Shadee Elmasry – Come to Terms Tribulations NBF 283
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The title of today's stream
is coming to terms with tribulations with bad things
happening. And why am I talking about this? Because we just saw, I
believe we just saw, you know, this applies to Muslims and non
Muslims, I believe we just saw one of the best examples you'll ever
see of this. Okay.
And that is the example of Elon Musk and his advertisers. So his
advertisers, a long slew of advertisers. I can read you the
names though it can you can find them anywhere.
Apple, Disney?
Probably Microsoft. So many people. Okay.
basically said, we are done with you, we're finished with you.
Okay, such a loss. Now he has a debt payment to make every month,
he's not going to make up that money through another financial
scheme. So he's essentially debt. Right. And he's dead in the water
is companies that he can't make up the debt scheme to the banks, the
banks are gonna say, Give us Twitter, we'll deal with it from
here. You know that that's what happens when a company can't pay
its debts. Guy, that company takes the bank comm steps in. There's no
point in taking you to court because you don't have any money.
Right? So what the bank does is said we're gonna take over from
here. Now, what's an example of that?
There were after World War Two for companies,
for companies were in debt to the banks, okay.
They were in debt to the banks. For car companies were in debt to
a German bank. That bank said us and we're losing all our money
here. There's no point in taking you to court because you guys
don't have money.
So what we're going to do is we bring the CEOs and we obligate you
to do what we're set we're telling you to do. So what did they do?
They said all of you will merge all your resources together, all
your marketing together, all your everything together.
And that company became called the Auto Union. That company today is
the four rings of Audi.
So Audi, how did it get its logo? Because four companies for car
companies after World War Two,
were completely out of business. Okay.
But together, they could survive. Audi was one of them.
All right.
The founder of Aldi, the founder of there was another company which
was his name, I think it's like
hork Horch or something like that German name. Okay. He translated
his name into Latin, which was Audi means listen. And then there
were two other companies. Alright, and these companies were forced to
come together by the banks. That's what happens when a company goes
broke. So that's what's gonna happen to musk. So obviously, very
clearly, he was shaken up because this is a $44 billion debt loan
that he has right on the company.
He then I realized he was really shaken up, obviously. And he went
and volunteered himself to get spanked. He apologized. He took
his Twitter his tweets back. He said I don't agree that Jews
encouraged the hatred of whites.
I'm basically agreed that Jews are a big part of the progressive
movement to hate on whites. Okay.
He then went to Netanyahu as we saw earlier. And, you know, it was
I would pretty embarrassing to if he asked me, right, so we got
shaken up. But you also know you can't you don't change fort
transformed person overnight like this. All right. It's
it's something that you knew he's gonna bounce back in terms of just
his ego, you know, he's gonna come back roaring. And he did the other
day, whether it was yesterday, the day before or yesterday morning,
when a guy ticked him off in some kind of platform interview with
some elite people, and said to him that, you know, it looks like you
went on an apology tour to try to get back your advertisers.
And he says, you know, what? Don't advertise. Yeah, like people play
loose. Don't advertise.
I don't want you to advertise on my platform. Okay. It seems at
some point, maybe that was the point, you just come to terms. You
come to terms with the tribulation. This is one of the
meanings of that. Now. You know, this is universal. Anyone could do
this and most of them and a Kevin, he come to terms with your
tribulation say, Okay, let's let's have this jujitsu
says don't don't anyone know a very meme worthy little two
seconds there when he fired the F bomb a couple times.
And everyone got a laugh out of it.
And he said that now once you come to terms with the tribulation, you
can actually see how it's positive how you could spin it for your
favor in your favor. And against your enemy. That's what jujitsu is
taking the force of your enemy against him.
He then takes that and he says, Look, alright, Kill the Company.
Apple, Disney. All you liberals, all you who are whatever,
companies that don't like me anymore, and are gonna just kowtow
to what designers want. Kill the Company. I'm daring you to kill
the company. Right? Kill the Company.
Because the public will see that you killed it. And see now what
the public will think of you. Because the people love it.
And what is establishment in the earth? What does it mean that
you're established in the earth? Allah subhanaw taala to tell us
about Satan, Satan, the use of what kinetic and McKinna?
We established him in the earth, what does it mean? It it means as
the amorphous city and say, or how does it happen by a love making
people
love them
for good or for bad. That which is established in the earth tends to
have the attribute that people love it.
A mass of people have once a mass of people over you got to deal
with it after that.
It's establishing that so that so he knows that people that people
are with him. And he said, alright, let the world know that
you guys killed the company, and see how people react to you. So
he's like, flipped it on them now. I believe personally from that
that's going to be one of those business moves. We'll see how it
goes. We'll see how it goes. But I think that's one of the business
was it's going to be studied. Because I don't think it was a
business move that was examined that you know, he had meetings
about it. And he's just from himself. What you do to succeed in
a small scale, it's the same principles apply to large scale,
right? Most people just they change their principles. That's
the problem.
So we'll see what happens. And I don't think it's gonna go
anywhere. I honestly don't think Twitter is gonna go anywhere, it's
probably going to succeed. Like there will be other companies that
will come in and fill that void that was left by Apple and Disney
and Disney has got their own problems. They lost $156 billion
last year. Why?
Because they want to advertise. They want to woke up by Disney and
make it all about trans and lesbian LGBT?
How does that make any sense when your customer base?
Is all families and kids? Why would you make even attempt to
market to people who don't produce goods? Or how does it make any
sense? Just simple math. Anyway, they lost 150 6 billion last year.
And that's who he was basically, taunting yesterday was don't
advertise with me. So that was to me a demonstration of when you
come to terms with the bad thing that's happening to you.
That's the only time that you could actually see how this can be
used to my favor. And that's the concept that's idea. Alright,
that's segment number one a little
bit, merge between some spiritual elements and some
and some business news
element item number two. Now segment number two.
When we approach the city, there are some ethics. And truth be
told, when you approach any
truth when you want the truth for anything, okay?
Then you should approach it from some basic ethics. What are some
of these ethics? Very simply, it has nothing to do. Okay? It has
nothing to do with whether you like it or not, that's where whims
and desires, it's gonna lead you to not be able to handle the
truth, right? People who are very emotional people who follow their
desires, people who always just please themselves, eventually,
they fail because they cannot handle the truth. And the truth is
a foundation of all success.
Just it's a simple equation, all success, the foundation of it is
to be rooted in reality.
Get
what is that?
Success is rooted. It has to be rooted in reality. People have
whims eventually cannot be rooted in reality. That's why when Islam
comes and tells you, you have to fight against your whims and
desires. You cannot be okay.
All right. You cannot be somebody who just every time that there's a
desire and discipline you go and desire, eventually there's going
to come a point where there's truth and falsehood. The truth is
against your desires, the falsehood is or the Yeah, the
truth is against your desires and the falsehood is with your
desires. You're gonna go with the falsehood, alright, so you have to
be rooted in the truth. So the first premise in trying to get to
the truth of things is to really put your ego down,
put your knifes down, do you need spiritual practice? To get to the
truth, you have to be accustomed to putting your neffs down. That's
the first thing. Second thing is
the second feature here is
the times that we live in the temperaments the mood of our
people, let's say the Western people, or Arab people, or the
21st century is irrelevant to the truth. It is not a filter to what
is true and false. Good. It is a filter for some very minor things.
Okay. It's a filter for some some minor things but the truth is not
filtered by what the people of our era the people of our time like or
dislike.
Number three when it comes to the shitty
The truth is not going to be something that only one or two
people have discovered. The Prophet peace be upon him said
that this religion it's night is like his day, truck to truck to
come Alma had General de la ley Lu HERC in a hurry her lazy Juana
Illa Herrick,
okay, I left you on the perfect straight path. Alright, this
religion, it's night.
This path, it's night, it's like his day meaning the path that
night is as easy and obvious as the path in the day, meaning the
path in times of confusion. The truth is clear of this religion is
so crystal clear.
Is so crystal clear.
That even in the times of the greatest confusion, you can easily
know what's true about this religion and what's false.
Layla can hurry. It's not It's like his day. No one goes off this
path except someone who wants to destroy himself in one
understanding of it, or except that he destroys himself.
So the truth of this religion will not be found in Oh, one manuscript
like the Davinci Code, the truth of the mega reality of the world
was uncovered in a code and a secret, whatever. Okay, in a
manuscript that was folded up in a museum that was in a, that was in
a tomb that has to be uncovered by by knowing secret codes.
The truth is never like that. The truth of Islam is like the sun and
the moon, and the sky and the stars, the fundamentals is
impossible to hide. impossible not to know, hey, I'm gonna come take
yourself a slice.
Okay, number four, the Allamah of the past, the scholars of the
past, they were more pious than us. They knew the Arabic language
better than us. The chains of Hadith were short and the trait
the tradition was shorter to them. The generations were shorter
chances of things being lost or misunderstood less. They were
better than us, in their piety in their everything. Their hearts
were cleaner than us. They understood the Arabic language
better than us.
That is where we learn our religion from we root ourselves in
the past because this is a religion of transmission. This is
not science and being up to date with technology. Technology is the
opposite
Technology are always trying to push the envelope and discover
something different. Right? That's the knowledge, knowledge is that
are demonstrable in nature, always trying to improve. So you want
innovation in science and tech. In transmitted knowledge, the proof
is how far back you can go. Right? That's the proof. So if I, if
there's an incident that happened, let's say in 1905, and you have a
newspaper reporting on the incident from 1906, but I have a
newspaper reporting on the incident, from 1905, the same year
that had happened, Well, which one is going to be more authoritative?
Let's say All else equal, of course, the one that happened
earlier, right? Let's say you, all right, this happens all the time.
Someone says something stupid, right? Or someone does something
stupid. Then immediately when he's asked about it, he gives an
answer. Then two weeks later, he gives a different answer. Which
one is more likely to be true? Always the first one. Because the
second one you've been coached, right? You've been coached like
Isiah Thomas famously walked off, didn't shake hands with the
Chicago Bulls after getting swept.
And he says, I hate these guys. Blah, blah, blah, right? And then,
like, years later, he said, Oh, I was looking for like, I forgot. I
couldn't see them. Well, obviously, you're coached. You
thought you saw the reaction? You changed your tune. Right? You
change your tune. How about the football player who smashed I
think he
he swung his helmet at another football player, right? A black
guy swung his helmet out a white guy, right? Something crazy like
that. And he almost could have killed the guy. Right? After the
game, he was asked, he said, I just lost my temper. I was upset,
right? Two weeks later, he says no, that white guy called me the N
word. Which one is more believable? Why wouldn't you have
said it then right after the game, right? So in knowledge of
transmission transmitted facts, you want to go as far back as
possible in demonstrable knowledge, science, technology,
etc. You want the latest innovations? Okay. So
we have to go far back to get the best interpretation of the Quran
and the Hadith.
Having said that, I repeat what CD Amazon looks at the divine
openings for sound understandings and more analysis, and more
discovery of meanings. That would not contradict the past, but would
add to it, Jay, in meaning and in observations, and in noticing
things in the in the book in the Hadith,
will continue until the end of time, because divine openings
don't stop. Okay? And he said, This knowledge is it divine
openings don't stop. It's not limited to any one generation. So
we have to keep that in mind. We don't throw out any commentary
from today. But what is strongest, and what is best will be in the
past. And we'll be with the majority, you'll see it in many,
many, many works. Got. Next one, the moment that your heart starts
to become angry with the person in front of you, and you're calling
them names, and you're putting them down and you're just digging
up evidence and you're denying what is against you, and you're
just become blinded by the debate.
At that point, you lost the plot, step away from the whole thing,
nothing you do is going to be good at that point. Absolutely nothing
you do will be good. Once your heart is full of hate.
Step away from it completely do something totally different. Just
get far away from it. Get your perspective back. Right. So why
people I believe people, families have the best perspective. And
I'll tell you why. Because kids don't have the capacity to
understand your world, they have no interest in your world. So when
you interact with a child, that child doesn't have the interest in
your world, nor the capacity to understand if I was to sit down
and talk to a seven year old or a three year old or, or, or an eight
year old, even a 15 year old about my world, it will be very hard for
them to be passionate about it. It's a different generation Allah
has made generations different on purpose. Now for the the eight
year old and the four year old than the five year old, he doesn't
have the capacity to not understand my world.
So when I'm with that four year old or that three year olds,
I'm completely
in their world, you're completely in their world, nothing matters
except their worlds, right? And their sense of humor is what
dominates right? And what and what they're you are literally entering
another world where you know, getting the spiderman toy is the
number one purpose of existence at this very moment in time. That
despite a mentor that's at the other end of the room, give up
getting it right now at this moment in time is the number one
thing in the world right now. I'm
I'm telling you, when you, when you're out there in the world
doing stuff, and you then enter that world even for 10 minutes, it
does something to the vibrations of your brain and of your heart,
and you start having a different perspective on things, right?
Which is why exactly I sort of left off this concept of we want
to go how do you how to do concubines? Right, and get
concubines is so much because you are. So when you when you when you
live with different ages of people and levels of people, it's
beautiful to have three generations in one home.
Because one generation is headed to the grave, their perspective is
totally different. Sit with them for 10 minutes for 15 minutes,
right?
And your vibration totally changes, right? Go sit with now a
five year olds for 1015 minutes. And that changes and but the
combination of all of that.
Okay, and then you have teenagers in the middle, the combination of
all that makes you extremely stabilized in reality, in a sense,
I'd like to put it that way.
Okay. So when you see something that's often lala land that's in a
fantasy world, immediately just makes you laugh at it. Simple as
that you just, you know, it's not it's not the reality of things.
But you can't blame people who are stuck in that because some people
have none of that. And the new generation just sitting online,
maybe with a mom in the house. And that's it,
let alone three generations.
So that's where to be rooted in reality, and to be versatile in
your social interactions, it actually cleans your heart, it
makes you realize, what are we doing here? Seriously, what are we
doing? Half the world doesn't it is what what is not worth fighting
for. And I'm not going to fight for it, even though I know what's
true and false. But I'm sorry, I'm not going to hate for it, I'm not
going to ruin my heart for this, I'll fight for I'm not going to
ruin my heart for this. And there's a limit to how much time
this thinks should be given. Right? There's a lot. That's why I
believe the people who change the world, in radical ways have to be
imbalanced, or most of the time, they're imbalanced people, right?
The revolutionaries of the world, people who truly transformed the
world, and I think they're miserable. But they do transform
the world. But the people who stabilize the world as a different
class, the people we truly rely upon, that we consider to be like,
the walls and the sky of life. They're a different types of
people. So you need to serve, sometimes that level of imbalance.
And that you're sort of odd and not really right. Okay, it does
end up producing in benefits to society, but I don't think it's
beneficial to them, personally. So that's segment number two, the
ethics of getting to the truth in general. And the truth of Islam in
specific
segment number three, slavery. This
one single comment has spawned a discussion that I think is very
fruitful for people. If you have a sincere intention, and you just
want to see what does Islam say about slavery? Now, the question
becomes, is it permissible? What does the shootie I say, What
should a Muslim do? If we are now entering a world where the non
believing nations non Muslims have signed off agreements, or signed
treaties and are inviting us to treaties if not demanding us to
sign treaties where we would not take slaves anymore? No more
slaves. So you have a war, just prisoner of war. That's it. He's a
prisoner. He's not a slave. And he's going to be tried and
whatever is going to happen to him is going to happen. Okay.
Let's see what Sheikh Mohammed Jacobi says about this in his book
on
the refutation of ISIS because ISIS claimed to have brought back
slavery.
Sheikh Mohammed Jacobi in this book,
no page numbers strategy, which you can find online refuting ISIS,
he says in modern times, enslaving non Muslim prisoners of war.
Okay, slaving non Muslim prisoners of war is impermissible.
It's haram to enslave a non Muslim prisoner of war. Why does he say
this? The prohibition has been unanimously agreed upon by Muslim
jurists in the second half of the 20th century. Though it was
permissible in the previous ages. The impermissibility of slavery in
Islam is now absolute, with no exceptions. It became unanimously
established among Muslims when they adhered to international
treaties banning slavery.
The purpose of those treaties is to pursue the greater good of the
whole of humanity and objective that the Muslims have always been
pursuing. By subscribing to those treaties, the Muslim rulers made
them binding on all Muslim
So in that sense, is the prohibition. He's not saying we've
abrogated the Islamic law, there's a big difference between we've
made something forbidden for us to do is very different than we are
abrogating Islamic law. What's an example? I hire you? And I say, I
want you to work from 8am until 6pm, and you get one lunch break,
and you get to 10 minutes for thought and 10 minutes for us. And
that's it.
I don't want you to pray, no effort. I don't want you to sit
and memorize Quran, I don't want you to sit and do that. I want you
to paint my walls. Okay.
If you now break this agreement, after you signed on to it, and you
pray, you're sinful.
Okay. And you pray in the time that you agreed with me that
you're going to work so I can pay you, your sinful. So there's a big
difference and it's something being forbidden because of a
treaty you entered, and abrogating the Sharia no one can abrogate the
Sharia abrogate means to change the Islamic law you can't change
the subject law can't change what the what the Quran came with. But
you can have a personal agreement that you will do X permissible
thing and you will not do Y which is could also be a permissible
thing. In fact, praying extra prayers is a recommended thing.
It's a beautiful thing. God loves it in general. But if we make an
agreement, you're gonna paint the wall and not pray. Then your
prayer now becomes sinful because you've broken the agreement
between me and you and your wealth is haram.
Since Muslim countries join these treaties by consensus, it is now
impermissible for an individual or even a country to breach them.
Moreover, adhering to these treaties, is in the best interest
of Muslims, as breaking them will result in dire consequences for
them. The world has not forgotten the millions of free African men
and women who are captured and enslaved in Africa by the European
powers during the colonial period, which followed the discovery of
the New World America, American society is still trying to get rid
of itself of the evil ill the ill consequences of slavery. In 1926,
sorry, the 1926 Slavery convention and the 1956 supplementary
convention banned slavery altogether. Subscribing to these
treaties as the Muslim rulers did, was absolutely legitimate and
Islamic law. Indeed, it was the right thing to do for all the
above reasons the act of enslaving anyone, whether Muslim or non
Muslim, or reinstating the slave trade today are prohibited from
Muslims. One point needs to be oh my gosh, this is my phone. Jeez.
One point needs to be clarified, as it is the object of some
controversy, the international conventions, banning slavery,
Edith, and the slave trade in no way contradict the Holy Quran, the
prophetic tradition or Islamic law. The city already envisaged
the possibility of treaties between Muslim and non Muslim
rulers by which two sides would refrain from enslaving their
respective prisoners of war. So prisoner of war, one thing slave a
different thing.
Now that Muslims have signed those conventions, they're bound by
them. In fact, listen to this, the Ottoman caliphate, which ruled by
Islamic law, according to the school of Abu Hanifa, abolished
slavery in Africa in 1847. Then, in 1882, it abolished it
throughout the entire empire by means of a edict issued by the
Sultan.
It should be understood that eradicating slavery through such
agreement does not abrogate the Islamic rules and regulations
pertaining to slavery, as found in the sacred texts. Moreover, the
sacred texts do not dictate that slavery should exist. It's not
something that the city is saying go and make it exist throughout
the earth, just as we're saying raised the word of Allah Most High
throughout the earth that we say that right? Call the then recite
the Quran.
Establish marriage between people give Dawa etcetera
make slavery No, or establish slaves no established slavery? No,
that's not part of it. It's something that we have rules and
regulation because it exists likewise, divorce. Divorce is a
reality of life. Let's establish Islam in North America. How are we
going to do that? Start collecting Zika distributing it properly feed
the poor, teach the Quran teach Islamic FIP Alright, teach up to
eat up all right, teach Islamic law teach all Sharia and start
divorcing because divorces has rules in the Sharia SUTA to have a
law because a Surah no. That's not how it works. That's not something
that the Cydia has come to establish, to seek out. Okay,
that's what he's saying here.
The shittier he's saying here.
The sacred texts do not dictate that slavery should exist.
Wouldn't we love to have a society where no, no.
Divorce happens at all? Does that mean we've abolished divorce? Or
we sought to abrogate divorce? No. Certain things we don't want to
exist.
Okay, so he's saying slavery is one of those. Moreover, the sacred
texts do not dictate that slavery should exist. In fact, they simply
regulate slavery if and when it is present. To prevent abuses exactly
what Shukla has weighed, he said exactly what I quoted my shakes
mucha beep in the previous video that Giada put up.
political agreements between countries such as the abolition of
slavery are meant to pursue the best interests for the whole of
humanity. They are based upon principles such as justice and
equity. Muslims should definitely applaud such ideals and support
them by joining those treaties. In fact, Muslims can find precedents
similar to those treaties in their own history, such as the League of
the virtuous health and followed a pre Islamic pact, formed by the
main tribes of Mecca. The purpose of that of that pact was to was to
prevent injustice and oppression to take retribution against
criminals and to aid the weak and the oppressed. Due to his innate
sense of justice. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam joined
this pact even before being assigned the mission to spread His
prophetic message, knew he hadn't received the revelation yet.
The Prophet then said, after the advent of Islam, if today I were
invited to a similar pact, I would immediately agree.
It should be noted that in this pact, the prophets of Allah when
he's joined the pagans and the polytheists, this polytheists of
Mecca without hesitation, hypothetically, if other nations
were to breach their treaties, and begin enslaving Muslims or non
Muslim citizens living in Muslim countries, then a legitimate
Muslim government could reconsider the situation and decide what to
do in the best interest of its citizens. Okay, so what we said, I
asked him I said, well, would is it possible slavery could ever
come back? He said, If they brought it back, then we can bring
it back. Okay. However, as long as non Muslims do not violate anti
slavery treaties, treaties, it is not permissible for Muslims to
breach them. Right. So Muslims are not allowed to enslave any
prisoners of war. Okay, this discussion so far has focused on
now Sheikh web as Haiti.
Let us read
his statement in Al Islam al Hanif, our Lucia, in the Oh lava
rip, if Allah Allah, He says here a statement that maybe he's MOBA.
Maybe it's
exaggeration. He said, it's the first religion to seek to cancel
slavery. I don't know. I think you can argue against that.
We promote emancipation. You can't necessarily see a text directly in
the Quran saying we seek to abolish this altogether. No, it
encourages emancipation. So that statement, right there may be up
for discussion. And but the rest of it is correct. Whoa, Allah,
you'll be who he had that us is not permitted in this era that
we're in why the NFL is still caught up? Surely more Meliton
been myth because slavery has been regulated by rules of Sharia.
Okay, because this is how people were interacting with one another.
And while I'm gonna be limited means as you treat us, we treat
you. So we're in a world now that there's a visa system. So if we
have a Khilafah the world, people when they come in and out, they
need visas. We're gonna operate with visas. We're gonna say
there's no such thing as a visa in the Quran. We're going to figure
something out. That's the way the world operates. Okay.
Fay the terrifica who sumo Islami Allah to her email is still copy
with Lacan or men who is still cockle Ezra cannon Muslim Munna
Hola, betta hurry me. If the opposition of Islam where the non
Muslim countries they themselves have agreed, right to stop taking
slaves and to ban slaves and to abolish slavery in their
interaction with one another, including prisoners of war, then
it's more appropriate for Muslims to do so.
Well, he then you do a Tokyo minute dually al islamiya T Allah
mwah hedayati in her irruptive Allah Allah me I'm Ellen Missoula,
hence the Muslim signing off on all those agreements. Alright,
that
banned slavery and abolish slavery. This is my sure this is a
Shediac compliant and should encourage action.
Well motiva can
not do
Palo Alto Sharia it is in agreement with what the shooting
wants from us we look energetic of humanoid one. Because if now the
whole world is not has said okay no more slavery, but we say yes
slavery, okay? And we're gonna start saves that he says that this
is oppression and aggressing upon people and Allah does not like the
oppressors and those who aggress Okay, that was weapons right and I
told you we're that first line there is up for discussion. Right
The First line there it's up for discussion to say that Islam was
the first religions that would call for that. Okay.
What else so we had shipped weapons to Haiti, we talked about
show of hands. Who else said if the opposing country let me pull
it up actually, if the if the opposing country seeks to or says
hey, Muslims, let's agree in this war not to take slaves prisoners
of war that's it, no slaves
then Muslims can agree to that treaty. And it will be that haram
for them to take the prisoners as slaves who said this. The earliest
who said this is Mohammed bin hasna che Benny Hanafi authority.
Maliki I love him too. He has a Maltese study with him and Malik
he respected him and medical lot.
Got Kitab
Kitab a co he says this in Okay, so this is not some new concepts.
I'm gonna pass the shape and he said it himself. All right. And I
also put up a video of
Schiff Seidel calmly. Right, who's a popular preacher out of Morocco.
Okay. So, here you are with many, many, many, many people.
Okay, many, many, many people have said the same thing. And when many
many scholars have said the same thing, right?
Then
you settles your heart that this is what's correct. Okay.
And anyone who wants to talk on that we can comment on that.
Don't put your comments yet write your comments on the side and we
will inshallah discuss it all later today. But for now, we have
a guest we have segment number four segment number one we talked
about coming to terms with tribulations segment number two,
the ethics of finding the truth segment number three. We talked
about this issue of agreeing the abolition of slavery in the home
of Islam segment number four. I'm a Muslim guy, I'm a Muslim student
I want to get a loan to go to college and pay my tuition out I
want to take credit but what do I do we're going to give you one of
the answers today. Now before we get on brother can you make your
camera face the wall exactly because it's your background is a
corner can you square yourself with square yourself while I take
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All right, ladies and gentlemen. Bismillah R Rahman Rahim welcome
Faison Sayed, co founder of ACC what is exactly ACC a continuous
charity. Faison Welcome to the nothing but facts. The subpoena
side and other effects live stream. I sound like I'm so close.
It's my pleasure to be here today. Tell me where are you talking from
Chicago? No, I'm here in the great state of Texas in the city of
Dallas Fort Oh, Dallas, Texas, Dallas, Texas, masha Allah, now
a continuous charity. Tell everybody the model of your
charity. Now of course so you know a little bit about myself in a
continuous charity. It continues to
De is was the first Muslim charity established in the United States
that really designed to educate the next generation of American
Muslim Muslims by providing interest free student loans 100
This is a program that myself and our My dear friend, Dr. Arthur
Huck, we launched 10 years ago. And the whole idea was very
simple. At that time, Dr. Arthur Huck was actually as an
individual, giving money to students, so they could go to
college and pay for their higher education without dealing with
riba and interest. And he would actually call these people every
month and, you know, remind them to pay him back, after one could
have been decades pretty crazy to do. So he called me up the
executive director of care at the time, I was the director of care
for over a decade of handler in St. Louis, Missouri. And I was so
here in Texas, so I have some experience with the law and Korean
contracts and things like that. So he's like, what if we create a
charity in which we can pull the Muslim almost money together, use
it to loan it to students, as they pay back the loan, we recycle that
money and run it again and again, and again, creating a sadhaka
Jharia a continuous charity. Hello, we started that, as I
mentioned, 10 years ago, we raise 60,000, or that first year, and
now we're at over $6 million, that we've been able to raise a loan
out to students, we've had about 30% of that money repaid to us.
And the number that I really love to share with the community is
that we've been able to save the Muslim ummah in America, over $3.5
million that they would have spent just on Ribba just on interest in
the talk on conventional loans. So hundreds of great charity. I'm so
happy to be here to talk about it. Those are amazing numbers. Amazing
numbers. Talk to us about getting the money back. Yeah, so this is
something that we were very, very keen on. At that time. 10 years
ago, the biggest fear that we had is how are we going to create a
legit Muslim organization. And I hate to use that type of phrasing.
But sadly, within our Muslim community, if the Muslims know
that they're getting it from like the masjid or uncle, aunties or
things, people are just not inclined to pay back their loan.
This has been a problem when I travel all across the country.
Other people have tried to do it on a smaller level, but they run
into a problem that people just don't pay back. So what we've done
is we take a few things into consideration. The first one is
that the students we loan we are trying to loan these funds.
Specifically those students who take this Dean seriously, who are
actively trying to avoid Rebekah didn't know it's against her
religion, and are active involved in the American Muslim community.
And we hope that by funding those students who are well known in the
community, that they're inclined to pay back their loans 100, we
have a 98% repayment, because we're, you know, loaning it to
people, that someone that community knows something about
that person, or they have to get letters of recommendation for like
an Imam, and other community leaders. In order to be qualified
for loans. The applicant repayment process is as simple as can be, we
get into a one on one contract with that individual. So we are
repayment can be anywhere from four years, six years to year,
depending on the individual. And then the amount they pay back is
also customized. Because everybody's at a different level.
In life, you can't expect a sophomore in high school, I mean
college to pay as much as someone who's graduated college, and as a
full time job. So we customize the loan terms, we customize the loan
amount that they pay back, and then from that begin to legally
binding contracts. So we have the same rights as another lender
would, in case the person doesn't pay back their loans, and
Alhamdulillah we created make it easy to have an online portal and
pay every month, they get reminders. So it's just like
getting a loan from anywhere else that is very easy to make those
payments. Okay, if I am a good Muslim guy,
I got letters of references from all the shoe. And I am seeking a
loan that's going to be basically around $70,000 over the course of
four years. Because I'm going to major in poetry and photography,
and
woke studies. Am I getting a loan from you guys or not?
Well, it really depends. So for us, we really try and prioritize
those students who are more likely to pay back their loans and
others. So for example, if somebody is studying engineering,
or teaching or things like that, we'll prioritize those long
because most of there are good, decent jobs in those areas, what
you're describing specifically, we may be less inclined to fun, there
is of course benefit of studying those fields in those degree to a
certain extent.
But we'd be less inclined because the job prospects might be fairly
dim. And there are 1000s of other students that are studying
degrees, and other job prospects and the benefit that they can give
to the community will be a lot better. We also do a lot of
coaching. So for example, I met a lot of students over the years who
are going to get into $80,000 worth the depth studying
sociology, and we try to advise them that listen, you can study
sociology all you want, but you don't have to take on so much debt
to do so. Right. You can go to a community college for two years.
You can go to a four year college
I'm trying to reduce that debt burden as well. Okay, I'm a guy
who did not manage my money, manage my money. Well, and I'm not
paying you back because I did so well as a doctor. Now I'm saving
up to get a Bugatti.
And as a result of that I'm not paying you back. Right? Are you
sending me to a debt agency? are you reporting me? Yeah, so that's
a good example. So at the end of the day, we have to remember loans
and our religion is a type of sadaqa. It is a type of charity.
Some people who cannot pay back the loan, because they got into we
had a few students that go into a car accident, they became
terminally ill, they'll never be able to pay back the loans. For
those students, we forgive those loans, or we have donors that give
the card funding and sometimes there's a cut funding, if they're
eligible for the card funding, we use that for that purpose. So we
do have that process built into the entity or the organization or
we can delay the repayment for other cases, the case that you
specifically described was just someone who was able to pay back
the loan has a good job, but simply is being negligent and
doing so then we have the right to go after that person like a debt
agency, we could garnish their wages, we could also go after
their cosigner because at the end of the day, what they're doing is
they're doing the type of villain, that the fact that they're not
paying back their loans, there's a whole group of students waiting
for that student to pay back their loans, so they have funding for
their loans as well. So because of because they're doing done they're
doing on paper pression, we can then take action to make sure that
they comply and make the repayment Okay, good. No, if you're on
Instagram, or you're just joining us, we're with FES en se have a
continuous charity. If you want to see the full picture, I'm sure you
only see half of me and half of him on Instagram, you can hop over
to YouTube Safina society channel, click the Live button there. And
you'll see the full picture. And you'll be able to comment. So I
see the Instagram comments too. But and we'll get to those
questions. But I see the YouTube ones more. Now. Next question is
why don't you just
me make that the rule from the beginning, namely, your payment of
this loan will come right out of your salary? Why don't you just do
that? And from the beginning, it says take the headache off of the
person having to remember even takes the Wiswell away from him.
Should I pay? Should I not? Should I save up for a Porsche? Or should
I pay back a continuous charity? Should I you know take that
Detroit's from them completely, it makes life easier.
True, it will definitely make life easier for us. But Alhamdulillah,
we haven't had as much issues getting repayments as people might
expect. Because we do a whole application process we've meet the
students one on one, we get to know them in the community. So
hamdullah most of students are inclined to pay back. I think the
challenge that happened with that is that card does basically
illegally, it could be called garnishing your wages, which you'd
need actual reasoning for in court to actually get that. But then
also brother, you know, at the end of the day, you know, I'm not too
old, you're young by myself. Sometimes when you graduate
college, even when you start working, and you get married and
you have kids, life happens, you know, I mean, so sometimes the
students um, if we just took it from their bank account, I've had
my bank account go negative multiple times over the years, not
because I'm a bad with money, it's just because life happens and
things like that. We don't want to put that burden on the student. We
want this to be something that is prophetic. That is something that
is really seeking the face of Allah subhanaw taala. So we make
the contract clear, they know how much they should pay every month.
And then we allow them to make the payment because you never know,
maybe your paycheck is a week late, maybe something happened.
And if you get garnished or you get that waste taken out of your
account automatically, it goes up people behind. Good answer. When
do they have to start making the payments? Great question again,
this one on one.
meetings with them. So some of the students they start making
payments right away, we encourage everybody to start paying right
away if possible, even if it's 20 bucks a month, 3050 bucks a month.
Why so the end that habit of repaying? Of course some people
can't even afford that. So in those cases, we'll then delay
until they graduate or until they're done with the residency or
till they're done with whatever and then they start making their
payments at that time. So it really is a one on one repayment
structure. Okay.
Do I have to be a BA getting my first degree or can I get a
Master's with ACC mashallah amazing question. So we fund
people for the undergraduate ba masters, PhD medical programs, and
one of the programs are really proud of it. We even refinance
loans. So a lot of brothers and sisters out there who marched off
the bicycle love, went to college, have degrees have jobs are making
money, but they got to $80,000 worth of debt. A continuous
charity has a process where you can apply for a refund
For will be off, all of that are part of it based on our income and
our budget. And then you just pay us what you're paying the bank. So
we also have that and we love to give those type of loans because
people are working, we get the money back sooner we get to loan
it again sooner. Let me understand that, right. So I'm a guy who
wanted to do a master's. So I took out a loan with Ribba. Okay.
Because I didn't have any other choice. And I just did it. I had
the choice. Of course, I could have just not done a masters. Or I
could have saved up over the years. But I committed I did
something right, whatever.
I can come to you now. It's a Hey, guys, I'm stuck. Can you pay this
off? And I'll pay you? Is that what you just said? Yeah, exactly.
So we don't pay off either all of it, or part of it based on how
much income we have. Because again, we're not a bank, we don't
get to call the Federal Reserve, they print money and give it to
us, based on how much money we raised in the community. If we
have the funding, we'll have all of it are part of it. And then you
just pay us whatever you're paying the bank before. Amazing, amazing,
amazing. All right, I want to sign up. What's the process? How long
is the application? Is this going to be something that is a 12 step
application that's going to give me a headache? Or is this going to
be a simple, maybe one page application that I could do in 20
minutes, we're Muslim, so we always try to be balanced, right?
So it's not 12 pages. And it's not so easy that everybody can apply
for it as well, because we do want some energy effort put into the
application process, and we won't be good stewards of people's
money. So the application process, we tried to make it as
professional as possible. Don't call uncle phase on don't call our
board president. None of us can help you at all with the
application process. With our website, go online, January, the
first to march the 31st is open to everybody in the US. Click Apply
online, we have a fact information that explains every step of the
application process, we have video that explains the process, you
just click structure application, you can save it in between when
you're doing the application, so you don't lose your progress. And
then just submit it before the deadline is done. As long as you
do that, you'll be able to do it. And again, if there is a little
bit of process in the sense that we do need a very large
recommendation, we need proof that you're actually going to a
college, we evidence of your income. So we can determine
whether you're applicable for the loan. Because at the end of day,
we want to fund those students who really can't fund it first. And
then once those basics are done, you then are part of the process.
Good. I'm gonna start taking questions from the audience.
Brothers and sisters who are sitting
who are joining us in our virtual Holika. send in your questions
that you have for ACC, you do collect the money initially from
sadaqa NZQA. Is that correct? We really try to focus on collecting
it only from South Africa. We discourage the cat donation
because the country champions the cat has to go Cash to Cash, right?
Yeah. So sometimes though, people just mail us a check or on the
donation form, there's 500 bucks in cash and says got no name no
nothing. So what do we do with that money? We are important
towards the cat fund. And then when we have instances where we
can utilize that God, we have Dr. Omer, Soleimani Yashraj, Berg jaws
and others who are part of our religious council. And then when
those criterias are met, we then use this money specifically for
those very good. So essentially from fundraising. Correct? That's
right, fundraising, business sponsorships, we get some grants
as well here and there. But it's just the Muslim. The idea is,
we're just revitalizing the Waqf system, we're just pulling the
OMAS money together using it for these loans. They pay it back and
then the fun grows larger and larger every year. Okay.
We Where can someone give a donation right? Now let's say I
want to give $1,000 a month to you guys, how do I do that? We hope
everybody will give $1,000 a month, it's very easy, you can
visit our website, ACC educate.org, or just go to Google
and type in a continuous charity. And it'll be the first result make
your donation online as tax deductible sadaqa eligible and
we'd love to we'd love your support. Good. Next question.
There are human beings who take time out of their day to read the
applications to contact the references. Are they getting paid
and therefore a sliver of every charity has to go to admin right?
And even even Zika. In Islam in the Quran, there's a cat collector
gets paid from the Zika. That's a liberal, he needs a livable wage.
He can't go around collecting sheep and goat for Zika or
counting the gold and silver and then giving it out to people
from volunteering, right, so he needs to get paid. So you have the
same system, I'm assuming, right? Yeah, very similar are
specifically application review committees or arcs. Most of them
are volunteers Alhamdulillah. So we get Muslims from all across the
country. ACC will train them on how to do it again, a
nondisclosure agreement so they don't share any public and private
information. So you're being reviewed by a real person and
there are people just like you'd mashallah of course the
organization
At the end of the day, if this was a voluntary charity, we probably
raise 10 $20,000 a year. That's great, we'll have very much 0%
overhead costs, but how much is 10 $20,000 going to help? Because
we're trying to get the millions and 10s of millions in the near
future. There is administration costs. And just like you
mentioned, what's the cost collector? I think we need to do
that in order to have a professional organization. So is
the is the admin paid from the fees that the loan that's being
paid back? Or is it from the taken out of the donations is taken out
of the donations? Our loans are completely zero interest? So
there's no admin fee? Late no late fees? No yearly fees? Okay. All
right, fighting polymath asked me a question that
is about the
previous segment. So I'm going to get to you afterwards fighting
POLYMATH. Okay. Very simple answer for you, but I will answer you
later on. Alright, let's see. What is the next question for ACC.
Okay, masters who answered that how to apply how to
how do they make money? Okay, yeah, they make money by by
fundraising. Okay. Yep. Let's see Instagram, Omar, if you can open
up that Instagram on the side of the screen there. I could look at
it. I need to get myself a like a fake Instagram so I can see the
questions.
Are there late fees? You said no, there are no late fees and the low
the person who's taking the debt is also not paying any admin fees.
It's going direct. He's only paying his loan. And the donate,
the donors are paying for the administrators, the people who
have to sit behind the computers and work.
Very good, very good. Let's see what else we have here. Dominique
benzoin.
says what an amazing endeavor. Yes, it would have been nice if
the Ben Zion had done this instead of usury to Khadija almost said so
happy to catch this live May Allah bless this initiative wonderful
guests all right.
Masha Allah amazing initiative never heard of it. So this one
person got we answered the question this not only for
Bachelors you could do a PhD on this. All right, you could do
other things.
Someone is saying do you personally know anyone who's
taking this loan? Well, I'm sure phase on knows tons of people. I
don't I personally don't know someone who has maybe this is new
in New Jersey. But you know, many people who have taken this loan
Oh, hello, we have over 500 students across the country that
picking the loan and you can visit our website there's a ton of
testimonials. These are all real people. We're not you know, like
making stuff up. You can go to websites, see videos, read
testimonials. And Marshall in New Jersey, We also have a few dozen
people have gotten we just have a chapter in New Jersey also. Okay,
limited to United States yes or no? It is limited the United
States as of right now we're going to expand it to student visas
inshallah inshallah make dua in the near future. And we're going
to expand it to other communities as well, yeah. Because if someone
from the UK doesn't pay you back, you would really need a UK branch,
that would be in touch with the law there to make sure that you
can get to international law, there are some ways to do it. It's
very expensive and challenging. And even the UK that's good. But
imagine like Pakistan or Yemen or Qatar, well, Qatar, but you know,
some of these countries be almost impossible. Okay, what about if
I'm a resident of the US my family's here, my bank accounts
here, but I'm studying abroad.
Now that's fine. You just have to be a US citizen. For us. You can
study overseas, but we have to be able to get our repayment and
haven't actually what does it What if I'm not studying in an official
university, I'm studying with Sheikh for that.
That is a little bit tricky. So we have funded Islamic education in
the past. But those are typically for seminaries and institutions
that are established. At the end of the day, we need to be able to
know that you're actually in a program that is actually cost
money that you're paying it and etc, like that. And sometimes
those one on one studying doesn't provide that type of paperwork.
Okay, so what if the school is a non accredited Seminary in Morocco
or Yemen that has an admin has a legitimacy. It has a website,
right? And I want to go study there, right? And I work it on the
side or something, but I want to go study there. And you could see
the school on a website. It's a logistical, but it's not an
accredited university. And I want to go study for four years, can I
get a loan from you guys? Potentially? I think one of the
things that we do is very one on one hands on, so I want to
recommend apply. Reach out to us. Let's learn more about
specifics. And we never say no, unless there's a reason to say no.
What about a non accredited school here in America, like dogs or cats
or dogs, or Donald Qasim or or Calum Institute, if it's an
Islamic Studies program that's different, so that we would fund
but if it's like, let's say you're going to study, I don't know, like
math in an unaccredited. University, we will not fund that
because you're wasting your time and you're wasting the Muslim
community's funding as well. But for some studies, that's
different. Okay? What if I want to do something that is outside of
tuition at all? I'm a doctor, right? I just need an extra loan,
but it's $100,000 loan to start up something completely unrelated to
academics. For that we're not the charity to do that. We're not
going to do that. But we do fund my books. For some people who need
money for like, you know, room and board, we also provide a loan for
that as well. Gotcha. Gotcha, gotcha. All right. Very good. I
think that we've covered
all of our questions. So you don't give you are limited to tuition,
tuition, books, things around education around education, it's
very good to be focused like this. Because if you get all crazy, then
it becomes difficult.
Become sloppy. Alright, let's scroll real quick. For the
Instagram, I'll see you if we're done with the questions.
Do you need to be in the state for example, we don't need a New
Jersey chapter of ACC ACC, to get a loan from you. Right? It's a
national organization, as long as you're in the 50 states somewhere
or your family's here, we'll give you the loan. So the chapter idea
is just to get awareness and to
to raise the funds. Yeah, exactly. At the end of the day, this is a
huge problem. And the more people that are are tackling that problem
is when we get it, we encourage you to open up a chapter but
really, we have a new republic, a team, the ambassadors, a
continuous charity, become an ambassador, bring a consensus
charity to your local community with not only the loan, but also
we do educational workshops called preparedness, how to apply for
scholarships. The problem is our community is that there's a lot of
lack of knowledge about just higher education. So our community
doesn't take advantage. A lot of these programs that are out there.
Very good. Very good. What about a coding bootcamp? It's very useful
non accredited, very, that's like a certificate type of program that
you would loan for that. Do you get do you do pay the university?
Or do you give cash to the person 95% of the time we paid directly
the loan holder and that's just because, you know, we don't want
to sit down to whisper in the person's ear now got $30,000 in
cash.
So that's it in the cases we paid the person is for like books or
for I need rent paid for the next month, things like that. What
about housing? Yeah, housing ready for his house? Lovely things like
that. Yep. Okay, very good. That was a question from lathe Newton.
And that was a question from Kenneth Leachman. So trade
schools, trade school, I think it's something that you're going
to make money right away, right. We look trade schools are one of
the workshops I give is to encourage Muslims if they haven't
thought of it to consider trade school as well. Now we provide
long for that. Very good, very good.
So Khadija Ahmad is saying
online accredited program in cybersecurity, I think that will
be a yes. Right on percent. Yes. Good. Very good.
If what if it's for a master's? Yes. You said masters. Yes. Right.
It doesn't have to be.
It doesn't have to be a BIA. It could be a masters or a PhD, or
even doctors or things like that. Good. Good.
All right. Very good. Very good. Anything. So essentially, anything
that clearly has a track where you're going to make money from
this knowledge at the end of the road, like being a pilot, for
example? I'm good. All right. Very good. Thank you all very much. Now
the question for study, a study abroad loan for a semester. He
said, Yes, you are here. And your your classes for that term are
abroad? The answer is yes. Right. There's nothing wrong with that.
Research funding. How about that?
We have done some research funding in the past for specific people.
There's one student who did a report on Palestine and
Subhanallah, October 7 happened. So he's now speaking at different
venues with us on his study. So we do do it, but it's very limited.
That's like, what additional projects that we do as an ad hoc
basis. Very good. Thank you so much for your time, you answered a
lot of questions. And again, folks go to
what is repeatedly a continuous advocate or just Google a
continuous charity, you'll find it and we love to get you guys to
apply. And then those of you who want to support it, support it. At
the end of the day. Ribba is a major sin within our community.
Let's not get disheartened.
See, there's nothing to do about it. Let's join this effort. Unless
Tacuba together, you guys are a proof that something can be done
about it. Where there's a will there's a way is it a think is a
very straightforward system, right? The community is taking
care of the community. It's a very straightforward system. People
give sadaqa and the community takes care of the community. And
that's it. There's another way of doing it too, which is developing
very slowly. It's called My own where your you don't give sadaqa.
But you just put your money in the bank. It's a bank, it's a local
bank, community bank, so I can take my money back, and they. And
so it's a different model. And we need multiple of these models.
After 50 years, we'll see which one works best. And we'll do it
right. That's it. So may Allah reward you, may Allah bless you.
And we ask everyone here to pitch in put in 10 bucks a month, put in
five bucks a month, as Quran always causes invite people to
charity, right, this is a good charity to be part of five bucks a
month now that you're not drinking Starbucks put in five bucks a
month for ACC, and, and you're gonna benefit from that your
lineage will benefit $6 million is moving now. And they have saved
the $3.5 million that would have been paid today. But tell me
that's not the work of the show to $3.5 million.
That would have been paid to river is not paid. That's amazing. That
is amazing. So may Allah bless you. These are the you know, this
is the work of Allah to be honest with you. saving people's money
should it comes to save your money, not just to save your mind
and your heart and your afterlife. Again, the name is ACC educate.org
Thank you face on and we'll have you on later on. Every once in a
while we'll have you want to remind everyone what this is all
about. A lot of powerful speaker sound like from y'all when it
comes to them to the
that segment number five, let me take
fight fighting polymath before he has a nervous breakdown about this
question. Okay. Because he's asked and he posted about it like 10
times. So I'm going to answer his question before he gets upset
while all my fires it up with our next guests. Okay, we'll leave you
hanging on that. Now. He's saying how is it about it is abolished by
agreement.
slavery was abolished in the Ottoman Empire, and would be
abolished by agreement between nations not to do something no
different than if I hire you. And I say you work for me.
And you agree to work, not memorize Quran between four and
5pm. You are here to paint my wall and not to recite the Quran, or
anything else besides painting my wall from four to 5pm. Right. So
you agreed to it. It's an agreement. And that's the nature
and that's the method by which slavery was abolished. The the
Ottoman Sultans, they did it in the 1840s. And again, and for the
home in the 1880s. Good, all the nations have agreed to these
contracts and these pacts between nations and that's the nature of
how it was abolished. Okay?
What app abolished not abrogated. We do not change Islamic law.
Nobody can. Okay. But we can make an agreement to do or not to do
something. Once we make an agreement. It becomes haram for
you to do it. So is it ever haram to read the Quran? Yes. It becomes
haram to read the Quran when you agreed that you paint my wall or
do my job rather than read the Quran. Simple as that. Let's bring
out our next guest segment numero sace. Six. Maliki click Welcome to
the studio decided number facts live stream. Someone like me,
Salam Rahmatullah. How are you? I'm good. Everything's going good.
Very good. Very good. So tell us so where are you right now? In the
nation.
I am in
where am I about an hour outside of the Oklahoma border in Texas.
It's just a rest area called Allen Reed. Rest Area. Oh, okay. So
Oklahoma, Texas. I always have to pull up a map when you're talking
to Maliki click because he's always on the road. Right now
Oklahoma Texas border. So as a l l a n second. R E D Allen Reed rest
stop. Okay, and was he some kind of Governor some special I don't
even know who the guy was. Be honest with you. No idea. Ahmad
cometh and sitteth fresh from I'm gonna come sit and eat this pizza.
All right, so
by the way, I've never had New Jersey pizza. I have New York
pizza when I lived in New York but New York Pizza solid Jersey pizza
solid Connecticut pizza super solid.
Where are you headed? Right now? I'm going home. I'm about 195
miles away from dropping this load that I have in the back. Okay,
good. So you're done with the trip. Mashallah, yeah today, today
is my Friday. So I'm going home.
Tell me about tick tock what's happened in the world of Dawa on
tick tock. shahada is in left, right, center.
Unbelievable. All kinds of I had to this month
people are just really interested in Islam after this Palestinian,
because people have really fallen for the narrative for generations,
you know, and, you know, the generation of their parents
telling them, you know, a Palestinian is bad. You know,
these are people that are violent people. And now that they see, you
know, there's the reaction on social media, it's changing public
opinion. So everybody's like, okay, but I was told this by my
mom and my dad that these people are the bad guys, but it seems
like
they're the other guys are the bad guys. And the Muslims are the good
guys. So yeah, a lot of people are becoming Muslim. You know, I even
did a live stream on last month.
At the beginning of last month, and I was on the road, I was just
doing a live stream and I always have my, my camera pointed outward
so they can see the road and then beyond the beautiful, beautiful
creation of Allah subhanaw taala. And this one, Native American
woman was like, Look, I'm very interested in Islam, and I've
decided that I want to be a Muslim right now. And I was like, I put
on the headset, I'm driving a big rig and I was like, okay, repeat
after me. And she became a Muslim. Somehow.
We've seen this, these videos of people who are just talking about
getting the Quran and the reaction to buying the Quran.
We've only seen like, a small video one minute of different
compilations is this thing, something taken off on tick tock
this getting the Quran and reacting to it? It is I think that
Americans I think the West is is like trend based or inspire, you
know, if something's going on on social media and my tech talk, and
social media is so important. They jump on it. They're like, why not?
And you and I discussed this before, with with Western people.
It's like, okay, this Hispanic guy over here, he's reading the Quran,
and I'm Hispanic. I'm gonna do it too. Why not? Yeah. And especially
the white people. They're just like, Okay, we have white women
over here. We have, you know, guys and cowboy hats, you know, wanting
to read the Quran and you would think it's like a right, right
winger, extremist. They're all interested in the Quran? No. Why
can I be you know, and that's why I don't mean to, you know, draw
importance to myself, but that's why people like me that are
American born and raised in this country. You know, Caucasian
are really important in the Dow, especially on tick tock, because
people have to see that. Yeah, I've been Muslim for 32 years, you
know, I have seven children that are Muslim and my wife, you know,
so you can be Muslim. And you don't have to look like you know,
what we just got discussed last time. You don't have to lose your
identity or dress up like Lawrence of Arabia,
all caps, cowboy hat, cowboy boots, whatever you want. It's all
about the belief that's in your heart. That's important. That's
the only thing that will change. Be yourself. You don't have to do
some initiation or whatever. Believe me, I get DMS every single
day from white Christian people from atheists from, you know,
what, are you really a Muslim? Like, come on man between you and
me? Or are you doing something like, monetarily or Yeah, like,
funded by Saudi Arabia or something? I mean, come on, tell
us what's going on, really. And I'm like, I am a Muslim. There's
no money in it. When I became Muslim. My father wrote me out of
a $600,000 inheritance. So I saw you, I assure you that I'm not in
this for the money. It's because I really believe in Islam, and you
should look into it too. And they're like, Okay, where do I
start? I'm like, Well, you go to arc mu.org. Or over here.
I always send new shahada to you Subhan Allah so now check to check
this out. The companion and the 34th men have not Fenn was known
in his Khilafah to do things that we're not the Sunnah, the opposite
of the circle. And people would ask him for example, where how he
would wear his shawl, how he would wear his ring, the kind of sandals
in other words, visible things, visible things, the length of
suttas to recite, things the whole community can see.
And, and people would ask him, oh, Khalifa automat, we attended the
life of Amara, we attend
Under the Khilafah, of Abu Bakr, and they imitated the Prophet
peace be upon him, you are doing the opposite of those things. Why
is that? What how can you explain it, for example, that again, did
Othman lose his piety that he doesn't follow the Prophet
anymore? No, he said that, he said, to show you what is an
obligation and what is merely a recommendation. In other words,
what is something that Prophet did, and what is actually part of
the religion. So it's not he downgrading what the Prophet did,
or the imitation of that, but he is upgrading the knowledge of the
difference between the two. And it's so important to know that
there are a lot of things in Islam, some of them are
obligations. Some of them are recommendations, and some of them
are light virtues, light recommendations, and some of them
are habits. Habits of the Prophet peace be upon him, right, such as
what foods he ate, versus what he didn't eat, what he liked versus
what he didn't like, good,
versus something he encouraged you to do. Right? That will be a
sunnah. Something that with its threatened punishment, if you
don't do it, that's an obligation. So it's so important to know the
difference between these things. And that's why it's critical for
someone like yourself to come really with the lowest common
denominator, like what is the least physical change I have to do
to my body in my life, to be a Muslim? Because people need to
know that. They need to know what is the least because a lot of
times people will, they're going to ask themselves, I want to do
this, but give me what do they call it in business? Least viable?
Minimal, minimum viable products, the MVP, the minimum viable, but I
want to do it, give me the least when I had my training as a
trainee as a runner, training as a runner, I told him, Listen, I'm
very busy. Give me the minimum that I have to do. And he gave me
the minimum, right. So that's why it's so important to be doing what
you're doing, the way you're doing it is to have that minimum viable
product of what it takes to be a Muslim make the barrier of entry
very easy, okay? People have crazy objections, people have crazy
assumptions. Like you said, when, when they contacted me, they're
like, you know, I'm really interested in Islam, but you know,
I still drink I still have a friend, I still do this. And I'm
like, that's a sin that you're doing that don't let that keep you
from from becoming a muslim. You know, there's a lot of people out
there. I mean, there's even Muslims have misconceptions about
what is haram and Hassan And you know, everything else. non Muslims
are really lost in the sauce. I mean, they, they asked me, Why do
you hate Jesus and what you know, that's a clue about Islam.
And a brother came, and he said, listen to it here. I want to
become Muslim, but I don't know if I'm worth it.
I'm worthy of it. I don't know if I'm worthy of it. I said to him.
It has nothing to do with you being worthy. This is a debt you
owe to God. He was shocked. He was like, that makes it really easy.
It's a debt you owe to God to admit with your mouth that he
exists, he's alone, worthy worship, and that his final
prophet Muhammad was a true prophet that is worthy of being
followed. And he's like, that makes my decisions so easy. It
took shahada right there on the spot. So that his conception was
that this is an elite club of pious people.
Right? Whereas not this is the debt you owe to God. Simple as
that. You remember, you remember that guy, Rob, you remember that
guy? Rob give Shahada. Yep. And I sent them to you, and he's making
you he's doing the classes with you. Or he was doing them.
Same thing with him. He said, I had known about Islam. All the
time, little known about Islam for years, and I considered it but
a certain group of people were habia that always kept me away
from Islam.
So I didn't, I knew that. I didn't want to be a part of that, because
that sounds like you know, he called the Wahhabis, like the
Pharisees and Christian
Pharisees to me, so I don't really think I want to, but long story
short, is, he said, but, you know, when I watched your videos,
I've been watching you for three months, even support. You don't
know me, but I'm on live stream right now.
And I've been watching you. That's the first thing those first words
out of his mouth. He says, Hey, man, you know, I've been watching
you for a while now. And, and, you know, ABC 123. And I was just
wondering, can you lead me through the Shahada? I'm reading Subhan
Allah, and he explained to me him, and this was a guy who was on Tik
Tok as well. He's got since he's been Muslim since June 27. He's
got like, 10 people that converted to Islam by his doubt. So pa 10
Actually, the guy that I converted, he converted 10 people
and he's just like, he's a monster. He's a beast. Subhanallah
that's amazing. You know, there's there's another phenomenon that
I'm noticing now is when people come into Islam as a big gradient,
right and
A lot of people come into Islam than leave it off. Okay.
I have seen in the past month or two, a couple instances in which
clearly someone entered Islam, but then either left it off or just
never passed it down. The next generation is not Muslim, but then
they enter Islam again. I can name about four or five situations just
in the past month, one of them. Where was he from? He was a
University of Florida Gators football player. And his name is
Mohammed and he's wearing a cross.
How weird is that? Only in America, right? Clearly his parent
entered Islam. I'm assuming. I've never seen a non Muslim named
Mohammed. But that would be a trend that would confuse the light
side of everybody. The trend of non Muslims naming Muhammad right.
But clearly is probably most likely someone entered Islam.
Then left Islam. How about this one, there was a brother who was
not a Muslim. He said my dad was a Muslim,
died.
But his wife, the mom was Christian. And I never got to
learn Islam. Yet another so you may just today I was going to
sister called the masjid and said I want to enter take Shahada. I
said, Okay, Masha, Allah, you don't need to come in. We'll do it
now. Then you can come in and we can introduce you to the to the
Muslims here and give you some good company. He said, she said,
Well, I just want to make something clear. I'm already a
Muslim. But I haven't been practicing Islam for years. So I
think I should renew it. I was like, Well, anybody could say the
shahada and renew their intention. But you don't have to retake the
Shahada. So that is a phenomenon that's that's happening here on
the east coast, where conversion happened in the 70s. Right? And
then a class of people left it off. Their kids and grandkids are
now rediscovering it. Which makes it easier. That's what happens
when I mean, it's a phenomenon from the 70s. It's a phenomenon
happening right now. So when people become Muslim, they kind of
just like, sit like myself, I when I converted to Islam in a maximum
security prison. I still had two years to go to serve my time
before I got out, so I existed in prison with only the Quran and a
book called Islam and focus. So we didn't learn so much
about Islam, but that's what happens when people become Muslim
they say, okay, so don't lie in * Allah, I said on them 100%
Allah. Now what are we going to have some fun activities? Know
you're going to study Dean you're gonna go to and I always told
them, okay, you converted to Islam, mashallah, I need you to go
to arcview.org and enroll into the basic program, because you can't
just say, Hey, I'm saved. I'm good to go. I'm a Muslim. Now. Now you
have to learn your name. Now, this is the most important thing. Yeah.
I mean, if you're not learning our deen, how do you know how to
practice it? How do you know how to speak to people? How do you and
when you learn your deen it shows up in your conduct, you know, and
how you speak to people and how you. You can't be a just person.
You can be a moral person, unless you study the Sierra of Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi salam, and you will learn your deen. And if you
don't learn your deen, what are you going to do with your kids?
Are they just going to be Muslim by name and they end up with a
crop on their on their neck? You know, God forbid. So that's what
has to happen when you convert to Islam. And that's what I do on
tick tock. I always grab them. And I'm like, Look, if you need
something, let me know. But I'm going to direct you to get into an
aikido class. Yeah, quickly right now. piety is having a tough
decision and making the right decision.
You can't make such a decision if you don't know what the right and
wrong is. Right?
Righteousness in worshipping God, you cannot worship Allah. If you
don't know how he wants to be worshipped. You can't worship
Allah your own way. So that's why honestly, knowledge is the most
important thing. And it's one of the things that keeps people safe.
Because questions linger in the subconscious of people's mind, and
they'll never address it.
But knowledge will actually bring the question right out. Right?
Don't creep into remember doubts creep into because remember, these
people are new to Islam. Yep. And then the ex Muslims or the
Christians go at them like sharks. You converted to Islam. Oh, don't
you know that? It says in Surah Majda. This What do you think of
that? And so doubt creeps in. Yeah, immediately. Exactly. The
dogs and the shayateen. They all come in, and they just attacked
them. Especially Rob, when he became a Muslim. It was just like,
and then the Wahhabis came on him and it was just it was terrible.
It's a acknowledge the internet, as I said a couple of days ago.
When something happens in the earth, that happens for everybody
for good and bad knowledge is easily accessible also to the
enemies of Islam. So a lot of times, you'll see now people kofod
site and Bacardi against you, right? Say, Oh, this is what Islam
stands for. And they'll tell you, it's from Bukhari, right? So it's
no different with me, I've become like semi knowledgeable in, in
Judaism, Deuteronomy, children's Torah time, right. But like, my
motive is to show the absurdities of this right that this cannot be
what we accept. But people are also having that motive with the
truth. So a Muslim who really has no choice except to be a student
of knowledge. Every day, they got to learn something, because non
believers are out there with bad intent, some of them to try to sow
doubts in your in your heart. So that's why nothing should be taken
for granted. Let me tell you something. Recently, that bin
Laden letter supposedly, allegedly, to bin Laden letter was
out. And everyone's saying, this has shaken up my world, you have
to read it. I read it. And I'm like, what exactly is different
here than what I've been hearing in my living room for last 20
years, right. But for some people, mind blown, right? They had no
idea that this is something that exists. This is a worldview, this
is these grievances happened, or people have these grievance, and
these bad things happen. So they really have no clue. And that's
why nobody should assume anything.
And as Imam had dead said, the OMA was at its best when its
knowledgeable people went out to the heedless to talk, not just
wait for the students of knowledge to come to you, the student of
knowledge has to come to the shoe, we have to go to the shoe for
knowledge. But if we're heedless, how do we do that? So you might
have had that said, you have to go to the heedless and teach them and
educate them and talk to them. And that's exactly what you're doing
on Tik Tok. So, Allah bless you, is there anything that you feel
that has been an issue of confusion of late that needs to be
addressed and talked about?
As far as Dawa or like, within your Tiktok community of
listeners? Is there a repeated question these days, that's
something that needs to come up.
It's nothing new. It's always the you know, the Asian thing, or, you
know, the slavery thing that you talked about earlier. It's just
like, you don't have anything theologically that you can so
you're going to base your religion, and if it is true or not
true, based upon a custom that happened, yeah. When Jews and
Christians and Muslims, all atheists, fire worshippers. So
you're going to judge Islam, theologically, based upon a custom
that happened 1400 years ago, and we've explained this. Look what I
do on tick tock, I tell a lot of I get DMS. Oh, did you know what
this guy said? This guy, Avery, he's this not he said something
bad about Islam. I'm just Muslims in the audience. Muslims are gonna
watch this stop, stop giving your time we as Muslims, we give so
much time on defense with people that don't even know the word
Islam, and then it comes from Islam. They have no clue about our
religion, but they're calling our religion wrong. That is like
saying, the Dallas Cowboys are the best, you know, and Dr. Sadi said,
well, obviously the the Eagles are doing a little bit better. So you
know, but I tell you, No, I don't care that I don't want to know
about the players. I don't want to know about the you know, your
plays, or your stats or anything. The Dallas Cowboys are the best.
And that's basically what the Christians are doing. They're
coming in not knowing your religion. And I'm saying as, as an
ex Christian, look, I'd been a Christian for the first 19 years
of my life. I went to Bible study Wednesday night, Friday, youth
night and Sunday church survival. I know what you say, and I know
what you're going to tell me before you even tell him even say
it. So don't come to me wanting to debate Christianity or Islam, when
you haven't been a Muslim for the first 19 years of your life to
tell me what fun is. So I always tell them, I don't have time for
you. Sit down, close your mouth. And listen, if you want to argue I
have no time for you. So Muslims out there that stop going into
these ex Muslim chat rooms and live streams. You know videos,
stop listening, especially if you don't know your religion. You're
going to confuse yourself, okay? yourself into an arcview.org Akita
class, learn your religion. And as Muslims, we have to stay on the
offense intellectually in academia, we need to stay on the
offense and stop giving these donkeys any of our time when they
don't even know their own religion, much less our religion.
Let me tell you this.
When a person is disgusted or shocked
I can't think straight. The quoting Ayesha all the time, the
age of iser question is nothing other than a tactic to make your
heart shocked and or disgusted. As a result, you can't think straight
about the thing in front of you. And that's a psychological trick.
You can't think straight. Right? So that's the idea behind that.
And Disgust is something that is manufactured and can be
unmanufactured. And we've seen this in our own, with our own two
eyes and the whole sexual revolution thing, that Disgust is
something that existed in the 90s, about homosexuality, and has been
completely eradicated within one generation. You tell someone
today, you know, you're shocked by homosexuality, the look at you one
of these youth, like you're insane, like, why are you
disgusted? They won't understand why you're disgusted at all.
Whereas in the generation of Michael Jordan and Larry Bird, do
you would have been knocked out if you called someone gay, right. And
they were disgusted at the idea of sticking the male private part
into a * disgusted by that idea, right. Whereas today,
in one generation, is completely the state why because human beings
can be programmed by repetition and association, these are simple
psychological rules to be undiscussed in by something or to
become disgusted by something. So all right, thank you very much for
that update. This is our
tick tock a Dawa and what's happening in the south
specifically in the in the white community. In terms of Dawa thank
you for coming on. We'll see you very soon inshallah. Todd, just
like, always a pleasure to be with your son. widecombe. Saddam.
Alrighty, ladies and gentlemen, let's go. We got five minutes for
q&a. Five minutes for Q. Na here. How can the Ottomans abolish what
Allah made halal, you says Pontius Aquila.
I can make a policy that you do not do some Halal things. In my
workplace. It's a policy.
It's not abrogation.
Every workplace does this every contract that you enter into, you
are making something halal, obligatory and something halal,
forbidden every contract if painting the wall if I have a deal
with you to paint the wall,
from 8am to 5pm. Okay.
And I only allowed to pray two times for 10 minutes each and
lunch for half an hour. So I've taken Halal things. And I've made
them all haram except with the exceptions. And I've taken a halal
thing painting a wall, and I've made it obligatory. So the method
is by Festiva. And by treaty.
That's what treaties are agreements to do certain other
things and not to do certain things. That's what an agreement
is. Good. And so the nations have inherited this the nation, all the
Islamic nations have signed on to agreements
in the past. And he's almost I guess these are agreements that
have no end to them, right? In which they would no longer take
slaves in war, and ship them home. They'd have to be mentioned these
treaties here. I can look for them again, real quick. The treaty was
here it is. The treaty that they entered into was the 1926 Slavery
convention, and the 1956 supplementary convention, banning
slavery, Muslim nations are signatories to this. Okay. And
hence, they are now obligated to fulfill and to follow what's in
the agreement. Simple as that, if they had signed a treaty that they
would, for example, also no longer release a certain carbon emission
into the air. It would be haram to do that. The prohibition of
breaking a treaty
got
when you enter into a into a
let me ask you this question.
What's the ruling on giving sadaqa to a woman that she eats with it
and pays her rent with it and gets a security guard with it? Right?
It's recommended for me to do that. But if I enter an agreement
of marriage, it becomes obligatory for me to do that. So the halal,
the recommended becomes obligatory,
simple as that with a true with an agreement. That's the same
concept. To understand the difference between treaties and
agreements and abrogation of the religious law. You try to abrogate
the religious law, it's null and void and this could be even like
blasphemy.
What's the Where's the proof from the Quran and the sooner that a
Muslim imam can sign such a permanent contract especially when
the Muslims are commanded to fight the disbelievers according to all
methods? The Muslims, there is no agreement that Muslims will not
fight. There is no agreement that a nation will not
fight another nation
got theirs in maybe agreement that they will not read upon each
other. That's an agreement. We won't read you, for example, and
you won't read us. What's the proof of that is the Treaty of
Hodeidah? Right. It happened in that that's how simple it is the
Treaty of Hodeidah. It's in the best interests of us not to fight
for the next 10 years. So the Prophet peace be upon. Now you're
asking about the permanence of a contract? That's a different
question. So we may say the permanence is invalid, but maybe
the other features of the contract are invalid. Abu Hanifa we have to
look at the methods but the permanence that's a good question,
the permanent contract of that is a good question. Most contracts do
have to have some kind of time to it.
So that is a good question. Thereby Pontius Aquila from the
Roman Empire
All right, other questions?
Ahmad How's Instagram doing?
Almira trip is very expensive. Why? Because all the
I guess they were late simply in getting us our tickets.
Unfortunately.
Next year won't be so much.
It is oh, is it okay to say that someone deserves something I mean,
the context of affirmation. I deserve a good life I deserve
kindness
I don't know about that.
I should I think that you should say I want it and I'm gonna get it
stuff like that. But I don't think What do you think about that? I
deserve I'm not into that entitlement stuff.
I ask Allah for this. And I believe Allah will grant me this
Oh Allah, you're the most merciful. Have mercy on me. Right?
Yeah, the deserve stuff. No, I don't think that's right.
Yeah. Make reframe this to the attributes of Allah subhanaw
taala.
Been Zeitgeist, the Ottoman treaties are no concern for us.
Yes, they are. Because they transmitted to the nations after
that. The nations after that signed on to these similar
agreements. And no, the Ottomans are example because they were
shield.
They were scholars, they applied the Hanafi law. The scholars
approved of their 50s
signing contracts or edicts really a fisherman
declaring that
declaring that this is now no longer our law is not allowed to
do this. They also did other things, for example, they
disallowed
they disallowed marriage
under the age of 15.
All right. Why? Because they're looking at interests. What is in
the best interest of the people, they're not abrogating the Sharia.
They're not saying if you do this, you have committed Zina, but
they're saying in our law, you have to be 15 to get married in
our country if you don't want to do it leave our country right?
Every parent does the same thing. You're going to sleep at eight
o'clock you're coming home by 11 o'clock were in the studio says I
have to come home
by 11 o'clock
right? No, it's It's my in the my best interests of the family are
coming home at 11 o'clock. You have to understand the nature of
treatise and the right for a sultan to make a policy within the
realm of what is halal and say this is what's mandatory and this
is what you're not allowed to do. By what's interesting. What is
everyone we are we going for you know, everyone we always
hilarious. Yeah, everyone, we once sent me an email. And he said, I
hereby declare upon you the Hoja the proof. Right? And if you do
not obey, right, and retract your statement, okay, within three
days, all right, then I shall rain upon you the Wrath of Allah and
I'm gonna humiliate you and embarrass you blah blah blah.
Hilarious. Mattoon it's a some guy on Twitter that I blocked him a
long time ago yeah boom Yeah, we let's see what this joker is all
about.
It was it was it was actually pretty fun was like laughing
because he's imitating the letters that the Prophet peace be upon him
he used to be me Yeah, we had Maliki look him up. Look at what
he's saying
clown
he was actually banned by Twitter.
Yeah, he
because he was banned a long time ago because
he went after some model. I don't know why he's following the model
in the first place.
zeitgeist, I don't I don't know about melee because I have him
unblock. I don't read his stuff. I don't even know what he's saying.
I don't even know what his account is. Right? So I wouldn't be able
to tell you.
I mean, I'm not going to read something, someone in Islam that's
going to call himself that. Bring your name out. Tell us who you
are. And talk about Shetty after that. But to talk about Shinya
from a
you know, what do they call it like a pseudonym like this or
whatever? What a lookup
notes
can you make to that I get four wives says Ben Zeitgeist. And
without any humor or criticism, may Allah grant you what you seek.
Okay, that is within what pleases Him
and will meet how he wants to debate you. Is this clown? Right?
Did he grow up? Since he got banned and sent send me that
ridiculous letter?
Maybe he did. I mean, people can change. Did you watch Sheikh Hamza
Yusuf with Chris Hedges? Nah, I didn't see that. No.
Did you hear that Henry Kissinger died? You know?
What should one say to someone a family member that one loves and
respects who refuses to follow a mother because they say there are
divisions of faith? Well, someone clearly who thinks that
that
melt hubs are divisive things, then they clearly are very
jarhead. And I would say just do not even bother talking to them.
There's no There's no need to talk to them.
Okay.
There's no point in talking to
oh, gee, Muslim up.
What is your question?
Is it an obligation for women to obey their husband and the husband
to treat their wife with kindness? The marriage contract is an
obligation on both sides listing certain thing behaviors that they
have to do and is it a con it is a contract based upon forgiveness
and kindness built upon that meaning that you have to do these
things for me, I have to do these things for you. But I'm going to
do a go above and beyond what I have to do for you. And if you
fall short, then I forgive you. It's based on the It is that kind
of contract. It's called hocked Mabini added Makara. The opposite
of that is optimality.
Such as somebody who a contract a business where
I want to get everything in the contract and I will pay the bare
minimum that I have to pay. That's OKT a contract based upon greed.
Good, acceptable greed, right desire, whereas Octavia Macatawa
Mikado marriages optimally on mukarram it's a contract based
upon kindness and forgiveness. So OG, Musa says that the question is
because a friend, a friend's husband said, if she doesn't cook
a new warm meal every day, he will divorce her. Okay, so.
So he needs to be told that hold on a second. This is not how you
do marriage. Okay. Marriage is by kindness and forgiveness. Okay.
Watch that become controversial right now. Among this this crowd.
This crowd of people who will probably Ha, yeah, their
commitment.
Yeah.
Anonymity is sometimes necessary considering the topics. What do
you think of that says Ben zeitgeist, not in the Sharia. When
you speak of the city, we need to know who you are. We need to know
who you are sure you are, who your colleagues are. Who knows you
because it's based upon trust. It's based upon trust, okay.
In most EU countries, interest is mandatory on savings account,
there's no other option. Is it prohibited to use US interests?
So what you do with it if it's necessary, and they put that
stipulation on your savings account, you use that thing for
the public good. That is low, such as the pavement of the mosque,
parking lot. Toilet paper of the Masjid. Right things that are not
thy will be impure. That's what you use. It doesn't count as
charity. It's not a charitable act. It's just getting rid of it
in the in the right way.
is playing an instrument except a drum sinful. So what is sinful by
most of the scholars statement is the string What is different upon
between haram and mcru? And Halal is the flute, the wind instruments
and what is permissible, but with what's different upon is the
degree of permissibility such as weddings only, or absolutely
permissible is the percussion reason being as a prophet size
seven forbade all instruments, then made an exception for the
drum and encouraged it for weddings. So the medic yes that
only for weddings. The chef he said all the time. And then the
flute was mentioned in front of him, and played in front of him.
Someone played the flute, a boy was playing a flute, and the
Prophet did not say anything. The automat took from that one of two
things that that means nothing the prohibition stance or that he
didn't say It's haram, therefore, it's halal. Some chef has held
that that witness was Hala. And some said it's mcru. On the right,
because it's between the two we don't know exactly. But the
Prophet didn't forbid it explicitly when he saw it, or when
it was mentioned. Because they said how should we call the event?
Should we play blow a horn? He didn't say when instruments haram.
So that's the wind instrument as for the string instrument, no
exception was made for it. So the ruling of prohibition states?
What is this nomic position on epi genetics? Epigenetics, if I
understand that, right, that is the effect of events upon the
proteins within a person's genetics. Is that really what it
is?
Weak. We'll talk about that another time, because it's a long
topic and we have to wrap up.
How can I find a beneficial community in these trying times?
Start Online and then start traveling to different masajid and
talks until Allah opens a door for you?
Is this Are we sinful for allowing what has happened in Palestine to
happen?
Yeah, the people who have the ability to do something to have
governments they have weapons and they do nothing. Yes, there's sin
upon them. Like I feel them has failed. 100% No doubt about that.
If you have the ability to do something, okay. How do you feel
about voting? Personally, it's just like, it does not move the
meter for me at all. They're all the same. Maybe at the local
level.
I've always had a negative view. Some of my friends are all about
it, but I've always had a negative view. Okay, ladies and gentlemen.
Again, Ben Zeitgeist says that's not why he was banned. Do you
concur that he has good arguments? I don't know where his account is.
Where is it on Twitter? Right. I don't know. Okay.
So I can't I can't
Yeah.
Listen, many he could have he could have people could be mixed.
Isn't everybody mixed? But I do not see any account called Abul
kitten here. There's zero following zero followers zero
posts. So I don't know who this is. Right. And
and it's in Chinese on top of that. It's in like Kpop right. So
anyway, I don't know that. I don't know.
I'm not into these. I'm not into these accounts with you know, with
no name. Okay, there you found it.
Okay.
So
I don't know.
Yeah. Okay, folks. We gotta go does that come on? Let's get it
we'll be with you Tuesday. Does that come along here and everybody
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