Shadee Elmasry – NBF 103 Can a Calamity Be from Guidance
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The speakers touch on the devastating effects of floods and the potential for disaster relief, highlighting the challenges faced by Pakistan and the global climate crisis. They stress the importance of creating a "Refresh of happiness" and being patient with others, emphasizing the need for constant communication and healthy living. They also discuss historical trends and experiences, including the importance of calling upon animals for comfort and the need for people to be the authority in the community. They stress the importance of finding out what one wants in the community and calling upon animals for life, as well as historical trends and experiences, including the importance of calling upon a living person for life.
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We are live right smooth how to handle Rahim Al hamdu lillah wa
Salatu was Salam ala Rasulillah who are early he was a happy woman
Well, welcome everybody to the Safina society nothing but facts
live stream, in which we are today talking about the affairs of the
OMA and the affairs of the OMA today is going to be nothing of
course, other than the nation of Pakistan and the calamity that
they're facing. And yesterday, I read a story about how this
calamity the hospital, or it was like, area where people are giving
birth because they're not always hospitals.
It could have been something else. But somebody was giving birth in
the building. And the at the moment of the building collapsed,
a lady gave birth. And they had not even they had just cut the
cord between the mother and the baby.
And the cord was still on the baby.
And baby, just everything washed away.
And the baby was fell into the mud. But as we know that Allah
Tala takes he protects babies, and protects those who have no
protector. And that baby was found the lady literally picked them up
out of the mud, covered in mud, and was still alive. So I, I saw I
couldn't believe what I was seeing. But that's definitely what
we are devoting our attention to today, and I'm going to read you a
couple articles that we have on this.
It's essentially, this flood is so bad, it's 100 kilometer wide Lake
has formed essentially,
How insane is that 100 kilometer wide lake formed due to floods of
the Indus River in Pakistan. And horrific sites have ensued.
I put on my Twitter page, the place where people could donate
money because we have the ability to make dua, and we should never
underestimate that. And we have the ability to donate money. And I
put that on my Twitter page.
I also put the video the baby not to get everyone away from the
stream and to go watch that. But I put the picture or the video of
the mother picking up a baby.
Right?
Right out of the mud.
So a satellite image shows like a terrifying reality that parts of
this who knows if it's ever going to recover but 100 kilometer wide
as formed into a as basically formed a lake. All right.
All right. So 100 kilometers or 62 miles. How did you know that first
of all,
okay.
Yeah.
The link, someone said the link that I put didn't work well,
should we have to say.
So this happened in the region of Sindh and Baluchistan. The
rainfall has been five times more than the average and due to this
villages and agricultural lands have been completely submerged.
Now, I had never understood this until you realize that some
nations and cities simply do not have an underground sewage system,
it just doesn't rain enough for them to make it worthwhile for
them to do that.
Good. Meteorologists believe that there is a possibility of heat of
heavy heat in the coming days. That's terrible mixed with water
because warm still water and heat that's going to bring you disease,
it's going to bring you different types of bugs, flies gnats, and
and that's going to result in disease. As one of the worst
things about floods is when the water stays still after the flood,
still water. Even when the Prophet arrived in Medina, one of his his
policies was to remove
to empty out all puddles there should be no still water. And if
you go to Africa, malaria, they always blame it on still water.
Right. So the those puddles are the cause.
Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif visited the area and he took stock
of the damage caused by the flood. This province has seen the maximum
number of deaths due to floods. Should he have said on Tuesday,
this flood is the worst ever in the history of Pakistan.
International help is needed to deal with it. Like okay, so he
didn't say anything useful. We all know that. You know, the President
goes there he says essentially nothing useful.
Nothing that we don't know
Okay, let's go.
There's there's nothing really to say besides
the calamities that are happening here
Are you familiar with the politics in Pakistan? Politics some
phone bias to
your pet your family is with Imran Khan.
So everyone else to them?
Yeah. So what is the deal? What Why does some people against him
why some people for him?
They think like someone who like deals or like
very like rash or like very extreme. But like, I can see both
points because he's kind of pushing. Like he's a predator.
He's supposed to push his agenda what he wants from the country.
Yeah, but people don't like it. They he thinks he's picking fights
with the wrong countries.
No one's ever going to be happy in a democracy, everyone has an
opinion.
All right, let's read this about the stud. Staggering 1/3 of the
country was underwater, as of this week. 1/3. Now, let me tell you
something, flooding.
One of the worst things about it is that it goes, the water goes
down, unlike a fire which goes up, you, you will always know where
there's a fire now fires that the damage is immediate. And it's like
death right away. You can survive water and floods. But the problem
is going into the future. Flooding when it gets into the foundation
of homes, for example. Like even though the fire when a fire is
over, it's over. It's short and quick damage. But when flooding
occurs, that water goes down into the foundations of homes, it
causes mold fungus, and rots the wood and could cause severe damage
in the future to a foundation. And that's the issue with water.
Right? That it just goes it keeps going and you'll never know where
it is. So that's one of the long lasting issues with water. So even
if you just got flooded,
like in a way that doesn't kill anybody, but you got flooded, the
amount of damage that's long, the long lasting damage. You You won't
know the cost of it. But just the financial costs, forget human
costs if nobody died, but you just had severe flooding. Like when
Yeah, well we got flooded. And our my my friend is a lawyer, his
entire office was flooded. So with what did he just basically lose
his entire office only, like three, four feet of water. That's
it, three, four feet of water that comes in and spends about six
hours. That's it. All the computers are shot, all the books
are shot, the walls are just the sheetrock, you can't remove the
mold, you can't like blow dry it, it's just gonna get moldy, it's
all gotta go. And that's one of the issues with with flooding.
So a third of the country and more than 30 million people have been
affected over the last few weeks, and the amount of deaths 1100. So
when you think of 1100, that's probably how many orphans will be
the result of that. So how many of them are parents to how many kids
if half of them are parents to just one kid? And who in Pakistan
has one kid? I think that most people in our Islamic countries
have like, minimum two kids, not not less than two kids, right?
Right, two, three kids. So you may end up with 1000 orphans.
And half a million people. They're not dead, but they're displaced.
And they're in these miserable, miserable camps. And of course,
these relief camps are not miserable. Like by design. It's
just that
that's the nature of all these refugee camps or, or relief camps.
Okay, Antonio Gutierrez of the UN Secretary General of the UN, he
referred to disaster as a monsoon on steroids. It requires urgent
collective action. All right, Sherry. What's her name? Here
apparently, is the climate minister of Pakistan, and she's
giving speeches all over the world trying to get attention. The
immediate cause of the catastrophic floods is rainfall.
So if you're wondering what the cause of the flood is, it's not
like a river that rose up it's it's rain.
And it's record amounts of rain.
Rain That is 780% above the average. So that means if you get
you know, 10 inches of rain and a season, multiply that by 78. And
that's like if 10 inches of rain is your 100% on a season of a
monsoon. So multiply that and then divide that by
feet by 12. And you'll see how many feet they got said IObit
Soleri. He's the director of Pakistan Sustainable Development
Policy Institute. Right? Melting glaciers. Okay, so Pakistan has
glaciers, and they have more glaciers than any other country
has also come. I don't know. I don't know what what mountain do
they have? What is the mountain? It's not the
we don't know or Pakistani geography. I mean, we're pretty,
we're pretty bad at this. We need to know geography, we can't enjoy
people's food and not know that junk food.
So
they were glaciers, apparently, that melted. And that contributed
to the,
I guess that water evaporated in the air and then came down as
rain. Apparently, that's what they're what they mean by this. K
two. Is that Is there a name to that? Or is that like a code word
or what? That's the name, like KY to k 2k And two, okay, so that's
like, alright, it was only in 2010 when Pakistan last experienced
such extensive floods. But officials have already suggested
that damage from this year's calamity is way worse. That year.
It was banky. Moon was the general secretary and he described them as
the worst natural disaster he had personally ever seen. Anywhere in
the world. That was a 2010 flood and that affected 20 million
people and led to 1500 deaths. 20 million people. That's a lot.
Now the UN said it is seeking $160 million in emergency aid. I don't
know I guess maybe that'll go a long way in Pakistan, but I know
in America 100 $60 million. If a city was flooded, that's nothing.
But maybe I guess the currency exchange that's gonna go further
in the land of Buxton.
A million homes have been damaged 700,000 livestock were lost.
And the US announced that same day would send $30 million in aid to
Pakistan, which is basically nothing. Essentially, really, if
you think about amounts of money when we're talking about the
government level, it's like, a couple pennies. Okay, so bivolo is
Bilbo Baggins is telling us?
Yeah, it's still the school is not in session yet. So the kids are
still out. So Bilbo Baggins says that k two is character on
mountain, the second highest mountain in the world after the
Himalayas. So character on that's the K. And because it's the second
highest mountain to All right, so 7000
glaciers, and if these glaciers are evaporating,
then it's gonna or it's melting, then the water is gonna evaporate.
When the water evaporates, it collects over time and comes down
and rain. So I guess that is an element of global warming. That's
the result of global warming, more moisture in the air and more stuff
melting.
Okay. humanitarian relief has started to arrive in the country,
but efforts are hampered because of the infrastructural damage,
right 2000 miles of roads and 150 bridges have been affected. Kara
kromm
is the name of the mountain says Bilbo Baggins with an M Carol
Karim Nowruz Giamatti is a social science lecturer at Lomas
University in Baluchistan. And he's been helping with the
volunteer effort
in getting DACA this whole town has been converted into a dem with
multiple sources of water pouring into the town, but no exit for the
town. So it's killing people feet by feet, and it's choking them. He
said, Okay. The floods trapped his own uncle
who was here he whom he was able to evacuate. We are helping so
many people with little manpower. And we are in such a confused
state. We don't know what to do. Now. It's easily you said said
than done. But the way I look at it is that
when a calamity like this happens, don't wait for help. Remember,
when the hedge calamity was going on? Nobody knew what was going on
and hedge. My advice to people was, Do not be naive and wait for
some authority to come save the day. No authority is coming.
They're as confused as you. Like some people who have a constantly
like follower mentality. Really don't realize that people who are
in charge are human beings that are no different than you. They
equally have no clue what's going on, or equally nervous or equally
worried about their own families. Right. There's no authority that's
coming to help you it
In many cases, so when chaos breaks out the full he sits there
waiting for the authorities. Let's wait for the authority to do
something. There is no authority. Okay, they are there as hampered
as you are. So you just got to
take care of yourself. And I think we're gonna see more of that, the
more these these calamities occur.
I heard Bangladesh is also about to flood.
I heard they're gonna get flooding so badly that there may even like,
huge swaths of the country may cease to exist, period. They
cannot be livable anymore. That's why when elephant is dead, brother
July when the summer is we're going to Bongo. So take your life
check.
Your
experts say Pakistan has not done enough to prepare for floods.
These experts are so close. Do you know what these countries are?
Like? Right? They don't even have electricity for 24 hours in a row.
It always breaks up right? These expert academics with their think
tanks, giving these ridiculous assessments you don't know these
countries. And I just spent as a reminder, almost two weeks in a so
called developing nation, developing nations a polite word
completely backwards, right? And
they don't get electricity on a daily basis. Like you'll never get
a full day of like there's always a power outage. If you ran an
operation like this with the internet, you go bankrupt. Right?
You're gonna go out of business because they never have internet
straight
electricity stream.
Nothing is in order. The Electric Company is not an order. The water
company is not an order. The sewage company. You have the
garbage you walk piles of trash. Yeah, every once in a while I did
see the company or whatever the garbage the township, scooping up
trash with a shovel. They come with a shovel. People found their
own way. places to put trash, right? They act they dug out areas
and they filled it with trash. You walk in the street, you just see
apologize, not even in a bin. So the most basic services of names
certain nations are not present.
Go in Egypt. In Egypt, people park on the curb all the time.
If you run a store, if you have an apartment building, if you have a
house, and that bothers you, what do you do? You go and you buy some
cement. And you hire some people. And you have no clue how to build
a sidewalk, you build your own sidewalk high up, like two feet.
So a car can't come in. And where do you do that in front of your
store? Not you're not the neighbors, not the other
neighbors. So you'll be walking in Egypt. The curve is like this.
Like the sidewalk, one guy's got two feet. And then it's not even
built right. You could fall. Who do you sue a few for? Right? Okay,
you're not suing anybody. You're not carrying any rights. But to
show you the level of organization we're used to is not present in
these countries. And I feel bad for them. I like I want to airlift
you all out of here. If I had such a crowd, that's what I will do,
because it's depressing on a day at day in and day out basis to see
this disorder and lack of organization. So you got one guy,
his story. He's got a two foot curb, then it drops. So what
happens if someone's has a wheelchair or a stroller? Right
for a baby a stroller for baby or a wheelchair for an adult? Forget
about it. You're kidding. There's no What did they call it? Like
friendly? What do they call it? Like when it's when it's
accessible? Wheelchair accessible? No, you're not getting any of this
stuff.
You carry around with you. Right? So then
expert like this says Pakistan has not done enough to prepare for
floods go live in one of these countries for two weeks. You were
lucky that you people are staying alive, right?
countries with similar risk profiles such as Nepal and
Vietnam, have invested in building infrastructure to absorb climate
shocks, says Amira swass, director of programs and research at
Stockholm International, Stockholm, where nothing goes on.
And you can be as peaceful as you want. Right? There's never been a
war there for like since the Norwegian times or whatever
they're called the Viking times, right?
I mean, you got these people from Stockholm lecturing these
developing countries and it just seems like men
there's there's just nothing in Pakistan, she says. So people were
literally left to fend for themselves against really extreme
weather. Alright, alright, so some
Listen to me in my eyes is completely clueless as to the
challenges that already exist to live on a day to day basis, let
alone you go and lecture them from Stockholm, Sweden, okay, where you
know, the you probably eat off the sidewalk from how organize and
everything is good because you don't have a population problem.
You're able no one wants to live in those countries, those
Scandinavian countries, only the natives live there and a few
immigrants. When you don't have a population issue. You can be as
organized as you want. It's like when I go to someone's house, and
it's polished, right? You go into their garage, everything is
perfectly neat. There's not a leaf, then you're like, wow, how
did these people get so clean? Well, because they have no kids.
Or they have one kid who's like 15. That's why the house is so
clean, come to our house, and we got three or four kids. And
they're all like young, you can't keep the house clean for two
minutes. The cleaning lady comes in, at she's out at three o'clock.
By five o'clock all her work is is is out the window. Because you
have kids, they're causing problems. So are creating a mess.
When you have huge populations. It's almost read, it's really
difficult to actually organize the way that these other countries
were interesting, because bring your mic close.
Well, it's interesting because on the other hand,
these countries actually have been advising Pakistan to build dams
for advising all you want you you don't even know what the reality
is like down there. Right? If it's like any way like Egypt or the
Dominican Republic, right, I think it's worse. It is. Right. And then
you're gonna give them some kind of
some academic advice. No, but the issue is, Buxton is like has a lot
of glaciers. Yeah. And very big mountain. So it's, like, a lot of
experts knew the problem Pakistan because of the high altitude
mountains. So they knew there will come a time when the glaciers will
melt, they melt and what
it did, but they said it came from rain, not from the metal. Yeah,
that's also solar energy as well. Okay. So you've eaten it
evaporates up and it comes down as rip. Yeah, because dams are solar
energy, like people miss interpret that. Anyway, what the issue is,
is the government. Yeah. So the people that are in power right now
have been in powerful past 30 years. And they haven't really
done anything. Yeah. So that's the issue like they've been advising
on, but the government has been really stealing all their money.
You know, of course, it's not even like, it's not really corrupt
government. It's not like there are hundreds of victims. All these
governments, the guy's just looking out for himself. And
they're incompetent to, yeah, really incompetent. It's
incompetence. Like I heard of one Pakistan and not to hate on
Pakistani kings, or presidents or whatever. But you can, you know,
there is one one of these one of these clowns, he took money from a
guy in Dubai. Right?
It was supposed to be for I don't know what, for the government,
right. But he took it for himself.
He had to then he then forged a document saying it was a gift.
But when they looked in his court case, they realized
that it was his daughter forged it for him. She used the default
font,
on Microsoft Word,
to forge a document for 1980. That font had not been invented a 2008.
The font had not been in existence, like they're literally
so encountered, like incompetence. I just got away with that. Yeah.
It's just total incompetence.
Is it a punishment, or, in general, all of these things is
not a punishment, nor anything, except it's how you react. If you
react by committing more sins, then it's a punishment, what would
you say is a punishment because the leaders that are in charge are
constantly incompetent, it's a consequence, this is a
consequence, but for the individual, it could be a
elevation of your rank, if you respond well to it. And it could
be a punishment if you respond badly to it. For the individual,
of course, for the nation, it's just a complete
consequence of the incompetence. Okay.
It just rubs me the wrong way. When you get somebody from
Scandinavia coming and lecturing people halfway across the world,
you don't even know what it's like to live. And I gotta be honest, I
have what went through that phase to when I would go to Egypt or
something like that and just can be completely disgusted. Right?
I'm still disgusted, but I don't really hurl blame at people
anymore because they were born into this chaos.
And I'm disgusted by it. I don't want to get used to this. But I'm
not gonna hurl blame at people because they're born into this.
And if I was born into it, who knows what Mayor my mentality
would be right to complete. Give
mentality. That's what happened. I had a cousin who's a doctor.
I said, we took him out for ice cream, where we throw the cup out.
And the spoon. He said, This is how we do it in Egypt. He took it
he threw it in the street, like right in the road like that,
aren't you? Don't you take pride in your country and your street
pride he left?
Balochistan is the worst affected and economically under developed
province. It has not been a priority for the Pakistani
government during the floods. The government is not serious. They
don't understand this idea of climate change. Hey, if you love
Imran Khan, maybe it's good that he's not the President right now
because all the blame will be hurled on the president. Perfect
time. Yeah. Meanwhile, the floods have hit Pakistan in the midst of
a political and economic crisis. Earlier this year, Imran Khan was
swapped out by Chavez should eat chef best. Right king of Falcons
are what was that mean? Shabbats king of Falcons. What it is? Well,
a bears is he's definitely the show. Oh, that's a shot. He's not
a king? No. He's not a gangster. No, not at all.
After being removed, Ron Conway was removed from through a
parliamentary vote of no confidence in April. He has since
upped his criticism of the government. And police have
charged him
this month under an anti terror legislation after he lambasted
them over the arrest and alleged torture of a close eight. So
really, so you're going to go
try to sell the world that Imran Khan
is a terrorist, you're going to sell that to the world, that.
So that means you actually are indicted your entire country
because they elected him president. So they're all dumb,
and they didn't know that he's, I mean, I can't say I don't support
or not support him. But that accusation is pretty ridiculous.
The IMF approved a $1.1 billion bailout package. So anytime you
deal with the IMF, you're done. Right? Because you're gonna be
indebted to them forever.
Okay, so they wanted they approved a $1.1 billion bailout, who knows
how much you're gonna have to pay back?
Michael kugelman, Deputy Director of the South Asia program at the
Wilson Center points out that Pakistan is already dealing with
skyrocketing food prices, that will likely increase because
supplies will go down. Harvest is wiped out infrastructures wiped
out to deliver food from one place to another is going to be
extremely difficult. This economic crisis food scarcity. It all sort
of plays together and makes for a perfect storm. If that sounds like
he's happy, that will really complicate these recovery and
reconstruction efforts. He's an academic saying, Ooh, a lot of
papers are going to be reading from written after this.
Right.
All right.
For apart the Sopris Salas, which is that organization up in.
I think that's organization up in
Stockholm says that climate change in Pakistan, biggest security
risk,
is Pakistan's biggest security risks,
and deserve the investment that recognizes it as such, the idea of
security is a very old school, militarized notion of Pakistan
versus India. But if we look at the situation, millions are in
distress because of an environmental crisis, not a war
within you. This is a massive human security issue. She says
this.
She says she's lecturing, okay, and getting on my nerves, to be
honest. There needs to be a real step back and reflection.
Go sit in the corner and reflect she's basically it's like a child
telling the child going forward and what's important, and how
Budds it should be prioritized. I'm really worried they'll forget
again. So negative. Anyway, you know what happened my half of my
time I feel like I'm in high school reading these articles and
hating on the article, right.
But it is pretty annoying when people lecture in that way. But
the floods have also called attention to the global inequity
in who bears the brunt of the climate crisis. Pakistan has been
responsible for 0.4% of the world's historic co2 emissions.
The onus is on the international community, particularly the
industrialized world in the West, and countries like China to do
more to help Pakistan such a naive notion, no one's paying out $1
Unless they can ensure they're getting something back. None of
these governments are going around giving charity.
But also vaccin arguably could have done a better job to keep its
own backyard in better order in terms of climate proofing and
emissions reduction.
The issue is sort of done out and
While they're having this whole article, blaming, what did you
expect from a country that has not had a president single president
finish his entire term?
Isn't that a fact? Every nasty issue? Every president has either
been removed by a vote of no confidence or a military coup? I
think Bhutto was killed. She was shot, wasn't she? Yeah, Benazir
Bhutto was shot, right. So assassinated. So she's you're
either assassinated, you're either
kicked out by a vote of no confidence or the military coup
takes you down? Okay. What is Lily saying here? She's saying someone
said to me as to something that told me that he couldn't stand to
live in a country where two men can marry and obtain a
certificate.
Okay, that's different topic than what we're talking about here.
Marissa Hyatt Mayra Hyatt assistant professor of the
environment,
environmental and Peace Studies at Notre Dame. Okay, let's see what
she what she has to say out of Illinois. She told the BBC about
how Pakistanis may rightly be focused on holding the state
accountable, but that citizens of the global north
just academic terminology needed to reflect on how their countries
have contributed to the climate crisis.
Pakistanis know to hold the state accountable.
But there are certain other questions that citizens of the
global north need to be asking of their states.
So for example, what is the responsibility of the global north
in the kind of devastation that we're seeing effects?
How many years do you have to live to stop being naive?
Taking your states to account having the worst school save the
day. It's never gonna happen.
Part of that introspection for rich countries entails a serious
conversation about who should pay for loss and damage. That's all
these types of Think Tank people says, let's have a conversation.
Let's have a discussion.
Why am I even reading this? I'm not reading this anymore.
I can't stand to be honest with you naive commentary from people
where truth of the matter is that
no one moves until it starts to hurt their pocketbook. That's the
actual reality of governments especially. Okay, if it's either
going to hurt their geo political stance, or it's going to hurt
their pocketbook. And some of these academics coming in talking
as if they're talking to children. Well, let's see who's going to,
you know, why this happened? And
who's going to be responsible, and we need to be doing more and it's
just all naive talk.
Sorry to say, let's see what the economists have. Which is not
about that the absurd article from the Time Magazine from Time
magazine we just read, which is all about naivete.
This one here is actually about how the rain was too high. Okay.
Okay, the rate of rain this year,
has way surpassed any other years. So why is that? Even before this
summer's rain begins, see if the economist can talk some sense.
Pakistanis living along the country's rivers we're witnessing
the immense power of climate change meltwater from the
Himalayas had swollen them by May. So glaciers melting and coming
down a month before the highest temperatures of the year were
expected summers are getting hotter across the Indian
subcontinent and as a result of that the monsoon rains that break
the heat are unpredictable, early or late deficient or super
abundant, so it's just erratic
Okay,
and
to continue reading this article register No, no thank you. You can
keep your your article
let's see what some of the comments are saying.
Some people talking about the politics PPP. Apparently that's
like a party.
Correction, Benazir Bhutto was not the pm when she was assassinated.
She was PPP as her party. So when she got assassinated that prompted
the people to elect the PPP to power.
Okay, yeah, that's a party.
Hawk 123 says being an Indian Muslim in the UK, Is it morally
wrong to have wished that the come the flood come to
The enemy country of India. So the force of the Modi government could
be seen but that Allahu Masha
Hamza Jose, and it says I feel very nervous. There's probably a
lot more odia in Pakistan than there are here in America and the
Messiah will see but comes down to Pakistan rather than us. Well
don't always forget that the calamities come down upon Muslims
because what is the concern of Allah and His Messenger is the
purification of sins. If you cannot purify your own sins by a
bad and deeds, we will purify it for you. And that is for them, not
against them, comes on the AMO piano it's for them and not
against them did not Allah to Allah mentioned, there are the
sort of the messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
Blessed a sham will Yemen and he refused to place his blessing upon
and nudged.
What's nudged it's the Eastern Arabia, which today includes the
Emirates. It includes Riyadh includes some of the richest
cities in the world, right to Bay, of the Emirates, all of those
countries are extremely well off. They have not had wars in their
countries, famines, economic crisis, they have plenty of trade
partners throughout the world. The US President goes every year to
makes like every two years as the US president has, has to go to
Cass eight and make sure relations are good. To make sure that their
oil trade is good. Trump went, Biden went every single president
has to go and
kneel to make sure the oil prices are stay good. That's the only
reason they go How many times have you seen the Saudi King come to
the US to have to meet with the President. So Allah has given them
natural resources to the fact the greatest superpower is to go kneel
there every two years. Okay?
It's too bad. There's no Baraka. So we have it, but there's no
bucket and there's no blessing and it's not helping us improve in our
deen. Okay, in fact, it's making them worse. But the prophet
refused to bless them. They have all this worldliness. What does
this tell you this worldliness is not the concern of Allah Spano.
It's either for our OMA,
yet he did bless Sherman, Yemen, Syria and Yemen. And look at
Syria.
war torn completely 50% of the Syrians are out of the country.
And 50% of its literally rubble. Go to Yemen, it's worse, famine,
war torn. It's war torn because Saudi and Iran are fighting like a
proxy war in there. And it's having the one of the worst
famines on the earth right now. You wouldn't want to spend a day
dealing with that. What's wisdom, wisdom is that a lot of cares for
the man and the dean of the people? Right? Not for the worldly
distractions of people.
Right. So if if a if an OMA that whom Allah loves a group of people
that Allah loves, and Allah may have loved their grandparents, how
many Syrian and Yemeni people were there that were pious, and Allah
Tada is watching out for their grandkids, who are maybe going one
way or the other towards the dunya. And maybe towards sins Eve.
So Allah forcibly brings them back
to calamities, I think,
yesterday, bring your work
Shigmo was talking about yesterday, we were saying like it,
you can see where the people and like the if it's like a government
that's like corrupt, that like whatever punishment they get is
for a reason, because of how their people or how the government is
moving in the world. Yeah, so it makes sense. And also remember
that if there are righteous people, their offspring is the
recipient of or the recipient of their dua.
So either the guidance will come to you, you will accept it and be
good.
If you don't accept it, yet, there's some goodness in you than
Allah to Allah will bring you by force. And they will come on the
day of judgment. And those who are wealthy will wish that they had
those calamities, prophets of Allah when he was some said the
blinds will be brought on the day of judgment. And the sighted will
say, we wish we were blind,
because of the vastness of the reward. So that's how we view
things. But it should not be taken, like we're welcoming this
stuff, we still have to, if you had, if we had countries, we have
to set up like a solid country, and you would want to set up
your people to live in peace. So there's not like an achievement
that but this is the good perspective, just a spin on it.
Right? Or to take to look at it from that perspective.
Okay. And by the way, that only applies if if the people react
well to it.
Right, so I was in JFK airport one time picking up somebody. This was
before COVID
And I saw an Arabic looking woman last
I think the last
time she looked wealthy, very wealthy,
and I went up to her. And I said,
I talked to her in Arabic, and see what I could do for. She said, Oh,
first time in America, she she's never been to America. She's
meeting her son here. So we're waiting, right. And last time I
just chatted with her.
So it turns out, she's from a very well off family in Damascus. And,
you know, the people of Damascus, they're like,
to put it mildly. They're the elite of the elite of their people
of Damascus. And they have a reputation, a specific reputation
for their nose being in the air, even the righteous of them.
She was an elite woman, right? older lady, but you could tell she
had, she was wealthy, and she was used to having her way in life.
And she says to me, she starts talking about her life story.
Because we're just sitting there waiting 10 minutes past 30
minutes, she tells me that her and her husband had moved to Saudi
Arabia to work in some oil engineering.
And they were making a lot of money
and then go into Damascus every summer.
And their sons had, they had given their setup their sons in
business. She said one of her sons had migrated to America. This one,
the other one, chose to stay in Damascus.
And use the money that we made in Saudi and build up a business. And
he built up a real estate business that ended him up with two towers
in Damascus, the entire towers, and he just collects rent like a
king. Meanwhile, the other American one, he came to America
to seek that this type of life and he was like working like any
anyone else. Like maybe he was he was working well, like a doctor or
something. But he was, you know, working. There's a big difference
between a king who collects rent, right? And so it's like a king on
the couch, just collecting rent and buying and basically playing
real life monopoly. Essentially, that's what when you make into
real estate, that's what you're doing. You're playing real life
monopoly. It's a game though.
And this guy's other guys working. So she tells me that when the war
happened,
in one day,
bombing occurred in that neighborhood, both buildings
completely torn to the ground.
Everyone in the building ran left, there's there are no tenants. He
went in one day, one day, to having zero income.
So what does he do with his life? When took himself and he's like in
Denmark, or some random country, have to go flee until his family
could, you know, use their money and the resources to put him
together. And I think they were trying to put him put them
together, pieces together, and bring his family to America with
their wealth that they had. But it's almost as if Subhanallah you
had a family here you have a family, and she was religious
woman like wearing hijab wearing Iberia and everything. But here
you have a family that's well off in the dunya. And all of a sudden,
they have this epic calamity come to them. from a spiritual
perspective, all I could do is look at it and say,
I think it may be Allah's looking out for you.
Right, he's making your whole family turn back to Allah because
of this, and especially him because now his kids
would have grown up on in one trajectory of life, the kids of
the Mogul, right, the real estate mogul who's got towers and will
probably have five by the end of his life, right? Who will never
think of money will walk around with their heads up high.
And probably never be on their knees.
calling to Allah, likely.
Right, these prophets I send them said that the rich he criticized
them for the effort in Africa. They entered when when they
entered enter, they enter 500 years later.
And I looked upon Paradise, and I found the bulk of them were poor.
Well, what does that mean about hellfire? Right? If we assume the
opposite of that, right.
But now, his kids, the foreigners, foreigners get made fun of
foreigners are out of place. He is poor, he's broke. Right? He might
have business skills that he recovers, it'll take him 10 years
to learn the language and recovering and get going again. He
might get going again, Allah's generous, but it's going to take a
while his kids are out of place. There's no There's no reason to
hold their head up. You're a refugee like this. The worst
status you could ever have on the earth is to be refugee. No one
wants to be a refugee. So that's that's the way we could look at
these calamities that it is for you, not against you. If you view
it as the action of Allah
Subhan Allah which Allah, it is for me and it's not against me,
you have to view it like that.
And yes, the real cause of it, of course will be incompetence, they
didn't build a dam, blah, blah, blah, they didn't build they
didn't take care of the, to think about the glaciers, all that
Syria, they had all these, they revolted. They think this through.
Of course you can, you can analyze all that you want, but to analyze
yourself.
You got to look at things that what brings you down to your knees
closer to Allah is for you and never against you. So
someone asked me once, what if it's my own error? So even your
own error? Because, say the unis are a Salam. He fulfills this role
amongst the prophets as an example for us, namely, that Satan the
Eunice La Silla, was not swallowed by a whale, just as a pure victim.
He had one against the divine mandate, when you are sent to give
Dawa to so to a nation to a city, a prophet does not leave that area
until he's commanded to leave the area. He keeps giving the dough
while Satana Yunus was so it's almost there are some things that
are not disobedience, but it's out of piety. Just like say Nalli when
he was told by the kurush, he wrote a contract and he said
Mohammad Rasool Allah. Quran said, we don't believe he's also love.
We believe he rasool Allah, we don't, we wouldn't be fighting him
putting Mohammed bin Abdullah. That's what we know him as
soon I looked at the profit, the prophets I seldom said they're
correct, wipe it out and put a bin Abdullah, say now he said, I'm not
wiping it out.
That's a disobedience of piety. It's not an actual act of
disobedience. He's saying, I will not wipe out the word Rasool
Allah. So then the prophets had pointed to me, and he pointed out
and then he the Prophet himself wiped it away. Right? So there is
some kind of disobedience that's it's rooted in piety. So saying
the units was so disgusted by paganism, he can't stand these
people and he left. And that's where he was swallowed by the
will. Right. But it was for him and not against him. Because so
when you get swell, when you do something wrong,
it's nonetheless still a chance that it can be for you and not
against the I mean, the the punishment, or the consequence,
not the act, of course, itself. But the consequences may be for
you, not against how many people did something wrong, they went to
jail, like Malcolm X, jail was the best thing that happens. They wish
for him and not against them, even though he deserved it, or he did
the crime that caused them to be in jail. Right? So when people
ask, well, it really wasn't my fault. That doesn't mean that it
cannot be for you and not against you, it could still be something
you benefit from. Alright, satellite images, says the
Guardian here show that the extent of the devastation caused by the
flooding in Pakistan.
Images from Planet Labs and Mike maxar Show swaths of green fields,
villages and buildings before the monsoon rain, and flooding began
lashing the country in June. And then afterwards, completely
flooded. Okay. And basically,
it's just wiped out all the animals too.
Right.
More than 33 million people, or one out of every seven Pakistanis
has been affected somehow by the flooding.
I don't know if you could see this image here. But I'll show you guys
at least that this is the image on the right here is what their city
used to look like, from an aerial shot. And you can see this picture
on the left. It's like all beige. That's where there's no more
greenery, it's just mud. It's just flooding.
Okay.
So there's gonna be a serious food shortage, there is a serious
transport shortage.
And so I think that allow them but the this is I hate to be negative,
but the way I see the world going in the future is more and more of
these as a result of our human access, plus incompetence, plus
just too many people to be able to manage, right, that eventually
people will sort of like lose track.
And, and just accept the fact that we're never recovering these
things like there's no normal anymore. It's just from one
calamity to the next. That's a very negative view, but it is the
view that I think that is most likely to be the case. You know,
when when a third world country when I
was in one of these countries.
I saw a poll, and that poll must have had
No less than 50 wires connected to it 50 electric wires.
And I thought to myself, how are they tolerating this, it's like so
ugly. And there's wires everywhere. And it's probably
really dangerous, because some of them are cut.
Who knows where these wires are coming from? Now, as I thought
about it,
I thought about it realize that no country descends into this, except
very slowly, because we're all human beings. No one will tolerate
this, like no one will tolerate this degree of ugliness. So you
got 50 wires on the thing hanging all over the place, you have
garbage heaps all over the place, curbs that are going up and down
all over the place.
And it realized that the only way that this happens is very slowly,
like vary so slowly, that you just sort of like okay, the garbage, it
doesn't come every week anymore comes every other week.
Week comes every two weeks just has to happen over a long period
of time, that you just get acclimated to that.
Then something else happens very slowly over time this stuff
happens. So I get this feeling. And it's a sort of a negative
assessment. But very slowly over time, the number of calamities in
the world just becomes so much that you realize we're never going
back to normal. There is no that is the norm. Just like for those
cities that are run down like that. It just you they realize at
some point, we're never going to be crisp and Christmas is not
exist for us anymore. Like the idea of the electricity companies
doing their job. The water supplies doing their job. The
garbage collection is doing their job, the street is paved the
sidewalk is like they've lost that as
an aspiration that has long been dead.
Alright, so All right, let's take any comments or questions. What do
you got to say, man, we got
a story you narrated actually reminded me of one. Now you
mentioned a calamity. Can he actually guidance? A calamity?
Yeah, for sure. Yes. So when I was in Pakistan in 2005, and there was
a big earthquake. So it was an interesting story with one of my
teachers in elementary school, there was an earthquake, and the
teacher used to come into the school without a hijab on and long
hair, long hair, she was straightening, do a lot of makeup.
And I remember a lot of the guys I sort of said, but they had a crush
on the teacher. So when the earthquake happened, she actually
came in after the earthquake about a month after everything was
settled. She used to wear a full on job after the earthquake, she
realized something that she faced people turn back that's the thing
people turn they turn their lives around. That's this is what I love
cares for us, for their for our effort, and more so than our
dunya. And that's why we should expect
it's not a surprise one lands like India, Israel, China.
Were very successful in life right in this head to dunya. And they're
getting all sorts of blessings furious, switch your mind to this
for every like calamity in your life or calamity that around you.
Nothing when there is no calamity anymore, there wouldn't be
anything bad for you. Let me tell you something on a spiritual
level. When people think about that for a long period of time,
let me tell you that now watch when they they realize
a loss of hope. subhanaw taala is everything that is bad is actually
for us spiritually. And everything that is good, may or may, also
could be good for us spiritually, because we can do good deeds with
it.
So let me tell you that one of shaytans tricks for people who
think like this,
is to tell people to have patience. Because you might think,
Well, isn't patience a good thing, right.
But after a certain period of time, when you've realized when
you've come to believe fully, and you've done this over and over and
over for years to the fact that to the point that you never view
anything as a true negative anymore. There's no such thing as
a true negative except your own sins. My own sins is the only true
negative. Everything that happens to me is for my own benefit, I
just may not see the benefit now.
So shaytaan strict to these people, this is a half patients.
Why because patients is bitter, and Satan wants you to have a
negative view of Allah.
Right? So that oh with Allah, we have to be patient. Patients is a
bitter thing. It's a heavy, as if Allah has tested him. He's
throwing these calamities on me. And it's, it's a negative view.
Patience is to be told to the person who is tempted to commit
sins
as a result of prohibitions that he can't do
Risk, control himself
calamities, and he's about to do something wrong because of a
calamity like for example, you lose a child and you're about to
say something really bad. Then you're told to be patient. Those
are the people who need to be told to be patient. Once someone comes
to realization that everything is for me, even though it's
difficult, it's for me. It is one of the tricks of shades on to the
Olia and masala hain, because they be patient, right? Because he
wants to bring you down from the level of gratitude and recognition
of Allah's wisdom.
Because if you view everything as the action of Allah to Allah, you
should be happy at everything, no matter how painful it is. But it
is the action of my lord for my own benefit. So shaytan wants to
bring you down a level and say, be patient, bear with Allah's
commands as if you're disgusted with or you hate Allah's commands,
or his destiny, what he's destined for you or his will. So that's why
among the speech of the atrophying, they actually
recognize that that could be a trick of shaytaan. Right? Now, you
imagine you come to somebody who's going to the
people go to liquor sessions, because they want to, they enjoy
it, right? It's the most simplest, easiest act of a batter to do. And
the sounds beautiful, and it feels great.
And not someone comes up to you and says, You go into the liquor,
okay? Be patient. It's like that, that advice is out of place. I'm
completely happy about this, right? Your man goes to his wife,
have dinner with his wife and spend the evening with his wife,
then someone says, you know, be patient with the wife. It's like,
no, we want to do this, right? This, this is out of place. Okay?
So you have to be mindful of shaytans. That good advice that's
out of place, messes everything up for you. That's his attempt. And
remember, her dad calls these Kennametal Haku, DW Abelton, a
word of truth, for which actually, falsehood is intended. You're
actually intending falsehood. you're intending to derail
somebody's state with Allah by telling them be patient with
Allah, as if Allah was bringing some hardship? No, we're past
that. We know that Allah doesn't bring hardships, right? Yes, it
may be painful temporarily. Everything is painful,
temporarily. Right?
Even a man in intimacy, a man who's not to say this, like there
may be some kids watching. But if a man and wife are intimate,
they're tired afterwards. So even that has some difficulty, right?
There's effort, or you want to have a baby is not the best thing
to have a healthy baby alone, while painful it is. Right for the
woman.
It's painful. So there's always pain, connected pain has nothing
to do with the issue. Right? There's always pain connected, if
you're in the dunya. Even the good thing has been, as I said,
yesterday, every blessing has a rough underbelly. You want to eat
steak.
Right? You better eat a lot of greens, because you're going to be
in pain in your stomach afterwards, right? You want to
enjoy chocolate cake, you better exercise because it's not going to
show up nicely on your body after that, right? Everything good in
this life must come through and be connected to some degree of pain.
So pain is not the issue.
It's the wisdom is the issue. Right? And that's the big
difference between the suffering of a believer and the suffering of
a cafe. The cafe is suffering is the meaninglessness of this of it
all. It's like I'm lost. Subhanallah as you you guys are
all pretty young. But as you start growing, to realize, man years,
keep passing Subhanallah the things you did in life, this kid
was a infant now and other than high school, right? I've been
doing this driving in this street for like 20 years. It's like a big
deal. Like it's like, for you guys, five years, maybe a big
deal. Wow, I did this for four years at college four years.
Right? But imagine you have been in the same place for 40 years.
You start thinking about what yours are passing. But what holds
you down from any sense of like loss or, or grief, sadness or
anything is the idea of the consistency of it all. Like, all
this is going to come back to me on the day of judgment. It all
does have a meaning. It's not meaningless. It all has a deep
profound meaning. That will I'll carry it for an eternity. Those
good deeds will will can earn you a reward by Allah's mercy for an
eternity so you don't feel like anything's lost. Right? There's
nothing lost everything is a seed that's being planted for the
future. is
shaking without get really spiritual. Yeah, every couple of
weeks we get to like a really spiritual point. Yeah, I remember
a couple of weeks ago, we were talking about how everything,
everything that exists is a manifestation of the attributes of
Allah. Spiritual point and like,
thinking about this, like when bad things happen to us. It's
basically like a stimulus. Like you have to remember that Allah is
there. And like the worst thing
Have we could be in our entire life of being heedless. Yeah.
Right. Like sometimes I even think, you know, we pray love as a
testis by this, but like, it would be better to have like a life
that's like more of like a roller coaster of sadness and happiness.
Even if it's bad sometimes then just this plain, robotic,
monotonous life. Yeah, that's like, just keep us man, there's no
like stimulus to remember a lot to have that connection. The, you
know, the cure if someone's life is like this. And they're and how
could someone's life be like that if you have two parents who are
like this, they're going to create a world that's like this, right?
All the bills are paid all the time, there's no risky financial
investments made that could cause a roller coaster of ups or downs,
everything is just stable. And a kid grows up in absolute utter
stability.
To the point that that becomes his test, because he's gonna go crazy.
Like, there's like no action here at all. And there's neither
hardship nor excitement.
But the medicine of that is to do good deeds. If Allah has given you
stability, go to good deeds, go study, go teach, go do relief
work. Like you got to use your time and use that stability, to go
do something good. That That's why Allah created some people to have
absolute utter stability. So instead of the issue coming to
you, you got to create this, you got to go out there and do
something good. That's the medicine for people who live
stable. If Allah gives people now in life, their soccer is to use it
for others.
So you get to keep a sliver for yourself. Right? But you've got to
use it for others to some people, whether they're rich, whether
they're whatever namah that that Allah gave them, you keep a nice
slice for yourself. Right? That's permissible, but use the rest for
others and that way will never be against you will be for you, not
against you.
Let's now go to the comments and questions. We could do this for 20
minutes before we do our da we got menzi 20s Here wase 126 A D
Netvibes.
lot other people lucky acceptance says that vibe says acceptance
much more than patients maybe except it's not only just accept,
be happy with it. Any action of ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada is that is
the action that is out of your control.
And you react to it
in two ways.
Number one, the shitty I will tell you to react. Right? The Sharia
commands you how to react. If an intruder comes into the building
right now. We don't say we don't say come and do what you wish
because it's from Allah. You don't say that right? You fight him
back. Cydia requires you to fight him back to the death. God should
I requires you to protect your property. He doesn't give away
your property will not be a D committed to hookah Allah says
don't destroy yourself, you fight back. But internally, the whole
event as a whole is from Allah. So I may be in pain. I may be
stressed out. I may be crying. Right? But deep inside myself, my
idea is that this entire thing has happened from almost no time.
So deep inside I know maybe not now because I'm too I'm too in
this right now. I can't see the wisdom now. Once the dust settles
also seeing the wisdom and the closer that someone is from Allah
subhana which Allah to Allah, I mean, the quicker they see the
wisdom
lucky 123 Salam aleikum from Turkey. Radek from Salam or how
much labor go to
M. I had Alma did it bliss see Jana
a bliss was in the heavens, we know that for sure was a
generative, the Jana of paradise it was one of the heavens.
Dino says, you mentioned that patience is sometimes a trap. Yes,
it could be a downgrade from your hooded law of Allah subhanaw taala
as we said, someone invites you to a nice five star dinner. Right and
says Be patient. It's out of place here. I'm accepting this I'm happy
about this. Right. So is that why saying that you did not make you
out to be cured for a long time.
It is and it's he has a higher MACOM the MCC there's more common
dua, but he had a higher MACOM the MACOM of accepting and seeing the
wisdom and all of Allah's decree. So let it come and don't push it
back. That was his state at that time.
This may what has confused you so much
is the relationship between other alive and free? Will you hold that
and free? Will? What? We have no business with credit and free
will? free will? That's your action right now what are you
going to do? That's your freewill.
What am I to say take action.
When something happens outside of your control, then we say that
a rock comes flying through the window, because that does not mean
we're not going to go downstairs, find the person who did it, and
make them pay for the window. Right? We're still going to do
that stuff. Because today requires us. But internally, we were not
going to enter into a a dark state. Because we know the Asics
formula, we can't understand.
We have no business to try to understand its color is really
meant
after the fact.
For you to say it was colorable law, there's nothing anyone could
have done to change it. So that there's no regret here. Right?
We're gonna say,
sometimes, like back to the just super basics of Islam. Islam means
submission. Not only you're submitting your time and your body
and all these things, but your pursuit of every single knowledge,
you have to submit it eventually. Yeah, there's everything others,
like the biggest test. Totally submit today. Why are we like we
have this thing that we got to understand it. Allah has given you
something you can understand. Plus?
All right.
And there's no contradiction in it at all.
His knowledge has nothing to do with your will. If you had no
will.
Right? You had no risk? No responsibility, you cannot be put
in heaven or *. Right.
Okay, let's see what else we have here.
Yeah, so so that comment those comments, this is from the context
of we already believe in it. And we're explaining it to someone who
believes in it correct. But what's the most proper way? I've heard
many different ways? What's the most proper way to explain it to
somebody who's asking, who's had no exposure to this at all? What's
the relationship between everything happening on purpose
and US perceiving that we can make decisions to we say about it? It
is both in that we are making decisions.
That choices are predetermined for us.
So whichever way we go, is something Allah has determined,
it's as if there are, so I can put this phone up or down or in my
pocket or on the wherever. But it's a limited number of things I
could do with this phone. I can't throw it to Illinois, for example.
I could throw it to a limit.
Right now. All of those options are already in Allah's knowledge.
And if I throw it, there's like a destiny.
That's there. If I keep it, there's a destiny that's there.
Whichever I choose is one of those destinies. I'm only choosing one
of Allah's destinies. So is it destiny or is it choice? It's both
I am choosing one of the destinies no and the scholar, remember that
taught us he said, notice?
You can't disobey Allah yesterday.
You limited. I can only disobey Allah now. Can you disobey Allah
tomorrow? Right now? Can you disobey Him in March 2023? Wait,
right, you can't, you can only disobey him now. Can you obey Him
or disobey Him on Mars? Or only here? So he has already closed the
door, there are certain there's a limit of what I can do.
Whichever one I choose is one of his wills. Right? So that's why it
is I'm choosing that's why I'm responsible. And it is Allah's
destiny. So every single possible choice that I make already has a
destiny written for it. And that's why the prophets I seldom said,
every one of you will you have a MACOM in paradise. That is yours
if you made all the right choices, and there's a MACOM unhealth for
fire or there's a place in hellfire. Because MACOM is usually
meant for a good thing. There's a place in * fire for you. If you
had made all the wrong choices. Right? And probably will get
something in between. Right? I'm gonna come is like a position.
Yeah. So there's a position now what happens? We're all everyone
has both. So if five people went to heaven and five people went to
*, what happens? Those who went to the hellfire, there's empty
seats in the hellfire. They get those punishments. So the
punishment that you would have gotten, someone else is gonna get
it. And the paradise that they would have gotten is empty.
All those palaces and all those servants and all those other
things that are there. They're vacant.
They have no owner. So Allah distribute
So to the rest of the people, right, which is one of the proofs
that it is written in Allah's knowledge, if I did this, then
this is going to happen. If I do that, then that's gonna, all of it
is already in divine knowledge.
Right? So that's how we we, we can very easily wrap our heads around
the idea that it is our choice. And it is predestined, because the
destiny is written in many different ways. So this goes to
show that people that think like, like, we were talking about this
yesterday in class where it was, like some people think they're,
they're bound for heaven, like that's what they truly believe.
And some people think they're bound for *. Yeah, like that.
Usually goes
yeah, that's yes. But this shows that like, there's a spot for both
like, you could go to either like it doesn't like you can like this
would prove that point where you can't just say, Oh, I'm going to
go to heaven with new seats in * for you. There's a scene
and also someone who believes they're going to heaven
straightaway that's also an m&m and Maquila which is the opposite
of a yes. No Rahmatullah both of them are.
Both
what can we recite apart from donating charity for the people
for Pakistan? Yes, seen recite Yes. Seen in dua for them because
yes, in eases affairs.
privatize them said yes in eases affairs. Did you make that
intention towards you make the intention of this recitation that
Allah accept our dua to make affairs easy for
prayer with your eyes shut mcru totally set your eyes if there's
something forbidden for you to look at, because that was the
salah of the Jews and the Christians. Yeah. So some I feel
some brother told me that what if like, closing your eyes brings you
closer in the salon? No, no, we would tell you that your
conclusion is wrong. Following the profit is what will bring you
closer. So you can only shut your eyes if there is something that
now first of all, if you shut your eyes accidentally, and someone was
focusing so much on somebody actually shut his eyes
accidentally. There's no harm no foul on accidental. Let's say
someone who's reciting so well and your mind actually drifted away to
the point that you shut your eyes, that's forgiven. But to
intentionally do it, we would say following the example of the
Prophet and contradicting your ego is better for you, if you did shut
your eyes here so that would be valid but you will be doing
something discouraged.
And Allah is not worshipped by doing actions that are discouraged
and outside the salah you can do what you want though. You see how
Allah has there are rules in our religion but there's also
flexibility outside of Salah you can you can shut your eyes and
Dhikr all you want
to shut their eyes.
You might miss the Jamal like the Jamal might be in recalling your
institute because you didn't focus you didn't hear it. So this
applies to No, no awful to
our humans fundamentally superior to angels. Humans are in one of
two states they could three states that could be superior to angels.
They could be
worse than animals, and they can be somewhere in between. Right
because when a human being gets demonic, He's worse than an
animal. When a human being becomes angelic.
Means he obeys Allah and he remembers him much he's better
than me because he had to overcome more to get there.
What Vickers should you do if you're having trouble with your
anger? You should do a suffer and Salah on the messenger Peace be
upon mainly Salah on the Prophet peace be upon him It cools a
person down
if you give sadaqa for someone else's benefit do you benefit from
it? Yes, but that person should be dead. You can only give sadaqa on
behalf of the dead Muslim
yeah
like Muslims
become better units.
Muslim Jen Yeah.
Of course. Yeah. Like if I if a Muslim Jenna's spies on the human
is not he's better than
what else we got?
Cory says how do you recommend dealing with to levy Joomla they
intrude on the Masjid.
Every community has got to their
their own way to deal with the their guests and their people who
will require but by the way, nope, the management of a masjid has a
lot of latitude to do what they feel is right in the mosque.
If they want to say, No, you're not doing that to get here.
They're allowed to do that. You're not speaking here you are there.
Lots of do that.
Yeah. All right. And are mustard. Oh, yeah. Kati, Nasir myself,
Sammy, we have the latitude to do that. And we come to a certain
basic agreement on what we want in the masjid what we don't want. And
many people think it's the house of Allah like it's public space
like a forest. It's not.
The Imam is a Sharia position. It's a position in Islamic law,
the full time Imam and that is in the position of the administration
of the mosque. He has the right to do what he feels is the most
beneficial. So he could prohibit anyone he wants from giving a
talk. Right? Some people will lie, and they come up to us as if it's
it is a human right to give a talk. says, Can I give a talk?
Right? No, you cannot give a talk. Why? Just because you don't like
my opinion? Yes, exactly. Right. That is exactly why, right. Well,
the OMA should hear all opinions, then go open a mosque, right?
Because in this semester, they're going to hear a set number of
opinions were this predictable, and they can bring their kids here
and they know exactly what they're going to hear. There's a wisdom
behind that. Not every day I did different message. Makes no sense.
Right? No one benefits from that. Everyday, one time, this flavor.
And one time, this flavor. And one time this type of view. And
another time that view, this is not a University of good for youth
to just go and hear different opinions, because they have no
opinion of their own yet. And they're swimming around the lake
of opinions. No one benefits from that. Do that if you want to
discover go discover on your own, we're not going to bring you a
variety menu here. We are bringing you what we hold to be ad hoc.
Okay.
You can bring your kids here,
you know exactly what they're going to be told. Right. And
that's the point. So that the family could come in. And they it
is like predictable. I know what I'm going to hear in this method.
I don't like it, I'll go to another method. I like it, I can
just drop my kid off. And how many people do we have just they just
drop their kids off? There's complete trust, they know exactly
what they're going to hear. Right? So
when those people come in, and as if they don't understand that the
management of a masjid that is in Islamically legal position that
has a lot of rights to keep order. Right in the masjid.
So many times they say, Well, it's a valid Islamic opinion. It can be
as valid as you want it to be, right. We're not promoting it.
Simple as that.
We're not promoting this because it's going to confuse what we're
promoting, right? There can be two valid things, but they're, like
conflicting, and they're causing confusion. So when when
governments used to have courts, they operate on one method.
So you don't go to the Mughal Empire say hold on a second judge
me, oh, judge, judge by the medical method? No, we judge by
one min heavier, otherwise we cause confusion in the lens.
Right? I'll say, hey, Judge, according to the Maliki method,
it's my property. Well, according to the Hanafi, madhhab, it's not
right.
And we're operated by the Hanafi mother, because we have to have
order here.
It's not just
anything that has any validity, then you have a right to say it
out loud in the society. Everyone has an opinion. So it causes it's
just complete chaos. Yeah, there's no unity to there's no unity in
amongst the people. And I'm telling you, it's many people get
surprised, because they imagine House of Allah means like public,
I can do whatever I want here because it's the house of Allah.
That's not the case at all.
If curry, or Imam,
he, one of the rulings is that there's no gym outside of his gym
out. Right? If the comment is called. And he leads the prayer
for let's say us.
And you came in like two minutes late with a group of five friends.
You praying individually? There's no second drummer. Because we've
seen and the books of fic also reflect this. That actually leads
to people feeling that they could do this all the time. Then you
have like Jim has happened in the mosque all the time. And that
person leads like 10 people in the prayer that he thinks he's
something and the people think he's an authority too. So it
confuses everything. You're not allowed to have Holika
we have dinners in the restaurant all the time. Little Holika breaks
out and you're talking Dean. No, break it up right now. Oh, but I'm
saying something good and
those that say something somewhere else then, right? We're not saying
you can't say it, but you here you can't say here because you confuse
the the authority. Right? So people start taking you as an
authority coming up and walking. So Kharis kicks people out. He's
shut down. Holika is right in front of my eyes. Well, I was
like, what? He shut it down. He said, I have more experienced than
you. Okay, I know what's going on.
He does not play around. He's not playing.
Wait, what happened? But so so have you been with it? Yeah, it
was. It was one of the days that we were gonna start the border
border because we were told before the teachers come start the border
here or there in the in the mustard? Yes. Yeah. So I think you
had a meeting with Sheikh Harun in the back room. So we're just
waiting. And we started the board. And I guess the meeting went on
for a while now. We're like an hour in we're almost finished.
On the big mic on his own. Okay. It's like
a few guys. Yeah, he's in trouble. And he walks in from the back.
Yeah. And literally, he's like, reciting it slowly, like, put down
the like, yeah. And everyone's just gonna pin drops. I'm
just looking at it like, bewildered like, yeah.
And then, like, he already knew what to do. Yeah. So
yeah. He knew His neck was gonna get cut.
So it comes up, and he just started sort of like making fun.
Somehow after that, he was like, we need to every night and if he
didn't know, Ahmed,
would have been out. This is how it was established. That's how was
established and that only happened because Cory knows you guys and he
likes you. Right? But if he was strangers, Kevin did this. Oh,
he's gone ballistic. Nasir is even worse. He will be physically
dragged out of the building. Right?
Unbelievable. But that's why there's order in the masjid.
Right. And people benefit from this order they walk in there's a
there's a feeling of a peaceful lake. Right? Yeah. Whereas in
other communities where they're like giving out leadership
positions and authority as if it's generosity it's not generosity,
you just creating cats there's no he's the authority in that field.
He's there they're not connected there and multiple authorities
know in the community and it also builds trust within the people
like the core people there when you see them it's like okay, I can
go to this person for this and this person for that it's not like
you're like trying to pick who exactly yeah, there's there's no
factions, no factions.
When reciting students and Bucha in the house for calamities should
it repeated or just once as much as you like, but once
insufficient, but as much as you like,
what should or should we recite in silent prayers like vote inositol
behind the imam for the vote long suits for us mentoring students,
mid range shooters meaning between
right
long suit as being really any sort of you want but for the Jota Nasi
you won't really be able to recite something longer than Hojo dots
for example. So from Hojo dots to Abba
Dino says is Siddhartha
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is mature without a doubt through the angels. And by the phrase,
here I bird Allah.
Why because the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam has a hadith on
this is narrated by Imam Ahmed have been humbled. If you are lost
in the desert, shout out. Yeah, Eva de la inone. For Allah subhana
wa Tada has angels in every place.
In another narration, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
if your animal goes away from you far away from you, then call out
Yeah, a bad Allah. This Oh servants of Allah stop it. Imam in
no way. He said he saw this being practiced by his shield in front
of him and their animal stuffs going away. Imam Ahmed have been
humbled son narrates that his father was on the way to hedge got
lost.
And so he began to say yeah, bad Allah do Looney allottee Yeah, but
Allah do Lunia lottery which means Oh, a bad Allah. Show me the way
until he found the way Okay, so Allah's angels are there helping
and Allah is telling us the prophet is telling us call on them
for help.
In the same way that you would ask a person for help, is if I see a
human being there. Now, why did the prophesy centum say this? If I
see a human being of me and my baby are lost, right?
Or a caravan of people are lost, I'm lost. And I see a local man.
And I refuse to ask him for help.
And my whole people, they die, Am I guilty or an innocent? I'm
guilty, why I had the ability, Allah gave me the means to seek
help. So commanded to seek help. What the Prophet is saying is
believing the unseen.
The human being is not the only one there to help you. There are
angels there to help you. Right? So ask them and it becomes
something that the prophet tells us to do. Yeah, but Allah do
Looney ilottery Yeah, but Allah so we say about this that what Imam
Ahmed said he did it in what remember? No, he said he did it.
And he saw his teachers doing it then he did it himself too. And he
said it worked. Okay, of course it's gonna work as well.
Yeah, a bad Allah. Yeah, bad Allah. That is an esteemed author
is seeking help from the unseen in the same way that you would seek
help from a seen person? no different except the angels will
never misguide you human being could try to help you but fail
Angel if an angel helps you you're gonna succeed.
This year I bet Allah Mizzou which means to trap or stop my animal
from going astray. But if you notice how Imam Muhammad he just
he said what he needed? Yeah, a bad Allah do Looney allottee show
me the way.
Right until he fell in the way as I given an example, if there was a
human being in front of you, and you're lost, would you not be
bound? That you're lost in the desert is a death sentence right?
Absolutely. You would be bound obligated to ask this person for
help. Otherwise your your dependents would be dead? Are
these one of the angels that are the 12 No, these are not the 12
appointed angels around you. These are different angels working Yeah,
doing whatever job that Allah has commanded them to do. So they're
there they're all over the world and the prophets I sent him says
when you are in need now he gave us two examples one being lost in
the desert That's Death number two losing your animal not death right
it's not that but you could still ask right? He's still use the
angels that Allah has all over the Earth is that not just about that
that's just
what can you say aside from students
go into the code on the guy in focus
how should Imam prevent Muslim business owners from selling
alcohol in their restaurants? His prevention is with his speech
his prohibition on the member and in different situations when he
gives the hookah etcetera
okay
All right ladies and gentlemen we have to go to the let's go to the
Hizb now
and recite that and recite a dua for the people of a Pakistan right
we're going to recite what we usually recite which is has been
nust
Aisha
please correct me if I'm wrong Did you say we call upon angels This
is the Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam rewind
a little bit on YouTube so you can hear exactly what I said it is the
Hadith of the Prophet peace be upon him. That said 35 was on NB F
35. Okay, good NB F 35 was all about this nothing but facts
episode 35 that the Prophet SAW I sent him said if you are lost in a
desert, so yeah, a bad Allah. Now you noni
and if your answer your your animal is lost, say yeah, but
Allah is. So general needs that people have one for life one not
for life. So that is no different than calling upon a living person.
Right. In ruling. So that's what I said I should
I have a question regarding that. Yeah. Would it be wrong to call on
them in any other circumstances?
I think
What's underneath and historical trends a certain need you need?
Like if a car breaks down, you're out of gas needs like that.
Someone says, Well, why don't you just call upon Allah Allah is
giving you means your profit is telling you, you have an angel
there to help you if I'm lost, right?
And I'm in the middle of Arizona and the highway, and my car is
done and a car is coming by. You don't say oh, hey, you stopped the
car. And then someone says to you, why did you stop the car? Why
don't you go call on Allah. This is my obedience to Allah because
Allah gave me a means. That is my calling. My obedience to Allah
Tala is using the means he gave me
a belief. It shows it shows belief to and I'll think about there
someone else when you're out in the desert. And the idea that
there's angels all around you, it gives you some comfort, right?
Because nonetheless, we're human beings we need we feel comfort
when there's other living creatures around us, right? That's
why actually like crickets, birds, squirrels, it actually gives a
little bit of comfort because you feel like there's actually living
things or imagine you're just it was completely silent. It's not
something that's in the fit of the human being.
And these Hadith that I mentioned, there's no they're not hidden.
They're all over the books and
there are so many narrations that they strengthen one another to the
point that Imam Ahmed and Imam know we both acted upon them.
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