Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Riyd alSlihn Virtues 02252018
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This is a chapter regarding what a person
should say,
when he returns from a trip and sees,
his homeland.
And amongst, the things that are relevant to
this chapter also is the hadith that was
previously mentioned
previously mentioned, 2 weeks ago in Darce
with regards to,
the Musafir saying Takabir when,
ascending
when ascending,
a valley.
So if you wanna hear about that, just
listen to the 2 weeks ago there's.
We,
we we we came upon
with sorry. We we we,
here means
we returned to or we came upon,
we came upon our way home with the
prophet
or faced the way home with the prophet
until we were,
right overlooking Madinah.
And the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam said,
that we we turn to Allah ta'ala
and repent to
Allah.
Worshiping our lord
and,
praising him. So we mentioned this is an
example also that
that here you have,
1, 2, 3, 4 different ISM files that
are,
that are com that that the the,
that the object of which is the the
word rub,
and, they function as verbs.
And he kept saying that repeating that over
and over again until we arrived in Madina
Munawara.
And for those who remember also, this is
a this is also part of the Masnun
Dua for returning from Hajj, and it's also
part of the Masnun Dua for returning from
Jihad fee subilillah.
That a person should return in humility and
make the Dhikr of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
This is a chapter with regards to the
preference to,
to
when arriving back
from
a a trip
to first go to the local masjid
and pray to and then come back to
your home.
He would first go to the Masjid
and,
pray to rakaz.
And so hadith narrated both by,
both by Bukhari and by Muslim.
And so this is connected with another sunnah
which is that when you leave for a
trip,
you should the last thing you should do
before leaving is pray 2 rakahs in your
home. And when you return from a trip,
you should pray 2 rakahs.
And the connection between the the the praying
2 rakaz at home and 2 rakaz in
the trip is what? Is that essentially
lived in the Masjid?
The Masjid of the prophet
he he actually had no house of his
own. Rather, it was just the Masjid and
then there are doors that would open up,
some to the outside and then some into
rooms.
And so each of the the
the wives of the prophet
had their own room
And would stay the night with the one
whose turn it was, that night.
And, so essentially, he had no space of
his own.
All of the space was shared space. He
had no personal
personal space. The closest thing he had to
personal space
was there's a small section of roof that
was that was strong enough that a person
could, like, go up there and sit on
the roof. And so if you wanted to
retreat from everybody,
a place that's not a like the most
of the public space and that's not shared
with family members occasionally,
very rarely, he would go up to that
place and he would he would he would
sit there. But it was not a frequent
occurrence.
It was not a frequent occurrence. So but
the thing is that you have to remember
Rassoula SAW essentially
functionally lived in the Masjid.
And so this puts a lot of things
into context. And the first of which is
what, like we mentioned here,
regarding
what we mentioned
here
regarding
reconciling the sunnah of praying
in the masjid when returning from a trip
versus praying at home.
The second thing is that it puts a
lot of other stuff in context as well.
So when people's you know, like, when you're
like, yo, you mind getting your kids under
control in the masjid? Some kids in the
masjid are crazy. They while the namaz is
going and while the prayer prayer is going
on, they're, you know, running up into the
mimbar and mihrab and they're jumping and yelling
and screaming, things like that. People oftentimes will
say, oh, but you know, look, there's hadith
in which Saidna Husayn radiallahu anhu got on
the back of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
in the Masjid. Right?
That's because Rasool Allah sallahu alaihi wa sallam
lived there.
It's not I mean, that's the only place
they're gonna meet him and visit him. That
is home for them.
And so even if they're in one of
the the houses or whatever, it's the same
building. It's connected it's connected to the Masjid.
It doesn't mean bring your children to the
Masjid,
especially if there's nobody to watch them or
or or whatever. I mean, I get the
fact that, like, you know, people should be
people should be patient with children in the
Masjid space. They should be tolerant. They should
know that they're gonna make mistakes, and they're
gonna learn. So you you know you you
know, you don't have to, like, every time
have, like, a a a complete, like, showdown
about, like, whenever a kid makes a problem.
But on the flip side, America and this
is America. I have not seen this in
any other Muslim country.
I have not seen this in the Arab
lands. I have not seen this in the
Indian subcontinent. I have definitely not seen it
in Turkey where you'll have, like, a kid
run, you know, rasad through the the through
the masjid and jumping on the the member
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, etcetera,
etcetera, and,
yelling and screaming and whatever, and it just
happens day after day, day in and day
out. Whereas here I see that. I see
people do that and they think of it
as not just an act of piety, but
that they're, like, making tajdeed of some sort
of sunnah. Like, they're they're reviving some sort
of sunnah that, oh, I heard somewhere that,
That's not reviving a sunnah. You're just you're
just being a punk at that point, to
be very honest with you. And people, you
know, they they they don't take it well
sometimes because they're so they feel so much
like idealism about it. But that's what happens.
Those are the frankly, because we're not talking
about anyone in specific right now. This is
a thing that happens in different places. This
is the stupidity of not taking your din
from ulama.
This is the stupidity of what? You heard
one thing one time and you made an
entire din around it. You spun an entire
narrative about the din around that one that
one little factoid,
which you don't even know if it's correct,
and you definitely haven't pondered over what the
context of that din is or what the
context of that that point is in that
matter is. I mean, it's bad enough that
the person should look at the grandson of
the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
and think of his own grandson like that.
That's just the adab issue. That's not even
fiqh or aqidh issue. That's just you have
no adab.
Right? Your your child and your grandson is
wonderful and cute and lovely and whatever future
of the ummas you may think he or
she is or isn't.
There's no hadith saying that these are the
Shababi Ahl Jannah. So just get off the
horse
and,
you know, don't don't think you can compare
yourself. But that's fine. Those types of emotions
or sentiments with regards to the veneration of
our elders,
they seem to be absent and alien to
people nowadays. If you tell people it's not
gonna register with them, so you have to
come with a legalistic,
reason or argument for why, you know, their
kid shouldn't,
have, like, playtime at at at, like, every
salat. So okay. I gave the legalistic reason
first. The actual reason of, like, any person
who is, like, a normal human being has
a heart inside of their inside of their
chest is that you're not the messenger of
Allah and your kid is not Hassan al
Hussein, so just calm down.
Alright. Do you remember that same Hussein that,
that that that, you know, that's being mentioned?
He was also a martyr at Karbala.
Your kid probably doesn't even gonna wake up
for Fajr when he's a teenager, so just
calm down.
There's no comparison. There's no comparison. Even if
he does wake up for Fajr for the
rest of his life, there's no comparison between
them.
But that's something again nobody thinks about. That
idea, that sentiment, it doesn't appeal to people
nowadays.
That's the
So we start the chapter now regarding the
the Babu
Tahrimi. Hamza, come sit here.
Come.
It's
a chapter regarding the, the prohibition of traveling,
a woman traveling
alone.
So this is this is a fitah issue.
There's a difference of opinion with regards to
the details of it and the different madahib.
But in general,
the the the distance
of Safar,
like, 4848
miles according to
most of the Madahib. The fatwa position of
the Maliki Madahib is actually is 23,
or something closer to that. It's it's a
bit shorter than than,
than the other. It comes down to what
the definition of a mile is.
The the the the definition of a mile
is
is it 52100,
traditional feet or is it 2,000?
And,
it's interesting because the same the same measurements,
but they're ancient measurements that that break down
in different ways.
So
that issue being aside, because this is not
a fit class.
The
the gist of, of of what's being told
here from the adab of sufferers is women
shouldn't travel alone.
That a woman shouldn't travel a significant distance
alone.
And we narrate from
that the messenger
said, it's a hadith both of Bukhari and
Muslim that it is not lawful for a
woman who believes in Allah in the late
in the day of judgment
to travel
the
distance of,
the of of the of travel of a
day and a night,
except for with,
a, a, a, like, a male,
male relative,
that is watching over her.
And so,
you know, and the the I guess in
the Maliki school and I think in the
some other schools as well,
that male relative, it can be even a
young boy. He doesn't have to be.
It just has to be
means what?
Means that old enough to old enough to
be able to have some sort of discernment.
So like the in the Maliki fiqh books,
the test of discernment is what? Is that
is that boy able to
pray the salat
and, like, not get distracted. Right? So for
example,
when you're praying salat and, like, someone comes
by with, like, a ice cream bar.
Everyone is like, ice cream.
Includes the adults,
includes,
includes everybody.
Right? The difference is that the adults in
the are like,
oh, if I just like went and got
the ice cream bar, it's gonna it's like
wrong.
Because you know, I should be praying right
now and finish my prayer first.
Or maybe even like slightly lower than that
is like, I should be praying, but like,
it'll be embarrassing if I break my prayer
off in front of anyway, there's some there's
some sort of mechanism in the brain that
tells you, like, okay. Let's just, like, ride
this slot thing through,
and then we can think about ice cream.
Whereas, like, kids below a certain age would
be like, ice cream. Just, like, run after
the ice cream. They're not able to stop
themselves. Those mechanisms to, like,
restrain them from from from completely immediately acting
out what they want is is not there.
As long as the the boy is, has
this level of discernment,
he can he can come with. The thing
is this. Right?
You know, a person may make arguments with
regards to context.
That one of the reasons that it was
haram for a woman to travel like that
is that travel used to be really you
know, it used to be dangerous. There will
be brigands that would take your stuff and
kill you and and, like, enslave people and
whatever. Right? There are a number
of who are actually, like, unlawfully enslaved.
Why? Because they were just in a place
where there's no tribal backing or whatever. Someone
nabbed them as a kid and that's it.
Know. So as an elder adult, he was
he was he was nabbed like that and
and and and wrong wrongly enslaved. And it's
not just one, there's there's probably dozens of
them,
that were wrong wrong wrongly enslaved. It's a
thing that used to happen. It's actually one
of the things that we I think I
may have mentioned in the Ramadan Majlis is
for those of you who listen to those
in the SoundCloud. There's one of the he
he went on Hajj. And nowadays, when you
go on Hajj, what is the first thing
people ask? What hotel are you staying at?
You know? And I'm like,
why don't you go on again next year
and try try try again? Right? The
you say, what what hotel are you staying
at? In the old days, people used to
prepare for for Hajj. So one of the,
his name was Mohammed
and,
and Nasaj.
And,
he he went for Hajj and, from Baghdad.
And when when he was in Basra,
someone actually played a trick.
He called the police and said, this is
my runaway slave. His name is.
So, so the police arrested him and, like,
brought him, like, you know, brought him to
that guy. And so the the sheikh was
thinking that, like, I went to I went
on Hajj trusting in Allah.
So this must be part of the the
the plan as well. So he served him
for 4 years in such a good way,
took such good care of him, and showed
so much, like,
sincerity toward him that, that,
that the man himself broke down and made
Tova and said, you knew you weren't my
slave, but you showed so much goodness to
me. And he, like, wept and he said,
I'm sorry and, like, please forgive me for
the sake of Allah blah blah blah. And
so he let him go to Hajj. Now
if it was me, I'd be like, *
no. I hate your slave. You need to
back off. See, this is my Illinois driver
license and, like, you know what I mean?
And that's the Sharia doesn't expect you to
do stuff like that, but there's certain that
people have that are better than us that
they carry inside of their heart, and they
make them do things that normal people just
can't, you know, do. You know? So after
4 years, he he he let him go
on his way. And then afterward, whenever people
would meet him, he would introduce himself as.
Right? Is like a name you would name
a slave, actually.
The Arabs used to name their slaves like
nice names like that. So,
when he went back to his home, the
and people found out about this thing happened,
and they said, why you why do you,
name yourself?
That was like a false attribution to you.
He said that my mother, picked my name
and then or my father picked my name
and, was a name Allah gave to me
through circumstance. So the name Allah gave me
is more beloved to me than the one
that my father gave to me.
But those are, again, like, those, like, some
of some, like, kids don't try this at
home type of stuff. At any rate, like,
really I mean, if if this dude is
gonna, like,
enslave this guy,
then, you know, I'm sure there's, like, 20
other people who are gonna try the same
thing with a woman, you know? And her
ability to fight back and, like, whatever,
you know, traditionally may have been compromised. Now
there's a difference of opinion amongst the as
to whether whether or not,
whether or not this hookahum is because of
the danger in here in traveling. Because if
that's the reason it is, then theoretically, if
there is a way of traveling that's not
dangerous,
then a woman shouldn't need to have a
with her.
Or whether it's stabbo this just this is
a hookah of the Sharia, I just accept
it.
And,
without wading into that that discussion,
which we can leave for a fit class,
in fact, in advance relatively advanced fit class.
There is some difference of opinion in the
matter.
So, like, you know, I've seen this, like,
some of the will say, like, okay. You
know, like, you're dropping someone off at the
airport. The airport is very secure. Nothing you
know, they're, like, armed air marshals on the
plane and whatever. It's not like someone's gonna
be able to,
do anything too crazy. Although people do do
relatively crazy things, but no one's gonna get
enslaved or, like,
killed or, like, beat or whatever,
unless you're flying United.
And and, like, someone else, you know, they
gave your seat to someone else. But I
I I I I heard they've even changed
that policy. Also, that guy made, like, $40,000,000
out of the whole thing. So I'm sure
he'll be
he'll get over it.
But
completely unrelated to Riald Salihin is one of
the funniest memes I saw. Someone showed a
seating chart for United flight. It says first
class,
economy plus, and then the bottom, like, 60%
of the plane says fight zone, fight fight
club.
Anyhow, so, yeah, that doesn't really happen. So
I've seen this that some of the have
made exemptions for these things. And I've also
seen some of the that are no. They're,
like, very strict about, like, the, you know,
that that in their families, the the the
women will travel,
the women will travel,
with Mahram only.
And, I've, you know and so, like, one
of one of my because Maliki Madhab is
probably the most lenient in this or at
least has a window for the most leniency
in it. Lenient in this or at least
has a window for the most leniency in
it,
in terms of, a woman traveling on her
own. But I've also seen that our Mauritania
and from them, there are people who very
steadfastly will not
will will not compromise on this issue. And
it's very interesting in Mauritania, for those of
you who don't know, in the Sharia in
general,
if a a baby will breastfeed from a
woman, then that woman, many of the of
her being his mother will will will will
will take place. So if you if you
like, suckled from from a a a woman
as a child, then she becomes like your
mother to you. Not exactly in the sense
you don't inherit from her, but she becomes
like your mother to you. If she's married
to a man,
that man becomes your as well for the
rest of your life.
Her other children become your. You cannot marry
them. They cannot marry you, and there's no
between you between the 2 of you, etcetera.
And so the Moritanians, what they do, they'll
pass the children around. So, a woman may
have, like, maybe, like, 90 brothers through,
through,
suckling,
through, like, foster foster brothers essentially. Right? Like
the Rasul
he also did he was, like, he was
sent to Halima Sadia
to to suckle as a baby. So he
had a sister he had a sister from,
from her daughters.
And she actually,
she actually also then later on will become
Muslim and she'll recognize him, etcetera, etcetera. She's
buried in the in the as well. Her
name is Sheima,
which is not a name I seem they
see people usually have. But in amongst some
some Arabs, they're they're, you know, I see
that that that like in Egypt and stuff
like that, that name is very common.
So at any rate,
because of that, it makes this easier.
So if you have, like, 90 or 70,
like, brothers,
then finding someone to travel with becomes much
more easy. Amongst DC people, what do they
do?
They'll say, no. Don't you know, they they'll
say, no. Don't suckle the baby because,
then who are they gonna marry? Because they're
still in the mindset of, like, everyone's gonna
marry their first cousin,
which I don't even think many families do
anymore. And even back home, they don't do
that anymore. That's not really a big thing.
So I personally think this is like a
solution to a lot of stuff that, you
know, you have gatherings in, like, in the
family. All the cousins are there. You're supposed
to have hijab from your cousins. Yeah. They're
gonna marry them or you're not. Right?
So if you suckle the children as, you
know, as as babies,
then then they're, that that issue doesn't become
an issue anymore.
But, but, yeah, I from the Muertani and
my wife, I've seen, you know, the teachers
I studied from were very strict about it.
And then on the flip side, from the
Hanafim that I studied from, you know, many
of them will do that. They'll say, like,
okay, general, you know, the the ladies won't
travel on their own, but we'll, like,
you know, if it's, like, something like just
someone's there at the airport to drop them
off, someone's there at the airport to pick
them up on the other side, we'll do
that.
But, you know, it's something that requires
that that that that requires attention. It is
a part of the dean. And even at
the airport where things can't go wrong, I've
seen this before
where people, not just women, but men as
well,
like, when things go really wrong at the
airport, they go really wrong. It can get
really bad.
So,
we're a culture that that that we
value the honor of women and that they
should be protected,
and that they shouldn't be subjected to to
to difficulties. It's wrong. It's like a dishonor
in the entire family that women shouldn't be
subjected to the same difficulties that that that
would be tolerable for men. No. That's not
like a very feminist trendy
thing. So I figured all the people are
gonna from that camp who are gonna hate
me for saying that, like, already hate me
for saying other stuff from before. So I
don't really
I mean, I even if that wasn't the
case, I wouldn't care, but I, like, double
don't care.
And the idea is this is that is
that that that how you treat how you
treat your women is a good barometer of,
like, what who who you are as a
person. So it's interesting, like, in Mauritania.
Right?
In Mauritania, it's
it wasn't still it's a very poor country.
Their Bedouins is considered that your daughter should
go hungry.
So they would when when when there's scarcity
in food in the old days,
they would give preference to the girls too
that they should eat. And once they've eaten
then the boys get something to eat. And
it became like a cultural thing. So much
so that like,
the traditional Mauritanian culture,
the women are actually, like, very big. They're,
like, an overweight woman. It's like a sign
that she's, like, a good girl from a
good family and this and that and the
other thing. Whereas now, like, we're obsessed with,
like, like, whatever. We have models like that
that are, like, about to evaporate
and they, you know, they feel pressured, like,
they eat a little bit and they have
to go and vomit and Muertang is completely
the other way around. And so it's it's
funny, like, Oprah did a a a show
one time about, like, how, oh, look how
horrible Mauritanians are. They force their women to
become fat. And I'm like, that's actually, you
know, that's actually not where where it came
from.
That's not where the custom because the custom
evolves into something else later on, but the
origin of it is what? That is considered,
improper and dishonorable
that you don't take care of your daughters
properly.
And so they would be given preference, and
that's how that that thing started over there.
So that's that's our deen. Whoever likes it
can like it. Whoever doesn't like it, good
for you. You know? But, you know, if
you're if you're a Muslim, you should do
that. You know, you should make sure your
sisters are taken care of before, you know,
you take care of yourself. You should make
sure that they have something to eat before
you eat yourself. You understand?
Baby Valia, like, you know, like yells and
screams for you. You have to be patient.
Right? If it's another boy, you can, like,
get into a fight with him. But if
it's a girl, you have to you have
to be patient. Well, that's our deen. That's
the deen that that that we practice and
that was handed down to us through through
the generations from Rasulullah
So that's that's a thing.
People should accept that.
And,
many people are like, oh,
that's just misogynistic
because
it restricts my choice as a woman
to,
you know, go wherever I want and do
whatever I wanna do. I said, okay. Go
do what you want. Do what you you
wanna do. There's nobody who's gonna stop you
now.
If there was a time that someone would
have stopped you, that time is long gone.
It's something like in storybooks from, like, you
know, a long time ago in a galaxy
far away. Go do whatever you want. But
if you want to, if you want to,
you know, jump into the jungle and survival
of the fittest,
Don't be surprised if you're not happy afterward
because that's not that's not a fun,
that's not a fun tarteq to go on,
and it lacks grace and dignity and humanity.
We shouldn't behave that way even with one
another, much less, much less with with our
women. So,
I see this
amongst religious religious men,
a lot
that because of their anxiety,
their anxiety with regards to proper interactions with
women, they oftentimes will present themselves in a
way that comes off to a woman as
rude
or because of their their embarrassment to not
want to be perceived as if they're, like,
being flirtatious or whatever. Right?
They'll end up they'll end up thinking that
they're rude. The the the proper way of
dealing with this is what is you should
be nice,
and you should be you should be polite,
and you should offer and render service.
You should,
at the same time, lower your gaze. And
don't worry so much about what the woman
is gonna think about you as much as
you were about what Allah is gonna think
about you.
If Allah is pleased with your having taken
care of your sister and the deen,
and your sister and the deen is also
pleased with you,
what's your problem?
The fact that the woman would be happy
that you helped her is not it's not
like itself an evil thing.
That's not why you're doing it. There are
a set of separate set of males that
are actually doing it in order to, like,
whatever, be flirtatious or what. That's not what
you need to worry about. And this is
something peep it's a different way of thinking.
This is I think the parallel for this
for in your mind is what, like, Moana
Fazur Rahman Azmi is the sheikh of Hadis
in Azadville. He's like a epic master of
Muhadith that, like, the Gujaratis in South Africa
basically just paid him so much until he
came to their madrassa. And, like, he's he's,
like, he's, like, literally a pillar of that
that that institution.
Just a really amazing person in in so
many senses. I mean, I know many people
who they learned the level of knowledge from
him. And so he's known that whenever he
would go,
you know, go and South Africa, there's a
lot of poverty there. Right? He'd go and
a beggar would come to the door of
the car or whatever. He'll put the car
window down and give them some money. And
then people protest all the standard protest. Oh,
this guy is lazy. He's alcoholic. He's this.
He's that. He's the other thing. He's not
gonna
blah blah blah with the money. And
some of his students told me what he'll
tell people when they say that is that
I'm not giving it for him. I'm giving
it for the sake of Allah. What he
does with the money is not in here
my
business, which obviously doesn't mean that you hand,
like, $10,000 to, you know, a dude who's
shooting up heroin or something. But, like,
when there's a doubt, the benefit of the
doubt shouldn't go to the creation. It should
go to the creator.
So, you know, be a gentleman when when,
your sisters want or ask for something from
you. And occasionally, if they behave badly with
you or rudely with you,
then just have the sabr and the hamul
just ignore it. Just make the hamul for
the sake of Allah. That's our deen as
well.
And,
if that's the way it should be for
some, like, just a stranger, then imagine how
much it should be for your mother, your
sister, your wife, or whatever.
And if my mother and sister and wife
are listening, my wife is definitely listening. They're
probably rolling their eyes like, oh, yeah. He's
talking a big game now that he's in
Darce, but, like, we know him. So I
never I never said it's easy, but this
is the teaching of the dean whatever. Whether
I've implemented or not very well, this is
the teaching of the dean. It's an Amana.
We have to transmit it as we heard
it.
Prophet say,
and this is this is like a double
emphatic
that indeed
do not let a man,
be alone together with a woman
except for except for,
one of her,
Maharam are with her. So
generally speaking, the the the the,
commandment is what?
The commandment is that?
The commandment is what? Is that
a a man and a woman who are
not Mahram together,
they can't be in Halwa alone.
Right?
So
what lifts the is not necessarily her being
there, but just a third person because it's
no longer
So what the the actual meaning of the
hadith is what? Is that if a man
and woman are alone together, they should either
be married or unmarriageable kin.
There's no other khalwa that's tolerated. If a
third person is there, then it's no longer
khalwa.
And this is something that, like, again, oh,
big, like,
feminist outrage that, like, what am I like
a baby and a child that, like, I
can't be alone with another person or whatever
and this and that and the other thing.
It's like, cool. Yeah. I get that's an
interesting point you make on the other flip
side, like all this Weinstein stuff. So, like,
you know, figure out what you guys wanna
do. We figured it out a long time
ago. This is our solution for this issue.
You guys keep figuring out your own solution.
And, again, no one's gonna force you to
do what we're doing,
but we figured this out a long time
ago. This is what works. And, it's very
interesting how, like, many Jewish women have actually
come out because Weinstein himself is a Yahudi,
at least ethnically. Right?
And, many of the women who are abused
also because there, you know, there's many Jews
in show business.
Wonderful. I'm not saying that like as a
conspiracy theory thing, a, it's a fact and
be like, I'm not good for them, you
know? Maybe we can have some, you know,
if Aman was funnier, then maybe he could
be in show business too. You know? So
you may work on your routine and you
can, you know, you can live the dream
in Hollywood to make it big. Right?
But the thing is that, yeah, there are
many Jew Jews in show business. So many,
Jewish women came out to, like, oh, yeah.
All this time, I remembered, like, the teachings
that our rabbi taught us, you know, when
we're growing up in New York or whatever
that, like, you know, they were saying all
these details. Can you get into an elevator
with a man, like, just for the 10
seconds you're in the elevator? Is that? Is
it not? Or I think he used the
word because they have a different word in
Hebrew, but, like, you know, they're, like, all
of a sudden, like, it's become cool again
to, like, be, like, yo, I don't go
into with it. Or even Mike Mike Pence,
where's the India? We have some Indiana people
in the crowd. Indiana, raise your hand.
Uh-uh. Protect you guys.
You know.
At least it's not Peoria. Right? It's always
something to be thankful for.
No. You in Indiana now.
Right? That's Mike Pence. Everyone likes to hate
on him. And, to be fair, you know,
Mikey Boyd doesn't
he doesn't make it hard.
Fun things he does and says. But one
of the things that he said, I respect
that. You know? He said that. He said
he, he follows the Billy Graham rule, which
is that he's not gonna he's not gonna
have dinner with a woman that he's not
married to, and he's not gonna be in
a room alone with a woman he's not
married to, which is probably why,
he's, like, one of the, like, 3, like,
clean people in DC
from that perspective.
Right? He may be he we may have,
like, extremely strenuous, like, difference of opinion with
him about, like,
a lot of other things, but that's something
I can respect.
That's something I can respect. So there are
people there are people who know it's common
sense. If you don't implement these things, it's
gonna be very difficult to get through life,
in a clean way.
And so haters are gonna keep hating. Let
them hate, you know,
this is this is this is these are
the teachings of that the messenger of Allah
says
rarely
let never a man be alone together with
with a woman in seclusion,
except for except for with somebody who is
her,
who is her, who is like her brother
or father or,
the like,
son, etcetera.
And a woman shouldn't travel
with a man except for what? Except for
the the that that man is also from
unmarriageable kin.
It's from unmarriageable kin, which is the the
same the the same concept that was indeed
in the in the chapter in the chapter
before.
Now
there is an exemption that some of the
say for a woman who's going on her
farad Hajj.
And some of the say, no, that's not
even an exemption. That the Hajj is not
far down her,
if that's the case. And so this hadith
is actually proof for the latter group because
it continues
that when
said this said this,
he said this commandment that they shouldn't be
in seclusion together. A man and woman can't
be in seclusion together, except for if they're
they're Maharem.
And let a woman not travel,
without a Maharim present. A man said, oh
messenger of Allah,
my wife has left to go make Hajj.
But and my name was written,
to be part of the army,
a part of an army to go out,
in jihad Now
for those of you who know, if you
read the Quran and you read, like, classical
and
things like that,
is a big deal.
There is
the there there are 2 there are 2,
acts of piety.
1 is studying studying sacred knowledge
and preserving sacred knowledge, and the other one
is
1 might
see one as being preferable over the other.
The majority of the the the Ummah considers
the the,
seeking of knowledge to be
partially, not completely, but partially better than going
out in jihad's fee.
But the the number of rewards that are
that are described,
in the Quran or in the hadith of
the prophet
with regards to jihad.
Jihazf, there there's there's nothing that there's nothing
like it.
And in fact, if you read the Quran
and you understand Arabic,
like,
a third of it is about
Now people are like, oh my god. Where
have I come? That's it. The feds are
gonna move in. This and that and the
other thing. Trust me.
Cops are busy shooting black people right now.
There's no oversight,
you know, anymore. I was like, you know,
it it just become the system is broken
down so so ridiculous that even if it
I said something illegal, there's no nothing's gonna
happen now. But I didn't.
And I'm not endorsing these yahoos in the
backwoods of Syria and Iraq, ISIS and Al
Qaeda, and these these people are crazy. These
people are the ones who took the name
of Jihad
made a mockery out of it and did
a great disservice to Islam. And I really
wouldn't be surprised if some or all of
their factions are are are not,
you know, somehow actually just puppets that are
agents on behalf of other,
foreign powers because I've not seen the,
endorse, what they're doing, killings innocent civilians and
starting wars
on their own,
whereas it was always traditionally,
considered to be only the right of the
sovereign authority to do those things. But the
idea is this, there is such a thing
in Islam as just war.
If a person goes out in the path
of Allah in order to make the world
a better place and it's actual legit legitimate
jihad, not just like some, you know, like
like 4 teenagers, like, beheading somebody on a
cell phone, like, in the backwoods in Syria
or whatever. Right? With no just cause or
or purpose or or sanctification from the deen
or whatever.
If it's an actual Jihad, it's a big
deal. Right? So here's a man, his his
name is written in in the list of
the people who are gonna go out with
the army in the path of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
And,
he says to the messenger of Allah, he
says, oh, messenger of Allah, my wife were
my my my wife has
just left,
for Hajj.
And my name was written,
to be part of such and such army
to go out in the path of Allah.
The messenger of Allah says
he see he see what? He gave him
permission that you're exempted from joining the army,
go with your wife.
Go with your wife,
go with your wife to Hajj.
Go with your wife to Hajj. Why? Because
Rasoolullah salallahu alaihi wa sams
saw that if
The first innocent people you should protect is
your own wife before you protect someone else's
wife.
And this has to do with the deen
as well, that if everyone takes care of
their own people, then there's no one else
to take care of. If you know, takes
care of the poor people of their own
relatives, there's no poor people left anymore. If
everybody gives a job to their own relatives,
then there's no unemployed. If everyone gives a
place to live for their own relatives, there's
no home, etcetera. That's the that's where you
get the most reward is for taking care
of your own people. Now some people will
say, look, this is a proof that a
woman can't go out go out and Hajj,
on her own.
And I don't think that there's a decisive
proof for that in this hadith.
What it is that Rasulullah
commanded him that it's better you'll get more
reward for accompanying your wife than you will
for going. It
doesn't necessarily mean that he said that what
she said doing is doing his haram. He
definitely didn't say that much. So the 5th
issue, you can debate it in 5th class.
But,
the as far as what the the the
teaching that the the the hadith is
presenting in light of the chapter that it
was it was put in is that, the
lady shouldn't travel alone.
There should be somebody with them,
because the the the the peril
that that that
that that they are subjected to
is arguably greater than that a man is
subjected to. And even if they're the same,
it's a greater shame on a person and
on their on their on their name that,
that a woman should be subjected to it
even though we might tolerate it if a
man was.
So with that yeah. I'm sorry. Go ahead.
Age factor doesn't matter?
The age factor married couple. Right? Yeah. Age
factor does matter though. I mean, because the
thing is, look, one might say, oh, yeah.
If she's young and attractive, then someone should
travel with her. Well, what does that mean?
Like, a 80 year old woman doesn't need
someone to help her. She may need more
help, but in other ways. The peril may
be different,
but but, you know or like like a
7 year old girl, what she doesn't you
know, someone just because nobody will find her,
like, attractive like that, except for some statistical
outliers or whatever. But still, I mean, then
everyone needs help in some certain way,
in some sort of way.
The the now we start
a a a a new, like, section of
the book. And this is the the section
with regards to the the the the virtues
of things.
And so
this is a a large,
a large
field of the knowledge of deen, which is.
So one field of knowledge in the deen
is what? What are your beliefs?
They're what ideas? How should you think about
things? How should how should you see things
in life? A second one is,
legal rulings.
And
a third one is what it's. What are
the benefits and things?
And oftentimes the will get relegated to like
a kind of a third status in the
sense that if you're, they're not
correct. You you you may be a.
And if you're,
if you're are not correct, you may become
a, a prophet, a sinner. Whereas,
like, you know, they don't you don't need
to technically learn them in order to believe
what's right or to do what's right.
But the importance of them lies in this
important pedagogical
technique
that Rasoolullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam used to employ
very frequently,
which is he would tell people not only
what to do, but what the benefit of
doing it is. Knowing that a human being
is a a a a rational
thinking,
a creature.
And if things don't make sense, people won't
do them.
And so this is important for all of
us, especially those of us who are gonna
have kids that you not only tell the
kids what to do, but tell them what
it is, why they're doing, what's the benefit,
what's the reward, etcetera, etcetera. And the problem
is that if you don't teach the,
then people may know what's wrong and right
legally, and they may know what's wrong and
right in terms of creed, but they're never
gonna motivate themselves to follow it.
So the are not like a third,
like, distant
third in importance rather it's it's just like
a person, you know, it's like I would
I would you rather have your liver or
your kidneys or your heart? Right? So you
might say, well, I did took Bylie. Definitely
heart. Well, okay. What are your heart gonna
pump? If you don't have any liver or
kidneys, you're gonna be toasting, like, you know,
6 hours instead of 6 minutes. But that's
not like that's not a solution to anything,
you know? So, yeah, it may be like
the 3rd most important, but it's something still
necessary for the for the person to to
function.
And so,
that's important. If you wanna motivate people to
do stuff,
you and also as a
as the Yeah. You're gonna give one day,
you know. Don't just tell people what's haram.
Tell them why why it is and what
the harm they'll see by not by by
by by not avoiding it. Tell them what's
right and tell them what benefit they'll see
by by by,
accepting it.
Without the, oftentimes, the, the the,
all of it falls apart.
And and people just they they just they
they just don't get on the program. So
this is a very large,
an important corpus of material from the teachings
of the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
So, Nawi
has compiled an entire section in the rial
salihin
on the fadayal, the virtues of things,
and what the benefits of things are. And
so he starts with the Babu Qira'atil
Quran,
the chapter regarding the the benefit of of
of the recitation of the Quran.
And this isn't it's important because people don't
recite the Quran anymore.
Nowadays, in order to be considered a pious
Muslim, you just need to, like, tweet about
Muslim y stuff and have more than, like,
a 1000 followers.
You know what I mean?
And there are a lot people just never
learn to read the Quran, and they have
obnoxious opinions about all sorts of things.
And and they never they don't even if
you tell them to sit down and open
the mus'haf, they don't even know how to
read the Quran.
And this is something also, it's an issue
because
if that's the way that the general community
is, that's also the way that people who
come new to the din are.
So I know brothers who converted,
to Islam, like, in the sixties seventies,
and I've heard this from them. They lament.
They say all these, you know,
people have become Muslim now. I remember when
I this I remember when I became a
Muslim, reading the Quran was a big deal.
We used to sit for hours and hours
and hours and learn how to read, and
we would sit and read in the message
for hours and hours. I said, now I
know brothers been Muslim for 10 years, for
15 years, for 7 years, for 4 years.
They not only don't know how to read
the Quran, but they don't want to learn
how to read the Quran.
And I'm not picking on Converse because there
are many born Muslims who are like that
as well. Where did they learn that from?
It's important. It's a really big deal. And
the thing is that, like, okay, being able
to sit and read like a a jus
of Quran, it's not farr like praying 5
times a day is or like going on
Hajj is or fasting Ramadan or paying Zakat
or whatever.
But it was part of what makes you
a good Muslim.
If you live the oral tradition and you
sit with the people who transmit the oral
tradition, you'll see that from them.
That that a person will and, you know,
you think it's you may not you may
think it's incredible because people say, oh, look.
You know, these
hydrographic accounts of the old masha'if, this is
all these people making it up, and they're
trying to pump up and and,
exaggerate regarding their own teachers and their own
masha'if. What is this? Imam al Hanifa is
like reading the Quran, every night and things
like that. I mean, I I remember from,
our masha'ikh in Mauritania
in in Mauritania that what? Like, just walking
around doing the dishes, vacuuming the house, you
know, walking to and from the masjid. The
sheikh used to make khatam al Quran every
other day.
And it with with no effort. It didn't
look like he's making effort to do it.
Like, he's sitting down and being like a
big Sufi master and, like, just reading, reading,
reading until, like, he shoots light out of
his fingertips and starts, like, floating like so
like a Street Fighter character or something like
like, no.
That was just, you know, like, no force
and, like, lightsabers and all this other stuff
and, like,
you know? What is it? It's just it's
what? Just a habit of constantly reading.
And so I thought, wow. That's really neat
with for the Mauritanians, man. I wish the
rest of the Muslims were like that. Have
you ever read the the autobiography, Mullane Zakaria?
The Abite of Mullane Zakaria? It's actually, like,
from the Desi books. It's, like, one of
the
I don't wanna say good, but, like,
non egregious translations.
Like, there's a lot of hate in the
actual content. And if you wanna read it,
you you can, like, do so in a
non frustrating way. The
English is alright.
Again, it could use another edit, but it's
alright. Right? So that's what he mentioned. He
said when I was a kid
so he passed away in, what, 1981 or
something? In 1980 3, I think.
So sheikh Amin and, like, our elders, in
Chicago, many of them have met him before.
He said when I was a kid,
my father,
he would after fajr, he'd kick me out
of the house and say you can't come
back home until you read the whole Quran.
So he goes, I would sit on the
roof. Most days I just go sit on
the roof and, like, before noon I'd be
I'd be done and then he'd let me
back in the house.
That's
how Muslims were.
Now
there is Mashallah Chicago as a proliferation of
huffaz
that can't read anything without making, like, 10
mistakes on the same page.
Who am I to who am I to
say anything? I'm neither a I'm not a
Hafiz who could even make 10 mistakes
in a page. I don't even know the
page in the beginning that I should make
any whatever. So I'm not, like, you know,
trying to talk down to nobody. Those people
are still ahead of me. But as a
reminder, we should take that. Reading Quran is
what makes you Muslim.
It's one of I mean, not like fiqh
wise and afida wise or whatever as as
as much, but, like,
if you were to, like, just as an
observer, see what makes a person this is
one of the things that makes you Muslim.
And so it's good to learn the,
learn the the faba'il of the Quran so
that a person can say, okay. Wow. This
is really good. Like, instead of writing another
Facebook post that's gonna get, like, you know,
30 likes or whatever,
maybe maybe I should, like, I should read
some Quran in the morning because that's cool
too. You know?
It's sad that it to kinda come to
that point, but, you know, we're all we're
all, you know, we're all like it's like
a AA meeting. You know? We all have
a problem. Hi. My name is Hamza,
and I have, like, I have I have
a problem.
And, and then it's like, yeah. Everyone's like,
hi, Hamza. Don't worry. You can share. You
know, we're not judging you or nothing.
Mir Mir is judging me. I could see
that right now. But, like, the rest of
you don't seem to be judging me.
You know? So if this is this is
the state we're in, you know, that's fine.
We should recognize that so we can get
some help and get better.
Muslim. So there's 22,
2, hadith that are,
that are connected with one another. So the
first one is narrated by
that,
that he said I heard the messenger of
Allah
say, read the Quran because it will come
on the day of judgment as a,
as a,
an intercessor
for its people, for the people who used
to read it. And so Hadith a Muslim.
So what does that mean that it'll come
as a intercessor for for the people who
used to read it? Like, will it be
like, okay, you used to read it shows
in your book of deed. You used to
read the Quran.
So, okay, you should be forgiven. What does
it mean exactly?
So the meaning is further,
elaborated
in the subsequent hadith that
brings
from
who said I've heard the messenger of Allah
say that the Quran will be
brought on the day of judgment.
And the people of the Quran that used
to act on its teachings will be brought
on the
act on its teachings in this world,
will be brought on the day of judgment
as well. And so who are the Ahlul
Quran? They're the people who are reading the
Quran all the time, And they're the people
who read the Quran and
said that not everybody, but the ones who
read the Quran all the time and actually
act on it. Actually act on its pronunciations.
There's a whole professional class of Quran reciters,
many of whom are are,
you know, when you look in through the
prism of, like, the the teachings of of
the deen,
relatively horrible people.
We don't even have we don't have either.
And we're just horrible people, and we don't
recite the Quran a lot. But in the
Muslim world, there is, like, this class of
people. We're not talking about them. We're talking
about who? The people who recite it and,
act on it. In order to act on
it, presumably, you're understanding some part of it
as well.
And the knowledge of the Quran was what
was the primary benchmark of what made a
person an island in the old days. Nowadays,
you just tell good stories and, like, throw
in, like, little paradigm,
ethos narratives, like, the and whatever. Some fancy
words in there, and everyone's like, cool, man.
This guy's, like, the next big thing for,
like, Islamic learning in America or whatever.
But in the old days, they used to
consider to be the knowledge of the Quran
that made you
a a a a person of knowledge. So
so the the Quran and the people of
the Quran will be brought to you,
and who will be the 2 at the
at the head of that that group?
It will be, Surat Al
Imran. They'll come in an anthropomorphic form. They'll
come in the form of human being and
they'll be like the lawyers for the,
you know, the lawyers for the for the
for the people who are being judged. Right?
Most people will not have an advocate and,
during their judgment. It's just them in Allah
to Allah.
But these 2 will be like, you know
how they have, like, the commercials on the
have you been in an auto accident?
Larry h Parker can help you get the
money you deserve. You know what I mean?
Right? So and then, like, they say, like,
I, you know, my I I got hit
and I had to miss work for 2
weeks. I didn't know what to do. Larry
h Parker helped me get a settlement of
$20,000
so that I could get back up on
my feet. And, like, at the end, usually,
they find, like, the most giant looking, like,
client and it's like he doesn't even tell
about his case. He's just like, Larry h
Parker got me 7,800,000.
And, like, you know, that's it. Because that's
that's what he does. Because he's he's, like,
a good lawyer. Right? So you you you
say, wow, man. This guy can really, like,
bag the thing for me. Right? That's the
dunya.
Imagine.
It's not Larry h Parker.
It's what? It's the and
You you they just say shh. Don't say
anything. Just let us take care of this.
Tell me the the
the the the recitation of and the recitation
of
Are they what is their status with Allah
Ta'ala?
It's something honored and something revered.
So if they're your if they're your lawyer,
right, imagine in this in this world, it's
like, don't worry, man. My lawyer is the
judge's first cousin, you know, like, we both
had our bar mitzvah together at the same
synagogue or whatever. That's it. Done.
By the way, you know,
or, like, we both had our whatever
and the same whatever you wanna say. Right?
It's fine. Whatever religion is. I have no
problem with, you know, we all live together
in peace and harmony.
The idea is what? Because of the taluk
between Allah Ta'ala and the Quran, he revealed
and he commanded to be recited. If the
recitation of Surat Al Baqarah and Surat Imran
are gonna be,
your representative. Right? It's it's literally says here,
it says
that they'll argue on your behalf.
Right?
They will they will argue on your behalf.
Like, the is like a like a aggressive,
like, argument to, like, advocate or go to
bat for somebody, that they're gonna go go
to bat for you. Didn't create the Quran
just so that he can be like, yeah,
I'm not listening to you.
Right? And this is a issue. It's not
the actual Quran. It's a recitation of the
Quran that will have have that that form.
As far as the Quran itself, it's one
of the sifat of Allah ta'ala. But the
the recitation of the Quran itself, if it
has an anthropomorphic form, a lot of that
is not gonna be like, yeah, forget you.
I'm not listening. Like, that doesn't mean anything.
So this is this is the from the
benefits of
of
entire Jews or a separate book can be
written,
just regarding the the of the recitation of
those 2,
Suras,
in and of themselves. There are books like
that that have the of the different parts
of the Quran and its recitation. One day,
we'll get to re
read some of that.
Said that the best of you is the
one who,
learns the Quran
to go through difficulty in learning the Quran,
and and teaches it. Right?
Means something different. Means to know something.
Means to, like, go through difficulty to exert
yourself. Both of your, I'm assuming.
Was it easy?
No.
And, like, you know, it was a while
ago. So maybe, like,
the,
you know, the were not as, like,
you know,
restrained in their creative
motivation techniques.
Right?
Yeah.
But, like, this is what I tell people
when they're struggling to their hips and their
parents are, like, struggling.
I'm, like, just keep keep doing it. Once
the hips is done, I swear nobody ever
is, like, oh, it's so hard. I don't
know if it was worth it.
Right? While the HIFS is happening, everybody cusses
out their
And he he's a jerk and he this
and he that and he the other thing
and whatever. And then once the HIFSA is
done, my Qarisab was a waliyah of Allah
and he used to, like, spit and, like,
trees would grow out of it and, like,
you know, Allah have mercy on him and
this and that and blah blah blah the
other thing and he hit me one time
but it was from my own everyone changes
their tune
once the the thing is done. Right? I
don't know who would know a a nobody
likes their hips teacher while they're doing hips
except for very few people. And b, nobody
says anything bad about them, like, except after
they're done, except for very few people.
So right. The person who goes through great
difficulty
or exerts, you know, through takalluf, they they
learn the Quran and the people who the
people who teach it. Now it's very significant
that this hadith is narrated by Saidna Uthman
bin Affan radiAllahu anhu. Why?
Because out of the 4,
he was the only one who was a
Hafiz of Quran during the life of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And this is a great proof this is
a great proof against those
against those,
despicable people
who will say bad about him.
That that that imagine loved
him so much that he married 1 daughter,
to him, and she passed away. And then
he married another daughter to him and she
passed away. And he said, if there was
another daughter I had that was still unmarried
that I couldn't I could have married a
third daughter to you as well.
And he's what? He's a Hafiz of, of
the book of Allah Ta'ala. In the beginning
of Islam, there are very few people who
were huffad of of the Quran.
The other 3, khulafa Rashidun,
according to some opinion or another, all of
them, they became Hafaz, but after
passed away.
The one who was actually, like, like, up
to date Hafiz as the Ayat are coming
down,
there there are few of them. There are
few of them.
There's there's a couple of them like Arbatun,
Jamal,
etcetera etcetera. There there's there's, like, a long
discussion about what does that mean because there's
different hadith in which the prophet said that
there are 4 people who memorize the Quran,
but there'll be a different 4 people. So
why why does he mention 14 here and
another 4 there that that that 14 is
for for the 4 Hafaz of the Muhadrin,
one four is the 4 Hafaz of the
of the Ansar.
Right? So there's a hadith of the prophet,
that, Hafiz bin Hajjar, he has, like, a
long regarding
this issue.
Siyyutik, it also transmits Hafiz Hafiz Hafiz Hajiz
in his that
that the the the the the,
and
that the 2 the 2, tribal
groupings of the Ansar, the,
they
they they they debated with one another to
shoe show who's who's better.
So the oath, they said, from amongst us
is the man who,
from amongst us is the man who,
Rassoula, sallam, said his witness is worth the
witness of 2 people. And from amongst us
is the man who, when he died, the
angels gave them the the the the witnesses
with with to worth 2 witnesses, Khozema Tov
Nufabit. And the the from amongst us is
the one when he died, Hanzal Hanzalah when
he died, the angels, they, gave him hussal.
And from amongst us is the one when
he died, the the Ihtazat al Arsh, the
Arsh
and from amongst us who died is,
the the one that the the the the
Kufar,
tried to decapitate his dead body and, like,
a swarm of hornets,
drove them away,
for for for 3 days in a row,
till till they gave up.
Asim Bin Thabit,
and so then then the the said from
amongst us, there are 4
that are of the Quran
and and no one from the no one
memorized it other than them. Meaning but nobody
from the
from the, from the, Ansar.
So is
one of those people. So he's the one
who's saying that the best of you is
the one who learns the Quran, goes through
difficulty, learns the Quran, and teaches it to
other people. It's not just somebody who's like,
and,
like, doesn't know how to read, you know,
you know, themself or whatever. It's not like
that trophy that's like a the whole trophy
haphism
haphism
thing is, like, very out of control, and
it leads to, like, that become drug addicts
and, like, apostates afterward. It's not a good
thing.
Being Hafiz isn't far as if you find
yourself cussing your kids out for, like, not
finishing their door or whatever,
why don't you just put the brakes on?
You know, it's okay if they only memorize
tenjos or whatever. There's a lot of they
can still do. I'm not saying to give
up, but I'm just saying, like, don't ever
make it such a thing that you, like,
break your kids psychologically or whatever for it.
That applies to everybody except for you kids.
You guys have to memorize. Otherwise, Baba's gonna
anyway. Okay.
So but for everyone else's kids, you just
lay off the kids. Inshallah.
You'll see that you'll see that there'll be
benefit in it. Inshallah. That's what my own
sheikh, may Allah give him long life and
preserve him. He says that he says that
I can tell the kids that used to
get, like, you know, excessively beat or or
excessively
told off.
And he go he he said that he
had one student that he can't see properly.
He has to he has to he has
like a, like, real thick, like, bifocal lens
glasses. He says, I used to be able
to see just fine. He said, when I
did hips, I was so afraid of my
my,
my
who used to savagely beat us,
that I would I would have to, like,
by dim light
review at night because it's harder for me
to to memorize than the other students. So
he's like a a group. I would lose
sleep and just review by dim light to
the point that it damaged my that the
doctor said it damaged your eyesight.
So,
yeah,
don't be that
don't be that don't be that crazy on
your kids inshallah. If they don't do it
in 2 years, they'll do it in 4
years or if they've, you know, don't do
30, they'll do, you know, 10 or whatever.
It's
it's there's a have that he said
he only knew
then he used to look at the and
say that going out in the path of
Allah has,
has has
restrained me from being able to give you
your your right.
So there are different ways of a person
getting close to Allah. Don't make them hate
the deen by by by being that crazy.
But, you know, I'm and when those of
you who know me know that, like,
I'm not really into this kind of self
esteem positive, like, everyone wins 1st place,
like, manner of, like, raising children. I think
that, like, ruins them as well, but there's
something in the middle that that that that's.
But
we also have to give that respect then
to the the the the students and to
the ulema.
If we teach teach the kids their Islamic
studies, but it, like, always takes a back
seat to, like, their other studies,
then we're teaching we're teaching them kufr
through Islamic learning.
The thing they're learning is Islam. The the
on the surface, but underneath it, they're learning
kufr that the duniya is more important than
the akhirah.
You have to you have to honor your
your own Quran teachers. You have to honor
the teachers of your children. If you don't
honor the your children are not not going
to honor Islam.
So Allah
give all of us to continue the book
of next week.