Shadee Elmasry – Can We Trust Our Technology- NBF 379
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The speakers discuss various topics related to culture and income, including trusting one's source of pain and suffering, the use of "has weren't" meaning used in narrations, introducing people to their groups, and the importance of privacy and avoiding negative behavior. They stress the challenges of people with addiction to pornography, the need for acceptance of Islam, and the importance of keeping family ties during holidays. The practical guide book for Maliki Fiol and the practical advice for Maliki Fiol and the need for discipline in the face of it are also discussed.
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Today, of course, we have to do the
Wednesday Dua.
We're also going to talk today about some
insane situation happening in the world with cell
phones, pagers, radios, other things shipped to Lebanon
have been detonating in people's faces.
So we're on the cusp here of a
new form of terrorism, which is what are
we going to call this tech terrorism or
something?
Yeah, I mean, it's technological terror is what
it is.
So this is two days in a row
now.
All right, let's see what we know about
this.
That's going to be our first segment, our
second segment.
And maybe we could fire this up while
we talk.
Put screen by side by side.
Sheikh Mahdi locks chef a fit class, you
know, this live stream covers a lot of
things.
Our live stream covers, we talk about current
affairs, we talk affairs, the ummah, we talk
about theological spiritual matters we talk about, but
ultimately, we want to encourage everybody to be
a student of knowledge.
And the way we do it is really
through the online program that we have, which
we call arc view, which we can you
can find at arcview.org.
I teach essentials class, which I teach two
to so of classes a week, and an
essentials class, which is the fundamentals of Edison
or Jamal, right, the fundamentals.
And I also, we also have in that
track, all the intro, Akita and the four
methods, and youth and kids.
If you have kids, if you have youth,
sign them up, because sister had a hammer
does a great job teaching the youth morning
say it from the podcast, the original Safina
society podcast.
He, he teaches the kids, teaches them Sira,
he storytells an hour a week, he does
this.
So you can catch him there to all
those are part of essentials.
If you want to take the deep dive
into Arabic, that's its own track.
Deep dive into Akita, that's its own track
deep dive into the four methods.
Each one has its own track.
And as you see, Omar is plugging away
here, and they're on the website scrolling, I
mean, and there are plenty of pre recorded
classes in the essentials track that you have.
So chef a lot of people want to
learn chef a you're going to study that
with Sheikh Mehdi lock once you click more
on that.
So you can learn more, click on the
learn more you see that he's going to
take you through the curriculum here, keep going
down, let's see that curriculum.
I'll pick up a man had he had
a madhub and Imam Shafi'i by an
Imam Mustafa Khin, and Ali Sharbaji, and Mustafa
Luba.
Three scholars have produced this large volume work
multi volume work that covers all the babs,
all the chapters of covers all the chapters
of Alright, so it's very good.
That's the book that pretty much you take
that you got that for life.
You got your fit for life.
So that's your chef a fake go to
arcview.org for that we also yesterday released
this book.
And I want to talk to everybody people
been asking about the table of contents.
So let's put that up on the image
you had yesterday of the the book cover,
right or the just released.
Yeah, just released.
You can get this at Mecca books.com
slash pearls, Mecca book.com slash pearls.
Someone asked me, can you read the table
of contents?
Like what are the index?
What are they?
All right, here are the index is evil
a problem?
That's the first thing is evil even a
problem?
Firstly, what is evil in the first place?
You know, what is it even?
Is it ultimately just pain at the end
of the day?
Because if it is, pain is that you
have to have pain in life.
This world is built that way.
What is evil?
Our is freedom?
Are we condemned to be free?
Right?
So this chapter on free will.
All right, and then he has what is
moral good?
Why do people suffer?
How can you know who is good?
Do we have free will?
acquiring choices, cusp, who is truly creating everything?
And then we have suffering.
Moses and Hitler on suffering.
What good kid, you know, let's let's go
into that Moses and Hitler on suffering.
I mean, anytime kid that is mentioned, you
got to turn you got to turn to
it.
Right?
Good.
That is so mysterious.
So unique, everything about him is different.
Let's check out this chapter on Moses and
kids.
It is said that Moses, saying the most
I said, I'm once asked was once asked
by his people, who's the most knowledgeable person?
He said, myself, and he was not wrong.
He was God's prophet after all, but God
wanted to teach him even greater mysteries that
he didn't know.
So he sent him on a journey to
meet a man who the prophet tells us
is is named or called a kid that
is a recurring figure in Islamic mysticism and
history.
He's a man blessed with knowledge of the
unseen is he has knowledge only that only
Allah has that can penetrate through the veil
of reality.
greenery blooms wherever he sits or stops to
rest.
He's there to help those deeply in need
to offer wisdom to the lost to guide
seekers of truth.
He's also said to be immortal meaning he
dies only at the end of time.
So it's not surprising that figures similar to
him have corollaries in almost all traditions of
storytelling.
After undertaking a long journey, finally finds a
kid laying down on a large stone resting
in a shaded grove.
He says, the greening of peace in this
abandoned place, where's that coming from?
So they were in a non believing area.
Said, said, said, meet him and becomes his
student.
cryptically replies, you will not be able to
be patient with me.
God willing, you will find me patient, says
Moses, and I will not disobey you.
Because it agrees to journey with him, but
under one condition, no questions until I inform
you of everything, anything, do not ask me
any questions.
So their adventure begins, Heather and Moses on
a salam, they come across a boat, and
they embark and strangely, he climbs down to
the hall, and he starts ripping out wooden
planks.
And how this thing start to let in
water.
So Satan and Moses cannot restrain himself.
When he sees this is how I can
do this.
Right?
Besides how I'm we're going to drown us
all.
Right?
So Heather reminds him, you're not allowed to
ask questions.
After a while, Heather and Satan and Moses
come across a group of boys playing in
a field.
Heather takes one of this, the boys and
kills him by twisting his neck.
Huh?
What?
Satan and Moses on a salam is shocked.
How could you kill an innocent person?
Right?
Normal reaction.
Imagine you're walking with a shaykh and the
shaykh just kills somebody.
Finally, Satan and Moses on a salam, they
and Heather arrive at a town.
They spend the whole day together.
Right?
Now they're out of a town, but the
people will not host them.
They're so disrespectful.
They're so mean to them.
And on the way, he sees a small
part of the city wall about to fall.
So he fixes it and Satan and Moses
says, hold on.
We could actually charge them for that.
We could charge them for that.
And we could ask them to pay us
for that in the, in the form of
food.
We didn't have any dinner at this point.
There are no more excuses before Heather leaves.
He explains himself regarding each incident regarding the
boat.
He says in the near future, very near
future, like in one or two days, a
King is coming.
Who's going to take all good boats by
breaking this boat.
It's useless to the King.
He passes by and the people remain having
their boat.
Whereas if he hasn't, if the boat was
good, they'd lose it permanently.
So they're only losing it for a few
days rather than permanently.
He decreased the trouble that they were about
to face.
Okay.
What about for the boy?
He would have become a tyrant and an
oppressor and his parents would have followed him
in this.
Some parents follow their kids to disaster.
It's true.
There are some parents out there, they follow
their kids.
And Heather said, Allah, I know that Allah
will soon give them another boy.
It says here, he also knew the parents
would soon be blessed with another son who
would be righteous.
So now by killing this boy as a
child, he doesn't get judged on the day
of judgment.
He goes to heaven and the parents go
to heaven and the son goes to heaven.
So by losing one boy, they all go
to heaven.
But if that boy had remained, he would
have corrupted all four of them.
They all go to *.
Now, what about the final situation?
Under that wall, an orphan, two orphans, there
was a treasure left for them by one
of their fathers or their forefathers.
And the people in that city were so
bad, they were greedy and bad people that
if they had the opportunity, they would have
taken that treasure.
What are you looking for, Omar?
You want a pen?
So he says, he talks about suffering here.
Suffering has to, pain and suffering and bad
things happening.
The point here is that when you have
knowledge, that changes everything.
If I have absolute certain knowledge that you
need to pass an exam and I tell
my kid, you're not going anywhere.
You're studying to pass this exam.
That's painful for the kid.
It's very painful for him.
So bad things relate to knowledge.
Khidr has knowledge of the future in these
situations.
No one has absolute knowledge of the future.
He has knowledge of what Allah shows him.
Right?
So when he takes an action based upon
that, that looks bad, it actually is decreasing
the pain that they're going to suffer if
he hadn't done that action.
The point that Nas is making here is
that pain and evil and suffering, the perspective
on it completely changes once you have knowledge.
And when we don't have knowledge of the
future, when we don't know what's going to
happen, then pain and suffering at this point,
we can't make sense of it.
So we just have to trust the source.
That's how we make sense of pain.
If I trust the source of that pain,
and I know he's the one who's bringing
it, and he doesn't bring it for any
reason.
This is not entertainment for him.
He doesn't enjoy watching us suffer.
That's the point, you see?
The Prophet ﷺ said, our ummah is cleansed
of its sins in this world before the
next.
When our ummah was good, we didn't have
these troubles.
We did good deeds.
We went out there, fought, and the ummah
was good for about a thousand years.
The last 500 years was not so great.
So we suffer.
And all that suffering, you arrive on the
day of judgment, cleansed of your sins.
So that's the value of it.
So the story of Musa and Khidr is
all about showing that your perspective on pain
and suffering completely transforms if knowledge was involved.
How are you?
Good?
All right.
And he brings a lot of things from
popular culture that people may relate to.
Here he has got King Lear.
Let's see what he says here.
Difficulties become evil from our perspective when they
go against our desires.
When misfortune breaks our heart and leaves us
hollow, Shakespeare's King Lear controlled all of Britain.
Yet the one desire in his heart and
the thing he wanted most was to be
loved by his kids.
By the way, they made a movie about
this.
King Lear.
He has got three terrible daughters.
Anthony Hopkins.
Failing to gain this love, he goes mad.
We cannot console Lear by telling him about
the goodness of human free will.
It is a bit abstract to him at
the moment.
It is true, but it doesn't soothe the
burn.
He could ask, what's in it for me?
Why must I face this hardship?
We're just ignorant.
That's why.
Why you face a hardship is because Allah
knows what would have happened if you didn't
face that hardship.
You would have ended up with a far
worse hardship.
If somebody says, well, why not just create
a world without hardship?
He's it.
It's called heaven.
You want it?
You have to earn it.
Why do I have to earn it?
Because anything good is earned.
Literally anything good has to be earned.
The angels have been given an existence in
which there is zero pain, zero need for
rizq.
They don't chase money.
They don't chase food.
Yet it was their love of Allah Ta
'ala was as excellent as it is, has
limits.
Their love of Allah did not come through
any effort of their own.
Our love of Allah comes through a lot
of hardship that we go through to prove
it.
That's the difference, why Allah created humans.
So let's see, Lear is almost completely at
fault for his own situation.
But even then, how should he interpret it
and reason with it so that it offers
something other than heartbreak?
What's the way out?
Life becomes unbearable for him, right?
And he goes on on King Lear example.
It's a good section, very good section on
this.
So that's the book.
Get it from meccabooks.com slash pearls.
And I'll keep you all updated on when
the stock is running out.
I'll keep you all updated on that.
Let's go to the New York Times.
And let's, Omar, why don't you fire up
a screenshot here?
Wireless device explodes in Lebanon, New York Times.
The unnamed, the redacted are added again.
And this time it's pretty clear though.
There isn't any, it's not targeted.
No, I didn't send it.
Just click on New York, NYT and then
this is not targeted.
That's what we know as a fact.
It's not targeted.
For a second day, handheld communication devices exploded
across Lebanon.
And in the Southern suburbs of the capital,
Beirut in an apparent attack on Hezbollah.
So far, 14 people killed, 450 injured.
Wireless devices.
Okay.
They keep talking about held by members of
Hezbollah.
No, this is indiscriminate.
It was literally freights that pagers and now
it's other things.
What did he say here?
It's other things today that is not limited.
Now, pagers, you could say, okay, fine.
Who uses beepers except for an underground organization
or not underground, but they don't want to
be revealed.
They want to make sure that nobody intercepts
their calls, et cetera.
So, okay, fine.
Let's pass that one.
What about today?
Okay.
Far more things.
Self, regular cell phones.
Far more things have been, this is coordinated
attack came as the country reeled from a
similar operation the day before that blew up
thousands of pagers.
Israeli military did not respond to our requests
for comment.
Do we need comment?
And are they going to say anything other
than lies?
Now it's handheld devices.
These things blew up in people's hands and
pockets and faces.
If they're holding it up now, tell me
something.
How is this?
What is the trip, trickle or ripple effect
of all this?
Tell me, explain to me how, what is
airport security going to look like now?
Right.
I mean, wouldn't it be a disaster now?
They've stopped flights for what?
From Israel.
But if these guys are intercepting packages of
tech, of whatever tech gadgets, stopping them, intercepting
them, lacing them, then seal it back up
and send it out again.
What is secure?
What's secure then, if that's the case?
How do you ensure security at this point?
So far, 14 people have been killed, 450
wounded.
People are yelling, turn your phones off, turn
your pagers off.
Thousands are attending mass funerals now, or not
mass, but they're having multiple funerals a day.
At one time, I mean.
Why are they calling Hezbollah a militant group
based in Lebanon?
Isn't that what Lebanon, don't they need to
defend themselves at this point?
I mean, the government can't do it.
The Lebanese government has no ability.
Someone's got to defend them.
Terrible.
Disgusting state of fear that they're in, all
of them.
Because just extrapolate where this is headed.
You can't trust any device that you own
anymore.
I say ajib, seriously.
It's very ajib.
It's not ajib, it's just you really wonder.
It's beyond ajib.
Where is this headed?
We're going to have a lot of Q
&A today because we didn't do a lot
of Q&A.
How many pages is the book?
It's about 150 pages.
It's 148 pages to be precise.
It's 148 pages, hardcover.
If you're one of those people who takes
the leaf off or whatever they call this.
What do they call this?
The book cover off.
It does have the title here.
It has a title here on the side.
Nice little Safina Saidi look.
What's that Omar?
In the middle there.
That's how it looks like when you take
the leaf off or whatever they call this
cover.
Some people hate books with these covers, but
the cover is really nice.
You have to admit that, right?
You got to admit this is like one
of the nicest covers.
You're going to get this book and put
it out just like that.
That is one of the prettiest pictures.
Pearls in the Deep.
Read a little bit of it every day.
Someone's saying here Sheikh Asrar is going to
plan to debate the Qadianis.
What's there to debate with them?
I'll watch and root for him, no doubt
about it, but what is there to debate?
These people don't even know how to read
the Quran.
You seen this?
You guys have been the imam for 60
years.
There's not one clip of him reciting a
Quranic verse.
What have you been doing for 60 years?
Yeah, they're Khalifa.
All he's got is the look.
That's it.
There's a video of him doing Fatiha and
it's terrible.
It's really bad.
No Tajweed, nothing.
Pull it up.
Are they a threat to anybody?
Does anyone really pay attention to this stuff?
They come out to Twitter and they cause
problems.
Does anyone really, you know, bring
that?
It's like a nut.
What is this?
All right, let's see this guy.
This is their alleged Khalifa.
Well, he is their Khalifa.
And you're the Khalifa.
Lamb is Mufakham.
No, I'm
telling you, the lambs are off.
Everything's Mufakham with this guy.
No, Melody, this is not, pause for a
second.
This is the guy who believes in Mirza
Ghulam as a prophet.
This is not a regular person having effort.
Extend whatever you want to extend.
Why does this feel like the annual recitation
of Fatiha?
It's like it only happens once.
But the audio was off the whole time,
but they heard.
Okay, so I mean, no, everything is Mufakham.
The only good thing is the very good
trimming of the beard.
That's it.
Other than that, and a very, I guess,
colorful turban there, or nicely wrapped.
But look, can't possibly have, listen, I think
Omar K has it.
He's got his own laws on prophethood.
He's got his own laws on tajweed too.
Why do you follow our rules of tajweed?
Let's go to the hadith segment that we
do from Imam An-Nawawi's work.
He says, he now discusses the Hasan Hadith.
Now the Hasan Hadith, there are a number
of definitions for it, but ultimately it is
a sound hadith that we can use, except
one or more of the narrators is good,
and his dupt is good, not great.
There's a slight, a very minor imperfection in
his dupt.
As an example, when he lists things in
comparison to the sound narrator, maybe he lists
things out of order, or maybe he lists
four things and not five, but the four
will be correct.
The items will be correct.
The things he lists will be correct, but
maybe not in the same order, maybe missing
one.
So we do use Hasan Hadith as evidence
for sure.
No doubt about that.
Now keep in mind that when you study
hadith, you study the transmission and the grading.
The transmission will be either mutawatir or ahad.
It will be so vast that it is
impossible to have deemed it a lie.
There are 80 around, 80 word for word
mutawatir hadith, and 300 by meaning, meaning that
the Prophet ﷺ gave the same message in
different wording throughout his time in Medina or
in Mecca.
And so sahaba, they transmit all with different
wording, but the same meaning.
That's about 300 hadith are mutawatir by meaning
and 80, about 80 word for word.
Of course, who gathered all this in a
book?
Asilti.
So he gathers them word for word, and
then he gathers the ones that are mutawatir
by meaning.
So now if it's not mutawatir, then it's
ahad.
The ahad, now you have to investigate it
and you end up with five conditions for
sihah, for it to be sahih.
And if it's missing one of them, it's
daif.
But all the sahih hadith from amongst them
are some hadith that they're neither at the
perfect transmissions, nor are they daif, and that's
the hasan, meaning that at least one of
the narrators, his competence in transmission is good,
not great.
So for purposes of law and aqeedah, if
you see hasan, go with it.
It suffices.
And the madhan of al-hasan, the location
of al-hasan, he's going to talk about
that.
Madhan is like, where do we find these?
So he says, Khattabi says, it's a hadith
that number one, we know where it's coming
from.
Connected chain.
Everyone can be identified.
All of the men in the chain are
known.
And this is the bulk of hadith.
The majority of scholars accept it.
And the bulk of jurists use it as
evidence.
So he's somebody that the narrator here, the
narrators are known, and there's no reason to
reject their transmissions.
And he doesn't have a lot of mistakes,
and there's no reason to reject his transmission.
And that what they're transmitted is found elsewhere.
And the transmission is something known.
Oh, sorry, sorry.
The actual words are connected here.
The noon and the rah, and there should
be a space there in this text.
Oh, by the way, I was wrong about
the arab yesterday, reading about the the green
stalks.
And what I didn't realize was that it
was it was na'ib fa'al.
That's why it was marfoo.
It was marfoo because it was na'ib
fa'al.
I'm like, why is this object marfoo?
But it wasn't an object.
It was na'ib fa'al.
So that's why it was marfoo.
In ma'na it's an object.
So when you're reading really quickly, you realize
that, hold on, no, no, it's na'ib
fa'al.
Anyway, that's a little grammar thingy.
Because I listened to it yesterday.
I was like, oh, no, it was, it's
supposed to be marfoo.
I was mistaken.
Okay.
So here it is, the main line.
The narrators of this, of these hadiths are
known for trustworthiness.
So their adalah is good.
Adalah is good.
However, his itqan, his competence in transmitting perfectly
is less than the sahih.
So he's like a B plus A minus
student.
So he is far higher than the one
that you would reject.
And the hasan is just like the sahih
in ihtijaj.
Ihtijaj means use as evidence.
We can fully use it as evidence.
Even if it's in the actual strength and
the competence, it's a little less.
So much so that some of the scholars
put this as a type of sahih, a
subcategory of sahih hadiths.
Hadith hasan al-isnadi aw sahihuhu doona qawlihim
hadithun sahihun aw hasanun lianahu qad yasihhu aw
yahsunu al-isnadu doona al-matni li shudhuthin
aw illatin.
When they say hadith hasan al-isnad or
sahih, doona qawlihim hadithun sahih or hasan.
When Tirmidhi and others say hasanun sahih, the
meaning is that it's been transmitted with two
chains.
One is sahih and the other is hasan.
Next page.
Next page I'm going to do the Q
&A then the Wednesday du'a.
The hadith of al-masabih divided by al
-baghawi into hasan and sahih.
When he says something is sahih, he means
it is what is in the sunan.
So no one could say that sahih is
what's in Bukhari and Muslim.
That's correct.
But no one could say that hasan hadith
is found in the sunan.
No.
The sunan, Abu Dawood Tirmidhi al-Nasai ibn
Majah, these four sunan famous books have in
it sahih, hasan, daif and even some munkar.
So it's not accurate to say Bukhari and
Muslim are filled with sahih hadiths while the
other four are filled with hasan hadiths.
That's not how it works.
Because the other four have a number of
hadiths.
Tirmidhi is a source to know what the
hasan hadith looks like.
And he's the one who made it famous.
And the editions, manuscripts differ.
Sometimes one says hasan, one another says sahih.
So when you have a Tirmidhi, you need
to compare it.
Because what's spread, there are differences in what
he said is hasan and what he said
is sahih.
So you have to compare it with the
reliable manuscripts.
Of course, we're not going to do that.
The book editors are entrusted to do that.
When they do a, take a manuscript and
render it into a publication.
One of the locations of hasan hadith is
the sunan of Abu Dawood.
There's a dal missing there.
So Abu Dawood, he brought in it what
is sahih and close to it.
But if it has weakness, he clarifies it.
And if Abu Dawood mentions a hadith and
he doesn't mention anything after it, it's a
good hadith.
So what you find in Abu Dawood that
somebody else hasn't said is sahih.
So he's the only one who brings it.
And he doesn't comment on it, then it's
hasan.
So if you want to know madhan al
hasan, so far he says go to Tirmidhi
and then go to Abu Dawood.
The bulk of those hadith will be what's
called al hasan.
What's the third one?
Where you can find that the bulk of
the are categorized with this category of called
hasan.
This is, Abu Dawood is not the same
Abu Dawood.
There's two different Abu Dawoods.
Abu Dawood al-Tayalisi wrote a musnad, not
a sunan.
This Abu Dawood is the Sijistani.
You know, that's, we have a place called
Sijis here.
I just call it Sijistan, right?
Right?
Give it an Islamic name, right?
Abu Dawood, right?
It's called Sijistan.
MashaAllah, we have a lunch with those brothers.
Jummah, inshallah.
Yeah.
All the institutes here, we like to get
along and we do that by eating together.
We'll be meeting with the different imams that
teach in different institutes and masajid.
We're going to be meeting at Mihrab's new
restaurant.
Khorasan, it's called.
Khorasan, Sijistan, everything, right?
Mihrab's new restaurant.
Beautiful restaurant in Metuchen, New Jersey.
Metuchen is, this is Edison, big city called
Edison, which the Hindus have taken over.
In the middle of Edison, there's a town,
which is really weird.
Edison, and then inside of Edison is Metuchen.
Metuchen is really nice, right?
And there's a, the best downtown area in
Central Jersey is Metuchen.
Even, probably even better than Princeton's.
A bunch of stuck-up snobs, right?
But they do have some nice ice cream
over there.
And they have a nice, some other nice
restaurants.
But Metuchen is one of the nicest downtown
areas.
And our friend Mihrab, he opened up an
Afghani restaurant there.
It's really good.
Beautiful sitting.
Right?
And we're going to go, there's a majlis
where it's raised and you sit on the
floor.
And the whole thing is a window that
opens up to the streets.
You get some fresh air.
It's very nice.
That's the best seating, honestly.
Yeah.
I don't like tables.
Yeah.
Omar has moved, by the way.
Omar used to be seated right there on
a desk with screens everywhere.
Now he's gone Zohd mode and he's on
the floor.
And he made himself a little desk, little
tiny table desk with two by fours and
a flat piece of wood.
And he's sitting there.
He's the first DJ, radio guy, producer to
be on the floor.
He is the most humble producer.
Okay.
So Abu Dawood Al-Tayalisi is different from
Abu Dawood, the other Abu Dawood, Sahib Al
-Sunan.
So he says, he lists now two more
books, Musnad Ahmad, Sunan Abu Dawood Al-Tayalisi.
So when you have a narrator who's very
well known for his Sidq, he's honest.
But he's less.
He cannot say he's a Hafidh Dhabit.
He cannot say he's an A plus or
a high A in Hadith.
But what he narrates has been found everywhere,
has been found in many other places.
Then such a Hadith goes up from Hassan
to Sahih.
And that's what they call Sahih because it
has so many collections.
Another definition.
So where the narrator, he is, his Adalah,
his uprightness is good.
But in his narration, he's considered weak.
He has mistakes in his narration.
But in this case, he narrates something that
many, many, many, many others narrated.
So by itself, his Hadith is daif.
By itself, it's daif.
But when we find it in many other
places, it goes up to the level of
Hassan.
However, if it's daif because of the Adalah,
the uprightness of the narrator, then it doesn't
matter.
That chain will always be daif.
So the daft, if a person's accuracy is
affected, it can be cured.
It can be cured by other narrations and
his Hadith will be elevated.
But if his Adalah is not, it's attacked,
then nothing helps.
Okay.
Let's see the picture Omar picked for me
this time around.
Let's see.
What do you think?
So yes or no?
Well, not bad.
Okay, good.
That's true.
Very true.
So should I make a mean face then?
Here, how's that?
There, boom.
Of course, 100%.
100%.
That's true.
Here, take a look at the screen now.
How's that mean face?
Here, take a mean face.
Or how about this?
Shocked.
What are you doing?
Blowing people up like this.
Week two passed, we didn't do the NFL
report.
By the way, I do have a comment
on the NFL.
We're going to watch now the Chiefs go
through the league.
When you're the Bengals, anyone here from Cincinnati?
Anyone here a fan of the Bengals?
You cannot have, you cannot miss an extra
point against the Chiefs.
You cannot leave those points on the board.
I'm sitting there and I only let myself
watch TV if I'm on the treadmill.
That's the rule.
You want candy?
Eat vegetables first.
So I'm sitting there and I'm like, oh,
the Chiefs, the Bengals, you just missed an
extra point.
You cannot miss extra points against the old
Patriots.
You can't miss those little things.
Cannot have that.
Cannot happen.
Lo and behold, they lose by one.
They lost by one.
If they had made that extra point, then
the final kick would have tied the game.
Let's go to Q&A for a little
bit and then we close on our Dua
of Wednesday.
Green Jacket Guy says, doctors in hospitals always
carry pagers.
So pagers are a lot more popular than
we think.
Yeah, Crimson Flare is correct.
I mean, the guy makes up his own
prophecy.
He makes up.
Why didn't he make up his own Tajweed
rules?
You would expect an Imam, if you're the
Khalifa of a whole sect, type at least
study the Quran a little bit.
Muslim countries need to start manufacturing their own
devices.
There's a saying back in the day, the
Arab nations import everything from the needle to
the missile.
They don't produce anything.
Let me ask a question.
What does Egypt, let's say, produce besides ful
and kahk?
Don't they have like cotton or something?
We're supposed to have the best cotton in
the world.
We're supposed to have the best honey in
the world, right?
Cotton, the best cotton in the world comes
out of Egypt.
Forget the material stuff.
Even the culture is imported.
When your culture is imported, when your mind
isn't, your epistemology is imported.
Your secularists, it's imported.
How many hours per week should be dedicated
for ARKview Essentials?
Big Baller Brandon, I think you should take
two classes a week.
Just because of your name.
You're not nobody.
You're Big Baller Brandon.
So you at least got to take two
classes a week.
Elaborate on the high rank Imam Ahmed's Musnad,
says Onyx Chaney.
Imam Ahmed's Musnad, first of all, it has
40,000 entries around.
Imam Ahmed's Musnad, many, many people have attempted
to re-chapterize it by Bab.
So how is it chaptered now?
By the narrator.
It's organized by narrators.
He begins with the four Khalifas, then Ahlulbayt,
and then those who attended Badr, they made
the Hijrah, then those who attended Badr, then
those who attended Uhud, and so on and
so forth.
That's what a Musnad does.
It narrates by narrator.
Whereas the Sunan are chaptered by legal books.
So what's the first thing?
It's usually Iman, Aqeedah basically, then knowledge, then
Tahara, then Salah, then Saum, Zakah, Hajj, Zaba
'ah, meats and foods, then marriage, divorce, financial
transactions, war, conflict, court rulings, things like that.
Everything related to governance, then inheritance.
And then sometimes it goes into now other
subjects that won't fit in legal chapters like
Zuhd, Asceticism, Tafsir, hadiths related to Tafsir, Manakib,
virtues of different companions, virtues of different cities
like Mecca, virtues of Medina, virtues of Quds.
Those extra chapters like that are neither Aqeedah
nor Fiqh.
Oh here we go.
Camera's out but we'll keep going anyway with
the voice only.
But it's not even hot today.
So the Musnad of Imam Ahmed, many people
have attempted to re-chapterize the whole book
and put it in the form of a
web like this.
Imam Ahmed uses hadiths that he doesn't necessarily
use in his law.
He puts hadiths that reliable jurists utilize.
That's his condition, that reliable jurists utilize.
It's back Omar.
It's overheating.
Bring the fan.
Okay that's Imam Ahmed's Musnad.
A lot of praises of Sayyidina Ali and
Ahlul Bayt are derived from that.
Next question.
Someone please answer AQ's store.
What?
AQ?
Who's that?
AQ's question.
Is it permissible for men to wear manly
leather bracelets?
Probably the Madhhabs differ but in the Madiki
school we're not allowed to wear jewelry.
And would a leather bracelet be jewelry?
I believe so because if it has a
function it's not considered jewelry.
A watch has a function.
A necklace that has your keys on it
and your belongings is not jewelry.
So if it has a function it's not
jewelry.
People who need to use necklaces to carry
stuff.
Like a worker who's working all day and
throws it on his neck.
It's not considered jewelry.
Yeah I guess just in case.
Hook up the fan just in case.
Rezil says iPhones, walkie-talkies, intercoms and other
electronics have exploded in Lebanon.
Yeah we read from that early on.
A precedent that I think is going to
change a lot of the way things are
done.
It has to be, right?
If you can't trust anything anymore then you're
creating a worldwide panic.
When you do that, that's only the work
of devils.
It's create a worldwide panic.
How to approach the beliefs of 12 or
Shia family as an older son.
That's a tough one.
Trainskinfly is asking.
This is his name.
Very tough.
Very tough.
I would probably not open the can of
worms of debate because what you'll do is
actually just make them more stubborn.
That's what debate does and it makes your
opponent research more and get better at their
heresy.
So I would actually not do that if
I were you.
And if it's family and you live with
them you're going to have to play the
long game with them.
I don't think that you should hide your
beliefs.
That is the very good Shia thing to
do but I wouldn't hide your beliefs because
that's also going to be a problem.
Eventually you have to come out and say,
I'm a Sunni.
Eventually because otherwise how long are you going
to keep hiding it?
Maybe you can ask them.
They'd probably know best how to keep hiding
stuff.
Taqi is part of their religion, right?
But eventually it's not part of ours.
Eventually you got to say the truth.
Eventually you got to say the truth.
But I wouldn't debate them.
I would just be good and I would
play the long game with your family.
Over the years and decades they see that
this has improved your life.
It made you better.
And for that you need a lot of
tazkiyah of your nafs.
Tazkiyah of your nafs and learning knowledge just
in case they want to ask questions.
How much money should a man save before
he gets married?
He should have money for the sadaq, which
is the dowry.
He should have money for the waleema.
He should have money for the furnishing of
the house.
In Egypt they tend to be 50-50
in marriage relationships.
It tends to be 50-50.
Not in the income.
I'm saying in the furnishing.
Don't get me wrong.
Not in income.
I'm saying when they furnish the house, the
wife's family will help with certain things, the
husband's family will help.
In Syria, I was told, everything is on
the husband.
The whole furnishing of the house.
This stuff is orfi.
It's cultural, right?
It's cultural.
So you do have to furnish the house
though.
And then you have to have enough money
in income to support all this every month.
So let me ask you a question.
Which side is jutting out more, this or
this?
Both.
What's your eye test?
Yeah, it looks like it died up because
look, this seems to be higher on the
screen than this.
So that means this needs to be pushed
back or this needs to be pushed forward.
It could be the table.
It could be the floor.
But it's one of these like pet peeves
that to me, I see it going up
this way and down.
Yeah.
Very slight.
How to practically get rid of laziness, says
Muhammad Rehan.
Get a job where you have to be
there.
Any job that's solitary, like a writer for
example, you have to motivate yourself to get
up and write.
But if you have a job where you
have to show up, that breaks your laziness.
What do you have advice for people who
want to study in Mauritania?
I cannot give advice to something that I
didn't do.
But my advice is talk to Shaykh Rami
Nsour.
Contact Taiba Foundation.
And Nabil, who works as the Taiba Foundation,
he went to Mauritania.
He can give you advice.
You can call us and we'll connect you
to Shaykh Murabit Benavidez.
He went to Mauritania.
He can give you advice.
So talk to somebody who has been there.
Probably the most recent is the most beneficial.
Looks like we just went through an earthquake.
Keep going.
Keep going.
Keep going.
And I think you got it.
I know.
Keep going.
Oh, it's lagging.
So am I talking to you?
Yeah, I'm talking to old you.
That's good.
Perfect.
You did it.
Wonderful.
Wonderful.
Very good.
Would you advise that your first Umrah be
with a knowledgeable group?
One hundred percent.
Don't go by yourself.
In your first Umrah, go with a group.
Any advice for a convert, new Muslim?
Yeah, I think the best thing to do
is an on-site, in-person friend group
that will help you navigate everything you learn.
So be smart about who you select as
a friend.
And when you select somebody as a friend
and as a group that I trust these
people, I like these people, then when you
learn something, show them.
Is this right?
Is this wrong?
I think stability is the most important thing.
It's going to be very hard for you
to figure everything out right away.
But be selective about your friend group.
Up to the point, and what you see
online, and when you read in books, always
go back to them.
Yeah.
With respect to introducing people, if someone is
not inclined, what's the best way to introduce
them to that as a whole?
So inviting them to attend, is that the
best way?
Yeah.
Invite to Allah give you a solid job
and open the doors of rizq for you.
If you want the doors of rizq to
be opened, wake up early.
Even if you go back to sleep, at
least wake up early for that period of
time.
As the sun is rising, when you pray
Fajr, this whole sunrise, you should be awake
at that time.
Even if you let go, let's say your
shift is like from later on, then you
have no reason to wake up early.
But at least wake up for the period
from Fajr to Dhuhr.
Dhuhr starts in when the sun, 20 minutes
after Ishraq.
20 minutes after Ishraq.
So see, when Fajr is out, let's say
hypothetically at 6.05, 6.25, so be
up minimum for 6.30, that period of
time, either doing zikr or doing work, right?
The blessing is in that period of time.
How do I get rid of huge debt
with interest?
You can apply for zikr.
Yeah?
You can apply for zikr.
Zikr can, you can apply for zikr for
the principal and pay off the principal with
that.
What is the Arabic class start with Sheikh
Mahdi Laq?
Arabic with Mahdi Laq?
September 28.
Is it permissible to return salaam to a
non-Muslim who said it correctly?
I don't want to speak on the four
madhhabs, I have to ask about that, but
what I understand is that it's, the salaam
is specific for the Muslims.
That is, that's the well-known thing that
you, actually, I haven't actually seen it in
a book of fiqh.
I want to see it.
It's probably in the bab jama'a at
the end.
You can just say wa'alaikum, right?
Yeah, you can say wa'alaikum.
Is your online awaylam class open to under
17?
Yes, you can.
Essentials, I teach a class on Sunday.
Even if you're under 17, but if you
understand, you can attend it.
What is the ruling in masjid farid prayer?
Sometimes I notice a brother is moving away
and I keep filling the gap.
One, if someone, his shoulder is not touching
you, then you may signal to him to
come closer to you.
And if it's a child, you can even
puttle him a little bit to come closer
to you.
But you only really need to do this
once.
If they do it a second and a
third and a fourth, now it's going to
be laghu in your prayer.
A lot of movement that's unnecessary.
And it's shoulder to shoulder is what you
should worry about.
Maya Rihab is out of Massachusetts, one of
our best ARCFU students.
She's finished shaykh's sister had his classes, and
now she's ready to take the adult classes.
She's probably now an adult, young adult now.
Started when she was like 10, five years
ago.
So it's probably like 14, 15 now.
Why do people back up when making up
misrakas?
I don't know.
There's no rule for that.
I mean, maybe you just saw that, but
there's no rule for that.
You have a question?
Yeah, speak it.
Okay, that's a good question.
What is the best form of salawat to
do if you want to do large quantities?
And Habib Omar said, it's whatever settles in
your heart and inspires your heart most.
And if you want the shortest one, Allahumma
salli wa sallim alayh.
Classes for under 10, where can I find
it?
Under 10 classes are says Bilal Mir is
with Moeen.
So on Essentials, you go to Moeen, communicate
with him on WhatsApp.
And then he has classes once a week,
Sundays.
And there are youth classes that are recorded
that you could watch too.
All right, is this a cheetah?
Or is it a jaguar?
This phone case?
Is it a leopard?
A cheetah or a jaguar?
I really don't know.
We had this debate today.
Is it a cheetah, jaguar or a leopard?
I think it's a cheetah too.
This is permitted in the Mariki school by
the way.
It's not a full body and it has
no shadow.
Our Hanafi madhab is different, right?
Because I received many calls for repentance in
the masjid.
For this.
Yeah.
With respect to platforms like LinkedIn, if you
know that someone who's reached out to you
is a major fasiq or is indeed, but
there's some business angle that you can use
to to your advantage in some way, form
or fashion, is it permissible to accept that
connection?
Yeah, it is permissible.
It is permissible.
When you do tijara, buying and selling, you
don't have to ask if this person, what
his deen and aqid is when you buy
and sell.
Like for example, if I need someone to
do IT for me, I don't need to
check his religious background.
I don't need to check his, if it
comes to me that this guy is going
to donate money to the hindutva, whatever, blah,
blah, blah, that harms Muslims.
If that comes to me reliably, then at
that point I won't do tijara with him.
But him just being a Hindu or just
being Jewish, just being something is irrelevant to
me.
It has to be clear to me that
he's going to do something bad.
Then at that point I won't do tijara
with him.
But I don't even have to ask.
You don't have to ask.
Imams al-Subqi and Nawawi in their aqidah
and Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Muhammad Raihan saying,
is there even a discussion on there for
this?
There's no discussion needed in their reliability in
the deen overall as imams.
And in Nawawi most of all, of all
of them, what you mentioned.
Ibn Hajar of course too.
Nobody ever has attacked their deen, their aqidah,
their adherence to the sunnah.
Sunnah here I mean in all matters.
The sunnah regarding aqidah and the sunnah regarding
the manhaj in general, the usul.
No discussion on this.
Uwais Fazal doesn't like the phone case.
It's a great phone case.
It's a Bengali tiger according to some people,
a cheetah according to some people.
There's a ikhtiraf.
Not a cheetah.
Murad says, wife said divorce me.
Husband said okay.
No, he did not divorce yet.
She says, just let's look at the language
here.
Give me a hundred bucks.
You said okay.
Do I have a hundred bucks now?
No, it didn't happen yet.
Where can we find Friday Night at MBIC?
You can find it on Mixler, Safina Society's
Mixler channel.
Can I return the salam to a woman?
Yes, you may.
I don't think that, that's in general.
If an auntie comes and says assalamu alaikum
for a second, say walaikum assalam, right?
If someone who is a fattana comes and
says assalamu alaikum, you could say walaikum assalam
without looking at the person if she's a
fitna.
Is ilmul huruf haram according to the Maliki
madhab?
Yes, we don't do that.
Ilmul huruf talks about grids for protection, numerology
grids.
Is that what you're talking about?
We don't really do that.
What principles should a person keep in mind
when interacting with the opposite gender online?
Messaging and stuff can lead to talk that's
not appropriate and hearts that getting attached to
each other in ways that's not appropriate.
So you should avoid those.
And I don't think any guy has any
business following a sister's Instagram page and then
commenting on every picture she puts.
First of all, you're not going to get
you anywhere that you're just going to look
like a creep when you do that.
If someone has immodest photos online, is it
a right of one seeking marriage to see
and know what they will have to deal
with from others if they marry, says the
kinetic nomad?
Well, the online is like a public sphere.
If you put out something out there, if
I hire somebody, if I want to marry
somebody, if I want to get involved with
somebody, I would research about them.
So yes, I would go online and see
what they're all about.
And if I see that their social media
page, that this is what they put without
any shame and it's bad, then I won't
marry them.
There's nothing wrong with doing a social media
search.
That's their public behavior, essentially.
Nothing wrong with that.
Here's Soundscapade says, my Muslim friend married a
Christian woman.
Now her family wants to baptize their baby.
Any advice for the brother on how to
handle this issue?
Well, he needed to be seeking it.
Firstly, he needed to seek that advice well
in advance to plan.
Let's say, okay, you're going to marry this
Christian woman.
All right.
We have statements about that.
That's makrooh in this kind of land, highly
makrooh in this kind of country where you
don't have control over things and the courts
are not going to care about the deen.
But at least you should have made things
pretty clear from the get go, the kids
will be Muslim and agree to that.
Now you didn't do that.
Or you did, but the other family really
doesn't respect it.
Now it's a bit late to be coming
and asking about this.
But ultimately, at the end of the day,
they can want to baptize the baby all
they want.
You want something is different from you doing
something.
So you, I think that he's got his
work cut out for him.
Is it haram to cut my sides and
leave the top hair?
Ahmed Abdullah, don't tell me you're going to
do one of those mushroom cuts where your
hair is like a big mop at the
top.
You know, this haircut is getting more and
more popular.
What is it called?
Not a skin fade.
No, no.
It's like they totally cut the sides, but
they leave a mop at the top.
It's like a mushroom.
Yeah.
And they curl it too.
So that's, we have, we read, I think,
before on the stream that in the Maliki
school, the Qaza is the problem.
Qaza.
Yeah.
The problem with the Qaza.
Let's see if that article is up.
Qaza.
It's a, first of all, makrooh.
That's number one.
So it's not haram, it's makrooh.
That's the first thing.
Secondly, what is the interpretation of what the
prophet meant by this Qaza?
Is it a skin fade?
According to the Maliki, the answer is no.
Qaza.
Sorry, not Qaza.
It's not just the fact of having a
skin fade.
No, that's not what it is.
It's the unevenness.
So he saw a baby whose half the
head was shaved here and the other half
was left.
So that according to al-Nafrawi, and I
can read that too.
I mean, I have it with me.
Let's pull it up here.
Let me pull up al-Nafrawi on this
subject, which we covered, I think, some while
back.
Let me pull it up real quick.
It's not about the part being short and
part being long.
That's not what Qaza is about.
Qaza is about unevenness in the haircut.
I'm just giving you this Madhab, Maliki school.
It's deep into one of the final chapters
of al-Risal of Ibn Abi Zayd.
I thought we had put it up in
MFQA, Maliki Fiqh QA.
I thought we had put that up there.
Let's see.
We also have a clip on that too,
on Qaza.
I want to get you the exact quote
though.
What's Qaza in the Hanafi school, Omer?
Okay, I don't see it here.
We're going to have to upload that question
here.
But ultimately, it's not
just trimming the sides and having the top
long is not the issue.
It's the issue is the unevenness.
We'll get the whole thing and make a
clip out of it.
We already answered it.
There's a clip, but we can answer it
again, just for the sake of it.
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Can you make Dua by raising hands after
the Fard Salah?
Yes, you can.
There's nothing wrong with that.
In fact, after Fard Salah is the best
time to make Dua.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was asked, what
Dua is most heard?
He said, the one in the middle of
the night and the one at the end
of the prayer.
His wording wasn't clear whether he meant the
end of prayer or after the prayer.
So the scholar said, do both.
Can I get an enemy waifu in Jannah?
An enemy waifu?
What's a waifu?
What is a waifu?
It's some nerd stuff.
Don't worry about it.
Lionel Flappa.
Is school out early or what?
Can I get an enemy waifu in Jannah?
Basically a cartoon spouse.
Ahmad Abdullah, how big was Egypt during the
time of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam?
Well, when the Sahaba arrived at Egypt, the
city, the main city was what we now
call Old Cairo.
And then Cairo was built after that, way
after that, many years after that.
Expanded into what we now know as Cairo.
But when you go to Old Cairo, that's
the area which the Sahaba used to term
Fustat.
And so that's where they sat.
When the Sahaba would go to a new
territory, they wouldn't go and go into this
people's city and take over their city.
They'd make their own city.
And sometimes they lived in the city, like
Damascus.
But Iraq, they made their own city, Kufa.
Egypt, they had a garrison.
These are garrison towns.
What is the ruling on scholars and followers
who reject the return of Prophet Isa?
The return of the Prophet Isa is an
obligatory belief on Muslims.
It's implicitly applied in the Quran, saying, He
will speak to people in the cradle and
in old age.
And we all know the Prophet Isa has
not lived in old age here.
And there are no people walking around in
the heavens.
So therefore, it means on the earth, he
will attain old age.
And there's another verse where it implies this
in the Quran, saying, There is none from
the people of the books except that they
will believe in him before his death.
So therefore, he hasn't died yet.
They will believe in him before his death.
Therefore, he hasn't died yet.
So he's been raised and not dead.
So the ayah that some groups like to
cite is, either it means, we are
making you have a deep sleep, and in
that deep sleep, we'll raise you up.
Or it means, you will die, but first
you'll be raised up, meaning it's a listing
of things out of order.
Or it's saying, yes, you will die a
normal death, but first we're raising you up.
He is the one who makes you have
a deep sleep at night.
So can have those two meanings, take your
life, or give you a deep sleep.
And Allah knows best.
But such a person would put himself outside
of Islam, if you don't believe in the
second.
How about all the hadith?
You would have to reject so many hadith.
If you reject one of those hadith, because
you don't like the content, you're going to
have to reject all the hadith that come
from those companions in that chain.
So you can't just say in court, if
a witness is deemed upright and an acceptable
witness, you have to accept everything they say.
You can't say, that I don't accept, this
I accept.
So when a hadith comes that sounds, you
have to accept all the hadith that come
from those sources.
So now you reject the hadith about Prophet
Isa, you're going to have to reject everything
else in those hadith, and all those companions
and tabi'in and chains that narrated other
hadith too.
Now you're in a big mess.
That's why we don't do hadith criticism through
the text.
You do it through the chain.
You got to run?
Okay, go ahead.
Here is Abu'l-Hassan asking, is it
acceptable to slaughter an animal while its feet
is hanging on a hook next to another
animal hanging on a hook?
Firstly, it is haram to do such a
thing.
But the slaughter is valid.
There is a concept of sinful but valid.
Let me give you an example of sinful
but valid.
If I pray a perfect prayer, I did
everything I should do by the book, but
the whole time I was watching TV.
My prayer technically is valid.
What will Allah accept from it?
Allah knows best.
Very little.
But I was sinful in watching TV.
So likewise, when people slaughter in the incorrect
manner, but they do slaughter, a valid slaughter,
but the discouragements and prohibitions are surrounding it,
such as sharpening the knife in front of
the animal, taunting the animal, maybe slaughtering it
in front of other animals, putting a dead
animal in front of the animal.
So all of these are sinful bad deeds
that I'm doing.
Torture to the animal.
But the animal itself, the meat, is valid
to be eaten.
How does a man who took a lot
of money from his parents and profited fix
it if they died without him paying it
back?
Settle debt with the state?
Correct.
Yes.
So you borrowed from your parents $100,000.
Your parents die.
Your $100,000 became $400,000 because of
your business.
$300,000 is yours.
$100,000 has to go back into the
estate and be divided equally to everyone who
deserves an inheritance.
And you could calculate it yourself.
And you would announce it to whoever manages
their estate and say, well, what is their
estate?
There was debts to be paid.
There were bequests.
Those would have gone out anyway.
And then my brother would have inherited this.
My sister would have inherited that.
So you owe them the money.
And part of it would have went to
you too, right?
So you keep that part for yourself.
Let's make it clean.
Let's say it's two boys and one girl.
That's an inheritance divided into five because each
boy gets two and the sister gets one.
So let's make it $20,000 a pop,
a share.
So your brother, you owe him $40,000.
Your sister, you owe her $20,000.
And then the $40,000, you keep the
rest because that would have been your inheritance.
That's a hypothetical that there's only those three
inheritors, you and two others.
Button Masher says, Button Masher.
I need an answer quick.
Okay, Button Masher.
Let's go up to that.
The better technique is just to repeat the
question again, then make me scroll up.
I don't see Button Masher's question here.
Here is David Baither says, after
the Bismillah, is it adequate to strike fatally
with an arrow or bullet and it dies?
Yes.
Or is it obligatory to cut the two
throat arteries after?
As long as what you shot it with,
whether it's a bullet, even if it's a
rounded edge bullet or an arrow and it
bleeds out of that, that's sufficient.
But if you go and you find it
alive, then you have to slaughter it.
If you catch up to the animal and
you find that it's still alive, then you
slaughter it.
But if you shoot it and you catch
up with it, as soon as you go
there, it's dead already.
You don't need to do anything more.
What is Button Masher's question?
I can't see it.
Button Masher, you got to put it up.
In Maliki Fiqh says, Nasir, is it allowed
to make Dua in Ruku?
No, don't do that.
Makruh.
If the Imam prolongs in the Ruku, he
says, and I have spare time, keep making
Tasbeeh.
Tasbeeh in the Maliki school is not just
three, Subhanallah, it's any Tasbeeh as much with
no limit to the number.
How do you maintain Tahara or purity while
using English or Western toilets?
So if you get splashed on, you have
to wash off that Najasa with water, flowing
water that flows off clean.
The Q&A for Jahangir is for any
question.
It doesn't have to be on any subject
or related to Fiqh.
Would you recommend a new Arabic speaker to
learn the Egyptian dialect?
If he's going to live there, yes, so
he doesn't get himself in some kind of
trouble or just not knowing the language of
the country you're living in.
And the best way to do it is
watching Egyptian news, Egyptian shows, etc.
Are taking luxury car loans allowed with Islamic
finance?
Yeah, yes, you can, no problem.
If there's a financing option that's Halal, you
can buy anything with it.
Is wearing a copper bracelet permissible for a
man to wear?
Not in the Maliki school, no.
We don't wear jewelry, any jewelry, except for
one ring.
That's it, silver ring, silver or any non
-gold.
What advice do you give to a practicing
brother who is being asked by a potential
for marriage to leave reading and watching ulama
they don't agree with the Salafi menhij?
Oh, that don't agree with the Salafi menhij.
So the brother, he's proposing to, let's just
take out all specifics.
I believe that a husband and wife should
agree on matters of religion so that you
don't clash at the end of the day.
Let's leave out all the specifics, right?
That's a general high ground principle right there.
You should agree on matters of religion.
You should agree on matters of where to
live.
You should agree on matters of what the
general overall future you want for your family.
For example, we want to live here and
have a family here.
What is the work that she's going to
do?
Is she, for example, do you have any
requirements for that?
Does she have any interests?
You should agree on that so that you
don't say, hey, I never wanted you to
work full-time and you have that argument.
You should agree on what is your family
budget going to look like so you don't
argue about that later on.
So that you would say, listen, this is
how much money I plan to make for
life.
I plan to be at this level of
living for life versus, yeah, it's this now,
but eventually in the future, it's going to
be way up here.
So the expectation on finances should generally, of
course, we don't know what's going to happen,
but generally what your intention is should be
stated.
And if she agrees to that intention, then
you're good to go.
If she doesn't, you have a problem.
What do you want in terms of children?
Is there anything?
Is it open-ended?
Is it I only want one kid?
What if somebody says, I don't want to
have kids in the next five years?
All those are up for discussion that you
need to agree on.
Certain things have to agree on.
Other things you don't have to agree on.
I like camping.
I like cities.
I like hotels.
I like nature.
I like Chinese food.
I like Indian food.
All that is actually better for your family
to be diverse because your kids grow up
with a diversity in the household rather than
everyone's the same.
Temperament is good to be different.
I'm quick to anger.
She's calm or vice versa.
You improve the family when you have diversity
in certain things, but other foundations have to
be the same.
If all I had is an hour to
remember Allah, to do dhikr, then you should
divide it between the Qur'an and the
salah on the prophet's eyes.
That's how simple it is.
That's how simple I would do it.
Divide it in half or divide it in
thirds.
Qur'an, salawat, dua.
I would begin with istighfar.
The whole thing.
The begin with 100 istighfar of the whole
thing.
And then divide it into three parts like
that.
How do you become a good teacher?
Any dua to get the high schoolers to
behave?
Says Seneca.
So to be a good teacher, I think
you have a combination of two things.
Number one, you need good content.
Number two, you need good persuasive techniques.
Persuasive techniques and entertaining techniques.
It's not that you're an entertainer.
You're a teacher, but you need techniques to
keep them interested.
One of these techniques that I've come across
lately that is important for our day and
age is not to hold to one teaching
method for too long.
So a one-hour lecture will be very
hard.
40-minute lecture with 20 minutes Q&A
for students may be too difficult.
But if you break up the class into
15 or 20-minute segments, the class is
always exciting.
And each segment should be opposite of the
other.
So watching a video is a segment.
Group activity is a segment.
Lecture is a segment.
Q&A is a segment.
By breaking up the segments like this, you
keep their attention span going.
If you don't agree on things in a
marriage, says Pendago, or a decision made, and
you want a divorce, how can you be
sure that you're not selfish in wanting it?
Good question.
Pendago, hopefully you have family members and you
could take their nasiha before making such a
drastic, drastic decision, such as talking to your
mom, talking to your dad.
What do they think about this?
Is this worthy of a divorce?
Sometimes you hear about certain things and you
wonder, did you talk to anybody?
Because certain things are not worthy of a
divorce.
For example, a texting spat between the woman
and your sister.
I once received that question and I said,
no, that is not material for divorce.
That's not close.
Right?
It's not material.
This is not something you divorce over.
How about this one?
Let's say getting yanked and dragged by your
hair down the hallway.
Subhanallah.
If that happened to your daughter, what would
you do?
And hold on, and you stayed and you're
telling me this like a month later?
What would I raise?
A fool?
That's different completely.
So my answer to Pendago is go talk
to somebody who you trust that will tell
you whether you're being selfish or not.
And pray a lot of istikhara.
LeVon Brown says, should we provide an infrastructure
for Muslim politicians in the US?
110%.
100%.
100%.
Some Muslim politicians have mentioned they have little
or no support or chaplaincy.
We should support them.
Support them by telling the truth.
That's the way we support them.
You can't support someone if you're always just
sort of putting them down, for example.
So the tarbiyah of anybody, politician or otherwise,
has to be with mercy, slowness, gentleness, slow
and steady.
Because you can get, it's fathomable, you have
someone who's way off in left field and
wants the truth.
But they don't know any better or they
think what they understand is the truth.
So this is the only, the way to
do this is slow and steady with people.
If Firaun was told, Prophet Musa said, was
told to go to Firaun with a gentle
word.
Or any of these Muslim politicians who may
be advocating for something wrong.
Are they like Firaun?
No.
Firstly, he's trying to do something good.
Secondly, if he doesn't know something, how is
he going to know if you're so mean
to him and you reject him?
How's he going to ever know?
Sounds capade in Maliki fiqh is submerging our
body in water while swimming with niyyah of
wudu enough or is rubbing required?
Yes, rubbing is required.
Rubbing is always required.
So if I go into a pool of
water whose color, taste or scent has not
changed and I dive in there, I still
do have to touch my limbs, rub my
limbs, my four major limbs of wudu, wipe
the hair, rub the arms, rub the entire
face and the feet until the ankles.
What about birthday celebrations?
I believe that at a matter of muru
'ah, it's like the nobility of a person
or this respectability of a person is that
birthday, the older you get, the smaller it
gets.
Can you imagine in our culture, in our
orf, any of our shuyukh having a party
for himself at 55, 60, even an elder
in the masjid.
Could I fathom someone in the first suff,
oh it's his birthday, one of these pious
people who always comes to pray.
Oh it's his birthday, oh happy birthday.
I can't fathom that.
Yeah, that's not a problem, right?
People say something, oh masha'Allah, you look
young, blah, blah, blah.
That's fathomable, right?
But can I fathom that we're going to
go and have a party for him?
No, I can't fathom that.
Like that, I can't fathom.
Even the milad of the Prophet ﷺ is
not a birthday party.
It's ridiculous who talks like that.
It is a gratitude for the greatest ni'mah
that the earth has received.
On that day, the earth received a ni'mah.
Let me ask you a question.
By the way, national holidays too are blessings
if they have the right reason.
For example, if your country was invaded and
on this day you repelled the invaders and
the invaders left, is that not worthy of
gratitude every year?
By qiyas, Sayyidina Musa ﷺ, they fasted, the
Jews fasted the day the pharaoh was drowned.
They took it as day of shukr, the
day of happiness.
So, it's totally fathomable that the day that
we repelled the British, we repelled the French,
we repelled all these people, that should be
a day of shukr.
It should be marked on the calendar, right?
And you give shukr, battle of Badr, all
these other things.
So, that's not a problem at all.
I don't believe that.
Now, that's not a religious holiday for anyone
else.
It's for you only, right?
So, for example, if I go into a
country and they say, oh, on this day
we celebrate because we repelled our invaders.
We thank Allah, we give sadaqah, we recite
Quran, make dua, and we are happy because
this is a day that we were free
from our invaders.
It's a national day for them and the
way they give shukr for it, those specific
things, you get good deeds for.
Outside of that country, it's not.
So, it's not a religious holiday, but Muslims
will tend to do good deeds in it
as a way of shukr to Allah.
So, we're not saying this is a new
religious holiday for that.
That's only for them.
But in all cases, I think anytime that
Allah has been kind to you, it should
be remembered and you should give shukr for
it on that day.
On that day or any other day, but
what would make sense on that day, right?
If 20th of Shaban, an amazing thing happened,
I was about to lose my baby and
then my baby survived on that day.
It's ever going to be etched in my
head forever.
I should give shukr to Allah constantly.
And on that day, it's reasonable for someone
to say, oh, every day on this day,
I'm going to give sadaqah.
And Allah knows best.
But this is what we've learned from our
shuyukh, is that it is totally understandable and
acceptable to do that.
Give shukr for an imam.
I'm a uni student, blessed with all I
need, but I struggle with motivation, poor academic
performance, and feeling unfulfilled.
I request your advice.
Get a job and make yourself too busy
to be lazy.
So, what do you take?
Four classes, five classes?
Get a job.
Get a part-time job on top of
that.
If you're still lazy after that, get another,
make it a full-time job.
Because when your schedule is packed, you don't
have time for this stuff.
You don't have time.
And when you take classes, you realize, oh
my gosh, I don't have all day to
study.
I have literally two hours.
And then I work, I go home, I
sleep, I gotta sleep early, I gotta wake
up early, all that stuff.
Is istighfar valid if you intend wealth?
Yes, it is.
It's still valid.
Is it halal to come to USA for
a better job?
Let's go to the general principle.
You are allowed, only allowed to travel to
an un-Islamic or non-Muslim majority nation
for the sake of dawah.
If you come to this place, you have
to be engaged in the dawah.
Even if your purpose is for a job,
you can make it halal by being engaged
in the dawah.
So a guy from India, he does so
well at IIT, that's what it's called, right?
IIT?
India Institute of Technology, right?
It's better than MIT now from what I
hear.
That's why they're so good at tech.
No, I didn't make it up.
Someone look it up.
But if you come here and you get
a nice job here in Silicon Valley or
something to make your living here valid and
permitted according to the scholars, the muftis, then
you have to be involved in dawah.
What does that mean?
Giving out pamphlets to your colleagues?
No, it means help the masjid, help the
institutions, support the masjid in any way, shape,
and form.
When we say involved in the dawah, that's
what we mean by that.
It means involved in helping the community in
any way, shape, and form.
Okay, let's take this question.
Can a Muslim wear seal skins and wipe
over it?
We say it's got to be leather or
that's it because it's a rukhsah in the
first place.
And rukhsah, Malik doesn't do analogy on exceptions.
Khilafah now says, what is your question?
Social media?
What information on the WhatsApp chat?
If you join Essentials, Arcview, you'll get a
link to join the WhatsApp chat if that's
what you're talking about.
When someone joins Arcview, look in your inbox.
Maybe you went into spam or something.
You'll get a link to join the Arcview
chat.
If I woke up right before the end
of Fajr, should I wait until after sunrise
to pray?
No, you pray right away.
Why?
Because what's makrooh, forbidden, is to pray the
naafilah.
It's forbidden to pray naafilah, not fard after
the sun rises.
Is it fard kifayah to refute anti-Islamic
arguments?
Yes, fard kifayah.
It's not fard a'in on everybody.
Fard kifayah means communal obligation.
Fard a'in means specific individual obligation.
If a shaykh says a convert woman doesn't
need a wali if she's already married, is
this valid?
A woman should have a wali to represent
her if she has a dispute with her
husband.
So when a Muslim woman, she has a
husband, what happens when there's a dispute with
the husband?
The whole purpose of the wali is to
represent her Islamic rights and her worldly rights
to the husband.
So she does still need a wali, at
least when the time that I have a
problem comes.
Listen, I don't have a lawyer right now,
hypothetically don't have a lawyer right now, but
if I find myself in a civil suit,
I need to get a lawyer.
Same thing, she doesn't have to get a
wali this moment, but the moment she has
problems and she wants to argue something against
her husband that I'm not getting my rights
and maybe we're going to get a divorce,
then she needs a wali to represent her
Islamic rights as a matter of recommendation.
Highly recommended.
There are two ways of ruling, democracy and
dictatorship.
Selecting of a leader even democratically is fine,
the sahaba did it, but changing laws from
sharia is disbelief.
Is there a question here or are you
talking to somebody else?
Well, there is something else.
We don't ask the layman who he wants
to rule, no.
It's the leaders of the different social groups
in a society, the leaders come together and
choose someone from amongst themselves to rule.
Those leaders become his shura.
So they speak for their people in a
way that their people couldn't represent themselves by.
When the khalifa, the ruler, khalifa, king, sultan,
amir, whatever you want to call it, when
the ruler makes a decision, it is highly
recommended for him to follow the sunnah and
to do istisharah.
He should ask his shura, which are the
leaders of the different social groups.
And taking their advice is up to him.
Once he makes a decision on a course
of action, his whole shura have to be
behind him because you accepted him.
Now you have to accept what comes from
him too.
When your ruler is now starting, maybe getting
crazy or becoming corrupt, then those leaders may
swap him out provided the harms will not
override the benefits.
That's the summary of how to rule in
Islam.
How long is his term?
The shura can, they may decide on a
term.
Where are the shura, where are all the
leaders of the different social groups?
What do we all agree on?
Rule for five years and swap out.
Or you rule to death.
What's proof of this?
Did not al-Hassan find it beneficial to
abdicate?
He found it in the best interest of
the ummah to abdicate.
So when you're a shura, you're basically pre
-abdicating.
You're doing the same thing.
You're saying that we find it most beneficial
that one of us rules only for five
years, then swap out, then another one rule,
then another one rule, and so on and
so forth so that we get a diversity
of perspectives and no group feels that another
group is dominating over everybody else.
So that's permitted to do.
Are there beginner books in Maliki Fiqh?
Yes, go to the beginner book is called,
what is the translation of Ibn Ashir?
The practical guide, that white book, is it
on Amazon?
The practical guide book, Ibn Ashir, it's on
Amazon.
Salam is complaining that he got skipped.
Nida Z, so glad we're back up.
Thank you.
I really appreciate it.
And a lot of gratitude deserves to go
out to the people at YouTube who helped.
So I highly have a lot of gratitude
towards them, for them.
Not yet.
On the 21st, yeah.
Yep.
Where is Salam?
Salam's question.
Where's Salam's question?
What does Salam say?
Salam, just put your question again so I
don't have to scroll up.
A lot of questions today.
Dear Shaykh, the Mubalighin who look at the
non-Mahram while Dawah, isn't it wrong?
Whether Dawah, whether otherwise, if you are Mubaligh,
you cannot look at the opposite gender for
lust.
You can look at them for a reason,
if there's a reason only.
When can Shura swap out the leader?
They can swap him out if he starts
to contravene the Shari'ah or he's completely
betrayed the people.
And swapping him out will not cause greater
harm than good.
This is from Ibn Hajar al-Asqadani.
What are the Sunnah to do when a
baby is born?
From the Sunnah is circumcision for boys.
That's the best, greatest, strongest Sunnah.
From the Sunnah is to whisper the Adhan
in his right ear and the Iqamah in
his left ear so that Dhikr Allah is
the first thing he heard.
From the Sunnah is to cut open a
date with your teeth and rub it along
his gums so he can get some nutrients.
From the Sunnah is to shave his head
and weigh the hair and give that weight
in gold as a Sadaqah, the amount of
its value in gold as a Sadaqah.
From the Sunnah is on the seventh day
to give out, to disperse to people, to
give out to people, one sheep or goat.
So you go get it slaughtered or slaughter
it yourself on the seventh day and then
distribute it to the people.
From the Sunnah is to name the baby
by the seventh day.
What did we miss, Ahmed?
Haqiqah we covered, shaving the head, naming by
the seventh day, circumcision, we mentioned that, the
date, the Adhan.
I think we've covered it.
Does an image on a computer screen have
Aura?
Of course, of course.
What do you mean by that?
Whether it's a cartoon or a photo or
an AI generated image, the rules of looking
apply.
What did Allah forbid?
When he forbade looking at women, what's the
reason?
For lust.
Lust is the reason, right?
So whether it's on a screen or in
physical, because you know there was that wacky
fatwa from a wacky group that used to
say that pictures on a magazine is ink
on paper, so you're not looking at a
woman.
You're looking at ink on paper.
Of course, that group is basically extinct right
now because when you promote things like that,
Allah is going to make you extinct.
These guys used to call for Khilafah in
the day and look at * at night.
Fools.
Many people are stuck on *.
At least they don't make it halal.
I know a lot of people who are
suffering from this fitna.
It's one of the greatest fitnas of our
times.
But at least he's not saying it's halal.
He doesn't approve it for himself.
He makes Toba from it.
T-Roc says they want a religion tailored
to their nafs.
That's true.
At least, at the very least, hate it
for yourself.
Hate the fact that you've fallen into it
and believe Allah can remove me from it
and take the actions that would cause that
to happen, such as always being with Muslims,
always being in masajid, always making wudu, keeping
your finger busy and your tongue busy with
dhikrullah.
Take classes.
Don't leave yourself.
Stow your stuff away at night in the
car.
Keep it in the car.
If your car is parked safely somewhere, you're
not going to get robbed.
Why do you need this tech with you
on your bed at night?
And then you ask, why do I get
fitna?
You get fitna because you invite it to
yourself.
Keep it there.
Have some discipline.
I'm saying have discipline in that because it's
harder to have discipline when the fitna is
right in front of you.
Who's the most disciplined person?
The one who doesn't have to be disciplined,
right?
Get yourself a roommate.
Get three, four roommates so that you'll never
really like in that haraji situation where you're
alone.
Keep the tech in the car at night.
Read books until you fall asleep.
Work out.
Exercise yourself to exhaustion.
You got free time?
Get a job.
Do the things and believe that Allah Ta
'ala can remove you from this situation.
Do the things that will bring about the
ijabah.
But at least these brothers and these sisters,
some of them face this.
At least they believe it's haram and they
hate it for themselves.
But that other group tries to make it
halal and they disappeared anyway.
They're extinct.
Khalifa now, khilafa now says, no, no, no,
I'm not talking about Arkview.
Why aren't you talking about Arkview?
Talk about Arkview.
Get onto Arkview.
Anyway, he said, I saw a video on
social media about a guy doing salawats on
the prophet and there was a group chat.
Oh, that was from the Emirates.
Started from the Emirates and that brother was
from East Africa.
He was from Kenya.
He was Arab, East African, you know, the
habib of Kenya and he ended up, so
I don't have access to that.
What is the goal of the goat?
What is the age of the goat that
is slaughtered in Aqeeqa?
Oh, the age?
Oh, I want to say it's a, I'm
not, don't quote me on that.
Why don't we open it up right here?
The age of the animal slaughtered for Aqeeqa.
Hold on.
All right, here we go.
First of all, what you slaughter in Aqeeqa
is the same that you would slaughter at
Hajj, except that the sheep and goat is
preferable.
One has passed one year.
Ten months.
You see that?
So from the sheep, a year and even
slightly less than a year is acceptable, but
for the goat, he should have entered the
second year.
Okay, that's your answer.
Someone is asking, my white leftist friend said
he considered converting to Islam, but he can't
accept the Islamic ruling on LGBTQ.
He's very intelligent, politically aware and educated.
Any advice on what I can do?
He wants to accept Islam, but he can't
accept the LGBTQ ruling in Islam.
He should really return back to the knowledge
of Allah.
God knows what's best.
Allah knows what is best.
And he should know the differentiation between someone
who falls into sin versus a belief about
the law.
That's a difference.
A lot of people who drink have a
hard time entering Islam, but the answer to
that is that it's different that the fact
that you're addicted versus the belief that it's
forbidden.
That's the difference.
I mean, sin is also a sin, right?
So you having a feeling of like, let's
say someone's inclined towards that, it's different from
them actually having * with the same gender.
Correct, yeah.
Now, what would be the difference between fornication
rules and LGBT rules?
What is really the difference?
You're not allowed to have * with anyone
other than your wife as a man.
And you can't even get married to a
guy, right?
Yeah.
So I think that you return the matter
to Allah to look at this is how
God ruled for things to be and he
has more knowledge than us.
Some sheikhs say if a man has addictions,
he just needs another wife to avoid the
sin.
I don't think that's the case.
Allah knows best, but I don't think that
that's the case.
Well, he can have multiple wives and still
do that.
Allah knows best.
Can you please advise, give the dalil for
looking at a non-mahram without lust.
I always thought that looking is because you
have lust even when you talk.
The hurma, if there is a need to
talk to somebody, then that looking is forbidden
when lust occurs.
It's not forbidden when the lust does not
occur and there is a need.
If there is no need and then look
and then you're looking, that's forbidden too.
With or without lust, looking for no need,
with or without lust is forbidden.
But when there is a need, it becomes
forbidden when lust is involved alongside the need.
Basically, lust overrides the need.
And another one of the examples of that
is the saying of Allah Ta'ala, لا
يحل لك النساء من بعد ولو أعجبك حسنهن.
It is, you are not to marry any
women after this, even if you are impressed
by their beauty.
So clearly, how does a prophet know who's
beautiful and who's not?
To be, ولو أعجبك, to be even impressed
by their beauty.
So that's the knowledge of what the face
looks like can only have come because he
saw them.
And then the lust is what becomes forbidden
and looking for no reason is forbidden.
He's a really good person and I want
him to convert.
So if you've exhausted all the worldly things,
and I think the best worldly thing is
just to hang around him and maybe take
him to a couple masajid or go out
to lunch with other Muslims, but don't underestimate
the power of in the middle of the
night.
I'm telling you, it's more important than anything
else.
Speaking of dua, let's fire up the Wednesday
dua.
That's loaded up.
We cannot tell him something false about Islam
and sell him a false bag of goods
and tell him, yeah, it's halal in Islam.
Of course, we can't do that.
When the father disappears from the family, the
waliah goes to the son, correct?
Yes.
Or one of the uncles or one of
the grandparents or one of the sons, whichever
one is most capable of doing so because
the ages may differ, location may differ, things
like that.
Reliability may differ, but it would first go
to the son, then to the brother and
the grandfather, if not.
Is keeping family ties mandatory for extended family
when they're very hostile?
So keeping family ties for holidays here and
there, yes.
You would still keep those family ties.
It's recommended when there's a holiday or something
or Eid, some occasion to message somebody in
your family, it's recommended to do that.
If they cause problems, you're also permitted to
protect yourself from their headache.
What is your view on running the Quran
on speakers when no one is home or
during sleep?
I believe that's permitted.
Have you heard anything on that, Ahmed?
I don't think it's disrespectful.
If you're doing it to expel chayateen and
bring mala'ika, I think that's permitted.
And Allah knows best, we can ask about
that, but I've never seen anyone forbid that.
How to do da'wah as it becomes
fard on you when you don't have sufficient
knowledge?
Then you learn, you learn.
But when we said that there's the justification
of living in a country, a non-Muslim
country, is da'wah, it's not only through
scholarship and talking.
Being involved in any way, shape, and form
as a support of an organization or an
institution, then that's part of the da'wah.
Can I follow or act as my sheikh,
alim, or istaz without asking for a da
'wah?
Yes, you can.
When you're a muqallid, you don't have to
ask for a da'wah.
Does not Allah say, فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن
كُنْتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ If you don't know, ask
the people of da'wah.
One time a man told the sheikh, one
of the Mauritanian shuyukh, he asked him something,
and he was one of these people who,
he's a layman.
So he said, what's your da'wah?
He said, I'm your da'wah.
Because Allah says, ask the people of da
'wah.
So I'm telling you, this is the ruling,
right?
I'm your da'wah.
What constitutes breaking family ties, which incurs the
displeasure of Allah, the immediate family that lives
around you, and you break your ties over
a worldly cause.
That's what it is.
Over a worldly cause, not a religious cause.
You may break ties on religious causes.
One of the cousins opens a liquor store.
Allah says, we're done with you.
Becomes a Qadiani.
Done with you.
Goes off and lives a life of zina.
We're not visiting your house anymore, and we're
not inviting you anymore.
Those are religious rights.
But we're not talking anymore because we don't
do business together, and it didn't work out,
and we tried to open a gas station,
and it failed.
You got three days, not to talk to
him for three days.
Worldly reasons, you have three days.
Someone else, I don't want to talk to
somebody because he's so mean and rough, and
he's terrible to be around.
Okay, then I'm not cutting family ties.
I'm just guarding myself from his terrible behavior.
I'm not cutting ties.
So, like, if he gets married, if he
sneezes, if he's sick, I'm going to visit.
If he invites me, I'm going to go.
All those, but I'm going to stay away
from him.
That's not cutting family ties.
I'm going to take a break from this
person for a while.
What's better, reading all together in a group
or one at a time?
If it's for teaching purposes, one at a
time.
If everyone's competent at recitation, then one at
a time or all together in a group.
Either way is fine.
Imam Nuhwi talks about that.
He talks about that.
That you can recite all at once or
one at a time.
Malik preferred one at a time.
And the other people listen.
And you get the reward of listening.
How do I communicate with fellow co-workers
about the trinity without being disrespectful?
If I ask someone if Jesus was God,
whom was Adam?
I don't think you should do that on
the job.
Are you being paid for that?
Does your boss know that you're going and
making Speaker's Corner out of the workplace?
You know, in England, Speaker's Corner, where they
debate all the Christians?
But if you want knowledge on that, who's
the best in the Islamic Dao scene right
now?
The refutation of Christians.
Who's the best?
I don't know who the best is.
But refutation of Christianity.
I don't think he's the best.
But Dr. Ali Atai is very good.
Ali Atai, watch his videos and learn.
Keep learning and learning and learning.
I recently saw that in the Bible himself,
Jesus mocked someone.
He said, do you think you're God?
So Jesus mocks the concept of a human
being God.
So many other questions I couldn't get to.
I apologize.
But we will get to, inshallah, more Q
&A tomorrow.
What's on the agenda tomorrow, Omar?
Did you communicate with Sheikh Shinnawi?
He texted you.
You talked to him, right?
Good.
Tomorrow, Sheikh Mohammed al-Shinnawi is up.
We're talking about Adab al-Ikhtilaf.
That's a subject matter, Adab al-Ikhtilaf.
Ladies and gentlemen, let's go to the Wednesday
du'a.