Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari – Snippet From Usul Al-Ifta Lesson

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			Ibn Khaldah was a great Imam al-Faqih.
		

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			He says that Imam Rabi'a Ibn Rabi
		

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			'a Ibn Abi Abdur Rahman was asked, that
		

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			he said to Rabi'a Ibn Abi Abdur
		

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			Rahman.
		

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			Rabi'a is the famous Maliki scholar, Rabi
		

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			'a al-Ra'i, they used to call
		

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			him, the student of Imam Malik, Imam al
		

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			-Faqih, he was called Rabi'a al-Ra
		

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			'i, sorry he was a teacher of Imam
		

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			Malik, not student.
		

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			You know Imam Malik says I learnt a
		

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			lot from Rabi'a, his mother when he
		

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			was young, Imam Malik said, my mother used
		

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			to, she used to place the Amama turban
		

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			on my head, go to Rabi'a, go
		

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			and learn his adab before you learn his
		

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			knowledge.
		

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			This is Imam Rabi'a al-Ra'i.
		

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			So this Imam Rabi'a Ibn Abi Abdur
		

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			Rahman, Ibn Khaldah said to him, that I
		

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			see people that they're all around you, circling,
		

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			they're all around you and they're all coming
		

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			to ask questions and they surround you etc.
		

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			So he said to him that look, I
		

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			see people all around you, circling you, so
		

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			when a person asks you a question, don't
		

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			make your main aim to free him, make
		

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			things easy for him, rather your main aim,
		

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			your Himmatuka, your aim, objective, goal, purpose, your
		

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			main sort of objective should be you free
		

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			yourself.
		

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			This is really amazing.
		

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			You know this happens quite a bit today
		

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			in this day and age, that people think
		

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			that when people ask questions, our main job
		

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			is to try to give ease.
		

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			Ease is not a Shari'a source, it's
		

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			not Quran, Sunnah, Ijma'a, Qiyas and Rukhsa.
		

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			Some people, this is how they start off
		

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			with, that I have to, you know, when
		

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			someone asks me a question, my job is,
		

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			answering questions is basically how to give someone
		

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			an easy ruling.
		

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			That's not the objective.
		

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			If it comes in the middle, then fine,
		

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			but that's not how you approach it.
		

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			That's not how you approach it.
		

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			You know, all this Fatawa, it's not based
		

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			on that you start off with this objective
		

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			in mind.
		

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			Your main aim, objective, goal, reasoning is to
		

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			take someone out from some difficulty, some hardship.
		

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			So he said, don't make this as your
		

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			main objective, to free that person, rather, Tukhallisa
		

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			Nafsak, free yourself from hellfire, from being questioned
		

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			from Allah, from irresponsibility.
		

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			You know, this is very common.
		

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			People ask questions.
		

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			Sometimes you know the answer or you're inclined
		

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			towards a particular answer, and yet, just to
		

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			make it easy for people, you know, like
		

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			I said, it's your main objective is to
		

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			make easy.
		

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			You know, a common example, people ask about
		

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			three divorces.
		

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			Now, some people think I have to some
		

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			way find a rukhsa from somewhere.
		

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			That's my job.
		

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			I am.
		

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			I am not a mufti.
		

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			I'm a murakhis.
		

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			Murakhis.
		

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			And I don't follow the Hanafi, Shafi'i,
		

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			Maliki, Hanbali madhhab.
		

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			I follow the rukhasi madhhab.
		

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			This is a rukhasi madhhab.
		

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			From somewhere, something, somewhere I have to find,
		

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			yeah, just so basically my job is anyone
		

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			asks a question, what you're doing, carry on
		

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			doing, it's all fine.
		

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			Easy ruling.
		

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			Let me just find you a source for
		

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			it.
		

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			Some people, that's how they function.
		

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			Everything you're doing.
		

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			What are you doing?
		

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			You're doing this?
		

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			Okay, don't worry.
		

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			I've got, I've got some, I've got it.
		

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			I'll find it somewhere.
		

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			What are you doing?
		

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			That's okay.
		

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			Okay.
		

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			Let me just find you.
		

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			Just justify everything, what everyone's doing.
		

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			Every easy ruling.
		

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			You just come to an alim or a
		

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			mufti, just find some sort of justification, some
		

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			source somewhere and they will search everything.
		

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			Ah, I found it there.
		

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			Okay.
		

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			There's your reference.
		

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			Go ahead, carry on.
		

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			This is not how it's supposed to be.
		

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			Um, so, uh, you know, three talaqs, for
		

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			example, I've got a whole answer on the
		

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			website.
		

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			All the madhabs are clear that if a
		

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			man gave three talaqs, even though it's haram
		

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			and sinful, you know, he said it clearly
		

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			in three goals, you know, three times he
		

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			gives her talaq, he gives her talaq, he
		

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			gives her talaq, he says talaq, talaq, talaq,
		

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			according to all four madhabs and you're following
		

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			a particular madhab, that's your, you know, it's
		

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			different if somebody, you know, learned from their
		

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			teacher, like Imam Ibn Taymiyyah's opinion was that
		

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			he was one and that was their teacher
		

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			and they learned it and they believe that
		

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			before somebody asked the question, that's different.
		

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			But in this case, it's like you are
		

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			following this, but somebody, especially if it's a
		

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			friend or a relative or someone like a
		

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			mate or somebody like people think this is
		

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			all like based on, you know, connections or
		

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			sometimes people even because this person is rich,
		

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			that's really bad because this is now duniya
		

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			based, like the guy will give me hadiyahs
		

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			or will give me money.
		

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			That's why the etiquettes are coming later.
		

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			We're going to talk about all of this
		

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			in a lot of detail, that a person
		

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			asking answering questions, a mufti should never take
		

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			a hadiyah from someone who's answering the asking
		

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			the question, maybe on another occasion somewhere else,
		

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			but not when you're asking the question, like
		

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			the answer when someone comes to ask him,
		

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			says he's a hadiyah, not this time, because
		

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			your answer should not be motivated or influenced
		

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			in any way, shape or form by money
		

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			or by hadiyah, by gift or whatever.
		

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			So some people think like, you know, it's
		

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			based on connections, friendship.
		

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			Like I heard Sheikh Mufti Taq Uthman Hafizullah
		

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			once said as well in class that when
		

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			somebody from his relatives asked him a question,
		

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			this was back when we were studying with
		

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			him, he said this 20 years ago that
		

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			somebody asked him a question from the relatives
		

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			and talaq was done.
		

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			It was, you know, it had occurred.
		

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			The question was about whether divorce occurred.
		

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			And he asked him the question and he
		

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			said, yeah, based on what you're saying, talaq
		

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			has unfortunately occurred.
		

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			So the relative turned around and said, I've
		

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			never asked him ever for a favor in
		

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			my life.
		

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			One time I'm asking him something, he doesn't
		

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			even think about our connection in the family.
		

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			One time I'm asking him something and didn't
		

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			even help us even, he went to tell
		

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			the family members.
		

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			Once I'm asking him for a favor, it's
		

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			not his, it's not in his hand, it's
		

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			not in his control power.
		

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			It's not based on whether you're a family
		

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			member or relative or your own son, your
		

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			own self.
		

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			So some people just want to free other
		

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			people, la takun himmatuka antukhalisa.
		

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			And one other thing here, brothers and sisters,
		

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			I tweeted about this once, that, you know,
		

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			some people, their answers are motivated.
		

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			Why they do this, tukhalisahu, like giving people
		

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			easy rulings, it is because generally the masses,
		

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			the masses prefer and love and like those
		

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			who give easy rulings.
		

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			The mutasahil, the one who is lenient, the
		

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			da'iz, the imam, these guys are like
		

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			modern scholars, good.
		

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			People love them.
		

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			Anyone giving easy things, it's to appease people,
		

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			it's to please people.
		

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			This is very common.
		

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			I actually wrote a whole post on this.
		

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			I wrote a tweet and then I explained
		

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			it as well, I can't remember when, that
		

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			your answer, your fatwa, your ruling, your Islamic
		

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			opinion, your, you know, expression should not be
		

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			based on the fact what pleases people.
		

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			There's a hadith that when you do things
		

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			for people to please them whereby you're displeasing
		

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			Allah, a time will come that these same
		

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			people will turn against you.
		

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			So a lot of people, they are motivated
		

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			to give an easy answer based on what?
		

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			Because people will love, people will like.
		

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			Because people like, the one who gives a
		

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			lot of rukhsah, they become popular because that's
		

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			what people want.
		

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			You give, you're giving people what they want.
		

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			This mufti, it's a bit too extreme.
		

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			I like the easy, you know, the cool
		

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			mufti, the one who's like giving you all
		

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			the goods, you know, sweets.
		

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			The one who's giving you medicine, nah, you
		

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			don't want to go to him.
		

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			You want to, you want someone who's, people
		

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			like those who give them easy fatwa.
		

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			But I added to that as well in
		

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			my tweet, I remember.
		

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			I said this, there's another, this is all
		

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			spiritual diseases.
		

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			It's love of fame, love to be loved,
		

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			the love for being loved, the love for
		

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			being liked, the desire, the love for being
		

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			popular so that people like you.
		

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			It's a spiritual disease.
		

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			On the other hand, I also said this,
		

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			there's another, shaitan is, this is why talbisu
		

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			iblis in the book, Ibn al-Jawzi wrote
		

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			all the different, you know, you have to
		

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			understand shaitan, you know, his mechanism and his
		

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			tricks, how he works.
		

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			So he'll attacks and he'll attack some people
		

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			in this way.
		

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			Well, on the other hand, there are some
		

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			other people, this is also a spiritual disease.
		

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			They will always want to give strict harsh
		

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			fatwa, always want to give strict difficult harsh
		

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			fatwa.
		

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			Why?
		

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			So that people think they're pious.
		

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			This happens a lot as well in our
		

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			communities.
		

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			That's also dangerous.
		

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			It's like alhamdulillah, our shaykh is taqwa, he
		

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			has taqwa.
		

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			Our shaykh is muttaqee, like, especially if there's
		

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			a difference of opinion, okay, I always say
		

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			to the students that if there's a genuine
		

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			difference of opinion, classical example, I gave you
		

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			last week, the same example, pictures, videos, digital
		

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			pictures, it's okay.
		

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			It's permissible, according to some, but alhamdulillah, our
		

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			shaykh has more taqwa.
		

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			You can't say you have more taqwa.
		

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			If there's a difference of opinion, does not
		

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			mean that this person who's taking the stricter
		

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			ruling is always more on taqwa.
		

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			Don't, you know, sort of judge these two.
		

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			This person following an opinion, which is perfectly
		

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			permissible for him, doesn't mean every time someone's
		

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			going for...
		

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			That's like saying that Imam Shafi'i, who
		

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			said blood comes out, does not break wudu,
		

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			and Imam Abu Hanifa, so he's more pious.
		

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			Or the opposite way, if you touch a
		

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			woman or a man, someone of the opposite
		

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			gender, according to Imam Abu Hanifa, your wudu
		

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			is not invalidated.
		

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			According to Imam Shafi'i, it is.
		

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			Oh, Imam Shafi'i was more taqwa, he's
		

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			more pious, astaghfirullah, how can you say that?
		

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			So this is also, you know, people have
		

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			this just because they're sheikh or they're hazrat
		

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			or they're bozroog or they're whatever, whatever they
		

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			want to call it, they're imam or they're...
		

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			He's just a bit super pious.
		

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			This is all, this mentality is a wrong
		

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			mentality.
		

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			Some people like to act all strict.
		

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			I remember there was one, long time ago,
		

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			there was one, you know, imam, Mawlana Sahib,
		

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			long time ago, similar to my age, it
		

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			was a long time ago.
		

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			So like a friend, talking, etc.
		

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			and acting very pious, like, you know, digital
		

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			pictures and these pictures are haram, you know,
		

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			I follow them, like, you know, we do
		

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			precaution indeed and we follow the strict opinion
		

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			and, you know, this shouldn't be allowed, it's
		

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			too much relaxed and relaxed, people want just
		

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			all easy roodings and this and that.
		

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			After we were just sitting there, after a
		

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			while, he put his mobile phone on the
		

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			floor, home screen, he had a picture of
		

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			his child, I just picked, he's a friend
		

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			of mine, I picked it up, I said,
		

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			Hazrat Sheikh Mawlana, where's your piety gone?
		

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			He was a friend of mine, this was
		

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			about a long time ago, he said, you
		

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			are saying right now it's all haram, is
		

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			it all haram for everybody else, not for
		

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			yourself?
		

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			No, no, no, that was just, what happens
		

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			sometimes, you want to give everyone else the
		

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			difficult ruling but for yourself, you don't want
		

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			to act upon it.
		

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			This is again one of the practices of
		

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			the Salaf, they used to act upon the
		

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			stricter ruling for themselves and go for the
		

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			rukhsah for other people.
		

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			If there is, if there is possibility of
		

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			rukhsah, look, this is in context, if there
		

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			is rukhsah, clear rukhsah based on dalil, they
		

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			used to provide, Imam Ashraf Ali Atanui Rahimullah
		

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			is very famous about it, that many fatawa
		

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			he gave an easy answer but he himself,
		

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			Imam Nawawi as well does a statement, never
		

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			ever acted upon the rukhsah himself and some
		

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			of them, they would not even disclose or
		

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			let people or their close students know that
		

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			what they are practicing so that they don't
		

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			start thinking it is necessary or start following
		

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			it, they would do it in private, if
		

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			they are doing a ruling which is extra
		

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			superior or more ihtiyat, more precautious, they would
		

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			do it hidingly so people don't even see
		

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			that because people take not just verbal fatwa,
		

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			even the action of the scholar as a
		

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			hujjah, so they do it behind closed doors
		

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			so that they don't make it difficult for
		

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			people, so this balance is very important, do
		

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			not give easy fatwas and just make your
		

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			objective of giving ease to people so that
		

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			people, you become popular at the same time,
		

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			don't always go as an objective, harsh, difficult
		

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			fatwas so that people think mashallah, muttaqi, pious,
		

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			righteous, superior, these are all spiritual diseases and
		

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			shaitan is attacking both types of people, forget
		

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			what people think about you, you and Allah,
		

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			you look at this issue, whatever you think
		

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			is correct between you and Allah or your
		

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			teachers, what you've learnt, irrespective of people liking
		

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			you or disliking you, loving you, hating you,
		

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			praising you, swearing at you, that's not the
		

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			objective, it's how Allah takes you, that's what's
		

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			important, so this was very important, if
		

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			you see there's a lot of quotes from
		

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			Imam Malik or a lot of incidents in
		

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			relation to Imam Malik, Imam Malik was very
		

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			very fearful of this, there's quite a few
		

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			coming in relation to Imam Malik, Imam
		

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			Malik relates from Ibn Hurmuz, Imam Ibn Hurmuz,
		

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			who was he?
		

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			Wubakar Abdullah bin Yazid bin Hurmuz, he said
		

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			his name was Yazid bin Abdullah bin Hurmuz,
		

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			faqeehul madinah minattabi'een, so Imam Malik is
		

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			quoting from him, and Ibn Hurmuz was a
		

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			faqeeh, but he related very few ahadith, because
		

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			his focus, and we'll talk about this as
		

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			well in the next section about fiqh and
		

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			hadith and that's all coming inshallah, we're going
		

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			to talk about the difference between muhaddithin and
		

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			fuqaha, all of that, but he was a
		

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			faqeeh, but related hadith less, and one of
		

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			the worshippers, those who denounced the world, lived
		

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			a life of zuhad, Imam Malik says I
		

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			sat with Ibn Hurmuz 13 years, he
		

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			made me take an oath that I don't
		

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			mention his name in hadith, like I don't
		

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			relate a hadith from him, fearful, scared, Imam
		

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			Malik was called Imam Dar al-Hijrah, you
		

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			can read a bit more about him, because
		

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			Imam Malik says, the Imam of Dar al
		

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			-Hijrah, which is Imam Malik, Imam Malik's name
		

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			is Malik ibn Anas, but he was called
		

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			Imam Dar al-Hijrah, Imam of the abode
		

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			of Hijrah, Madina al-Munawwara, I used to
		

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			love to follow him, and a few more
		

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			things that Imam Malik says about him, he
		

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			passed away in 148 Hijri, so Imam Malik
		

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			quotes from Ibn Hurmuz that sometimes a person
		

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			used to come to him and ask him
		

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			about something, so he would inform him, answer
		

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			him, give him the answer, after that he
		

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			would send someone in his footsteps, like send
		

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			someone behind him, that go and find that
		

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			person again, and he used to say to
		

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			him that, I hastened
		

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			basically in giving you the answer, therefore don't
		

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			accept anything from what I've told you until
		

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			you resort back to me, refer back to
		

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			me at a later date, but whatever I
		

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			told you, all cancelled, subhanAllah, he was a
		

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			faqih, related hadith very less, but even in
		

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			fatwa, he was from the people of Madina,
		

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			somebody who used to give very less fatwa,
		

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			leave it to others to give the fatwa,
		

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			this is the caution or his fearfulness that
		

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			he had, now look, this particular quote is
		

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			something that we can learn from here, this
		

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			is really important as well, that somebody used
		

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			to come to him, ask him a question,
		

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			now he would answer and then he would
		

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			say that maybe I was very quick in
		

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			reply, subhanAllah, so many things from here we
		

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			can learn, so many, first and foremost is
		

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			never hasten, never hasten, so many people make
		

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			a mistake when they hasten, when they quickly,
		

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			hurriedly answer a question, I mean I've had
		

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			this experience for the past 20 years of
		

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			my life, and before that as well, but
		

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			probably 20 years since 2004, I've been asked
		

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			questions verbally, on the phone, email, etc, so
		

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			many, literally in my mind, I've got thousands
		

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			of examples, you know the phone will come
		

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			here, and then I've thought okay, yeah, I
		

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			am like 99.97% sure, but there
		

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			is that slight feeling that maybe, maybe, and
		

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			I will just say okay, you know what,
		

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			I just need to double check, I remember
		

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			there's one example once, that I gave an
		

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			answer on the phone, and then I was
		

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			thinking as soon as I put the phone
		

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			down, and then I said I wish before,
		

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			because I have, I used to have a
		

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			two, I still have a one hour phone
		

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			line, but it was another time, it was
		

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			two hours, this was a good 10, 15
		

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			years ago, and I remember back in those
		

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			days, I don't know if we still use
		

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			this in the UK, we have, the last
		

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			call you press 1471, and it gives you
		

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			the number, this was in 2006 or 7,
		

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			and as soon as I put the person,
		

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			put the phone down, and then I thought
		

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			wait, wait a minute, I think maybe, did
		

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			I make a mistake or something, and then
		

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			I quickly pick the phone up, before the
		

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			next person phones, because if the next person
		

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			calls, then alas, that person's gone off the
		

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			radar, and I am lifetime, lifetime of sin,
		

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			you're scared, so I quickly put the phone,
		

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			and engaged, before, I wanted to check for,
		

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			and then see if I have made the
		

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			mistake, then call that person back, so I
		

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			just put the phone, like unengaged, and I
		

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			quickly went and checked, double checked, and as
		

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			far as I remember, it was okay, but
		

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			there was something extra, just one bit, that
		

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			I had to just clarify, and then I
		

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			did that 1471, and the person's number, the
		

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			last person to call your number, sorry, the
		

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			last person to call your number, was such
		

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			and such, and then I call him back,
		

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			numerous examples, and this is why, never hasten,
		

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			forget what people will think, like look, all
		

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			these people, Imam Malik and others are saying,
		

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			I don't know, I need to check, it's
		

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			okay, this shows that you are careful with
		

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			your deen, you know, the awam, they don't
		

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			understand, you know, the real sign of someone's
		

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			knowledge, of someone's deep insight, of someone's profound
		

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			understanding, is that they're not always answering questions,
		

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			all the time, every question, they get asked
		

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			instantly, straight away, whoever answers every question, is
		

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			a majnoon, as we read the quote of
		

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			its coming, but unfortunately, sometimes there's this embarrassment,
		

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			because the awam think like, oh, how do
		

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			you know, like aren't you a mufti, aren't
		

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			you an alim, aren't you a scholar, aren't
		

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			you a sheikh, aren't you an imam, like
		

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			how do you know, let them think what
		

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			they want, let them think what they want
		

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			to think, we have to be careful about
		

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			our akhirah, between us and Allah subhanahu wa
		

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			ta'ala, this, I was saying that people,
		

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			the general public, they might think that how
		

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			can you not know, if you're an alim,
		

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			if you're a sheikh, let them think what
		

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			they think, never hasten, so the first lesson
		

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			we learn from here, is never hasten, never
		

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			hurry, never rush to answer a question, unless
		

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			we are absolutely 100% sure, we know
		

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			the answer, only answer, otherwise, you say, look,
		

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			I need to check, I need to double
		

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			check, I need to double check, you can
		

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			just say, look, I do know, but don't
		

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			say, look, this is the answer, and then
		

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			hopefully, this, no, no, no, I need to
		

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			double check, and take their phone number, you
		

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			know, you're sending someone in to find the
		

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			person, take the phone number, don't do this
		

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			mistake, that you give them the answer, and
		

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			then do the, take the phone number, because
		

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			they could change their phone tomorrow, or the
		

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			phone, you can't locate them, never make that
		

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			mistake, look, this is the answer, but you
		

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			think in your mind, that you know what,
		

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			I'm just going to double, just give me
		

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			your number anyway, email number, etc, and then
		

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			I'll check, and if I'm wrong, if I
		

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			made a mistake, then I've got the, his
		

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			or her contact details, no, never make that
		

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			mistake, I kind of made the one-time
		

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			mistake, but Alhamdulillah, then afterwards, I did locate
		

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			them, and forget myself, Sheikh, our author, Sheikhul
		

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			Islam, Mufti Muhammad Taqi, Uthmani Habibullah, he mentions
		

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			a story, which is mentioned many times, in
		

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			the same class he told us, when we
		

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			were studying with him, I remember the story,
		

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			and he's mentioned it somewhere else as well,
		

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			and he's written in a book as well,
		

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			somewhere, so that he mentions this, when he
		

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			talks about, and towards the end of the
		

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			book, certain etiquettes of answering questions, and one
		

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			of them is that a Mufti should never
		

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			answer a question, where he is not in
		

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			a balanced state of mind, that's what the
		

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			hadith says, we will come to that, but
		

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			the hadith says, la yaqdil qadi wa huwa
		

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			ghadban, a qadi should not judge when you're
		

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			angry, so it's not just anger, it's when
		

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			you're in an imbalanced state, too angry, too
		

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			sad, too over happy, over joyous, too hungry,
		

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			too satiated, full, just too much of any,
		

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			too less, or too much of anything, you
		

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			need to be in a balanced state of
		

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			mind, to answer a question, so he said
		

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			that, he made a mistake, which was that
		

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			it was only two, three days after his
		

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			beloved father, the grand Mufti of Pakistan, the
		

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			sheikh of our teachers, Mufti Muhammad Shafi'ah,
		

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			the author of Ma'arif al-Qur'an,
		

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			he passed away, and to read, you know,
		

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			Mufti Daquthman, his relationship, connection with his father,
		

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			he's written a whole book, my father, my
		

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			sheikh, it's absolutely amazing, so he was in
		

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			a, of course, we all would be in
		

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			that state, and he said, it was just
		

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			two, three days, and he said, I was
		

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			walking outside, just outside the masjid of Darul
		

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			Karachi, and somebody just asked me a question
		

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			about talaq, and he said, he gave him
		

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			the answer, and then afterwards, he went home,
		

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			and he realized, he said, actually, what did
		

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			he actually ask me, and then, because he
		

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			was, you know, maybe he's in that state
		

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			of mind, and he realized, he actually gave
		

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			him a wrong answer, the opposite, he mentioned
		

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			this in a story that I don't recall
		

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			exactly what the question and answer was, that
		

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			I told him talaq was done, and then
		

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			I found out that talaq was not valid,
		

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			or was it the opposite way around, that
		

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			I told him that talaq was not valid,
		

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			but it was actually valid, but it's either
		

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			it was valid or invalid, and that's a
		

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			mistake he made, and he said, subhanallah, I
		

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			was already in a bad state of, you
		

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			know, like, in a sad state of mind,
		

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			and then this, like, the whole world fell
		

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			on me, like, how did I tell this
		

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			person's complaint, and maybe, most likely, I feel
		

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			that it was probably, he told him that
		

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			talaq is not valid, and talaq was valid,
		

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			he's going to commit zina, and live with
		

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			his wife, so he was in such a,
		

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			you know, state, I don't know who the
		

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			person is, I remember the face, I don't
		

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			know the name of the person, who he
		

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			is, where he's from, how will I find
		

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			this person?
		

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			Now, Darul Uloom Karachi is a massive, like,
		

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			an institute, like, a whole, it's a, I
		

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			wouldn't call it, like, a campus, like, a
		

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			massive area, in there, there's a masjid, and
		

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			there's different areas, and people, there's two main
		

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			gates, people from outside, now, there's a lot
		

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			of security, but people from outside, the two
		

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			villages, they come inside to offer salah in
		

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			the masjid, so this brother was somebody who
		

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			came from outside, now, he must, so he
		

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			said, I asked people, you know, try to
		

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			describe this person, this tall, hair's like this,
		

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			you know, he, someone said, yeah, he regularly
		

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			comes to the masjid here, in this salah,
		

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			maybe every day, I told some students, told
		

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			friends, people try to locate, couldn't find him,
		

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			three, four days, then somebody said that he
		

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			lives in the, he doesn't come to the
		

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			masjid here too often, but he lives in
		

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			the town, the village, which is just outside,
		

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			so he said, I went every day, five
		

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			time prayers, I used to go outside to
		

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			pray salah in that masjid, first day, Fajr,
		

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			Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, Isha, I prayed salah in
		

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			that masjid, second day, third day, in one
		

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			of the masjids, I saw him, and he
		

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			said, I rushed, and I grabbed him, and
		

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			like, you know, I've got hold of something,
		

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			a big burdens of my head, this is,
		

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			this is a responsibility, so this is basically
		

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			what Ibn Hurmuz is saying, look, don't hasten,
		

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			he even, he didn't think he made a
		

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			mistake, he just said, I've just given you
		

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			an answer in haste, so don't take anything,
		

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			everything cancelled, and then, I'll come back to
		

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			you after that, or you come back to
		

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			me, so this is something really important we
		

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			can learn from this, Wa qala malik, again
		

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			Imam Malik says, Walaysa man yakhsha Allahaka man
		

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			la yakhsha, the one who fears Allah, this
		

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			is a general quote, the one who fears
		

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			Allah is not like the one who does
		

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			not fear Allah, two different people, does anybody
		

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			want to read now?
		

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			Mawlana Bilal, if you want to read inshallah,
		

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			and we'll take it from there, Bismillah ar
		

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			-Rahman ar-Rahim, Waja'a an Abi Saeed
		

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			al-Abdus-Salaam al-Malakabi b-Suhnoon, Imam
		

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			al-Malikiyyati wa sahibi al-Mudawwana, anahu qaal,
		

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			ashqa al-naas man ba'a akhiratahu bidunya,
		

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			wa ashqa minhu man ba'a akhiratahu bidunya
		

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			ghaylay.
		

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			SubhanAllah, this is again amazing, such a food
		

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			for thought for us, this Imam is narrated
		

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			from Abu Saeed al-Abdus-Salaam, his title
		

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			mulaqab, he was given the title Suhnoon, Suhnoon
		

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			al-Maliki, he says here at the bottom,
		

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			Suhnoonun ta'irun hadid, luqiba bihi li hiddatihi
		

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			fil masail, because this was a laqab given
		

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			to him, because he was very sharp in
		

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			masail, so Suhnoon al-Maliki, he's the Imam
		

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			al-Malikiyya, he's one of the top Imams,
		

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			he's a student of Imam Malik, and Sahib
		

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			al-Mudawwana, the one who narrated the Mudawwana
		

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			from Imam Malik, and there's more things about
		

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			him as well, if you see at the
		

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			bottom, this is our friend Mawlana Shaker, mashallah,
		

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			put a lot of these things at the
		

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			bottom, he was from the West Morocco area,
		

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			Spain Morocco area, Andalusia area, and there's books
		

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			written about him as well, so Imam Suhnoon
		

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			al-Maliki, he says, the most evil or
		

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			the most unfortunate of the people is the
		

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			one who sells his akhirah in return for
		

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			dunya, sells his what?
		

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			akhirah for the dunya, we know this, someone
		

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			who sells their akhirah for the dunya, meaning
		

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			you miss out in the akhirah, you've given
		

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			up your akhirah for dunya, in other words,
		

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			we know what this means basically, that somebody
		

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			commits sin or somebody for the sake of
		

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			gaining something in this world, they're foregoing and
		

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			forsaking their akhirah, paradise, jannah, the pleasure of
		

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			Allah, so that's bad, we know that, you
		

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			get something in this dunya, someone steals, bribery,
		

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			you're getting some money in this dunya but
		

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			you're selling your akhirah, that's clear, everyone knows
		

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			this, but this point, and the one even
		

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			more evil and the more unfortunate than even
		

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			this person, is the one who sells his
		

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			akhirah, but not for your dunya, for somebody
		

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			else's dunya, there's just this part, we can
		

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			give a one hour talk on this honestly,
		

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			how many different ways generally in people's day
		

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			-to-day lives, in the first one, it's
		

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			bad as it is but at least you're
		

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			getting something in the dunya, you stole money
		

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			or somebody bribed another person, usurped someone's wealth,
		

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			falsely snatched someone's stuff, you know basically got
		

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			a gain in this world, it's bad as
		

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			it is, but here you don't get nothing
		

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			in the dunya as well, and nothing in
		

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			the akhirah as well, you're selling the akhirah,
		

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			the person is selling his akhirah, but for
		

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			somebody else's dunya, thousands of examples, sometimes it's
		

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			the children, how many parents sell their akhirah
		

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			for the dunya of their children, they don't
		

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			get nothing, they're just doing things for their
		

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			children, they don't get nothing, or a friend,
		

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			trying to make a friend, committing sins to
		

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			make a friend happy, marriage, in-law, there's
		

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			just so many, I don't want to go
		

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			in because it's not the topic, but that's
		

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			a whole, so many scenarios, just one point
		

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			here is that this is like you don't
		

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			get nothing, neither here, nothing, this is similar
		

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			to sins, I mean this is a sin,
		

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			so not similar to, but we can generalize
		

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			it to all the different types of sins,
		

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			because there's two types of sins, there's one
		

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			type of sins where someone gains something in
		

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			the dunya, you get something, pleasurable, you know
		

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			there's some pleasure, apparent pleasure, someone commits zina
		

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			for example, they got something, they got their
		

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			pleasure, they got their sin, someone you know
		

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			committed some other haram, ate some haram food,
		

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			they got something, but then there are other
		

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			types of sins, Ufti Taqi Uthmani's father has
		

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			a book, as far as I remember it's
		

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			him who wrote the book, in Urdu called
		

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			Gunah-e-Bailazdat, and non-pleasurable sins, so
		

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			then there are other types of sins where
		

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			you're doing a sin, but you're not getting
		

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			nothing, the person is getting nothing in this
		

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			dunya as well, non-pleasurable, like what are
		

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			you gaining, you're not gaining anything, if you
		

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			wanted to commit a sin and sell your
		

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			akhira, then at least get something in this
		

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			dunya, but these there are, and he's got
		

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			a list of sins, where people do not
		

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			even gain anything in the dunya, and they
		

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			are committing a sin, and this is where
		

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			you missed out, here you missed out there,
		

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			it's worse, it's worse, so this, okay we
		

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			need to move quickly, because we're going very
		

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			slow today, how does this happen, worse, just
		

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			quickly, so this is worse, where someone is
		

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			selling their akhira, and not gaining anything in
		

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			the dunya, they're selling it for somebody else's
		

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			dunya, what does that mean in the context
		

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			of our discussion, is that someone comes and
		

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			asks you a question, and you're giving them
		

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			a fatwa to make life easy for them,
		

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			just because you know, whatever you know, so
		

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			you're giving them benefit in the dunya, but
		

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			because you've given them the wrong answer, you've
		

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			got nothing, you've gained nothing, you've gained nothing,
		

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			you said this is halal to eat, unless
		

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			he comes and gives you half of the
		

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			sweets, but he's not, can I eat this
		

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			chocolate, if he gives you one chocolate, then
		

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			you've gained something as well, the haram chocolate,
		

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			but yeah it's halal for you to eat,
		

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			enjoy it, he is going to sit there,
		

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			relax with his cup of nice, you know,
		

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			latte or coffee, and have that chocolate, and
		

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			eat it every day, and you're not enjoying
		

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			it, and you've got the sin, you've sold
		

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			your akhira for his chocolate pleasure, so this
		

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			is, just doesn't make sense, next quote I
		

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			gave you the example of the chocolate, this
		

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			is another example, I was going to give
		

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			this example, but because it's coming anyway, I
		

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			thought I'll give another different example, after this
		

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			quote Ibn Salah, the great muhaddith, usool of
		

00:38:30 --> 00:38:35

			hadith, imam, after quoting this statement, he said
		

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			I thought about the person who sells his
		

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			akhira in return for someone else's dunya, who
		

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			could it be?
		

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			I found that this is the person answering
		

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			the question, alim, imam, mufti, whatever, a man
		

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			sometimes comes to him, who has taken an
		

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			oath in relation to his wife or his
		

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			slave girl, meaning he takes an oath, or
		

00:39:03 --> 00:39:05

			he's given him talaq for example, or he's
		

00:39:05 --> 00:39:06

			taken an oath that he will never, you
		

00:39:06 --> 00:39:12

			know, engage in intimacy with her etc, and
		

00:39:12 --> 00:39:16

			he says it's okay, no problem, don't worry,
		

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			you can just say that, simple way is
		

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			that he gave, a man came, gave his
		

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			wife talaq, and you told him it's okay,
		

00:39:25 --> 00:39:27

			no talaq, it's fine, he came, he gave
		

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			three talaqs, it's okay, it's not, it's not
		

00:39:29 --> 00:39:32

			done, it's okay, you know, somebody was asking,
		

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			a lot of people ask this question, why
		

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			do we make it easy for, like he's
		

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			going to enjoy his intimacy with his wife,
		

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			why are we so worried and bothered about
		

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			this man and his wife enjoying themselves, of
		

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			course, we try to help, but we say,
		

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			okay, there's no talaq, the hanif goes away,
		

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			and he enjoys his wife or his raqiq,
		

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			his slave girl or whatever, all his life,
		

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			in the bedroom and outside the bedroom, and
		

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			this mufti sitting in dar ul iftar, just
		

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			his soul, his akhira, or that person's dunya,
		

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			so this is another example,