Shadee Elmasry – Cures of Anxiety with Shaykh Mahdi Lock – NBF 368
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great state of New Jersey. It's beautiful day out. It's you could
start feeling the crispness of the autumn breeze in the air, but it's
also very sunny, and the days are pretty long. I'm not going to
around 745 these days. So you got the long days, you got the sunny
days, and you got
some nice, cool breezes. And one of the nicest times of the year,
as we start seeing autumn and school is really just around the
corner. I know that's sad for a lot of kids, but it's the truth.
To give you a update, let's start off with an update, and let me
swap out for the black
Israel kills at least 40 today in Gaza Cairo. Ceasefire talks is a
bunch of nonsense, but they're saying they're about to restart.
But we all know it's a bunch of nonsense to begin with, so don't
ever be fooled by that. It's bunch of delay tactics and giving cover
and saying we're trying to have a talk, and then saying that it's
the other side that won't, you know, talk, etcetera, etcetera,
etcetera. But that's what's happening. More people now dying
today, and the videos this week have come out regarding kids.
They've been killing kids. But
there was the beheaded baby, firstly, then there was the baby,
who's you could see its brain too. Same week with seven days, 710,
days. Then there was the baby. They have to, Loki, put this up.
They had to take the whole video down.
The whole brain was out. Did you see that? Omar, oh, Loki, put it
up. And everyone had to take it down. They took it down because,
literally,
the head was empty and
the brain had completely come out. We then saw another baby. This
face was completely you could not identify the baby if you looked at
it.
And then you had
so you four or five and all, they're all taken down. And even
one guy said that they have more babies. The footage is coming in
faster than Twitter can take them down.
And you have their people, their own scholars. Let me, let me put
this for you to listen to their own scholars really saying this is
the law, that we're supposed to do this. I mean, listen to this
right? Just listen to this video here,
permission from the DUA to have any mercy whatsoever during war,
not on children, not on women, not on anybody. But the point is that
Hashem say, do not have mercy on the children. I mean him, we know.
Listen to this guy again. There is no permission from the DUA to have
any mercy whatsoever during war, not on children, not on women, not
on anybody. But the point is right here that Hashem say, do not have
mercy on the children, kill all their children. Also, why? There's
no difference between them and their children. In 10 years from
now, these children
will attack you on the way so that takes the infants and snatches
them and kills them on the rock. Then we bless Hashem through the
souls. You kill all men and all women, even babies who breastfeed.
Amazing. All
right, that's you have to read it. But listen to this. This one is
saying, Blessed is the one who smashes their head
on rocks. The whole Bible that says Happy is the one that takes
the infants of Babel and of Edom, smashes them on the rock, just
like they did
us. This is what we say before bench. That's the end of this.
The ultimate revenge, or prevent
again.
Happy is the one that takes the entrance.
Snatches.
You kill all men and all women, even babies who breastfeed. All
right, so
when these images are coming out, I we gotta assume it's
intentional. You're telling us this is your religious your
religious beliefs.
Okay, completely Shayateen
knowledge of this evangelical Christians,
they don't have a concept of going back to their Imams and really
taking their Imams seriously in Christianity, clearly, because
Martin Luther, he says about Jews here in his book, The Jews in
their lives. And I got this from Jewish virtuallibrary.org
Martin Luther, the head of founder of Protestantism, which is
basically the religion of all evangelical Christians and Zionist
Christians, he says, for their blasphemy and defaming god,
they're miserable and accursed Christians beyond guard against
them. They're the devil's children. Their arrogance is as
solid as a mountain
and George Washington, remember, he's supposed to be American
patriots. What does he say he's in his farewell address,
it's our policy. It's our true policy, to steer clear of
permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign worlds. In
this fellow, he goes on to say that
any the America's downfall will come when we permanently ally
ourselves with another nation. This is going to be our downfall.
So
these guys are neither patriots nor Protestants.
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away. I despise this lamp right here. I need it to be yellow, soft
white. This guy's like, bright white light right in my face. I
always push it slowly towards you. Yeah. It's good on lighting, but
it sometimes you can have too much lighting, you start looking weird.
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Okay, you know he's gonna go through healing through the Quran,
and we're gonna talk today about more cures to anxiety and
depression from Sheik Sahib Ram booty's book on that. Hey, where
is that book? By the way. Oh, it's in that box over there. I think I
saw there's a box over there, two boxes over there. When you get a
minute not to be now, so why don't you get that? While I read our
Nevada on Hadith, our Nevada on Hadith today, my brothers and
sisters, we're gonna talk about the mustach. No, no, it's right
there on the right there. You.
What is it? Oh, no, turn around,
yeah, yeah, there's two boxes, right there,
two crates, I should say, yeah.
What's the most Raj is they take the same exact Hadith
from Abu Bala's farm. He gave us some cucumbers,
the mustak Raj, they take the same exact Hadith, but from from
Bukhari or Muslim, or both
the mustach, they say same exact Hadith, but they go and find other
chains for that hadith, what's the benefit of that Well, firstly,
sometimes they find a shorter chain.
Secondly, Catra tutor,
now bringing you many chains of that hadith that strengthens it as
an evidence. Because, as we said earlier, if you have a hadith that
has one evidence, or, sorry, one chain, once the hobby narrated it,
it would not be as as as as as commanding as a piece of evidence,
as if you have multiple
Sahabi narrating it. And sometimes these mustach Raj meet at the
sahabi, and sometimes meet at the tabay. So may still be only from
one sahabi, but it'll be for multiple tabes, some
like amendment, you didn't do your job.
Thirdly,
a Ziad of in Metz, sometimes these narrations will have more in the
metsin, imagine somebody attends a lecture or a gathering and
summarizes it for you. Another one summarizes it for you, a third one
summarizes it for you, and they summarize it differently because
they give you more which you can't find the boxes. They're two, two
crates, right there. It's not in the crate, okay?
So Zia, the film Metin. Metin is the text so you have different
now, go ask your friends what happened at this dinner party, and
one person will tell you one thing. Another person tell you.
Another person tell you all trustworthy, reliable people. Now
you start getting a picture.
There's an Indian guy who took pictures of of the moon for
really, a really long time. But each picture, he focuses on a
different part of the of the moon. Then he compiled all of these
together. He compiled them all together, and you have a very,
very vivid picture the moon. And let's say you got the moon like
this, you focus on that part,
right?
And that's gonna You're that's gonna be focused, and the rest
will be a little bit fuzzy.
Where are we going here, Omar,
are we fixed? I think that's good, or is it slanted this way?
There we go. That's good.
Okay, so, so that's the set. So oluwa, senadwa, ziada fil matini,
what's a quiet what has me at Al mubaham,
you benefit from the naming of who may not have been named.
Person in a Senate may have said so and so were narrated from his
brother,
right? Who's his brother? What's his name,
right? So, tasmiya. So that's the reason they did mustach Rajat,
most extractions, extracting more chains for the same Hadith. Now,
what's something that you have to be aware of? You have to be aware
of that the wording is never the same.
It's, I would say, rarely the same. According to never we
according to alfeit al Araki, they state that the wording of the
narrations is never the same, but the meaning is mostly the same.
The meaning for the most part,
is the same,
yeah, for the most part, who are some of the big ones? Abu Asmaa
Yakub Ibn Ismail,
sorry, Yamin is HAQ
al isfara ini, Abu Awana yaq, son of is HAQ al isfaraini,
he did a mustach Raj on Muslim. And by the way, sometimes they
call them AJ,
not just a mustach Raj. Abu nuaim al isfahani, he did it on the
sahih hain,
what is the ruling on
the extra text in a mustachraj, they deem it to be sahih.
But one thing that you have to be careful about, just because
something is mustaraj, the same Senate or a same medicine, or by
meaning,
same incident, different.
Wording,
just because something is a mustach from Bukhari and Muslim,
they you can't say it was narrated by Bukhari and Muslim because they
didn't narrate it. But you can say asluhu Phil Bukhari were Muslim.
You see, you can, you can point the reader that the usla this
hadith is in Bukhari and Muslim.
Okay,
raw workouts is giving a comment. I haven't seen a single Maliki in
Kashmir.
Yeah, probably you're right about that.
He says, I am a Salafi. But he's fascinated by the live stream and
feel close to Allah mashallah, kuluna, Salafi, we were all set
up. I follow. Who do you follow? Omar Abu Hanifa. Is he not from
the Salaf? Right? And we follow Malik when others follow chef a
others follow Ahmed Columbus,
one fellow, wakuluna, alamin Salif, right? A it.
Where is she? He's coming at two o'clock. Very good, very good,
very good.
All right, we because we're going to probably close right after
Sheik Mahdi, let's open it up today, because I think yesterday,
we maybe didn't do any Q A, right?
We did some Q A, so let's, let's go to that now and
then. There are some important questions that I want to bring up
here. I
a ruling on trimming the eyebrows asking for a friend, says Adi
Ahmed, a man may only trim what is abnormal growth in excess. He
should not make his eyebrows look like a female.
He may, he may trim and remove
what is
from the excess that would make him look abnormal. There's nothing
wrong with that, but he should not make it look feminine.
Okay?
As for the the a woman, she can remove what is masculine from her
eyebrows, even by plucking.
And as for basically all, a lot of the those Hadith regarding the
wall, sila ma our Sheik, Mahmud, shabib of Egypt, he tells us that
those Hadith are based upon deception.
They shouldn't. They're, they're, the deception is the problem. If
someone is doing things to their body to deceive a potential,
a potential spouse, that's the problem, right there.
Alright,
how do you advise your family on sins like makeup and music? That's
very common.
Well, you want to make sure you do it
in because your family you're all with each other and you're stuck
with each other all the time. It has to be done. It has to be done.
That's the first thing. But secondly, you really need to make
sure that it's not done in a way that is munafira, meaning pushing
them away from Islam, because commanding right, forbidding wrong
should not do more damage, but it should not be left off either.
That's the question. That's the thing. You can't leave it off,
but you can't do more damage.
And that's the middle ground that you have to find. How is it that I
can mention it but without making them? And I'll tell you how to do
it. Essentially, true. Truly, dawah is done by loving
the person. If you you do need in Dawa to be lovable.
Okay,
commanding right and forbidding wrong to the general public
doesn't require that. But you're you're not with the general
public. You're with your family. You're with them all the time. You
cannot be someone hated. Gotta keep that in mind to have to have
a lovable so how are you going to become lovable? Well, you have to
do other things too. You can't just be telling people what not to
do. Well, what do you bring to the table, of this to this family?
What do you how do you make us do you? Are you someone who makes us
happy when we're around? Do you help out? Do you bring lighten up
the mood? Or are you just a downer all the time? So that's where you
want to make sure that you get things right. You don't want to be
a downer all the time, such that you just associated with this
negativity, right?
And they call these, you know, like sandwiching things. I have to
tell you some. Oh, Masha, Allah, grandpas here cometh. Make room
for your Gramps. Take the.
Bag off. Mashallah,
how are you come? Sit here,
Allah, you have some time. Are you coming and going?
Okay, mashallah, ya ya Yasin. Do we have any coffee out there or
something?
You just got coffee when you're in the mood? A couple cups would be
good. Your secret stuff when you're when he's in the mood. You
know, Yaseen got himself in trouble. But first of all, Arthur
man got us the coffee machine. That's number one. Number two,
Yasin did it, and he made a great cup of coffee. Now you're in big
trouble. Now you're in big trouble because now we're gonna keep
asking for it. You know that I caught this. My mom had a trick
one time when I was young, and I cleaned pots, you know, scrape in
the pots, because you can't go wrong when you scrape a pot right,
and you say, oh, mashallah, he did such a great job scraping the pot.
And she go tell everybody he did such a great job scraping the pot.
And I feel like so proud and happy, right?
Realize much later, it's a trick. Right now, every time we have a
pot, oh, here we need you right now, I became the pot man after
that.
Pot man may have different references, but not the one you're
thinking of.
So when you do Dawa, you have to be realize that you you want the
bigger picture is you're doing Dawa for Don't, don't just look at
the one wrong action that's being done. How's that for an answer?
Don't just look at the one small wrong action that's being done
that you want to change. What change. Why don't you look at the
bigger picture? You want to guide people
to the love of Allah and His messenger. It has to come into the
heart first before the actions. And I, we all have seen it a
million times. You can change people's actions, but if you
didn't change in here, they're going to revert back as soon as
you're gone. So or they vomited out. The truth comes out of them
eventually. So what you want to do is remove yourself from just
thinking about these minor sins that they're doing,
but
go to a higher ground. I want them to love Allah as messenger,
sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam. Once that that enters their heart,
then everything that you want is going to come much more than just
not listening to music and wearing makeup.
That's for whom I'm saying this, for the person who lives with
them, day in and day out, they're stuck with you. You're stuck with
them. And at that point you you can't just say, boom, here is the
truth and leave. He's gonna you're gonna fail. So you want to look at
the bigger picture, and you want to address the heart of the person
more so than a single action.
All right, I hope that's a good answer. Is it a good answer?
Can a woman wear Quran in public?
I recall that the answer is yes, that that is not considered
makeup.
What about putting veneers on front teeth? What is that exactly?
You can have fake teeth. If you lose your teeth, if your teeth
rot, you can change your teeth. You can If your teeth are black or
yellow or you are no offense Bengali and you eat that red
stuff, and all your teeth are now red, right?
Then you can fix them, yeah.
Oh, that's a that's a long surgery that's multiple weeks.
That's many weeks, yeah, like, you got to remove all the teeth, then
you got to put screws in, wait another month until that settles,
and then come in and put the other teeth. That takes many months to
do this,
and it's painful,
but if it's, yeah, they all do it, and everyone's fake, by the way,
these days, like, literally, everyone's fake noses. I see the
perfect nose. No one has a nose like this, like a ruler, right?
And sometimes, unfortunately, the surgery goes bad for them, and
their nose is upturned, and it looks terrible when the surgery
goes bad, the nose is pointed up. Which is, which is, I sort of feel
sad for them, but we're not supposed to be doing those things
in the first place. You're not allowed to do those surgeries
unless there is a damage done. Then you may
do it again, then you may fix that nose, even if it turns out better.
Let's say someone gets their nose completely they say you have a
regular nose like any one of us. It's not 100% perfect, right? Then
somehow, by accident, an accident occurs, you get completely smashed
to your nose. Now they're going to reconstruct your nose. He is going
to end up looking better than the first time with technology that we
have. It's going to end up being perfect. That's halal for you. So.
You don't have to tell the surgeon, all right, I had a
crookedness here. My left nostril was bigger than my right, right
different. No, you don't have to tell them that he can reconstruct
for you a perfect nose. I know somebody like my brother's friend,
his left leg is longer than his right leg, but he can fix that,
yeah? But I don't know it's they can't surgically fix it. They fix
it with shoes. Yeah? That's what he does. Yeah? Who has the extra
that's tough. So you know that it has a lot of other problems too.
There's his hips off, there's his back off. But anything that where
you lose something of your body, that a lot customarily creates
everyone with straight teeth, eyes that can see. We wear glasses,
braces. You lose your nose. You could put it back on. You got a
mole, you can remove it.
Man losing his hair in some methods, you can get a hair
transplant, right from his own hair.
All that has had for us to do because you're you're putting what
you lost,
not changing.
That's, it's just childish. Yeah, yeah, stick. Stick to Nana. Stick
to the the branding. Omar's, uh, stick to the branding. You know,
we got to stick to the branding. No, no. That branding decision has
been made already. Omar is making the cover for today look like
October. Don't, don't switch it up. The branding has been decided
already.
He's making it look like a horror movie.
But we got branding. We're sticking to the branding. Because
those discussions you have, those discussions, you can't change
later. It's like Usul and Furu, right. I'm a Medici, but, oh man,
I really like this
Traveler's Prayer in the Shafi school. This did not.
Can a person from a Muslim country go to Western countries for
studies?
Yeah, there's there. If there's a Fatah,
there are Fatah for that that to go and take a fat and bring it
back to the ummah. How
about living there for some time to make some money and take it
back? Allah Adam, if your deen is going to be affected or not,
depends where you're going. It really depends where you're going.
And those, the the rules on those travels is individual basis. It's
not
there is a general ruling forbidding all that. But there are
there. There can be, as Omar just said, is it exceptions based on
the person?
How can I get my family to love Allah subhanahu wa make them love
you? That's the answer. They love you. Make yourself lovable. That's
not easy. It's really not easy. But make yourself lovable,
okay? And then
when you're associated with masajid, then they'll love you.
This brother is saying, the stuff that makes your teeth red is
called pond.
Yep, I saw that I was a wedding at a wedding the other day, and they
got a desi marijuana leaf, basically.
And it was a very sophisticated looking cart with a guy with white
gloves. And I'm like, All right, what's here? I'm at the wedding,
right? What is this? Like? Ice cream? Who knows what, right?
Maybe it was, you know what I was thinking. It was, I was thinking
it was he was giving out
that Daisy sweet. That's like pasta with faluda I was like, is
that a faluda stand? Is it my lucky day? No, it's not a faluda
stand. It was Daisy weed,
and he had gooey stuff in it. Who knows what that is?
Nuts in it. It was a leaf, and he's wrapping it like he's like a
connoisseur with white gloves wrapping it. And I looked, and I
saw some of my friends online. I said, Brother, what is this? And
they try to explain, man, my mom told me not to take drugs when I
was young, so I'm like, I'll go for the ice cream some
people, yeah.
No, no, I told them, Listen, man, I always thought when I was young,
don't take drugs, so I'll pass on the JC weed.
Who are the family members that we must maintain ties of kinship
with?
Says rose gold,
it's who, what's what's in your
environment that you live with on a regular basis, plus your
immediate family.
So let's say you have an uncle that lives with you guys, one here
and one's in Australia, the one here is the one that's you have to
keep ties with.
Is it true? Mataki allow women to pluck eyebrows, which she's not,
whether she's married or not, yes, but not for shaping only to remove
the masculinity you.
So that's a normal woman's eyebrow, yes, but to shape it now
into a perfect line or a curve that is allowed to do but it's
Xena. It's like wearing makeup outside that you'd have to cover
it if she leaves the good to public. But it's mainly the
masculine element, very bushy Angry Birds eyebrows that she can
fix that, right? Speak, I heard that like the hair, like, for
example, unibrow, the hair between the two eyebrows and by the nose,
like, above the nose is, isn't part of the eyebrows. You're
allowed to pluck it, right? Yeah, yeah, even part of the eyebrow, if
it's the eyebrows very thick and wide and long, and it's Angry
Birds eyebrows, you can fix that, removing the masculinity is halal.
And take that directly from my Sheik, which Habib. On that
matter, which of the that allow the hair transplants? I think all
of them, except the Matic, your school does not allow an intifall
Ademi, the human being. And it's including yourself is not
something you ought to benefit from. In other words, take this
and put it here and stuff like that. So if you're a matte key and
you need a hair transplant, you're gonna have to go with the chafe
school or the hamedi school. They allow that. Okay? Hair transplant,
of course, is
mainly in Turkey these days. I don't make fun of people who do
that. It's not nice to go bald,
right? And then there are now all sorts of sprays and helmets and
other things that help people keep their hair, because we're all
messed up. Who the heck knows what we're eating, what we're even the
micro plastics that entering our skin from the age of from birth,
all of the everyone's grown up, screwed up, teeth are crooked,
can't see,
socially awkward. What has happened to the human
we worship technology, the technology is doing better than
the human. We should care about the human. Human needs good sleep.
He needs to get rid of all these plastics in his life. I know it's
very difficult to do. It's near impossible, right? We need to
sleep when it gets dark,
right?
Artificial light, artificial sugar. We don't care for the human
anymore, so we're all screwed up. We care so much for the
technology. Technology is doing great, thriving
does that's what we put our attention to.
How should I deal with failure in life?
You deal with failure in life by just forgetting about it, learning
the lesson and move on quick. You have to have a short memory in
that stuff.
Have to have a short memory. Move on, quick. So So you failed, move
on.
The people who know how to handle failure in life
and can move on quick and can withstand that failure. Chances
are they'll have more success in life than those who are smarter
than them
but can't handle failure.
It's like, if you, you're you're gonna face defeats. Whether you're
smart or not that smart,
right? You're gonna face defeats the person who is capable of
facing more defeats and moving on, he'll learn more lessons. Within
10 years, that person be way far ahead, just on experience and
lessons learned, than the guy who is smarter or more knowledgeable
or wealthier. So one of the biggest qualities that a person
could have is the ability to be defeated, to lose severely, and
then bounce back that kind of mental toughness. It allows you to
learn from experience. You will then trounce the people. In 10
years, you'll trounce everybody who is just afraid to lose.
They're like afraid to jump over that first barrier, even though
they're better than you you're not afraid. You jump and you fail.
Well, now you learned one way that it doesn't work,
so on and so forth.
Some things we lose with age or child with childbirth. Is this a
slippery slope? The question is, is it customary for that age or
that situation. It's customary. For example, when you get old you
have wrinkles. It's not part it's customary. No one expects anything
different. So you're allowed only to do what is
temporary, temporary fixes, creams, lotions, what have you.
But you don't need surgery for that, because you're not chained,
you, you're not being tested with anything that nobody else has.
Everyone has gray hairs. Well, you can dye gray hairs, but anyone,
everyone has some wrinkles at the as they grow older, it's not a
justification to go do tucking and pulling.
I'll give here's another one, though, that I think may have some
ruchsa in it is somebody who was extremely overweight, then lost a
lot of weight, and now he's got this excess skin. Do you know this
happens now? This can affect a marriage, right?
So you can get that. I'm not going to say, but I I'm going to ask my
Sheik about this. If you just cut off that skin, you shouldn't have
eaten so much. He's probably cut.
Off like all your midnight snacks right there.
It's a problem, but I think that there is a priority of beauty for
the sake of the marriage.
And also a tazin is not forbidden, but that does have parameters. So
I'm going to ask the sheik about that. Speak. Are you
allowed to die, for example, like a dark brown? You're allowed to
dye it any color besides your original color. So even that the
of the blackness is misleading, that you would be misleading
someone, because back in the old days, I don't know how old you
are, they just tell by the signs. So if you're all gray, and now you
come to propose, and you're all black, and start meeting this
woman, and every day you're dying your hair black. She thinks you're
a lot younger, or at least you look younger, then she marries
you, and you stop caring so much because she's in the bag already.
Call us. We got her tucked in, right? And that's a problem.
People stop caring. This is a really terrible feature in a
person. He chases something, then he stops caring. Once he gets it,
it's a terrible feature. This person will be, never be happy.
But now he stops, and she wakes up one day and he's got gray hairs.
So you fooled me. You lied to me, right? So that's what is
forbidden. So therefore, if a person has gray hairs and he dyes
it with a brown or a light brown,
and it's pretty obviously he dyes it, it looks better. But even
though he dyed it right, that's okay.
So I asked the sheik, an Irish person, he has red hair, then he
shouldn't dye red. He said, Yes, he shouldn't dye it red. He should
dye it another color, but not red. So that's the it's all about
misleading people. That's what it's about. Okay,
speak,
no, you can't do purple and pink because people think you're a woke
which is today, you know, has a lot of other things connected to
it. And the woke agenda is, to me, one of the most destructive
agendas out there.
Yeah, natural colors are fine.
Young, male, 26 years old, he knows 13 judges often allow us to
lead at the masjid. He goes out with friends and has drinks what
he goes out in public and has drinks,
alcoholic beverages. When he leads the prayer,
should he avoid the masjid for a time so he isn't asked to lead
prayer?
No, he should leave off drinking, not prayer, not leading the
prayer. Drinking is what he should lead off. Man, people are really
mixed. I didn't realize this. Man, they're really mixed bags. Man,
brother is a bout to be a half as
she Aji, honestly, he's
he should leave off the drinking. He should keep praying and lead
off the drinking. But once the people in the masjid know that he
drinks, and it's in public, he's goes out for drinks, you cannot
hide this. You're not allowed to do sit here for him. You have to
tell Yeah, Imam, I saw Fulani bin fulan drinking, and I'm absolutely
certain it's come.
So now we say, okay, we're not gonna,
we're not gonna ask him to lead anymore. And not only that, we may
flog him next time He comes in, the message, if we know him, yeah,
if we know him, we'll take him and give him some lashes in the back
of the Masjid. I was gonna give someone lashes in the back of the
masjid yesterday. Yesterday, I had a very, very IG encounter. I'm
about to leave
a brother says, Oh, brother, let me stop you real quick. When is
your next gathering of vikra said, It's tomorrow, after seven
o'clock, after madrab. I mean, he said, Oh, I'm going to miss it too
bad.
He says to me, I just want him brother here. He's a guest of
mine. He's from, oh, man, right. I said, Oh, man, interesting. So
you're ibadi? He said, Yes, I'm ibadi. I said, explain to me
the doctrine of the ibadia.
He said, Oh, I've never been asked that question. I can't really
summarize it for you. I said, well, then Samani, taradi, Arad
Hussain, I want to hear from you,
taradi. I want you to say,
Sayyidina, Hussain, Radi Allahu an because that's the ibadi problem.
They say Hussain was killed lawfully because he was rebelled.
They disrespected Hussain. So I want to hear you say, Hussain is
honored, and may Allah have mercy upon him. And he is from the chief
of the youth of paradise.
And if you don't say it, I'll take you the back of the masjid and hit
you. I'm just kidding with them, right?
So he laughed, and the other guy, but he didn't say it, by the way,
the other guy, his friend, he says to me, Wow, subhanAllah, that's
the exact opposite. Can.
Is in my mosque, we say, Hussain, alayhi, Salam. He's like, what,
Masjid? Are you from? He's like, Oh, the Shia, Masjid down the
street. I'm like, What in the kind of friendship is this? The ibadi
is the exact opposite of the Shia in their Aqeedah, right? I'm like,
what kind of meeting is this? Right? A Sunni and an ibadiana
Walk into the mosque. Is this a joke, right? I said, Did I catch
some kind of a blue moon or something like that, where weird
things start happening? But anyway, they started laughing,
because I think the Shia, he became a Sunni, the body has no
clue what he believes. So it's okay, right? But in any event, I
did make them aware that this is the problem that the Ibadis have,
right? And if you're going to set foot and be one of our friends and
hang out with us. I need to hear Tara Dion hose, or else, yes, in
behind, since
there are a lot of Shias, there was one
time we had we were going to miss the prayer, and it was right
there. And then towards the end, while we were leaving, it
wasn't the Imam, it was some other guy. He was asking all the Shias
like, who is your sword, who is your word teacher, and who is your
doctor? And then eventually they came to, Who is your Lord, and
then they still said, Ali, you know that you're not allowed to
pray in those Masjid in our madhhab, your prayer word is
valid, but you were sinful for going there. Because Allah says,
Let kumfi. Abuda,
Allah says about masajid, of that insult Allah and His messenger
and our havens for the insult of God and His Prophet, the insult of
the Prophet is insulting his Sahaba and his wives. If I insult
your mom, did I not insult you? If I insult your wife, I insulted
you. Right? So Allah says about masajid that are the havens for
offending and attacking and plotting against Allah and His
messenger. Allah says, never set foot in them. That means, if I
want to go to the bathroom, I go somewhere else. Let
never set foot inside of it.
The masajid that are established upon a doctrine we don't accept,
an Islam that goes against clear, explicit verses. We don't set foot
in them like who likes it? Likes it doesn't like it. Doesn't like
it. But if you did, you are sinful and your prayer is valid, right?
Your prayer is valid. If the person in the Imams prayer is
valid, if the Imams prayer is invalid, then your prayer is also
invalid for that reason. For
example, He doesn't make we do properly,
or he misses one of the archan of Salah. So you need to sort of know
how he prays in the first place, which mostly you don't know, but
that's the ruling on entering masajid, where the official aquita
I'm not saying one Imam has a funny aqidah. No, the official
aqidah of that Imam and built that Masjid is built to support that
those beliefs were not allowed to walk into them. Allah, says Lata
kumfi abada,
do not ever set foot in it. And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam was commanded this when he was invited by the hypocrites who
set up a masjid to plot against the Muslims and to be a safe haven
for those who hate Islam. They're hypocrites. To get legitimacy,
they invited the prophet to the grand opening to lead the first
salah.
The Prophet agreed. Semester, right then, Allah revealed, la
takum fi abada,
you see we're not allowed to set foot in those Masjid. You want to
pray? Better off? Do you pray in a parking lot or anywhere else?
Let's now go to our guests. He's here,
our Arabic teacher, the translator of Sheik Sahib Malam Bucha books,
the translator of Sheik Mohammed wheels book, books,
plural. Let's bring him on. Sheik Mehdi lock a regular on the
nothing but facts. Live Stream, Ark, view, dot, O RG, slash,
Arabic Omar. Can you put that up across as a banner ticker the
whole way, the whole time, arc, or even just Sheik Mehdi lock, arc
view, dot Arabic under his name there, yeah, uh. Arc
view.org/arabic,
he now has over 50 students, 50 students, no more than that, 50
students this summer came up onto, yeah, right about 130 now, I think
out of 130
students, that is the passion for the Arabic language. Yeah, is that
arc view, org slash Arabic,
no, put it in the next his name, where it says Sheik Mahdi. Lock
not gonna be legible. Okay, all right, Sheik Mehdi
tell us something about from Sheik al booty's cures of anxiety.
Okay,
so
in the in the book, that is, I think it's well known now the book
we.
Call the translation depression and anxiety, because they go
together. They go together. They're hand in hand. And every
time the man mentioned in the series, every time he mentioned
depression, he mentioned anxiety as well, and he mentioned
psychological unrest,
the cure, like with depression, is that you have to understand where
anxiety and depression and psychological unrest and whatever
else it is. Where does it reside? It resides in the heart. And your
heart is not in your hands. It's in Allah's hands. So the cure is
always in every single moment to turn to Allah. And Allah says in
is the eye that he quotes again and again in. So 13, chapter,
verse, 28 Allah says, Allah be the krilahit. It is only by the
remnants of Allah that the hearts find peace and find tranquility.
So what this boils down to is that whatever you're anxious about, you
have to pull back from the world itself, in the sense that you
cannot let your happiness or your sadness be dependent on the world.
Your happiness and your sadness has to be rested in Allah. And
then this is why, in the book, he gives the story of the great Imam
from the from the first generations, Ibrahim and EDM who
on the law, one of the very Sufis who said that if, if the Kings
knew the happiness that we had. They would fight us for it. They
would take, pick up swords and fight us for it. And the point is,
hourly, you can't tell what this is our he's an impoverished state.
He doesn't have a fancy house or anything, anything that we would
see as your material wealth. But the key here is that this person,
and the only I like him is that their happiness is centered in
Allah. Their happiness is rooted in all the law and the
relationship of Allah, the vicar of Allah, and therefore, it's not
subject to what's happening in the world. It's not subject to
people's praise, people's blame, people's censure,
the viciousities of the stock market, whatever it is, is rooted
there with Allah is and you stay in that state. One stays in that
state by staying in a state of dhikr, a state of remembrance of
Allah, and always, always, always linking every single incident that
one is going through, every single situation one is in. One links it
back to Allah. And this is why. This is why the ministry of Allah
saw someone has given us all these AFK when you wake up in the
morning, when you go to the bathroom, when you leave the
bathroom, when you start a meal, when you finish a meal, when you
leave your house, when you come home, so on and so on. There's so
many DUA and I've got you're supposed to say, Why? Because
you're always bringing every single day that you're doing back
to Allah and remembering Allah. And to take it further, because I
was going over this with some students, we just completed a
course, Alhamdulillah in the UK, an online course called healing
with the Quran,
with a good group of students, mashaAllah, a good high uptake,
masha Allah. And one of the things that we discussed was a beautiful
Hadith, and this is this one we think about the benefits of dhikr,
the benefits of Vikram is a beautiful Hadith. In the question
of Imam Ibn Naja,
where the Messenger of Allah, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam, he
says that every day Allah has a Sadaqah. Allah gives, gives a
sadaqah to his slaves
by day and by night. But then he said, but there's nothing like
that means there's no Sadaqah. There's nothing like
Allah. Is when ALLAH inspires his slave to remember him, that's the
greatest Sadaqah. So
when you ponder on that, you realize that, yes, Allah commands
you in Soto, buchafa, Qurani, of Quran, right? Doctor, 151 of
Kulin, remember me. Now, remember you, but you don't remember Allah
unless ALLAH remembered you first upon. A lot of them, right?
Profound, profound. And I remember when I remember when I was going
over this hadith with some students, they said, Muslim pan
Allah. Why aren't we just ecstatic? Why are we just jumping
up and down for joy? Because you realize in every single time you
do think of Allah, it's because Allah is putting it in
you. So where is this thing? Where's the anxiety coming from?
Where is it coming from? Where? What? What's what's the reason for
it? Every situation you're in, it's Allah who's pushing you to
remember him, right? It's, you know, it's this famous story
always put as well as for the new normal, multi quotes, many, many
times. And I was gone this room again few days ago. You know,
people looking for
cures for the heart and cures for anxiety, and they look for signs
of Allah's love, right? So, there's the famous story where,
where this lady a serving girl in Damascus, where she would,
she would pray tahajjud. And one night, the the master of the
house, he got up and he heard her praying, and he heard her in dua.
She was in dua, like making sujood. And she was saying, Oh
Allah, buy your love for Me. Grant, such and such grant, such
as, buy your love for Me. Grant.
Such and such and such, and the master of the house, he thought
this was a bit presumptuous, like, where like were you to say, like
Allah loves me and so forth, where he makes Who are you to make this
claim? So he asked her. But afterwards and she and she said,
Well, I know the law loves me because woke me up at this hour.
Subhanallah, I know the law loves me because he made me stand in
front of him. I know Allah. Allah loves me because he allows me to
make these donate to him. That's why Allah loves so we have to to
use, to use the Americanism, flip the script. You have to, you have
to flip it around and see
and see Allah's love for you in the things that you're doing.
Because, again, boil it down, you don't do any action. You don't do
any righteous action, any sort of vicar, any sort of prayer, any
sort of any good deed, unless Allah put that in you. Allah
facilitated that for you. And these are signs that Allah loves
you. These are signs. Again, it's not just the fundamental things,
but one things we cover as wellness. Course, it's in the
book, this idea of,
again, common thing about people who have spent many years like
away from Allah, and then they change their ways. Afterwards,
they change their ways, and they reform themselves. And then
shaitan tries to mess with them and say, What's the point you were
sinning for so many years, and you're off the path for so many
years, and why would ALLAH forgive you? And so on and so forth. But
the response, the response to that is, well, if Allah didn't love
you, he wouldn't have changed you. Subhanallah, if Allah didn't love
you, he wouldn't have put that in you, he wouldn't have guided you
back. So
what is it for us to do? Well, you have to repay that love with love.
You have to repay that love with love. You can see, you see all
these sign that Allah love will repay that love with love,
and you do that with the Vic, and you again, you do it with vicar of
Allah, and you obey Allah and, and that's, that's what Shukr is like,
like, gratitude is a huge part of this. Gratitude is a huge part of
this, right? Because Allah says in sort of Ibrahim, Izzy, then,
right? If you're grateful, I will increase you and great and
gratitude. Gratitude is not just on the tongue Sasha law, but it is
that you use every single blessing that Allah has given you to please
Him. You take every single blessing Allah has given you to
please Him. So Allah giving you to sight. Well, use that to please
Allah. Use that to look at Allah is pleased with. Use that to look
at the Quran, to look at the books of in to look at the other
righteous to spend time with, with the rights people. Use that. Use
it for that. The same with your ears, same with your ears, same
with your mouth, whatever it is, whatever blessing Allah has given
you, use that to please Allah. Use it for Allah is pleased with so
all of these things
will remove this anxiety, because you have to remember, you have to
remember that it's Allah who's control of this, right? That's
like, I think we mentioned this one, that one on our previous
podcast we talked about this. Talked about this, you know, that
lady, I mentioned, that American lady who was reading the Quran,
right? She wasn't a Muslim. She's a blonde haired, blue eyed
American lady, she was reading the Quran, and she said, She's, she's
finding cures for anxiety in the Quran. And she said, yeah, people
always tell me when I'm anxious, you know, let it go. Just let it
go. Just let it go. But then I read the Quran, and I read and I
realized, wait a second, how can I let it go when I never, when I
never held it in the first place upon all right? Well, Allah is
holding it all along. Tabonica Levi,
right, blessed. Is Allah? Is it's his hands of the Dominion. It's
not us, right? Human beings, we get a bit we get a bit too, we get
a bit too presumptuous about our own, our own powers, our own need,
or how important we are, right? It's like, I remember reading
about, you know, there was, there was some, some Aboriginal people,
and they had this belief, they had, they had this belief that it
was their job to guide the sun through the sky
so they wake up in the morning be like this. No, it's the sun's
gonna move regardless of what you do. So you have to, you have to
submit, yeah, you have to give in to realize something, what's,
what's the point of being anxious? It's not, it's not, it's not going
to do anything for you. And you also have to tell yourself, you
also have to tell yourself that Allah knows what's good for you.
Mm, hmm, right, Allah. Allah knows what you you think you know what's
good, right? Like, like, again, sort of 216, maybe you love
something that's bad for you. Maybe you dislike something and
it's good for you. And you have to realize, you have to tell yourself
that when something comes up and maybe causes you anxiety, maybe it
causes you a problem, it makes you feel
this worry or the stress, you have to tell yourself, there's a wisdom
behind this. There's a wisdom behind and I can't see it now, but
Allah will show me eventually. You tell yourself that, and it just
works every time, it just works. Seriously, it just works every
time. You just tell yourself there's a reason why this is
happening. And then you can be okay. There's something I can't
see, but you will see. You will see and you'll think a lot
afterwards. That's a reason why.
Yeah, and
people, oftentimes, when you're told to let it go, it's actually
better to think of where it came from, right? So when you say let
it go, but it's better than.
Where did it come from? Where it came from? Because letting it go
sometimes may result in me not learning the lesson,
right, but I gotta learn the lesson. So where did this
tribulation originate from?
It originated from the most wise. Therefore, there has to be
something I learned out of every experience. So we were talking
right before we brought you on, is the people who can figure out how
to fail and keep going. That failure ability, it has to be
rooted in some event. I mean, some people don't have a man, they're
just naturally, they just fail and keep going.
But every one of us can develop that if you rationally consider,
where did this tribulation and failure come from? From the most
wise, therefore there has to be a lesson here. So it's not a
failure, it's a lesson. Yeah, that you reprogramming how you look at
the thing. It's not I failed. No, I learned a lesson. The murk that
Allah has, that I'm trying to seek, is always there, right? It's
always going to be there. What the treasures I'm seeking of this
life, or what have you, they're always there. There's not going to
be any shortage. So, yeah, maybe I missed this bag of gold, but
there's going to be another one later on, a bigger one, a better
one. So I just got to learn the lesson. And you learn, you
consider them as classes. Those are your classes with a lotta. Are
your failures, because you're learning that I did something
wrong. And there are a world of svab in this world, in this in the
in our in our world, it's sveb certain things. If you click
certain buttons, you will get results. And when I'm not getting
results, is not clicking the right button. Right buttons. There's
there are ways for to do everything, to memorize the Quran,
there are techniques.
And there's amount of time and effort that needs to be put place
to to lose weight. There's time and effort that you just need to
know the right thing. Allah hasn't created for us a mystery world
where we can't achieve anything, no. Every single thing that Allah
created in this world, he created a method to attain it,
and it's just and our failures is just that we don't know the
methods
yet. We just hit click the wrong buttons. Those differences in
perspective change everything.
Yeah. Well, because, yeah, the train of change perspective.
Because this is one things we covered as well. Because we were
reading, we read a section from Imam and mukhema, Josiah, falad,
right? Spiritual benefits, and he and he said he gives advice. He
said you have to understand that every time
Allah shuts a door out of his hekma, right? Because, again, like
he said he's all wise, right? He shots around his hekma. He will
open another one out of His mercy, another one of his mercy. And that
and that, that will be enfam, it'll be more beneficial, be more
beneficial. And that's, that's, that's what they call Imam, who
talks about this in the book, that's what's, that's the
cognitive therapy. Surprise, there's the cognitive therapy and
there's the behavioral therapy. Now the cognitive so you have to
understand, again, like you were saying that you have to understand
that Allah is all wise. There's a system in place. You have to
adjust to the system. You have to learn this. What
a system is. You understand this, this, this generation, okay, I
don't know. And
someone recently, people have been saying that America's greatest
export is anxiety.
And not only that, America's also
is the first nation and the first civilization to celebrate anxiety.
And if you notice people today do celebrate their diagnosis, yeah,
right? Depression, too, where they go around saying it as if it's
like a pet that they own, yeah, it's a fetish, huh? It's like
fetish. It's like a Yeah, it's like, you're in the cool club.
Now, if you if you can say you're depressed or you're anxious, I was
with Leonard Sachs the other day, and he said that the language for
for healthy things has been altered. And he said that if you
think and judge things normally as a regular, healthy person would
do, they call you neurotypical, right? Typical is a terrible word,
right? It's shown that there's nothing really great about it,
right? But he said that who came up with that word? Right? It
should be a description of health, right? You are actually healthy.
You actually have a lot of great qualities when you have this, but
they call it neurotypical, and it makes people feel, Oh, I'm just a
regular run of the mill person, right? Well, who then is the
special person? Right? Like the divergent, that's a wonderful
word. You're full of diversity, like you're divergent. Your
background is divergent. You're part Russian, you're part you
lived in Canada, you lived you speak Arabic. You have diversity,
right? And you diverge from the norm that shows you have courage.
So it's like taking these, these things that in any other era and
any other society.
Would have been deemed sort of flaws in a person that you need to
fix these things, and it's celebrating them, and then taking
that which is healthy, that which is good. Imagine you looked at a
you, you, you labeled a body of a guy who's got,
like, 1% body fat,
and he goes to the gym every day.
He and his body's perfect. And we call that a typical physique,
right? When it doesn't make any sense, that's actually the ideal,
right? That's ideal to shoot for. Should be at least 7% body fat. 7%
body fat. What's the number seven? Or seven? If you want to be like,
super, like, super, super fit, healthy people have about seven to
8% body fat, seven to 8% maybe 10 1% would be like, I worry, yeah.
So you see here the US culture is producing anxiety and because of
our hubris, or maybe our arrogance, or maybe our
confidence, we decided we're celebrating this anxiety.
Are we salesmen? Are we selling everything now? Are we at at every
turn, selling ourselves that
this and I'm proud of it? Are we going to be proud of everything,
right? So we're such a proud country and confident. Confidence,
they say, is America's greatest attribute. It used to be like we
can manufacture we're good at management, confidence eventually,
but confident in what, proud of what. And we're now proud of
anxiety, and we're proud of depression. And we, we sort of
speak so freely about these things, but also, we're also
basically saying it's merely genetic, and it's there's nothing
of environment or action or behavior that's caused this, and
that's really you're misguiding people to stay into this. You're
going to stay in like that as long as
you said it earlier. Yeah, it's disempowering. You said it
earlier, but it's also taking no responsibility. And you said
earlier anxiety is in the heart. Is not it's not to be cured
through the body, right? It's like my if I have an infection in my
iPhone, I don't treat my iPad, right?
It's if it's in the heart, you need to treat the heart and not
treat the body. So talk to us a little bit about human desire and
the and the pushing off anxiety into a mere
chemical or a mere physical ailment. Okay,
so what this boils down to, and again, what you just said before,
about how the inversion of reality, the inversion of
language,
I would love to quote here this point, because this ties in for
what we were saying is, this is a video that was from a chef Yusuf
government did a few years ago after the world where he pointed
out, he said, one of the things that happened nowadays is that
people have this can't come from the West, especially, people have
linked happiness with gratification, right? They've made
people think that the gratification of desires is the
same thing as happiness. You give into your desires. You give into
your your shahaat and your aha, that's where happiness lies. Yeah,
this is completely, totally false. And he says, because we have two
different words in Arabic, we have muta, and it's two different
things, and so, so he said that if you, if you sleep through Fajr,
that's muta, right? Full night's sleep, and you, and you get up
whenever you want, and you have a big fat breakfast or whatever,
like, Fine, that's muta. But this, your side is in Fajr. Your side is
in getting up and praying and praying and worshiping Allah, and
that will give you energy for your soul. That's, that's what should
happen in life. So people have fallen for this trap where they
think gratification is the same as now, but we have to pull this
back. So pull this back. Look at the bigger picture, right? Again,
we're talking about the nature of your heart, and we have to talk
about your rule, because we're talking about, like, the nuffs,
right? Psychology, the nuts, the rule. And this, again, goes back
to the main thrust of the book, and it's in the appendix as well,
is the fact that the human being like who the human being is, the
fact that the human being is a rule and adjusted, and you are a
rule before you are just it, and you, as a spirit, are a rule. You
were once in the Presence of Allah, and that Rafael 172 right
when Allah said, Allah, Be Cool, called the badass. And then
everyone, everyone testified, anyone, everyone admitted to that,
anyone agreed to that?
And then after that, you were put in a body. You're put in this
earth. What does this mean? It means that your rule
is forever yearning for that moment again, your rule is always,
always, always yearning to be back with Allah, because your rule
remembers this now your and your rule will remind you, because you
also, you don't have a memory in terms of, like, what you saw, what
you heard, because you were, you were a body, then your memory is
based on what you see, when you hear, and that's from your eyes
and your ears, which doesn't exist somehow your but your rule
remembers, and your rule will.
Find you when it sees a wide open space, when it sees a huge
mountain range, or an ocean or a big forest or whatever it is,
when, when the eye can see wherever, as far as the eye can
see, the rule feels happy. We actually call that English. We
call it spiritually uplifting, right? That's why I tell people,
like, if you go on Google, look up spiritual retreat. I don't care
who's doing it could be Muslims, Jews, Christians, Rastafarians,
Pastafarians, whoever it is, right? Whoever it is, it's going
to be outside somewhere. It's going to be in the countryside,
suppose, right? It's not going to be in a supermarket, it's not
going to be in a car park, it's not going to be in an airport
terminal. It's going to be somewhere outside in nature,
because this is where your rule feels this way, your rule feels
happy, and because your rule will look at that site, right? The eyes
are willing to the soul this English, your rule will look out
and see that and say, When am I going to go back to Allah? When am
I going to be free? So what I'm getting at is that, because of
that reality, your rule, and essentially you, you will always,
always feel, no matter how good things are in life, you will
always feel that something's missing. You always feel that
something's missing, right, no matter how good things are, right?
No matter how much money you have, or how comfortable you have, or
how wonderful your wife or your spouse or your kids are, you're
always going to feel that something's missing and you're and
you're going to try to fill that gap, right? This what he talked
about the book, he says, so people will try to try to fix that void,
and therefore they will try to go into pleasures, right? That's why
people will distract themselves with
all kinds of sinful behavior and so on so forth. But this is the
wrong way to do it, because number one we get, what you have to
understand is that this pain, this ache, this yearning for Allah,
will never go away until you go back to Allah, just
the just the same way you miss any human being. The pain that you
feel you miss on human being will never go into actually, with that
person again. So what do you do? You go back to the vicar of Allah.
That's what you you can't remove that pain, but you can mitigate
it. You can mitigate you can lessen it. Why? Through the vicar
of Allah, in the same way that when you miss someone, when you
miss a human being, you can call that person, you can talk to that
person. You can do zoom, call that preservatives, that preservatives,
that mitigates the pain, but the pain is never removed until you go
back to action with that person again. So this is where people
have to realize that fulfilling desires and so forth is not going
to make you happy. Gratifying your desires is not gonna make you
happy at all. It's not gonna relieve anxiety. It's not gonna do
anything. It's just, it's just gonna you're putting a band aid
over over a wound, over an open,
seriously, open wound. So we have metaphor here, but our American
culture is literally led by Satan when everything is telling you,
all you have to do is go for pleasures. Yeah, right. That's all
you have to go for. It's all you have to worry about pleasures.
Now, this is a culture literally led by Satan. And
I think people, the more exposed they are to American pop culture,
the more miserable they get, right? And the more exposed they
are to nature, the happier they get, yeah, and nature by itself.
There is a earthly spirituality, and nature being one of it, right,
creation, just being out in creation, if there, if you took a
bunch of people, put them out in nature, in a camp, without any
religious instruction or spiritual practice,
they're guaranteed be 10 times better than if he was like in a
city for that same period of time. Now, imagine he was given nature
and he was given a moderate amount of spiritual practice. Meaning
with it in the day, five prayer in the morning, five prayers a day,
short widow at night, right? 20 minutes they could hear. 20
minutes they could they're moderate. A person will be through
the roof in two weeks and take away his phone, except for half
hour in the middle of the day, not at night or in the morning, half
hour to call your parents in the middle of the day. I really want
to do a camp like that.
Yeah, there's not going to be much structure, not a hyper structured
over schedule camp. Yeah, the camp will be basically here we are, or
we have the prayers. We have a widget in the morning. We have a
widget at night, small, short, here in in each one, very short,
maximum 30 minutes, the whole thing,
can I see something? Yeah, I would
say, I would say, I've had discussion with some people
recently with an interesting point. I said, don't, don't call
it a retreat, yeah, what do you call it? Because if we, if we
treat too much where we didn't go. Yeah, that's true. Call it, called
it in advance, in advance. Yeah,
something? It has to do some with the fitra, right? Yeah, well, it's
something, it's moving towards a law, right? Because we're, I think
we retreat like we borrow that world that we're losing. Yeah,
it's not that you're losing. You're running away from
something. We're not running away from anything. Running away from
anything, because, again, we're not, we're not monks, right? We
don't, we don't live outside the world. We don't live in caves and
so, right? But we would see it as as we you might want to call him
actually, no, the meeting I the meeting I had when the brother
said, No, call it a recharge or something like that. Yeah, it has
to be something, if we had the man.
Power, I would do a spiritual recharge in the spring break
coming up this spring,
right? If we have the manpower of the the and it's not hyper
scheduled, you just take it to a place that has a lot of hiking
space, and telling you one of the diseases of the times is hyper
scheduling, like you have to have something everywhere. Why? Let
people discover their own thing, right? Let them come up with their
own let them be bored for half an hour. They're gonna start throwing
rocks at each other. In another half hour, it's gonna be a game,
right? And there and then, within an hour, you're gonna have rules,
right? And you have a winner and a loser by 30 minutes, right? I
guarantee you, that's how it always was back in in our youth.
That's how it always was, bored out of my mind. What's here? A
piece of foil. You flick it at your brother, right?
And then he flicks it back. Within 20 minutes, we have a new game,
right? Yeah. And that's what's going to happen at these parks, if
we have the manpower, we do this and then
spring retreat and a recharge, spiritual recharge, with the goal
of plucking the kid out of being attached to the cell phone and
discovering life without it. You get it half hour a day, and you
got to cook your own food. Yeah, you could take your car out to
the city again. Buy the food, grill it,
I think it. We need to do this every spring break. And whoever
can come can come four days. I would do if you did it for two
weeks in the summertime, people would be completely reformed,
right? Completely reformed. But you have to pick the right place
that's got filled with streams, waterfalls, hikes, but is also
close to a highway where you can get supplies from the supermarket,
food, etc. Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely, no, absolutely, I've
done support that idea, and you'd have to have, yeah, just as long
as you have, like, a big view, yeah, there's a big view that
people can see, like, countryside, mountains, big ocean, something
that they can just gaze at and just feel and just sort of like
you just lose themselves in just, yeah, wow. You know, Are we near
to the point that healthy societies and families and schools
should have mandatory nature time?
Probably like, why do we have mandatory vaccines? Why do we have
mandatory TB test, flu shots, mandatory for your there's money
in it. There's money in it. Why it's for your lot of money in
nature trips, yeah,
but we did schools in these places, we needed mandatory nature
exposure, right where you just you, you get 23 and a half hours a
day without your device,
and you're just out in nature. Do what you do, cook food, run races,
as long as you pray your prayers a little thicker, here and there,
little mo either here and there, figure yourself out after that.
Hike, walk, run, kick a ball, throw a ball, swim across a lake,
wrestle each other, all that stuff.
I think it's, it should be mandatory, really think about it.
Yeah, yeah. I'm just remembering my child is I used to, I used to.
I grew up in in the Toronto area, but I my,
my grandparents had, they had, like, a, like a cottage in Quebec,
in the Laurentian mountains, yeah, like, just on big lake. It's just
us always just mountains in a lake. And you just used to go
there, like, every year. That's amazing. That was just so
soothing, because, again, you're just nowhere near Montreal,
supposing, near Montreal, but not really near Montreal. I mean, near
places, some town called San Seville, but that it was just,
yeah, that's, that's why I remember I'm chair from my
channel. Be outside somewhere. I used to go to England as well. I
used to spend time in England, in the southwest of England, and
counting doors again, which is just greenery. So there's lots and
lots of greenery countryside. And I don't think people
get that. They're just, you know, it's like one of my friends said
to me. He said, You know, if your kid, if your kids are just
stamped, you know, spend their whole time in the city, they'll
grow to be as hard as the concrete. Totally true. Totally
true, right? They're just not gonna, yeah, totally true. And
then they won't, and then they won't know, hey, here's an
example, right? I'm gonna say this on the other side of the pond.
Yeah, folks, I'm funny, but isn't, isn't it true? Because, because
people in the US are so detached from nature, apparently,
apparently, and brother, Omar, you can look this up and Google right
now, apparently, 7% of people in the United States, or 7% of
American adults, believe that chocolate milk comes from Brown
cows. That's insane. Man. That what? Listen the new generation.
You never know, though, you literally never know. There's
always looking up now, Omar, is he looking up. Depressing here, here
it is led Bible, which is the, I don't know why they're talking
about this, but which is Latter Day Saints,
depressingly, 7% of the country actually total to a whopping 16
point 4 million. They believe. Chuck.
Milk isn't made by cocoa, sugar and milk, but comes straight out
of the udder of brown cows.
You know, 25% of the country at one point. At one point, 25 didn't
believe that the Connecticut Newtown shootings happened Sandy
Hook, or Sandy Hook. I mean, 25% of the country that goes to show
you that when stuff gets out there, it sticks.
And you think how crazy it is, but it sticks with people, and then
they repeat it
insane.
Well, check this out. Let's go to the Toronto
posters. Omar and Sheik matthi. Can talk about them.
The you're going to Toronto for a Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
tour, correct?
Yeah, and then, and then another Friday after that as well. So I'm
going to be in Toronto for 11 days. So 11 days in Toronto.
Shekamati will be in Toronto for 11 days. Ladies and gentlemen,
take advantage of this. Let's listen to what he's going to tell
us, because he's this subject that he's talking about, is what he's
going to be discussing, yeah, in two events. Yeah. So, so I get
there in Shawn, Tuesday, 27th and then so the events we have lined
up, because I'm also going to see my my parents. I had to make
family parents. Yeah? Mashallah, so I've got
Thursday, the 27th is this going to be the University of Toronto,
the Mississauga branch. Uh, so that's one talk that's actually
been taught for the youth that's actually going to be focused on
dealing with the issues of Generation Z, even though I think
we're generation alpha now, but they're University College,
they're not in college yet. Z is okay, yeah. So they're accurate
about that? Yeah, thank you for clarifying that. Thank you,
because I've been following this something like, yeah, okay,
they're the university translation of best. So we're, we're doing a
talk about that, issues that deal with Generation Z, and I'll be
referencing Imam Bolte, his book Islam, problems of the youth
papers, volume five.
Then the Friday,
I think the armor got a foot, but at one of the machines in
Brampton, world. Be staying. I think it's the Great Lakes
message. It's called, so that's the hook. But and then again, in
the evening, Friday evening, around five o'clock, we'll also be
at, back at the University of Toronto, Mississauga, discussing
doing a program on healing with the Quran. Again, what we've been
talking about today going on depression anxiety, and aiming
towards depression anxiety students go through and the
pressure that they go through and so forth, and what they can
expect. And I've been telling people, I've been telling people
part of the promotion, I've been telling people to look at the
podcast that you and I did a year ago. If you remember when you were
in the UK, when we were Bradford University, that was critical.
That was critical. That was critical, yeah? Mashallah, doing
this? Yeah, yeah, Mashallah. So I've shared that with a few people
to
have a look in IDEA. And then, and on the Sunday, back at the Great
Lakes, Master again, doing like a longer sort of program, like over
three or three hours at least, I think, on again, healing with the
Quran
being a bit more depth. I'll be in a masjid, as opposed to a
university lecture theater on the Sunday, but that's September 1.
And then I have another hotma lined up for the Friday Masjid. I
think Daniel Islam has called this in North York. That's another part
of Toronto for the Friday. So that's the events we have lined
up.
If other things get added, I don't know, we'll see, um, I've had a
few people in touch with me. I've had some of the Arabic students
got in touch with music. I'll come over to the US going to Michigan.
My schedule is, I'm trying to spend time, I'm trying to say, in
the Toronto area, obviously, I want to be with my parents,
obviously, and give them their whole But Hanna, that's where we
have, as we all know, mashallah, mashallah, that's that's great.
And who at U of T is really active there, putting these events
together?
Well, Hamden, it's a combination. Here's the interesting thing,
Alhamdulillah, our team at artview, right? Mashallah, art
view Arabic, but the overall artview program, a lot of our, a
lot of our TAs are actually in Toronto, yeah. Oh, okay, that's
who put it together. Excellent, excellent. So, so it's them and
students. So you should have students in Toronto, yeah. So, so,
so university, so there's, yeah, so, yeah. So our few students and
our few TAs, there's, there's a whole number of them in Toronto
area called, which is the Mississauga area where the
University of Toronto branch is. And some of them, and they have
contacted university so Hamilton, we were able to put a team
together and and work these events out and martial art. It's it's
worked out really well. It's worked really well. So far. That's
great enough. So, so we're hoping for how many times you come to the
States?
Um,
well, I came last year I or to the to North America. Well, I'm Hope.
I'm hoping. I'm I made the NIA that I want to. I want to do at
least an annual trip, because obviously I want to. I want to
give my my parents their rights, and I want to be able to see my
mom and come on with my family. I.
So at least once a year, and to come to come to the Toronto area,
that's that's my that's my intention. That's what I want to
do, very good.
Um, let's take one question from the audience here, why is it that
Allah guides some people and not others? Pretty common theological
question, but a very important one, because people look around
and say, Why is some people guided? Some people not. It's it's
bound to the choice that they take now. Now, this is interesting.
This does, this does get there are some differences of opinion among
the on the map about what this signifies. But the the verse that
I quoted earlier
from sofa aroth, Seventh Chapter, verse 172
where Allah gathered all humanity and said, Allah to be Rabbi
kumbalu, Bala shahidna,
Imam Al Jo right, the bighamli scholar in his tafsir of that
ayah, he says that some people meant it and some people did it
right. So everyone said Bala shahidna, but not everyone said it
was sincerity, and then and then that, that's when the decision was
made, and then that's what plays out in this world. Now, this what
what happens after that is we have to have this discussion about,
okay, what is and this is
where there's a difference of opinion, what is the ruling on
children of unbelievers who die, right? Are they believers of God?
So the later, the latter day, ashradi and especially from like
Imam and knowing, onward, they're going to, they're going to say
they're forgiven, right? But Imam knowing, and I believe this
Muslim, he said, but the majority position, and this goes back
earlier generations,
was that you don't know, right? We don't, we don't know. And then
because, and they quote a hadith, and this is also mentioned by Imam
jury in his book of Kitab Sharia, right? He's a fourth century
scholar. Is a Hadith about how, with the mesh of law, Soul law,
there's some to the fact of you don't know what they would have
done had they lived, yes, right? So, so it's so, it's unknown
thing. So what, what that all would entail, what that would all
lead towards, again, is that that decision was made back before
these people enter the world. That decision was made there then Allah
SWT, some people meant it. Some people didn't. So it's not, it's
not the case of Jabba. You don't believe the law is forced people
to
believe and not to believe. Is like that decision was made before
these anyone came into this world, right and that, and that's why,
when you and therefore when you understand that, when you
understand that, you understand the laws most just and laws most
wise, what you understand that is that we don't panic so much about
people. Will they become Muslim? Will they not become Muslim?
Right? Some people get really, like, anxious about the fact that
they like, for example, someone, you might have, someone who's not
a Muslim, and he shows interest in Islam that people, oh, I need to
talk to him quickly. Again. Says, you had some listen, if it's meant
to be, it's meant to be, right? I says menu, as soon as we, we
don't, we don't have, you know, a Muslim storybook called, like, you
know, the kafir that got away.
It doesn't exist, right? He said to our fingers, like, no, if he's
gonna become a Muslim, you'll become Muslim, if not, if not.
Right? You know your duty. Your duty is, well, my abubin, right?
Like you, you convey the message as clearly as you can, and then
you leave it to Allah so you don't panic about this, and therefore,
again, we don't stress about all these affairs. No, no, no, no.
What Allah does is justice. What Allah does is the very definition
of justice. There's, there's no standard that Allah has to, has to
subscribe to or follow no Allah. What Allah does is the very
definition of justice, and we trust from that. We trust him
that. But again, people, individual Ottawa, individual
Ottawa spirit, they made that decision, whether they themselves,
then, yeah, ourself, yeah. So I'd like to add another thing too, is
that Allah does guide everybody
by sending them revelation from the sense of guidance, meaning
pointing you to the truth, giving you another day to live the truth
or to seek the truth. All that is a guidance that everyone receives.
Now it's up to you to accept it or reject it, and for those who never
received it, they're forgiven.
They never received it, but if a person did receive it, that is
Allah's guidance to everybody. Just like a a teacher says, I have
office hours at this hour, you're in class, she's given the
instruction, and having office hours, it's up to you to pay
attention and to go to office hours when you fail, it's not she
who failed you. She didn't force you to fail, right? That's how we
should look at it. Allah, tada did guide everybody. He's to Web. One
of the meanings of that is he gives you the opportunity to make
Toba. He gives you the ability to say, it could have been one strike
you're out. Imagine that. But he gives you the opportunity to make.
Gives you another day to make Toba makes it easy for you. Toba is
repentance. So that's an
important question to answer and appreciate, yeah, just, but just
to add to that, just to add to that is also the fact that, again,
like Allah, Allah doesn't enforceably guide anyone. That's
the thing that we want to be clear. Is that, again, I think if
I made this before that, you know, the amount of proof, the proof
that exists for laws, exists in the truth of Islamic skin, is just
right. It's just the right amount, right? Anything less people have
an excuse, anything more people would be coerced. Allah wants you
to come to him lovingly and willingly so like you're saying
that. So people be like they have, like you said. People have.
There's enough there for people to draw their own conclusions. And
it's so important, I've never heard anyone make this
distinction, except you that that the there could be excess proof,
then you'd never know who's telling the truth, who's doing it
willingly, right? Yeah? Like, when there's just an it's not just
coercion of physical force, it's the proofs and the indicators. If
there was literally a voice from the sky say, I'm your Lord. I'm
about to make it night. Click. It turns night now. It's
Daydream now, or pray, both of them now, whatever. Yeah, then
that would be a level of of proof that would be almost at the level
of the the sun from the east, right? Yeah. Is because Can
anyone, whether you like it or not, not admit, refuse to admit
that the sunrise from the east. No one can refuse. So we don't know
who's loving and who's not. There will be no love in that. Nobody
says the sun rises from the east because they love it. It's a fact
whether you like it or not. So therefore, by actually decreasing
some of the Divine indicators of the Divine. Now it gives us the
opportunity to search for them
and to willingly accept it, right? So now we're showing love on top
of that, when the dictates from this creator come down that are
not to always our liking. So we always say Islam is the best way
of living for you, yes, but it's also contains what you don't like.
It contains something No, nobody likes. I mean, your nature is to
look at the opposite gender. Your nature is to get males, men, men's
attention with the beauty Allah gave you. Well, we're both
genders. Are told, don't do this, right? We're all told things we
can't do that, we want to do that gives us the chance to actually
express love by doing something we don't want to do or avoiding
something that we do want to do. So the presence of these things in
our religion and in our deen are so important because they give you
an opportunity to show love. Love cannot be shown when it's a one
way street of success, victory and clarity all the time. And I think
you're really one of the first people to mention that, and that's
an important point to bring up when people say, well, where's the
proof? Well, he's made it enough
and not too much so that you have to look for it in the process of
doing so, you may develop some love of God and show and take a
leap for the sake of God. So that's
extremely important here to separate between this knowledge
and regular, demonstrable knowledge, like sun rising from
these Do you have a question, young man? You have a young man
here with a question? Speak pleasure.
If someone becomes a Murta to Judaism, Christianity or paganism,
it's all the same.
Yeah, it's all the same. It's all right.
All right. Closing comments. Sheik Madi, uh. Closing comments. So
just, I just want to say, you mind if I, if I just plug argue Arabic
a bit? Please do. Please do. Alright. So I just, I just wanted
to announce a few milestones, Hamlet that we mentioned to
achieve, because we've done just about a year now. Alhamdulillah.
And so in in September, we're starting some new levels. And what
we've just covered, Alhamdulillah, we've managed to do with the
advanced class. We've done to talk to sunia bisha. We actually
covered it, and then with the advanced class. And we're starting
a book on SARF the man, and I've got it here. Gotta plug this.
Very important. We're starting Dr Fauci Mara his book on South
Animal Man, right? So it's not just the rulings, but the
meanings, right? There's a lot of chronic exams in this book, so,
and we're going to do this, and then it's for homework
assignments. We're going to
take Doctor Mustafa sivasi, babasir nebawi, and we're just
going to add the reason, add the vowels. We do a paragraph every
week for homework, and add the vowels because, again, now is the
vowels at the end of the words. Soft is everything else. So we're
going to do that. Inshallah, we just completed humbly last summer
course on comparative Arabic English grammar, looking at parts
of speech which was very well received. The students found it
very beneficial. So we're moving humbly like so we've got about 50
new students of the summer. Removed strength to strength. I.
As if, yes. So please, please join us. And we're just adding more and
more content and material every week. I believe we're building,
we're building so so please come join us and join the RFI program
as well. I'm teaching Shafiq as well. We're going to finish this
soon, a volume one of a fifth and min * Inshallah, maybe within
the next three, four months, then move on to volume two. Move on to
volume two. So we're making progress. The students, I think
they're benefiting. They're growing and yeah, so jump on board
the ship. Very good, very good. Students are learning so much
because the ship is invested. He's personally invested in you as a
student. He is emotionally connected to the subject and to
seeing students learn their Arabic, because, simply put, this
is how he learned, and that's how he learned his dean. And he
advanced in the Dean by studying Arabic, plowing through it. And
he's got the techniques that that are going to help you, and trust
me, I'm telling you, you will come out knowing how to read Arabic,
how to read classical texts. When you finish with Sheik Mahdi for
years, year one, year two, year three, you'll be reading sulthi.
You'll be reading all of these books that we read now we you'll
be reading, listening to Sheik booty's lectures online, directly,
etc. So take it on. We'll be plugging this as we near into
September, and our website at revamp is done, and our now, you
know, basically, because of what you did with Arabic, how
successful it was. We took, we did everything like that. Basically.
We basically took Akida, for example, and we made, we're giving
Akita to one teacher who who's passionate about it, Matic effect
to one teacher who's passionate chef, Afiq to one teacher, and so
on and so forth. So we actually did it with the other and we
canceled the whole arc. V plus is being canceled. It's now just
being all of that, and I'll be teaching essentials,
which is the essential, me and my team of other teachers will be
teaching the prerequisites of these things. Okay, yeah, so
that's how we're going to roll now, you'll see the new website
how it comes out. But basically it was inspired by the success that
you had leading where we put it on one teacher rather than a
curriculum, and you teach this, you teach this, you know, put the
whole thing on one teacher and let those people be like his disciples
in that subject. And that's exactly what's working. People
love it, and the teachers in control of the whole thing, and
that's what happens. So, JazakAllah, thank you for coming
on. We will be seeing you again regularly. Sheik Mahdi lock is a
regular guest on the nothing but facts live stream, always coming
with many wisdoms coming with a lot of benefit. So JazakAllah, and
may Allah give it to fiat in your trip in Toronto. Inshallah, it's
going to be a great trip if you're there in Toronto. Mississauga, hop
over there and attend these classes and these lectures. Does
that
allow it?
All right? Well done. Yeah. Let's take a look at farI. Faria, a
Siddiq. She says, Does having emotional outbursts mean that you
failed the test that Allah gave you? It doesn't necessarily mean
you failed, and I'll tell you why. It could be that you're just weak.
What's the reason if you uttered words that insult Allah and His
Messenger or question Allah's will?
You question God's attribute. You're questioning God. Why is
this? If you utter those words,
then you must repent from that.
But if you merely are suffering so badly, you have a little outburst,
but you didn't say anything haram,
you may be through something, just cried, screamed, yelled and
complained.
We don't say that you failed. You say that you're weak. There's a
big difference between failing and being weak. Sinning and being is
very sinful for someone. Say, what? How could Allah do this to
me? Blah, blah, blah, all this Kufri words make repentance
immediately, make wudu and make ustafar, but to merely have a
breakdown and just be crying all day and yelling at anyone who's
trying to talk to you and throwing things, that means that does but
you didn't say anything of a Kufri nature, that simply means that
you're weak, not that you don't have faith or you failed the test.
This means you're weak. You need to strengthen yourself. Weakness
is not something innocent that should be accepted.
You should change your weakness. You should strengthen yourself.
How? Remembering Allah
Attila the Hun says, I'm confused. What was the justification on the
early companions fighting other empires offensively, if it was to
spread Islam, why do you have to fight them if they say no, and can
Muslims do that today? They they went and they fought those
governments that were misguiding their people. And
that was a.
Command of God,
you have a government that's misguiding the people and is not
ruling the land by God's law. They're they didn't fight those
people and tell them to convert or steal their homes. Expansion are
not all the same. Some expansion comes a with a cause or without a
cause, like either the cause is purely material, or there's a
higher level cause.
Not all expansion is just so we could take his wealth in
Islam that wouldn't be considered jihad. And that's not what the
Sahaba did. Just so I can take his wealth. No, we can't do that. The
breaths of proof in the Sharia is that if the guy says, Okay, fine,
I'll enter Islam,
whether he means it or not, you can't fight him anymore. So it's
not about taking wealth. That's the first difference.
The second difference is,
are you sucking the resources of the people for yourselves and
sending it back home? Yes or no, that will be haram in
Islam. Let's go and take all of the resource of this country and
send it back to Medina.
Number two, do you actually aggress upon the citizens?
Because here in Palestine, the British took over. They won the
war right. Ottomans lost their land. French and British divided
it all up. Britain. Britain takes Palestine. Now, the British didn't
go in there and try to move into the people's homes. So you lost a
war on the battlefield now, now you don't run your own country.
Well, you lost the war on the battlefield same time. You don't
like it, don't lose.
But the British, at the same time didn't go in the case of Palestine
knocking on homes and eventually stealing the home, killing the
people,
the Zionists came and did that. So when we look at expansion, you
have to look at a number of factors to be able to grade an
expansion
in so far as we can ascertain the facts, right. That's hard, and
it's in the first place. Ascertaining the facts is hard in
the first place, but hypothetical world where we can ascertain
facts, and in the modern times, we can ascertain more facts than in
the past. But are you expanding for a material cause or for a
higher cause?
Are you expanding?
Is there an opportunity for for peace first?
And in the Sharia, we do give an opportunity for peace, except God
as as the law giver and Muhammad as His Prophet. And we walk back,
we go back home. If not, then, then what? Then your army? Now are
the next question? Are you aggressing on citizens or not?
Army's made to fight, right? And by the way, no government has the
right to rule. So you rule because you're dominant and strong. So
let's now meet at the field and see who's stronger. You meet at
the battlefield, Army and Army fights,
and you don't aggress on the citizens. Next. Are you aggressing
on the nature of the land?
That's another thing. Are you now destroying our our trees,
destroying our nature, destroying our physical country? That's yet
another question. So you see that there can be
an expansion. Will happen either way. No one, anyone who's denying
that expansion is gonna it's gonna happen. It's like men are going to
seek women. If you don't legislate marriage, and you say it's
immoral, it doesn't make a difference. It will happen either
way. So therefore some it has to be legislated. There has to be a
way for it to happen. Men will seek to get rich.
You cannot be like Christianity. Try to be a monk and own nothing
and never touch a woman. This is like so against nature. And the
results of that is, look what they do at the end of the day, a
disease grew into that group of people, and they're going after
boys, right?
If you forbid something that's natural, you get a worse result.
You
get a worse result. So you can't forbid what's natural. It
naturally will happen. Competent nations will take other competent
nations. If I run a bakery, a bakery, and I'm so successful, and
my books are kept so perfectly, and my product is coming off the
shelf, and I have no waste at all, very quickly I will buy out the
next Baker. The question is, how do I do it? Am I going to do this
mercifully,
or am I going to do it aggressively? Am I going to scar
his family for life? You know? JD, Rockefeller is not as evil as
people try to make him out to be. He used to go to a guy oil
refinery in Ohio, and you say to them, Listen,
I've done the math. In two years, you'll be out of business. In two
years, all of your customers will come to
me. So you have an option. I buy you out now I make you a manager
and give you a salary greater than what you're making right now. The
smart one said yes, the stubborn one said no, and went out of
business now that you.
Into war with me,
and I just did better. I'm more efficient. My costs are lower.
You're out of business now I'm not obligated to help you anymore. I
gave you the chance the first time.
I almost like stole a page from Sharia, right?
But point being is that
not all expansions are the same, and what's happening with the
Zionists and Israelis is something that when you're shoving a group
of people into a a piece of land and with no representation and no
rights, that's the next question we have to ask. Once you do
conquer, do those people you conquer? What are their rights?
Are they afforded any rights?
Well, in Islam, your afforded rights.
We have to defend you.
You have hakuq. You have rights.
When you think about
expansion, you have to break it down into all these pieces and ask
yourself,
what is the nature of this expansion?
And just the fact that some people don't like that to be conquered,
or that their government was conquered. You weren't conquered.
No one touched you. Your government was conquered. You
don't like the fact not everything about life is going to be nice and
fuzzy, right? That doesn't make it something that we're going to do
or not. Do? You don't like the fact that my the Romans were
kicked out of Egypt,
right? The regular Egyptian citizen wasn't touched. The
regular person living in Syria and Egypt in Arab, he wasn't touched.
He doesn't like that fact that his government lost. Well, don't lose
then, right? Your government lost. They faced off at the battlefield.
They faced off in these famous epic battles, and they lost,
right? And you had a chance not to have any fight at all. Aslim
Tesla, just say, La ILA. If that Governor, just their ruler, just
said, Muslim arm would have to walk right back. We can't say, Oh,
you didn't mean it. Can't say that, right?
So you lost.
But was the land destroyed? Were the citizens aggressed upon? Were
they forced to do anything? Were their homes stolen? Were their
resources sucked out and sent to Medina?
These are the questions that you ask.
Were there citizens given were there citizens given rights? Yeah,
you're given rights. You have a Vimy status. Even when they went
to India,
they gave him, they gave him the VIM, a status. What are you going
to do with all these Hindus, right and pagans?
They gave him the status,
they treated him Asmaa.
So those are the questions before you simply say that, Oh, everyone
expands? Yeah, everyone explains, but not the same way,
not in the same way. Ladies and gentlemen, we gotta go. A lot of
good questions. Subhan, Allah, Huma, Hamdi, Kana, Shadow Insan.
Allah, fears, whatever. Sobel Haq, what about sobh SABR? Was Salaam
Alaikum Rahmatullah?
God today,