Shadee Elmasry – Can Women Advise Men- And vice versa – NBF 393
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The conversation covers various topics related to life and marriage, including the universal wisdom of the Sunzilla and the importance of settling in the heart. The three stages of ecstasy, including disbursing, losing, and returning to good, are discussed, along with the negative impact of speckful talk and the importance of regret and settling in the heart. The speakers also discuss various objection objections to the Qoverah scripture and the use of the Torah system for verifying someone's employment. The conversation shifts to the confusion surrounding the B's statement about the B's lack of acceptance for a job and the use of Amazon's website in home kits.
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let's get straight to it, because I don't
like long introductions, I was in a drive
the other day, and I had a long
drive and I was listening to a podcast,
I'm not even kidding you, the introduction was
seven minutes long, did anyone advise this guy?
He wasn't a Muslim guy, he was a
regular guy, but let me start off right
away on, what's her name?
H.
Khan 177, sister H.
Khan 177, the question on careerism and family,
which one should a woman choose?
I mean, if it had to be a
choice, if you had to focus on one
or the other, if you had to prioritize,
and we posted the clip, I said it's
family, she took offense to that, why is
a man being asked to advise a young
woman, what a young woman should do?
Maybe it's not offensive, but it's just, she
said surely it would be another experienced woman
best to advise, based on her experience, exclamation
point.
Number one, I totally agree, how about if
I responded to you and telling you I'm
answering based on what women said?
Firstly, it was a woman who asked the
question, but what if I respond to you
and tell you that my answer is Taqlid,
it's a transmission, and which woman?
I could tell you many women, I could
tell you my wife, I could tell you
my mom, I could tell you my mother
-in-law, I could tell you Fatima Zahra,
so why would you discount that knowledge is
transmitted?
Why would we discount, is this like technology,
where it's totally new, and we have no
possible other answers except for what we've come
up with?
Wouldn't, after all these years of human life,
people have talked about this before, and answered
the question, and discussed it amongst themselves, and
you'll hear it, and you'll hear that there
are pretty much certain accepted things that both
genders know about each other.
Can a woman guide a man?
Because all custody in divorce cases of the
boys goes to the mom.
So clearly, at some point, moms can advise
and guide their sons, right?
Well, can the opposite happen?
Can dads advise their daughters?
And for your information, the four women, adult
women that are in my life, they're all
full-time professionals.
Two of them MDs, one a PhD, one
a master's, and all of them had full
-time careers.
And they all say the same thing.
So does it count now?
Does my answer count now?
Or is it just not going to count
because even the transmitter has to be a
woman?
Anyway, then let's see.
Some other people chimed in and agreed, but
it's really the same answer, because certain information,
certain knowledge about human life is sort of
transmitted to both genders.
And it's been now how many thousands of
years of humans living and answering certain questions.
So that's my response.
But overall, I do agree with the main
premise that women should advise other women, but
I would put that in conditions.
A, it's not going to be everything.
Certain things guys will know about women and
women will know about guys.
I mean, all over TikTok, you know that
we're starting the marriage thing, right?
So I went in and I started typing
in marriage, and I want to see what
people are saying.
We started the marriage mentorship operation, and it's
called starboardmarriage.com.
So I want to see what's being said
out there in the public sphere.
The majority of advice to men comes from
women.
You know that Omar?
The majority of, I would say maybe like
majority as in 60-40.
Maybe even more.
Mothers are number one advisors for their kids,
like especially your son.
No, I'm saying that's 100% true.
But on TikTok, the influencers that are telling
men how to be better husbands, it's coming
from women, right?
Isn't she advising you, by the way, or
like somebody else saying that?
That is, I guess, a piece of advice.
Yeah.
She's saying don't do this.
So when we talk about what women only
can talk to women about, it's going to
be a set, a limited set.
There's going to be certain things Revelation has
told us.
So women and men will know what is
best for women and men, what is prohibited
and obligatory and advisable and discouraged if Revelation
tells us.
So the mothers of the believers are essentially
the explanation of the Sunnah.
They know best how to live in terms
of, they know best what the prophet meant
when he taught about men and women and
husbands and wives.
Number two, the Quran itself gives us certain
things.
Number three, what about if I were to
draw analogies, what was the first gift that
Hawwa was given?
Obviously it was a husband.
That was the first thing she was given.
She was created married.
Can therefore there be anything greater than that
for a woman?
So I'm taking that from Revelation.
We don't need to ask.
I got Revelation.
I have to ask if I understood that
properly.
So there's that.
There is universal wisdoms, which I'm referring to
as well, and we can all refer to.
Universal wisdoms.
Life experience has been transmitted for hundreds of
years that we all know.
Your grandma knows it.
My grandma knows it.
My grandfather knows it.
Your grandfather knows it about men and women.
And then there are certain things like in
our household, and I don't like to really
talk about my private life, but in our
household, we have boys and girls.
And there are certain things I don't go
near.
They have to do with girls.
My wife handles that.
And there are certain things that have to
do with boys, and I handle that.
So we have to say what tafsir.
But such a basic thing as what is
greater in a person's life, a family or
a career, is not one of those things.
That's a universal wisdom.
You can even glean it from Revelation.
It is something that anybody can talk about.
And on top of that, it would be
my advice to men, too.
Your family is going to bring you more
happiness than your career, for a man, too.
Next subject.
What's happening with our man on GRT, Omar?
Yeah.
So he's alive and well, and he's working.
Very good.
Very good.
Let's read a little bit from Al-Risaal
Al-Khushairiyah.
How was that, Omar?
Did I come off antagonistic?
No, I'm replying.
Not antagonistic.
And I can't read the tone of her
voice.
Although there were some other snarky comments under
it that she was engaging with.
But who cares?
It happens.
Let's take a look at Imam Al-Jalil
Al-Khushairiyah.
He said, in leaving sins.
Leaving off sins.
How does leaving off sins happen?
And there's a lot of advice on leaving
off sins.
But ultimately, he talks about something about settling
in the heart that Allah is watching you.
And the moment it settles in your heart
that Allah is watching you, then your desires
leave you.
Your false desires, your bad desires will depart
from you.
If it enters your heart that Allah is
watching.
Not only that.
It would leave you if it enters your
heart that people are watching you.
If it enters your heart that human beings
are watching you, then those desires leave your
heart.
And moreover, of course, if Allah is watching
you.
فَعِندَ ذَلِكَ يَخْلُصُ إِلَىٰ قَلْبِهِ صَادِقُ النَّدَمِ The
moment you start to realize that Allah is
watching you, then those desires literally will transform
into adab and shame.
Shame is a good thing.
Shame is a force in the heart that
stops you from doing something bad in front
of somebody noble.
That's what we mean by shame.
I'm sure there are many definitions in the
books.
حَيَأْ What is حَيَأْ استحي فَيَتْأَسَّفُ عَلَىٰ مَا
عَمِلَهُ Now then, when you contemplate that Allah
is watching you.
يَتْأَسَّفُ عَلَىٰ مَا عَمِلَهُ He feels bad about
what he did.
وَيَأْخُذُ فِي التَّحَسُّرِ عَلَىٰ مَا ضَيَّعَهُ مِنْ أَحْوَالِهِ
And he now starts to regret wasting his
opportunities of the past and what he lost.
وَمَرْتَكَبَهُ مِنْ قَبِهِ عَمَالِهِ And the sins that
he performed.
He'll feel bad about it.
فَتَتِمُّ تَوْبَتُهُ Now his tawbah will be complete.
وَتَسْدُقُ مُجَاهَدَتُهُ Now, the more you realize Allah
is watching you, the more effort you'll put
in.
And the more you realize that Allah's reward
for you are limitless, the more Sidq you'll
put in the worship.
Sidq refers to not leaving any stone unturned.
Right?
Not leaving a single stone unturned is the
real explanation of Sidq or the definition of
Sidq.
Ikhlas is having only one purpose.
Now you could have a totally pure intention,
but you're lazy.
It happens all the time.
You could have a pure intention, but that
person's lazy.
And you could have Sidq.
You are a hard worker, you leave no
stone unturned, but you're distracted.
You're serving multiple purposes.
And that's the problem.
That's what munafiqs and hypocrites, they fool us
with.
He's such a hard worker, he leaves no
stone unturned, but what's his motive?
We assume that two are the same.
It's not the case.
Why doesn't Allah give success to someone very
sincere, he has got one motive in life?
Well the answer, he's not a hard worker.
He lacks Sidq.
He's not a hard worker.
He doesn't seek advice.
He doesn't want to go into high-pressure
scenarios.
He's afraid.
Things like that.
So how is he going to get success?
So once you imagine in your heart, and
in your mind, the immense reward, and you
visualize the reward.
Al-tasawwur, al-takhayyul really, khayal, they say
that al-tasawwur is an Arabic word that
relates to abstractions.
Wal-khayal is an Arabic word that relates
to imaginations.
Physical things.
Imagining physical things.
But sometimes when you're only using one of
them, they could be synonymous.
Possibly could apply to that.
So when we say tasawwur, we mean takhayyul.
Meaning try to draw the picture in your
head of what a reward Allah is going
to give me.
And people have a shortage of imagination in
this because Allah Ta'ala is grand, and
the Prophet ﷺ said, do not limit.
If you ask, don't limit your ask.
Expand your ask.
Because Allah Ta'ala, nothing is too small
for Him.
Nothing is too big for Him.
Sorry to cut you off.
Australian dollars.
Thank you for that.
If Allah has already decreed everything and knows
what is best for us, why are we
given the opportunity to ask?
Ah, excellent.
When you make a du'a and your
du'a is answered, what just happened?
Did I instigate a response from God?
So was God creating things and then I
asked Him to give me a job, so
He created a job for me?
No, that's not what happens.
When your du'a is answered, something that
has pre-eternally been decreed by Allah, qada'
manifests for you.
His pre-eternal decree manifests for you.
All right, so now you'll ask a follow
-up question.
So if I didn't ask, make du'a
for it, would it have happened anyway?
The answer is yes.
So now you ask a third question.
Then what's the point of making du'a?
Because when you get something after du'a,
you're getting a lot with it.
Blessing, nearness to Allah, increase in Iman, intimacy
between you and your Creator, a feeling of
certainty that this du'a is not only
something that came in my life, but it's
something Allah is blessing.
Because I believe and feel it's an answer
to my prayer.
It is an answer to your prayer.
It just wasn't something that Allah had not
preordained.
He had already preordained it.
It wasn't something, a new idea that you
gave God.
That's the difference.
God's knowledge is never on the increase or
on the decrease, such that God doesn't know
what's going to happen tomorrow.
Or that based on how you behave, I'm
going to create tomorrow.
Based on what you do today, I'm going
to create a risk for tomorrow.
No.
All of it's preordained.
It's called Qada.
And it will manifest at the time that
He has already preordained it.
That's called Qadr.
Al-Qadr or Al-Qadr.
So it exists in the knowledge of Allah,
and then He manifests it into its physical
form when He wills.
He has already willed everything.
He has already willed what's going to manifest
into the world tomorrow, and in an hour,
and so on and so forth.
But when it comes with Dua, it comes
with so many blessings.
It comes with so much goodness.
When it comes with sins, the same thing
could have been acquired through sins.
So I had a $500,000 in my
bank account.
It's not even a lot of money.
It sounds like it's a lot, but it's
not.
$500,000 in my bank account.
How was it acquired?
Was it acquired after hard work and Dua?
Dua alone and no hard work?
Yeah, it could have been inheritance.
It could be a gift.
Theft?
Or is it a routine check that I
get all the time because I'm in some
field where people pay me half a million
dollars for my services?
There are a lot of fields like that
where your end of the bargain will be,
let's say, a million dollars.
By the time taxes, agent, lawyer fees, all
that comes out of it, you come home
with $500,000.
And in that case, one of them comes,
the one that comes with Dua and hard
work, that's the best.
The one that came with Dua, but you
just inherited it, that's second best.
The one that came by theft, of course,
it's cursed.
The other two come with so much blessing,
so much wisdom for the one who works
for it.
He's learned now.
What about the one that's routine?
That's a routine deposit in my account.
It comes with nothing, right?
By itself.
So when we receive something with Dua, we're
receiving a lot more.
We're receiving a lot of spiritual blessings alongside
with that thing that we're receiving.
Thirdly, the goal of Dua is not only
to receive stuff.
We got to understand that too.
That's not the goal of Dua, just to
receive stuff.
The goal of Dua is, it is our
connection with our Creator.
It's our connection with our Creator.
The role of Dua is that it actually
puts us where we belong in the universe,
in the world, in the creation.
What do we mean by that?
As a slave who is in need of
his Creator.
A creation in need of his creation.
When you do that, you're swimming in your
orbit properly.
When you don't do that, you're not in
your orbit in the right way.
You see?
You're out of orbit.
You're better in orbit when you're making Dua,
because that's where you belong.
Where does this phone belong?
It doesn't belong in the water.
It should be used to make calls, not
to swat flies, not to hammer nails, right?
So use the phone the way it should
be used.
You'll benefit from it most.
It shouldn't be used in anything that's going
to break it.
It should just be used for what I'm...
It shouldn't be used for crime.
Then it's going to be a piece of
evidence against me.
You understand now the answer to that?
Mr. Australian.
Irtaza Arif.
He asked a very, very good question.
What's his name?
Brother asked a good question.
Huh?
Brother asked a very good question.
Brother asked a very good question.
He then says, وَيَسْتَبْدِرُ بِمُخَالَطَتِهِ الْعُزْلَ How is
sincerity achieved?
How is sincerity sharpened?
Sincerity is sharpened by worshipping Allah alone.
It's from Imam Malik.
When Ibn Wahab came to Malik and he
asked him, What is this light that I
see in you?
And Malik said to him, Worship Allah alone
in private more than you do in public.
That Allah Ta'ala puts a light in
your heart.
Okay.
And that could be found in Qadi Ayyad's
books.
And I could probably get you the quote
from this book by Ahmed Taharyan.
Okay.
He then continues, وَلَنْ يَتِمَّ لَهُ شَيْءٌ مِّنْ
هَذَا إِلَّا بَعْدَ فَرَاغِهِ مِّنْ إِرْضَاءِ خُسُومِهِ So
none of this could actually occur.
Sincerity, having one directedness towards Allah Ta'ala
cannot occur if you're busy trying to get
revenge from your opponents or impress other people
in the creation.
Okay.
Because you're thinking of creation.
You can't look sideways and up at the
same time in this world.
The way Allah made our neck, you can't
look sideways and up.
You can't look down and up.
You can't look to the back and up
at the same time.
So if you want to look forward, you
have to stop looking sideways.
That's why they put blinders on the horses.
And this is why people, after they've been
plucked out and removed from situations with people
like this, their mind can be clear.
Sayyidina Musa A.S. experienced that.
He had a terrible, terrible experience with the
pharaoh.
And Allah Ta'ala granted him 10 years
and Abdul Qadir Jilani in one of his
speeches said that one of the wisdoms behind
this is to clear his mind from the
creation.
To clear his mind.
So all he was doing was herding sheep
and goat in Arabia all that time.
In Midian all that time.
To clear his mind.
So what does he say?
He said every day a person should have
a little bit of that.
We're not going to go a long period
of time.
COVID may never happen again.
And even when it came upon us, people
couldn't take it anymore.
And that wasn't even solitude.
That was like you were still in your
home.
You were still with computers.
It wasn't true solitude.
So a few minutes a day.
And solitude should not be overdone either.
You can make yourself go crazy.
You can actually damage yourself if you're alone
too much.
People who are...
I was talking the other day about social...
People who are like antisocial.
And sometimes there are reasons.
Most of the time there are reasons people
are antisocial.
It's not a natural thing to be totally
alone all the time.
You're not going to know norms.
That's the problem.
There are certain norms you need to know.
What's talking too much?
What's oversharing?
What do the kids say these days?
Too much information?
How do I know what's too much information?
And that's why I think schooling and siblings
and friends...
Why are they sometimes the best source of
information?
Because they don't have manners.
They don't have a concept of...
Hold on.
Those are your friend's feelings.
Kids don't have that concept.
Don't hurt your friend's feelings.
No, they don't hurt your classmate's feelings.
They don't have that concept.
So they say really mean things.
But in the process you might actually learn...
Something that your real friends were too embarrassed
to tell you.
Enemies are great.
Enemies are wonderful.
And in your household...
If you have somebody who tells you the
truth, you need to value that.
I do, personally.
I always ask and get good answers.
Like, what did you think of this, that
or the other?
And they tell me sometimes.
This was no good.
This was too hard on women.
I get these answers sometimes.
And I have to review myself.
But I only accept it from someone of
taqwa and brains, intellect.
Taqwa, fear of Allah.
And also, you know how they live.
That's the beautiful thing about taking advice from
your family and stuff.
And your friends.
You know how they live.
Whereas I can't take advice from a stranger
online.
I don't know what background they're coming from.
So if I see someone lives the life
of taqwa.
Lives the life of masajid.
Has been doing this for 10 years, 15
years.
30 years been living a life of taqwa
and deen.
I'm going to take their advice.
I'm going to accept it from them.
What were we saying?
Oh, we were saying about solitude.
Because when you go to school, and this
is what happens.
And I'm not saying anything bad about homeschoolers.
If a homeschooler doesn't supplant the homeschooling.
And add to it some socialization with strangers.
Strangers that you selected.
Like a group of people, like a soccer
team or whatever.
Those strangers, when they say something, that's great
information.
Feedback loop on society.
I need that feedback from society.
So I walk in society and kids make
fun of me.
Why are they making fun of me?
They're making fun of me because I got
mud all over my pants.
That's a good piece of information.
It was maybe transmitted in a mean way.
But guess what?
They'll never do it again.
They're making fun of me because I smelled
bad.
Well, that's good.
Let it happen once in your life early.
You know what they say in business?
Fail early.
In business they say, fail early.
So I know, it's a feedback loop.
Why is it that the best, most successful
people in business are just the oldest guys?
They have more information.
They've been failing and succeeding.
They have so much information, so much knowledge.
It's not that they're smarter than you.
You have more information.
Why is Iblis tricking us all the time?
He's been around for thousands of years.
Even if we say that he did not
have a great intellect.
According to some of the ulama, they say
the jinn don't have great intellect.
Even if that.
If you just live for 10,000 years,
that'll do the trick.
You'll be light years ahead of everybody else.
One of the reasons like New England Patriots,
now it's the Kansas City Chiefs.
One of the reasons they keep winning is
because these guys have been together so long.
They know so much.
The plays just come off them so easily.
But go look at the other teams.
They're in constant fluctuation.
Coach is out.
Quarterback is out.
Miami Dolphins out.
Our quarterback is gone.
Jets coach is gone.
How are they going to compete when you
guys keep changing?
These guys who have been doing the same
thing every single year have gotten so much
better at what they do.
Just on repetition.
Not on genius.
Not on anything else.
Just on repetition.
Just on more hours at doing the same
old play.
Same thing with Iblis.
If right now I play chess, I don't
pay much attention to chess, so I lose
all the time.
I never tried.
I never really gave it any effort.
So if you put a chess board in
front of me right now, I'll probably lose
10 out of 10.
But if I try to play chess and
I lived 400 years, I will be better
than the greatest player alive.
If I cared about chess and I played
casually, but I care, but casually, not professionally,
for 400 years, I'm going to have so
much more information than the latest Russian chess
master that comes out of Moscow every year.
I'll beat him.
Because I have far more information than he
does.
He may be smarter because he maybe got
half of my information in two decades that
it took me 400 years to get.
I'll still trounce him.
Just on the fact of repetition.
So that's where being anti-social is not
a good thing from that angle.
But what angle is it good from?
It is good in that if you can
sit alone by yourself and be happy, it's
very hard for people to buy you out.
Right?
So to give an example, who was it
recently that we were talking?
I was talking to Sheikh Asad.
We were talking about Ibn Ata'a.
And Ibn Ata'a says no great Arif
Billah lived except he had a period of
time, a phase, in which he was buried
like a seed into the soil.
And had nobody around him, nothing around him,
was nothing.
Socially.
It's from the Hikam.
There you go.
Exactly.
He's got it memorized.
I've heard that so many times.
So what happens?
That person, number one, how can you upset
him, truly upset him, if his happiness can
be achieved by himself at home?
How can you buy him out if all
he needs is to be alone with Allah
to be happy?
How can you threaten him with isolation if
isolation is his joy?
Solitude is his joy, I should say.
So even better than that is somebody who
knows how to do both.
He knows how to go out in society,
take the hits, and enjoy the joys of
society.
And he knows how to go back and
enjoy solitude.
That is the best of all states.
And very hard to corrupt such an individual.
So that's why he says here, وَلَن يَتِمَّ
لَهُ شَيْءٌ مِنْ هَذَا إِلَّا بَعْدَ فَرَاغِهِ مِنْ
إِرْضَاءِ خُصُومِهِ وَالْخُرُوجِ عَمَّا لَزِمَهُ مِنْ مَظَالِمِهِ He
also has to fulfill his needs to people.
You can't think clearly, you can't have a
clear path with Allah when you owe things
to people.
This is why people in their middle of
life are the least interested in spirituality.
It's not that they're least interested.
This is like the most impractical time of
life to think about yourself.
The guy wakes up.
From the morning until the time he goes
to sleep, he's needed.
He's being pulled at.
His work is demanding him something.
Electric company wants something.
This bill wants something.
Tuition wants something.
Everyone is pulling at him 24 hours a
day.
He gets no time alone.
And this is gonna happen for about 30
-40 years of his life.
Spirituality to him takes a total different meaning.
God's help in fulfilling all these responsibilities.
That's the spirituality.
These guys, when you come and talk some
abstract talk or some fuzzy-wuzzy talk, their
mind isn't working that way anymore.
It hasn't worked like that for 30 years.
I'm not saying that's good.
I'm just saying that's the norm.
What is good and what is great is
someone that can keep their spirituality alive even
in the middle of that period of adult
life.
By the way, there's pizza time.
I hereby order you guys to eat this
pizza before it gets cold.
I know you're not gonna do it.
I don't eat without you.
I hereby give you the executive command.
Because that pizza is gonna be hot.
And Omar already has an answer.
You know there's an answer.
الأدب أولى من الأمر Manners takes priority over
commands.
What's the proof of that in the surah?
Did not Sayyidina Ali bin Abi Talib refuse
to erase Muhammad Rasulullah.
The Quraysh said, How can we make an
agreement with Muhammad Rasulullah when we don't believe
he's Rasulullah?
No, we're making a deal with Muhammad, son
of Abdullah.
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam conceded to this.
He said, Ali, erase it.
Sayyidina Ali was describing that.
Sayyidina Ali took his pen, put it right
down.
I'm not erasing Rasulullah.
And then the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
Point it to me and I'll erase it.
So he pointed to where it is and
the Prophet smudged it with his finger.
So Sayyidina Ali refused to do it.
That's the example of adab taking priority over,
Here, Slanovic has a good, he got us
out of the fiqh problem right here.
Give me a bite.
Therefore, I've eaten, mutlaq al-akl, right?
And now you guys can eat.
You see these guys that take the adab
and ilm, and they won't eat until the
oldest person in the room has eaten, which
is me.
So I'm going to take a bite.
And therefore, mutlaq al-akl has, Here we
go.
See this, folks?
Nice, beautiful colors on the pizza.
There you go.
So I've technically eaten.
You know, when the sharia, when the Quran
and the sunnah, the nusus say to do
something, and they don't give any limit, then
the very least becomes the limit.
So, for example, the Quran says whoever child
nurses from a woman, then that is a
child of nursing.
Right?
That is your child of wet nursing.
So, but the Quran did not put how
much.
So, but the Quran does say, when is
nursing, does give an age later on.
And saying that, does tell us that it's
two years is the nursing period.
Right?
30 months.
30 months minus 9 is 21.
So it's around two years, right?
Because some people say it's 21, but it's
not a human for the first period of
time.
Right?
So remove the three months of pregnancy.
Therefore, 30 minus 6 months of pregnancy.
24, that's two years.
We also have from the sunnah that nursing
is two years.
So that we have.
But how much nursing makes a woman the
milk mother of a boy or a girl?
No mention.
Therefore, one, the bare minimum, one gulp.
One gulp of milk would make that baby
the milk child.
And therefore, all of her children are milk
siblings with that baby.
All right?
Okay, let's continue here.
So this, you have to get rid of
your responsibilities.
And you need to discharge from your, the
oppression you may have done to somebody.
If there are mazalim.
So the first manzil of tawbah is that
you have to fulfill your khasum.
You have a khasum with somebody.
You can't have enemies who have a right
over you.
There can be people who don't like you,
right?
Some people who don't like us were making
fun of one of our friends the other
day.
I said, I'm like, listen.
It's just something we have to fight through.
They have no haqq.
You have the haqq.
And they just like to jab at you
whenever they see you down or in a
jam situation or an unfortunate thing happen to
you.
The best piece of advice to people or
in life is to realize that that's going
to happen in life.
Never not everyone's going to like you.
And the cost of being liked by a
bunch of people is that some people are
going to hate you.
The cost of being very rich, some people
are going to steal from you.
Guaranteed, people are trying to steal from you.
So when he says, irda al khasuma, he
doesn't mean responding to people who have a
dispute with you.
He means fulfilling actual debts you owe to
people if you have wronged them or if
they have a valid debt against you.
Okay.
Alright, what happens when, what do we say
about a situation where we don't have like,
there's not a right and wrong.
But we just don't like each other and
we've hurt each other.
We've hurt each other.
So the answer to that is you still
have to say some kind words at some
point so you don't walk away having hurt
each other.
But not all hurt feelings are valid.
We have to understand this.
Not all hurt feelings are valid.
Just because someone's feelings are hurt does not
mean they have a valid claim against you
or that you will be, anything will be
held against you in the sight of Allah.
That just simply is not the case.
So you have to keep that in mind.
But harshness is not acceptable for a Muslim.
To be harsh is not acceptable for a
Muslim with another mu'min.
Okay.
With few exceptions such as that person is
harming the believers.
He is a source of zulm.
He is a source of fisq.
He is a source of bid'ah.
Bid'ah fil aqa'id.
Then yes, we can.
Bid'ah fil fiqh.
Bid'ah in ibadat.
Could simply be a difference of opinion.
In that case you leave it.
You don't make inqar and be harsh on
someone on a difference of opinion.
Bid'ah muharrama.
And he thinks it's okay.
He has a ta'weel but we can
say he made a mistake in the ta
'weel.
That's almost no different than a fatwa that
was wrong.
That also doesn't deserve harshness.
It deserves a response.
But not harshness.
It's almost like a fatwa that's wrong.
He deserves a correction but not harshness.
And the bonds of brotherhood remain.
Of course Abu Ali Al-Daqqaq is the
sheikh of Al-Qushayri.
Surah Al-Tawbah.
Tawbah is three types.
Surah Al-Tawbah.
So the first phase of repentance is called
Tawbah.
I return from this bad action that I've
done.
The next one is Al-Inabah.
And the third is Al-Awbah.
And if I understand it correctly.
Let's see if he gives a sharha on
it.
But from what I understand of it.
Tawbah, stop action.
Inabah, regret action.
Awbah, go back and do good.
And when you have a problem with a
person.
The first thing you do is you stop.
Then you have a period of time.
When your ego has settled down.
I feel bad about what I did.
But your ego is still.
I'm not talking to him still.
This is my rival, my enemy.
The third phase after that period of time
has passed.
Is Awbah.
I return and be friends with him.
And this happens all the time with people.
They're at a feud.
Just get them to stop.
They still hate each other.
Their egos are still boiling.
Let that simmer and cool off.
And then afterwards they can become friends again.
Okay.
Tawbah.
Inabah.
Awbah.
فكل من تاب لخوف العقوبة فهو صاحب توبة.
You stop and you repent.
Just because you're afraid of the sin.
Here he gives a commentary on it.
That's Tawbah.
ومن تاب طمعا في الثواب.
Now he makes Tawbah because he wants the
reward of Tawbah.
فهذا صاحب Inabah.
ومن تاب مراعاة للأمر ولرغبة في الثواب أو
رهبة من العقاب فهو صاحب Awbah.
So now if he's greater than that, he
repents.
He wants to be a good servant of
Allah.
And he cares for the love of Allah.
And he lists a number of things here.
Then that is a person of Awbah.
So Tawbah, Inabah, Awbah.
Okay.
Tawbah, Inabah, and Awbah.
التوبة صفة المؤمنين.
توبوا إلى الله جميعا أيها المؤمنون.
Tawbah is the attribute of believers.
What's next?
والإنابه صفة الأولياء.
The Auliyah of Allah.
Allah says وَجَاءَ بِقَلْبٍ مُنِيبٌ.
He came with a heart that has Inabah
in it.
مُنِيب.
وَالأَوْبَة صفة الأنبياء.
نِعْمَ الْعَبْدُ إِنَّهُ أَوَّابٌ.
Blessed is the slave, he is Awab.
صفة الأنبياء والمرسلين.
أبو عبد الرحمن السلمي.
The famous author said سَمِعْتُ مَنْسُورَ بْنَ عَبْدِ
اللَّهِ يَقُولُ.
سَمِعْتُ جَعَفَرِ بْنِ نُصَيْرِ يَقُولُ.
سَمِعْتُ الْجُنَيْد يَقُولُ.
التوبة على ثلاثة معانٍ.
الندم والعزم على ترك المعاودة إلى ما نهي
عنه.
والثالث السعي في أداء المظالم.
So the first, he says, this one he
describes توبة, repentance as having three parts.
Number one, regret.
Number two, stopping.
Number three, correcting.
Correcting what I did wrong.
They said that's what توبة is.
It's three different phases.
All different commentaries that are very beneficial and
useful.
All right, time for Q&A.
Because we got to leave today at 3
.15 on the dot.
So we don't have too long.
And plus, I have to eat this slice
of pizza.
Although some people are saying it's unhealthy for
me.
But, you know, you have to eat what
your guests bring you.
Otherwise, it's bad adab.
You know that?
It's bad adab to go to someone's house,
as some people do, and say, oh, by
the way, the invitation's next Saturday.
Oh, by the way, I'm this.
I'm sugar-free, gluten-free, animal-free, vegetable
-free.
What the heck?
You're making my life difficult now.
It's not healthy.
It's not healthy.
All right, let's announce.
Who wants to come to NBIC?
Who wants to come to New Jersey and
attend Dar al-Fath, venturing onto the Hanafi
path?
Right, with Shaykh Tabriz A'adham and Shaykh
Imran Ahmed.
Beautiful, beautiful flyer here.
How do you sign up?
Well, very simply, you go to Dar al
-Fath.org.
Simple.
Dar al-Fath.org.
Go there and sign up.
Okay.
Yes.
I hope there's not much background noise, but
I'm just going to put up the itinerary.
For those of you who know, we had
the same or similar intensive last year, embracing
the Hanafi way.
It was, mashallah, very, very successful.
A lot of people came, and as many
of you know, who were around during that
time, it sold out very quick as well.
So if you want to attend, inshallah, sign
up as quick as possible.
Yeah, okay.
Let's see.
So I have some of the itinerary and
stuff here.
So we're going to have Shaykh Tabriz A
'adham for the second annual three-day-long
immersive intensive program.
So the program will dive deep into different
facets of the Hanafi tradition.
So you have some texts, including some fiqh,
usul al-fiqh, aqeedah, perhaps some adab, inshallah,
we'll announce some of the texts that will
be covered in due time.
It's not recorded.
And you can find more information on the
website, inshallah.
So it's going to be starting on Friday,
December 13th, and it's going to end on
Sunday.
And if you guys check the website, inshallah,
I sent it in the chat.
You can see some of the texts that
we covered last year.
And this is just an overview of the
different sessions that we have.
So Friday, we're going to start at 6
p.m., and then these are all the
sessions.
And another thing is that for accommodations, inshallah,
we're going to have food provided for everyone.
So we're going to have breakfast, lunch, dinner,
all that good stuff, good sohbah as well.
So make sure to attend.
Don't miss out.
Sign up as soon as possible.
If you want more information, I sent the
link in the chat.
And they could sleep in the masjid, right?
So last year we did have that, the
i'tikaf.
Yeah, i'tikaf.
I'm sure this year is similar, but I
don't want to say anything without confirmation.
Are there prerequisites to this?
There are no prerequisites, actually.
So you don't have to know Arabic.
You don't have to know anything.
Sorry?
Brothers and sisters, yes.
Yeah, it says on the website.
Well, it's preferred if you studied previously.
But it doesn't matter.
As long as you can read Arabic script,
even if you don't understand Arabic, that's ideal,
right?
And I'm sure most people who grew up
Muslim, for example, they can read Arabic.
User FY said, why didn't you say bismillah
before you ate the pizza?
I said it in myself.
This whole hour is bismillah, right?
There's bismillah on the whole hour.
Okay, let's take a look at this.
Have you guys followed Imam Tom versus Mahdi
Hassan?
But I haven't yet seen the interview that
Imam Tom did with Muhammad Jalan.
See, Mahdi Hassan is from a dying breed,
I would say, of Democrat loyalists.
I'm not totally against everything Mahdi Hassan does.
A lot of it is...
Firstly, he serves the Muslim identity.
I think in Islam itself, he never talks
about that.
So let's leave that alone, right?
Because the guy is a Shia in the
first place.
So just leave that.
Yeah, he's in the first place.
But leave that alone because the guy, I
don't even know if he believes in that.
He never talks about theology, so we're not
going to go there.
We just went there, but...
But anyway, leave that alone.
He has been a very good debater, I
would say, in most of his causes on
Islam, Muslim identity, etc.
So overall, I'm not so harsh on people
when they have a lot of good positions.
On Palestine, he's been very strong, I have
to say.
Who did he debate?
Piers Morgan.
He debated a lot of people, right?
His clips always come up, and I'm impressed
with them.
So I'm not totally out to destroy the
guy.
I don't have that attitude towards Mahdi Hassan.
I do believe that the Democrat loyalty is
dying amongst Muslims.
You're getting laughed at.
If you're one of these people, you will
get laughed at, right?
But he said, and their argument is that,
how could you allow Trump to be president?
He's going to be far worse.
I have two arguments against that.
The first argument is that what you see
now takes priority over what may happen in
the future.
When I'm making any decision, this, what's happening
now, is a certainty.
You are aiding and abetting killing.
In the future, what may happen in the
future is also highly likely.
No doubt about that.
Highly likely.
But we just don't know it.
It's not certain.
And ask any Egyptian, because every Egyptian says,
anybody would have been better than Mubarak.
Ask any Libyan.
Anyone better than Senussi.
Way back in the day, in the 50s.
Right?
Ask anyone.
And Iraq.
Anyone but Saddam.
Yeah, and you got that.
All three of you.
Anyone but Hafez al-Assad in Syria.
Bashar al-Assad is worse.
So the mentality that we can pass a
judgment on the future, it always fails.
So that's number one.
Number two, if we're going to be honest,
and people really hate this line, the best
predictor for future behavior is past behavior.
Trump has already been president.
It's not like you're putting in an unknown
firecracker.
He's a firecracker and he's nuts and all
that stuff.
Fine, we get that.
But this is not an unknown.
You saw what his past presidency looked like.
And we didn't see a lot of bloodshed.
That's the truth.
We didn't even see a wall.
The 2% of it was built.
We didn't see a Muslim ban, except for
a temporary thing that they had on five
countries that had terrorist organizations in them.
It wasn't like a blanket Muslim ban.
Okay?
But that's why I think that that's the
argument that's made against the pro-Harris approach.
Those are the two arguments.
Fats?
Yeah?
One of the other things, if you don't
mind me adding something, is if you have
the Republicans, and they're already very pro-Israel,
putting them into the White House then gives
the Democrats an opportunity to become a proper
opposition party.
That takes a different position, meaning if the
Democrats lose, and they see that they're being
punished as a result of this position, meaning
that 5% that they lose in certain
states is because of this issue, a lot
of Democrats are going to change their tune.
Whereas if you see the Republicans lose, they're
still going to be pro-Israel, Christian Zionists,
no matter what you do.
That's a great argument.
So there's no opposition coming.
You got his mic on, please?
Yeah, it's on.
It's on?
Hold up.
Let me restate your argument for you.
Yes, sir.
He basically restated the argument, and you probably
all heard it, but I'll just say it
again.
He essentially said that if you punish Democrats
this time, you can fix Democrats.
The summary of the argument is this.
Their behavior can be changed.
Republican behavior is fixed.
There is no point in dealing with Republicans.
They are fixed on this subject.
But you can injure a Democrat, their percentage
and their elections in this cycle, and maybe
their behavior will change.
That's a great point, too.
Yeah, because it's the difference between short-termism
and long-termism, right?
So let's say incrementally Trump is worse.
Let's say we concede that.
Okay, that's fine.
Well, if there's already babies being killed, if
the houses of every person have been destroyed,
incrementally worse is not that much worse, right?
What are you going to do, nuke somebody?
That's really the incrementally worse that you can
get to, potentially.
So really, you're dealing with two equivalent alternatives.
Yep.
And so even if you get Trump in
office, you're not going to see anything that's
that bad happen overseas that's any different from
what we're seeing today.
And maybe on domestic issues, you see some
things that are even better, meaning you might
not have to make compromises on certain social
issues during those four years that you would
have to make if Democrats were in power.
True, good point.
And the Democrats, when you do give them
loyalty, they'll never listen to you again.
You're just like a lackey.
You're just a doormat.
You get abused, and you still are there
for them.
That's the type of abused person.
You have something to say, Tamar?
Yeah, the way I see the strategy as
a voter, especially a Muslim voter who's anti
-genocide, the way we can punish Democrats is
to vote for Green Party.
And the way, how that happens, you're actually
hitting two stones.
Two birds with one stone, sorry.
You're saying punish the Democrat by voting for
the Green Party.
So therefore, not only are you imparting the
Green Party, which is the opposition party, you're
imparting them to get to that 5%
criteria.
Obviously, they're not going to win this election,
but you're also hurting the Democrats, and therefore,
as a result, Trump will win, which is
instead of you voting directly for Trump, you
can vote indirectly for Trump as a means.
And let's ask this question, and I talked
about this before.
I'm waiting for somebody in the political sphere
to lead this movement.
Register for the Green Party for fun.
I can't say this and lead this movement,
but just for the heck of it, for
the fun of it, it costs us nothing.
What does it cost?
80 bucks to sign up for the Green
Party and be a member?
If 250 Muslims did that, they would be
the majority of the Green Party.
I'm just waiting for someone like Imam Tom
to lead the charge and say, let's do
it as an experiment.
You never know what's going to happen.
Since I've been playing politics for a little
bit.
Can you lead that?
No, I can push back against it, though.
Okay, let's hear yours.
I think as a result of having been
out there campaigning and trying to fundraise from
the Muslim community, the one downside that I've
noticed with what our community has been experiencing
is that there's a small sliver of our
community that's involved in politics and fundraising.
That small sliver has been heavily involved with
the Democratic Party, and now they have friends
and they have sort of bonds that they've
made with that party.
And so they're not willing to break out
of that mold.
No, they're never going to break out.
And so if you're trying to get broader
political engagement from the Muslim community, the first
step in that is going to be teaching
people to get interested in politics.
And so that's one challenge, right?
So these 250,000 Muslims that could sign
up, they don't actually exist yet, meaning that
there aren't 250,000 Muslims that are politically
engaged enough to want to sign up for
a political party, because I can't get in
this district, where I've got around 15%
of some towns in my district are Muslim.
I think the entire district, it's like 8
% Muslim.
I can't get 1% of that group
of people to sign up to volunteer or
to donate.
No, they don't have the consciousness.
It's not even the consciousness.
It's that politics has to be learned.
It's not a natural process to put in
your time for free or to take money
out of your wallet and not get a
tax deduction for it, because political donations, they're
not tax deductible.
And so to get people to sign up
for the Green Party, it might take two,
three, four election cycles.
And you also have to remember, in that
two or three election cycle period where you're
transitioning people away from whatever party they're affiliated
with to the Green Party, now you've become
politically irrelevant, because until you are a majority
of the Green Party, it's not as if
it's going to be Islamically aligned policies.
Even when you are.
The more Muslim it gets, probably the more
irrelevant it'll get.
It'll be fought and attacked, et cetera.
Sure, but it could become...
So the approach that I took with what
I'm doing is I'm running as an independent
completely.
And so, of course, this is not an
endorsement of me.
I'm just one other person out here.
But the reason I did that is because
in the short term, I didn't want to
compromise on certain fundamental Islamic values.
So the things we learn in class, right?
I'm a bad student.
But still, I know that I can't make
compromises on certain Islamic values and affirm those
compromises.
Meaning, by sitting out of a process and
not being involved, you're not affirming anything.
You're just sitting out.
You're sort of boycotting the entire experience.
Whereas if you actually sign up for that
party, you're giving tacit approval to some of
the things that they stand for.
And so until you have that 250K people
lined up, ready to go, the 10 or
15 people that are signing up then just
become the showcase of, look, we've got Muslims
too.
And then you're just like the people in
the Democratic Party today who go and they
sit at a fundraiser.
They get a party with...
I'm sorry, they get a picture with a
politician.
And in exchange for that, now you've got
a woman in a hijab and a brother
with a beard sitting next to a person
who's committing a genocide.
And that becomes affirmation for people who aren't
digging deep into the issues.
The biggest problem we have is not knowing
what our principles are.
That's the easy question.
The biggest problem we have is that the
principled route could very likely lead to irrelevance,
which is what you talked about.
And that's the debate.
And that's what Imam Tom...
Or it was Imam Tom?
Yeah, it was Imam Tom who said that
you could be...
The principled approach, at the very least will
be principled, may be irrelevant and may be
wrong because Trump may get in and he
may...
There is a likelihood that it could get
worse.
And my opinion is that neither side is
any different on Israel.
That's my belief.
Like, that's my belief.
Neither side has a different philosophy towards the
lobby.
You still don't know what each president would
do.
I think Biden in office, it seemed to
me, was almost like an absentee presidency.
There was an absentee completely, right?
Let's look at what this person says.
Mohammed Shazly says, very Egyptian, you're applying too
many what-ifs to Mahdi Hassan.
Think about what's happening every day under this
current administration, who's already supported genocide at the
fullest scale versus who may make it worse.
Okay?
I don't see how it can get any
worse.
See, I'll never...
That's not a correct thing to say.
That last line, delete it.
Now Mahdi Hassan says, it can't get worse.
Of course it can.
Every day it's getting worse.
100%.
You think that in two years it's not
going to be worse than today?
It will because Israel can't put this genie
back in the bottle.
They have to keep going.
It will get worse in the Trump administration.
I'm almost 99% sure.
Not because of the presidency here.
Irrelevant of the presidency.
Whether it's Harris or Trump, the next year
will be worse.
The year after that will probably be worse.
Probably until 2030 or for another decade.
Okay.
Daniel Dumberle says, don't vote for Stein because
Trump might win and the genocide might get
worse.
Vote instead for the party under which we
already know the genocide has continually gotten worse.
Which is basically the same idea as what
is, is greater than, what if.
That's what he said here.
Because what is, is already greater.
So he's basically giving that same response.
Ultimately, there is no good answer.
I just, what's my position regarding someone who's
already embedded in the Democratic Party and is
trying to make headway, he should continue.
But don't tell us and try to convince
us that Harris of all people who has,
like what has she done in politics that's
any, that would indicate any future behavior, right?
Trump does have an indicator of his behavior,
which is that it's always much less than
his words.
That is, we have facts on that.
We have demonstration on that.
And I'm not obviously pro-Trump, but what
do we have from Harris?
Wait, why do we have to ask?
She's already in office.
Right?
But you just, you're not gonna, you're not
gonna look good in the community going with
Harris.
This is a blemish on any Democrat and
loyalist to the Democratic Party.
And I know some of them, they won't
talk to me anymore.
Some of these Democratic loyalists, no, they see
me, they look the other way.
I'm like, all right, go die with the
Democrats then.
Right?
Yeah.
What is our position on principle versus making
compromises for political gain?
Like is there a middle ground or is
it, do we have to be, is there
a certain threshold of principles that need to
be upheld?
I'm gonna say that there's no set answer
to this.
There's no set answer.
The future always tells you whether you decided
right or wrong.
Because the reason I'm asking is because with
the Democratic Party, like a lot of brothers
and sisters got involved with the Democrats and
they made compromises on certain issues and it
didn't really lead to much, right?
It's almost as if when you compromise on
certain issues, it's as if you're gonna get
embarrassed regardless, right?
Whether you make that compromise or not, these
people already have formed their opinion.
You're losing either way.
Yeah, but in one version of that story,
you're also losing your own morality and your
own rectitude, whereas in the other, sure, you're
still gonna be on the sidelines, but at
least now you're on the sidelines and people
know what your positions are and they can
respect you for at least being principled.
I've always liked the philosophy of not trying
to bend or please anybody.
And the only way that, the only people
that you, it doesn't mean I like to
offend somebody.
There's a difference.
There's a difference between changing yourself to please
somebody versus, and certain people should be pleased,
those people who already share your beliefs and
they're better at it than you.
By pleasing them, you're actually advancing in your
beliefs.
That's why pleasing righteous people is a bad,
right?
Because it means that you're doing something good.
And the proof of that is the Prophet,
one of the Sahaba, saw that the Messenger
came to pray behind him and heard the
Takbeer of the Prophet.
He said, I made my voice more beautiful
for the Prophet.
So pleasing the righteous, pleasing those who are
in your camp, who are in your philosophy
of things, is good.
What we're talking about is pleasing somebody by
going against our beliefs.
That never works.
You lose both sides because you didn't go
far enough and then you went far away
from your principles in the first place.
You never lose.
You're going to lose both people.
But that doesn't necessarily mean intentionally offend other
people because people usually conflate that.
I don't try to please anyone.
Yeah, but you're offending now.
And that, I don't think that...
The line for that is you are allowed
to offend the people who are trying to
kill you, right?
So the IDF right now, the people there,
they're fighting them.
It is a war.
Any enemy in war, you're trying to kill
them.
They no longer deserve not to be offended,
right?
Like they have no hukook to you.
Their money is halal for you.
Whether they're offended or not doesn't make a
difference, right?
So that's the difference between a lot of
people who quote-unquote say the truth and
other people who they really use the truth
as a way to offend others.
And that's...
You're going away from the...
As entertaining as it is, it is entertaining
and it's a great way to let off
steam.
But it's not the way of the prophets
and you're never going to win when you
go away from the way of the prophets,
right?
Okay, let's take a look at some Q
&A here.
I like this topic.
I don't think it's...
I only think that the pro-Harris campaign
is a total lose.
The abandoned Harris, abandoned Biden, abandoned Harris campaign
is principled for sure.
And it's likely to not have any great
political impact.
Even the Democrats are bound by the Israeli
money.
Israeli AIPAC money.
I think they're just going to have to
bite the bullet and say, alright, we lost
the Muslims, that's it.
They can't go without the money.
They can't offend the AIPAC too much or
the Israel lover.
Yeah.
You don't have to vote for somebody that's
on the ballot.
You can always write somebody in.
And my sort of joke campaign that I've
been promoting to people is look, if there's
no person that you agree with 100%
in a certain position or up for a
certain position, just write in Abdullah Abdullah.
I guarantee you, we've got a cousin somewhere.
That's true.
Who is eligible to be president and he's
going to get 3% to 4%
of the vote.
And that's going to make a bigger statement
than voting for all these different parties.
Sometimes there's just no outlet.
There's no way to win certain things.
That's just a fact of life.
One 1080 caliber Phoenix says, please answer.
It's midnight in South India.
Any guy wants to sleep?
All right.
1080 caliber Phoenix.
What is your question?
If someone give an interview for a job
and they committed some sin and now they're
worried that God will take away the job.
If someone gave an interview for a job,
now you committed some sins.
Now you're worried that Allah will not grant
it to you.
It is possible.
But make Toba then.
Now that you thought about it, make Toba.
But it is possible that the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam did say, sins decrease rizq.
But if you make Toba, then you should
have a good opinion of Allah.
That's it.
Now you can go to sleep.
Poor guy wants to go to sleep.
Is there a B next to the microphone?
No, there's construction.
Yeah, there's a lot of construction here.
All right.
One more question because we got to go.
Tim Bramman says, is circumcision possible for converts
in Maliki school?
Because showing the aura is haram?
Yes, it's always haram.
So how does he get circumcised?
You or your wife can circumcise you.
But don't take it from me.
Don't go looking for the Amazon.com in
-home kit.
Because I don't want to take responsibility for
an infection.
And ruin your life and ruin your marriage
after that.
I'm not getting involved in that.
But the only people who can do it
is you.
Who can see your nakedness is you and
your wife when there's no reason.
And this is not a valid reason to
show your nakedness to somebody else.
And as a result of that, you may
end up not ever getting circumcised.
Is there an in-home kit for this?
Why don't you look that up, Tim?
Or is there an in-home kit?
His phone is charging.
He doesn't want that in his algorithm anyway.
Go to incognito tab so that Amazon doesn't
start sending you circumcision stuff.
We have a...
There's a brother who says he wants to
become...
He's a Christian but he wants to be...
He's looking into Islam.
So he has some questions, he says.
One of them is...
There are a number of objections.
But the biggest one is that the Qur
'an confirms the previous scriptures.
Like the Torah, the Gospel or the Psalms.
It even tells people to judge by it
but contradicts all of them.
Okay.
That's a very good question.
The Qur'an says when it speaks that
the Torah and the Gospels and the Psalms
were from God.
Meaning they originally were from God.
It also then tells us that it's been
altered or lost.
Altered and lost.
Originally it's from God.
And when Allah says the Torah is filled
with light.
Yes, originally.
Right?
Before alteration.
Secondly, when Allah says to the Jews, judge
by your own book.
There's two answers to that.
Number one, it's a challenge.
It's like you don't even judge by it.
It's like rhetorical.
You don't even judge by your own book.
Okay.
Because they weren't judging according to their own
book.
And the Prophet ﷺ was told that.
They're not judging matters.
So he said, all right, bring your book,
judge by your own book.
Secondly, that is the Sharia.
The Sharia does say, Jews, when you live
amongst Muslims, you live in your area, judge
by your own self.
Have your own courts.
Have your own courts.
Have your own judges amongst you.
When Jew versus Jew in a court case,
use the Torah.
Jew killed a Jew, use the Torah.
You don't need to bring it to Islamic
court.
Christian killed a Christian, use the Bible to
judge.
Use your own Catholic law, Christian law, whatever
law, whatever the denomination is.
And that's the Millat system, the Millah.
Meaning that you get the Christians to judge.
They live together.
They have their own leader.
That leader reports to the Muslims.
You guys got a couple of basic rules
as part of the deal here.
The deal is, amongst yourselves, you rule by
your book and your religion.
Number two, don't get involved in politics.
Don't try to take power.
That's not acceptable here.
Yeah, Jews and Christians will and have served
in the past in positions.
Not a problem.
But you're not going to lead.
Why?
Because the nation is established on the Sharia.
How can you follow something you don't even
believe in?
You've declared that you don't believe in it.
So an Islamic, Muslim-run state and an
Islamic state cannot be led by a non
-Muslim.
Can a corporation be led by a communist?
Right?
Can a capitalist rule over China?
Allegedly or supposedly communist, not allegedly, but supposedly
communist country?
Same thing, right?
Can a Catholic rule over Israel, which is
supposed to be a Jewish state?
Of course not.
But Christians can have their own town.
They rule themselves.
They live by themselves.
But the moment you intersect now, you go
out of the state boundaries, or you have
an intersection with a Muslim, then at that
point, you will be judged by the Sharia.
Okay?
Irtiza says, look forward to seeing you back
in Australia, and we can meet Muhammad Hablos.
Yes, I'd love to meet Muhammad Hablos.
He's a great and sincere preacher, does a
lot of great work.
Of course now, he's in the meme hall
of fame, as we all know.
I know you guys heard that.
He's in the meme hall of fame, no
doubt about that.
I have it here.
He's got it?
I was talking with a guy who works
in LA.
He's in this field of producing podcasts and
stuff.
And he says to me, I'm on my
phone from the moment I get up to
when I sleep, and a minute doesn't pass
without me being on my phone.
And so he says, this is one of
the best hall of fame memes.
Right?
These guys, like, yeah.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, I've got to
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