Shadee Elmasry – Ingredients of a Good Kid Pt 2 – NBF 422

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The conversation covers various conspiracy theories related to the death of Islam, including the importance of remembering rules and finding a partner. The negative impact of living in remote regions on one's health and behavior is emphasized, along with the importance of avoiding harm and "open-ended" behavior. The guest from the New York Times discusses the importance of avoiding false rumors and accusations in marriage, and mentions the history of the Bible and the importance of avoiding false rumors and accusations.
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Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem, alhamdulillah, wassalatu wassalamu
ala rasulullah wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa
man wala.
Welcome everybody to the Safina Sa'adi nothing
but facts live stream on a Thursday in
the month of January and we're headed to
the, basically we're in the last month of
January, sorry last Thursday of January and we
have Omar out and we have Taimur in.
Taimur is in taking his debut and he's
on his debut and we're a bit late
today but Taimur is under center today, right?
It's American term, non-Americans won't get that,
they don't understand what that means but what
do you, how crazy is this, how insane
is this crash, right?
Let's read a little bit about that, it's
not like affairs of the ummah but it
is pretty weird because if you're a Blackhawk,
if you're flying a Blackhawk helicopter then you
are really good at flying helicopters, right?
You're like in the NFL of driving helicopters.
So how it is exactly did you miss
seeing this plane and that's where all the
conspiracy theories are going to start but if
you're in England I'm sure you heard about
this too.
So a passenger jet and a Blackhawk helicopter
collided in the middle of the air and
they crashed down into the river.
So Reagan International Airport in Washington DC, the
takeoff of the plane, the tarmac, the runway
basically, literally is at the edge of the
Potomac River and so anything that takes off
like right away it's be over the river
and then this this army helicopter, okay, the
H-60 Sikorsky just smashed right into the
side of it.
That's very suspicious.
Let's just look at it from a common
sense standpoint.
When you're flying a military Blackhawk helicopter you
are in the professionals, you are a professional,
you're in the NFL of flying choppers, right?
You know exactly that you're in an area
that has passenger flights, okay?
How are you hitting another plane, right?
All of us were looking from 10,000,
5,000 feet, 10,000 feet, 30,000
feet, we see a plane.
You're up right there.
How did you miss it?
Shay ajib, okay.
This definitely deserves a Shay ajib.
Hey, Timur, put your mic on.
What are your thoughts on this?
Yes, that's definitely true.
That's definitely true.
Well, the whole Russian skating team is shaken
up, beyond shaken up, devastated.
Devastated because they lost a lot of skaters.
You know, they're huge in figure skating.
They're the best in the world, right?
It's a clear night.
I don't know.
I mean, well, definitely the conspiracies are going
to move.
Hey, could you move one of those tabs
over so I could see what the YouTube
screen looks like?
Yeah, move that one over so I could
see.
No, no, over so I could see it.
Yeah, but no, other side so I could
see the comments too.
27 people have been killed, have been recovered
so far.
Sorry, I've been recovered.
There are no survivors in this thing.
You know that?
Terrible.
And this is coming from Wichita, Kansas to
DC, and the figure skaters were six in
total.
They were all among the victims, all killed.
So, Naumov and Cheshkova, husband and wife figure
skaters who won the 94 Olympics, were the
coaches now.
And they had a son, Maxim Naumanov, who
is a competitive skater.
And the Kremlin has released, confirmed that they
have passed away.
And then there was Asra Hussein Raza.
She had recently relocated to DC for a
consulting position and was traveling home from a
work trip.
So, I guess this is going to Wichita,
Kansas.
Her father Hashim Raza informed CBS.
She's a graduate of the University of Indiana
and Columbia University.
May Allah have mercy upon her.
Four members of Maryland-based labor unions passed
away, were killed.
And so, let's take a look at some
of the other things that people are saying
about this insanity.
Check this out.
All right, so let's go to Max Blumenthal,
famous journalist.
He says that the VH-60 Blackhawk military
helicopter blindsided the AA flight, seeing reports everywhere
that its transponder was off as it headed
into a heavy flight path.
This is completely outrageous.
And you can see the footage.
Have you seen the footage of it?
Yeah, you basically just see a bunch of
planes flying and then you see the explosion.
Because there's a lot of planes moving at
the same time, the airport's right there.
And then you see, oh wow, what footage
is this?
Insane.
You literally just see a little light flying
into a big light and smashing it.
The military aircraft was not broadcasting ADS-B.
It was not broadcast.
All this is going to feed into the
different theories.
These are all pieces of evidence that are
going to feed into different theories.
It was not in contact with the tower.
If this happened in Russia, people would call
it a political assassination.
The army says it was a training flight.
Wait, you're going to train people in the
middle of the night with passenger helicopters?
No, sorry, passenger planes?
Let's take a look at this other.
The Black Hawk had actually flew into near
other planes too.
So first it had a near crash and
then it swooped around.
It had a second near crash and then
it swooped again and it hit, finally hit
on the third try.
The airplane was on a perfect and routine
line of approach to the airport.
Yeah, so I'm confused.
Was it going to Wichita?
That's irrelevant, I guess.
The helicopter was going in a straight at
the airplane for an extended period of time.
It was a clear night.
The lights on the plane were blazing.
The helicopter, why didn't the helicopter go up
down?
This is Trump, by the way, or turn.
Why didn't the control tower tell the helicopter
what to do instead of asking if they
saw the plane?
This is a bad situation that looks like
it should have been prevented.
So this is suspicious.
At the very least, very suspicious.
Because as I said earlier, could you imagine
a NASCAR race driver, right?
When you're flying a military Black Hawk jet,
or helicopter, you are a NASCAR driver of
helicopters.
You're that good at flying helicopters.
So tell me exactly how we're supposed to
believe the guy, oh, oh, I didn't see
a plane which is this big.
Yeah, that airspace you avoided in the beginning.
But secondly, how much airspace is below you
and above you?
It's not like, oh, I got stuck between
four different planes.
No, above you and below you, right?
Someone on that that helicopter is definitely, yeah,
definitely, no doubt about that.
There's no doubt about that.
I wonder if who was on the helicopter?
That's the question.
Why don't you look that up and see
who was in the helicopter when it crashed?
The chopper.
Anyway, let's get to RTFC and what are
you going to do?
And it's just more fodder for conspiracy theories.
And that's going to be in the new,
the, it's going to be all conspiracy.
Then in about six months, there's going to
be a Netflix thingy on the conspiracy and
you're just never going to know the truth.
That's how it is in this world that
we live in.
How, yeah, when you get somebody, when you
find information that's unique and interesting, let us
know.
It's not like we're going to break the
news here, but it is an interesting discussion.
I mean, it's very far off to believe
that they just accidentally crashed.
Let's go to, again, Surah Luqman.
Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.
And let's move to the, as they say,
the times to the eternals.
The times, contemporary worldly news, to the eternals,
which is the Tafsir.
So, what are the ingredients of a good
son?
Number one, he said it's Tawheed.
And Tawheed, to make clear, certain terms are
universal catch.
They catch all the meanings.
So Tawheed does not just mean to believe
in one God.
It implies also Nubuwwah.
Prophethood.
Someone who was just asking about the difference
between Kufr and Shirk.
So, linguistically, just in language, Shirk is to
share something, to associate something.
So, we can have a company, I have
50 percent, you have 50 percent.
So, that's a Sharika.
So, the root there has to do with
sharing.
And Kufr has to do with covering up.
So, that's the linguistic meaning.
In theology, Kufr has to do with rejecting
something that is necessary for us to believe.
And Shirk has to do with adding something
that is solely for Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala, another deity that exists, or an attribute
that is solely belongs to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala and you attribute it to somebody
else.
But when these words are used by themselves,
then they mean all forms of Kufr.
As long as it says Shirk, it means
all forms of Kufr.
As long as it says Kufr, it includes
everything.
For example, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala states
in the Quran, Allah does not forgive
Shirk.
So, does that mean He forgives Kufr?
No.
In this case, it means all forms of
disbelief, in Allah and in the Prophet, because
someone may ask a fair question.
Iblis does not deny the existence of Allah,
and he does not worship another god.
So, the answer to that is that Shirk
and Kufr here, it includes the rejection of
Prophethood.
That's what it is, the rejection of Nubuwwah.
And that's part of it.
So, you could say, okay, I believe in
Allah, I believe in the Prophet, but I
don't believe in the Day of Judgment.
Not acceptable.
So, you have to believe in everything that
Allah brought to us in the Quran and
in the Prophet.
And in his Hadith, in general.
Meaning, or I shouldn't say in general, because
that's not what it is.
It's actually for your Islam to be sound,
everything that Allah and his messenger revealed that
have come down to us through Tawatur, undoubted
transmission.
And anything that Allah and his messenger brought
to us that has reached us through non
-Mutawatir sound chains, in that case, that formulates
Ahl al-Sunnah.
The proper and correct belief.
So, you can be a Muslim with wrong
beliefs.
If you reject those.
So, Iblis is also a Kafir for rejecting
the Prophet.
And his rejection is Adam and all of
the Prophets after that.
He is a Kafir with all the Prophets.
Someone believes in all the Prophets, like the
Bani Israel, except the last one that they
received, Isa ibn Maryam.
Kafir as well.
So, the words Kufr and Shirk refer to
everything that would remove you outside of Islam.
So, that's the meaning of La Tushrik Billah.
La Tushrik Billah, don't make Shirk so I
can make Kufr.
Of course not.
So, Shirk here includes every form of disbelief.
After Iman is sound, how do you strengthen
that Iman?
And how do you, in fact, bring it
into fruition?
Is with Salah.
So, this is why the second thing that
he says here is Salah.
And Salah, you cannot take it lightly.
There are ways in which Salah can be
made easy.
And the way that Salah is made easy
is you realize how much you have to
gain from Salah.
After every Salah, there is a gift.
You pray properly, you get a gift.
And that gift is you get to put
your hands up and what you ask for,
Allah Ta'ala grants it for you.
Which Dua is heard most?
Prophet ﷺ said, And therefore, if your Salah
is done in Jama'ah, it's better.
If it's done in the Masjid, it's better.
If it's done in Jama'ah in the
Masjid, when the Imam prays, it's better.
Dua be stronger.
If your Ikhlas and Khushu'a was stronger,
if your Wudu' was better, Wudu' is oftentimes
the herald of how your Salah will be.
If a Wudu' is done sloppily, with no
paying attention.
Many people, they maybe have never been taught
this.
Wudu' should be done with the thought that
my sins are being removed.
The sins I did with my hand.
I'm being purified.
And Wudu' should be done, it is an
Ibadah by itself.
It should be done as an act of
Ibadah.
And keep in mind, as you make your
Wudu' is as your Salah will be.
Sloppiness, rushing, wasting water, dirtiness, that Salah will
maybe be affected by the state of your
heart.
You enter into something sloppy and rushing, you're
not going to have good results.
But you enter into Salah having done a
Yuhsinul Wudu'.
The Prophet ﷺ said Yuhsinul Wudu'.
Make a good Wudu'.
Slow.
Not use a lot of water.
Don't waste.
Don't splash it around, because that's part of
waste.
The Prophet ﷺ said if you're at the
tip of the ocean, don't waste the water.
It's an ethic.
Wasting is an ethic.
It's not an actual waste that's happening, because
you can't waste water at the tip of
the ocean.
You physically cannot even waste it.
So the Prophet ﷺ said that to show
that it's an ethic.
And then you enter into your Salah.
So there's a lot of factors to make
the Salah better.
This is the most important speech, you know
that SubhanAllah.
The Kalam, meaning talk about Salah, is the
most important discussion.
Because Sayyidina Umar said whoever loses or wastes
or is sloppy in his Salah, he will
be more wasteful than everything else.
If you lose your Salah, in anything else
you'll be worse.
Sayyidina Umar used to fire governors he hired
if he saw they're sloppy in Salah.
They don't come on time.
They don't show up.
This is the most important subject matter.
And people, they like to do something that
they have something to gain from.
And Allah ﷻ, multiple times throughout the whole
Salah, all of it is for us.
And in one Hadith, half of it is
for Allah and half is for you.
Meaning, like everything is for you.
After everything that you do, you get yourself
a Dua.
Let's take it from the top.
From the Adhan, the Dua after Adhan is
Masmuh.
The Dua after Adhan is heard.
Any Dua between Adhan and Iqamah is heard.
Then the Iqamah, then Fatiha.
And here the Prophet ﷺ narrates Hadith Qudsi,
I split the whole Salah between me and
my Abdi.
And here Allah uses the word Salah to
intend Fatiha.
He says, these are praises of Allah.
Then your commitment to worship.
Now you get what you asked for.
So after Fatiha, just reciting Fatiha and if
it's an Imam listening to Fatiha, you have
earned yourself the right to ask your Creator.
Because what is the bond between and the
relationship between Creator and creation?
Creator is worthy of worship and creation has
the right to ask his Creator for his
bounty.
That's our relationship.
That's our relationship.
And then he said, you're nearest to your
Lord in Sujood and if you have a
need from your Lord, take it to the
Sajdah because it was very likely to be
answered.
So we talked about after Adhan, between Adhan
and Iqamah.
After Fatiha, in Sujood.
And then at the end of the obligatory
prayer.
What does that mean?
Does it mean before Salam or at the
end of the prayer, inside the prayer or
at the end of the prayer, after the
prayer?
And so the ulama said, well linguistically both
could apply.
So therefore they said both.
If the Imam elongates the Tashahud and you're
finished, then you make your own personal Dua.
And if you finish Salah completely after the
Salam, then you make your Dua.
So the entire process from Adhan to Salam
is a small piece of Ibadah, then you
get a prayer for yourself.
Another small piece of Ibadah, then a prayer.
It's 50-50.
For the entire time, the whole thing.
So a person should make their Salah excellent.
If you want your Dua answered, look at
Sayyidina Zakariya.
When did he get his Ijabah?
The angels called onto him while he is
standing in the Mihrab.
When we make Dua in Sajdah, according to
Maliki Madhab, it can be in any language.
And it can be in your heart too.
Allah knows what's in your heart.
Not the Hanafites.
Yeah, not the Hanafites.
Right?
I honestly find it a strange thing to
deny the ability to make Dua in the
Fard.
Because the Fard is the greatest Salah.
Allah loves the Fard more than He loves
the Nafl.
You feel then at that point, you may
feel, let me get the Fard over with
so I can make Dua.
That's what many people may say to themselves.
But nonetheless, we have to respect the opinion.
That's the Hanafi opinion.
There's limits on the language and the content
of the Dua in the Hanafi school.
Is your mic on?
My question is that if you are making
up Salah from years that you have not
made it and let's say you decide to
make Dua for the days and you make
it up in 100 times, do you still
get the reward for Tahajjud?
Inshallah you do.
Inshallah that's going to be for sure a
greater reward, no doubt about that.
No doubt about that.
What is the ruling in the Shafi'i
method?
No, I never heard that the Shafi'i
disallowed Dua of worldly things.
So the issue with the Hanaf is Dua
is in Arabic, number one, but number two,
you do not ask what you could ask
a human.
So you ask only what you can ask
Allah Ta'ala.
And we'll let the Hanafis take over the
explanation of that.
I don't think the Shafi'i have that
last part, but I won't speak on their
behalf.
So, Salah, by learning how much you have
to gain, you will love it.
I love myself and we're all selfish, all
of us.
Very few of us have reached the point,
I want to give, I have pure love
and that's it.
No, we're all selfish, we all want something,
we're all afraid of something, we need protection
from something.
Salah is your outlet, the whole thing.
And that's why those who know, they don't
seek out the prayer or the Iqamah, they
seek out the Adhan.
And they want to attend the Adhan.
Because once you attend the Adhan, and you're
right there, and you repeat after the Mu
'adhin, except for, حَيَّ عَلَى الصَّلَاءِ فَلَا هُوُ
يُسَيْلَ حَوْلَ وَلَقُوتِهِ لِبِاللَّهِ And then you recite
Salah on the Messenger, peace be upon him,
as he commanded us to after the Adhan.
And then you recite the Dua of اللهم
رَبَّ هَذِهِ الدَّعَوةِ التَّمَّ وَالصَّلَاةِ الْقَائِمَةِ At that
point, the doors are open for you, for
the heavens.
It's like you've typed in the Wi-Fi
password.
And now I could type what I want.
The same thing, you unlock the phone.
By mere virtue of I hit some buttons
on a glass case, now I could do
stuff.
But if I click one side button, I
can't do anything.
Who made those rules?
That's just how Allah created things.
And we discovered them like that.
And we made inventions like that.
Well, Allah Ta'ala also has His Sunnah,
His ways.
If you have Wudu, you listen to the
Adhan, you follow the Adhan, you recite this
prayer, you recite this prayer.
It's no different than hitting passcode on a
button, on a phone.
You've opened the passcode.
Now the doors of heaven are open for
you, and now you make your Dua.
And anyone who comes behind you at that
point, and hey, he did all the work,
yes, but I'll sneak in with him.
And put my hand with your hand and
make my Dua next to you.
They'll be answered too.
It's like somebody's...
we used to do this when I was...
when we were young, if the ambulance was
going to the hospital, you put your blinkers
on and you drive behind the ambulance, right?
And they don't got time to worry about
you.
And you're skipping all the...
and everyone's, oh, watch this guy, he must
be with them in the ambulance, right?
People do that stuff, right?
Well, there is a little bit of that
in the Deen as well.
Why are Khitams of Quran special?
The person who does the Khatam receives 70
,000 Malaika saying Ameen to his prayer.
So people attend the Khatam.
They may not have recited anything, and they
ask me, okay, I didn't recite the Quran,
so why should I attend the Khatam?
He said, because there's 70,000 angels are
there.
You can thank that person who did the
Khatam, and yours will come.
And what's the proof of that?
It's Sayyidina Ibn Mas'ud.
He used to recite the whole Quran, and
then right when he got to the last
few Surahs, he would wait.
Then he would gather a whole family, and
recite the last few Surahs, and make a
long Dua.
And everyone will make their Dua, because now
they're part of that gathering.
They're part of it.
And their Dua will go up with them.
What's the difference?
The difference is he's at an elevated rank.
The one who actually did the work is
the one that they owe the gratitude to,
when he doesn't owe them anything, right?
They owe him gratitude.
Because of your efforts, the doors of the
heavens opened.
So when you look at Salah in that
fashion, in that approach, everything I want is
going to be found in Salah.
And that essentially summarizes the relationship between creator
and creation.
Creator makes you.
What do you owe him?
Worship.
And what privilege do you get as being
his creation?
I ask him what I want.
Shaykh Rajab ad-Deeb used to always say
in his classes in Syria, may Allah have
mercy upon him and grant him Jannat al
-Firdos, for all the lessons that he gave,
and he was very famous.
And of course there were many, many ulema
who are not famous, including he has a
brother.
They say that he was the hidden version.
But Shaykh Rajab ad-Deeb used to say,
emphasize.
When you make dua, you ask Allah anything
that enters your mind.
Someone is saying, can I make dua to
return to my ex-spouse, ex-wife or
ex-husband?
Of course you can.
Who's going to stop you?
By anything that comes across your mind.
Anything that comes across your mind.
That's your creator.
If you don't ask him, who are you
going to ask?
And certain things.
He, Sayyidina Zakariya, what was his prayer?
He made his dua a silent one.
Ulema said, why is the dua of Zakariya
silent?
The dua itself would offend certain people.
The dua itself was for an heir.
And he had people.
He had people in his tribe.
He had students.
He had students.
Now, if I'm like, you got a cameraman
here.
And I said, hey everyone, let's make dua
that Allah gives us a good cameraman.
That offends you, right?
And you'd be hurt by that.
You'd be severely offended.
You'd be severely offended.
So imagine now, you have a prophet.
And he knows none of his students, none
of his nephews, none of the lineage, nobody
can carry the load.
Nobody can carry the load.
They're going to be extremely hurt.
Because that's just not a fallible person's opinion.
That's a prophet's opinion.
And the prophet's opinion is a correct opinion.
Because prophets have fatahna.
You must believe prophets have the highest level
of intellect.
Fatahna.
They possess.
So that's why Sayyidina Zakariya, he called on
his Lord a silent prayer.
He pray out loud with the gathering with
one thing.
But this one, he had to keep it
private.
Because it's extremely offensive and extremely hurtful to
those people.
But it's the truth, right?
It's the truth.
And he asked for someone to inherit him.
He was not even asking for a prophet.
He was asking for a son that can
inherit this work that I'm doing.
And Allah Ta'ala gave him more than
what he asked.
You ask for a good inheritor.
Allah gave you a prophet.
It made him a nabi, Sayyidina Yahya.
So sometimes the dua that you make may
be offensive to somebody.
But you're allowed to do it.
That's your Lord, your creator.
You can ask him what you wish.
Within the boundaries of anyone with common sense.
Such as asking for haram.
Asking for the haram to become halal.
Or asking to ruin somebody, right?
Now, you're not responsible for what may indirectly
ruin somebody.
Oh Allah, I want to buy this house.
Yeah, ten other guys want to buy that
house.
If Allah answers you, then nine guys get
rejected.
You don't have to worry about that.
Because if you did, we don't want to
make dua for anything, right?
We wouldn't make dua.
Oh Allah, let me marry her.
Okay, four or five other guys want to
marry her too, right?
And that may be a punishment for her
to marry you, right?
So, we don't have to worry about indirect
harms.
We're just not allowed to ask for direct
harm to somebody.
In our prayers and in our dua.
So if a person...
What are the preconditions of your prayer being
answered?
Is you have to have absolute certainty.
Not only that Allah hears the dua, that
He will answer it.
And number two, you have to have patience.
The timing is not yours.
What you get is to believe that Allah
will answer you.
What you don't get is to decide the
timing.
It's a fair deal.
That is a fair deal.
Number three, your precondition is to be absolutely
certain.
Or that your food and your wealth is
lawful.
All right, so the next thing he says
is you have to be good to your
parents.
And if a person excels in salah and
studies salah and studies the meanings of salah
and doesn't only do something that we have,
which is a very bad habit that a
lot of us do, that we recite only
a few small effortless chapters of the Quran
in our salah.
And that's a problem.
That is showing a little bit of disrespect,
lack of concern for salah.
But then when we pray with people, we
review, who are we praying for, right?
When we pray with people.
However, it's not unlawful to beautify your voice
in salah.
Because there are others.
Let's say you're praying in front of 500
people as the imam.
It's not unlawful to beautify your voice for
that.
Because there was a time where the Prophet
ﷺ prayed, came behind a Sahabi, joined his
prayer, and that Sahabi said, O Messenger, I
beautified my salah for you.
So that is lawful.
But what is discouraged is for a person
to not put effort when they're praying alone
and only recite the small surahs.
That's also discouraged.
And this is not polite.
It's not respectful.
It's not anything good.
The third thing he says is being good
to your parents.
If you're good at salah, you will be
eventually good at everything else.
That's the thing, all right?
You will be good at everything else afterwards.
And bir al-walidayn, it comes in the
form of being good to them in things
that you both agree upon.
And that's the key.
Especially as you grow older, you start having
your own opinions.
So, see, what do you agree upon?
And go there.
And it is unlawful to argue back against
your parents, to give them a headache, to
disobey them in worldly matters.
They say, clean the kitchen.
You say, it's not in the religion for
that I have to clean the kitchen.
No, you see, you do, right?
It's not fard for me to clean the
kitchen at this hour.
Yes, it is.
If I ask you to, it becomes fard,
right?
So, it becomes fard to obey them.
And then it becomes fard to disobey them
if they command you to haram or they
disallow you to do an obligation, all right?
So, all those matters of the bir al
-walidayn really are summarized in a book by
Shaykh Ramin Sur.
Can you get the book and also get
the YouTube playlist?
Why don't you look that up and stick
it in the comment section?
It's called, yeah, Dutifulness.
There's different books.
Yeah, go to that one.
See if that one's Shaykh Ramin Sur's book.
Is it?
No, it's not.
Okay, go back.
I mean, that's probably a good book too,
but it's called The Rights of Parents.
That's what it is.
Type in The Rights of Parents by Shaykh
Ramin Sur.
Yeah, The Rights of Parents.
People should read this book.
Shaykh Ramin Sur's book.
There it is.
That one, that brown one or that green
one, whatever it's called.
Yeah, that one, The Rights of Parents.
If you are good to your parents, you
will have gained so many good qualities that
will be useful for you forever after that.
Patience.
Forbearance.
Your elasticity for sabr will be strong.
What happens next?
When you get married and have your own
kids, you'll be very good to them as
well.
But when you marry and have your own
children, your patience has been stretched.
You'll be very patient with your wife, your
husband, and your kids, and your in-laws.
And that patience is what's going to give
you a good life.
The result of fasad, what ruins everything, is
rushing, having no patience.
And what did the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
say on the Day of Judgment?
He saw in the Mi'raj, he saw
that a bull bursts out of a small
hole.
Jibreel explained to him, that's a person who
utters a word, and then the bull tries
to get back into the hole, but it
can't.
It's a tiny little hole.
He said, that is a person who utters
a word that is so bad and so
huge, but he can never take it back.
It came out of your mouth.
You can't ever put it back.
Money, I could steal from somebody.
I could go steal from my parents' bank
accounts, which I have access to.
I still take $2,000, I'll put it
back, right?
No foul there, right?
But words can never take them back.
So, birr al-walidayn, being dutiful to your
parents, it gives you sabr, makes you have
sabr.
Also, it lets you mess up, because your
parents will forgive you more than anybody else.
So, by having that between the age of,
let's say, 10 and 20, those are the
main years that a person spends with their
parent.
Maybe you can extend it to 24, 25,
but those are the main years, right?
Where you're a young adult.
When you screw up, this is practice, because
your parents are going to forgive you.
So, you need that practice to realize, oh
shoot, I messed up when I was young
there, I'm not going to mess up later.
And that's why people who don't have parents,
they don't get this chance to screw up
and have a parent forgive them.
It's one of the values.
So, if you have somebody who believes properly,
he prays, he's good to his parents, everything
else will be easily good for him afterwards.
So, the next thing he points to in
this series of verses, in Jahadah, he tells
us over there, what, وَاتَّبَعْ سَبِيلَ مِنْ أَنَابَ
إِلَيَّ You don't just live with your parents.
We're going from being with my creator to
being with my parents.
It keeps expanding, you see?
I don't just live with my parents, I
live with other people.
Well, which people should I live with?
He says here, وَاتَّبَعْ سَبِيلَ مِنْ أَنَابَ إِلَيَّ
Follow the people who are seeking me.
المنيب is the person always seeking his creator.
Constantly, non-stop.
Non-stop.
All day and every day, that's all they
do.
Their dhikr of Allah Ta'ala is in
every deed that they do.
Every deed they do, they're remembering Allah Ta
'ala.
That's number, we said, توحيد صلاة بر الوالدين
Good sohbah, having good friends.
And having mentors outside the house.
You want to have a good kid?
You cannot be the only mentor as a
dad.
You need support.
And that's why when they say, it takes
a village to raise a man.
Because the dad, every kid looks at his
dad in a different way.
It's love-hate.
Why is it a love-hate?
Because my dad, of course, every child grows
up, he adores his dad.
Until the kid does something bad and the
dad has to yell at him.
And dad gets upset at him.
So now he, or his dad deprives him.
I want to go out with my friends.
No, you can't be.
You can't go.
You got to stay home and study.
I want to go out with my friend.
No, you can't go with that person.
He's not good.
So the kid starts to hate his parents
at some point.
It's a love-hate because the parent has
to stop them from doing things.
And the parent who doesn't want to do
that is a dumb parent.
The parent who wants to be loved and
puts that over benefit is not a good
parent.
So they spoil them.
Let them do whatever they want.
Let them talk back.
Never say it because I don't want to
upset them.
But you've produced a child who's like a
headache for everybody.
Everyone will hate this kid.
And they are hated.
And I see right away, I can tell
right away, probably I can guess 50%, maybe
80%.
When I interact with a youth, I could
tell you what his upbringing was like.
When I see like a very respectful youth,
there's no doubt about there's a very straight
shooting parent in that household.
Guaranteed.
Right?
Guaranteed.
There's a straight shooting dad or mom, probably
dad in this household who will flip out
if you show an elder disrespect.
No doubt about it.
Right?
You can see it.
It's no different if I go to a
baseball field or let's use a sport that
the British people know.
If I go to a football pitch and
I see a guy hitting every corner, right?
From the 18, from behind the 18, every
shot he hits the corners.
And another guy is toe balling it and
it's going off the goal, above the goal,
to the side of the goal.
Which one was coached?
It's a no brainer, right?
So it takes a village to raise a
man is a great saying.
It's an ancient, one of those ancient sayings
because you view your dad differently from another
perspective.
You see them in private.
You see your dad in his PJs.
You see your dad coughing and sneezing.
You see your dad rolling around the couch,
the bed, you know, coming in at the
end of the day.
You don't view him as, right?
Like somebody that I got to listen to
every word he's saying.
You're almost so saturated with him that there's
no sanctity there, right?
There's a sanctity of respect but there's no
Haba there.
Very few fathers ever maintain a Haba.
Your son just knows you as you, right?
And that's one of the reasons why if
your family testifies that you're a good person,
then you go to Jannah.
It's because they know who you are.
You can fool all the people outside.
You can't come fool your parents, your family.
They see you.
So he no longer views you as like
that.
Someone who's every word I got to listen
to of wisdom and advice and stuff.
He just views you as you.
So people need outside sources of affirmation, outside
mentors.
And where are we going to get that?
We Muslims, we get it easily from the
Masajid.
We get it very easily.
And we get it what I said earlier
a couple episodes ago.
People have to invite one another over for
dinner because that's where you see the older
brothers, the older siblings.
So you may have a family friend where
your kid is, let's say, 10.
Their kid's 14.
So he looks up to him.
Another kid's like 16.
They look up to him.
Another kid's 19.
They all look up to him.
So we're all knowing where we're headed in
life.
And we all have these elder mentors.
So when I see, when you're a kid
and you're 10 years old and you see
a kid who's 14, you always look up
to that kid.
Well, if he's being good, if he's being
polite, then it's cool to be polite.
It's not uncool.
But if he starts talking bad to his
mom, well, that's cool.
If I go to a house and a
10-year-old sees a 14-year-old
and a 17-year-old and an 18
-year-old, they're all skipping Salah, laughing and
joking, making fun of the elders, and going
to another room and doing all sorts of
stuff that's haram.
That 10-year-old kid will think that's
what's cool, right?
And he'll have a mental sort of disorder
almost.
He'll have a mental...
His mind's no longer parallel.
He's getting two different sets of values.
So that's why the best and easiest way
for someone to have a good kid is
to get good friends.
So what's the next ishara?
Remember death.
إِلَيَّ مَرْجِعُكُمْ فَأُنَبِّئُكُمْ بِمَا كُنْتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ Not just
death.
The best thing to teach in a child
when they're young, don't worry about me.
You're going to meet Allah.
Because me, I disappear.
You go into the bathroom, I leave the
house.
Why would you worry about me then, right?
To fear the parent is a very weak
form.
It's a form, no doubt about that.
But it has weaknesses.
It's a mode of ta'deeb and tarbiyah, but
it has weaknesses.
But you're going to meet your creator.
Allah is watching you.
He says here, the idea that Allah is
watching you.
يَا بُنَيَّ إِنَّا إِنْ تَكُنْ مِثْقَالَ حَبَّةٍ مِنْ
خَرْجَةٍ فَتَكُنْ فِي سَخْرَةٍ أَوْ فِي السَّمَوَاتِ أَوْ
فِي الْأَرْضِ يَتِّبِيهَا اللَّهُ You cannot hide anything
from your creator.
Absolutely nothing.
He says here, if there is a mustard
seed, a seed, and it's inside of a
rock, a rock formed around a seed, or
it's floating in the sky, or it's deep
in the earth, Allah can bring it forth.
So you cannot cheat your creator.
So the best thing to preach to children,
because you as a parent are a preacher,
you got to tell them, listen, you can
fear me, I will, I'm watching you, but
I sleep, I leave, I can't see through
walls, I can't see behind me, I'm very
limited.
If you want to fool me, you can.
It's so easy to fool another human being.
I go to the bathroom, do what I
want, close the door.
Even a parent does not open the door
on their daughter or son in the bathroom.
So you know this whole thing of, we
don't lock doors.
Okay, what if he goes to the bathroom?
Most parents, you don't lock doors, you know,
there's no such thing as having a, oh,
go in your room and lock the door.
All right, most parents don't like that, right?
All right, that's good.
But what about the bathroom?
You're a guy and you have a 15
year old girl, she gets upset, she goes
into the bathroom.
What are you going to do?
Open the door on her, right?
So even human beings easy to fool.
So you have to teach them, don't worry
about me, you can dupe me at any
time.
You can't fool Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And here he's saying, Allah sees anything.
If there is a little speck this big
floating in the sky, in the universe somewhere,
Allah will find it and bring it down.
Right?
So even the most subtle thing, He knows
it.
He's informed of everything.
There's nothing unseen for Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala.
Unseen is for us.
Unseen is for us.
Nothing unseen for Allah.
Then after he gives this, this is the
nasihah.
This right here from Sayyidina Luqman is, I
was going to say the Bible of how
to raise kids.
If we can use that as an idiom,
right, idiomatically.
It is the, all the lessons that are
the core foundation of a good kid.
He remembers death.
You're going to be asked about Allah.
And remembering death has another thing too.
Not every child is fortunate.
It's hurtful to any parent when their kid
is so far behind all the other kids
in any sphere, in intelligence, in wealth, in
looks, in anything.
It hurts the parent.
And I'm sure it hurts the person itself,
obviously.
The person themselves.
But here Allah says, thumma ilayya marji'ukum.
Allah reminds you, you're coming back to me.
And all these forms by which you measure
each other, every single factor in life, we're
all different.
Allah Ta'ala has done that so that
it's A, it's a test, and also so
that we can benefit each other.
Right?
Taqida ba'dukum ba'dan sukhriya.
Sukhriya here doesn't mean making fun of it.
It means to use one another.
You're really smart.
You got into medical school.
I'm sick.
Right?
I'm not that smart, but I could do
business and I can deal with people and
I can make money in another way.
I get sick, you treat me.
Okay?
So that's how it works.
You're a doctor.
You're too busy with your kid.
Send him over to me.
I'll teach him the deen.
So there's not a single positive in life,
except that it has a negative with it
too.
Right?
So we all fill each other's negative space.
That's why the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
said, People are by people.
People help people.
People fill in the blanks of other people.
And also the limited people are important too.
Every single successful operation has a cast.
You got 1% genius free thinkers.
But those genius free thinkers can't work by
themselves.
Well, the military.
You got 1 general at the top.
There's only 1.
But how many infantry?
He can't operate without all the infantry and
then all the people in the middle.
So it relieves the bitterness, the tough reality
and the facts that you will never be
as good as so-and-so in this
factor.
It relieves it.
Okay, so what?
That's the answer of a mu'min.
And it's only khayr to dunya.
It's almost like getting to an airplane terminal,
getting to your gate when you're going on
a flight.
And at the gate, there's a nice seat
with plenty of leg space and looking right
out the glass, right out in the tarmac.
Then there's another seat that's crammed and there's
4 people sitting around me and there's people
in front of me, which is always annoying.
I don't want to have to look at
somebody or have someone looking at me.
It's a terrible seat in the gate, right?
And another guy's got a wonderful seat.
He's right next to the announcer.
You know, the gate person that says when
you're boarding.
He's right next to the door.
He's looking out the window, right?
He's got leg space.
Nobody's staring at him.
And then that guy turns around to you
and says, look at you.
You got a terrible seat.
Who cares?
We're at the gate.
This is nothing.
Being at the gate of the airport is
literally nothing.
Who cares, right?
So likewise, this hayat al-dunya is that
way.
Somebody who is better than you, you're worse
than them.
They have it and you don't.
Don't ever have envy or hasra.
Hasra is like despair feeling.
I can't tell you how many teenage girls,
they get this more than anybody else.
And that's why they're talked about.
The comparison that they do to each other,
it kills.
They're killing each other.
So they feel miserable on the inside.
Part of your job as a parent is
to remove that.
That's more important than food.
I'm telling you it's more important than food.
They ask, is this Sunni Islam?
Yes, it is.
It's 10 times more important than food.
Would you rather have no feeling of being
less than anybody or would you rather have
a full stomach?
Food is always around, right?
But the real achievement, the real benefit and
happiness in life is to be able to
remove the feeling that I'm less than.
They have it, I don't.
I wish I had what they had.
I just can't get it.
It's one of the worst feelings in the
world.
And Allah Ta'ala cures us.
And you cannot be cured without revelation, without
prophethood telling us that this life is just
a blink of an eye.
Before you know it, before you know it,
and us here, most of us are, let's
say, between the age of 10 and 50,
right?
Because Mashallah, we have a lot of children
that attend the stream.
Before all of us know it, we will
have white hairs and grandkids will be pushing
you in a wheelchair out of a hospital
sometime.
Hey, grandpa, how was the medical appointment?
That's what's going to happen someday.
When that happens, you're going to be like,
oh my gosh, where did life go?
We literally revolving door, right?
Literally revolving door.
We don't teach a teaching like the Buddhists.
The Buddhists say to have no desires.
How do I have no desires when they're
built into the actual existence of the human
species?
Desires is what causes us, the individual, to
stay alive by eating.
And the species stay alive by mating.
Desires is part of life.
We don't say that.
We say have desires all you want.
But don't fuss about this life.
You're going to get it in the next
life.
Best thing, go to genesis.
Go to funerals.
When you go to a...
Here's the funny thing about funerals.
Take this advice.
You have to go to the...
You have to hit the right number of
funerals.
If you go to too many, it becomes
nothing.
Right?
Like I even know people who work in
the funeral business and they're not touched anymore
by funerals.
Right?
It has no impact on them anymore.
So you have to actually go to the
right amount of funerals.
Not too many, not too little.
Most of us go to too little.
So that was the part of telling them,
you're going to meet your Lord and you'll
be judged.
So on one hand, it's comforting.
On the other hand, get to work because
we're going to be judged and have some
discipline.
Right?
And you can't keep secrets from Allah.
You can keep secrets from creation, from your
parents.
You can cheat them.
You can't cheat Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
If a child, even hovering around 8, 9,
10, 11, gets a drop, a drop of
Iman that Allah is watching, you have eliminated
70% of the problems.
That's it.
Just that.
Just once that one seed falls in, you
know, you water it.
You water it with Dhikr and reminders.
Allah's watching.
Right?
And if he grows up on that, that
just becomes, it becomes like, it's just a
fallacy that we're ever alone.
You are literally never alone.
Right?
Even Sayyidina Uthman ibn Affan, it's said about
him that he used to, he used to
have such a presence of the divine watching,
of Allah watching him.
He used to take his ghusl with a
longiyan, what we call Izhar.
Now he continues.
He goes back to Salah.
Ya Abu Naya, renew.
Renew your Iman.
Go back to Salah.
And some people say Salah here means the
deen, the whole religion.
Why?
Because of the next verse, the next words
after it, command right, forbid wrong.
That means all of this so far was
just for you.
What about your responsibility to society?
You have to say to your son, you
need to be a leader.
Do not, don't be a follower.
Do not be a follower.
You got to send to your son and
daughter, you know, don't be a follower.
Be a leader.
Make us for the pious and Imam.
Make us excel in goodness so that we're
leaders in goodness.
They didn't say leaders of the tribe.
They didn't say leaders, leaders in the matter
of taqwa.
When it comes to deen, you don't, you
shouldn't want to be a common man and
a follower.
So Sayyidina Luqman is reminding his son, establish
the religion, which is really rooted in the
prayer.
So he uses the word Salah to really
mean the deen.
Command the right and forbid the wrong.
And even if you just said it, no,
it's Salah only.
Fine.
Because the next verse, the next words imply
the deen.
Command the good, forbid the wrong.
In other words, son and daughter, I need
you to be part of the dawah.
Okay.
Jamie Adams is asking about the wird.
Was it removed from the website?
Yeah, we have to put, we have to
put them back up because we shifted from
Wix to another thing because Wix was a
West Bank Israeli operation.
So we shifted all of our websites over
from Wix, which was really, to me, the
best company.
But, oh well, we're not, we're not using
them.
We're not using an Israeli company.
Simple as that.
It's the least we can do, really.
Okay.
You're going to suffer.
So at some point, we got to tell
our kids, we're gonna, you need to be
part of the dawah with us.
And we're going to suffer blowbacks.
Every, everyone who does any form of dawah
at some point or other will suffer a
blowback.
He continues this, this page of Surah Luqman.
This is why they study this for all
middle school, high schoolers age.
They should study this.
He says here, And here, he just said,
do all these religious things, don't be arrogant.
Which arrogance is he talking about?
The worst arrogance of all, spiritual arrogance.
Religious arrogance is a broad category.
It's terrible.
Within religious arrogance, there's different types.
There's religious leaders.
There's religious scholars.
And there are those who are spiritual and
they have taqwa and they're close to Allah,
and they worship Allah a lot.
So, the spiritual is the worst.
They're the worst.
But all religious arrogance.
وَلَا تُصَعِرْ خَدَّكَ لِلنَّاسِ After doing all these
wonderful religious things, you're a leader, you're doing
great in your deen, your arrogance now is
the worst form of arrogance.
The arrogance of a rich man, he could
lose his money.
He can be shown that he's ignorant.
We can call him a fasiq, right?
We can take him down.
But who's going to take down the religious
person, right?
So, that's why the religious arrogance is first.
Secondly, if a rich guy, if I go
to, let's say, New York, and the Wall
Street guys are arrogant to me, and I
go home hating Wall Street, I hate New
York, I hate these rich people, that doesn't
harm my religion.
But if I go to a masjid and
the religious people are arrogant towards me, then
I go home hating the masjid, that's far
worse.
So, I've caused that person, the arrogant person
has caused his victim to hate masjid.
If he says, I'm never going to masjid
again.
You caused that.
With your arrogance, you caused a person to
say, I'm never going to the masjid again.
So, you're one of the worst now.
You're a terrible ambassador of the Creator.
And that's why religious people have to be
very careful that you're ambassadors of the Creator.
So, how do we be humble?
Don't point your face up at people.
Don't turn away.
Don't ignore people.
Don't walk as if you're some kind of
saved being.
Walking as if you're so, you're just boastful
about yourself.
Allah does not like this arrogant walk.
He ignores people out of arrogance.
They do this in high school all the
time.
They ignore people out of arrogance.
Or he rolls his eyes and he rolls
his neck like that.
Walk humbly.
The humble person, he walks directly to his
destination.
He doesn't have to put his head up.
He doesn't see how many people are loving
me.
He doesn't sit.
No, he walks directly.
وَقْصِدْ فِي مَشِكْ وَاغْضُدْ مِنْ صَوْتِكْ Don't speak
so loudly.
Because there's a type of arrogance in that.
When you go to the British subway, the
Americans are always the loudest people.
Are you not aware that other people don't
want to hear your conversation?
This is a type of arrogance.
And don't make, don't make a big deal
out of it.
Also, loud laughter and rambunctiousness is not from
Hayaa and it's not from Mardin.
When guys get together and they get so
loud and rambunctious, this is Makrooh.
إِنَّ أَنْكَرَ الْأَصْوَاتِ لَصَوْتُ الْحَمِيرِ The most hated
noise is the noise of the donkey.
That's the question.
God creates a thing and he hates it.
Why?
He declares it's disliked.
He created it so he could know what
a disliked sound is like.
Amazing advice from Sayyidina Luqman al-Hakim.
And we'll stop there.
Let's take some QA before we wrap up.
We got a few minutes.
All right.
Can we thank Allah for past blessings that
no longer exist?
Of course, 100%.
We wouldn't exist without those blessings.
How bad is calling a Muslim a grave
worshiper?
Oh, here we go with that subject.
I already commented on istighatha many times before,
on how istighatha, when it is shirk, and
you would have to ascertain two things, a
couple things.
Number one, are they asking out of worship
or out of requesting?
As requesting.
That's the difference.
Because you can ask anybody anything.
It's not shirk.
Asking is different.
Asking out of fulfilling a need is different
from asking out of worship.
So that's number one.
Number two, are they asking something that can
only be given by Allah Ta'ala?
Number three, do they believe, and this is
really similar to number one, that the one
being asked has absolute power?
And then we could also add a fourth
one, is the mustaghath bihi, which is usually
a pious person in his grave, is that
a valid sebab?
Because if somebody were to do the same
thing, asbab, there are valid and invalid asbab,
right?
Taking asbab can be obligatory, recommended, permitted, discouraged,
forbidden.
Let's take a look at this just as
a totally separate issue.
What sebab is obligatory to take?
Sebab is a means, a means by which
to reach an end.
The sebab which is guaranteed and known, and
if it's not taken, there could be guaranteed
harm.
It becomes obligatory to take, right?
So if I'm dying of thirst, and the
water is right there, and I refuse to
drink, I kill myself.
So it's an obligation to take.
What about recommended?
Is if there's a possibility that I'm going
to die, and it's guaranteed that this is
going to give me health, then it becomes
recommended.
It's not guaranteed I'm going to die, right?
Then what's permitted?
What's permitted is, I'm not going to die,
I have a harm that will not hurt
me, and there is a sebab that may
likely will benefit me.
Like I have a headache, I can take
2 Tylenol, permitted, right?
Imam al-Ghazali has this all in, and
we studied this in Tarim actually, this chapter.
It's a nice chapter, beautiful chapter on the
asbab.
And then what's discouraged?
A sebab that has a shubha in it,
something with a shubha, right?
Different upon ingredient, right?
And what's forbidden?
It's forbidden to take a sebab that in
itself is forbidden, right?
So I can't, if I have a headache,
I can't take something that is forbidden, right?
If I'm dying of hunger, I can't take
something forbidden, like a khanzeer, if there's nothing
else, of course, right?
So, asking the deceased, is that a legitimate
sebab, yes or no?
It's mukhtalaf fihi, it's different upon.
It's different upon.
Asking an idol?
Forbidden, of course, right?
Because that's what people say.
They say, okay, you're asking, not believing the
person in the grave is actually giving you
anything.
They're the means.
Okay, can I do that with an idol?
No, you can't, because the one is different
upon, whether or not they can help you
at all, or whether or not we're allowed
to ask them for help.
That's different upon.
But the idol is agreed upon.
You can't use it for anything.
In fact, you have to throw it in
the garbage.
You're obligated, you can never use it as
a sebab, right?
In any event, this whole issue has been
beaten, and it's one of the Twitter issues.
Um, and now I'm not really going on
Twitter.
Is it fine to fast on the supposed
day of Mi'raj, or is it bida?
You can fast any day of the year
except the two Eids, but there is nothing
specific on the day of Mi'raj to
fast.
So you may fast and you may not
fast.
Is it okay to make dua so that
family back home to not move into your
home, despite advising them on the struggles of
living in the West?
You can make dua that your family finds
benefit and avoids harm.
That's the best thing to say.
What's the ruling on Quran on a rehal
being on the floor in your room?
In general, the rule of thumb for adab
is that in societies that have furnishing, as
opposed to the Bedouin, that the Quran should
not be lower than the waste.
So we divide people into the Hadhr and
the Bedouin.
The Hadhr, the people who will have furnishing,
we all have stuff, right?
Sacred books should not be lower than the
waste.
It's not a ruling.
It's just a rule of thumb of adab
that Muslims have observed.
As for the Bedouin, they don't have furnishings.
They don't have chairs.
They don't have tables.
They can put all their books on the
ground.
No problem, right?
But for us, that's the general rule of
thumb.
So if you're living in the West and
you have a nice little prayer niche, don't
put the Mus'haf on a holder on
the ground.
No, put it up somewhere.
Elevate it somewhere.
The holder you can put on the ground.
Misbah I can put on the ground.
But books of Quran and Hadith and religion,
you should try to elevate them, especially the
Quran and the books of Hadith.
Is there any way to overcome Qadr of
a content or deprived person?
First of all, I don't really understand the
question because who knows who's deprived and who's
not?
Who decides that?
No one's forcing us.
We should not look at whether or not
it's Qadr for us.
We should just look at what we have
in our control.
I can control my behavior.
I can control what I say.
And so I can start saying things that
reflect satisfaction and hopefully that'll enter into my
heart after that.
I have a pessimistic mindset.
I have negative thoughts.
All right, so you have to say positive
thoughts out loud.
That's your solution.
Say positive good things out loud.
Say them out loud every time you meet
them.
Every time you meet somebody, tell them good
things.
I'm telling you, some people you meet them,
how are you?
I'm having a terrible day.
He doesn't even realize that that's not really
a question.
Nobody's asking, how are you?
Actually asking, how are you?
It's just a word we say, right?
But even that reflects something bad.
So when someone says, how are you?
Say, everything's great.
How's everything going?
Wonderful.
If you start talking like that, you'll feel
better about yourself.
Everything will be good.
Abd al-Quddus on the Asbab.
Say a parent is missing a kidney.
His remaining kidney is failing, but his kid
is available to give his kidney, but he
doesn't want to.
The parent commands him to.
Can the child refuse?
The default setting is that the human being
was not the body of the human is
not a source of manfa'ah.
However, if someone will die, then on the
rule of benefit, overriding or darurah, overriding obligations
and prohibitions, fatwa has been given for this,
that you can take someone else's organ.
Now, can you force it is the question.
And I think that the answer, Allah alam,
we need to kick it up to a
higher court.
I'll ask my shuyukh about that.
Can a child, can a dad demand a
kidney from his son?
Can we make dua for harm against oppressors?
Yes, specifically if they're kuffar.
If they're Muslim oppressors, you should simply say,
may Allah stop their oppression.
For four years, says Rakeen Raccoon, I've tried
to stay active through swimming, soccer, research, fencing,
but I keep failing.
I feel lazy, depressed and stuck in procrastination
despite making dua for energy.
I struggle with guilts.
I want a good life, but I'm wasting
my youth.
How can I, what can I do?
Is it Allah's decree or it's my fault?
Well, anything that you have control over, then
leave decree out of it and focus only
on the control.
Of course, you have control over your behavior.
There's no doubt about that.
And maybe, possibly Rakeen Raccoon, you're trying to
do all this by yourself.
I met one time a very successful physician
who told me, I mean, this person's done
degrees, you know, these after degrees, postdoc, whatever,
all this stuff, fellowships, highly decorated physician.
And we were just chitchatting about awrad and
this person said, I can never get myself
to say awrad.
I'm like, how?
When you read Arabic and the awrad is
about seven minutes in the morning, it's five
minutes at night.
I can't do it.
For 20 years, I've been thinking to myself,
the reason, how is it?
How is it that this person is so
decorated in the field of medicine but cannot
do a five minute awrad?
When you probably studied five hours per session,
then take a lunch, then another five hours
just to take your exams.
I figured out, I think, what the reason
is.
That this individual doesn't hang out with Muslims,
doesn't have an Islamic environment.
So they're trying to do it alone.
Whereas in medical school, you walk in at
7 a.m. or 8 a.m. or
9 a.m. and there's a thousand other
people in the building.
So it's easy to do what your friend
group is doing.
The whole friend group is doing it becomes
easy to do.
Even when you have to study by yourself,
at least the next day you're talking about
it.
When you're studying, you say, okay, tomorrow I'm
going to talk to my friends about this.
Tomorrow I'm going to talk about it.
So possibly Rakeen Raccoon's issue is maybe doing
things on your own.
Whereas if you had a friend group where
everyone was doing something, you find it much
easier to do.
So I guarantee if this person was to
have a friend group where devotions like Awrad
and Qur'an and Ibadah was common in
their discussion, they all did it, they would
easily do it.
No doubt about it.
Jamie Adams says, is it permissible to profit
and live lavishly through the profits of Umrah
and religious tours?
Yes, it is.
Yes, it is.
They're doing a service, aren't they?
Right?
In fact, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said
about the one making Hajj, لَيَشْهَدُ مَنْ أَفِعَ
لَهُمْ They can go and find benefit there
in Mecca, which is what?
Selling your goods.
You travel from Morocco, back in the old
days before the world was like one little
global village, you travel to Morocco with your
baskets and your leather goods and your tagines
and you get to Mecca and not only
are you making Hajj, you're setting up a
stall.
Well, how is that guy going to pay
his way back?
He paid a lot of money to get
there and this is a chance to see
Persians.
Persians have a lot of money and they
don't have Moroccan goods, right?
The tagine, that leather goods from Fez, every
person in Fez has 10 of them in
his home.
He's not going to pay much for it.
But you take that stuff to Mecca, the
Persians don't have that stuff.
Yemenis don't have that stuff.
That's how the world used to be.
Iraqis don't have that stuff.
Syrians don't have that stuff.
It's a chance to buy exotic goods.
So even the one making Hajj, Allah Ta
'ala in the Quran has given him the
green light to buy and sell.
So imagine now, someone going and booking the
hotel for you and booking the flights for
you and having tour guides or guides there
to meet you at the airport, to give
you al-Baik, to get you the buses.
All that, is that not effort?
They deserve to be rewarded for that.
Do you advise getting married before medical school
as a man?
Especially in the current university environment if one's
parents can cover the costs?
Yes, I would.
Because a guy in medical school is different
from a free floater.
A guy in medical school, it's 99%
chance he has an income.
So a daughter will...
Another father would say, yeah, my daughter is
not marrying a bum who's freeloading off his
mom and dad.
No, he's marrying somebody who will have...
be able to fulfill his obligation.
So I would recommend that.
What's forever asking for?
A person called forever is asking a bunch
of people deleting forever.
It says, I was engaged.
Now my engagement is broken.
I am not able to get over my
former fiance.
I constantly fear what if I won't be
able to forget him even after I get
married to someone else?
You know that that's an emotional matter that's
in your heart and therefore it will be
treated by spiritual matters, which is much dhikr
and remembrance of Allah.
And you physically have to stop talking about
him.
You can't even say, I can't stop thinking
about him.
You can't even say, stop thinking about him.
So that's your instruction.
And your recitation of Surah Yasin will help
a lot in this.
Because Yasin helps people with their affairs.
And any kind of dhikr Allah that you
do, particularly la ilaha illallah, it cuts you
off from matters of the dunya.
This is what they say about dhikr of
la ilaha illallah because of the meaning.
Think about the meaning you're negating.
You're negating everything about Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala.
When in the word, you're negating anything that
is worshipped besides Allah, but by extension, other
thoughts that you don't want in your mind.
And how about this?
Why are we trying to do this ourselves?
Why don't you wake up in tahajjud and
ask Allah to remove him from your heart?
Why are you trying to do it yourself?
Right?
So do those things that I mentioned, but
go straight to the source of who Allah
has said his, our hearts are in the
two, between the two fingers of Ar-Rahman,
said the prophets, I said.
Our hearts, that means he turns them however
he wishes.
One day you like someone, one day you
hate them.
Allah turns your heart, that's it.
What's the ruling of inter-racial marriage in
Islam?
A man came to Imam Malik and he
said, in Persia, an Arab and a Persian
got married.
And people were upset.
Because they didn't like the mix of the
ethnicities.
Imam Malik got very upset.
And he says, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
says, Inna khalaqnakum shu'uban wa qabaila lita
'arafu.
We created you nations and tribes, so that
you may come to know one another.
He said, therefore, all Muslim are kufut to
one another.
All Muslims, regardless of ethnicity, can marry one
another.
So he was very upset about that, actually.
That they would break off a marriage on
ethnic or racial grounds.
Who's here?
Salam rahmatullah, man ma'i, man ant, kamith.
We have a stranger.
You know, the Arabs, when a stranger used
to walk in, he used to say, before
you say, what's your name?
He said, what's your lineage?
We need to know where you're coming from.
Who are you coming from?
But today, nobody knows their lineage.
Kamith and Sidith.
And you are?
Aqeel from Canada.
Aqeel, ahla wa sahlan.
You are the one who emailed.
Welcome to Nothing But Facts.
Why did you come at 3.30?
What happened to you?
The meetings went way over time.
Oh, you're working.
You're here on work.
Masha'Allah, wonderful, wonderful.
So you are, turn this gentleman's mic on.
Aqeel from Canada.
Which part of Canada?
Saskatchewan.
Saskatchewan.
I love those that still got the Native
American names.
And what brings you to Jersey?
Just a work project.
They wanted me here for a couple of
weeks to consult on a project.
Oh, good.
Yeah.
Good.
So what field of consulting are you in?
Innovation.
Bidder.
Exactly.
So, yeah.
You've come to advise us?
Bidder, how to?
Oh, boy.
Nah, we got nothing to do with bidder.
Right?
They could accuse us that all they want,
but they're not right.
Yeah, the internal conflict.
No, they're not right.
No, usually if a big company is trying
to figure out what it should do in
20 years' time, that's the kind of— What,
did you go to the future and came
back, or what?
Yeah, the time machine rates are very cheap
in Canada because the exchange rates are quite
low.
So you're on the cutting edge of the
industry and know where all the competition's going.
Is that what it is?
That's the idea.
Yeah, you don't pretend to know where anything
is going, you just kind of say, well,
it could go this way, but here's the
things that are probably going to happen in
two, three, five years' time.
Crazy.
So you've got to be up to date
on the way that— Now, what field, though?
Well, kind of industry agnostic.
Oh, really?
Any industry?
That's good.
That's good.
So you've got to get your pulse on
the latest tech so that you know this
job is going to be automated, that's going
to be automated, all that stuff.
Yeah, also where it's not just tech, it's
also where people's preferences are.
That's crazy.
And where politics is headed.
Yeah.
Where the economy is going.
That's crazy.
People's preferences are going crazy now in food.
Like food, I think it's becoming almost like
gluttonous.
It's become gluttonous.
Like the food industry's got gluttonous.
Right?
By the way, Canada, you live where people,
they travel to see this like 100 stalls
of different foods in Canada.
You've never seen this?
All Halal.
People are traveling to go there just to
eat.
Really?
Yeah.
There's like 70 or 100 stalls.
What was that?
It's all Fazza in Toronto.
All Halal food.
Is there Saskatchewan in Toronto?
No, Saskatchewan is a province, like New Jersey
is a state.
Oh, I thought Saskatchewan is one of the
towns in the GTA.
No, I used to live in Toronto.
And then we moved back to Saskatchewan, which
is the prairies.
Okay, Saskatchewan.
And where all the farms are at.
Oh, is that what it is?
Farms in Buffalo.
What's the next biggest city?
Calgary, Edmonton.
So that's why Saskatchewan, the only time you
hear it is when an NHL player goes
to the minors, it's Saskatchewan.
Or as a joke on a movie, like
Brian Reynolds makes fun of Saskatchewan.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
But it's interesting though, Halal food is...
Oh, it's gone crazy.
Yeah.
I didn't mean to interrupt.
Sorry for...
No, no problem.
We were today doing an extended Q&A
session because I don't have classes on Thursdays,
right?
I take a class on Thursday at 3
.30, but I don't have class today.
So we're doing extended Q&A because we
didn't do a lot of Q&A in
the past two days.
Can you extend the stream?
Unfortunately, there's so many other things we got
to do.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday is our streaming day.
When are you coming to Minnesota?
I want to come to Minnesota to console
all the Vikings fans.
That's number one.
But to see all the sun, I mean
the snow, to see the snow.
I love the snow.
A nomad says, is working at Lockheed Martin
Halal?
What are the percentage of Lockheed Martin's products
that are being used unlawfully?
In unlawful words.
It's pretty high.
It's pretty high.
So therefore, there's going to be Kenem about
that.
There's going to be Kenem about that.
Mohtesem Shugtai also was very interested by your
saying, I'm in the innovation business.
Is there a specific or recommended dua from
Quran or Hadith to say against suppressors?
Oh, there's many.
There's many, right?
Many.
Look at what Sayyidina Nuh says.
Look at what Sayyidina Musa says.
Because they just, they took their enemies down.
Look at the greatest of all ones.
That means, I'm not even saying what I
want to be done to you.
I'll just leave you to Allah.
That's like open-ended.
You know when you get in trouble in
open-ended trouble, you know you're in trouble,
right?
Really badly.
That's one of the worst, the open-ended
trouble.
Open-ended.
For example, Allah says, whosoever chooses all of
his dunya over Allah and his messenger and
striving for their sake, then let him wait.
Just wait.
Not he'll lose his dunya, right?
Right, no.
Just wait.
You can't fathom it.
And when you're growing up and your parents
get in the car, just wait till we
get home.
Oh, you know you're in big trouble.
Because now like they're thinking of ways to
torture you, right?
If what you make dua for is gonna
happen anyway, right, then how does halal job
or food help?
Good question.
Because if you get what you get without
dua, then it comes to you without blessing,
without protection.
But if it comes to you with dua,
then it comes wrapped, saran wrapped from being
exposed to harm with a bow on top.
Enjoy it.
From Allah, enjoy it.
So that's the difference between what we get
of this world that is comes after dua
and that which comes without dua.
Without comes dua, who knows?
You come upon, you're given something and it
may be a source of harm for you,
may be a source of good for you.
It doesn't come with the same feeling that
my Lord is taking care of me.
So we're asked to make dua and asked
to...
And also, let's look at it from the
reverse.
That's the theology overall.
But from my human experience, from my human...
I don't know the future.
My human experience, we use isbab.
From my human experience, I want something from
my Creator and we're interacting.
That's the human experience.
The theology is one thing, but the everyday
human experience is that it's an interaction.
And He's asking me in real time, do
this, I'll give you this.
That's our actual experience, right?
And that's 99% of humans don't think
twice about the theology so much.
But that's not to say we shouldn't.
We should.
But in day-to-day life, we're interacting
with our Creator.
And we ask and He gives.
But when we zoom out, we realize we
didn't influence the Creator.
We do not influence the Creator.
He was going to give me this anyway.
But it's now better when it comes through
dua.
So those are different perspectives on the matter.
Can I make dua for something specific or
it has to be general?
You may do it for specific.
Yes, you may.
But it is just better to make it
general.
Such as, I want to marry this person.
It's better to say, رَبَّنَا هَبْلَنَا مِنْ أَزْوَاجِنَا
Oh Allah, give me a قُرَّةَ عَيْنٍ of
a زَوْج.
It's everything that you want is in that
word.
Right?
Everything you want is in that word.
Dua with a deadline.
If the deadline has been put upon you,
then it's lawful.
If the deadline is from you, it's not
lawful.
Oh Allah, answer me by tomorrow.
No, who are you?
But, oh Allah, my debt is due tomorrow.
They put it on me, that's lawful.
But for you to put the deadlines is
unlawful.
No, you should say, عَجِّل.
اللهم عَجِّل You can ask for Allah to
hurry the matter.
Yeah, we're 110% allowed to do that.
What's the next trip?
Inshallah, there are two in the works.
One is going to be in Ramadan and
one is going to be in July.
So to give you a heads up, we're
working on a trip to Medina in Ramadan
and Turkey in July to be part of
Dar al-Fuqahaas.
And I'll be teaching there in week three,
which is the last week of July.
So once we get that information, we'll share
it with everybody.
In Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Saskatchewan.
You like snow?
You guys get snow all the time, right?
Oh my God.
Nine months a year, eight months a year.
Yeah, please take half of it.
These guys are playing hockey on the way
to get the mail.
Ice skating on the way to get the
mail.
That's right.
Here's a question.
How do you advise approaching getting a second
wife in the times we live in where
getting more than one wife is hard?
How do you approach the subject of the
second wife, right?
This is how you approach it.
Second wife?
What's that?
Never heard of it.
Oh honey, have you ever heard of that
question before?
Never heard of that before.
Now you'll be a good husband.
You'll be a loved husband after that.
Whoever says honey anymore.
Does anyone say honey anymore?
Yeah, that's it.
Yeah.
You're married, right?
So the married men understand the joke.
Is it haram to play music professionally?
Yeah, it's lahw.
Lahw al-Hadith.
And we're not allowed to earn from lahw
al-Hadith.
During Ramadan, can I tell a lie to
get off work in order to do ibadah
during the day?
So for example, to say...
That's a tough one, to be honest with
you.
But I guess telling a lie is always
sinful.
I have to say that, right?
Like in that regard.
But why can't you make some tawriya?
For example, I have a doctor's appointment, right?
I'm sure there's going to be a doctor
in the masjid, right?
So when you go, say, hey, could you
meet me at the masjid?
You're going to be at Isha anyway, right?
Yeah.
Exactly, that's tawriya, right?
So when your boss asks you, did you
go to the doctor?
Yeah, I did.
Right?
Maybe tawriya would be okay for that.
But I don't know.
I don't want to become known as a
community who operates like that with the non
-believers.
Because we see that with the ahud, right?
They got a law for themselves and they
got a law for everyone else.
And they have no problem tricking everyone else
with these contracts and the loopholes and all
this stuff.
And people hate it.
Like I talk to, I hear people all
the time that are supposed to be politically
correct, who are not.
And they despise these loophole rules and this
fakeness, right?
Here Jeff Green says, say you're sick and
intending, I'm sick in the heart.
I have spiritual sickness.
There's a lot of tawriya that you could
do.
Nino Meow says, how can one respect their
mother if she oppresses at every opportunity and
spreads lies?
No, you don't have to respect her behavior.
You have to respect her rank relative to
you.
That's the difference.
There's a difference between respecting her behavior and
respecting her rank vis-a-vis you.
And we all have that.
We may really dislike somebody, but he's my
elder.
I got to respect him for that position.
That's it.
Okay.
Here's a question says, in the dua series,
you said that no dua is impossible.
No, there are.
We're saying that with the recognition of something
called mustahil adatan.
The recognition of that.
And so it was a general statement, but
what does it mean mustahil adatan?
And I'm going to define tawriya in a
second.
Tawriya is when you technically didn't tell a
lie, but you know that they misunderstood it.
Right.
I have an appointment with a doctor.
We all understand what that means.
But technically, I have an appointment to meet
Dr. Khan at Aisha.
It's technically an appointment with a doctor.
Right.
So that's what tawriya is, in any event.
We're saying here that mustahil aqlan is two
opposing things, contradiction.
A square triangle is mustahil aqlan, rationally inconceivable.
Rationally speaking, it will never occur in the
universe.
There will never be a triangle with five
sides, because literally you're negating the word triangle.
Okay.
So that's what we call mustahil aqlan.
Mustahil adatan is something that in our day
-to-day life do not ever see and
will never happen.
And the brother mentioned changing ethnicities.
So the dua that, let's say I'm Egyptian,
may Allah make me Japanese.
So that's mustahil adatan.
It's not impossible for Allah to say kun
fayakun, but in our daily life, that is
impossible.
Right.
May Allah grant me 10 million dollars.
No, that's not mustahil adatan.
A lot of people have 10 million dollars,
right.
Mustahil adatan, the ada is the way that
Allah created the world.
The way that Allah created the world is
with gravity.
You don't change certain things.
You can't change, for example, the length of
your arms.
You can remove the hairs.
You can tan it.
You can probably put creams on it.
But you can get a manicure.
But you cannot change the length of your
arm.
It's mustahil adatan.
Don't ask for that.
Something that's, it's, you're making a mockery out
of dua.
And that's why most of the times that's
an exception.
Doesn't need people to say it.
Because when do you actually see people doing
that, right.
So it's very rare to see people do
that.
So it's mustahil adatan.
And that is something that's an exception.
We don't, we don't ask for dua for
those things because it in fact is a
mockery of dua.
Forever says, what is the dua for a
good spouse?
Very easy.
Look at Sayyidina Musa alayhis salaam.
He said, رَبِّ إِنِّي لِمَا أَنزَلْتَ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ
خَيْرٍ فَقِيرٍ He got the spouse and all
that he needed before getting the spouse.
Right, or along with the spouse.
So he did not have a home.
He did not have a job.
He did, and he did not have a
spouse.
Before you, you can't be homeless and jobless
and get a spouse, right?
So he said, رَبِّ إِنِّي لِمَا أَنزَلْتَ إِلَيْهِ
مِنْ خَيْرٍ فَقِيرٍ I am in need of
all the good things that you have for
me.
Okay, and he got everything.
He got the job.
He got the home because he now lives
with the righteous man of, in Midian.
Some people say it's Prophet Shuayb.
Some people say Sahabi of Prophet Shuayb.
Allah knows best.
And he married, he got engaged right then
and there, engaged to the daughter of the
Prophet Shuayb.
And then the dowry was to work eight
to ten years.
Now, some people ask, well, that's really rough
to ask a man for eight to ten
years Why wait?
Go find someone else who will marry you
right away.
So the dowry, don't forget, it can be
paid after the Nikah.
So just because the Qur'an states that
you give me eight years of work on
my farm, and if you add two years,
that's from you.
Extra bonus if you want to give me
two more years of work.
Okay, that's the dowry.
But it doesn't mean he had to work
eight years then get married.
That's like almost cruelty.
Because they're living on a small farm and
he's interacting with her every day.
That's like a fitna too, right?
So most likely he married her before finishing
those, way well before finishing the eight to
ten years.
But he still owed the eight to ten
years.
All right, if I'm not mistaken about that,
let me just double check that.
Let me just double check that.
So the Qur'an doesn't specify whether he
married her after or before.
But it would seem that according to the
norms that you owe him eight to ten
years, it doesn't mean you're going to have
to wait eight to ten years to marry.
Again, mahr, it can be given over time.
So that means we can agree on a
dowry, on a sadaq, on a mahr, all
the same meaning, and say a thousand now
and a thousand for the next 20 years.
On January 1st, a thousand dollars.
Now, when you don't, on January 1st, if
you don't pay the thousand dollars by 1259,
by 1159 p.m., the wife can say,
you didn't give me my dowry, you can't
touch me.
Of course, no one's going to really do
that, but she could.
You owe me, right?
Or the wali can call up and say,
all right, stay away from my daughter.
Now you didn't pay the dowry.
So that's what could happen.
So you could do that for the next
20 years.
Every January 1st, they give you a thousand
dollars.
It's a $20,000 mahr.
$20,000 mahr, it's a good mahr.
But over 20 years, you don't taste it
as much, right?
You don't taste it as one big shot
of $20,000, right?
Even one big shot of $15,000 is
better than $20,000 over 20 years, no
doubt about that.
Even $10,000, right?
$10,000 on the spot, and you invest
it properly, it's far better than $20,000.
What are you, $1,000 every January 1st
is gone by February 1st, right?
So that's how mahr works.
Is there ijma' that mut'a is haram?
100% ijma'.
Yeah, Adam, what's going on?
Second wife, now mut'a.
Adam, could you...
I'm worried about Adam Bawamia.
When parents live life of sin and have
mentally ill child autistic, is it a punishment
from Allah or a test?
It's their choice.
If the difficult child is a source of
them making tawbah, then it's purification.
If the difficult child is a forced source
of them getting worse, then it's punishment.
If the difficult child is a source for
them getting better and better and better in
the deen, then he's an elevation of rank.
So tribulations, it's your choice.
SubhanAllah.
It's your choice.
How to react to it.
How you react to it.
What's determined what it is.
Yeah, 100%.
It's a good thing and if it takes
you further away, then that's the criteria.
That's the criteria.
Yep, it's your choice, which is a great
nama.
I feel my parents' advice has led to
some unnecessary hardships in my livelihood, health, and
religion.
And A, if you are a man and
you do have ability to work on your
own, then yes, you can go off, live
on your own, and you don't need to
listen to every word of the advice they
give you if it's bad for you.
But if you're a female, you don't need
to listen to their advice, but you cannot
run away from home and say, I'm going
to go live in my own apartment.
You should live...
No, who knows?
Allah knows best.
If it's like abuse, that's a different story.
Okay.
Okay, here's a question.
Thank you for this.
What is the line where mustahil adatan starts
considering some awliya or given karamat?
Good, because karamat...
Part of the definition of karamat is that
it breaks the adah.
It does perform the mustahil adatan.
Okay.
So the answer is that Allah may give
it, but it's not something that we ask
for.
It's not something that we ask for.
But Allah may give it.
So for example, when we look at Sayyidina
Ibrahim alayhis salaam, he had one of the
greatest ma'jizat, which is that he went
into the fire and he felt cool and
peace, coolness and peace in the fire.
But he didn't ask for that.
He said, Allah will take care of my
affairs.
And Allah created that for him.
Sayyidina Musa alayhis salaam, he followed Allah's order
and he struck the water.
He struck it.
Some say he struck it like this.
Some say he struck it like this.
The moment he struck it, it split.
He had no knowledge that this would happen.
He did not ask for this.
He simply said, Inna ma'ya rabbi sahdeen
My Lord is with me.
He'll tell us what to do.
He had such yaqeen.
He had an army behind him.
The whole army of the Egyptians and he
had the responsibility of his whole tribe.
He had a huge tribe.
So many.
Some say there were 1 million.
Huge tribe.
And his face didn't even change.
He had that much yaqeen in Allah.
Let's take a look at Sayyidina Musa 40
years earlier.
40 years earlier, Oh Musa, what's in your
hand?
Stick.
Throw the stick.
He threw the stick.
It became a serpent.
He ran away from it.
So at the beginning of entering the school
of messengerhood, the divine school of prophethood, the
great prophet Musa alayhi salam ran away from
a serpent.
And at the end, he faced an army.
It didn't even blink.
They said to him, Musa, the water is
in front of us.
You've taken us east.
Taken us to the water.
Take us west.
West is lands, right?
But that doesn't make any sense.
We're going to escape from the pharaoh.
Allah said, escape east.
So they went east right towards the water.
But why don't we escape west?
It's all the land there, right?
That doesn't make any sense.
So defies the logic, right?
Or common sense.
So no, Allah said, go east.
They went east.
All right, so they're yelling at him.
Oh Musa, the army's coming.
You destroyed us.
They're blaming him.
Of course, these people had no, they didn't
have the same iman that our Sahaba had.
Who, Sama'na wa ata'na, right?
The water's here.
They're yelling at him.
And he's looking straight ahead.
He didn't even flinch at them.
He had been trained so well.
He had experienced it so many times.
Allah knows.
When he commands something, Allah knows.
Allah knows.
And you don't know.
There are a million people from Bani Israel
yelling at him, blaming.
And you have far more than a million
soldiers chasing you.
SubhanAllah, his people?
And the whole nation is against him.
His nation and his people.
The Egyptians and the Bani Israel didn't flinch
because he's a post-grad in the divine
school of Prophet.
Who is the Musabib?
Allah is the Musabib.
So he said, now strike the sea.
And he struck it.
And then everyone got to watch.
And so what was the point of striking
the sea then?
If it doesn't really happen, it's so that
the Bani Israel and the Egyptians could associate
this miracle with Musa.
If it just split, it wouldn't be the
same.
The same results would have been, but the
honor of Musa for him, it was a
great honor for him.
Allah elevated him because it's not going to
open.
O sea, do not open until my slave
Musa hits you.
Strikes you with the staff.
So he struck the staff like this.
And then, subhanAllah.
What does it mean for humans to establish
Jannah in this world before the next?
One of the meanings of that is metaphoric,
of course.
No doubt about that.
And that is the idea that we live
well in our hearts, in our finances, in
our bodies, in our minds, in our families,
in our communities.
We're living well.
Free from the major fitin that we see
around us.
Tribulations that we see around us.
All right.
Good question answer session.
One more from Adam Bowami has provided us
a lot here.
Is it permitted to hide sin from future
spouse then reveal after since it's hard to
hide such as a tattoo?
First of all, let's say you did hide
that tattoo.
Then she discovers it after.
So, when I was in the past, I
had made a mistake.
If she gets upset, that's not enough.
That would not justify for her to break
off the marriage.
So she comes, let's say, she could break
it off, but it would be a hula.
It would be a hula.
She needs to compensate you.
Yeah, yeah, hula.
So what I'll tell you what would be
for example, for example, you on the wedding
night, you informed her that you can't perform
properly intimacy.
Hold on.
That's like the biggest part of marriage.
Like, kalas, this marriage is over.
Yes, she's justified.
Okay.
However, that's the extreme.
Less than that, it may be upsetting.
She may raise question marks on what else
is this guy hiding from me?
And what crowd were you with?
So you may find at some point as
you're getting closer, you're not going to say
it right away, but as you're getting closer
in your relationship, you may disclose that.
But it's not something that has to be
disclosed right away because it's a tattoo.
It's not something that will affect intimacy, livelihood.
It's covered most of the time, possibly according
to him.
So there, that's the answer to that.
All right.
Last question on al mustahil adatan.
Some things are very improbable.
Improbable is different than mustahil adatan.
It's less than that.
And you may ask for the improbable.
No problem.
Okay.
All right.
In Maliki madhab, if you put a condition,
which is the sahih opinion, if you were
deceived, one, you can annul only in religion
and freedom.
Two, you can annul in all deceptions.
All right.
I'll read up on that.
What's the law on tattoo if someone is
going on umrah?
Tattoos that have something unlawful in them, then
that person should either cover them at all
times, but you can't cover it with a
bandage in umrah.
Let's say we have to expose our right
arm in tawaf and it's there.
If it has something unlawful in it, then
you can get it removed.
You should get it removed.
If it does not have something unlawful and
getting it removed would just cause more harm,
then you don't have to get it removed.
All right.
Ladies and gentlemen, we got to stop here.
We got to pray asr.
Meeting at 4.30. Youth class at 5
.30. And we have a guest from Saskatchewan.
First time in the United States?
No.
Been around.
First time in East Brunswick.
We got to show them around where to
eat, where to get some food, and then
we go for the rest of our classes.
If you want to join Arkview, you could
do that.
Go to arkview.org.
Class tonight at 7 o'clock.
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Ash hadu an la ilaha illa anta.
Nastaghfiruk wa natubu ilayk.
Wa al-asr.
Inna al-insana la fee ghusr.
Illa allatheena aamanu wa aaminu as-salihaat.
Wa tawassu bil-haq.
Wa tawassu bil-sabr.
Wassalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.