Shadee Elmasry – Mujahada – NBF 402
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused struggles for people, including negative effects on physical health and the loss of people and negative impacts on physical health. The importance of learning about physicality and theology is emphasized, along with the struggles of Catholics and their beliefs about their beliefs. The Sharia culture is discussed, including the use of steel, sword, box, and sharia. The importance of following social and physical rules and staying safe is emphasized, as well as the need for strong personal ties to leaders and the importance of staying safe.
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Welcome everybody to the Safina Saadi nothing but
facts live stream where every day, every stream
we do is Mashallah getting better and having
as much impact, more impact as the one
before it.
And yesterday was definitely one of those days.
Unfortunately, you saw we had a power crash
because I guess it was the new stove.
Right?
I guess it was the the new stove
that we got it downstairs in the soup
kitchen.
Plus we went so late.
So they started cooking for the soup kitchen.
The dinners are on Wednesday and this soup
kitchen Mashallah everyone is helping us pitch in
to finally close off on this building.
It's just going to inching there close off
on the building.
Then everything about it is rent.
Right?
So humbler Mashallah.
It's going well.
I am with a guest today.
She has said a lot clearly.
He's he's been here before and you saw
him before today.
We'll have one camera set up but you'll
hear his voice when as we speak and
today we're covering the subject of Mujahidah which
is struggle and struggle can only exist to
the degree that you have knowledge and struggle.
Who do we have here?
What is this Vivek or what?
Come in.
Come on in.
Who?
I'm mad.
I don't know seven.
From far away.
I thought that was Vivek Ramazani.
So come on and take a seat.
How are you man?
Are you a guest coming through or what?
No, sir.
He takes out of the classes from somebody
online and you take and I happen to
take the same out of the class.
Allahu Akbar.
Mashallah.
Mashallah.
I want to know about you too.
You mentioned from he mentioned into the Shaito
online and you mentioned to me and ever
since I've been following you.
Mashallah.
Alhamdulillah.
It's a pleasure to see you here.
Mashallah.
And so you're from Jersey.
I was originally from New York.
Houston.
Yeah, he's from his well.
He just was in Houston visited Houston.
So you live in Houston?
Which message there?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, that there is Sheikh Muhammad there.
Yes.
Mashallah.
Muhammad Al Faruqi.
Yeah, Mashallah.
It was a great is a great young
man.
It's a great young man.
Way back in the day.
I went to Sugarland, Texas and I taught
Arabic in that message.
For two weeks and it was just like
everything in Texas is bigger, right people in
you know, it's funny people in England.
They come to the to Jersey, New York
East Coast anywhere like East Coast and like
wow, houses are so huge.
Wait till you go to Texas, man.
I mean and everything is buildable.
You might buy five acres here and they'll
tell you 2.5 is buildable.
The other 2.5 or swamp, right?
It's too wet.
There's too much water under the ground.
So you can't build like you could put
maybe a soccer play soccer there or something
and walk with feet, but you can't put
cars there.
Can't put a building there and everyone here
knows that we are streaming from the great
state of New Jersey and we have as
some people saying H town in the house.
That's what they call it H town Houston.
Yeah.
I'm not so we were saying that and
we're going to pick up on the proofs
of Revelation next Monday or next Tuesday, but
we were talking about Mujahidah struggle.
You cannot struggle if you don't know what
to do and on top of that if
you don't know what to do you may
end up struggling for the wrong cause and
I'm not talking political or cause only it
could be wrong political cause it could be
a wrong theological cause but it also could
simply be a spiritual effort that is useless.
Exactly putting your your physical resources and your
physical.
Thank you.
Your physical full physical effort into something that
is completely useless.
The Catholics have this extreme cult that wears
braces around themselves.
The braces have pricks in them.
So by the end of the day, they
tie this brace and all day.
They're in a severe discomfort and at the
end of the day they come out when
they take it off the prick has gone
into their skin.
So they have like lines of pricks and
they're supposed to feel the pain of Jesus
in that.
So when Islam comes around to these places,
they're coming to free you from these things
that you imagine was good for you, but
it's really bad for you monasticism to not
marry.
That's really bad for you.
They obligated upon themselves as Surat Al-Hadid
says in the last page.
They obligated on themselves, but they couldn't keep
it up.
Right?
They could not keep it up because it's
bad for you.
You're trying to do something get close to
God, but it's bad for you.
Mr. Houston, because everything's on a museum, right?
Everything's on a museum.
Bismillah.
Hey, as soon as you get it on
balance.
Should we heat this up for our guests?
But you just got off the flight.
You just got off a flight.
No, no, no.
Okay.
I was supposed to come see you there
yesterday.
Mashallah.
Brother here saying Joe Rogan and JD Vance
had a very Islamophobic conversation and few have
commented on it.
Of course, JD Vance.
Of course, he must be.
Oh, JD Vance again.
I thought they talked well before.
Listen, the whole new cabinet.
It's basically a collection of Crusaders, Templars, Zionists,
Hindutvas.
That's what the new cabinet is all about.
And it just so happens that they're all
anti-woke.
Right?
They're like against multi-gender.
They're against, they're more on the common sense
side of things.
So we don't have really any good choices.
The only people who are somewhat tolerant to
the Muslim identity.
I can't say they're tolerant to the Muslim
Aqidah.
They're not tolerant to Muslim Aqidah or law.
The left may be tolerant to a Muslim
identity, tolerant to different skin colors.
But they're also tolerant to every other Iblisi
-looking, demon-looking type of person who has
crazy ideas about life and reality.
Like they're way off.
Without any absolutes.
They have no absolutes.
So they're off on reality itself.
The right, they're grounded in the same basic
things that human beings have been grounded in.
Like there's a truth.
There's guys and girls.
There's men and women.
Those, but yeah, but their theology and politics
is dead against ours.
So you're picking your poison here.
There's nothing you could do about it.
من بين فرث و دم لبن الخالصة Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala says between filth and
blood in the cow.
Between where the filth is, defecation comes out.
And where the blood is, must be some
other organ, is pure milk comes out.
I guess where is the blood cleaned out?
I don't know.
In the cow.
But من بين فرث و دمن Which is
Allah is showing us that subhanahu wa ta
'ala, this is not an accident.
If it's an accident, this chances of this
happening will be very few.
They're probably mixed, right?
من بين فرث و دمن Then the udder
of the milk, the milk is produced there,
right?
So maybe I don't know.
Do we only want to get into the
anatomy of a cow?
I mean, it's sort of tafsir, right?
Well, let's see what Omar pulls up.
The anatomy of a cow.
Where there blood, where there's milk, and then
there's filth.
So Omar will look that up for us.
When you have something, let us know.
In the meantime, we're going to continue.
Okay.
All right, share that when you're ready.
When you have something for us.
These are, these are, yeah, maybe, all right,
bring it.
We'll see.
Go to the interior organs.
They're saying here, struggling, you may struggle for
the wrong cause, and a person may struggle
his entire life for the wrong cause, and
waste his entire life, as Surah Al-Kahf
says.
He thinks he's doing good his whole life.
Turns out he was wrong.
Now, why is this such a shock to
people?
When sometimes people say, my gosh, he really
tried hard, right?
As if to sympathize with the struggle element,
irrespective to the accuracy element.
Well, human beings, when they're trying to do
stuff, let's say, figure out astronomy.
For centuries, everyone got it wrong, right?
So the idea that a person for his
whole life gets it wrong, his whole life,
that's completely plausible.
It's completely feasible.
Omar, all right, that was a good picture,
Omar.
Let's go with that one.
You can't read it?
So, it's very plausible that not only is
your cause wrong, but also your efforts, your
spiritual efforts.
Mujahidah, it's struggle that is not just for
the purpose of spiritual struggle.
There's also Mujahidah in spreading the truth.
and this is where the study of Aqidah
is so important.
You cannot just take on your Aqidah as
simply as a matter of inheritance.
And Allah makes, mocks such a people.
And he says, they said our father, they
said our, we found our father's part of
this nation.
So we follow them too.
It's not how things are done.
He says here, If you strive in our
path, we will guide you, or if you
strive for us, we will guide you to
our paths.
This has many many different meanings.
One of the first meanings is that if
you strive in the truth early on in
your life, or early on in your path,
then Allah will show you all the paths
of good deeds.
So this ayah, when it's directed to the
beginner, to the newbie, you strive in what
you know.
A person may not know many things.
He may know like five things are haram
and five things are fard.
But he strives and he puts in effort
to do these things.
Then Allah Ta'ala will guide you to
the different paths of truth.
Are there different paths of truth?
Or is there one path of truth?
Well I ask you then, does a tree
have one trunk?
Or many trunks?
One trunk.
But does it have one branch?
Like you don't see a tree go straight
up and then have nothing at the top
or just a couple leaves at the top.
No, every single tree goes straight up and
then it branches off.
And they branch off in different beautiful ways.
It's almost like the ways that they branch
off is that the palm tree is different
from the oak tree, different from the pine
tree.
So palm trees, it's straight up and then
really hairy at the top.
Like someone with like a big hair at
the top.
Pine trees, evergreens are so pretty.
And evergreens make the, they make the air
so crisp and fresh.
Evergreens come up in the snow and the
branches come out from the bottom right away.
And it's it's the the trunk goes all
the way up and is never naked.
There's not a single part of the evergreen
and the pine tree that's naked where the
trunk is bare.
I should say bare is better.
So every tree is going to be different.
Then you have climbing trees also.
They branch out very, but the same concept.
You have one trunk and that is what
we call the qat'i, explicit text of
our religion that have one possible meaning only.
When you have, there are words, there are,
there are verses in the Quran that are
umm al-kitab.
They have one possible meaning only.
Anyone who goes against that is going to
be two options.
Either you went against a qat'i verse
that's mutawatir, you're out of Islam.
Or against a qat'i verse that's ahad,
you're out of Ahl as-Sunnah, meaning your
deeds don't count.
Out of Ahl as-Sunnah, you're not out
of a club.
It's not like we actually communicate you from
a club.
No, between you and Allah, your good deeds
don't count.
And between us and you, we're not going
to pray behind you anymore.
Haram to pray behind you.
But valid.
If your wudu is, if they're assuming their
wudu and salah is valid, then our salah
behind him is sinful but valid.
Now if he's, goes against mutawatir, qat'i
mutawatir, not even a Muslim anymore.
He's a zindiq.
His ibadah is invalid, invalid, for us to
pray behind him is invalid and invalid, haram.
Marriage, dissolved.
Death, go bury yourself somewhere else.
Mecca, no passport for you.
No visa.
So that's the zindiq.
And then the bid'i.
So you have, that's why we say there
are paths in Islam.
Once you pass the qat'i verses, then
you get to dhan'i verses.
Dhan'i means the verse can have multiple
meanings, right?
Then you have paths at that point.
So you have different options in different things.
So in the spiritual world, or in the
spiritual path, there are also, there are many
different good deeds a person can do.
So the aqeedah and the fard, the obligatory
deeds are all one and the same.
No difference on them.
But then you get to nafl.
So in our analogy of a tree, in
the spiritual path, the the spiritual path has
the obligations.
Everyone must do them.
Nobody can leave the obligations and avoid the
prohibitions.
But then you have extra deeds.
You're good at fasting.
You're good at talking.
You're good at doing dhikr.
You're good at studying knowledge.
You're good at giving charity.
Those who fulfilled, they struggled in the obligations.
Now we'll give you a gift.
Now there's different types of acts of worship
that you can specialize in.
And that will differentiate you from everybody else.
We all do the obligations.
So once a person has put the effort
in the obligations, then now Allah opens the
door to them.
And you see, oh, there is a soup
kitchen here.
I love that work.
There's dawah there.
I love that.
Virtual work online.
I love that.
Sitting with shuyukh and knowledge and traveling to
them and studying at their feet with notebooks
and texts.
I love that.
Dealing with youth.
Dealing with media.
Like making videos, what have you.
It's all, it's, there's so much to do.
And that's why recently when somebody asked a
lawfulness of living in the United States, it
said you can make it lawful by being
involved in the dawah.
In any way, shape, and form.
In any way, shape, and form.
That doesn't mean you have to be the
one giving the dawah.
Sure.
You may be the one funding the dawah.
You may be the one, and dawah, what
is dawah?
Dawah is a lot of things going on.
It's not just tabligh.
Tabligh is to tell a non-Muslim.
This is one of the best deeds you
can ever do.
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said the whole, if
the whole world was given to you versus
you give shahada to one person, giving shahada
is greater.
It's a reward, right?
So there's so many different deeds that a
person, and basically essentially boils down to be
involved in the community, in the jama'ah
of Muslims in some way, shape, and form
that's positive.
So for the beginner, those are the subul.
The path, my path to Allah is going
to be through dawah.
My path to Allah is going to be
through charity.
My path to Allah is going to be
through teaching little kids Arabic in an Islamic
school.
You know these women when I see them
teaching kids Arabic or teaching kids Quran, teaching
hadith.
From nine to five, they're getting good deeds.
Like, subhanAllah, like how do you end up
not in paradise?
You ask yourself the question.
Every year, they are the first teacher to
teach this kid alif, ba, or qul wa
Allahu ahad, or uridu an adhab ila alhammam,
things like that.
They're first person to teach them Arabic.
As-salamu alaykum.
Yeah, how to say as-salamu alaykum.
How to say subhanAllah 33.
Dua before eating.
That's the first person.
Your parents are too busy.
So they gave tawqiyah to you to do
it.
So that person is getting good deeds from
morning to evening.
And I tend to find that it's always
best to teach the kids.
Like, if you want an investment, go down
in age.
And earlier in Islam, it's always a greater
investment.
So when you have a huge scholar, and
all of his students are other scholars, let's
ask a question.
If he was removed, the harm in the
community would hardly be noticeable.
Because he's already teaching scholars.
You're already a scholar.
Now he's taking you from 90% knowledge
to 98% knowledge.
Or from an 80 to a 90.
But if you took out the intro stuff,
what happens to the community at that point?
That sheikh would not even have students to
teach.
Right?
So the more advanced, the more honored you
are, the more important you are, the greater
knowledge you are, no doubt about that.
There's no doubt.
That such a scholar is like the sun
in comparison to the stars, or the moon
in comparison to the stars.
There's no doubt about that.
But the actual impact that you're having is
actually less.
There's less of an impact on that person.
That person already, he's a scholar.
The path to paradise, he knows it already.
But now go down to when kids are
wayward teenagers and they get a good example
in their life.
That is so early on, that person could
have gone left, right, but he's now going
straight.
For the next 60 years, he's going to
benefit from that teacher.
Right?
From that one year that he spent with
that teacher, set him on the right track,
benefits him for 60 years.
So yes, he's smaller.
The smaller in comparison to the greatness of
a great scholar.
Again, we're not disputing that, but we're disputing
the actual impact.
Right?
And we're not saying we can afford to
lose one or the other, but the actual
impact when you go down lower in age,
your impact is probably, I would say, starting
at high school.
The impact is so powerful there.
And probably more powerful.
If you have, if you're in the life
of a high schooler for two years versus
in the life of a 40-year-old,
which one is a bigger impact?
40-year-olds are mostly already made up
his mind.
Maybe you just remind him, shake off some
dust, and that's it, some rust, and that's
it.
But the high school, you're literally setting them
on the track.
Every one of us, no matter what happened,
we have a special attachment to our first
teacher.
And another way to look at it, too,
is you could say that you know, somebody
who's younger, their heart isn't full yet.
Yeah.
It still has that emptiness.
And they're going to find something.
So if you're the one who can fill
it, then that heart is going to be
filled for the rest of its life.
Yeah.
Is it that teenager has, what, 60 years
to go on average?
Let's say.
And they say most people who leave their
religion, and I think that's over all religions,
they do it after high school.
Yeah.
Between high school and college.
Yeah.
Or in the beginning of their college years.
Once the shahawat, once the desires overtake, they
eclipse the light in the heart.
So here's another example.
Hamza Hussain says, if you take out PhDs,
no one notices, but take out school teachers,
what do you have?
What do you have?
So let's now go in a person's religious
path.
Let's say someone enters Islam at the age
of 35.
That first teacher he has, it's still the
same.
By analogy, it's the same thing, right?
That first teacher is so important.
When he's 55, khalas, he's cooked, right?
He's marinated and he's cooked.
Enough.
You're just maybe going to fix a few
things.
But that first teacher that he has, that
first influence, may be extremely detrimental, right?
It could be extremely beneficial, depending.
That's why that first teacher is so important,
and it kills me to see sometimes some
brothers get in touch with some influential person
who entered Islam, but they literally drive him
mad.
They just drive him into a desert.
They literally drive him into a place with
no nourishment.
Their religion has no, there is no juice
to it.
It's just stricture and no spirituality to it.
No common sense sometimes even.
So that person then suffers from 35 to
40.
Who knows if they keep their Islam or
not?
And that you see that happening all the
time.
Now for the what happened?
What is the khitab of this verse to
somebody who has advanced and someone who is
years and decades in the path of Allah?
Then this verse means waladheena jahadoo feena, those
who strived in our cause, khalas, now Allah
selected you as a to have a big
role to play in your family or community,
in your world.
It's now the path of paradise.
That this person now can enter from any
of the doors of paradise he wishes.
Let's take a look at, so depending on
where a person is in the spiritual journey
and the path with Allah, this ayah will
hit differently for them.
Ahmad Ibn Ubaid Al-Saffar.
He says from Ali Ibn Zaid, from Abu
Nathir, from Abu Saeed Al-Khudri.
The Prophet was asked on the greatest jihad.
The greatest jihad.
Wadami'at aina Abu Saeed.
There's a typo here.
There's two harakat on the meme.
Damiat aina Abu Saeed.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said in this
hadith narrated by Abu Dawood Tirmidhi and Ibn
Majah.
What is the greatest jihad?
He said to say the truth in front
of an oppressive ruler.
That is the greatest jihad to say the
truth in front of an oppressive ruler.
Wasami'at Al-Ustadh.
Who is the Shaykh of Sahib Ar-Risalat,
Imam Abdul Kareem Al-Qusayri.
Abu Ali Al-Dakqaq.
Abu Ali Al-Dakqaq is the name you'll
see all over the book.
Okay.
I heard our teacher Abu Ali Al-Dakqaq
say man zayyana zahirahu bil-mujahada hassanallahu sara
'irahu bil-mushahada.
All right.
So if you on this is essentially what
the spiritual path entails.
You put the effort forth.
You put the struggle forth.
Then Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala lets your inner
eye see the truth.
See truth of what?
It's the truth of whatever it is that
you're looking for.
Some people the truth to them is was
my dua accepted.
Some people the truth for them is what
is the sound aqidah.
Some people the truth for them is where
do I go study?
Or what should I do with myself now?
So the truth in that regard is slightly
different for each person.
Based on where they're at.
I shouldn't say the truth is different.
No, the truth that they're seeking is a
different truth.
One may be a totally personal truth.
Most of us in the beginning of our
path.
We don't know which path is right.
Like which group within ahl as-sunnah is
right.
And then there's like a gray area.
Are these people even of ahl as-sunnah?
Are they innovators?
We don't know that, right?
So that's the truth that we need.
Later on in life.
You don't ask those questions anymore.
Now, you need other truths.
Specific to yourself.
What should I do with myself?
Should I go here or there?
Just like what you're happening right now.
So whoever struggle on the outside, you don't
struggle after spirituality and spiritual opening has come
to you.
No, you struggle beforehand because you believe with
your mind.
This is what Allah wants me to do.
This is what Allah wants me to do.
This is what Allah loves.
This is what I'm going to do.
Now I do it and Allah ta'ala
opens the door for me.
And for us, mujahidah begins, spiritual struggle begins
with something small.
But you hack away at it daily.
For some people, I'm telling you, don't underestimate
anyone in, like sometimes we in masjid and
we live the masjid life and and we're
in the masjid dealing with human beings more
than we are online, right?
Some people are only online.
They dominate the internet.
That but then they go home and there's
nothing and there's no masjid.
There's no nothing.
Allah has blessed us with the ability to
have a masjid to be thankful for that
lets us do what we want to do
in it.
We have to be extremely grateful for that
because you actually get much more mentally and
spiritually and emotionally healthy in a masjid with
people than this virtual stuff.
This virtual stuff.
I love it only because it's balanced out.
That's why I can take any amount of
incoming mostly.
I don't want to say any.
When we get not trolls, haters and incoming
and hate, it's actually really easy to handle
it if you have physical people to go
to who don't even know what's going on,
right?
That's the beauty of it.
Local masjid, no one has a clue even
that you're online.
That's the beauty of it.
You see these guys and you enter into
their world now.
You see these older guys, you enter into
their world.
He has no clue even what your Twitter
handle is, right?
Let alone that it's on fire.
He has no clue.
And that when you go like, oh that
world, that Twitter world, it's a small world
of irrelevant.
It's not relevant to real life, right?
To me.
And boom, just like that within 30 seconds.
It's all gone.
It's deflated, right?
It's drained out and you realize the actual
physical humans that I deal with, they don't
even know.
They don't even care, right?
So balance is so important.
Having a physical masjid to go to.
But mujahidah should be, so when I go
to these masjid, people tell me all the
time, you with the students of knowledge and
all that stuff, you're around good people all
the time.
At least people who know stuff.
But I'm telling you in the back of
the masjid, I know a guy who doesn't
pray properly.
He doesn't make wudu properly.
He just committed zina last week.
So bring it down a little bit.
Go back to the basics a little bit
because a lot of people are at that
level.
And of course all of us at some
point were at that level.
So we shouldn't even be so shocked.
Like why are you so shocked?
Everyone was at that level, right?
It's just your, it's out of your memory
now.
You just don't remember it.
Literally a guy said to me one Jummah,
he said, you gave like this khutbah about
some topic, can't you remember?
And he said, I'm telling you, the guy
next to me, can you give a khutbah
on the prohibition of zina?
Zina.
The guy next to him says, yes, he
does commit zina, but he treats her well.
In his mind, he put together his own
structure of right and wrong, not knowing you
can't do that in Islam.
He said, yeah, but I treat her well.
Having a girlfriend is haram because you treat
her badly.
But I take care of her, right?
And what's the big difference?
What's it?
What is the difference whether I do that
or I come to the masjid first and
say, qabiltu ajibtu, whatever, right?
zawajtuki qabiltu.
Okay, maybe someday I'll do that.
Get some good deeds.
That's what he thinks.
Somehow, that's what he thinks.
Remember we were talking about your friend the
other day, your old friends, when they watch
anime and music and the stuff they say,
they have no clue that the words you
utter matter, right?
And people said another week.
Well, what if God was this?
And what if God is that?
And if I went died, I'm going to
talk to God, but he has no clue
that these things matter.
And that's why we cannot be so highfalutin
and not even realize that this is happening.
Then we can address it and talk to
it properly.
Your comments on that.
The people become lost in the fact that
they get maybe caught up in the outward
action being the same but forgetting about the
inward that there's something intangible that Allah subhanahu
wa'ta'ala puts between two people.
And that thing that's going to happen between
two people is going to come when there's
a good intention.
When they've gotten lost in society, right?
It's a concept of something that you know
is hidden that is intangible that subhanahu wa'ta
'ala azwajal, you know, just like what you
said about the first first one who's seeking
knowledge.
But if he takes care of himself in
the beginning and he strives in what he
knows, Allah will open up something for him.
There's something intangible that's in the striving and
something that you know a very little yeah,
but doing it the right way and striving
it and doing the very best that you
can do and having a class and having
adapt with what you understand.
That's that's a little Allah's going to give
to you more.
That's a summary.
Act upon what little you know, Allah gives
you more knowledge and on top of that
not just more knowledge of things to do.
But a knowledge that could not be attained
in books.
Wisdom, wisdom and knowledge that cannot be attained
in books.
They asked Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jailani.
They said one of the examples of even
wisdom in problem solving.
The scholars of Baghdad received a question that
they couldn't answer.
So they sent to Abdul Qadir Jailani.
They said a man has done a very
weird oath.
He said well lie if I do not
do an act of worship that only me
in this Ummah is doing then I divorce
my wife.
What a weird oath is that?
Okay.
So he said they said we couldn't think
of what is such a deed.
Abdul Qadir Jailani said immediately go down to
Mecca take my letter have the governor of
Mecca clear the Haram after Dhuhr.
No one makes Tawaf after Dhuhr.
It's too hot anyway, right?
So that is the time where you will
disrupt the people the least.
Keep in mind the Haram back in those
days was not like today.
It's around 100,000 people 24 hours a
day.
It's not like that.
My mother herself worked in Mecca as a
pediatrician and she said that there would be
a time the whole Safa and Marwah for
three four people.
And the Tawaf around the Kaaba two, three,
four every single time you go and you
kiss a black stone every single time.
There's no such thing as jamming for the
black stone at on a regular month outside
the Hajj months and outside of Ramadan.
Right, especially in the summer months.
No one would go to make Tawaf in
the in the middle of the day.
So they said clear it out and let
this man make Tawaf.
Therefore, he's the only worshipper.
He's the only believe Muslim doing that deed
at that time.
He did that and his oath was lifted.
It's forbidden to make stupid oaths like that
by the way.
Okay, so he says here If
you don't start with strong efforts in the
beginning, you will not sniff success in the
end.
You won't even smell success in the end.
Okay.
So If
you think that you're going to get any
unveilings or any openings in this spiritual path
without strong effort, you're in a severe mistake.
So, if you notice, what is strong effort?
I don't believe that what they mean here
is that you take on so much, you're
lifting 600 pounds.
What I think what they mean here is,
you take on something small, you act upon
it, but you don't leave it off even
when you're tired.
That's where the mujahidah comes in.
Even when you're extremely exhausted, you still do
it.
You never leave it off.
When you are bored of it, you still
do it.
Here's where boredom is the biggest problem.
Sometimes people feel that, subhanallah, they feel that
I always want to be entertained and now
I've got to do something that has no
kickback.
I'm not feeling any spiritual feeling anymore when
I do this prayer or this dhikr or
whatever.
Sometimes that happens to test you.
Why are you doing it?
Are you doing it for the sake of
Allah or are you doing it for the
sake of feeling good?
Feeling good is a great sign.
There's no doubt about that and we should
love that and want it, etc.
There's no problem with that.
However, it's not the foundation of our actions.
It's not the foundation.
The foundation is taqwa.
The foundation is we worship Allah because He
deserves to be worshipped.
There's an amazing story that was once told
about a man who worshipped Allah perfectly his
whole life.
The angel said, O Allah, may we look
at what His reward is like on the
Day of Judgment?
He said, yes.
So they opened the Book of Destiny to
see His heaven or what does it look
like?
What level of heaven?
What does His heaven look like?
They found He's destined to the fire.
He said, they're completely confused.
Completely confused.
How is He destined to the fire if
He literally has done everything possible that Allah
loves and we receive His worship all the
time in the heavens?
We know Him.
They said, O Allah, permit us at least
to tell Him in His last few weeks
of life not to bother anymore, to tell
Him His fate.
They went and they told Him His fate.
At that point, they don't bother.
At least enjoy what there's left to enjoy
before you go to *.
So they went and they informed Him.
They looked at Him and He didn't flinch.
And He kept worshipping Allah normally.
Nothing changed at all.
So they went to Him again.
They said, don't you...
You know this is a story.
This is not like something we know 100
% it happened.
Like one of those legends, right?
So they went to Him again.
And they said, don't you want to enjoy
the last few days?
At least sleep.
At least enjoy sleep.
Enjoy eating.
Of course, Malaik are not going to tell
you to do haram.
At least rest.
There's no point.
He said, the information about me is irrelevant.
I may go to heaven.
I may go to *.
But the knowledge of Allah is fixed.
And He's worthy of worship regardless of where
I go.
As for me going to *, He has
the right to put me in *.
And if He gives me a paradise, it's
a gift from Him.
But as for Him, He retains the right
to be worshipped.
So they went up again and saw that
His destiny of hellfire was a test.
And that the next page has on it
that He's in heaven.
But it was to prove to the Malaika.
Because Malaika in Surah Al-Baqarah, what do
they say?
They say, oh Allah, will you place on
the earth a representative that will kill and
spill blood?
They didn't say, why are you doing it?
They say, will you do it?
Nobody can ask God, why are you doing
it?
Do you think that there's a moral scale
outside of God's will?
Of course not.
So they didn't say, why are you doing
it?
They said, will you do it?
Meaning, isti'jab.
He said, I know what you don't know.
It means, I know the nature of these
people.
And I know that there will be prophets
and there will be righteous people amongst them.
They will overcome their nafs.
And this man overcame.
And this is why knowledge is so important.
If you're spiritual, you need to know epistemology.
When an angel tells you a piece of
information, that book may change.
The angel is only accessing a book that
may change.
So therefore, if it can change, then what
is it?
Dhanni.
It's speculative.
But the existence of Allah and His being
worthy of worship is absolute.
It's not speculative.
As you know, the book of destiny is
speculative.
It's not speculative.
It's subjected to change, I'm sorry.
So if it's subjected to change, Allah says
in the Quran, He erases what He wishes
and He keeps what He wishes.
It means, maybe there's a bala written for
you, but you did such a good deed,
the bala is wiped away.
Or the bala is blocked.
You don't even feel it.
It came down, you didn't feel it.
It's supposed to take off your whole roof
and make you bankrupt.
You get a drop of rain.
Literally, a drop of water.
He wiped away 99% of the tribulation.
Why?
Because of some good deed that you did,
maybe.
He erases what He wishes and He keeps.
That's the book of destiny that the angels
have access to.
So He must be a great man of
knowledge to know that what the angels tell
me, what the angels tell me, that's subjected
to change.
Subjected to change.
So we have to have epistemology.
If a wali was to come to you,
and he's a wali min awliya Allah, and
he says, I saw a vision of XYZ
is going to happen to you.
I can believe him.
I want to.
But I also must believe that the level
of knowledge of that vision is not absolute
like it's Quran.
It could change.
And it could be He's telling me to
warn me.
To change it.
To change my deeds before this happens.
So all this on the subject of mujahida
has part of it, there's a boring part
of the spiritual path.
And a tiring part of the spiritual path.
You can't get away from the tiredness.
Sometimes you just can't get away from the
amount of work that puts on.
Jamie Adams is asking, what is bala?
Bala is tribulation.
But also has the meaning of blessing.
Because if you handle the tribulation properly, it
becomes a blessing.
So there is boredom.
There's exhaustion.
There's adversary.
The spiritual path, remember, is not just ibadah.
Firstly, you will find adversaries in your worship.
You'll find number one adversary of your worship
is yourself.
Your nafs.
It's worse than 70 devils.
Next adversary, if you defeat your nafs, is
going to be shaitan.
He will inflame your desires.
Inflames your desires.
Shaitan inflames your desires by saying, whispering stuff
to you.
Download this app.
Open this app.
Scroll through this.
And you know all of this is nothing
but dancing women.
Explain to me, what is TikTok aside from
dancing women?
It's like 85% of every scroll is
dancing women.
So he wants to inflame your desires.
Or chip away at your good deeds.
Chips away.
So you're scrolling.
My feed is, I made it all halal
stuff.
Right?
It's all halal stuff.
But yeah, 1 out of 10, 1 out
of 15, is still going to show up
something that's unlawful.
That's racy, or unlawful, or scantily clad, or
whatever.
So are you going to get sins for
that?
You get sins if you sit looking on
purpose.
But if you just scroll through, okay, inshallah,
you won't get sins from that.
The first look, you don't get sins.
That's the look of discovery.
That's the look of discovery.
Not the look of desire.
But that doesn't mean that also that your
desire hasn't been inflamed.
That's it.
You're still inflamed.
That first look inflames you.
The effect has already been taking place.
Exactly.
You've digested it or not.
And you have, you cannot corrupt something clean
100%.
You get 1% out of time.
So there's, we'll put one little black dot
on his heart.
He won't even feel it.
He won't even feel it.
This little seed that's put in there, then
another one, another one.
If he's not careful, if he's not cautious,
give it 2 months, that thing is messed
up now.
That thing is dirty.
He's going to have to do a taobao.
He's going to have to delete this app.
Right, he's going to, by the way, any
app that you feel like yourself, I'm looking
too much of it, delete it right away.
It doesn't mean you're deleting it permanently.
Right?
Most people, they act as if the app,
if I delete it, it's never going to
come back.
No, I can download it again later on.
But if I'm actually addicted to looking at,
let's say, Twitter, and I'm looking at it
all day, just delete it.
You'll download it later on.
But this idea that you can turn it
off is so important.
Right?
We're not going to be what they call,
Luddites.
Luddites.
Anti-tech people.
Anti-technology people.
Yeah.
Luddites is against all technology.
You're not going to be like, we're for
controlling technology.
You've got to be in control.
Yeah.
You have to be able to turn it
off on a regular basis.
Every time you find yourself going to an
excess, shut the whole thing off.
If I find any of, if I find
myself on my phone too much, all Saturday.
Okay?
All Saturday, that thing is going to be
put in the trunk of the car.
I don't want to look at the thing
all Saturday long.
And you get a purification from that.
Your mind actually rewires back to its normal.
All of this, our Mujahidah, SubhanAllah, is just
not to do so many sins.
That's our Mujahidah these days.
Back in those days, the Mujahidah was how
many Khitams a week?
Khitam of the whole Quran?
A week?
How many?
Doing so much Dhikr, doing so much deeds
that we can't even today even imagine.
Today, our Mujahidah is not doing so many
sins.
That's literally our Mujahidah.
You're trying to replace it with something good.
Yeah.
And today, the best thing we should do
is don't try to do good by yourself.
Join a group.
It doesn't mean you're joining a cult.
I need a group to do it with.
I need a mentor to do it with.
Alright, let's take a look at a couple
more things and then we can go into
a broad Q&A.
Because we only have Q&A for a
while.
He says here, ...
...
...
It's the same idea.
If you don't have a strong If you
don't rock it off really well, you're not
going to have an ending that's worth anything.
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...
...
Oh, that's amazing.
Do deeds.
Do more deeds.
Do more deeds.
I'll give you an example.
There was a photography professor who wanted to
test whether or not What was better?
Theory of photography or practice of photography.
So he split his class in two.
And he told one class, I want you
to study the top theory of photography.
All the theories of photography.
And you get one shot.
Give me one picture.
One picture.
And then he said, to another group, I
want you to study, or he said to
him, for the term, one a week.
Give me one picture a week.
But studied and tell me why.
Why did you take this angle?
Give me the logic.
I guess they have their own logic behind
it.
So they did that.
And the other half of the group, their
job was just to take as many pictures
as you want, but hand in one.
Take as many as you want.
You don't have to study.
This was a side project along with the
class.
So he found the people who took far
more pictures were always superior than the one
who studied to take that one perfect picture.
And that ends up basically that the more
arrows you shoot at something, the more likelihood
that you're going to get something.
As opposed to just being a very good
shot.
I remember reading that the NFL draft so
many players and sports drafting is always really
it's total hit and miss.
Like scouts when they go and say, oh
that's a great player, get him, get him.
If you line up the top draft choices
with hall of famers, there's no correlation at
all.
There's no correlation that the earlier you are
in the draft, the more likely you're going
to be in the hall of fame.
Randoms.
Complete randoms.
So Bill Belichick hacked that system and he
said, I don't care about high picks anymore.
He was famous for trading high picks for
two or three low picks.
It's about having a lot of picks.
And then from that large group, hopefully someone
How many of his top players were weak
picks?
Brady was all the way at the bottom.
Edelman all the way at the bottom.
I don't know where Gronkowski was.
Probably at the bottom.
Andrews the center was at the bottom.
Middle of the pack.
A whole bunch of middle of the pack
guys.
Amendola is a middle of the pack guy
from Monmouth College, New Jersey.
Total middle of the pack guy.
So many middle of the pack guys.
Go look at the last top draft picks
in the QB position.
None of them are really making waves.
None of them are really like, oh my
gosh this is top player.
So what he's saying here, haraka baraka certain
things you want more of it.
If a person does a lot of something
eventually you're going to get good at it.
Rather than trying to, what we call, set
the table.
Alright, when are you going to do hips?
Alright, I'm going to do hips.
You know what I need?
Firstly, I need a block of 35 minutes.
Nothing there.
I need to be in a great state.
I need to be well rested.
You're never going to succeed like this.
I need to have a great teacher.
I need to be finished with my job.
And then it's going to keep going.
I need to go abroad.
You know Shaykh Abdulrahman?
Shaykh Abdulrahman Al-Saqqaf Abdulrahman Ibn Muhammad Al
-Saqqaf of Jeddah.
He told us about one student who Shaytan
tricked him with this stuff.
And he said that he would attend the
circles but he wouldn't do Mujahidah outside the
circle.
And he would just say when I travel,
when I travel, when I go abroad when
I go abroad, when I study I'm going
to go study.
But he would do nothing.
He wasn't putting effort in where he was.
Well finally this man got the ability to
go study and he went to a very
special place we're not going to say what
it is where he should have truly advanced.
When he got there, guess what he ended
up doing?
All he would do is skip out on
class and go hang out in the internet
cafes.
Drink coffee and just sit in the internet
cafes on the internet.
He didn't benefit at all.
Your motor has to work.
You got to move your motor.
The best people in selling just sell a
lot.
I don't care about business schools all that
stuff.
I mean maybe they benefit people but sell.
Sell stuff.
Run businesses.
Run taxes.
Fail at that.
Fail at admin.
Fail at HR.
Fail a lot.
Sell and fail.
Eventually you realize from experience what works and
what's important as opposed to somebody studying the
whole theory and not selling and not running
a business and not advertising and not tweaking
and not competing against other businesses that guy's
going to fail.
That guy's not even going to hit the
ground running.
Alright let's stop here on Mujahidah.
Sheikh Asad what do you have to add
for us today?
It doesn't have to be related to Mujahid.
No I was just thinking of the book
it said لم يوصل إلى النهاية إلا أن
يصاحب بداية صاحب بداية You can't get to
the end unless you've made the beginning correctly.
And I think about if you're trying to
build a wall if you're just one hair
off in the beginning by the time you
get to the end of the wall you're
going to be a few feet off and
that's the whole thing you'll never be able
to build a house that way.
And so beginning everything has to be لم
when it comes to building.
That's where the beginnings are more important.
Omar what is this?
What is all this?
We're talking about Mujahidah right?
Opening gifts?
What Mujahidah is this?
What is this the Tabut?
This is the Tabut.
This is the Ark of the Covenant over
here.
What is this?
Is this the Tabernacle?
This is some Raiders of the Lost Ark
right here.
This is Raiders of the Lost Ark.
It's a Tabernacle.
Let me show everybody.
Am I supposed to do weight lifting or
something here?
Show it here.
What is this?
It's even got a hole for a lock
or something.
What is in here?
A sword or something?
Oh my goodness.
A sword.
A sword.
Look at this people.
Look at this sword.
And there's more stuff in there.
Hold on.
Let's take a look at this.
Oh my gosh.
This is a real sword.
This is a direct replica of the sword
from Taftabi.
Of Omar.
It's an Omar sword.
A direct replica and it says here my
name engraved on it next to the name
of Omar Ibn Khattab.
What an association.
Look at this sword.
Nice and straight.
It's custom made and the way they made
it was every bang of steel there was
a silhouette in front of it.
And it's sharp.
It's not as sharp as in war of
course because that would be dangerous but you
can sharpen this.
Some swords come with a hard ending to
make sure it's safe but this one actually
you could probably cut someone with this.
So this is the exact huh?
This is the exact now I could fulfill
the deed of not pointing a sword at
a Muslim brother.
You know that's haram to do that.
Alright look at this.
Here's a sword.
The handle.
This is a handle.
You put this on one side and put
the sword across.
Oh that sword's going back here.
There's no doubt about that.
You see this?
You put this on here.
You put this like this.
That's the stand.
And it holds the sword.
Is there a piece of paper on it?
Where's the key?
You see that key right there?
Right here inside the Oh I didn't see
that.
Yeah there's a key.
Now you're going to have to tell the
police if they pull you over that you
have a sword in your trunk.
Yeah I wonder what the rule is.
What is the law on this?
I haven't looked.
So this is an amazing box.
Stick this on the box.
I think it's a key for the key.
Yeah it's a key for the box.
And then you take this.
There was some thought that went into this.
Oh this is something else.
This is a wonderful sword.
He doesn't want to put it back.
Here watch it.
Omar I don't want to point the sword
at you.
See this is how you Yeah I'll hold
it.
This is how you put the sword on
the stand.
See this?
This is how you put the sword on
the stand like this.
See that?
You put that there when you have a
meeting.
Then you take it off.
Talk.
Give us your plea.
How do you plea?
How do you plea?
Guilty or not guilty?
And then the sword has a sheath.
Has a sheath.
I love this sword.
You know because I like straight swords.
Although Sayyidina Ali had a curved sword with
a with a two but the straight sword
and a little bit shorter it's really practical.
The Romans used to use that.
This is a replica of Sayyidina Omar's sword.
You want to pose here?
How do you want it?
Like this.
Cut that neck.
You can but you can possibly get hurt.
When the masjid whenever they conquered an area
they used to give the khutbah that week
they would give the khutbah with a sword
not a staff.
Because the Prophet always gave the khutbah with
a staff.
But when they conquered a new city they
would give it with a sword not a
staff.
That's why when they went to Hagia Sophia
when they returned to Hagia Sophia to be
a masjid which it was lawfully a masjid
before that they made it into a museum
and then they returned it to a masjid.
He gave the khutbah with a sword.
And this is the sheath.
The beautiful black sheath.
And it has on it just a black
sheath and you could have your ropes.
You put a rope here and you carry
it on your shoulder.
Or you carry it around like this.
Or on your hip.
Or on your hip.
You carry it how you want to carry
it around.
But that's going back here.
No doubt about that.
You said your mom wasn't pleased with the
backdrop.
Now she should be pleased.
We're going to have palm trees and swords.
Mashallah.
What a great gift.
Alright.
So that was a comprehensive mujahidah.
Yeah.
Physical mujahidah.
We got to be ready.
You never know when things you have to
physically do something with your body.
You never know.
And you have to be a people who
is not afraid of conflict.
You can't be.
And conflict, I'll tell you what's going to
happen.
Your intestines will be upset.
Your nerves will not accept it.
But just like anything else, when you do
a lot of it, your nerves just sort
of become dead to it.
Everyone else is freaking out around you but
your nerves are just dead.
What are you going to do?
Talk trash and that's it?
That's the world today?
Just people talking trash?
Shajib.
Is qaza' a sin?
Qaza' haircut is makrooh.
Qaza' haircut is makrooh.
Opinion on shaving or trimming the beard.
We talked a lot about this.
Shafia hold the beard to be a sunnah
in the first place.
Maliki hold it to be a fard and
it is whatever the people of that society,
the Muslims, would call a beard.
And that what is the qabda' is the
maximum.
It should not go more than that because
that's almost a type of religious showing off.
So the qabda' is the max.
And whatever people call a beard is the
minimum.
Sports fantasy games?
If you are doing it, I think fantasy
games that are of course when they have
money they are forbidden.
Of course it is gambling.
When no money is involved, can't say it
is haram.
Maybe some have said games of chance all
of them are haram or makrooh.
But for sure we can say that when
there is money involved it is forbidden.
Honestly I love law and order.
Spirituality can't grow in chaos.
Creativity cannot grow in chaos.
The best things in life can't grow in
a state of chaos.
There needs to be law and order at
all times.
So law and order you think it is
rough.
It is not rough.
What I am telling you is that you
cannot have all the great things in life.
All the things that require creativity.
Spirituality.
The bedrock of that is peace.
That you live in peace.
That you wake up in the morning and
you don't worry about anything except whatever your
interests are.
Law and order provides that in a society.
Going back to the intrinsic qualities that are
hidden.
If you look at all of spirituality begins
with Sharia.
Because if you don't follow Sharia you end
up in debts.
You can end up in severe interest debt.
You can end up in very terrible situations
between men and women.
Where am I sort of married?
Am I not married?
You know like I have involved with different
women in a way that is not going
to give you peace.
Right?
And for women the same thing.
You are not in a state of peace.
Intoxication.
You can't achieve anything if your brain is
messed up.
Always knocking your intellect off.
So when we look at Sharia that discipline
and those laws are what create a foundation
for peace of mind.
Hey Omar stop right there real quick.
Look at how your picture goes over.
No do it again.
Put it back.
See how it's over one and under the
other?
That is really cool.
Do that.
Something like that.
So all of spirituality grows out of Sharia.
Without law.
Without Fiqh.
Without following the law.
You are going to be in a state
of turmoil.
Right?
You will be in a turmoil.
And you can't at that point you won't
be able to advance spiritually.
100% too.
What separates us from being just a normal
animal is the fact that we are Haywan
Natiq.
We are the animal that has the ability
of communication and speech.
100% Which is built on knowledge.
Knowledge too should not precede spirituality.
Spirituality should not precede knowledge.
Without knowledge a person can go far far
astray.
You have to filter it.
It has to filter.
And they used to say you need a
Shaykh in the spiritual path.
Many people think you can't arrive without him.
There was a period of time what they
meant by that is you can't control all
the spirituality that you enter into needs to
be controlled.
So all of our homes you got electricity
you got fire, you got gas that provides
the fire.
You got water.
You got these four things in your house.
Water electricity gas and fire.
Without your house without these things in the
house you can't stay in the house.
If the power is out you got to
leave.
Especially in the winter.
If the gas is out then you have
no heat.
You got to leave.
If the water is out, you got to
leave.
However, look at how they are in the
house.
They are strictly and severely controlled in pipes.
If one of those pipes has a little
hole in it you have chaos in the
house.
And they are usually in different areas as
well.
They can never mix too.
That's a great point.
You never put these things next to each
other.
So the gas has to be I remember
one time there was a problem and I
didn't know any better.
I thought, I'll fix it.
So I go to the Home Depot and
I show them a picture and I said
they told me I got to change this
in the house.
And he's like, this is gas related.
I said, yeah.
And he's like, do you even know what
that is?
Do you have experience with this?
I said, no, it's my first time.
He's like, hey, I'm not going to tell
you.
If I tell you and you buy it
and then you blow up your house I'm
going to feel bad.
I'm going to be irresponsible.
So I'm not even giving you the information.
So here you have the idea of withholding
information because you're going to screw everything up.
So here we go.
The idea that gas has to really strictly
be controlled.
If you have one little mistake in the
gas and that thing is leaking out and
you fall asleep you wake up dead.
You wake up in the afterlife.
You wake up dead.
You're going to wake up and you're like,
why am I dead?
Yeah, because the gas was on.
Oh, forget that.
If there's a single flame someone goes to
make some tea or something.
Game over.
They make gas smell bad for that reason.
Or not smell bad, but they give gas
an odor.
Natural gas doesn't have an odor.
They give it that odor.
So the idea of spirituality it needs to
be tightly controlled.
And when theologians make a big deal about
a subject they know that that subject matter
right there, it's just like a little tiny
hole in your gas, right?
And it becomes too late if you don't
know about it.
And among these others, you know, if you're
the one who thinks that you don't need
one, you're the one who needs it.
You need it most.
If you don't need it and you have
one, you're covered.
So either way you're covered.
SubhanAllah.
A lot of good questions here.
Let's get to the Q&A.
And of course, Sheikh Asadullah pitch in whenever
you like.
During COVID there was a hadith going around
about black seed.
Cures all illnesses.
Yes, I can't tell you off the top
of my head what the hadith is about
the black seed.
Why don't you look it up for us?
Hadith about the black seed.
And yes, black seed is a shifa.
But you have to take it in a
certain dosage.
You can overdose on it.
Because the Prophet said it's a shifa.
We know that it's a shifa.
How do we take it?
That's up for the Hakims and the doctors
to tell us how to take it.
And I think something, just to go on
the same point of that is that something
that's important is that the medicines that we
have that are similar to the black seed
there is knowledge in Islam versus the modern
medicine where you take the medicine after you've
gotten sick.
Those basic knowledges, they should become like orad
for the community.
Here's the thing, the eastern people have lived
far longer than they've had civilization far longer
than the European people and much more than
the American people.
It's not, we don't sit there saying oh,
eastern people are so much greater than western
people.
They live longer.
They have civilization far longer.
So they have experienced all the good and
bad things that happen.
And that's why you find in eastern diets
they throw in a whole bunch of seeds
and spices because at some point in their
history they realize that people are getting sick.
There was probably a COVID of their time.
Many COVID's ten times worse than their time.
Or plagues.
They had all these things.
And what ends up happening is that at
some point they realize this food or this
spice is good for you.
It will cure this sickness.
Alright, well, what happens if we all eat
that a little bit every day?
Then you won't have the sickness at all?
I'm pretty sure that that's basically how the
eastern world Yeah.
And it could have been something that amassed
over the last month.
For example, it could simply be as simple
as dehydration over a week.
Like every day this week you drank less
and less and less until finally you have
a headache.
Or you sleep wrong.
You get a headache.
Or multiple nights in a row something is
waking you up.
Right?
And so you're not sleeping.
So you end up sick somehow.
These people in the east, they've lived so
long that they've amassed such an amount of
knowledge.
They probably don't even know what they know.
Right?
Here's one.
Inna fil habbatis sawda'i shifa'an min
kulli da'in illa assam The black seed
is a remedy for every disease except that.
Let's actually look at what it actually says.
It says within the black seed.
It doesn't mean every single part of the
black seed.
That means a certain disease may have a
cure through one chemical that's in the black
seed that doesn't cure another disease.
So therefore the study of the black seed.
Can you go look at the chemical compounds
of the black seed?
What's in there?
Whoever recites surat al-kaf on the night
of Jum'ah will have a light that
will stretch with him in the ancient house.
Yes, no problem with that.
Don't recite the Qur'an by juz and
recite surah by surah.
There's no there's nothing clear cut about that.
You can recite the Qur'an by juz
on the isharah of the Prophet who said
cannot one of you recite the Qur'an
in a month?
The sahaba therefore divided or maybe it was
a tabi'in, I don't know.
But they divided the Qur'an into the
30th juz based on that hadith.
Therefore to recite the Qur'an by juz
as opposed to by surah is completely permissible.
There's no talk about surahs of the Qur
'an you want to talk about surat al
-duha and al-sharh from the short surahs
surat al-duha and surat al-sharh are
amazing chapters that will uplift you when you're
down.
And the best quality that a person can
have is the ability to handle bad things.
I remember reading commentary from a sheikh he
was a Turkish sheikh and he was a
very wise old man and somebody said I
heard that you have the secret to success.
And he said yes I do.
And he said what is the secret to
success?
He says the ability to handle bad things.
The words here are so simple.
The idea is so simple.
The ability to handle bad things.
What he means by that is that usually
when do people collapse?
When a bad thing happens adversity they break
under adversity.
So when a surprise occurs they don't know
how to handle it.
They break under those bad things happening.
And the ability to handle bad things happening
and not to just want to cower back
into peace and to be able to handle
that and in fact to realize that a
lot of good can come out of this
that's the secret to success.
In every field that has to be the
secret to success.
When you see someone broken and you realize
why is this person just like broken and
just want to live in a little corner
and go home at night and be safe
be on the safe side that's good with
Allah.
I want to be safe with Allah.
I don't want to mess around.
Yeah that's in taqwa in deen.
But out in the world if you have
that approach you'll just be a nothing.
You'll be a zero.
And the reason for that is the simple
reason of you don't want any form of
hardship.
You cannot handle bad things happening.
And those are the types of people who
are mice.
They're just like the mice of life.
The chemical makeup of black seed also known
as Nigella Sativa primarily consists of a high
concentration of fatty acids with the most notable
active compound being Thymoquinone which is considered the
main contributor to its potential health benefits.
Other components include proteins, alkaloids, saponins and variety
of volatile oils like P-Cymene Serovacrol and
A-Pinene.
So did you understand anything?
Because I didn't.
A bunch of technical terms.
But it's 20% protein, 40% fat,
5% moisture, 4% ash, whatever that
is, 8% fiber, and 30% carbohydrates.
I have a feeling I don't know why
I think we passed 100% but maybe
that's 100%.
Okay.
That's basically what the black seed is.
Alright, what can it cure you of?
Cancer.
It's an anti-cancer.
But how?
I don't know.
Brain cancer, breast cancer, colon cancer, liver cancer,
lung cancer, prostate.
And the active ingredient for that is Thymoquinone.
It helps rid the body the oil element
of it helps rid the body of harmful
particles called free radicals.
A lot of useful information here.
But it can cause allergic reactions if you
take too much.
It can also cause upset stomach, vomiting, constipation.
How much per day?
1-2 grams a day.
What does 1-2 grams look like?
I don't even know.
I would think that would be a lot.
3 teaspoons a day?
That's a lot.
3 teaspoons a day.
That's weird.
Due to limited research, if you are pregnant
or breastfeeding, avoid it.
Avoid black seed oil.
Except for small amounts.
Hey Omar, I have an idea.
Put that whole picture to the left and
then the sword can go into the text
on the right.
Yeah, dimensions are weird.
Alright, thank you very much for that.
Great research there.
Surah Al-Insan is another amazing surah of
Quran because it tells us, gets us pondering
upon the time when humans didn't exist.
Has it not come upon the human being
a time when he wasn't even a thing
to be mentioned?
So that's deep to think about that.
It was a time where humans didn't even
exist on the earth.
But jinns existed.
And it's amazing to think of the angels
who lived a long life before humans got
here.
And we're sitting here thinking like our origin
is Adam.
But Adam came late in the existence of
some other beings like the angels.
Iblis?
How old is Iblis?
It must be more than 10,000 years
old.
Way more than 10,000 years.
Maybe it's 30,000 years old.
So if you're 30,000 years old you're
going to be the most knowledgeable person on
the earth even if you're low IQ.
If you're low IQ you'll be the most
knowledgeable.
Slow to learn but you have enough time.
But you got plenty of time.
Imagine a guy who from age 20 to
40 all he does is chess full time.
And he's got a very high IQ.
But imagine another guy who's got a very
low IQ but he has 500 years to
live and he only plays chess part time
but for 500 years.
Who's going to be better?
When they play each other who's going to
be better?
The older guy is going to be better.
He's seen all the moves.
Can I ask someone else to pray istikhara
for me?
Yes, istikhara is nothing but a dua.
But you must pray it yourself first.
You must do it yourself.
Someone is asking about different jobs.
Basically the job that if the industry is
halal if the industry is halal then working
there is halal but if they ask you
to do something unlawful that's what you can't
do.
Just that.
So you're a nurse?
Alright help out with a * change operation.
No that I can't do.
Nursing is halal.
But this specific thing I can't do.
You're working in shop right?
Halal.
Fruit, bread, cheese, all that's halal.
Olives, snacks, drinks.
But then alright go to the alcohol aisle
and work there?
That I can't do.
So but now let's take a liquor store
or in the financial business like what do
they call that?
Cash advance which is basically riba.
So in a liquor store the whole thing
is halal.
Haram.
It's haram to be a cleaning service that
cleans a liquor store.
They hire you to come in in the
morning or in the night to clean?
Haram.
Anything.
Change a light bulb there?
Haram.
Be an electrician.
Set up the IT.
Kullu haram.
Same thing with a current state of most
militaries or a lot of militaries I should
say that are involved in unlawful wars.
If the war is unlawful whole thing is
unlawful.
Now being in the military in general when
they're not fighting an unlawful war is lawful.
So for example the military of Brazil right
now at this moment in time what are
they doing?
They're not fighting wars.
Most militaries are not fighting wars.
I don't even know what the point of
these militaries are.
I had an idea by the way in
Sharia they always say the essentially the military
is meant to protect the borders of the
nation and then the police is meant to
protect the inside of the nation.
Right?
So when the politicians are talking about the
border why don't we use the military for
that?
If it's actually people are coming into this
is a border issue.
Why is border patrol a separate thing?
Right?
Do you know how many military men we
have?
The biggest military in the world all that
stuff we fly halfway across the world to
kill people who didn't do anything wrong.
But now when there's an actual legal issue
and we talked about this yesterday we said
diversity it's a wonderful thing but there's got
to be order to how it's done.
Okay?
And also not only diversity there's some mercy
needs to be.
You know how bad America has been towards
Central America and South America to keep them
down?
We're one of the worst nations in the
world.
At least repent from that by letting some
of them in.
Right?
But you have to have law and order
how they come in.
There has to be law and order on
how they come in.
So why don't you just put your military
down there?
Station them all across.
Firstly the US border there's swaths of it
where there's nothing except water.
So you don't need a lot.
Then there's swaths of it where it's like
no one can travel there.
So you're not even talking about a totally
huge border.
And now the hilarious thing is nations from
Africa and stuff have hacked the system.
They come in to like Nicaragua or Panama
then they take buses and trains all the
way up to America.
So from the Mexican border are coming Africans
now.
Right?
Listen I'll be the first person to tell
you the US history is really bad towards
Central America and South America.
It's not like this is a country that
needs sympathy.
But just on the issue of what would
our position be there's got to be every
nation has to have a border.
Every nation has to have a border.
So doesn't that make sense?
You've got a huge military.
They're just sitting around doing nothing.
Send them to the border.
Right?
Don't cross.
That's it.
That's your job.
Make sure no one crosses.
And then why would you sit at the
border?
Isn't there a buffer between each nation?
Like a mile, two miles, right?
So you should, we know this from 40
Hadith around every the king has a castle,
right?
And he has this area where only his
animals graze.
You don't go right up to the edge
of that.
Then on accident one of your animals is
going to graze in the king's grazing grounds.
Then you're in trouble.
You go further out.
Like way off.
So what's common sense?
You're such a powerful nation like the United
States.
Your border patrol should go out like three
miles out.
Right?
Three, four miles into Mexico.
And that should be an area that is
secured.
Jamie Adams says that wouldn't make any money.
Providing the actual solution never makes money.
That's probably why the poorest countries do that.
Do what?
Have a border.
I mean a space between the two of
them.
Like a buffer.
Because they don't have the money.
Then he's saying it's not going to make
money.
Does benefit of Salah and Salam on the
Prophet have a benefit for a non-Muslim?
Like to remove their depression?
I have to tell you this.
It's not reward.
However, everything that Allah reveals, it benefits.
Let's just take, forget Salah and Salam.
Sharia itself.
If a non-Muslim was to be forced
to live on certain basic Sharia principles which
means no drinking, no fornication, no drugs, no
interest, his life would be better.
Right?
Absolutely.
And if he's not a Muslim, yet he's
just listening to Quran and Dhikr Allah.
He's not getting rewarded with Allah on Yawmul
Qiyamah.
But he will benefit from that.
He will calm down.
He will be more relaxed.
He will be happy.
There was a non-Muslim and I have
living proof.
We all know this story because a bunch
of us we were out in New Brunswick
late at night one night giving out food.
Before the soup kitchen came, that's how we
used to do things.
And a guy recited Quran to us like
Abdul Basit.
We said, MashaAllah brother, we have a masjid
here.
Why don't you...
We never see you at the masjid.
He said, because I'm not Muslim.
Like how does he recite a Quran like
Abdul Basit?
He ends up telling us that he had
a roommate.
A cellmate.
And that cellmate had been given permission to
have a cassette tape.
And he used to play the same cassette
tape every night to fall asleep.
The guy said, I memorized the cassette tape.
Because it's like 365 nights a year.
For how many years?
For how many years.
And in jail they have strict routines.
It's not like the routine is going to
be broken because I visited my grandma in
Florida or something like that.
No.
It's the same routine.
So he was like, I memorized it.
And then one night for some reason he
didn't put it on.
Prisoners from down the hall were yelling, put
it on!
I need to sleep!
Everyone would sleep to it.
So sakinah comes down.
And they could benefit from that sakinah.
But we say they won't have the reward.
You must believe in Allah first to have
reward.
But you will have benefit, yes, 100%.
I wonder if on that night when it
didn't work, I wonder if he recited it.
Hajib, yeah.
Who knows.
Just to keep the other guys at bay.
Let's take the natural way of living.
If you were to live the way that
Allah wants us to live which is to
wake up at dawn.
To wake up at Fajr.
In fact, I would say the tradition of
most Americans was that way.
Because most of them were farmers.
That's the way Allah wants us to work.
You would be mentally far more healthy.
You take an average person who doesn't believe
in Allah.
No drinking, no drugs, no interest debts.
Women, you're going to pick one woman for
marriage.
You're not going to go sleep around.
Wake up at night, you're going to sleep
when it gets dark at night.
And you're going to wake up at dawn.
Even if you sleep later as a nap,
no problem.
Every dawn, every Fajr, you're going to wake
up.
We should call it dawn is not the
right timing.
What is it?
Pre-dawn.
That's why we have this saying, the early
bird gets the worm.
And you go to anybody in business, and
they're going to tell you, if you want
to be successful, you have to get up
early.
You cannot sleep in.
Those are intrinsic qualities of the Fitrah that
humanity has understood outside of Sharia.
What did Sayyid al-Konayn say?
Sayyid al-Konayn said, Sayyid al-Konayn means
the chief of this life and the next.
Or the chief of humans and jinn.
The Prophet said, the Rizq is distributed in
the morning.
Rizq is distributed in the morning.
That's before Benjamin Franklin ever said that.
Early bird gets the worm.
That's Benjamin Franklin.
When I talk to business people, they really
do have this theme of get up before
everyone else.
Maximum, 6 a.m. That's the max.
Your day starts at 6 a.m. By
9 a.m., you've done 2 hours of
work before all the employees get in.
The employee gets up at 7.30, out
of the house at 8.30, or 7
out of the house at 8, and he
shows up to his cubicle at 9, grumbling
with his coffee in his bag.
By that time, the CEO has already been
at work for 2-3 hours.
That's why he's a CEO versus an employee.
I remember, before I became Muslim, I remember
that I would show up right when the
church would open.
Go, and I would spend my time alone.
Then, what ended up happening was that some
days I would show up late.
My teachers, they gave to me, they said,
we're going to give you a key so
you can get up even earlier, so you're
not late for school.
SubhanAllah.
I think there's even that element within other
traditions.
In all things.
I think it's just a natural thing.
I remember one time seeing a little thing
on Kobe Bryant, and he said, Kobe Bryant
said one of the things that he had
a habit of in the off-season is
everyone would do 2 workouts a day.
They'd do the morning workout, they'd rest, they'd
do an afternoon workout.
That's what good players did.
He said, how am I going to be
better than them?
He said, I do a pre-morning workout.
I do a 2-hour workout from 5
to 7.
Then come home again, sleep, eat something, sleep
again, then get up for the morning workout.
Now, of course, this morning workout would be
slightly later, but he's already done 2 hours.
Maybe they start at 9, so he'll start
at 10.
10 to 1 workout.
Then he does the afternoon workout from 4
to 6.
He does 3 workouts a day.
He said, now if I do that for
1 off-season, 1 full off-season, that's
2 months, 3 months, and then the next
off-season, the next off-season, the next
off-season, no one's catching up to me.
Because that's 7-8 months.
That's so much more workouts than everybody else.
Anubek says, the Euphrates River is said to
dry up between 2030 and 2060.
Should we expect the Mahdi to come in
our lifetime or at least soon?
We should always expect Imam Mahdi to come.
We should always expect him.
But let me just tell you something about
Imam Mahdi.
Omar, decrease the shine a little bit on
the picture there.
Adjust.
Yeah, that brightened.
Yeah, there you go.
I'll tell you something about the Imam Mahdi.
It's slightly different than prophethood.
This is Sheikh Al-Maghidi taught us this
last year.
The Imam Mahdi, why is it that prophesized
there's athar?
I'm just going to say there's athar because
I haven't seen the exact analysis of the
hadith.
That whoever does not follow him is a
hypocrite.
It's an obligation to follow him.
Now, it's an obligation to follow him because
of what he does.
Not because of the person, who he is.
That's the difference between Nabuwa and Imam Al
-Mahdi.
A Nabi must tell you, I am Nabi,
you must follow me.
But Imam Mahdi, it's not like that.
You see what he does and when he
acts on the Sharia and lives upon Islam
then it becomes an obligation to support him.
Unlike Nabuwa.
If a prophet was to come and let's
say there was another prophet and the older
prophet says, yes, this is a prophet.
Now, just by virtue of him being that
prophet, I have to follow him.
Just on that.
He doesn't have to prove anything to me.
I already have proof that he's a prophet.
Imam Mahdi is not like that.
Imam Mahdi is a human being and the
reason that is obligatory to follow him is
what he does.
So that's the subtle difference.
That's why we shouldn't look around and say,
okay, is that Imam Mahdi?
Why do I have to worry?
Let's see what he does.
If he's truly the Mahdi, his actions will
make it binding for me to follow him.
The proof is in the pudding for Imam
Mahdi.
Whereas the proof is the proof for prophets.
Just his personality is enough.
Or his person is enough.
Can I learn Ja'afari fiqh?
No, they don't have a sanad.
We're not allowed to follow those because we
don't have certainty that that's what he said.
Yes, if Imam Ja'afari al-Sadiq had
a chain that was alive today, mutawatir, no
doubt what he said, would there be anybody
greater than him?
He's Ahlulbayt.
He's the teacher of Imam Malik.
It's said that his father was a teacher
to Imam Abu Hanifa.
Who can be better than him, right?
But it's only the fact.
It's nothing to do with Sayyidina Ja'afari
al-Sadiq.
He's a teacher of Imam Malik.
And if you look at it, it seems
to be his sheikh in taslik.
His sheikh of suluk.
That's what it looked like.
But what's needed for a madhhab to remain
a madhhab is the transmission.
Mutawatir, the transmission from the first generation all
the way to us, so that we're sure
that this is what the imam said.
And the imam is establishing methodologies.
He's not going to answer every question.
Obviously, the four imams, are they answer about
bitcoin?
Of course not, right?
They don't answer these questions.
But they give the methodology.
And from that methodology, if we use that,
then we can derive the right answers.
Okay, what else do we have here?
Will people of jannah have children?
Yes, I heard there's an athar that people
in jannah can have children and that the
child stops at a certain age growing.
Do you ever have a one or two
year old?
You have kids, right?
You have kids?
When you have a, there's an age where
you wish the kids stop growing.
Right?
Ladies and gentlemen, so many questions to answer
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bit better every year and every week and
every month.
So Anubex, I answered that super chat question
of yours.
Is prophetic medicine divine?
Anything that comes from the Prophet ﷺ is
Wahi.
What the Prophet speaks to us is, it
is Wahi.
And when we say it's Wahi, what we
mean by that is that it's directly from
Allah.
It is from Allah.
Except we don't recite it in Salah.
Allah says in the Quran, وَمَا يَنطِقُ عَنِ
الْهَوَةِ So the middle feature of Hawa, Wim,
is not there for the Prophet ﷺ.
So it is, when I said directly from
Allah, but I mean, of course, through the
Prophet ﷺ.
But there is no, nothing to corrupt it.
Like us, our thoughts are from ourselves and
could be right, could be wrong.
Not for the Prophet ﷺ.
Istighfar for Rizq, does it work if you
have a normal job with weekly paycheck?
Inshallah, it could work because Rizq is not
just from money that you earn.
Rizq can be gifts.
Rizq can be inheritance.
Rizq is that your kids are good to
you, your wife is nice to you.
That's all Rizq.
Rizq is that you're not depressed.
Rizq is that your boss is nice to
you.
You're industry stable.
Right?
There's a lot more to Rizq than simply
the dollar amount that comes in your paycheck.
Alright, we have two promos to do.
Omar, what do you have for us here?
So this is a conference inshallah that will
be happening on tomorrow actually with Shaykh Asadullah.
Mashallah.
Read me those names please because I can't
see from here.
So you have Qari Zahid, our very own,
our Qari, and then we have Bilal Khan,
Shaykh Asadullah, who's our guest today, you guys
probably hear him in the background.
Unfortunately we couldn't have him on camera because
we don't have a setup for him.
Who's that person next to Shaykh Asadullah in
the middle there?
Qari Ahsanullah Hayy.
And then Jamal Ahmad and brother Ahmad Khan.
Who's Ahmad Khan?
I'm not sure.
Mashallah.
St. Demetrius Banquet Center on Friday, November the
15th, which is this Friday, right?
Inshallah.
At 7pm.
Okay.
Location?
It says Demetrius but where?
Demetrius.
Carteret, New Jersey.
Demetrius Banquet Hall in Carteret, New Jersey.
Good, very good.
You can screenshot that and you can attend
if you're in New Jersey.
Very good.
Starboard is having its first matrimonial event, believe
it or not, operated by Mawadda.
So we're more in the mentorship side of
things, but we are using Mawadda to do
matrimonial events.
So our very first matrimonial event is happening
at MCGP on Sunday, December the 15th in
Princeton.
MCGP is the masjid in Princeton.
Mashallah, wonderful.
We have to do a quick little plug
for Darul Salam.
In the third week of December, Friday, December,
I believe it's the 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th,
there's a Darul Salam winter intensive that I
recommend everyone pay attention to it.
They're going to be talking about the family
life, married life, role of a husband, how
to be a good husband, how to be
a good wife.
It seems like it's in the air of
this subject because you're just noticing that extinction
culture has spread far and wide.
I call it now extinction culture.
It's basically I'm 30 and I live in
the city and I just worry about myself
and I just do whatever I want to
do and I don't care at all about
having a family or having kids.
That's the culture of what extinction looks like
because you're going to basically, I heard a
statistic that 50%, 50% of youth between
20 and 40 will die alone, not having
produced an heir.
That's a disaster, right?
It's a disaster if you're good people.
If you're not good people then maybe your
extinction is better.
Maybe there's a reason you're being extinct.
You're so off.
You're so off in your beliefs.
It's led you to extinction.
I call that extinction culture.
We're not going to go extinct.
The Ummah of Islam is constantly increasing.
Yes, maybe our local community will go extinct.
That's possible.
The Ummah of Islam is in a constant
increase.
Alhamdulillah, but we have to be part of
that increase.
We have to at least, I mean just
basic math, you need to produce 3 plus
children.
Everyone's got to produce 3 plus children.
That's just a fact.
Otherwise, you stabilize.
If you stabilize, now you're at risk.
You have two kids and one of them
dies or one of them doesn't marry or
one of them doesn't have kids or one
of them is impotent or one of them
is whatever, boom.
You're down to one.
So you need insurance.
You need to be up 3 and then
you need the empty net goal 4.
The fourth kid, I call him the empty
net goal.
You know what this analogy means?
The empty net goal?
The empty net goal is this.
Basically, in hockey, if you have a one
goal lead, in the last minute or two
of play, the other team pulls the goalie
so they can add an extra forward.
So they could be now 6, they have
an advantage on ice to score the tying
goal.
So what usually happens is now obviously the
risk of that is that your goal is
open.
Right?
So now you get that empty net goal,
the whole stadium relaxes and the party starts,
right?
Because now you've got the empty net goal.
So when a man and a woman have
4 kids, they got the empty net goal.
They can relax now.
Yeah, exactly.
That's the nail in the coffin for the
other team.
We talked a lot, subhanallah.
I had beautiful guests.
Sheikh Asadullah was here and he'll be here
tomorrow, bismillah.
So thank you for coming.
Again, everyone on the stream, I forgot to
mention that we are sponsored by GRT, Global
Relief Trust.
They are a sponsor.
And by the way, we are actually in
the market for sponsors to make our stream
better.
We're in the market.
If you want a sponsor, you go to
info.asafinasade.org.
I highly recommend it to be something in
line with what we believe in and something
of an online operation because there's no point
to be a restaurant in New Jersey and
be a sponsor on a stream.
Restaurant in New Jersey, you should be on,
I don't know, the radio or something where
it's local.
So it should be something online.
Like you said, it's an opportunity.
You said if you can't be the one
who's doing dawah, support somebody who's doing dawah.
And this is a huge opportunity for doing
dawah.
It's a huge opportunity to support this kind
of dawah and it's hopefully something that's going
to be in your scale of good deeds
and help your business at the same time
or your charity operation, whatever it is, whether
it's a charity or a business.
Jazakumullah khair on everyone.
Subhanaka Allahuma wa bihamdik.
Nishahadu an la ilaha illa anta.
Nastaqfuruk wa nattubu ilayk wa al-asr.
Inna al-insana la fee qusr.
Illa allatheena amanu wa aminu al-salihat wa
tawassu bil-haqq wa tawassu bil-sabr.
Wassalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
Allah Allah Allah
Allah Allah Allah Allah