Mohammed Hijab – Live Q&A
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about something, like you don't want to go
live or something.
You don't interrogate the man.
No, no, no, you're live already, so go
on.
No, you don't speak to him like that,
you know, in front of the people.
These people are, these people here are very
respectable people.
They're going to ask some very important questions.
Yeah.
They're going to ask some very, if they're
not, then we're going to have to get
rid of them, you know?
Yes.
I'm sure I can get rid of them.
Trust me.
You know what I mean?
Just like I'm sure I can get rid
of you.
Yeah, that's right.
You've been getting rid of, you know, people
like Zeeshan recently.
Oh, yes.
We haven't done this in a long time,
guys, you know.
Zeeshan, can you lay back, let the people
just see, you know, what kind of a
man you are.
Okay.
So they're saying As-salamu alaykum.
Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah wa barakatuh.
We are at Zeeshan's place.
We've got three very important people here live
with you.
And we thought we'd do this today because,
you know, you've got Mohammed the King Ping
hijab.
You've got Ali Needs Dawa.
We haven't got one for Zeeshan.
And we have, what should we say?
Smirk.
Okay.
So what we're doing today, tell us.
We're going to take the questions, are we
not?
Well, I mean, let's talk about your upcoming
debate.
Okay.
We'll have a discussion with William Lane Craig
next week.
To be honest, that's the reason why we're
doing this.
We're doing this because we wanted to test
a live feature.
We wanted to test, we're using StreamYard.
We wanted to see if everything's working.
Not only that, I think it's very important
that people watching and their input on the
comment section when the debate happens is very,
very vital as well.
Alhamdulillah, I think the audience matters a lot.
So be very supportive, inshallah.
Next Thursday when the debate happens, dialogue.
Obviously respectful.
It's going to be very respectful.
I mean, the man is probably considered the
best Christian debate in the last hundred years.
Really?
No doubt about it.
William Lane Craig is a man with two
PhDs.
He's a 75-year-old man.
You know, he's debated the best of the
best in terms of the atheists.
Sam Harris is debated and defeated.
Christopher Hitchens is debated and defeated.
Many people.
Many of them have been defeated by atheists.
Yeah, but he's done so in a way
which is very academic.
Obviously, he's written many books.
I don't know, maybe now in the dozens.
And so in terms of Christian debates and
apologetics, this is the pinnacle.
I don't think there's anything higher.
So who challenged you?
It wasn't challenged and stuff like that.
How did it happen?
Actually, I was having a conversation with the
guy from Capturing Christianity who's going to be
moderating the debate.
And he asked me to debate Sam Shimon.
I said to him at the moment, we've
got Jake, the metaphysician, the Muslim metaphysician, who
I should say also is really helping me
prepare for this discussion with William Lane Craig.
He's one of the best.
Sam Shimon's got smaller problems to deal with.
You wish he had bigger problems.
Well, he's a one-inch wanker.
And that's something else we could talk about
another day.
Sorry to say.
I didn't hear it.
I just said something.
Anyway, I didn't hear it.
I didn't hear it.
Anyway, I'm free from what you just said.
But you know, he's got one inch worries.
But the thing we should talk about really
is They say it's the Trinity of Dawa.
You're going to be debating the Trinity as
well.
The topic is the Trinity.
This is framed as a discussion actually with
Craig.
But there's obviously going to be questions I'm
going to have.
I've read his material inside out.
I think I've read everything.
Really?
Yeah.
I think I've read it.
Hijab is one opponent I would not like
to have because this guy, he goes in.
I have to say though, with William Lane
Craig, he's a person who I will not
hesitate to say is my senior in both
age.
He's a senior in knowledge and a senior
in probably intelligence as well.
But I mean, the guy's written books on
logic.
Depends what you define as intelligence.
You know, a lot of Muslim scholars talk
about intelligence.
To me, I mean.
I mean, if you did an IQ test
and I did one, I think you'd get
higher score.
I don't mean in that sense.
But to me, somebody who believes in the
Trinity.
No, I don't mean in this respect.
No, but I think that's a psychological thing,
bro.
I think deep down, and you'll see when
we have a conversation, but I think it's
a psychological thing.
They know it's false.
I think a true genius and intellectual would
worship God alone.
To me, like to our paradigm.
That's what we believe in.
But when you're talking about academics and that,
yeah, okay.
Yeah, and that's it.
How many people are watching this, Ishan?
So that's going to be on the 19th.
It doesn't matter how many people are watching.
For those people that are watching this thing,
it doesn't matter.
For those people, it's going to be on
the 19th.
It's going to be Thursday.
I don't know exactly what time.
I'll have to find out.
I'll put it.
I'll post it somewhere.
I'll post it at a time.
But it's going to be a very interesting
discussion.
Salaam from Sarajevo.
I think all of us have come from
Sarajevo.
Honestly, a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful country, Bosnia.
Excellent country.
We want to take some questions.
We want to engage with the people.
We want to engage with the people.
I'm going to put them on that screen
there.
Yeah, that's nice.
How many people are watching roughly?
So about 488.
Okay, that's good.
488 people.
That's good, Hamza.
Now, please bring me your questions.
Yeah.
Somebody asks, who will he finish?
That's too vague.
Can you ask Hijab who he's going to
finish?
Who are you finishing?
No, I think we're going to see a
different Hijab.
Because anytime Hijab deals with somebody who's respectful,
who's seen in his age.
We saw it with, what was that guy
in California?
Of course.
Edward Tabash.
Edward Tabash.
Yeah, you saw Hijab's demeanor.
You need to understand Hijab's demeanor is for
those who, and sometimes obviously people are like,
oh, you're arrogant.
I don't think so, but enemies of Islam.
He was that Sahaba who went out and
he was walking proudly and the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam said, Allah hates this walk except
in this specific.
Abu Dujan.
Yeah, there's context to this.
You know what I'm trying to say?
When you're dealing with certain enemies of Islam,
like what he did to David Wood was
phenomenal.
He totally deserved.
Yeah, Alhamdulillah.
I mean, people nowadays, I mean, I was
just, I've been told that people are doing
watch parties about the David Wood thing.
This is six years later, bro.
Yeah.
There were people with, you know.
They do that with Harry Potter.
Really?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They're doing it with, for them to be
speaking about a debate that took place six
years ago.
I mean, so this was the David Wood
debate.
William Lane Craig is much more formidable than
David Wood.
I mean, if anything, you know, William Lane
Craig is, could be the teacher of David
Wood, really.
Yeah, David Wood was more like a pig.
Did you get it?
Yes, he is.
He's saying, more book recommendations, please.
Okay, but you got to be more specific.
In what area?
Like, you know, if books are, if you're
talking about Islamic studies, then there's, you know,
if you're talking about, I don't know, general
literature, be more specific, Amina, Muhammad, you're the
one who asked the question.
So, in what genre are we talking about
here?
Because books are too many.
Is that a sister?
Yeah, books are too many.
She should read Beautysick.
It's the only book I've read in my
life.
Now tell us, Amira.
All right, what's the next question?
Next question, what do you guys think about
Trump and Kamala debating tonight?
Go on, what do you think?
Nice.
Who's Kamala?
Well, before then, just tell the people when
the debate is.
Okay.
The discussion is going to be on the
19th of October.
Sorry, September, next week.
It's going to be live on this channel.
In the same way that it's live.
This is live now.
Yeah, it's going to be in the same
way.
Live on multiple channels.
Yeah, but we don't need to talk about
the other ones.
That's what I'm saying.
So make sure you are live on this
channel.
That's the point because they might see it
somewhere and think it's yours.
Yeah, so there's multiple channels, but you see
Muhammad Hijab and go live on that channel.
Yeah, that's right.
Trump and Kamala debating tonight.
I have no idea.
I'm not interested.
Yeah, to be honest, same thing.
I don't care.
It's just, it's just, they're just different.
Same agenda.
There's people behind the news on it.
They say it's two wings of the same
bird.
Exactly.
Left wing, right wing.
Oh, I see.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
Yes, and it's a bad bird.
Give us some interesting questions, guys.
Give us some challenging ones.
Come on.
Give us some challenging ones.
Can you read it out?
This guy can't see it.
How would you describe the difference between the
placebo effect and yakin?
Oh look, the placebo effect.
That's an interesting question.
Yeah.
I mean, you can, you can get yakin,
a false yakin, okay, from the placebo effect.
You can get a false yakin, a false
sense of certainty, but it's not, yakin means
certainty in the Arabic language, right?
That's what the word yakin means.
Placebo effects can give you a sense, but
that will be called delusion then, because the
placebo effect is a kind of delusion.
A pure yakin, without the delusion, is without,
no delusion.
It's just pure yakin.
And so in the Quran, there's three types
of yakin.
There's ilm al-yakin, there's ayn al-yakin,
and there's haq al-yakin.
Exactly, I was going to say this.
You know, so the ones that, and it's
very interesting that the Quran does this, right?
So it tells you that, it goes into
an epistemology.
So from one perspective, you can really know
what the truth is, from what you see.
Ayn al-yakin means what you see, yakin
of the eyes.
Like you'll see hellfire with your eyes.
You'll see it with your eyes.
Ilm al-yakin is knowledge of al-yakin.
Which we have in the Quran.
Which we have, which can, for example, 2
plus 2 equals 4 is not actually something
you see, but it's a kind of ilm
al-yakin, which is knowledge of yakin.
And then thirdly is haq al-yakin, which
is truth of yakin, which once again, it
prerequisites truth.
So it's interesting the Quran doesn't just give
you the term yakin by itself.
It gives you the term yakin with kind
of like an adjective to accompany it, to
show you the correct epistemology.
You can attain truth from what you see,
you can attain truth from what you reason,
and you can attain truth from the truth
itself.
It's interesting because the thing is, it gives
different kind of contentment to the heart.
Yeah, because if you look at Ibrahim, he
had ilm al-yakin.
He also had haq al-yakin.
Yeah, and then he asked Allah to show
him how he was.
So this is very interesting because the thing
is, it's not that he doubted, but it's
just that extra certain that, for example, we
all believe, for example, if you ask us,
we will say to you, we are very
sure that Allah exists.
We are very sure we are going to
be resurrected, Jannah, hellfire, all this kind of
stuff.
But is it the same when we see
that with our own eyes?
No way, no way, because no matter how
much you believed in it, when you are
resurrected and you see and you're like, oh
my gosh, this is the thing that we've
been talking about.
Do you get what I'm trying to say?
This is going to be the conversation we're
going to have inshallah in Jannah, where you're
going to be like, we're actually here, man.
We was talking about this.
Do you get it?
There's a conversation in the Quran Allah talks
about people who were like, you know, they
feared their Lord, etc.
So it's those different kind of certain.
And again, when it comes to placebo effect,
I think that can be also a form
of yaqeen.
Why?
Because Allah says, I am to my servant
how he thinks of me.
So how you placebo effect is obviously something
that you make yourself believe.
So it's important that if you make yourself
believe that Allah is like this, you will
find Allah to be like that.
So I don't know if you can call
that placebo effect, but it's making yourself believe
that and inshallah that it will come true.
Yeah.
Do you think sociology is good for dawah
and how can we use it?
Yeah, I think like especially if you're dealing
with social issues on this channel, you'll me
Ali and Zeeshan all three of us with
all of our respective channels.
We deal with social issues all the time.
And so when we do that, we mentioned
studies a lot of the time and these
studies are like, okay, well this study says
such and such and so a background study
of sociology tells you how you can deal
with studies like the methodology.
What kind of studies is it representative?
Is it not representative?
So you can approach studies now if you
want to make social commentary in a bit
more of a critical manner rather than just
reading as a layman because in any sociology
thing you do, for example, in the UK,
you've got GCCs, A-levels, you've got degrees,
etc.
You're going to have to go through methods
of this is the method, etc.
You know, so I do think it's very
very useful.
I think all the social sciences are extremely
useful, you know, to be honest with you,
I've benefited a lot from my own studies
in my, even my A-levels, a lot
of my A-levels, I benefit from them
when I do videos.
Yes, have these like studies very very profound
to use in the dawah, I genuinely believe
is very very good, you know, so yeah,
I mean, I mean, yeah, use as much
as you guys can inshallah.
It does really help us in our dawah.
Wow, Zeeshan, what do you have there?
Don't say wow, say Mashallah.
Allahumma Barak, Mashallah, Zeeshan.
At first I thought it was a pancake,
but then I realized it's a burger with
double cheese and egg.
Protein.
You should have your protein, Zeeshan Alhamdulillah, I
can see those big arms and those.
Okay, all right.
What about tips on prayer and staying consistent?
About tips on prayer and staying consistent?
Yeah.
Yeah.
What do you want to say about that
Ali, what do you think?
I mean, depends, you know, like depends on
people, like when I first came to Islam,
obviously it was very new to me.
So I would usually pray all my prayers
all together at night and that's because I
didn't really know.
I didn't get a gist of it.
So it's, you can take it slowly, but
I think that's one thing you don't really
compromise.
And I think when it comes to Salah,
instead of diving into Salah, which you should
anyways, but it's understanding who Allah is because
we don't really understand Allah.
Sometimes we go, we think that, okay, I'm
going to worship Allah and it's normal.
We understand.
Okay, Allah gives, you know, my heart beats
and I have food and I've got good
health and family.
True, that's not why we worship Allah.
We worship Allah because of who he is.
This is the crux of the matter.
If Allah created us and gave us nothing,
just created us, he deserves worship.
So once we understand who Allah is, how
magnificent he is, understand him, his attributes, the
Quran, read it.
Once you fall in love with Allah, how
could one love someone and not show affection
or love or whatever it is, or want
to do it?
You don't need to tell me.
If I love somebody, that person doesn't need
to tell me, can you buy me flowers?
Can you take me out?
Can you?
I'm going to do that.
It's a given because I have love for
you.
So once you have love for Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala, there will be no, oh,
but it's hard for me to pray.
I can't wake up for Fajr.
Wallahi, none of these statements will ever come
in your head.
Why?
Because once you understand who Allah is, how
magnificent he is, then when you understand that,
then you will show the utmost love.
And that's why I give the example when
I give dawah and I speak to non
-Muslims and I say to them, they're going
to say, why do we need to pray
to God?
I say God doesn't need you to pray.
If everyone stopped praying, but I'll give you
an example of a famous person.
I'll say, look, who's someone famous you know?
I don't know, Brad Pitt.
Okay, you see Brad Pitt walking down the
road.
Okay, what would you do?
Oh, I'll get excited.
Why get excited?
When you go next to him.
What if they see you?
They'll feel repulsed.
Depends.
I mean, a lot of haters.
All the Maghrebs that don't believe in me.
So the thing is, when you see a
famous person, you get sweaty when you go
next to them.
Even you see what happens with us.
When people come to us, they treat us
like, oh my gosh, bro, can I take
a picture, please?
Yeah, you know, and we understand, you know,
the videos have changed your life, etc.
You know, I'm talking about mine, of course.
I don't know.
But the point is this, what has Brad
Pitt done for you that you have such
great respect around him?
And can I take a picture?
Nothing.
But because of who he is, you show
that utmost respect.
The point is, imagine if you're doing that
with a human being who has done nothing
for you.
Did he pay for your debts?
Or did he come and back you in
a fight?
What did he do for you?
Nothing.
Because he's a filmmaker or a person who
does movies.
What about the one who created heavens and
earth?
So you need to understand who Allah is.
When you understand who Allah is, Salah will
come naturally.
Staying away from haram will come naturally.
So that's why I would say inshallah.
For more powerful reminders like I just gave
now, please subscribe to my channel.
Mashallah, Allah Mubarak.
Your advice to young Muslims that want to
get into seeking Islamic knowledge.
Okay, so you can answer that, Abishan.
So young people that want to get into
seeking Islamic knowledge.
Young ones, little ones, untrained ones, college students.
What advice would you give them?
Which Islamic knowledge?
That's an interesting one.
What do you suggest?
Hijab, you want to start off?
Nice.
I think the best thing is to start
off with the Quran.
The Prophet s.a.w. said, The best
of you are those who learn the Quran
and teach it.
And in terms of learning the Quran, there
are different ways of doing it.
So the first thing is, I would say
that the Prophet s.a.w. said, That
the one who is proficient with the Quran
is with the high lofty angels.
The one who finds it difficult and he
stutters when he's reciting the Quran, he'll get
two rewards.
So the first thing is this, if you
think about the Quran, there's different layers.
The first layer is learning the Quran itself.
And when you're doing so, the good thing
about that is that each letter that you're
learning is a reward.
And the Prophet s.a.w. said, I
don't say that But I say that And
for each of the letters, you get 10
rewards.
So the point is, is that imagine if
the Quran has 70,000 words, for instance,
and each word has an average of 5
letters, you know, that's 350,000 letters for,
you know, in the Quran, for example, and
then you times that by 10, that's what?
3.5 million rewards by reading the entire
Quran, for example, one time.
So the rewards that you will get from
just reading the Quran are immense.
There's no other field of knowledge in Islamic
studies, which has this kind of reward inside
of it.
So number one, to be proficient with the
Quran.
One of the famous scholars of Islam, his
name is Ibn Jazari says, That there's nothing
between you and losing the Quran except for
exercising your jaw.
So every, it's like you got to consider
it like a kind of exercise, like you'd
go and do some walking, you go and
do this, you have to have a daily,
what you call Wird, you have to have
a daily kind of routine with the Quran,
whether it's even 15 minutes, whether it's 30
minutes or 45 minutes or an hour, but
the Prophet s.a.w. told us that
the best deeds is, It is the most
consistent and even if it is small, so
I would say is that, put everything aside
for now.
If you're not doing this, then you're not
on the path of, you know, properly seeking
knowledge.
I think he could be doing some other
thing, listening to a lecture or going through
Fiqh or whatever, and that's let's say stage
two, three or four, but stage one is
to have a relationship with the Quran.
I'm not going to overcomplicate the matter here.
I'm just going to leave it as that
for now because I think that sometimes the
best and most basic advice is the best
advice.
That's good.
We've got about 800 people watching, Alhamdulillah.
Somebody's asked, when is the next episode of
Burning Hands coming?
Yeah, we'll see and we'll see how it
goes.
You mean next season, now season one is
done.
Come on.
We'll see what happens.
I need to be one of the characters.
Can you make me?
Absolutely.
We'll be one of the extras, of course.
We've got a role, obviously, because, you know,
in season two, we're going to have a
museum, Muhammad Hijab Museum, and we need a
cleaner for that museum.
Okay, Ikhwan, why are there hadiths where Allah
speaks, but they are not in the Quran?
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
So this is the difference between hadith al
-Qudsi, okay, and the Quran.
By the way, Ishaan is eating eggs.
That's why he's not here, guys.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, sure.
So like, okay, so there's a discussion of
what is the difference between al-Hadith al
-Qudsi, they call it al-Hadith al-Qudsi,
where Allah is speaking, yeah, and al-Quran
al-Kareem.
First and foremost, al-Quran is part of
a, so the part of it is connected
to a general narrative.
So surah al-Fatihah is connected to surah
al-Baqarah, which is connected to surah al
-Amran.
Al-Hadith al-Qudsi does not fit into
that framework.
So there's a continuous narrative and discourse in
the Quran.
It's like a pearl necklace.
Okay, so one pearl is attached to the
next.
Al-Hadith al-Qudsi do not fit the
same parameters.
Number two, it's not just al-Hadith al
-Qudsi or al-Hadith al-Qudsi, the Qudsi
hadith, which are like this, because if you
imagine, Allah spoke before in al-Tawrat and
al-Injil, and he spoke in Suhuf Ibrahim,
wa Musa, and so on and so forth.
So there's many occasions where Allah speaks.
It's not just in the Quran.
Quran is a subset of the speech of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
It is not the entirety of the speech
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So it should not come as a surprise
to us that this subset of speech is
also present in other places.
The second thing is that there's ahkam that
are connected to the Quran.
So for example, with the Quran you have
to do wudu before you touch it.
You know, there's ahkam if you're janib, you
cannot, with al-Hadith al-Qudsi you can
do that.
Number three, al-Quran al-Kareem has a
specific prestige, okay, because of this continuity in
discourse, which al-Hadith al-Qudsi don't have.
Number four, it's conceivable for al-Hadith al
-Qudsi to be da'if.
Huh?
It's conceivable for al-Hadith al-Qudsi to
be da'if.
It's a weak, because it's just because it's
a hadith, it doesn't always have to be
mutawatir, or qawiy, or strong, or sahih, or
whatever, or hasan, or hasan li ghayri.
It can be da'if.
There is no conceivability in anything that could
be considered to be al-Quran al-Kareem
for it to be weak.
Number six, al-Hadith al-Qudsi, do not
have to fit into al-Rasm al-Uthmani,
for obvious reasons, which are the script of
the Uthmanic Codex.
And there are many, many other things that
are different between the two, but the Quran
is Allah speaking directly in a manner, which
He is speaking directly in al-Hadith al
-Qudsi, but it's in a different kind of
manner.
And you'll find that the style, therefore, of
al-Hadith al-Qudsi is not as rhythmic
as the Quran.
There is a stylistic difference between al-Hadith
al-Qudsi and al-i'jaz al-Lughawi,
which is the miraculous aspect, which is in
the Quran, which is not al-Hadith al
-Qudsi, which is why Allah, He made the
challenge of fa'tu bi suratu min mithrihi wada
'u shuhadaakum min dooni la yankuntum sadeqeen, that
bring a chapter like it from the Quran.
He didn't make that challenge from the al
-Hadith al-Qudsi.
Allah made the challenge, la wajadu fee ikhtilafan
kathiran in the Quran, He didn't make it
in al-Hadith al-Qudsi, and there's many,
many, many, many things I could say, but
fadlu, or the virtue of the Quran over
al-Hadith al-Qudsi, it is well known,
just like some scholars even say that there
are some parts of the Quran, some aspects
of the Quran, which are better even, they
would say, than other aspects of the Quran.
There is a discussion among the scholars, for
example, al-Qudsi, they say because Allah is
speaking about Himself in that situation.
If you compare that with the ayat where
He is speaking about the inheritance and so
on, where, yes, this is Allah's words, and
this is Allah's words.
Some scholars say this is a higher form
of Allah's words because the subject matter is
higher, which is, in this case, Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
So we can agree, you know, it says,
that we agree those passages in the Quran
were also mentioned in those previous books as
well.
Allah says that, He says, and these were
the...
No, but it's possible for there to have
been things Allah said then that He didn't
say in the Quran.
It's very possible.
Like, for example, we know that Sharia is
different.
But what Allah says at the end of
the ayah, it's mentioned that that's what we're
reciting, because Allah said these were the things
that were mentioned, which mean that...
Oh, those particular...
Yeah, and that particular thing.
But I'm saying that there's such a thing
as Suhuf Ibrahim and Musa...
Because it's interesting, because you know why?
Because when they come and say to us,
oh, but you know what was written in
it?
What was written in it?
Well, we have some idea now what was
written in it.
We have some idea.
Okay, interesting.
We're on our way to about 900 viewers.
Alhamdulillah, may Allah bless them.
Brothers and sisters, if you're watching, Hijab is
going to have a debate on the 17th?
19th.
19th of September.
It's actually framework as a discussion, actually.
It's a discussion.
It's a dialogue.
But please show your support.
It's very important for you guys to be
engaged.
It's very, very important, inshallah, for you guys
in the comment section to be engaged and
do Dawah.
I mean, I can remember before I came
to Islam, those three years, I was looking
into different religions, reading the Bible, different scriptures.
I used to be very active in the
comment section.
I may do those videos.
Very, very active, bro.
I was having like debates, dialogues in and
out.
Alhamdulillah.
So it's very important for you guys.
There's many people going to be watching.
There might be some misconceptions.
So you guys are involved, directly involved in
the Dawah.
You don't need to have a YouTube channel,
but please make sure you attend it.
There's about nearly 900 people watching.
It's going to go to a thousand.
So I'm letting you guys know, please attend
the debate.
It's very, very important.
Support your, make sure you support it.
You watch it.
You share it.
You comment.
It's fundamental, Inshallah, in the style of discussion,
Inshallah.
So do not miss it on the 17th
of October.
What time?
That's what I need to find out.
I need to go back.
Thanks, Ali.
So there is, there is a Zionist.
You smell of honey.
There is a Zionist.
And it's funny, whenever they post the initials
of Israel, it spells il, il, il, il.
She's just written il, il, il, il.
Exactly.
The Zionist, the Zionist state is definitely ill
and needs treatment.
And you are a shia.
Nice.
Okay.
Somebody said, are you going to recite the
Quran in the discussion?
I don't know.
I haven't thought about that.
I think you should, because if you have
a pattern.
But it's the way it's going to be
is like two minutes, two minutes, two minutes,
two minutes.
So if I do, it's going to be
very short.
So it doesn't matter.
I think you should.
All right.
Let's comment.
Does negativity and comments from atheists and Christians
affect you, Ali?
Okay.
Starting with me, myself, personally.
What really bothers me, I don't care about
the enemies of Islam that much.
The Christians, the atheists, the Zionists, I know
what they're about.
I know what to expect from them.
You get it.
What bothers me is Muslims, your own brothers
and sisters.
And again, this is not if we are
wrong to be criticized all day, every day.
If we are wrong to be criticized, nobody
can come and say, oh, why are you
telling me I'm wrong?
If I'm wrong, I'm wrong.
We fully accept, Alhamdulillah, yeah?
And we should fully accept it because if
we are wrong, but when ignorance, you know,
people who are speaking without knowledge, giving you
labels, backbiting, all this kind of stuff, even
that again, it doesn't really bother.
But to me, what really bothers me is
someone that I know, someone in the YouTube
sphere that I know.
Like, for example, Sheikh Osman Farooq.
He has my number.
Did he say something about you?
He can speak to me.
I'll give him a second.
If he did.
He should.
He should.
Yeah.
Should have talked to you publicly without any
discussion.
So the thing is, he has my number
and he decides to do a video.
Yeah, he should.
I mean, I would be a bit irritated,
but then to go and support an enemy
of Islam.
I'll be like, that's what really bothers me.
He didn't do that, did he?
No, no, he never done that.
Alhamdulillah.
He's been like, yeah.
Some backstabbers.
Yeah, that's a different story.
But I don't know.
That's me personally.
But other than that, the Christians and the
Zionists, but we get it in the Da
'wah table.
We get it everywhere.
Yeah, and it's a part of it.
The best of men who walked the earth
done it.
What about you, Zeeshan?
How do you feel about that?
All right.
Hijab.
No, answer the question.
No, it's fine.
No.
Oh, okay.
You don't want to show your weaknesses.
No, we want to move.
So tell me, which Christian upsets you?
Tell me.
I'm going to deal with them.
Who is it?
Yeah, we want to move through the questions
very quickly.
So we keep it fast-paced.
Tell us, Zeeshan.
So hijab.
Recommend books on Islamic history.
Okay.
So if we're talking about the early years
that you got the classics, the primary source
kind of material for us as Muslims, which
you should be aware of.
Some of them have been translated.
Some of them are not.
But I know for a fact that Ibn
Kathir.
Maybe start with English.
Yeah, Ibn Kathir has been translated into English.
Can you let him finish, Zeeshan?
Yeah, yeah.
For example, but that goes through like the,
it goes through the times of the Khulafa
Rashideen, Al-Mahdiyeen.
And I think that's an important primary source,
at least to be aware of.
Now, obviously, At-Tabari has written something.
I don't think that's been translated, though, about
history in the early days and stuff like
that.
In terms of things that someone can access
now, there's a book that this new age
kind of person has written about Islamic history,
which is quite basic, but I think it's
a sign, but it's called Islamic history by
Khalid something something.
Someone's going to help me in the, I've
got it in my something something.
I forget his name, but it's a book
you can get on Amazon, etc.
I think that, you know what, before even
you start with Islamic history, you should be
aware of world history, and a book that
I recommend for like a basic overview.
There's one that they sell in the shops.
It's called Sapiens.
I don't necessarily agree with that one.
I don't like that one as much.
No, no, it's just one called Sapiens.
It's like the history of the world, the
entire world.
Really?
Yeah, by Johan, whatever his surname is.
I forget.
Is it Hariri?
It's a Zionist, I think he is.
Yeah, but the one that I like, and
I think is a good one to start
off with, and it's like a good read,
is by Gombrich.
It's like some Orientalist.
And in fact, he has a chapter in
that book about Islamic history, which is pretty
interesting as well.
If you want to, if you want to
read an Orientalist account, which is pretty good
as well, then A Preaching of Islamic History
by Thomas Arnold Walker is a good book
in Islamic history, but it's written by an
Orientalist, but I would call him a fair
-minded Orientalist.
Then, of course, you've got like these series,
which are like Ali ibn Abi Talib, Amr
ibn Khattab, which you can find by Dar
Es Salaam Publishing.
You can also get, obviously, the seer of
the Seerah of the Prophet, we've done a
seerah as well for Sapiens, an entire seerah,
you can get that free of charge on
the Sapiens website, which you've attended.
Yeah, brilliant.
Also, Yasir Qadhi has got a good seerah,
to be honest.
I mean, I watched his whole seerah, 106
series, pretty good.
And he's now made it into a book.
So his seerah is the best, what I
think is his best contribution.
In terms of English seerah, then I do
like Sealed Nectar.
People don't like it.
I like it.
Mubarak Puri, I don't know how to pronounce
his name.
Puri, Puri.
Sorry, did we offend you, Hisham?
Yes, Mubarak Puri.
Can I have a paan, please?
Later.
Okay.
And then you've got, obviously, the classic ones,
Ibn Ishaq, etc.
I read two books to start, Adnan Rashid,
The Martyrs of Cordoba is very good.
The Moriscos of Spain, I've heard it's arriving
by Henry Charles Lee.
Did you read it yet?
No, no, it's arriving.
If you're interested in Islamic Spain, there's lots
of things.
I read three books in my life.
No, no, there's a book by Maria something
something, I forget her name, but it's called
The Manacol of the somethings, Ornament of the,
Ornaments of something something.
I need to find that.
If you like Spain, that's a good one.
Martyrs of Cordoba is very good.
It shows you, it's very good.
And also this one, I'm interested in reading
The Moriscos of Spain.
Yeah, so I recommend it.
So, he's got good recommendations.
Yeah, Inshallah.
How many people watching roughly, Zeeshan?
Okay, what women can do for Islam nowadays?
A lot.
No, you go with that one.
So, okay.
You don't want to talk about anything, but
when it's a woman, now you want to
get the mic.
Yeah, I'm ready.
Okay.
Let's see what you have to offer.
Don't be misogynist.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
We know what kind of a man you
are.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
So, there's a saying in it.
Let me, let me whip up the saying.
You ready?
Yeah.
Okay, please.
Yes, sir.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Behind every great man is a woman.
Yeah, behind every great man.
Okay, so this is, I didn't want to
mess it up.
So, I'll just read it out.
It says, what's the status of women in
Islam?
Yeah, when a, when a Muslim girl is
born, she becomes a reason for her father
to enter Jannah.
MashaAllah.
When she grows up and marries a man,
she completes half of his religion.
Wow.
When she becomes a mother, paradise lies under
her feet.
Wow.
So, when it comes to how Islam views
women and the contribution women can give, these
are three stages in which women are absolutely
integral.
Yeah.
When it comes down to the breakdown of
family, it starts actually with liberalism, feminism, and
it actually starts with confusing the roles of,
in fact, the way that women are a
woman is a man, a man is a
woman, and all of this sort of stuff,
and all of these notions get put forward.
And slowly, when the anchor, I would even
say, am I wrong in calling women anchors
in our households?
You can call them whatever you like.
They are if they are an anchor.
Yes.
Thanks, Ali.
Thanks.
No, no, it's true, because you have to
lead up an anchor.
Oh, of course.
But what I'm saying is, inherently, their role
is as important as that of an anchor.
And if the anchor is removed, especially here
in the Western countries, I've seen men whose
entire lives have been ruined because they can't
access their children.
They can't see their children, and things have
gone sour.
But then things continue being turned sour by,
unfortunately, people trying to weaponize their children and
etc.
But I guess, quite simply, what can women
do for Islam nowadays?
I'm not saying this is the only and,
you know, solitary role, but one role that
I will highlight, because of what the West
is doing, which is trying to undermine the
role of motherhood in the house, in which,
oh, she's just a housewife, yeah?
Oh, my husband told me to get coffee.
I told him to get it himself.
However, when I went to work, I get
paid 15 pounds an hour.
He told me, I want a coffee.
I got him a cappuccino.
I got him a flat white.
I got him a frappuccino with extra cream.
But she doesn't understand the hypocrisy of her
statement there.
Lads.
Exactly.
I mean, one thing I'd like to touch
upon is, I forgot the female Sahaba, what
do you call them?
Sahabiya?
Sahabiya.
Sahabiya, yeah.
So basically, it's very important.
She came to the Prophet ﷺ and she
said, Our husbands go to Jihad.
They go to Jummah.
They do all of these actions, etc.
While we're at home and we look after
the kids.
We look after their honor, etc.
What's our reward?
And the Prophet ﷺ praised her.
Actually, she said this in front of, there
was a couple of women behind her, she
was speaking on behalf of them.
She was a spoken out lady and there
was a Sahabi there.
So the Prophet ﷺ said, have you seen
more of a greater statement than what this
woman just uttered?
And he ﷺ told her that you do
get the reward similar to that.
Why?
Because if you listen to it very carefully,
it's very interesting when it comes to marriage
and brothers and sisters listen to this carefully,
is that the Prophet ﷺ said that if
a woman does her obligatory prayers, obligatory things,
protects her chastity.
Yes, and I think there's another thing, I
don't remember what it's mentioned.
What is it?
It's the chastity.
Ta'at, Zawjah, and what do you call
it?
It was obedient to her husband.
And it's obedient to her husband.
She can enter Jannah from any door.
I really want you guys to understand this.
There's going to be different gates.
There's going to be gates people are going
to enter for fasting, for Salah, for this,
for that.
That woman is going to be told you
can enter Jannah through any door.
Now, can you imagine on the Day of
Judgment where there's a group of people lined
up, however, it's going to be on that
day and people are waiting for this for
the people who fasted, the people who approved
Salah, et cetera, whatever it is for that
reason.
And the woman is brought to the foreward
and said, argument say, you can enter Jannah
through any door.
Why such great emphasis?
Why is it so great emphasis?
Because like you said, an anchor can be
used for good or bad.
It can stop you from progressing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So it is very important like Ibn Shaikh
Uthaymeen said, especially for a da'i who
is in the front lines, he needs to
marry a good woman because brother, I confronted
Jada Franzen and I know she's in a
very good, like in a better place than
she was before.
I mean confronting her was not, it was
not.
What place was she in before?
Was she getting beaten from pillar to post
allegedly by Paul Golding?
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, of course,
she was, literally.
She was, you know, you know, it's a
funny thing.
You know, it's a funny thing.
They accuse us of being wife beaters.
Yeah.
Okay.
And we're like, okay, argument say, our Quran
tells us, brother, what's your excuse?
Why are you doing it?
Tommy Robinson, Avi Yemeni, Paul Golding, all of
them are known for beating their wives.
Yeah, you can't make this up, the irony.
So anyways, so imagine me confronting her, how
she was back then and coming back home
to another Jada Franzen.
I would have been like, bro, can you
imagine you go outside and confront one and
you come back home to another shaitan?
So the point is what?
It shows that it's very important that when
these things are happening, guys, that as a
woman, you let them see, let them see
this.
Look at this.
Look at this.
Look at his handsome feet.
Have you ever seen a feet like this
in your life?
Look, look, it's the nur of the wudu,
the wudu.
That's the foot.
If Tommy Robinson comes close.
I put all the Zionists under this.
This is the height of Tommy Robinson.
I put all the Zionists under this one
there.
That's how Tommy Robinson is.
Anyway, so the point is this, my dear
sisters, if you're watching this and brothers as
well, because we have a dirige that's given
to us that we have to obviously look
after our wives, etc.
But sisters, it is so important that you
obedience to your husband and we're not talking
about an evil guy.
We're not talking about a guy who doesn't
give you your rights, who beats you.
I'm not talking about this.
I'm talking about a man who is just
obedience to him.
Even if you don't agree with what he's
saying, he is the leader that you picked
and if he says something, well, let me
tell you something, sisters.
Your femininity is what?
Let me tell you something.
If there's anything, this 6 foot 6 guy,
me 6 foot 2, yes?
And this brother here, what are you, 5
foot 6?
He's nothing.
He's nothing!
We don't look at sizes.
You know why?
Because who is it?
Was it Abu Bakr?
Who was on the tree?
Abdullah Ibn Mas'ud.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, Abdullah Ibn Mas'ud, his legs were
quite skinny.
Yeah, and some of the sahaba were laughing
at him.
Thin shins.
Yeah, thin shins.
Yeah, so some of the sahaba were laughing
at him and the prophet came and said,
if you live in the sight of Allah,
those thin shins, whatever you're laughing at, it
is heavy like Mount Uhud.
Okay, so it's not about the size.
It's not about the size.
Okay, but in a nutshell, guys, wallahi, sisters,
if you...
Is that what Shimon said?
I'm trying to psychologically understand.
Why are you here with the elbow?
I don't know.
What is it?
This guy loves the sahaba, don't you?
Don't you?
Don't you?
But the point is this, like as being
obedient to your husband, you know why?
Because wallahi, let me tell you something.
Yeah.
Coming home to a good wife.
Wallahi, let me tell you something, bro.
Yeah, I don't need any details, personal details,
yeah?
But coming home to a good wife.
Yeah, brothers and sisters, alhamdulillah, all of our
wives are up and down, but coming home
to peace, serenity, bro.
Do you get it?
But wallahi, let me tell you something, yeah?
It makes a man want to prosper, but
I want to conquer places.
Tell me where to conquer.
Yeah, I want to go and do stuff.
But when you come home to a shaitan,
when she opens the door, her face is
like, makes you not want to go into
the house.
So kind of like you enter the house
is another fitna.
Wallahi, and again, there are men like that
out there.
But obedience to your husbands, my dear sisters,
and I know there are a lot of
men who have flaws.
Men need to be men as well, but
let me be honest, in today's time, our
dear sisters are really, really, like, I hear
stories like you said about pushing it, not
seeing the kids, bro.
This is a major sin, bro.
This is a major sin, man.
It's a major sin.
But anyways, so inshallah, sisters, being good wives,
wallahi, it would really, really help that man
to serve Islam in the best way possible,
inshallah.
But there are obviously other ways that you
can serve Islam as well.
We can't exhaust all of the options.
This is fundamental because you know, this is
the biggest thing that's lacking.
That's why I'm so, look, I could mention
a lot of stuff, but right now, the
biggest thing that we're lacking is this, bro.
I'm so sorry.
That's the reason why if this gets fixed,
it will fix our households.
Marriages will not be breaking down.
And I'm not blaming the woman alone.
There are a lot of men that we
know that don't give the rights.
I'm not talking about this kind of man.
Please.
I'm talking about good men.
I'm talking about good men that have been
oppressed.
Okay, good men.
Yes, yes, yes.
I'm being honest here.
Good men who have been oppressed and their
kids.
It's worth mentioning, for example.
Yeah, yeah.
But just in case.
No, just in case the sister, Mashallah, says
she's watching and she's like, Alhamdulillah, I tick
a lot of the boxes that you mentioned,
but what else could I do in actual
dawah?
In that regard, for some sisters, obviously, they
are definitely required because we need them in,
what's that thing when they go to the
hospitals for pregnancies and stuff like that?
Midwife.
But what's that thing called?
Nurse.
Huh?
Oh, no.
No.
Gynecologist.
Yeah, gynecologist.
Yeah, yeah.
Gynecologist.
Yeah.
Did you say?
Gynecologist.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So even in terms of.
Don't be so, you don't know.
Don't be pediatricians.
You know it.
Even like in terms of careers, when sisters
go, I know, Mashallah, they go to the
hospital and they require and they request female
doctors.
Sometimes there aren't enough female doctors.
So these brothers.
Well, I wanted to say, I'm sorry.
These brothers who come and say, you know,
women should not have education.
And it's that.
Come on, man.
What's she saying?
What did she say?
I asked the question.
What's she saying?
She said, I asked the question.
Today was my graduation as a doctor and
I'm not married.
Honestly, I didn't see your comment by Alhamdulillah.
Do you see how we went to that?
Okay.
No, no, but there's a fine line.
There's a fine line.
My sister.
What's her name?
Manar.
Sister Manar.
Listen carefully, sister.
Let me be honest with you.
Congratulations.
First of all, congratulations.
May Allah bless you.
Alhamdulillah.
Alhamdulillah.
Congratulations.
The point is this, sister.
Look, your education.
Mashallah.
Let me be honest.
Most men, we don't really, like, this was
something bad.
Wait, wait, wait.
Before you go there, before you go there,
because I know you're going to, you're going
to go on Netflix.
No, no, no.
Wait, wait, wait.
I know.
Where am I going to go?
Okay.
What are you going to say?
This is the issue.
No, no, no.
Look, education is good, well and good.
Okay.
Let me be honest.
No, no, no.
I have to be real here.
As a man, look, my wife is a
teacher.
She's done a degree.
Fantastic.
Yes.
Alhamdulillah.
She's actually doing a training course, which, not
that she wants to get a career, but
she wants to do, she needs to do
this training course in order to.
Just in case you screw up.
She has a backup plan.
So, the thing is, look, where am I?
Alhamdulillah, two kids.
Alhamdulillah.
She wants to do that course, fully support
her.
However, my dear sister, when it comes to
this kind of stuff, education, look, as a
man, we do not really, it's not something
that we really.
She doesn't care about your endorsements.
She doesn't care about your endorsements.
We don't really care about it in that
sense.
No, no, no.
However.
I wasn't getting my stereotype.
Yes, yes.
Let me tell you why.
Because, look, you can have a specific job
role, which the Ummah needs.
No problem, all day, every day.
I would want, Alhamdulillah, all day, every day,
a woman who's going to cater for my
wife, et cetera, whatever it is for that
she needs to.
The point is this, Tom.
When it comes across the matter, when you
make your career a priority, trust me, there
are many women who are swearing at feminism,
who have destroyed their life.
Yes, they're in their 40s, 30s, and career
women, this, that, it bought them nothing.
Look, so what we're seeing is that, please,
having a household, having grandchildren.
Yes, seeing this.
Wallahi, this is something, a legacy that you
can leave is far more important.
Again, in the Ummah, if you lived in
an Islamic country, of course, the Ameer-e
-Mu'mineen would say, we need women in the
workforce.
There's nothing wrong with this.
But today, we're living at a time where
it's career, career, career, career.
That's why I have to make this comment.
Because it's been pushed out so much, we
need to rewind it a bit and tell
our sisters that, look, as men, I don't
care about my wife's career.
I do not care what degree she had.
It means zero to me.
I tell her she's done it.
May Allah bless her, preserve her, no problem.
But in my eyes, it means nothing to
me.
Do you get it?
And she realized that when she has kids,
she's at home.
Alhamdulillah, she's with her kids.
You can see the true nature of a
woman.
And you see many women who have followed
the feministic pathway and are absolutely miserable.
Because imagine, every woman in the nation has
kids.
And those who cannot have kids, it's understandable.
Okay.
Yes.
Subhanallah.
Yes.
But in a nutshell, I would say, my
dear sister, your career is well and good.
But find a good man.
And inshallah, serving Islam together and being obedient
to him is paramount, inshallah.
Yeah.
Thank you, Hijab.
I wonder how it is to live with
you.
Yes.
What was your question, sister?
So what was you going to say?
Yes.
I was saying that.
It's a feministic world you're going into.
Sister, go get a master's, Ph.D. No.
We definitely need sisters to be gynecologists.
Oh, is that it?
And that's just for your wives?
No, no, no.
We don't speak to you.
I'm not addressing those sisters that are going
to be problematic when it comes to this
stuff.
So I'm zooming in and out.
It's distracting me.
Okay.
Stop it.
Ah, you're distracted.
Yeah.
You need to focus.
Let's get the next question.
No, because this is important.
Okay.
Are you trying to cut off the Trump?
Yeah.
You're cutting me off.
So there are certain jobs that are absolutely
important and integral for the ummah.
However, when you embark on those jobs, it's
very important to maintain your femininity as well.
Yeah.
That's the balance.
Yeah.
We do need these jobs.
And, of course, it doesn't now mean that
you start doing jobs just for the sake
of zooming in.
And again, it's so annoying.
Can you carry on talking?
I'm moving.
Well, you're right in front of me.
I don't.
You just want to see your face on
camera.
Yes.
I want to see some consistency.
You look handsome.
Because it's a topic that a lot of
people can misconstrue.
Let him speak, for God's sake.
What was I saying?
Oh, my God.
You distracted him.
Yeah.
So balance is incredibly important.
Yeah.
Especially like the point that he's saying is,
he's saying it in the context.
I don't think he added this bit in,
which is when sisters do go to work
naturally to survive in the tumultuous job force
that you're in, you will adopt certain masculine
traits.
And those masculine traits, of course, come at
a cost.
They do.
So it's not something that is mentioned a
lot, unfortunately, because we're living in a very
PC world.
And it's not going to be, unfortunately, mentioned
on the members.
And a lot of people do kowtow to
this whole feminist narrative.
Look, we're not saying, yes, women should be
outside.
No, it's very important to work on the
upbringing of children.
However, do we do need a group of
sisters that are integral in Dawa as well?
Because obviously it's not appropriate men going, you
know, doing Tarbi of sisters and there's too
much that can go wrong.
So we do need sisters that are qualified
in this regard and that are learning and
being educated in this all the while, keeping
their femininity and all the while maintaining their
family values and their home as well.
It shouldn't come at the cost of doing
that.
If you're able to balance it, then Alhamdulillah,
please do.
Yeah.
If you can, the Ummah is, of course,
in great need.
There are, unfortunately, not very good role models
for Muslim sisters on social media.
And when certain sisters do come up and
then take their hijabs off, then the Ummah
is very frustrated because there are only like
a handful of sisters and let's face it,
they're not really, I mean, you can count
their names on your hand.
So we do need representation, but we need
good representation not coming at the cost of
your family.
Exactly.
But sometimes it's like jumping in water.
I don't want to get wet.
So now, are you threatening me?
Somebody that is going to do the threatening
is Hamzat.
What does Hamzat want?
So firstly, if either of you guys know.
Yeah, I know.
I know what's happening.
From what I know, Hamzat's retired.
But the question is, He's come back.
He's going to fight Whittaker.
Yeah, so that's the question.
Who wins, Hamzat or Whittaker?
I think Hamzat wins.
And I think he wins very convincingly as
well, actually.
Yeah.
I think it requires, honestly, I think it
requires a light heavyweight to beat him.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think so.
He's a big middleweight, bro.
I wrestled with him.
I can tell.
And when I wrestled with him, I know
it looked like he was having a good
time and he was.
But when he grabbed me, he felt like
a heavyweight.
He felt like a heavyweight.
He felt like at least a light heavyweight,
bro.
And recently, he just done a grappling match
with Luke Rockhold.
And he dominated him.
And he was actually taking it easy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I think that Hamzat's going to win
that fight.
And I think he will become the middleweight
champion.
Obviously, someone like Pereira could give him a
hard time.
But I think he'll beat Pereira as well,
bro.
Because the wrestling will.
I think if he wrestles Pereira before Pereira,
like, catches him.
Pereira catches him.
Then it's a problem.
But if he wrestles him down, Pereira has
absolutely no chance getting up.
Zero.
Zero chance.
If there's a wrestling match and Pereira's involved
in that, then Pereira has no chance at
all surviving that exchange.
And he could get submitted.
I think that he would be a favorite,
in fact, if they fought him in Pereira
for the middleweight championship.
So Hamzat has just been sick.
And I think what it is is that
he overworks.
But he overtrains, basically.
And then he gets sick.
Yeah, he gets a bit overexcited.
He overtrains.
Then he gets sick.
And then he can't make the fight.
If he makes this fight, he'll win it.
Like last time he fought Kamaru Uzman.
And some of the commentators are saying it
was a close fight.
It was not a close fight.
Just watch it again.
Watch the first couple of rounds.
Complete *.
So in terms of the welterweights, no, middleweights,
I think he'll destroy everyone.
And he'll require a light heavyweight to beat
him.
That's what I think.
Ali, what's your opinion about this?
I think what Hijabz said was correct.
I have first-hand experience with Hamzat Shumair.
Yeah, we know that.
I came closer to taking him down from
any of these chumps in the UFC.
I mean, I don't know.
That's not what you told us.
I mean, he's talking about fear, heartbeating, nosebleeds
and stuff like that.
Guys, I don't like school due to all
the fitna that Muslims do.
What I do, I'm in year 10.
Please pray for me.
I want to leave this toxic, poisoned school
after GCSE.
Okay, I'll pray for you, man.
I didn't hear the question.
So kids that are in a toxic environment
at school, that are going through stuff, and
they feel like, yeah, you know what, I
can't wait till I leave this toxic environment.
Can they ever leave quote-unquote toxic environments?
Or should they learn to manage and deal
with it because they're going to be in
certain job environments that they can't control and
other situations that they can't control?
I think that the Prophet Muhammad, peace be
upon him, he mentioned, He said that the
one who mixes with the people and he's
patient upon their tribulation is better than the
one who does not mix with the people
and is not patient with their tribulation.
The fact that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
put you in this environment means he wants
to test you in a certain way.
That's the bottom line.
And you don't really have a choice in
that.
So yes, you're in a toxic environment, but
don't use that as an excuse.
I'm sorry to say, you know, I grew
up, you grew up, and Ali grew up,
all of us grew up in schools like
that.
You know, in schools where there's a toxic
environment, where there was fighting happening, where there
was boyfriend-girlfriend relationship, where there was, you
know, drugs being consumed.
Do you know what I'm trying to say?
We live in the West.
And so there's only a few parts in
the world, even in the Muslim world, which
doesn't have those features.
So it's not about, like Bruce Lee said,
I don't pray to God to have an
easy life.
I pray to God to be able to
deal with a difficult one.
Do you know what I mean?
So try and change your mindset here.
The mindset is not, oh, you know, it's
a toxic environment.
What isn't a toxic environment?
It's about, are you going to be a
sheep or are you going to be a
shepherd?
Are you going to be affected or are
you going to be affected?
You know?
That's a good point because you complaining about
a toxic environment is quite a passive comment.
But as Muslims, we should be active.
You might, Allah forbid, be in a relationship
in which there might be toxicity.
There might be some toxicity with your kids.
You might be at a workplace in which
there's toxicity.
The whole point is to become active, somebody
that changes the toxic nature of these places
and environments, equipping yourself with certain characteristics and
traits that people can benefit from and that
you will be like a candle.
The room may be dark.
However, as soon as a candle enters, that's
it.
It gives light to its surrounding.
And the more candles that we have, of
course, the more light we'll have.
That's a good point.
I like that, Isha.
I'm going to go up to Isha.
Carry on, guys.
Yeah, so if we're constantly hoping for our
environment to change, then even people that are
in Muslim countries, they complain as well that
it's not Muslim enough.
So my point is that there's never going
to be an environment that's going to be
non-toxic at that level that you want
it to be, isn't it?
Mm-hmm.
Let's see the next one.
Somebody comments, smile to Jannah.
Would you like to answer the question?
Yes.
While we wait...
AI becoming a Muslim video.
Yeah.
So can you comment on the AI becoming
a Muslim video from Lily?
I don't know anything about this.
So I think it was a sister who
asked AI about what religion...
Who's Lily?
I think it's a sister...
Okay.
...who asked AI about religion and it was
favoring Islam in terms of its truth, in
terms of its validity.
And even if it didn't, who cares?
It's just a script.
And to be fair, I see a lot
of people getting excited about this stuff, but
the danger with that is AI is relying
upon the input it gets.
Exactly, yeah.
And it can change.
So today you might be excited.
Maybe it's in its infancy and it's upon
the fitra, but tomorrow with more input, and
now certain people have seen those videos go
viral, they're probably giving it different inputs and
tomorrow there might be a different answer.
Absolutely.
So AI is not objective.
It's based upon and relies heavily upon inputs.
Hijab.
In your opinion, in which age should a
boy get married?
Where?
In the West?
Yeah, here in the West.
18?
20?
I got married at 20.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
I think that's like...
What age?
Let me rephrase it.
Yeah.
First year of uni is good.
In which...
Nowadays, from your experience, when are you seeing
boys mature?
Mature in terms of their mentality.
Look, I think that, you know, you don't
learn to swim until you get in the
water.
Yeah?
And marriage is like swimming.
So if you want to learn how to
swim, you need to get married.
There's no other way of doing it.
You can't actually read marriage in a book.
I can tell you that for a fact.
It's like fatherhood, motherhood.
There are certain relationships you cannot get by
a reading list.
It's just through practice that you have to
do it.
And in terms of marriage, I think the
first year of uni is pretty good.
Because like in the UK, for example, you've
got the A-levels.
It's very difficult for someone to get married
in A-levels.
Yeah?
First year of uni, there's a lot of
fitna happening.
A lot of people doing relationships and stuff.
There's a lot more independence.
People don't care as much.
It's not a taboo as much.
You know, if someone's got an Islamic marriage
in the first year of uni, a lot
of people had Islamic marriage in the first
year of uni.
You know what I mean?
So I got married in the second year
of uni.
If it was up to me, I would
have probably got married in the first year
of uni when I went to university.
So I think that, you know, like for
a man or for a woman, anything between
18 to 20 is good.
And why?
Because there is an aspect of in this
country, okay, education finishes at 18, okay?
16 is compulsory.
And like 16 to 18 is the years
before university.
If you're thinking of going to university, it
might be quite difficult doing A-levels and
thinking about marriage at the same time.
That might be difficult, for example.
So for me, I think that a good
– this is a preference.
This is like, you know, opinion.
If you ask me my opinion, I did
that.
I didn't look back.
I don't think there's anything wrong with doing
that.
I think that was actually quite good.
Some would argue, did it affect your degree?
Did it affect like the fact that you
were going to, you know, uni and stuff
like that?
No, it did affect it.
It affected it for the better because actually
some of the distractions were less.
Do you know what I'm trying to say?
Like, you know, you don't have that added
burden of looking for someone.
Now you're looking for someone because it is
a burden, bro.
Looking for someone to marry is a burden.
I don't find that as a pleasurable experience.
I find that as a very kind of
like laborious and tedious and stressful experience.
Do you know what I'm trying to say?
Looking for someone to marry and this and
that.
You know, back in the days, you know,
now people are doing it through apps.
And yes, there were a few apps back
in the days.
But the way we did it was pretty
crass.
Like we, as young men, yeah, we're looking
for a woman to get married.
We'd actually walk and speak to women cold.
Yeah.
Yeah, bro.
I couldn't afford jackets and stuff.
Brother.
So, you know, for example, we see a
woman in the streets and she looked very
nice.
I'm not, you know, I'm just saying.
I think it's time for the next question
now.
No, no, I'm just, that's how we did
it.
I would say, listen, we're looking to get
married, blah, blah, blah.
You know, can I have your dad's number?
Or can we do it this way?
I want to find out about you or
whatever.
And that would be a very difficult thing
to do.
You know, and it was, it's being a
Muslim and doing it that way or trying
to find someone who knew somebody who knew
somebody.
You know what I mean?
It's long.
It's long and it's tiring.
And there's some people enjoy that kind of
thing.
I've met a lot of brothers that enjoy
this.
They enjoy it.
I don't know about you, but I've met
a lot of brothers that enjoy the process.
They call it the chase or the hunt
or this or whatever.
I don't enjoy any of that rubbish.
I'm not going to lie to you.
I just want...
You enjoy the food.
Stability.
Yeah, man.
Okay, so the next question is Hijab.
What did you learn while doing Burning Hands?
Because it was a long and tedious process.
It was something you weren't familiar with.
Yeah.
It was something you were kind of...
Okay, I'll be honest with you, brother.
Like, you know, I was with like, I
don't know, almost 20 actors.
Yeah.
And if you watch Burning Hands, a lot
of those actors were very good actors.
Like, for example, actually, I shouldn't say example
because someone's going to get offended if someone's
watching, yeah?
Yeah.
But there's many good actors that have been
spoken about.
I was in an environment where I was
not...
Like, when I'm in a public speaking environment,
as bad as arrogant as it may sound,
I feel like I'm one of the best.
I always feel like I'm one of the
best.
You know what I mean?
If I'm about to give a lecture in
front of the people, there's no one in
that room that can do this better than
me.
Call it arrogance.
Call it arrogance.
You know, the way it comes across, the
performance, this, that, the...
Even the knowledge, whatever.
I just feel like I'm the best person
suited for this thing, yeah?
I am the kingpin.
I am the champ.
I do think that in my head.
When it comes to public speaking, when it
comes to debating, when it comes to these
aspects.
Yeah.
But when it came to acting, I just
felt like a novice.
I felt like, not even, I was below
novice, like an amateur.
And it was humbling.
If I was to be honest with you,
it was like, everyone was getting a bit
frustrated.
I'd come onto the set and I had
not memorized the lines.
Because you have to memorize the lines, you
know?
So I was doing it on the day.
Or the day before, do you know what
I mean?
Yeah, that's annoying.
And these guys were like professional and stuff
like that.
So annoying.
The day was long.
So you'd have like a 12-hour day
or something like that.
You remind me of a principle you actually
mentioned a while back and it stuck with
me, which was, anytime you're learning something new,
join a class, you should be the lowest
in that class.
Yeah.
Otherwise you're not benefiting.
I'll be honest, there's an aspect of it.
I'm not going to lie to you.
I'm not going to lie to you.
I'm not going to lie to the public.
Look, the debate circuit is not filled with
people.
Yeah?
After the whole Piers Morgan thing, after the
Jordan Peterson and this and that, these big,
big, big debates, and even after the David
Wood, like in the Christian world, we've only
got William Lane Craig left, really and truly,
as a big, real opponent.
In the atheist world, we've really only got
a couple of names, maybe Sam Harris, Richard
Dawkins.
These are the big names, yeah?
If we can get them, we can get
them.
If we can't, we can't.
But like, in truth, that is the pinnacle.
It's very difficult to...
So then when you've done that, you think
to yourself, I want to do something else.
I want to start from the bottom again.
I want to build up.
So for me, the acting thing was more
like that.
It was more like, okay, I want to
do something for the dawah, something creative, something
new, but on a personal level, something where
I'm not, okay, competing at the highest level.
I want to go back to the bottom
and be a novice again and start again
and climb the mountain again and do the
thing again.
So there was an aspect of that which
I think was enjoyable for me.
And being a novice, being an amateur, being
one of many, yeah, like, I can tell
you it's enjoyable.
Otherwise, I wouldn't have done it.
But in terms of, it is tiring.
You can't just pick up a skill like
that.
You can't just become a very good actor.
For each scene, you're doing like 20 or
30 shots.
You know what I mean?
So it's...
Don't you do that again.
You know what I mean?
So I found that it was good.
In summary, it was a good experience.
You know, it was very...
I learned a lot from that experience.
So mashallah, Ali was praying Isha.
We'll end it in five minutes.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Yeah, you wait.
Alright, you move out of the way please,
yeah?
Yeah, please, son.
Hurry up.
Can I sit down?
Hurry up.
Oh look, there's a guy who wants to
marry a Christian.
I'll give you the fatwa, bro.
I'll give you the fatwa.
Any interesting questions, please.
Don't forget to pray, guys.
For your Isha.
Alright, Ali.
What do I do if I'm in a
haram relationship?
I want to marry her for the sake
of Allah, but I can't right now.
Look, this is...
I think...
Wallahi, yeah?
I just don't understand the mentality of this.
Look, the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said
this.
He says, لا يؤمن أحدكم حتى يكون هواه
تبعا لما جئت به that you don't truly
believe until your Hawa, your desires, are in
line with what I have come with.
Whatever emotion you're feeling in this whatever relationship
it is, I'm sorry to say, if you
cannot emotionally regulate, yeah, you're not going to
survive in any marriage.
What are you doing?
If you cannot regulate your emotions, like there's
many emotions that are going to come into
your life, marriage or non-marriage, life in
general.
If you cannot regulate your emotions and have
consistency and principles, and these are my boundaries
and stuff, how are you going to survive
in marriage, in fatherhood, in motherhood, in any
of these contexts?
You're going to be a failure in life.
Mentally unresilient, weak mentality.
If you're that kind of person, with all
due respect, you're not going to pass any
test.
And so, you're going to have to start
making, yeah, your life connected to your boundaries
and your principles.
As Malcolm X said, you know, if a
man doesn't stand for anything, he will fall
for everything.
Do you know what I mean?
So, if you're in a haram relationship, oh,
you know, this and that, you can either
marry her, yeah, you can either marry the
sister, you go through with the father, yeah,
or you leave her.
There's no third option.
There's actually no third option.
You either say, I'm going to transform this
haram relationship into a halal relationship, and it
is so easy to do that.
It is so easy to do that.
You might argue with the family, this and
that, and whatever.
Well, whatever, then you cut it off until
the family want to have a conversation with
you.
Do you know what I'm trying to say?
What are you doing?
What are you doing?
Have a haram relationship.
I don't understand.
What's wrong with you?
Go and get a halal relationship.
Do you know how many women there are
that would be willing to have probably a
halal relationship with you?
There's so many women out there that are
willing to have a halal relationship with you,
brother.
There's too many.
Yeah?
So why do you...
What's this?
Come on, man.
In a nutshell, also we need to bear
in mind that she's in a haram relationship
as well, because sometimes we make it seem
as if it's the man that's leading her.
I mean, let's be honest.
Women are not innocent.
Yeah, she's in it as well, both of
them are.
Of course.
So to me, look, I've given this example
many times.
You know, Allah says in the Quran, فَإِنَّمَا
أَلُوسُوا يُسْرَىٰ With hardship comes ease, very with
hardship comes ease.
Drinking alcohol is not hard.
Committing zina is not hard.
Gambling is not hard.
Murder as well.
I mean, it doesn't take...
It's not that hard to pull a trigger.
These things are easily done.
But Allah SWT is telling you with hardship
comes ease, which can mean that if with
hardship comes ease, with ease comes hardship, which
is that anytime you take an easy route,
you're going to see the hardship in the
long run.
Anytime you deal with hardship, you will have
ease on the long run, which means that,
look, you're in a haram relationship, everyone's doing
it.
The easiest thing to do is what?
Get in one yourself.
But the hard thing is to do what?
Abstain from it.
And believe me, I've been in that lifestyle,
I've seen it, and everyone suffers.
Everybody suffers.
There is no, oh, happy and...
Everybody suffers.
Heartbreak is one of the most painful things
you could ever go through.
It leads people to suicide.
I've had people that I know who have
killed theirself.
And you might think, how?
Trust me, it happens.
So it can really, really break you.
And it's not like gambling.
Gambling is an inanimate object.
Alcohol is an inanimate object.
Things.
Yes, okay.
But when it comes to a human being,
you're dealing with a being, and with us
men, you know, same with women as well,
but with men as well, you know, when
you fall in love, you can really fall
in love.
So it works vice versa as well.
But the thing is what?
You're dealing with a human being.
Emotions are involved.
A human being is involved, yeah?
Breakups.
I've seen men who are, who have started
hating women.
And we've seen women who have gone off
tracks.
A woman who had hayaa, shame.
Why?
Because she's committed, you know?
And all this kind of stuff.
And now she's heartbroken.
She's broken.
Now she wants to take it out on
the whole world.
She's going clubbing, partying.
I've seen all of this madness, yeah?
So it shows you what?
When you take the easy route, get ready
for the hardship and the long one.
But if you put your trust in Allah,
have tawakkul on Allah, and say, I'm going
to go through the hardship while everybody's in
haram relationships, not me.
You are going to protect yourself and believe
me, you're going to have more barakah in
your marriage.
Things are going to mean more to you
when you have that first intimacy with your
partner.
It's going to mean so much more than
a man or brother or sister who's gone
and sleeped around everywhere.
And now he's, he's literally gone off that.
Nothing means, even if he's the first night
with his wife or his husband.
It means nothing.
He's like, I've done this so many times,
there's no barakah in it.
So I would say, deal with the hardship
and in the long run, you will have
ease, inshaAllah.
That's what I would say.
And maybe we can end on that, inshaAllah.
Don't forget guys, Hijab's got a brilliant debate
coming on the 19th of September.
19th, yeah.
InshaAllah we'll get the last question on the
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The time, the time.
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Ilah, what's the last question?
So I think this is to do with
like skepticism, Cartesian style.
I have this question that has kind of
been bugging me.
A person asked me, how do you know
that God isn't just lying and won't just
throw all of us in * fire?
Oh, that's quite an interesting skepticism, isn't it?
That's what you call what's what's up.
Well, look, I mean, the thing is there
are two kinds of impossibility, right?
In classic aqeedah books, you'll find that there
is what you call محال لنفسهم محال غيرهم
So something which is impossible due to itself
and something which is impossible due to something
else.
That's how the creedal people speak about it.
So they say, for example, something which is
impossible due to itself is a squared circle
that can't exist in the real world.
That's impossible.
And something which is impossible due to something
else which, for example, that Allah would lie.
Now, is it conceivable that Allah can do
something with his will that would be مخالفة
للحقيقة which would be the equivalent of lying
just if you consider it as the will
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala?
From that perspective, you can consider it to
be a possibility, but what makes it an
impossibility is the fact that he's الحق he's
عدل he speaks the truth and so it's
against his attributes.
And as such, it becomes impossible due to
another.
So this تقسيم or this classification by the
Kalami and by Ibn Taymiyyah as well philosophers
and theologians and others of محال لنفسه محال
لغيره is, I think, a useful one because
it shows you that there can be impossibilities
which can exist due to something being contravening
to the attributes of God.
So, for example, lying contravenes the attributes many
attributes of Allah, actually.
Allah is الحق he's the truth so lying,
it goes against the truth the fact that
he's الحق and so it contravenes his wisdom
because wisdom is وضع شيء في مكانه صحيح
putting something in its rightful place so that
it contravenes that.
Now, I know it's a massive controversy but
I think this is the argument this is
the model or the answer that I'm convinced
with.
In Western philosophical tradition they do the classification
in a different way they call it logical
contradiction versus metaphysical contradiction and a logical contradiction
would be something like a squared circle or
a logical impossibility I should call it and
a metaphysical impossibility yes, would be something like
God lying because they would say that's a
metaphysical impossibility.
And not only that Allah SWT has made
it clear that he has negated injustice to
himself and Allah says in the Quran that
what will I get out of punishing you
so Allah has made it very clear these
are just waswasas, you know and it happened
to the best of people that walked the
earth the Sahaba came to the Prophet peace
be upon him and said, O Messenger of
Allah I have thoughts about things about Allah
and his Messenger that I would rather fall
from the sky and be eaten up by
birds so he was so horrified of the
waswasa or the thoughts that he was getting
about Allah and his Messenger and the Prophet
SAW said Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar
for the plot of Shaitan has been dropped
to a mere waswasa so the point is
what is that we are tidings that you
are doing something good that Shaitan is trying
to give you these weird waswasas or things
that don't exist you know, this is how
he tries to deceive you and that's why
he promised you the only thing he has
a power over you is what he calls
you to and you just don't believe in
it seek refuge in Allah and think of
Allah Allah is to a servant what you
think of him so think good of Allah
InshaAllah and just know that Allah SWT will
never ever throw his servants in * fire
SubhanAllah look, I'm a human being as a
human being would I ever do that to,
I mean like my children etc Allah loves
me more than I love my kids SubhanAllah,
yeah and there's a hadith when after one
of the battles one woman she lost her
child and she was running around and the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam pointed to her to
answer these doubts said, do you ever think
that a woman will throw her child in
* fire what's he pointing out to you
because she's lost her child yeah so she's
worried let alone if she's worried for that
if she was just sitting back and saying
oh I lost my child no problem she's
worried about her child so the question is
would she throw her child in * fire
said of course not said Allah is more
merciful to a servant than this woman to
her child so this is the lord that
we worship you know, it's not a lord
that wants to throw people in * fire
and I think we will end on that
yeah thank you guys for coming on this
if you guys think it's a good idea
put it in the comment section the fact
that we do this maybe from time to
time because it's good for us to actually
engage with some of your questions we don't
do it maybe as much as we should
yeah but yeah that's now Assalamualaikum Wa Rahmatullah
Wa Barakatuh bye bye guys to all the
people that didn't believe in