Response to the Narrow Minded Religious Donkeys

Hungry levels salatu salam ala Rasulillah sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam while he was having he was what he will men, whatever. But what's the molecule here to live about a category My Dear Brothers and Sisters in Islam, this your brother Shefali, DFC, and this is my sky views

platform on Facebook Live. And those of you who have been following me and listen to my comments for some years, you know that sky views, these are my views.

And yes, they are subjective. That is their subjective to my experience my exposure

from my traveling interaction with people in more than 134 countries over a period of maybe some 3035 years.

I don't plan to be right, I just present what I consider to be reasonably right.

And I leave room for other people to present what they present with the evidence or through what they put forward for consideration. And then everybody can like step back and look at what each party of person has put forward. And that's reasonable.

I am not part of the so called

religious right, those who want to be religiously right, who insist upon being religiously right or religiously correct. And they are demanding from in all conversations, they are demanding from somebody, some bursts of proof from the Quran, or proof from the Hadith or proof from some documented archived information that that can be accessed now digitally.

Or they are asking for

someone to approve what you save or do from a scholar in a country who, who themselves

may be just surrogates of oppressors, or scholars who themselves are engulfed in their own social political realities. And whatever they are relating is within the context of those social political realities, environmental realities, and they may not know at all the social, political or environmental realities of the people who are asking the question. And now we are not children. We didn't just come into Islam yesterday. We have come into Islam, some of us 5060 years ago. We have great grandchildren, I do. So we are not like so much profound in our Islamic novels. But we are well rounded.

We're not super intellectual. But we are people. And we have children and grandchildren who are university graduates.

We are not so scholastic it within the religion,

that we give people fatwas, and we give people

religious rulings, and opinions and determinations, we don't do that. Because we don't have the authority. We don't have the tools in the society to really do that. But we respect the Islamic rulings, the general Islamic rulings. We respect the determinations that have been made previous to us, but we look at it, we review it, we consult with one another. And if we are senior Muslim leaders, citizens of the United States of America, we have responsibility to evaluate and to assess and to apply whatever we have heard or seen, within the context of the society where we live.

Get that part very clear, because when you get that part very clear, that's not negotiable. So all of the people who are scholars or students of knowledge around the world if you want to contribute to the

crystallization or to the refinement of Islam, in the 21st century, and in particular, the United States of America, this is how you got to come. This is what you need to know.

I can go and shop, but whatever it is that I need, whatever store whatever it is that I gotta go sauce it. I bring it back to my family or my to my community or to my constituency, okay, or to my community, and I cook it

I put it on the table. I cook it, I present it. That's my risk.

sponsibility that's not somebody else's responsibility. Even if they live next to the Kaaba,

doesn't matter to me, I don't care if they mean that they can speak out of big legs on the on the scale of C by way,

that doesn't impress me.

I don't care if they got all the 10 killer ads, and they broke that down into 10 variables, and they got 100 that's not, that doesn't impress me.

I don't care if they memorize all those books that you see young, ambitious students of knowledge young, ambitious, or old, you know,

ambitious students of knowledge, the first thing they go out and do is they go out, go out and spend $5,000. So $3,000 depends upon where they buy it from.

You know, and they purchase like about a, you know, like about the 15 the 15 different classical sets of you know, they call it an out of Omaha to corporate Koto, Omaha to kowtow, that means the major Islamic works that provide you with the wide scope of rulings and opinions and interpretations and commentary and parameters by which will facilitate us to

understand and practice Islam within that football field.

So, we respect the people who have spent the time to do that.

We, we, we even make reference to that, however, we're not bound by that, let's get that point clear. We're not bound by that

we're bound to here we're bound to listen to appreciate to make reference to,

to respect, we're bound to that. But we are not bound to subordinate our common sense on a subordinate, our,

our constitutional right, or to subordinate our individual right? To think about things objectively.

We have to be

responsible people have to, I have to do that, on behalf of my family, I got to do that behalf of my community, I have to do that on behalf of my constituency, I have to do that. That's that's been socially responsible. Anybody who wants anything less, either they are subversive, or they themselves as a surrogate of somebody who is subversive.

Now, I want to make a direct comment, here, a reference back to

some critics who say that Sheikh Why are you posting this? And why are you posting that? You know, don't you know that such and such a person is a mug, Teddy? Or don't you know that person, that's a Kaffir, she's a Jewish person, or don't you know, that person is distort that or whatever? Well, listen,

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If you like what I have to say, welcome, I don't ask you to share.

If you like something, you should share it anyway. That's the that's the that's the general principle of goodness, when you like something want for your brother, what you want for yourself or your neighbor or whatever. That's a given.

I don't have to I don't tell you like and share. To me, that's something that you should simply do.

But what I do say to you is this. I appreciate anyone

who spends their time listening to me or viewing but I have to say, I appreciate that. Because you don't have to, not in the 21st century where there's so many micro things to do.

However

you're listening to me, you're viewing me or coming to you. It's like It's like it doesn't give you the right to tell me what I should do or what I shouldn't do or to expect my house to be arranged in a way that you want it to be arranged. You come to my house as a guest you sit down

I take my hospitality. And when you got enough you leave you don't come in and tell me to move my furniture around.

Nobody take you off.

Do you don't do you don't like what it is I'm serving. It was the habit of the Prophet SAW said that when somebody has served him something, okay. In this case we're talking about food. He never commented on accepted to appreciate. He ate what he wanted. And what he didn't want, he didn't comment.

So you come here and you listen, you only become it upon what you don't like to set some rules. Now you go get your own Facebook page, your problem.

Now, having said that,

brothers and sisters, from time to time, I find something that is very compelling. I find something that's very nice has good value. When I say value, I mean social value, human value. It doesn't, you know, food is food.

What is water.

And the person told us in a very good Hadith to imata What chakra was salam, Min Arasta woman, lamb tarrif that's what he said, some Allah.

give food, distributed food

and give good greetings.

To whom you know, and whom you don't know this the basic translation.

What knowledge is the same way. Give good knowledge to people, and what to consider to be good, decent, dignified words. Words that may motivate words that may

inspire words that will inform

that's what we're supposed to do.

But I'm not here to please you.

Or somebody else who's a part of a group, following a person or a persuasion, or a school, or whatever you want to say you represent. But you don't come to my house, my page and tell me how to move my furniture around.

You and wrong page homie.

Get your own Facebook pages, no problem. If you do something good, let me know and I'll be there. But I'm not gonna I'm not proud of him said another thing. He says,

Whoever believes in alone, and the Last Day, whoever really believes in Allah and the Last Day, not just professors, but it shouldn't be their conduct.

But your call higher, our Lea smooth.

He said sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, Let them say what is good? Or keep quiet?

That's what the prophets have said. I didn't say it. I just repeating it. So now let me go to this issue. Again, from time to time I am putting on my

page. And you know, brothers and sisters, I have two pages. One is a personal page. The one I'm talking on right now.

You're asking can kind of like be relaxed, I can kind of like, you know, be my be the way I really want to be. It's not like I'm in a studio. It's not like it's a it's a it's a it's a class or it's like 10 minutes, or whatever it is on a particular topic. This is kind of like no, I'm in my living room. Or I'm at my dining room table. Or I'm somewhere else I need to be a want to be. And I'm just talking now, I'm reading a newspaper. I'm listening to something here, send me a lecture. I'm meeting somebody, I'm doing some things. And then I'm coming on my personal page and I'm talking like this.

I have another page call you're seeing

that's Khalid you're seeing official? Yeah.

Call it yesI shahada ESC official. So official just means that like, this is the official page that we use for our official social media message. Now this is my personal page. So it's like a step down you know, open collar so to speak.

So I can see some different things at my dining room table.

So let me say this.

Are there are people who may be Hindu, Jewish, me as Deus, Christian, Muslim, socialists, all kinds of different people

that say something very profound.

I don't care if they're white, or black or male or female, whoever it is. They can be even a person who is morally

inept. They could be a person who's perceived popularly to be immoral, or criminal, or I'm not just gonna take from those kinds of people and quit

them. But if somebody said something profound,

which is the truth,

I have a right to share it if I need to, because rain is rain, and heat is heat, and Truth is truth. And when rain come down in affects human beings the same way, when he comes in affects people the same way. And when truth comes, it's the same coming from anyone.

So

why do I refer to people

to be narrow minded religious donkeys. That's not an insult. It's a categorization.

narrow minded, because, you know, they're reading the Quran, or they're reading the Sunnah order, they claim to be the Muslim, but they're doing so within a very narrow minded perspective.

We're not going to get into all that, because we've already talked about that narrow minded, religious, scriptural perspective. They're out of context, it's seen by almost anybody with common sense of whoever is educated, they can see that this religious person, their behavior, their attitude, what they're saying, and what they're applying their, their scriptural rules to, they're doing it in a very dysfunctional way.

They're not taking into consideration the broad picture, the broad social picture, the broad international global picture, the broad human picture, historical picture, they just at that time, and that place, and what they're reading, that's what they're doing. And they don't take into consideration, time, space, circumstance, or situation. That's narrow minded.

We could put a little more depth to that definition. But that's narrow minded, not religious, it means that a person is basically a good person, they could have been a reformed, criminal, but and religion helped to reform them. That's great. whoop dee doo.

But that's not religious. Because you used or you were affected by religion to reform yourself, that's great.

And because you are practicing, reasonably applying or observing the religion of Islam in your life, that's great. whoop dee doo.

That's the objective. That's the mocassin of Islam, to do your best within your capacity.

But don't take the word religion and apply it to you don't take the point of the religion and apply it to your group or your scholar, or, or the the sources that to take it from, don't put the religion in that box.

Just present what you think is correct, and step back,

and give people the opportunity to appreciate what you have to say.

And to put it within the context

of the tools and the circumstances and the situation where they're living at and who they are, and what they understand. And many variables that might be attached to your opinion of what you just said,

don't take the Quran and put it into a box and apply it to everybody the same way. It's not like that.

It's not that way.

Almost every major resource in the world that's beneficial to human beings.

It has to be packaged

for a particular time, place circumstances, situation demographic, on on and on the same resource

because people are people to get their own variables.

So for me, donkey, it means a person who doesn't use their own common sense. Donkeys do not have their own common sense. They have, they have an animal sense, their instinct. They're smart enough to learn rules, and to fulfill a particular function. But they don't have intelligence.

Donkey, that's why they are written.

That's why they are loaded.

Because they are written and loaded. They're written by people who, who who have intelligence.

They're written by people who know how to manipulate

and they are loaded by people who have their own objectives. So me I'm not a donkey.

I don't claim to be

sort of like, you know, like a bird pious because that classification comes from God. Or it may come from other people who know you very well throughout your life. So I don't claim to be pious, but I am religious. I'm in that sense, I'm an Islamist. I want the objectives of Islam

to affect the world. And therefore, I embrace the principles of Islam to refine my life. And when I argue, I argue from an Islamic point of view,

in my view of the world, and after the world is an Islamic view. So I'm an Islamist. But I'm also a realist.

So as a realist, it's my job, to the best of my ability, it's my responsibility to the best of my capacity to present Islam within the context of the time, the space, the circumstance, the country, the society, in which I'm living.

And when I travel around the world, I have to put that within the context of the global reality, social, political reality.

That's my job. That's how I see it. That's basically

has a lot to do with

how I present myself on this particular program with this particular digital medium.

But at the end of the day, I'm in case you don't know.

This is my Facebook page. Not only that sense, no mind because I've developed my platform. It's my living room.

It's my living room. It's my program, Allah who owes me responsible for this.

It's my contribution. And if you want to be here, be in the audience.

Make ethical question, if it's reasonable, and decent and dignified. If you want to make a comment, you sure you need to do that? I don't need to actually respond to it. Because you know, like, it's an audience.

But don't come to this platform. Don't come to my living room, tell me move my furniture around, but you don't like No, you stay where you are. And we will respectfully disagree. It's okay.

Everybody in the world and that friends, but they can be friendly.

So

there are people

who at a particular time, and please, they are inspired by God, or they're inspired by tattoos. And they say something very powerful.

very impactful in sent something that is very, like, impressive. Valuable, important, critical.

And sometimes it's sent to me.

And what I do is, I share it.

That's my determination. That's my discretion.

So the

narrowminded religious donkeys, I try to avoid them.

I don't get stepped on by a donkey. I don't want to be kicked by a donkey.

Because the person who's a donkey you can't there's nothing you can do back to them. Animals and that kind of like responsible. Animals are not moral.

You know, if a gorilla escaped from the zoo, and killed somebody, you're not going to take the gorilla to court. You're not going to prosecute the gorilla. Because he's not intelligent.

And donkeys are not until it intelligent, generally.

Most

religious crimes we know that is people who claim to be religious, but they are committee horrendous crimes that most of them are ignorant.

Most of them are uneducated. Most of them are religious.

narrow minded religious donkeys. Some people could call them fanatic. Somebody might call them extremists, but there's an urban wait for me to describe. Muslim fanatics Muslim extremists.

narrow minded religious donkeys. And our qualified the word narrowminded already qualified the word donkey. It's a description. It's not an insult

let's be dignified.

In our discussion with each other, our communication with each other

First of all, my Facebook page is not like a chat room. So just the fact the fact that you can send messages, it's okay. Sometimes I do respond because I have the time Well, I think there's a need. But generally I don't, there's not a chat room.

This is me speak me talk, you listen.

If you don't like that,

get your own page.

And I'll be there. If it's something valuable, I'll be there. And I'll follow the rules that I just gave myself. I don't need to say what's good, or I keep quiet.

And if I disagree with you, I will disagree.

In a decent way,

honorably and respectfully, disagree. That's what

dignified people, educated people do all the time.

But extremists fanatic,

narrow minded religious donkeys. They're the ones that create the most damage within the religion, and outside religion.

I don't want to be part of that, and I am not.

So back to our discussion today. And that is to clarify things for brothers and sisters, maybe you don't know.

I have two pages, I have one which is called How to DRC official. And that page is managed by a social media team who has the capability of doing that. And, and the reason why we have that team is to optimize the use of social media. That's all

to optimize.

Now, my personal page is something different.

I'm sitting in my living room, or I'm sitting, I'm traveling, I'm in the airport,

I'm with someone, I'm in a cafe, whatever it is, I'm thinking of something, I've read something, I heard something, I wrote something and I want to share it with you. And I do.

I do it sometimes on a daily basis, sometimes twice a day, sometimes, two, three times a week depend upon other endeavors that I have. But that's my personal page.

I never tell anybody what to say, or what to do, or Nothing, I just give my score sky views. Come on, it's clear sky views. Gotta gotta follow my views. And you wouldn't even know my views, if you wasn't like on my page.

These are my subjective personal views is my insight, my experience, my responsibility. If I'm talking to my children, if I'm talking to my grandchildren, if I'm talking to my great grandchildren, if I'm talking to my neighbors, or whatever it is, this is how I would talk. This is my position my and I paid for this, it's my time. You don't pay for this. I don't ask anybody pay me $100 an hour.

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It's done all the time. You go to a sauna, you go whatever you do, you go on a vacation, whatever you do, you're doing this and you pay for it. Well, I'm creating an environment that I hope will give you benefit.

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That means that I have the right been serving the water of I'm serving the bread or the dates.

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Now, if this was a chat room, we can like check it back and forth, we could throw it back and forth. But this is not a chat room. I never even invited people talk to people about joining a chat room. I don't do that. Generally, I don't like to chat. I don't like to use social media for chatting.

It's not very effective.

Sometimes, you know, a chat if we need to maybe be better than just an audio phone call it can be aesthetically,

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