Kamal El-Mekki – The Marijuana Mess

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Allah, we praise Him and seek his assistance. We seek refuge with Allah from the evil within
ourselves and from the evil of our deeds. Whomsoever Allah guides, none can misguide him at home
ever he allows us to go astray none can guide him and I bear witness that there is no god worthy of
worship except Allah alone. He has no partner and I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and
		

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believe fear Allah as he should be feared and do not die except in the state of Islam. Yeah, you're
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con la hora Sula, hufa differs 1000 alima are you who believe fear Allah and speak the truth, he
will direct you to do righteous good deeds and will forgive your sins, and whomsoever obeys Allah
and His Messenger, he has indeed achieved a great achievement. I'm about to announce Takahata tabula
rasa Howdy, howdy Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, Bashar Al ohmori, mcdata wakulla Desert
		

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			brothers and sisters in Islam, the topic of our hotbar today is marijuana.
		

			It's about marijuana and how it is haram. And this, this topic was chosen for two specific reasons.
Number one, our community has no clue how rampant it is amongst our youth. We don't have a clue.
		

			It is statistically 52% of people in America have tried marijuana once over half the American
population has tried marijuana. So would we assume that perhaps over half our youth have tried it?
Or because they're Muslims, maybe only 2% of them have tried it or only 3% of them have tried it. We
always do this, you know, optimistic unrealistic look at things because they're Muslim inshallah
don't try it. I have heard of MSA is where the MSA officers will have meetings and and these
meetings are about to progress and to move the religion of Allah forward and about Juma hope and
events. And then all of them go and smoke together, men and women, active and practicing young men
		

			and women all over Houston, in groups will go and smoke. And it's to the point where some of them
have told me it's to the point where that you're considered strange if you don't smoke marijuana,
they pray. They're active in MSG, they put on full hijab, and they smoke regularly. Some of them
come into my office right here in the back of this building, and sat down and told me about their
experiences and how everybody's doing it, and how you're strange if you don't do it.
		

			When we were growing up, smoking meant cigarettes, ask your children now what smoking means. It does
not refer to cigarettes at all. And they casually asked Do you smoke so and so smokes, this person
doesn't smoke, and they don't mean cigarettes. They mean this. They mean drugs, they mean marijuana.
		

			And the biggest, the biggest proof that we have a huge problem in our community is that everyone,
every parent in the room thinks I'm talking about the children of the parent next to them. That's
the biggest problem. Everyone thinks I'm talking about the guy next to us children, not yours.
That's the problem. But these hijab is and these active youth, we're doing it all over Houston.
They're just someone else's children all the time.
		

			The other reason is that we want to show that it's hot. I'm in Charlotte, and this hot button. And
youth are using this substance assuming or perhaps making themselves believe that it's Helen, that
is okay. And we chose this day for this cookbook, instead of talking about the holiday season or
something else, because schools are closed and many youth will be in the masjid.
		

			So with that one of the purposes of the Sharia is that it came to protect the mind. And why wouldn't
it come to protect the mind? Because it's how you receive and process one of the most important
things in life and that is guidance and revelation from Allah subhanho wa Taala among many other
things, but without your mind, you would not be able to take heed or to take action when Allah
subhanaw taala calls you to it. That's why inserta rod Allah Subhana Allah says, In Nehemiah to the
Kuru Odin and Bob, those who take him
		

			Those who remember these are the ones who are on Alibaba and iOS hub and Roku. Those are people of
sound, Mount minds or good and sound minds.
		

			Only people who have good understanding and good minds will pay heed to what Allah subhanaw taala is
saying Intuit unfettered likewise very similarly Allah azza wa jal says, healthy the alika Casa mon
lady hedger, hedger here those who have good minds again, without the mind you will not be able to
recognize the signs of a large origin as true signs or understand what the signs of Allah subhanaw
taala are, that's why it's sorted out.
		

			Ron Allahu This is the only album in it's our science for those who have sound minds into a rock in
the field it can it out in the coalmine, yet have a colon indeed, and these things are Signs for
those who contemplate or reflect in either Nicola is in reverse after the coalmine, your afternoon
in it or science for those who understand. So without the mind you couldn't understand and recognize
the signs of Allah azza wa jal without the minds you could not understand the lessons and the
parables Allah subhanaw taala is putting forth your kasasa him Ableton Live Colin Alba, indeed in
their stories were lessons. But for those of sound mind journey for those who have good minds and
		

			can think and even the taqwa of Allah subhanaw taala was linked to having a good mind for Taku la
ha, yeah, Al Bab and fear Allah, all those of you who have sound minds. So it is no surprise then
that the Sharia came to protect the mind from anything that will harm or alter it. And for that
reason, alcohol and drugs have been prohibited in Islam because of their effect on the mind, first
and foremost.
		

			But even before the advent of Islam, people used to care about their mind and about their sanity of
the famous examples amongst many of Oba Caligula on who might have not found it alone. And they used
to not consume alcohol even before Islam even before it was prohibited by Allah azza wa jal, because
they saw what it did to men and then to people and they saw what it did to people's dignity. And
even today, here in America, we know non Muslims who on their own don't consume alcohol because of
what it does to when they alter it when it alters their mind and how their behavior changes.
		

			So now moving on to marijuana, it has something in it known as THC, and this is the psychoactive
part of the plant. And the brain has cannabinoid receptors, and they're concentrated in areas of the
brain that have to deal with thinking, memory, pleasure, coordination and time perception. And then,
and this is according to the National Institute of Drug Abuse, THC attaches to those receptors in
the brain and activates them and affects the person's memory, pleasure, movement, thinking,
concentration, coordination, and sensory and time perception. Now, all these things we just
explained, indicate that it alters the mind it alters perception, it alters thinking, it alters
		

			behavior.
		

			This cup since THC, over the years, it has been purposely cultivated and bred to have a higher level
of THC. In the 1990s. It was 4% THC. And now in 2014, or not long ago, in 2014, it was 12%. And more
than doubled, actually, it tripled to now 12%. So there is no doubt that it intoxicates. And what do
we mean by intoxicated means in the sense that it impairs and alters intellect and judgment. And
it's very hard to make a case that your mind is completely normal under the influence of this drug,
which many people try to argue that there's nothing really happening here. That state that is known
as stoned. Is this a normal state of mind? And if you're about to have very delicate spinal surgery,
		

			and your doctor tells you let me just get stoned and we start the operation. How will you feel? Or
if you're the pilot announces,
		

			on the plane, this before takeoff that he is good and stoned. And would you argue that this is a
normal state of mind and you feel very comfortable? Or the judge says I'm going to deliberate Just
let me go in my chambers get stoned and come back. Because we know that that is not a natural state.
It's not a natural state. And it's very hard to try to make that case. And that's why the scholar
said a Hummer muhammara laughter Jani and Hummer is would ever intoxicates or envelops the mind
that's a Hummer, and instead of a Buddhahood and Nabi sallallahu sallam, he said could lumos Kirin
hamrun wakulla hamrun haraam
		

			and there is also lemon serrana without said every intoxicant is a hammer and every time
		

			is haram is forbidden. Every intoxicant is a hump, and every hump is haram. So intoxicated in the
sense that it alters your mind, your intellect, your thought process your behavior. helaas It's an
intoxicant. Every intoxication is a Hummer wakulla, Hummer and Haram. And every Hummer is Hara.
		

			But why would a believer think something like this is hella? Did you think this 10 years ago? 10
years ago? Did we even have this debate in the Muslim community? Is marijuana halal or not? But now,
suddenly, a number of people make it legal to sell? And suddenly it's supposed to be okay. And is
this how our believing man or woman is, we just like weeds just go with the flow, we go with the
current. If people make it legal, then we immediately assume that it's hella. If it's illegal, then
it must be Haram. And we know how the tides are changing now. And many things that are frowned upon
and and viewed as immoral and illegal are going to change and are changing as we speak. And these
		

			things are going to become halaal as well. This is not how the believing man or woman is, we just go
with the flow. But if you were to do a search, you will find plenty of TED Talks supporting
marijuana, plenty of videos supporting it, many arguments of benefits from taxes and medical
benefits, and so on and so forth. So the tide is strong. But the believer resists these ties, we're
not going to just go with the flow, whatever changes, we change our religion with it.
		

			Some of the most common arguments Muslim youth use to argue that marijuana is okay, and that it's
		

			the first thing they say it doesn't harm your health, meaning not like cigarettes, known for lung
cancer and arteries and heart disease and all that. They're saying, it doesn't harm your health.
		

			And even though and we must understand that it is something that is until today, marijuana has not
been been thoroughly researched, has not been thoroughly researched. But research is mentioning and
showing some of the harmful effects. And there is a specific reason we avoided mentioning the
harmful effects in this whole book. Because we're not saying you should stay away from it because of
its harmful effects. It's not about that you're staying away from it, because it's Haram, because
it's an intoxicant, because it's a drug. That's what that's like giving a hoot about Xena, and
telling people stay away from Xena because it causes venereal diseases and STDs. And it's not why
		

			you stay away from Xena, you stole it from zinnen because it's zinna. First, you stay away from
marijuana because it's a drug and it's marijuana first, not because harmful effects or medical
effects. So the first thing is they say it doesn't harm your health. And that argument has nothing
to do with anything. Because in their mind, these Muslims, they think it's only harm if it harms
your health. Okay.
		

			Studies and plenty of studies over the decades have shown that a glass of wine a day is good for the
liver. So here we have a substance that is known to be hot on and now it has something good for your
health. Does that make it hot?
		

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			we have highlighted substances halaal substances that are bad for the health. Yeah, and he sold
sugar, cholesterol. These are hot substances. They're bad for the health that doesn't make them
Haram. So this the argument of health here has nothing to do with anything. The second thing they
say it's a plant. And it's not true. Any hippie talk. It's a green plant from nature. And God put
these things for us so much out of yellow. Okay, play opium poppy, this plant. Qatar Farah has given
us heroin and opium. And it's a plant Hmm. The coca plant gave us cocaine. It's a plant and it's
natural. psychedelic mushrooms are plant and they're natural. Does that make them halaal. And if you
		

			just want to go with things that are natural, and from the earth, Yama, pigs, pigs are from this
earth, they didn't come from outer space. Add that to your menu, if your argument is natural versus
not natural, and that's what this argument has nothing to do with anything even. The other thing
that argued that it does not cause harm, like any like alcohol, for example, you harm others, you
injure others, not just yourself. So they're saying that people who smoke marijuana, they don't go
out and get into fights and get aggressive and come home and assault their wives and so on and so
forth. But also, this argument has nothing to do with what we're talking about. Because if that were
		

			an argument, it would mean that if someone were chained up in their home, they couldn't hit anyone
that couldn't harm anyone. They couldn't drive a car and killed someone, then it would be hard for
them to get drunk and consume alcohol, because they're chained up and they're not going to hurt
anyone. It's not about hurting others. That's not why
		

			It's heroin.
		

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			marijuana is haram because it's a drug that alters the mind. And not because it's harmful or not, or
natural or not. It's a drug that alters the mind. And in the second hood, but we'll look at some of
some comments from the early scholars on the effects on the mind and how that makes it an
intoxicant. Apolo colada was tougher La la la la la la comunidad de novo Festo Pharaoh. Pharaoh
rosenstock, serene. ask Allah subhanaw taala for his forgiveness indeed those who ask for his
forgiveness shall prosper.
		

			hamdulillahi Rabbil alameen wa salatu salam ala rasulillah. I mean, while he was so happy to hear
		

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			in it was in the 16th century, after the hedgerow that Muslim scholars encountered hashish and
hashish is something that is made from the resin of the cannabis plant. One of the scholars known as
observed Kashi Rahim Allah, He says the hi from hashish is similar enough to the intoxication you
get from alcohol and mind altering and therefore a mosquito something that is an intoxicant and is
prohibited the same way alcohol is. And one of the things is that the you think it's as if that
Muslim scholars never commented or encountered hashish, marijuana or any of the other cannabis plant
family derivatives, the assume that this was not known to people before. And this is a sixth century
		

			scholar talking about the fact how it alters the mind, therefore it's an intoxicant, and therefore
it's hot, um, in the same way, then he quotes at half Xena dnl erahthi, who died in the year 806
after the hedgehog. He says the main reason alcohol was prohibited in Islam is due to its
intoxicating effect. Yeah, and the only other bad things that come with alcohol these are all bonus
points that come with alcohol. Yeah, and he you know, the insanity and or temporary and attacking
the family and wasting wealth and, and car accidents. All of these are just extra points that come
with alcohol. But it was made haram because it's, it's an intoxicant that alters the mind. That was
		

			the main reason. And these were just other bonus points here. So it's the same thing then for
marijuana has nothing to do with all the with whether or not you're going to harm people become
aggressive or not. It's an intoxicant. It alters the mind. And few people can challenge this point.
Even to me or him, Allah who died 684, after the hijra, had the same opinion. If no claim Rahim
Allah who died 751 after the hedgerow had the same opinion, even hotjar, who died at 52 had the
exact same opinion as well. In fact, every single Muslim scholar said getting high off of hashish is
hard on every single Muslim scholar.
		

			And we did not mention the medical benefits on purpose. Because most users, their use of marijuana
is recreational, not medical, most of them and then young people will try to quote you the medicinal
benefits of marijuana, and you care that much about glaucoma. Is that why? That's not why they're
concerned with recreational use of the drug. And then they bring up the medical benefits just as as
added points. And that's exactly what's happening now, in the debate on legalizing marijuana and the
bring up the medical uses of marijuana. It's always brought up in every video you watch. And every
debate you watch, they'll bring up the medical uses of marijuana. But what percent of marijuana
		

			usage constitutes medical needs for medical reasons? What percentage, a very small percent the
majority of it is for the recreational use, and even those places that sell marijuana, they'll tell
you the amount of THC in it.
		

			And the concentration of THC because that's what people are after. That's what people are after the
effect known as getting high or getting stoned. That's what people are after. It's about
recreational use. It's not about medical use. Yeah, there are some medical benefits. And the
scholars even put some parameters on when you can use medical marijuana. But we're not getting into
that. Because what percentage of the use from our youth is due to medical seeking medical benefits
out of it?
		

			None, and most likely just none.
		

			So every scholar said that it's it's haram to get high and you will see now Muslims will surface
here and they're trying to quote and even some of the misquote under Kashi specifically at Ohio law.
They misquote him saying that he said it was okay. And he has an entire book on and he never said
it's okay. He just defined on the intoxication in a different way than other
		

			Scholars, but he still said it's prohibited. But you will see people a imams notable or not, who
will surface in the years to come and they'll say that it's hollow. But you we don't chase after
these rogue fatwas that makes something Halla Yani, there was a Maliki scholar, and he was not a
crooked scholar, there was a Maliki scholar who thought dog meat was hella. It's wrong. It's a wrong
opinion. But do you want to follow that opinion, even though that it's wrong? And that's why they
say that if someone just follows all this strange and weird opinions, and you practice them, you
will find yourself living on something that's not Islam. If you keep following all the strange
		

			opinions, or there's a scholar somewhere that said, this is permissible. There's a scholar somewhere
that said, That's okay. Yeah, gather all these things there and put them in a book, that book will
not be about Islam. So it doesn't matter who in the future is going to come and say that it's okay.
It's an intoxicant. It alters the mind in some way or another, and affects your intellect affects
your thoughts, your behavior, and then that's enough to make it harder. And that's what the scholars
have always been upon. And it doesn't matter what any new person wants to say, or wants to argue
with that we ask Allah subhanaw taala to make use of those who hear the truth as clear truth and
		

			follow the best of it. And to make use of those who recognize falsehood as clear, false and abstain
from it. For lahoma don't have to have Congress open a
		

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			we ask Allah subhanaw taala to protect and to safeguard our youth and our children in these lands,
from from drugs, and from alcohol and all kinds of things that are hot on We ask Allah to protect
our men and women from things that are hot on arable land. I mean,
		

			we ask Allah subhanaw taala to rectify the conditions of Islam and the Muslims all around the world.
And we ask Allah azza wa jal to rectify the conditions with the Muslims in Kashmir, and the Muslims
in Philistine and in Syria, and in Iraq, and in all parts of the world the honorable al Ameen for
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