Shadee Elmasry – Life of Sayyid Muhammad Alawi alMaliki NBF 355
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very great sunnah. Now why is this? So no greater? If you
slaughtered an animal and give it in charity? Why is it better now
to get more rewarded if you do it in these three days than any other
time of the year?
The answer to that is that number one, Allah assigns reward as he
wishes, that's the first thing. There's nothing binding Allah to
assign a certain reward to a certain time of day or anything
like that. So Allah just assigns a reward how he wishes, that's
number one. But number two, also, usually, usually, in these rules
of interactions, there is a reason for things, a wisdom we can say,
if not illegal cause but it was done. And the wisdom here could be
perhaps that
people are expecting the food at this time of year,
all of the needy tend to be expecting the food. So you want to
come to them in the time in which they're expecting the food.
Good. Not
in a time where they're not expecting the food and you have to
go around looking for someone so everyone all the needy, it's like
a season of the needy getting meat. That's what this is. It's
the season. So to participate, everyone to participate in a
season makes it predictable for the needy that in don't hedge
every year, I'm going to be able to get a couple bags of like a
month worth of meat or maybe a week and a half worth of free meat
every year, at this time of year. And it's one of those things where
there's, you know, this famous story where a king said to his
minister said, Do we have good people or are people good?
And the minister said, Well, I think so. And then he turns to the
wise man. And he said, Well, there's only one way to find out
which is to test them.
And he said, Okay, how do I do that? He said,
The fountain that's in front of the courtyard of the Palace. You
know, the back these old kingdoms like 20,000 people in the Old
Kingdom, right? He said, tell everybody to make it flow white by
tomorrow by putting one cup of milk. That's it. If everybody puts
one cup of milk, the fountain will become white. That's it just one
cup of milk. This is going to test their consciousness be cared their
conscientiousness and their obedience to you and their love of
you because one cup of milk won't do anything. Right? So they're
only going to do it if they truly believe in you and obey you. And
and you'll see tomorrow objectively if it's white or not.
So that day, everyone went home and said, You know, it's just one
cup of milk. Right? It's if I don't do it, it's not a big deal.
Next morning, he wakes up to see if his people are good he opens a
curtain to the kingdom. And the fountain is exactly like it was
nothing changed. So he said minister, we don't have a good
people. They don't listen. They just imagine, right that you know,
someone else will do it. These are not a good people. They need to be
reformed. Same thing in Islam, it's we change societies by every
single person just believing that they got to do their part because
Allah told them that's why it's so important to know that not to try
to find a wisdom or find the reason behind everything.
Just as because Allah Azza is Allah knows the wisdom when we
don't. And what you end up with is, as one famous poem set poet
said, if everybody does their job, we end and you zoom out of the
OMA, you end up seeing a gorgeous Persian rug.
It's like a gorgeous Persian rug, every Persian rug, it's like,
every threads got to be in this place. But if a thread says, you
know, look, how many threads are in the Persian rug? Like, what
difference does it make? If everyone says, What difference
does it make? Then you got garbage, right? So that's the idea
of why it's so important to go back to the concept that this is
the way we do it, because Allah told us to, because if we all use
our head, and say, Well, that's because of this, that and the
other and therefore me not doing it is not a big deal, then the
whole thing collapses. That's the important thing. So you, you two,
these two gentlemen sitting next to me here.
And myself, and almost all of us one, one of us will not make a
dent in the OMA, right. But if I make a little mini dent, and a
billion other Muslims make a little mini dent, then you have a
tapestry. Right, then you have changed. That is how we Muslims
recognize and believe in change. We don't believe in change by one
massive lobby that's got billions upon billions and billions of
dollars. And then go and try to play puppet with the world like
this. And change the world like that. No, that's how we change the
world. And that's why you notice our game, or what our approach, I
don't like to use that sports metaphor, but it's very common for
people. But the game plan for us is very different from the game
plan of have the heavy heavy hitters control Hollywood control,
the media, control politics, control the banking system. Now
that's not our method.
The method of Muslims is every single individual Muslim does his
thing, right? Just be himself, right? And do it correctly do
things well.
But we have billions, one out of four people in the world as a
Muslim, you're going to transform the culture of the world,
which is far greater than what the puppet masters can do, if they
control Hollywood and everything else, secondly, like to say is
that we don't control people, we influence their hearts.
The number one reason why people enter Islam as a Muslim was nice
to them in a way that they made that person feel. Yeah, this is
from God. Because God's people are nice. That's it. That's the
approach you got to have, right? And how many people convert to
Islam, not bi theology. But by just looking around these people.
Every one of them's like, easygoing, pretty nice. There's no
showing off. There's no backbiting. There's very basic
stuff, right? For us. It's basic stuff, don't backbite don't show
off. So it's a reflection of the truth. Like this can't exist
unless there's a greater truth driving these regular people all
to behave in this way. And that's the real reason that Islam spreads
not spread because of theological debates. Although that is part it
plays a part does it spread because of political power, for
sure. Although sometimes in the past history that could play a
role, right? You're not going to have political power and throw it
away, you're going to use it. But it's not the main driver, the main
driver, is that the realness of the belief of Eman trickles down
into millions upon millions of regular people, to the point that
your intellect says, These guys didn't all plan to behave this
way. They're behaving like this for a reason. If we go back to the
podcasts along, maybe about a year ago, maybe with Chef Hashem
remember him, shook Hashem.
Hashem Ahmed, he's coming from California. And he said that he
wanted to go and actually go to the origins of Christianity, which
is Ethiopia. And the cheapest way for him to get to Ethiopia was
actually take a flight to Morocco, from Morocco, travel all the way
across North Africa, down Egypt, down Sudan, and to Ethiopia.
He said, by that journey, he said, I'll give myself a year to do that
journey just to see the world right just to see North Africa.
And he ended up did spend a long amount of time from Morocco to
Egypt, down Sudan down into North Africa by the time he tedium by
the time he got there, he was a Muslim.
And what was his reasoning? His reasoning was the regular people
or just something was led by the way this is the 70s when Muslims
were better off than they are today. The Internet hadn't gotten
there wider been invented. Most of Western culture hadn't corrupted
these places yet. They still weren't even working nine to five
allow out of they're doing it the old fashioned way. Not working at
all. Most of the Islamic world back in the day, right.
Just chillin. I don't know
When they work, I don't know how they earn money, but a lot of them
inheritance rent cousin has a farm sends us a goat every month, right
stuff like that, that type of thing by the Buttercup. But he was
saying that he spent time in Morocco and he was passing by,
like a very, very poor men and the poor man Bay's a big smile, big
greeter said Mr. Aiken. That's it. Here's what the that Tim was a
shock. Uh, you are driving by, and there's no one in the road and you
see another Muslim bank. And by the you expect that, right? So
what in the world this guy's like one of the poorest guys in the
world. Just little mule selling some celery.
But he was moved by that. In the West, where he comes from people
don't greet each other like that. Like, what is the motive for that
warm greeting? He then can't.
Powerful today.
It's only on 66. Okay, so little things like that. I remember one
time, he's one of the stories he said. He said that he was in
Libya, going across Libya, a long bus trip across Libya, they get
off at a stop. People get off at the stop. And you know, after a
half hour, hour, they come back on the bus, they get back on the bus.
And one guy has a lot of nuts and cherries and snacks, basically.
And he's passing them around. So he's like, Oh, these are these are
a group. It's like a big family or something passing around this
food. And he took part in it nice chit chat. And he's like, Oh, this
is really good, like nuts, cherries, water, mango juice,
everything being passed around. He gets off the bus. And he's like
looking. And he sees all these people scatter everyone in their
own direction is like, Wait, aren't you guys in one group.
And he looks like nobody knows anyone. They didn't even know each
other. Right? They were not part of the same group.
And see these little behaviors. You got to realize you believe
that this theology, this stuff that they say about God and their
belief in Allah, and Allah takes care of everything. And wealth is
from God and be generous because all wealth is from Allah in the
first place. It's real, because he sees regular people living by it.
That's the logic that goes on very deep in your subconscious.
He went to Egypt, he went to Sudan, mind you, he was not
hanging around, Muslims are looking for Muslims.
This is what he said. I was not even thinking about Islam. When he
got to Sudan, think about this, all the way across North Africa,
down Egypt into Sudan. When he got onto the Nile River, on a on a
boat headed from Egypt to Sudan, was the first time he saw Muslim
group prayer.
The prayer of Muslims he's maybe saw one more some praying here or
there. But to see a group pray was the first time
and he said, I saw these men line up in the rows, and on the boat to
pray and I just got shivers.
Like goosebumps. I think then he said something like, Are these
like, is this an order? Is this like a religious cult? Is this a
special group? No. Regular Muslims, is like, these guys are
nothing just people traveling from Egypt to Sudan. They're not part
of a group. They're not part of an order. They're just regular
people.
And he said he was sort of just they, the most of them were so
upbeat all the time, and there was a light to their face. By the time
he got to the Christian monastery deal. He got there. It was a
Christian monastery. These guys do not marry. They pray all day and
night. He got there. Nobody welcomed him. Nobody smiled to
him. Nobody offered him food. And he said their faces were dark, and
their hearts were cold. He said immediately I left. I used to
spend five minutes with them. Just as few minutes with them. That's
it. And he's like, No, this is not right. That's right.
Just by that. So the reality of faith comes in the behavior of
people far more far more than theology. There it is. He got it
shook Hashem. Post that so everybody could watch that and
hear the story being told by him himself.
I think he was originally Jewish. Yeah, California musician he was.
I don't want to say if he was originally Jewish or not.
I don't know to be sure it should be to be fair about it. Okay.
All right, let's go to our first
segment for today.
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Repentance is our path, our path, most people who are going to be
practical or not going to be attained some love high, great
level of enlightenment in which they perfect everything.
So a good dose of the reality of what our Islamic life is like is
very important.
Nobody should imagine that, oh, I have to attain sinlessness or else
I have practices that improperly.
That's not practical. That's not right.
You got to give people a practical approach. The practical approach
is that we are a people who fall into sins, but we repent right
away. And what we don't do is we don't plan our sins.
We don't plan to commit sins and say, I'm going to repent later.
That is a mockery of religion. You always intend never to commit
sins, you intend not to commit sins. But
when you fall into them, you repent right away with humility.
And you never have this false approach that in order for me to
to be doing Islam properly, I must become a sinless person. We hope
that Allah preserves us from ever falling into sins that's possible.
It's possible MACOM would hit the it's called McCalman HIFF is that
Allah preserves you, he gives you a gift, He preserves you from
falling into sins. Well, that you have another responsibility, which
is not to have arrogance, because a lot of people can have
arrogance. Right. So I haven't fallen into sins, but now you may
become arrogance. So every gift that Allah gives you is actually a
test in another way.
It's a test and what's the proof of that?
Well, lower Stockholm lottery party that's when a woman
Mannahatta left in Hopi. If they stay straight, pat on steadfast on
the straight path.
Then then
we will surely give them cool sweet water to drink as a test for
them.
The Divine reward in this life is also a test. Test is not just from
bad things from Satan. Good rewards from Allah is a test are
you going Lea bologna ash Kuru Amok for what is profit. So, what
was it Sedna? Sulaiman
Cena Sulaiman? Who said Allah has given me all this
with this wealth and this monarchy? Lea bologna ash Kuru
Emma to test me Will I be is it saying this what a man who said
that the abalone a screw up for will I be grateful? Or I'll be
regret
will I be ungrateful?
Okay.
All right. So my brothers and sisters expect a rough road.
Expect a rough road. All right.
But make repentance all the time. If you're always repenting for
your sins, you are beloved to Allah, in the low head with Tobin
Weber Matata, hidden, he loves the penitent and the pure. And that
verse came down on something far greater and more literal than what
we imagined it to be. And what we imagined it to be are usually
people understand that God loves the people repent from their sins,
and purify themselves from sinning again. That's what many people
understand. But in fact, what Allah meant by that was something
far simpler. He loves those who stopped who entered Islam after
being outside of Islam, repented from paganism and purify
themselves after going to the bathroom.
People might think, Wait a second, that's really the big deal. Yeah,
it's a big deal. Do you know how many people died in England?
because they didn't know how to what to do with the sewage. And
the moment that they discovered that hold on a second, maybe urine
and defecation is causing all these diseases, all of a sudden
they became better.
Right?
So
that's the that's that's how simple it is with Allah repent he
loves those who repent from paganism from outside of some into
Islam. Imagine that how much he loves someone who is already a
Muslim and repents from sins.
It's wrong.
So, that's the name of the game for us. It's nonstop Toba. It's
nonstop getting better at everything.
But do not expect from yourself perfection and say, you know when
am I going to stop and then I'm never going to stop and you start
losing hope the bliss wants us to lose hope
that Allah has will change our ways. Don't worry about that. You
just keep making the tilba
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let me if you recall, we had Dr. Raja to eliminate silly because
sorry to alert al Mukalla 30. Well, Zim Totori Abu Salah mana
Dharani. One of the best things is when these pious people tell us
the story of how they begin. And we saw a man at Dharani he was a
musician.
He was a musician. And what did he do? He said that he went to the
gathering of costs. Medici Causton? Does he mean a
storyteller a preacher? Or is that someone's name? I don't know. It
could be like cost sauce. Causton.
doesn't really say he said that. Basically, he went to a preacher,
a Holika. Basically something like the gathering. And he said, demand
speech affected me. He must have talked about the afterlife, he
must have talked about all these other things.
He said, I went again.
And I can't stop thinking about what he was saying.
I want a third time.
And I couldn't stop thinking about what he's saying. He really
affected me. I got home and I broke all of the LS and makalah
fat all the sinful things I had. It could have been for example,
wine bottles. Let's look Oliver. It's a tool used in sins. All the
things I use in sins, broke all like going in, break all the beer
bottles, pour it all down the drain. All the wine, glug, glug,
glug, right down the toilet, break it all crushed it all start off
fresh, a new slate
that's why you have to never ever stop attending these gatherings.
And I'll tell you the tricks the shaytaan took us eights on number
one get too involved.
You get too involved. And now what happens when you get too involved?
There's a lot of material for shaytaan to sow discord between
you right? get too close too much. No just attend and leave be well
acquainted with everybody like could be a good acquaintance say
salaam to people visit people who are sick by the way we have to
visit Ali because he'd been in the hospital for three days. As part
of that he got an he's got surgery right now. For what he had an
infection that bad
shadier crazy. Yeah, crazy.
So we got to visit him do those things without getting so much in
your life into their life and then shaytaan he's able to
derail you to create a drama be very, very cautious of dramas.
Good.
What's the second thing shaytaan can do. shaytaan gets distracts
you by the details. I don't like the way this guy talks. Look at
the way this guy looks. Look at that guy the way he looked at me.
Who did this? This was person they know all this terminology that I
don't. Right. He starts to make you feel guilty about yourself. Oh
my gosh. Now you're not thinking about Allah anymore. You came.
It's between you and Allah, you're, you're coming to the sake
of God. You leave. And you're like, I gotta learn these because
all these guys know these terminology.
All of a sudden you're no longer seeking Allah. Give it a few
months, your heart is dark, and you're depressed and you don't
benefit anymore. Why? Because you're not seeking Allah anymore.
You're seeking competition.
You are seeking your ego. Even if it's looks like it's knowledge. No
one's going to denounce knowledge, of course. But when you're in a
knowledge, competition with others, and your ego struck,
because you don't know as much, now you go and start studying,
you're not studying to get closer to God, you're studying now to be
better than people. Actually, he's found a CD of natto he gets in his
head on when the heck money that he said, letter has been going in
electron for the guna get him out in Russia panel. It's such a good
analogy gave us his like, don't travel from creation to creation,
so that you don't be like the donkey that once the, you know,
the mill, like goes around. And then he says, because your origin
will be the same as your destination, exactly. Like you
came, right? Yeah. Because you know, you're someone that's
relying on the guild, let's say you rely on the Christian, you
want to go and seek ALLAH, you're seeking Allah. But now, you're
starting to travel right to the crease. And again, once again,
entrepreneurs just a different reason, different different part
of the crazy exactly, donkey that's going around the mill, the
origin is the same as the destination, that's a problem. So
you just want to maybe perhaps a loft to your creation, but you're
still on the creation, and the creation will never satisfy you.
If a person's putting their him on a created being to be their chief
source, keep in mind, their chief foundational source of happiness,
you'll be disappointed. But creation can be a secondary source
of happiness. With a, what is the difference, the secondary source
of happiness is I'm enjoying this because Allah gave it to me as a
great gift. And my response is going to be gratitude to the
creator and my interaction will be with it will be in the line with
the Sharia, how the Creator told me to interact, that's what we can
call a secondary source of happiness. The primary source of
happiness is that this in itself will make me happy. The creation
in himself can never be your source. So people want maybe from
let's say,
whatever life they were living, far from Allah far, far from the
dean.
And in trying to get happiness through that, had a fall out with
that.
went home crying, turned to God
discovered God then discovered there other these other people,
this whole new community that took me in, okay, that's all wonderful,
finding good, don't think shaytaan is gonna let you go. So you have
this is a great, like a new life is born for you, like a new
existence, a new spiritual world for you. Eventually, Satan is
gonna say, Okay, look at these guys, they all wear a scarf like
this, you gotta get a scarf like that, oh, they all know these
words are unique. Oh, they're close to the sake, I gotta get
close to the sheet.
All of a sudden, you're not focusing on God anymore. You're
focusing on Islamic things.
So it's better than maybe the other world that you're living in.
But it's still a darkness, it's still a cloud, maybe not as dark,
maybe that was 100% opaque. Now, this is maybe 80% opaque, right?
The transparency is only 20%.
Very soon, the same visitation that you were going to the same
place that you were going to is no longer going to touch your heart
the way it did. It's not the place that ever touched your heart. It
was your intention when you went to that place that touched your
heart. How many times people go on a trip, it's a complete
revolutionary trip. That totally changed. After a miserable year, I
got a chance to do this trip, I'm going to do this trip, you know, I
need a change. You go there, your life has completely changed, your
world has changed.
You come back, and all you want to do is go back. That's a mistake.
It's not the place that changed you. Right. And now you're hating
your location now, and wishing you could be back because in your mind
you connected that place change. We know that place in a change,
Allah changed you he just he used that place. Right?
The sadness of many, many youth who go on a revolutionary trip
change or not just youth, anyone who's a spiritual novice,
transfer, completely transforms, comes back. And he's attached
himself to the created means by which Allah changed you.
And he was no longer focusing on Allah. Then he was going to go
back try to recreate a feeling in himself that he had the first time
and he fails miserably. Here's the second trick, or third now,
to try to recreate a feeling. You don't worship yourself. That is
self worship. In a sense, it's not self worship officially. It's
directedness to myself. That's a problem to try to recreate an
amazing spiritual feeling.
thing that I had an experience, you are now focused on yourself.
Why don't you just do what Allah told you to do? Focus on God? How
do I focus on God? Look until his law says to do as an obligation
prohibition, recommendation discouragement. And in that order,
do my obligations First, avoid my prohibitions. Focus. What does it
mean to focus on Allah is to focus on what he asks us to do, of
obligations and then extra deeds. Put the focus on Allah, you'll
always be happy. Try to recreate a feeling in yourself. And by the
way, we have talked about this. I know it's a little bit of a
distraction from this, but it's very important.
We always talk about the path of Allah. It's called tariqa. Sad,
the path of happiness. That's what the nickname of the spiritual path
is called the path of happiness because it leads to that.
We also read in the Quran that Allah Tala removes sadness from us
from the odia. When when people come near to Allah sadnesses like
doesn't exist for them. But that sadness doesn't exist for them in
the majority of the time. It does not mean that it never exists.
That cubs, that constriction of Dart never exist. It's very
important. We don't worship happiness. Our goal is not to
always be happy. That's not the goal of a Muslim. Your goal is to
be a good servant to Allah. Again, your focus has to be on Allah, not
on yourself. So it's very important to realize,
constriction, grief, sadness, upsetness does have a place and if
Allah ordained it, for a certain reason, accept it. And the faster
you here's the trick, the faster you come to terms that this has a
place in life. And if Allah ordains it, don't fight it back,
that is the fastest way route to minimize all your sadness. By
accepting it, realizing as part of life, realizing as part of God's
will, for us, part of wellness test for us, but more than that,
realizing its purpose, ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada said, We never
made them taste any punishment, except so they can return back to
us. anytime, any grief, unhappiness, any of that touches
our hearts, we have to realize not to focus on the means by which it
came to us to focus on the source of it. And the reason what is his
reason for, for bringing this sadness and grief upon me, I have
to turn back to him.
Whenever things are too good, you become Icarus is when you fly too
high.
And his Icarus had wax wings, so we flew too close to the sun.
And the wings melted.
Although the higher you go up, the colder it gets, but just for the
sake of the story, right? They didn't know that back in the day,
right? When they wrote that story. So they're like he flies so far
high up, and his wings melt. And he comes crashing down. So what
does Allah do? He sends you before you get too high, he will send you
another tribulation to push you down a little bit. Humble down a
little bit come down. This is not the abode of being so high up and
happy. Yeah.
Some happiness for sure. But it's not the abode of perfection. If
you get like that, you can make a lot of mistakes. When people get
too high, too happy. They make mistakes. They make terrible
blunders, all of these superstar athletes and rich people. As we'll
look when they get too high up, they screw up, they spent too much
money they go into debts. Remember, MC Hammer back in the
day, the guy lost a spent $1 million on one party.
How stupid are these people? Right? I mean, I had to call the
guy stupid. He was any one of us who was like 19 when he was rich
or something 25 years old, probably would have done the same
thing. Right? They didn't they the money comes without coaches. The
check comes with with no coach to tell him invest like this, hold
up, take 80% of that right away and put it in something that's
going to basically pay you for life. Don't spend so much don't
live someone that doesn't come with spiritual or financial or
economic coaches these checks to these people. But their lesson for
us, they go straight up and they come crashing down. So wouldn't
have been better for someone say, oh, put the brakes on, give me
that check. Let's put 800,000 in it into an investment. You'll
never work again. When these investments come to fruition
you'll it's not me mean you're rich, but you will never have to
worry about money again.
You know, there are many, many people and I've met a person I'm
not gonna mention names.
But he told me about his relative that he was at one point earning
over 250 300 $300,000 a month
on entertainment in the entertainment business $300,000 a
month. Many doctors because of their debts that they owe do not
earn 300,000 in a year. Removed debts do
Medical School debts, remove taxes, remove life expenses are
noted before it forget expenses, remove debts and taxes. He did not
make 300,000 And he's a physician trained eight years for this. And
this clown
entertainer
is a 300 a month. Now this wealth is not good wealth, right? That's
not, that's not a way that Allah wants us to earn money by clowning
around on on the internet. Well, fast forward about.
I don't wanna give too many details, so no one tries to guess
who it is. But fast forward, he's broke.
The entertainment business is hard to stay up on the wave. That wave
crashes. That whole wave is about spending and overspending. The
money's gone, right? The money is gone. And the great example of
unblessed wealth, it's gone.
It's good. So cubs and cubs is constriction. It has a role in our
life, is to return us back to Allah. That's it. There's no other
role that has is to return us back to Allah. If we receive this
constriction, yet we go further from Allah, that's punishment.
That's what we call punishment. Punishment is that a bad thing
happens to you and Allah does not love you.
He wants He does not love you. So you bad things happen and I don't
get closer to God. Nor do I stay the same. I get further
if a bad thing happens. And I just neither get further nor closer is
purification. I'm just suffering. Neither am I getting better in
Islam, like doing better deeds, nor am I doing worse deeds. So
what what do I consider that now I consider the scholars say that is
purification.
And that is like when you see somebody who gets sick. But his
status never changes. Like his religious deeds, his perspective,
nothing changes. He's like, very sick, and he's just watching TV.
So watching the same old games, and TV all day. Hold on, you're
really sick. Why don't you well, you reflect about death.
Right? I'm not in the mood for that. Okay, so you know what, but
you're praying Yeah, he's praying five times a day I'll pray my five
times a day I fast Ramadan. I don't lie. I don't do these
things. Right. So but he's not getting better. Today. I'm not
into the mood for spirituality right now. Just want to sit. And
so we say that's purification. Right? Now a person has the same
suffering.
But he's so It's so bitter to him. The TV is nothing means anything
anymore. Shut it all off. Bring the book of death and afterlife
and read to me. So now well, you weren't like this before. All of a
sudden, you want to talk about the afterlife? Since when some people
like that in your family, like, What's up with him? Right?
You're all of a sudden you're in the dino.
And he is and you're like, Whoa, he's changing. That means that is?
That is a hardship that Allah elevated him through.
So that's how you know, am I being punished? Am I being purified? Or
am I being
elevated. So if you're being elevated through tribulation is
called better and has an a good test, good suffering. This
suffering made me better. That's how we know the difference. So we
are a people who accepts one bet the bad comes us we are not
worshippers of happiness,
of bust. And the reason even I thought when he says that Allah
gives you sometimes he gives you happiness, and sometimes he gives
you constriction, so that you are not a worshipper of either one.
Don't worship either one.
Saving the use of fat I sent him. He has a wonderful, idyllic
childhood. He is the 11th out of 11 siblings. Then he had Binyamin
to 12 young, one younger sibling, baby, and 11 and 10 older
siblings, and he's the most handsome of all of them. Most
beautiful boy of all of them most beloved, why did Prophet Yaqoob
his father show preference? Because the brother said you
prefer him over us?
In Islam, you have to treat your kids equally.
But what so why is it that it would seem that Jacob paid more
attention to Joseph than his other siblings? Well, the answer was
right after Benjamin was born, their mom died. Yeah, Joseph and
Benjamin are brothers and sisters are siblings, full 100% from the
mom and the dad.
They're the only two boys from that mom. She dies right after
giving birth to Benjamin. So he doesn't have a mom. They all have
moms. So it would make perfect sense now it's fair that he gives
each that he gives Joseph and Benjamin double the attention.
Binyamin is just a baby still. Right so who's left Joseph use of
use of gets double the attention than all the other siblings for a
reason? A legal a fair reason justifiable
Reason, that's why they get jealous. Because on top of that,
he is the most happy kid. He's the most beautiful kid. Or I can't
call it profit a kid, but child's right.
So that's why they get jealous.
Right now use of what happens if he goes from this wonderful life,
then in one day, he has a nightmare of a day, they take him
out, he thinks he's gonna go play all of a sudden, I'm in the well,
thinking about that. That's like a shock. We're going out, we're
having a good time with my brothers. It's not like, I'm with
strangers, and I'm expecting something bad. No, I'm with my
brothers. And all of a sudden, they throw me in the well.
And then from the well, he ends up going through very, you have to
imagine this is not a happy time, he gets sold from one merchant to
another to a traveler, to finally is in the marketplace of Egypt,
like this terrible, terrible month that he must have lived probably
was a month, right? You can imagine maybe it was a month or a
few weeks. And then he ends up suddenly, in this gorgeous house.
So the ups and downs of profit use of life are meant to teach us that
you are not a slave of happiness. Neither cubs nor bus, if happiness
and good times come, you must accept it. Because some people are
the reverse. If they lived their whole life in bad situations,
they're uncomfortable with good times.
And even in the good time, if they feel uncomfortable, they have to
think of something bad that could possibly happen, because that's
what I'm comfortable with. And the opposite other other kids, the
opposite other kid grew up everything is perfect. And even
when something objectively terrible is happening, he's got to
find something fun about it. Now that other person is probably
better off. In in the moment. The unhappy person is probably better
off in security of the future. They're more stable. They never
get too excited about it. They never get too happy about
anything, but you just don't might not want to be around them.
The Debbie Downer is all the time, right? The other one you want to
be around but this guy you can't trust him with anything. All
right.
Remember, marathoner in 1994 was dragged off.
GE literally being dragged off the fields for drug use in the middle
of the World Cup. And he's like making jokes. He's like flirting
with the lady who's dragging them off. Like he has to be happy all
the time. It's not life, though, right?
Both of them should come down a little bit to the middle.
except what Allah put you in, if you want your good situation,
enjoy it. And return the thing. gratitude to Allah and share from
it put you in a bad situation. Be thankful that Allah is pulling you
down to humility a little bit and back to him. If you turn back to
Allah, the problem usually solves itself. The problem that you have,
if you turn back to Allah, you fulfill the purpose of the club's
of the constriction, right? So Allah will remove the means.
The same way like Let's hypothetically say that you're
someone who was choking.
Now someone comes from the behind you and he starts to you know, do
the Heimlich on you that's not comfortable. In many ways, that's
an uncomfortable thing. But if you want it to stop, cough up, the
problem, the source of the Heimlich, he's not doing the
Heimlich for no reason he's doing it because of something that
they're so if you fulfill the purpose of the constriction, that
Allah Himself removes the means very easily. You put one two
minutes of effort and the source of the problem goes away.
And of course, something but you have to seize sometimes Allah
wants more repentance from us than we imagined.
It's not just okay, well, five minutes, I'll go repent for five
minutes, I'll be good for five minutes, then my problem should go
away. Maybe he wants more. Maybe he wants from you a whole year
worth
of turning back to him.
And that's why you that explains the perennial problems that people
have the problems people have for like a decade. Usually that
happens after divorce, unfortunately, right? That a
person, the spouse or the kids they're suffering for decades
and it's a nonstop it's like a nonstop suffering every month
every two months something bad happens. So maybe Allah wants
something greater of you. He wants to strengthen your repentance even
more like you're now migrating from a hole
from country to country almost keep sending the wolf every time
he gets lazy and sits down now send the wolf out so he can walk
more run more he you're gonna go far and most people do go far.
They go really far. Because their problem is haunting them forever
it constantly for decades.
A lifetime worth of tribulation
is the importance of understanding the realities of clubs and busts.
That we are not worshippers of happiness that we have the fastest
route to decrease. grief and sadness and constriction in your
life is to understand its place. Its soar
And it's wisdom and and to have edit with it not to try to reject
it all the time.
Here here's a question here are there Stories of the Prophets
facing issues with dissociation, mental suffering, that we don't
have any stories of prophets that had mental disorders, because
that's something that disallows them to be a prophet, and that
disallows them from fulfilling their mission. Prophets did not
have the tribulations that would disallow them to be prophets.
Some things would maybe disallow them to be prophets, not the right
word, the right expression is that some people are some qualities,
MIT render the Prophet, someone who cannot be followed nor fulfill
His mission.
So a prophet would not be paralyzed, for example,
permanently, it could be temporarily paralysed,
permanently, not be paralysed, who will not be permanently blind, he
will not be permanently disabled in some way that would disallow
him from leading the people. Mute, for example, how can you transmit
the message? If he's, if he's permanently mute? Or permanently
deaf? How can he answer people's questions? So certain things
prophets did not have because it would disallow them from
fulfilling it from the sicknesses of life, our mental illnesses.
If you have seen enough people, you see that it is simply an
illness, it's not gin all the time, people always make it to be
gin.
Okay, I'm open to the idea that possibly schizophrenia would have
possibly opened the route for more whisperings than usual, I'm open
to that, but we cannot verify number one. And number two,
many people out there have seen that mental illness is cured
through medication.
So
mental illness is an illness like any other illness in the sense
that it can be medicated. It can be, it can be it's demonstrable.
It's a demonstrable fact that it can be cured with medical
medication. It's not just all gin is not just all spiritual. Right?
So that's important to know. It's just it's just a scarier sickness,
I would say, because you're it's a scarier sickness just for the
people around you and for the person himself to lose his
intellect.
Farah Denio,
from Portugal or Brazil, says somewhat akin, can you please
advise on the burial of Iranian parents that are not Muslim?
At all, they've learned to Shia
and they rejected it. They do believe in God, however.
Do what do they believe about the Prophet Mohammed? Let me put it
this way. If they believe in the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon
him, you bury them as a Muslim? Because the Shiite in the first
place is an innovator.
Some of them are cafard, but not the majority. The majority are
innovators. They're buried with Muslims in the Muslim graveyard.
If he's not even does not even believe in Muhammad peace be upon
him anymore. They're buried with non Muslims. And you don't have to
observe the technical rules of the washing just shroud them and bury
them. And there's no Selaginella upon them.
A lot of people can be in this situation. parents aren't Muslim.
What do I do? Yeah, you just bury them. Regular burial in a normal
some graveyard and a regular public graveyard.
If they were a Muslim, but they had Bidda in them, innovations in
creed in doctrine, inexcusable. misguidance is in the religion,
but not the misguidance is that are known in religion by
necessity. That which is known in religion by necessity, if you
reject it, we bury with the non Muslims. I will person says I'm a
Muslim too, but I don't believe in prayer. Allah didn't obligate
prayer. It's not necessary. Just be a good person. You don't have
to pray. Hold on. That's known and religion by necessity.
Okay, we're gonna bury you with the Muslim girl in the non Muslim
graveyard. And we don't have to do a hustle and we don't do Jana has
nothing, no dua nothing just bury you to respect the humanities side
of the person.
Does the step mother have a role? Yes, step mothers and step fathers
have a position in Islam. They do have position. The mark that they
have a position is that you can never marry them.
They are Muharram to you forever.
As soon as your mother concentrates marriage with your
father, stepfather, sorry, she consummated that means she went
into a place that could be intimate. You and that man can
never ever marry for life.
For life. It's recommended. If you're if your stepmother or
stepfather and your mother divorce, it's still recommended
it's becomes recommended that you wear hijab in front of him
Because the society doesn't know that you were at one point
related, and they may think ill of you or something, right? It's
recommended that she wears hijab in front of him if he's divorced,
if they're not divorced, they're married. So it's your stepfather,
you don't want to have to wear hijab in front of him. You're who
you are to him like a daughter.
In touching in being alone and in coverage.
So
and he could never marry you. So that is a thing. Secondly, your
mother is special to you in and all things in the emotionally and
everything else. So if someone is special to her, then your rights
to her your duty to her dutifulness to her and goodness to
your mother is that you care about who she cares about. Some people
say, Well, he was not my real dad. So I didn't really care. That's
not right. That's not how relationships are. It's not just
all about you. It sounds selfish. That is the such a Western thing.
It's not my real dad. So I don't care. You have it doesn't your mom
love this person? So your duty fulness dutifulness and goodness
to your mother is to love whom she loves.
So the Euro can call him dad to
an up you can call him. There's the well it is the biological dad.
That's only one and he has other rights fro for example. The
stepfather doesn't marry you off. Your dad has rights to your
biological dad has those rights. If he's still in your life,
sometimes they're completely abandon them. That's a different
story
that's gone.
If there's no uncles and no grandfather, and the biological
dad is nowhere to be found,
than the nearest mentor.
His brothers are not there. No uncles no blood relatives, then
the stepfather is the one who raised you took care of you and
everything and you you can call him dad
and treat him like a dad. Except that their inheritance and
marriage laws are gonna not apply. Even in inheritance. The Prophet
peace be upon him said and this is extra Quranic. This is just from
the Hadith. You can give 1/3 of the inheritance to a non inheritor
so stepdaughters, don't inherit,
but it wouldn't be it wouldn't seem sit right with anybody that
you're gonna give your daughter's inheritance, which they don't give
it, they earn it. It's their hop to their right. They don't even
earn it. You don't earn inheritance. It's your right. It's
a God given right to inherit from your debt.
But wait a second, what about
this stepdaughter that grew up with them? Does that sit right
with anybody it doesn't, so you can cut from them a portion equal
to the other girls from the 1/3
and say that's the value of the wasa.
hypothet hypothetical situation that you're each each your
daughter is going to inherit $50,000.
You got two daughters, they're each going to inherit 50,000.
And then you have a stepdaughter who grew up with them lived with
them lived in this house. Is it right to seem right to remove her
or not to include her so from the 1/3 of the will sia I can cut for
her $50,000 I can assign 50k
That's how it works.
A lot of questions on the stepkids and all that we'll get to q&a but
first let's read a biography of Sayed Muhammad Ali Maliki. Think
the whole the whole stream was named after that we
one time went two hours before getting to the subject to the
stream. That's why honestly the subject of the stream is
irrelevant.
We should just literally call them NB F 302 and B F three like UFC
355. Right? We should just call it that because the number of topics
that are covered sometimes are totally irrelevant to the actual
title and by the time we get to the title you know can you
saturate that picture a little bit more because it's old it's an old
picture said Muhammad Ali Maliki when he was a youth and now
Alma
is like an ace and then go back. Go back go to Filters or
properties go to properties.
No, not they're not there. Oh, there you go. There you go.
He's he became like a There you go. Watch that. Oh, that's much
better. Look at look at all more being a
Yep. Sade, Mohammed Al al Maliki wearing a green turban. So maybe
I'll start wearing my green turban too.
Yeah.
The one who challenged
The narrow minded ones. Well that's insulting. Calling people
narrow minded Well, unless you are right okay? So if you narrow what
Allah made VAs once I'm a man said, oh ma O Messenger of Allah,
may Allah have mercy on you and me and nobody else is a funny
incident that happens.
A man came to, to pray and he had it been with the Muslims for a
while maybe he traveled or something back in the original
time of prayer, you could talk in prayer,
you are allowed to talk while break.
Now, this became abrogated, and talking in prayer, we became not
no longer allowed.
Now he wasn't around when this happened. So he came back from his
journey.
And he entered the prayer and he looked to his friend, and he said,
What aka when
he didn't answer, he looked at his resume. So I'm like, how are you?
Which luck are we in?
And everyone's just looking at him horrified. Talking insula.
Everyone's staring at him, people who than from the other rows
looking at him. Then after the prayer was over, they're shaking
their heads. It's man talking in prayer like that. Then the Prophet
peace be upon him, called him up. And he said, This is the prayer.
There it's nothing is befitting in it except recitation of Quran,
praising Allah and prayer and supplicating him.
See, feel so warm by the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salaams,
being kind to him like this, that, he said, may Allah have mercy on
you, and me, and nobody else. Now there was none of these other
people looking at me, right and staring at me for talking in the
prayer than the prophets. I said and laughed, and he said, you
narrowed something very vast,
you narrowed down something very vast. And there are a group of
people out there without getting into sectarianism, because some
people don't like to get the sectarianism, but you know,
they're very good at sectarianism and throwing accusations at us.
But we'll try to go the high road, some people out there they narrow
something that is very vast. This opinion, is the only
interpretation to the law, and to the Hadith, and to the Quran,
everything else is blasphemy. That's how they talk and that's
how they are.
And they elevate that which should not be elevated. They elevate
minor matters of disagreement to heresy right away, boom, complete
heresy. They elevate matters that shouldn't be elevated, and they
narrow matters that are much faster. And that's why this
movement which is making a big comeback, now. It's a tsunami, but
it never lasts guarantee. Number one, it doesn't last because not
true. Things that are true last
reflections of the truth. They continue on forever. Things that
are not true. They never last
in the Belton McKenna, Zopa and things that are too narrow are not
sustainable. And things that are exclusivist, and are exclusivist,
are not sustainable. And things that are, I would say
are anger based condemnation based.
They're not sustainable. I got a complaint the other day about a
brother
he went off to college his first year apparently he has been
watching your love videos the whole year and he came back to
fear the whole Musk Yeah, the whole he won't pray behind them
we'll pray he'd been right there all caps they don't affirm that
God hasn't right
we affirm what Allah for him for himself and we negate what Alana
get it for himself, and Alana good for himself parts going to allow
ahead. He's one in himself. There's no parts. We negate for
Allah just a material body.
material bodies are created things right? We negate that there's
anything eternal with Allah, pre eternal with Allah. Nothing's
infinite except Allah. Nothing has is a will will occur. Except Allah
nothing is a first without beginning except Allah. So if
you're saying that any of these things, you're affirming something
else along with him. Right? Some piece of matter along with him.
So that's a basic, offbeat thing. But
saying Muhammad Ali will Maliki the biography on him, states the
one who challenged the narrowminded.
He challenged them. He stood up like a lion in the 20th century in
Mecca.
His family comes from a family of scholars that originated from
Morocco of course from ages eyelid Bates has any to Morocco
eventually back to Mecca
and his father was a great scholar
and his grandfather was great scholar he's Mohammed ibn Allah we
even are best at Maliki
I think it was Halloween Maliki
his brother was also a bus. Yeah.
His his his father, if I'm not mistaken, was famous for his
striking appearance. Look up Halloween Maliki himself striking
appearance and a very skinny white beard. And he used to teach high
schoolers. They said Schiff, you're a big there is get that
picture. How do we have an ambassador Maliki?
They said, You're a big chef. Why don't you come and teach in the
college? He said I prefer the high school that age. I prefer that
formative age.
Allah we,
even our best and Maliki used to teach the youth and he didn't want
to ever leave teaching the youth. So
his son, now why is he called Allah? We are Burson Maliki the
grandfather. He had trouble having a children.
So he's in the Haram one day, one one of the Alama I don't know his
I can't remember who it was. From, how the remotes al Balawi. How the
remotes has a family of Elliott Bates,
called Al Balawi.
The most much awaited lineage of adult baits on the earth is
theirs, because they live in an isolated area.
Not a lot of comings and goings, not a lot of strangers, not no
migration. You never see mass migration to Yemen, right? There's
no resources there to migrate to. There's a wisdom for why Allah
makes places barren and people live there to preserve something
because no one's going to come in and migrate to you. The most.
The most concentrated and motivator is the presence of the
descendants of the prophets of Allah who sent them or they're,
like, from the whole town maybe 70% or a little bit and they
descend even though it's said that Al fakra raazi fakra raazi. He was
in lineage
documenter he actually in his book, it has said he missed or the
copyist missed, I don't know.
All day dilla.
Son of Akhmatova ace had been ASA he had four sons. Three he left in
busta one Abdullah he took with him to other modes.
Abdullah then out of humility change his name to Obaidullah so
Abdullah Mohammed bin ASA and obaidul live and I have it an ASA
are one in the same.
The other three remained in Beseler, Iraq, where there was
fitna with the Commission's and I haven't been I used to left the
fitna went to Medina, went to Mecca, then ended up in how the
remotes then ended up in. Eventually that family ended up in
Teddy. I don't know if they want to attend him straight away, but
it was Hadhramaut that they stayed. So I'm going to Ben ASA
and his son
obey the law. And then the family begin from there.
Well, this one of their scholars was in Mecca, I burst and Maliki
complaint. I'm having trouble getting a son make dua for me.
mediately his wife became pregnant shortly thereafter. And he
attributed that during the pregnancy to the that men who
comes from a family they would start whole families called
Balawi.
So he named his son ology for that reason.
And since then, they had great relations between this family.
This has any family that originally from Morocco is now
resettled in Mecca for some some generations. And they were Medicus
and the Shafi al Balawi that's why this person whose pictures up on
the screen right now, how do I point there?
His name is Allah we for that reason.
Yes, his father was the one that was that was in the Haram in the
Sahar with one of the battery scholars and to honor that lineage
that heritage he named his son Allah we
that's how that's why.
And now his son is Muhammad.
So Muhammad, even Allah, we even Abbas al Maliki al Macky. That's
his full name that he is known by. What was from
his childhood. He loved the dean. From his he was one of those just
gifted from his childhood. He's loved the dean.
And he studied with the shukhov
Makka he then studied with the shoe of Medina, he studied with he
and he went to Syria. And he took this Kira at he took their ads
from
the chef, are you in a suit?
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Let's see is shake.
I don't know if they have that here but he studied with your
disease. Are you in a suit?
He studied with Sheikh Abdulaziz Are you gonna sue tell him see
he studied
it as her. He wants to Morocco. He took from the Romanies there. He
went to Sudan. And he studied with the some many other he took from
the same men scholars are the same many.
He went to how the remotes and he studied with the Habib Habib Ahmed
Mohammed bin soulmates.
He would travel if he learned anybody had a hadith book that he
had never studied. He went and took it from him. Such that his
book of justice is like this big in Hadith. Yep. Justice is a chain
of transmission he took from Have you ever had dad Have you ever had
the pleasure of soccer if he studied with
Mohammed Al Mustafa, Allah Wishon PT in Medina.
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He studied with a say the city of Mohammed and McTell cat Danny
Mufti amalickiah in Sham
in Lebanon.
He studied with St. Muhammad Salah Hill for four
right.
He studied with as Sharif Idris is Sanusi
before he was who was the king of Libya and a scholar. He studied
from him.
At a Kumari we said that Mohammed bin Taha Ignacio, the famous even
offshore, he took knowledge from him.
He took knowledge from a Rahal in Morocco he he took knowledge from
a Sharif Montecito KITTANNING, Muhammad matassa rootkit, Danny.
He took knowledge from Mohammed Bilka. It's
a decoy in Algeria. Muhammad Baraka it. That's a big name.
You'll see that and when you talk about the Fatah al Maliki Fidel in
Algeria, Belka Belka it comes a lot. Then he went to the
subcontinent to in the subcontinent he took from Abu ufer
Afghani.
He took knowledge from a lot of Billa Mustafa Donald Braley,
he took knowledge from Muhammad Shafi a Deobandi hit yeah the
tequila swan is that Muhammad Shafi he took knowledge from huh
oh, they're gonna he took for knowledge from Mohammed Mohammed,
Zachary Candela we see we don't know this stuff. We don't know
this these dividends. I can't even tell you who's who. And I don't
want to tell you so.
I would have seen in midweek. Another way I mean, took knowledge
from him. Mohamed Habib Rahman Al Alami.
Took knowledge from him.
He went to Sudan, he took knowledge from Ibrahim Abu No.
So many scholars. Now.
His main goal was to refute the lies told by the Wahabis about the
Ashara.
That was his main goal and in that he wrote his famous book Mefa. He
Mujib and two Zaha
understandings that must be corrected.
Number one, being these people are just a bunch of grave worshipers
that dust it off and worship are grave and make draw to a grave.
First of all, who said that we never said his father can be sick,
of course it can be. It can be shaken to is that we have to
negate immediately. The first way is if you're asking any created
being dead or alive, who can help you and who cannot help you.
Something that only Allah can grant you. If you go to a big
ship, and you say, oh, Schiff freaking my sins, as if it's the
pope priest or something. Right? You can't do that. Only Allah can
forgive your sins. Only Allah can forgive your sins.
But if you say to anybody
helped me buy a car. That's something the creation can do. Of
course you can you pray, but also the creation can help you buy a
car. So that would never be the same.
I can't wait to be should, is if you believe the person in front of
you has absolute power.
Right?
If you don't believe him to be a means just a means and you see
some people get too obsessed with somebody to the point that you may
think Hold on a second, this person doesn't have absolute
power, right? They tried to go to some rich person, give me some
money, help me get a car helped me get a career helped me get my all
that in? Do you have belief that he has absolute power? Any Muslim
has to say no. Right? Sometimes you say no, but you act like Yes.
And you need to be corrected. But as long as he says no Colossi is
not a pagan. If you say yes, you're a pagan, right? You've
given a partner with Allah made a partner with Allah. So the two
ways together can be shut up for sure. Asking what only Allah can
grant you. That means you've given a divine attribute to a creative
being, like, forgive all my sense, create something, or
asking, believing that person has absolute power. Beyond that, once
you after those two, you put a line right there. Everything else
can be discussed as discouraged. Forbidden waste of time, no
problem, but it won't be shook, will not be shook.
As for the dead, do we even do we genuinely have objectively factual
knowledge that they could help you? Is it with certainty or with
speculation? It was speculation. It's a bunny knowledge, right?
Therefore, if somebody says he can't benefit you, we won't say
you're 100% you're wrong. He could be right. Yeah, maybe the. So this
specie concept of asking you that a dead person can help me in the
world is very tenuous in the first place, right, that that could
happen. Do you cannot prove it objectively to anybody? That yes,
for sure. Secondly, the whole world will call you a mushrik for
doing this, therefore, go with what Sheikh Hamza
Hamza beggary says, avoid something that's going to cause
you to be accused, or what people will think that you have a wrong
belief about this sort of wood in the first place.
But those are the two circumstances in which it could be
saved Muhammad Ali and Maliki covered these things, or the other
lie that's always told they deny the attribute of God, if we do not
attribute it out, how are we interpreting it? No, they
interpret certain words of Allah in a certain way.
That would negate a body and a location for Allah. That's it. You
if you denied it, you can interpret it. Right. So what we
just simply the sad Akita denies that it is the external physical,
meaning that that is the baseline.
That's the baseline of all in terms of the attributes that sound
like they would be created things
or limbs, or things that have composed of matter or location.
That's it, we've gone over this 1001 times. But that was his goal.
And one of them also, was the gatherings of the mula, that the
prophets of Allah when he was on them, in which we say the
rationale behind that in Islam is that celebration of things is
permitted as a default,
provided that what we're celebrating is permitted. Right?
And then the secondary issue is that the way that you celebrate is
permitted. So let's take two examples. So and So
became the first
Muslim actor
in an indecent movie, right? Celebration.
You can have the most Halal celebration, the whole thing is
haram from start to finish, or I opened a bar I opened a liquor
store. Let's have a celebration, but we're gonna put a barrier
curtain brothers on one side sisters on one side, bring the
right right hi dad food, what are you celebrating the bar? So all
everything that we're doing
is Islamically lawful in the celebration, the whole thing is
unlawful, your presence in it, your attendance to it, even if
it's in its lawful. Okay, so the item being celebrated is the first
thing. The second thing is the manner of celebration now let's
say okay, so and so he memorized the whole Quran. Is that worthy of
celebration? Sure. That's worthy of celebration, so let's celebrate
it. Okay, what do we celebrate it with? Now? Some of the food's not
halal, we're mingling other things that are unlawful. So how do we
understand that your presence is lawful and good, but the doing the
unlawful things is haram.
Right? Doing what's unlawful is haram. So if you go there, but you
say, I'm only going to do what's lawful, you're good to go.
So the unlawful stuff is happening over there. I'm over
Here, I'm good to go. Fellas. Right?
So, just like in the time of the Prophet peace be upon him. He used
to pray in the mosque, yes or no, of course, used to pray at the
cab. Were their idols there. Yes, so presidents with the munkar can
sometimes is excusable
if you can avoid it.
So the purpose of such a party for memorizing the Quran is good and
noble. But if a couple people are doing unlawful things, you just
don't do that. If they put blasting music and dancing in one
room, just don't go in that room.
That's the difference. So the other accusation, they said,
you're not allowed to schedule things.
Okay, it's a weak one. And I could say, Okay, fine. It's an opinion.
It is an opinion. It's not, that's why I said narrowing what Allah
made vest, you cannot narrow it elements. Yes, that is an opinion.
Fair enough. Don't schedule something on a routine basis and
do it all the time, because that becomes an innovation. First of
all, when they said that becomes an innovation, they mean mcru
Bidda Makaha, not the bid that removes from Edison, not for them.
Any Bidda found in any book removes you from Edison, your
McDonough, that's not the case.
Most of what emetic calls more death, he means mcru
Bedava, crua. Right. Cara here is about not bid that removes you
from it. So now we won't pray behind you. We won't do anything
behind you. We have to isolate you. We can't talk to you know,
that's not the case at all. So scheduling something we can say.
Are you sick? Are you saying that there's one opinion in the whole
Islamic world of scholarship on scheduling things? That's
ridiculous, right. There's multiple opinions? And I'll send
them with your opinion. All right. Here's another one.
Reciting things in unison. All right. Fair enough. Let's say
again, are you saying there's only one opinion and all of Islamic
scholarship on reciting something using? So I'm setting them that to
the fact that scheduling things has cut down on it?
There's opinions reciting in unison, has opinions,
has opinions. So we're there's a vastness to it. And if someone is
upon something that has a sound opinion amongst the scholars, then
there's no room now for incar.
There's no There's no room now for condemnation. You don't condemn
what is difference different upon by the scouts. scheduling things
annually, or weekly is different upon doing things in us unit units
in unity in one voice is different upon. So there's no one caught at
that point. You can say I recommend you take this opinion is
better, but I'm not going to do it. But there is no one cut. And
where there's by the way, where there's a difference of opinion.
It's cut off here. But I'm a crua, not the bidder that removes you
from Edison. Those are things in beliefs.
Yeah, they shouldn't. Even in hedge and an aid, they should not
intentionally be in unison if they're accidentally in unison,
fine.
That's the opinion. Yeah. It's not just their opinion, by the way, we
have medikidz We have that opinion. It's a legitimate
opinion.
But
it's not the only opinion. That's the thing. Why are we saying do
not narrow what Allah made vast, there is a lot of scholarship,
there are a lot of things that are up for discussion, who have
opinions that differ from yours.
100 views, just because you said something like, that doesn't mean
like all of you guys are exactly off the walls, like you have an
opinion, fine, I'm not gonna yell at
you that there are opinions in methods where your prayer would be
invalid in one method and valid in another.
We are will do what we'll do is invalid in one method and valid in
another. For example, I'm going to go in the medical school if I make
wudu without intention and without rubbing
the four obligatory parts that is invalid in our school, you and you
pray with suits or Bacara and Le Emraan and sujood equal the
length. We get up to you and say pray again, right? If you did that
intentionally, and that's that what you knew not knowing what's
the Hanafi opinion, right?
That of course, we would say Okay, let's get immaculate for this
brother. Hanafi mockridge. But I'm just saying that it valid in one
totally valid in another. That's the whole point, idea and concept
of schools of thought.
And you cannot skim down one school of thought and apply to the
whole Ummah, then elevate their deviation from that or their
difference from that to deviations of innovation you're out of and as
soon do it. You can't sustain it. You're the crest
This wave will break within four to five to 10 years, less than 10
years. Charla because that's usually how it is. human behaviors
like that just happened in the 90s to it came in like a wave,
everyone's an innovator.
Within three years, they're like, oh, we can't sustain this like,
but I got to talk to my mom and
I got to talk to my friends, right. They're all innovators.
Oklahoma's innovators.
They really want to make sure.
Yeah, that's it. And not only that, it's they reach their final
conclusion, because when you say hold on a second, are you saying,
Mmm, no, he's an innovator. I think even hundreds and innovator,
you know, what they finally reached? They finally reached the
conclusion that yes, they are. Yeah, they've
heard this. Yeah, they look at this.
Look at this one here. The idols of this age, as Sukiya CLT is not
just Salam and Noah will be the biggest 100 Allah Ghazali and then
it has idols. These are all idols and it has someone breaking them.
Right. So yeah, it seems to be that the line that they couldn't
go past is nowhere near even 100 No one would dispute them. Even
CLT. They yes, they say he's laying in Hadith, but he was such
a respected scholar. No one came near him. Right.
But then so when you took their books, and you said can you look
at please look at
shot Muslim of Norway, and he has a shoddy updater in there. Can you
please take a look at his book on? It's got a Tiberian fee as a
homiletic Quran. Deb how many Quran in Baba imam in Norway and
see here that he says resetting in unison is completely valid and
recommended. Can you please take a look at
what have been Hotjar said on off leader? Can you please take a look
at what CLT said on the molded.
They use the had some edit with that and paused. Now they took it
to the logical conclusion. They're all heretics. So that leaves you
with about so who's left in Islamic history?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And it also is the Islam began as a strange thing and ends as a
strange thing. Try it. What about the middle? Right? The middle
there is no one on the truth anymore. All of these Allamah of
Sofia and Maliki and Aetna, they're all innovators. It's not
it's not tenable. That's I'm saying you should leave this
thing. Let it run its course, because it's going to break. It
has the press will break.
So it's super Jewish. Like the way it really is like, basically, they
just try pushing the problem, right? And then like ignoring it
like Okay, so let's say, you know, one book of a pseudo study is like
rolling to another of them, which is completely based off the
mostess for you. Yeah, so you're studying the works was?
Without saying you're studying, you're basically 100%. Right? So
it's like just pushing the problem and trying to cope with it no,
like, and then that's an IED, right. There's not one sign they
have that doesn't have a shot, if they want to be if you want to
have those opinions, you can have those opinions. But you cannot
hold that this is the only opinion. That's a difference. And
you cannot elevate an innovation from what was intended to be
meaning discouraged to deviation deviant out of a sunnah, because
that's how they treated.
And when you read the traditional scholars, and they said something
is death. It's an innovation he means by it's discouraged. It's
something that didn't happen before. We don't like to go that
route, therefore we deem it discouraged, not the innovation
that renders you to be akin to a che, for example, in this
innovation, said Muhammad went that route. And
they ended up calling for his head.
They wanted him executed for heresy.
And he ended up having a meeting with King fat. And let's read what
he says you're a descendant of the generations of medical imams in
the Grand Mosque in Mecca. His work was a serious challenge to an
austere view of Islam that had spread in certain circles of power
and it led eventually to his arrest in order to avert a crisis.
It was a crisis because if you execute this man or even put him
in jail, the whole Islamic OMA would have rose risen up from
Morocco to Egypt, to Indonesia, to Syria to Iraq, the whole Islamic
Ummah with Rosen risen up because of how much they honor him.
He personally stepped in and had a personal meeting one on one king
fat and said Muhammad
and he made it clear that you're under our protection, and they
made a deal. The simple deal was teaching your home only and he
didn't have just a home he had a compound, a whole city block in a
row safe
For I believe it was in Mecca. And in the front of that city block
you entered into a courtyard, then you knock on the door. It's opened
up, and it's a public small Masjid area, which was his type of Zoja.
Beyond that, there was a door behind that was a humongous hall
where all the classes took place and the big events took place a
huge, bigger than me I see that all around that were apartments.
The students lived in apartments and at the end of it was his home.
It was like literally had a compound in Mecca, a whole city
block in which he did his activities. If he went ever left
the house, he couldn't speak publicly.
So
after that meeting, he says Abdullah King
was his successor. After his passing. He said, al Maliki was
faithful to his religion and to his country. King Abdullah
said this who was the king after fat, because fat had died, then
said Muhammad Ali. Maliki died under the reign of or in the reign
of King Abdullah.
He had a huge gathering huge gatherings in Mecca, Medina all
privately and he was on TV. He was on the famous
TV station. He was on a lot of Arab TV stations Syrian TV,
anytime he went to Egypt, huge throngs you should see his
gatherings in Indonesia. stadiums, you know how these Indonesian
gatherings are? Right? Like 80,000 is a small number in Indonesia,
you have a gathering of 80,000 small number
right.
Most social activities during Ramadan or at night, the author
Peter Sanders says I entered his small room I saw that the only
light source was a strip lighting that gave off an eerie green cast.
My heart sank at seeing it unflattering light looking through
the lens at the shape however, it all seemed irrelevant. And the
picture turned out
really good. I had the opportunity to revisit him eight years later,
during his son's wedding, his beard had turned white and his
health was failing. Despite this, he was a perfect toast. We had an
enchanting night in his company. As the guests arrive we listened
to some of the most beautiful singing in praise of the prophets
of Allah who it was some of them someone can find it to me later
that while alive the ship had named the rooms in his house after
some famous cities. If someone rang for the chef at an
inconvenient time, they could say without lying, he's in Riyadh,
Medina or Cairo. Oh my gosh, that's beautiful. That is
beautiful. Subhanallah so I can name my one room out. Right? Or or
South Brunswick, or New Brunswick, or the masjid or
the st. Mohammed's main goal in his works was what he called an
omen Nova. All sciences pertaining to say to Coney Island, salatu,
salam,
Hadith, Sera Shem at all questions surrounding the Adapa visiting his
grave
all these things and that's what said Muhammad Ali and Maliki
he did with his life and he fought and he was always very cheerful
said Muhammad was extremely cheerful.
He's extremely cheerful, that was his his thing. And it was very
surprising and unsettling for people when he went for surgery.
And his reaction to the surgery was a he was always down
then then that passed and he was back to his normal self but he was
always cheerful
Yes, we linked his video so what is that video on his own life?
Yes, please do send it Can you can you send it to him?
Sure, who
knows man
jumps on
like
yeah, am in Cambridge, and literally a week before I came
here
yeah,
let's go to the q&a now.
We only have a few minutes. We got to run actually, I have to run but
I have an appointment at three
Shoot, not what's on it's a necklace.
Yeah, by the way, there's there's a there's no classes. I don't even
know why we're streaming. It's the third day of Eid technically
right.
Yeah. Could you say that this semester?
All right, couple more questions
Is it possible for someone to have a pious child's, but he has a
disobedient sinner, Father, thus Of course it's possible.
It's possible
Adam is asking about the beard. As we said, we, we always have those
questions regarding the article on the beard, taking more than what
is needed to make the appearance presentable.
Yes to so there is a range in our audit in our customs of what is
unnecessarily short and unnecessarily long. That's the
idea. So it's all it's a custom. You can't necessarily put a strict
definition to it.
Is it true that eating cat is mcru in the Maliki school, so is eating
dog mcru canines those animals with canines, Medic interpreted
the saying of the Prophet avoid animals do not eat animals with
canines, as mean meaning the hunting animals animals that hunts
predator animals as discouraged because it's abnormal and it's
disgusting. So therefore eating cats and dogs and the medical
school is discouraged, not forbidden in medical school.
The also an eating is from Surah Al Anon, color as you do female oh
here la Muhammad Allah Timon Illa Ania Hakuna. So, the key word here
is, I do not find anything forbidden except that which was
revealed to me.
I do not find from what was revealed to me forbidden except so
therefore, that the methodology of determining what's lawful and
unlawful in terms of food is that which is in the Quran. Therefore
anything from the Prophet peace be upon him would didn't incur entail
discouragement.
I don't think he mentioned your time with him. I didn't mention my
time with them like to really speak about myself too much as a
bad habit. But I will tell you a little bit about my time with him.
That
was two years in a row and happy about it, Jeffrey had come to
Washington DC to begin his US tour. The second time
was none of the first time was 911 happened. While on the day he was
leaving, he was on the car ride to leave 911 How he had to turn right
back around. And he ended up sort of, I would say trapped in
Washington for a long time.
Two weeks, nothing to do, just watching the news. And the whole
tour is cancelled. So at that time was at GW
and I will go from my from class straight as to the house that he
was staying at and stay the whole day.
And then second year, he came again visited.
At that time, we became well very well acquainted. And of course, I
had met him in Teddy Mehman, as well. So we had been acquainted
enough for me to say, to ask him for
advice on my master's thesis, I want to do a biography. So he said
do it on how to be able to call it a subgraph Have you had that
received Muhammad Ali when Maliki so I said well, I'll do I'll say
Mohammed al Maliki because have you ever thought about there's a
cough is very sick. Have you ever had that passed away? So who's
living said Pamela hammock. So I want to see him. So he made some
phone call and sent a message saying as a reference, this person
we know him because it's highly guarded. It's highly guarded.
So we know him. Let him in. And he could do the study when he called
to say directly himself. Now when I got there, I can't remember if I
had a duck a letter from him or not. I can't remember. When I got
there. I was so excited. I get to the address. I knock on the door
and someone opens a little window Indonesian student who was
responsible, I guess, for gatekeeping. And
I said I'm here
here and I have a
I have
permission to do a study on Sayed Mohammed and to meet with him, you
know, this summer, meet with them everyday in the summer and sit in
his Halaqaat and follow him around basically.
He left.
He left, right, and he closed the door, close the thing. I was like
what just happened? And knock again.
Right? He now he says stop with your lies and leave the closing.
Here I am like this is the most exciting day in like the last
three years for me, right?
And I'm getting the door shut in my face. Right? It's like
I couldn't believe what was happening. I was so upset. You
can't imagine how upset it was not this wasn't the time I pick up the
phone and call someone there were no wasn't like that. This is
2002 2003 I think? No, no, it was 2002 Pretty sure. Yeah. 2002 There
was no such thing as call somebody making international calls was a
headache. So I get I'm in the huddle man.
eventually meet a friend.
I meet somebody who knows, said Mohammed and the group.
And we and he ends up saying okay, well let me take care of this for
you. He goes with me next time, knocks on the door that Indonesian
boy yells he yells at him so badly. And like okay, we won't let
him It
immediately goes in. And he said this is the student. The master
student has already told you will be coming to sit with you. And
that student or they're kicked him out the day before that point,
Indonesian. He got berated so badly, right. He got berated, so
badly, right? For not asking, not confirming just rejecting right
away. But that turned out to be for my benefit. Because I got on
his radar now. I'm like far more on Save Muhammad's radar than
before. And now he
would always tell me to come up. And every day he'd give me a
different book. Alright, you're go home and read this. And sometimes
he would write a prayer in it or write something in it or in debt.
Debt, like a message. Alright, your homework tomorrow, or read
this come back with any questions. And he had these theology books
and other books in different subjects.
And I would go and I would spend all day reading the books, spent
all day in the Mecca library.
Getting the biographies of his family and all those in the Mecca
library where the Prophet was born some Lodi, somebody put a library
there, of course, I don't think it's there anymore. It's outside
the suffering module. Then Maghreb time comes at the Statehouse.
Margaret, Tasha, then everyone leaves after I
have rotted Russia, they reset the rotted there then they have Azure.
And it's a I would say it's a room smaller than the studio here in
terms of its length, but wider. And he would sit on a big chair
right at the front. And anyone who needed Him will talk and his
friends, some businessman would come in and they just sit along
the edges like you could sell very fancy films and all that and what
throws and everything. They sit on the edges, maybe they could have
relax, unwind. This says you know, say a couple things to each other
chit chat between Magnum and Aisha that was the daily routine.
And then after Aisha down back to the HUD home to study with the
Mauritanians.
So the day he was all alone, pretty much from morning until
Monday, all alone, just reading the books and going to the Mecca
library.
Right, and,
and then in the afternoon, go into savings. So I ended up with a pile
of all of his books, or a lot of his books. He has over 80 books,
but I had a lot of his books. And
and then he would had an edit and some of them and studying all
these books as much as I could during the day. Bring him
questions at night. And that's how we that's how it was. And luckily,
he didn't travel the whole summer. He was there the whole summer.
When did the PhD did that wrote came back wrote the Master's
dissertation.
50 pages, guess who was my face? Not a lot. But you know, when
you're young, it's a lot.
The
professor from my masters students at Muhammad said was
not serious, endless. Yeah. said no, I knew his apprentice list and
he was a Sunday. Right? He knew I didn't do that thing. And like we
had pizza, it only became an issue. When certain Sunday
scholars were trickling it down as if it's
acceptable ideas or not warning people about these ideas, but we
knew pretty much each other where we stood. And but we records we
had great relations, a great relationship, I would say me and
say it was endless. Like he was really nice to me and really good
to me. And he made sure that I was taken care of in the master's
program and my reference letters were oh good and
Everything like that. So I only went ballistic on the idea when it
trickled down into Sunni
through the study Quran into so many circles and no one said
anything No one saying alright it's a great book but just be
careful just like they do with a machete or you would do with any
other booklet even conceive. It's a great book but on certain off
data points and the C fats he does
may not make tansy something like that.
That will be fine if you did that. So probably be issues but at least
you're warning about it.
So said Saito seminar was very good.
And that's I submitted that paper so that's my experience with
saying Muhammad Allahu in Maliki and then he died two years later.
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