in
the Muslim. Right? So they they knew how
to make images. Now we wanna have pictures
up in the masjid. That's how you know,
by the way, for our non Desi
attendees, if they if we ever have any
non Desi. That's how you know you walk
into a Qadiani joint.
That's how you know. Why? Because they actually
by the way, Mirza was a a a
Mirza was a a Salafi. He didn't believe
in Madhhabs
from even before he was before he claimed
he was a nebbi. So they they actually
pray like Salafis. They actually I mean, out
loud and roughly a den. Not that I'm
impugning Salafis to say what but I'm saying
That was his thing. That was he was
like, I'm not following Madhub. You know, Madhub
is like, whatever, like, type type of thinking.
That was his that was his thing from
before from beforehand. Right? So you'll walk right
in, and you'll just be like, they see
people saying, I mean, out loud. That's new.
You know, maybe they whatever. Maybe they,
you know, maybe this is, like, some sort
of, like, whatever whatever, a different type of
message or whatever. Maybe they got a check
from Saudi Arabia. They did not get a
check from Saudi Arabia. You know how you
can tell it's one of their joints?
Look at the back wall. You'll see a
picture of Mirza.
Right? He's he's just like you're like, why
is there a picture of this desi dude
with a turban on? Like, you know,
and then you're like, oh, I probably should
repeat my prayer.
Right? People wanna fight about those things. What
is a what is a sunnah to fight
about? What is a to fight about? If
you knew, what would you fight about? 2
things. What did he mention?
God.
God brothers. What? The
that you would we that there would be
a scuffle like there's a scuffle at the
black stone,
which is a fist fight of the believers.
There'd be a scuffle like there's a scuffle
at the black stone over who gets to
give the adhan, and there'd be a scuffle
over what? Or who gets to sit stand
in the first row?
That's like if if the heart if the
hearts were sincere, that's where the sky and
I I'll be I'll be honest with you.
You'll be like, hey. So you give the
adhan and the mustard lately. Were you at
the front row, brother? You know? Like, I
can try to fool and pretend I'm pious
and, like, you know, just act to, like,
the Dar es Salaam guys that I'm going
to IFS and IFS guys act like I'm
going to Albanian and, you know, like, just
pass the buck around, make a fool out
of everyone.
But the biggest fool is me, a lot
of Allah sees everything.
It's fine. I agree. But at any rate,
our my own shortcomings aside, which we admitted,
so nobody said that this guy fronted with
us in the dunya. We admit our shortcomings
already upfront.
But this the the the the illness in
Amana, this is the prophet said that if
the people knew this is what they would
fight over. They wouldn't fight over getting onto
the Khutbah rotation or or whatever.
Again, it's a hadith of the messenger of
Allah
So you can read them and weep.
After this, go ahead and accuse the
the the the backwards scholars,
of being backwards and not knowing the cultural
imperative of America or whatever and not knowing
the culture, and not knowing the context and,
you know, whatever bringing their foreign Islam or
god knows what. You accuse you can you
can scream and tell her you're blue in
the face. You can scream, you you know,
throw in some four letter words and cuss
me out as much as you want to
or cuss out to as much as you
want to or say this is a how
come this is like this or god knows
you you say whatever you want afterward. Is
The hadith of who? The messenger of Allah
which is in real Islam, Noe was definitely
a man can say many things about Imam
Noe.
He definitely was not Desi.
And
who wrote the the commentary,
that we're reading from, he's Makki
from Makama Karama. He's a Shafi'i.
He was not he was not he was
not, like, whatever Deobandi or or or close
minded, you know, Indian subcontinent, whatever, foreign Islam
that's trying to, like, whatever,
sabotage the, you know, native Islam in America
or whatever.
What is this? If you don't like it,
you don't like it. It's your problem.
Who
narrates
at the messenger
Allah said that the best of the rose
of the men are the first ones.
And the the worst of them, the most
evil of them are the last ones.
And the,
the the best of the roles of the
women's women are
the last ones, And the most evil or
the worst of them are the the first
ones.
And so, you know, people are like, oh,
what is this barrier in the Masjid? This
is blah blah blah. Okay. Great. What
is
saying?
He's saying that the best ones are the
first ones and the most. And now when
you when we say right, the most evil
of them,
what does that mean? Right? Because it's not
like you're walking into a liquor store. It's
the Masjid for god's sakes. People are there
to pray.
So some of the say that, the meaning
of
is that,
is that,
the that that it's relative. Right? There's good
in it, but it's relatively less good. That's
what the meaning of it. Not that it's
actually evil.
But there is an evil in the back
side back back of the men and there
is a virtue in the front one. And
there is an evil in the back,
sorry, front of of the ladies and there's
an virtue in the back ones. And so
I I thought I wanted to actually read
and translate the commentary, you know, just so
so someone doesn't say that, oh, look. You
guys are making some sort of spurious,
interpretation
of this hadith in order to suit your
cultural backwardsness or whatever. And,
so it's fine. You can say all that
stuff, but at any rate, I'm saying this
is the tradition. Right? Different have different time,
different place.
The they agree
with with with this. Okay. So so so
what does he what does he say?
Because of their closeness to the imam. Why?
Because the faith of the salat is distributed
on the hearts of the the the the
Musalis, those who are in the prayer, through
the
imam. And because they can hear his recitation,
because in the old days, they didn't have
microphones.
This is another dumb thing that I makes
me roll my eyes and wonder why why
I bother with, like, using the Internet,
which is what, oh, Lamar, so stupid and
backwards because when the mic microphones first came
out, they're like, is this even halal or
haram or not? And then the few the
world passed them by and, like, now everyone's
using microphone.
Well,
actually
actually,
the question of whether or not the microphone
is the imam or not is is is
an important question, and it's not settled.
And even the I read in, I mentioned
this to people.
Why? Because
and
and and and and and and and and
and cautiousness is the also is the foundation
of
of of of of all acts of worship
no matter what your opinion is.
That's why there are many people who believe
that there are many people who don't think
there's a problem even with eating machine slaughtered
chicken, but they support they support the halal
advocates. Why? Because they know that there's the
thing that there's no
doubt.
Leave the thing that that there's doubt in,
that that's there's murkiness about for the thing
that there's clarity about. No one's gonna say
the hand slaughtered chicken is haram or worse
than the the the machine slaughtered one. But
anyway, Ikhair,
so the,
the the madrasa I went to, we have
like 800 people in the in the in
the,
the when we pray. The actual entire madrasa
is like a masjid that breaks into different
halapat, which is the old way of doing
things.
It's like this the of
the who is really the prophetic
actually.
And so what what happens is that right?
Because then the younger students see how the
older students carry themselves.
They they know who the older
are.
You know, they hear something. They'll benefit something.
You see, there's there's this, like, organic,
relationship between people
where you don't artificially make everyone equal that
that's not. Because if you artificially make everyone
equal, then you don't know who to let
look up to. If you don't look up
to anyone, you're never gonna benefit.
And if you feel like you're equal to
the slob next to you, then you'll give
up trying to be better. Kids were asking,
baba, I said, my my kids are Marshall,
like, all kids are fun kids. Right? So
he said, Baba, sometimes I think what would
the world be like if there's no money.
Everything would just be free.
And I'm, like, that's really interesting. The problem
is this. Right? If there is no money,
then the person who works less will get
the same,
will get the same out of life than
the person who works more. No one's gonna
see the benefit in working more. Right?
So we're not, like, super all hippie communists,
and we're not, like, cutthroat capitalist either.
Rather, we're people who,
conform to conform to order like we mentioned
from before.
But,
so he says he says what so what
they turned the for the bands, they have
the mic on. For the slot, they turned
the the the mic off.
And they have someone repeat the Takbirs through
the through the Masjid. Obviously, the person who's
closer to the imam will hear the the
better than the one who's far away.
You can hear throughout the entire message. 7,
800 people in the same, you can hear
it.
But but the they they they want they
do the the the, you know, stick a
finger to my modernity, and they do everything
old school. And I'm very I'm very in
favor of that. I'm in favor of that.
Burn enough fossil fuels. We don't need to,
like, pump that much, like, whatever c o
two and waste and burn, like, another ton
of coal, like, just so that everyone can,
everyone can pray their salat as well. We
mess up the entire dunya for, like, everything
else. Let's keep the salat clean. I I
I'm a big fan of that. I actually
like that. I'm not saying what what other
people are doing is our haram, but I
actually prefer that way. This is right.
And because the people in the first row
can see
the
of of the imam,
and they get the benefit of the the
blessings that are sent down by,
and that are invoked by the angels on
them, as is narrated in the hadith.
And so then afterward, that that all of
those all of those, virtues,
they they they will cascade downward in in
amount,
with the 2nd row and then the 3rd
row,
likewise.
So when he said that he's talking about
the Shafa'i Madhub. Basically, the is actually the
best where in Makkomukaram and in Madinah Munawarra.
And so he talks about he he talks
about, like, the there's a difference of opinion
in the school apparently, which you can ask
about. I don't know, but he makes it
seems like this what he's talking about about
when you're when the imam of the Kaaba,
where does the imam and the Kaaba stand?
Right? The the the of saidin Ibrahim alaihis
salam, that's where the that's where the imam
stands in front of the Kaaba.
And so what happens is that it's
in 3 of the 4 Madhubs that invalidates
the prayer to be closer to the
further to the than the imam,
which is problematic in the Muslim Haram because
you don't know what that is when you're
on the other side of the cabin and
you can't see him,
or when you're on on a on the
left or on the right so far away
that you cannot estimate properly because of sofuf
are circular. Right?
So,
so there's a according to majority of the
that the quadrant that the imam is standing
in, you cannot stand in front of him.
Otherwise, in the Maliki school, it's it's all
good. But in in the in otherwise, in
the other quadrants, the 3 other quadrants, you
can stand closer to the imam. It doesn't
invalidate the prayer.
So, so he he's talk he's talking about
that that that first stuff that's with the
imam is is superior in all all those
cases. Even in the case, for example, of
the,
of the message of the prophet because the
first stuff is not actually part of the
original message of
Rather, it's from the expansion of The the
of
the prophet
himself is actually a couple of back.
And the Roda Sharifa itself is a couple
of back.
And so,
he mentions that still it's better to stand
in the first half for the Fard prayer.
If you wanna read your your
go ahead and read them in
the or where the prophet stood. But when
it comes to the slots, there's some people
actually insist they make a big deal out
of, no, I'm gonna pray in this the
the the the the prophet's masjid.
And, you know, maybe there's some there there's
there's some weight to that.
But, the argument here is what is that
that the the benefit is in it is
in a Tiba. Just we hear and we
obey. When it comes to the, whatever the
messenger
said, we hear and we obey. So if
he said that the first stuff is better,
we just accept that the first stuff is
better and go line up in the first
stuff even though, the heart of a person
in Madina Munawarra has so much connection to
the and
to the
the of the messenger of Allah and all
of these things. But when it comes to
the salat, even
himself is pleased with the person that goes
in the first safff not,
when they have the opportunity, not the other
ones. And if you don't if you just
end up over there, then that's that's fine.
And this is the part that I wanted
to, wanted to share. He said he said
the most evil of the of the men
are the back ones. Why?
So because they get less of the rewards
that we mentioned, just a minute ago than
the ones in front of them.
So there's 0,
imam, cultural backwards imam who's trying to screw
up Islam in America. He says why? He
says he he says that because of their
getting less reward than those in front of
them.
This is Bal. Bal is is, it's like
a
meaning
that, but rather more than that
is what is because,
because
they're putting themselves in fitna. They're putting themselves
in a compromised position because of their closeness
to the, women,
because being physically,
closer to them means that there's a greater
chance that that something of the from them
from their from them is going to be
exposed to him, and it's gonna cause a
problem.
And so whoever is going to say, like,
you know, imams who, talk about this and
that are prepubescent
immature blah blah blah. Oh, great. Just go
ahead and spit on the tradition, and you
can be like an angel. Hey. Celibacy worked
out real good for the Catholic church, didn't
it?
Let's just go do that. Let's pretend that
we're not human beings and just be fake
with one another and not be real with
one another and and,
see how it turns out. Now I know.
I know. I'm not you're not gonna walk
into the mustard and be like, hey, baby.
You know, you're not gonna do that nor
are the women coming to the mustard, like,
trying to
stuff, like, you know, play like his Mardi
Gras or whatever. Even if there is some
man like that or a woman like that,
it's, like, exceedingly rare. 1 out of, like,
whatever, a 100000 or 10,000 or something. Usually,
those are more attributable to men mental illness
than they are to a a person.
But what at the same time, human beings
are human beings,
and so to not recognize that is dumb.
And the person who's vigilant in guarding against
that, that person will be saved, and the
person who's not that person out of their
thousands of times coming to the Masjid over
their lifetime, all you have to do slip
up one time. You ruin your entire life.
You ruin your entire family's life. You're ruined.
If you're a person of respect in the
community, you ruin the entire uh-uh uh-uh uh-uh
masjid time. It happens. It happens to good
people. It doesn't happen to it have bad
people. That's a separate issue. It happens to
good people. That's the problem.
That's the problem. It's, you know, a person
who thinks they're immune to it, that person
is the one who's most setting themselves up
for the for the fall. And, you know,
at the same time, it's important not to
go, like, so overboard.
Like, oh, look. Women are evil. Right? That's
actually the the the of the Jews and
the Christians.
That's not our
They're human beings, whatever. I'm a man. I'm
gonna behave a certain way with them. They're
gonna behave a certain way with me, which
is normal and natural. There's a a door
that opens up for something wrong to happen.
So what? If a if a Muslim sister,
if you see, like, you know, she has
a flat tire. No. I'm not gonna help
her, Fitna.
Okay. Just let her freeze to death. Right?
Letting a Muslim die is a bigger sin
than committing with them, much as helping them
with a flat tire, which is not a
sin at all.
So don't be, like, so crazy, like, you
know, like, you see a sister in public
and you don't even pay attention if she
needs help or whatever.
Right? That's
extremism.
But there's a happy medium which involves using
your brain, which is
a a a very unpopular and unsavory
activity for for many people.
But, unfortunately,
until you actually,
embrace using your brain,
Islam doesn't really give up its treasures to
you, very much, does it? Rather, when you
don't use your brain, then, inshallah, you you
have fun time joining weird groups in the
backwoods of Iraq or, you know,
you know,
lobbying for the inclusion of the other 17
pronouns in the Masjid, like, whatever email list
or whatever you
That that's your that's your that's the place
you're gonna settle then at that point.
So he says that I mean, he says
it very,
he said he says that very,
very, very, very, very clearly,
that, that that that being next being next
to their sufuf, it's it's it's it's the
the actual reason is what is because of
that.
So the commentary is what? That the best
of the for the women are the the
the the furthest back?
Why? Because it's furthest from the men.
He says that the the the the best
of the women's roles are the ones that
are furthest from the men.
Why? Because that distance,
it will it will negate,
the fitna,
from,
the the men
completely or at least mostly.
This happened, for example, I was iman imam
in Rockford
for a a blissful 9 months,
like, you know, like like, you know, the
term that a mother bears her child and
then lets it be born in the world
and say, now go go, do your do
your good, you know, make the world beautiful.
You don't need me anymore.
So,
in that 9 months, right, the sisters would
come for if there's, like, a they actually
have a separate section.
But for the salat or for a ban
or for a dars or whatever, they would
they would they would sit in the back
of the masjid. Right? I have no problem
with that.
It's so far away. You cannot make up
who make out who's there. You cannot do
whatever. And at the same time, you know,
there's no issues with regards to,
tech and
the court you know, the feed cuts out
or any of those types of things.
I have I don't have a problem with
that. Why? It's so far away. What what
what's going to happen? Someone could make the
argument that there there's come out the sator.
There's more, complete, like, in
the women's section. But if a if a
woman, for whatever reason, like, feels like she
needs to engage in the prayer and she
comes, but she sits in the back rather
than, like,
trying to, the men and the women trying
to mix with one another.
There's that's what happened in the messenger of
the message. I also don't, you know, be
so crazy. Like, I remember I was walking
once to a masjid in the Bay Area.
This is, like, before 911, actually.
And so some brother who,
attributes himself to, one of the Jamats of
our elders, even though he himself seemed like
kind of a knucklehead,
but,
he he drove by and lowered the window.
He says, do you know where the masjid
is? I said, it's right there. He says,
no, that's a
church. I go, no, it's a masjid.
He's like he's like, he's like, no, it's
a church because the men and women, they,
the women go there. It was by the
way, that message is men and women's section
separated completely. There's, like, a one way mirror
that the so there it's not like they
even mix or or see each other in
the building. Right? So who goes to church
because women go there?
I go, women went to the mess of
the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wasalam, are you gonna
say that's a church too? And he's just
like, you know,
you know,
who says that, you know, being right is
a good way of convincing people? So he
just rolled up his window and drove out.
That's also a type of stupidity.
The weird thing is there's so many dumb
people who have alienated one another in in
in the world that what happens is the
the the there are people who want the
men and women to mix with each other.
Why? Because of because they've met the church
guy once, and they're like, those guys are
crazy. I don't wanna be like them. And
then on the flip side, there's some dudes
who are like, church guy. Why? Because they
went to a masjid in which, like, you
know, people are not observing harma between the
men and women.
And, that's just dumb. Don't use don't stop
using your brain. You're just gonna make yourself
unhappy and increase unhappiness around you for people.
There's a lot of, there's a lot of,
benefit in
in using your brain and allowing common sense
to take its course,
with regards to this and other things.
Why? Because also because the the the
conforming to the
command of the Messenger of Allah himself for
the his family, his the members of his
family to stay in the back.
Because it's more it's more, complete in its
hijab and its
the the the separation between them and the
men in in doing so.
He says and so he said, what is
the the the
so he so he says that that from
the back then the growth going forward get
worse and worse for the women. And he
says that, the the commentary and the most
evil of them are the the front ones,
is
what?
Why?
Very straightforward. Why? Because closest one of the
men, and it's gonna it's
there's a possibility of it causing a fitna
between them.
Yeah. Yeah. One second inshallah. I'll I'll I'll
get to you.
Anyway.
So then the the rest of it is
goes on. Go ahead and ask your question.
The question is I've been to messes where
they don't have the credit for men and
women. Uh-huh. Women don't even want to start
a no role. They
it's confusing because of this because they, like,
were so close to the men Mhmm. That
they don't even want to begin to start
a row. So everybody's starting
it's it's confusing.
So, yeah, in that in the case where
it's confusing in a Masjid where there's no
part of that between the men and with
no,
barrier between the men and women so the
women don't know where to start a row,
don't worry about other people. Just start from
the back.
Just start from the back. If someone joins
you, they join you. If they don't, they
don't. But that's the correct place to be.
It's the back. If the sisters are, you
know, will listen and benefit, then you can
remind them. And if they're gonna be like,
who you think you are and blah blah
blah. I've been Muslim for 30 years, and
I immigrated from such and such country, and
I'm the my, you know, I'm the one
who started this message and this and then
you just be like, you know
what? Sister, you just knock yourself out. Pray
wherever you want to, and you just go
never ends up being a first row is
what I'm saying. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Unfortunately, that's
only gonna be solved through education though. Okay.
This is the thing. Right? For example, I
I remember when I was in in community
college.
Community college is in Davao, long lived community
college. People who did their first 2 years
at a 4 year institution, you wasted your
money and made a fool out of yourself
and probably don't know basic math and science
properly.
But, when I was in community college in
world religious class as an assignment, we had
to go to the religious service or religion
other than yours. So I was like, okay.
Church is gonna be a little bit too
predictable, so let's go to the synagogue and,
you know, check out what you know, see
what the Jews are up to. You know?
A lot of conspiracy hovering around and, so,
you know, it sounded interesting.
And I found out that they were actually
very normal people, and then afterward, I would
notice the rabbi goes to the same gym
that I would go work out at. So
kind of anticlimax there. But,
so
I asked him, I, you know, rabbi Lieberman,
I said, what does this name mean? He
says, we're the descendants of Levi,
the, like, rather priestly cast of the Banu
Israel.
And then you see the guy, like, you
know,
using exercise machines and not free weights. And
so,
I wish him good health, if he's still
with us. Big guy. So,
you know, real life is oftentimes not as
glamorous as people like to cook it up
in their imaginary biryani in their mind, but
here, imaginary,
but whatever.
Imaginary.
So what happened is that I I went
there. Okay?
I called.
The rabbi actually picked up the phone, and
he's like, yeah. We have Shabbat Shabbat services
Friday evening at 7. Okay?
So I showed up at 7. I showed
up at, like, 6:45. I was the only
one there. The rabbi laughed at me.
He's like, just have a seat wherever you
want to. Okay?
So
you have your habit of being a masjid.
So I just went front and center. I
had a seat.
7 o'clock passes, nobody's in the synagogue. Okay?
7, 10, 15, 20, 25, something like 25,
26, or something like that. I see the
rabbi walks up to the pulpit, and he
starts doing his, you know, Shabbat Shalom and
and, you know, lighten it up. And, I'm
like, what's going on? There's nobody here. Then
I turned around, and I see, like, an
entire bench in every direction. It's empty, and
the whole rest of the synagogue is filled
behind me into my, like, back flanks.
So, obviously, this is not
other people's
abbot in every place.
Yeah. But, yeah, Khair.
So that what are you gonna do? Right?
The prophet said that you'll follow the people
who came before your hands of breath, hands
of breath, etcetera.
So you're gonna you know, if you see
that situation, then the fact that we witnessed
it in in other people means that it's
gonna happen to us one day.
We'll we'll ward it off for another day.
It won't happen on our watch.
As much as we're able to, we will
use Hikma and wisdom
rather than trying to cram it down people's
throats and slap it in their faces. We'll
use hikmah and wisdom in order to disseminate
this teaching so that it can survive for
another generation and wherever it goes downhill, that's
the Qadr of Allah to Allah but inshallah
won't happen on our way. But those things
will they happen, they're gonna happen.
We can we can we can stop here.
Is there any other questions?