Shadee Elmasry – NBF 110 The Prophet’s Nawafil at Home
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310 315. And we are going to start first I'm going to discuss
something
when the world is up, suddenly, some of these Shabaab youth have
gotten me down memory lane. And I'm going to talk to you about
something that happened to me, which was very good. But I mainly
want to talk to you not from about my perspective, but just about
what the world was like, and what some of these you used to be like,
it's from the vicar of the sada when you have to understand way
back in the day, if you lived in any Western country, there was no
connection with the east, except that it was made directly by
people. And it was slow. And it was letters and phone, landline
home to home phone calls. And you had to physically fly out and it
was not as easy as it is today. I'm actually thankful with what it
is today. And we should take advantage of it yesterday, how
Arun and I were discussing a mess Allah that came up. We were on
WhatsApp, literally, we contacted one of our shoe. And we got an
answer right away. Right on a on a new matter. nasbla. nasbla means
something that came down meaning something that was new, something
that didn't exist in the past, but it exists now. And using
principles that we know from the past that we were able to get the
answer to this question. Just like that. I mean, that's it's such a
great use of technology. And that's what technology is really,
Allah has put it out there as a test for everybody. And when he
takes it out, it's a test for everyone. And in the areas where
they didn't have technology. It was a test who really wanted you
know, something you have to physically move. So
at the time I was at GW University, George Washington, and
I had chosen GW because schicken Watson and ajar was there.
And
Chuck Marston, and the Jordan was not at GW but in Virginia. And I
wanted to be able to study under him, and I did every week, he
would have a gathering and I would go to that gathering and learn and
sometimes in the middle of the day and at the time, the founder of
Medina Institute.
Mata Mata was there. And so we used to see each other at these
gatherings all the time.
And we were just a bunch of Shabaab trying to study there was
also a Mauritanian Sheikh from the Embassy of Mauritania. So I went
to the Embassy of Mauritania, believe it or not be just like
love of Mauritania, that chick Hamza created and a lot of people,
so it literally went there. It was such the hilarious thing. First of
all, the ambassador lived up top, of course, it's a very beautiful
area. Only officials live there regular people don't live there.
It's all like official homes. It's like on a hill. All right, in
Washington, DC like hills and valleys. And it's called
Massachusetts Avenue. There was a masjid there near there. Like,
like one street off. Was this ambassador, this the ambassador's
house? I get there. It's literally one dude.
In like flip flops, sitting at a table right at a desk,
essentially. And I'm like, What is this? This is the Embassy of
Mauritania. And he's like, yeah, what can I do for you? And turns
out that the ambassador lived upstairs, him and his family. I
used to see the kid because I ended up having classes there ICC
here's this kid like biking from school biking home from school son
of the ambassador. Now the ambassador had brought in a chef
named by lib alchemy. A retired scholar, flew him over and brought
him to the lit he lived with them in a room in the embassy, and this
shit would walk. And the way that I met him was that I looked one
day and I saw a Mauritanian I knew he's more genuine by, you know,
some of the clothes that he was wearing.
That Daraa Alright, it's a famous garment and he had a white beard.
He was older. And I was like What in the world I literally used the
car or turned around and I said I sit on one acre and we we started
talking and then he we started studying Arabic together.
The funny thing was that this shit literally you don't understand. I
try to explain the youth so they have some context. Pre modern
people. You just don't understand pre modern people. They're pre
modern people, their life is much simpler. They're not exposed, they
don't know things. So shifts all at one time came to the masjid in
a pair of slacks, and a tuxedo shirt.
And I said, Chick mother. So he said, The daraz his daraz they
were being watched. And they didn't come back in time. So he
was told go into such a closet and pick and wear whatever you want
from such and such a closet. Apparently he wanted the
ambassador's, like, I guess the guestroom closet, The ambassador
had a tuxedo there. He so he's got this striped tuxedo shirt open and
slacks. So it says this is this shirt is only for like a specific
suit. Right. And he's like, it's all closed as close. In any event.
That's what was going on. And at the time, right before 911? Have
you already came for a tour? In Virginia? Have you met at the time
it was not that famous. But I had already met him into anaemia and I
cannot tell you how helpful Have you bad he was. He bent over
backwards for all the foreign students. He opened his home up.
His home essentially was like lunch every other day in his home
or a lot, I would say. And the way that he made the students feel
welcome. And special. Your heart just melted. And that's why people
who go east take one foot into the hubbub you never come back because
of the way that he treated. Now, I know some people are gonna say Oh,
but he's now involved in politics. And he said this, that and he
associates with this data and the other. Just put a line right
there. We're talking about the past, okay? In which that's how I
met, I didn't meet anybody later on. Or in other words, I didn't
interact with them later, I directed him even like shortly
after 911 maybe up to 2003 2004. But I'm telling you, the way that
he would treat the students who would come in the hospitality. He
would say Allah has sent you students to us so we can get
reward. So maybe we can be forgiven. Maybe we can have
something with Allah by the way, we treat you Allah sent you to so
his perspective was not that oh, these people are coming to study
with us. No, Allah has sent these people who are trying to draw near
to Him to us, so our job is to treat them as the guests of Allah
subhanaw taala like in the How to mana shitty Fein Mecca and Medina,
we call the the judge are called Do you for ramen, they're the
guests of the Merciful. He treated us so well. And made sure that we
felt so at home and go from New Jersey to Yemen is not easy,
right? Back in the day as a culture even today you go to
you're gonna have a little bit of a culture shock. In any event,
someone had arranged for him, there was a connection, he had a
very well off family in Virginia. They set up a tour for him
in August of 2001. So he came in, we can't believe it. He's here. We
went down, and I would attend classes
and go straight to his house until the house that they were staying
at is a very, it's a pretty well known Egyptian family. And they
now they have a big mosque in Egypt.
And then we just spend the whole day I don't even study for my
classes. Just spend the whole day, read a book, say a word, take a
break.
Have a discussion, then you have a public session with people. It was
just amazing.
And it was like a handful of people, right? Not a lot of
people. And this family. They were gracious enough to let people just
to shut up just stayed there was sleeping under a kitchen table
sleeping in a room who knows where everyone's everywhere. Just to be
next to the ship. Then the shake left. Good. And guess what morning
he left? September 11.
September 11 was his day to take a flight from Washington DC to New
York City. How crazy is that?
Of course, halfway through, we turn right back around that
because it was a morning flight. All this incident took place as
he's driving to the airport. Okay, and of course, turn right back
around and went back to that house. Now of course everyone had
the shock of 911 but after that was he was witnessing Where's
heavy body? Oh, he's staying at the house. So we got the benefit
that he was strapped in. And if you remember back in those days,
at that time, there were like no international flights for like two
weeks. So it'd be valuable stuff there.
And he would say Allah has kept me here for you. Right for you
people. And literally, I'm telling you, we would show up three four
people. There have breakfast Fred was laid three
For Shabaab, and heavy bodied men sit for hours. And then he pulled
out a book, then he would tell stories about, you know, talk
about the stories
of the scholars of Teddy
was having, I'm telling you, it was paradise. And
we ended up
having such a good connection that about a year later, when I had a
chance to do a research paper, and it was the master's thesis and
asked him, I want to use this as an excuse as a reason to go
abroad. Right.
And so, at the time, who was my master's professor, say, it has
sameness. Now, I knew about the books of San Jose Nelson, and they
were pretty nice books, critiquing the modern world, Islam and
science. I gotta be honest with you. I thought he was like, for
the longest time that he's like a desi uncle somewhere writing these
books. I didn't know he was a big shot, right. And he ended up being
my professor. And we had a good relationship. Yes, I knew that
they had some perennial his beliefs. But at the time, they
were over there, and we're over here, and we didn't mix. So if I
came to benefit something from him, there was like good
relations. Right. I later had a problem around 2015 When they
started to mix together. And common Muslims don't know that
these are all their parentless. They have a different Akita
completely. So you guys be over there. We're over here. If I want
to benefit, I'll come to you because they do have a lot to
offer. You can't just right deny that. So he's signed off on it.
And he loves that idea. I asked everybody on the phone. I said,
Well, who should I do it on? He said you either do it on.
You do it on the seniors? She
said Muhammad Ali, we Maliki have you back my matured had dad or
Abdulkadir Osaka and give up the others.
So I thought, well, the one who is one of them had passed away. I
want to meet somebody.
The one who has the most literature. That's material that
you could write about, like quickly because the materials
right there, and the one who had so much to he had issues and he
had dramas. They had a bounty on his head. The Saudis you one of
them executed. Okay, he met with the king, they made an agreement,
okay to stay under house arrest instead of execution. So I was
like, No, this is the story. And plus I had heard the name from way
back. I had heard that name being mentioned, said Muhammad did it.
So I said it said Muhammad, so he said, Okay, he put in a couple of
calls.
And then they knew that I was coming. So I go to Mecca
to study understading Hamdard, Maliki at the time, my mom, she
had a connection, my parents had a connection in Saudi. And that
connection was able to bring me over because the visas issue,
right. So he was able to bring me over I guess like as a guest or an
employee or something like that. That's how I was able to spend all
that time. Okay.
In Mecca a summer essentially, I get there. And they didn't
actually believe me because Satan, Muhammad Ali when Maliki he was,
they had fepto on his head. He, his family had been scholars in
the area for ages, decades, they were a well known family.
He became the rector of Theology
at omega Kota university. But as the Wahhabi scholars got more
power, they removed him. And then they put a bounty on his head for
things that he had in his books.
And then in 1994, he met with the king who was King Fahad at the
time, King fat knew you can't just execute in international scholar,
it's ridiculous, right? It's ridiculous on in the Islamic
Front, and they do have relations, they have to show some modicum of
civility, so to speak, in front of the Americans, right, and the
Western Front. So of course, King fat was reasonable enough to
realize that this is out of the question. Okay.
So it's out of the question that we're going to execute it. So what
they did is they brokered a deal. And what said Muhammad said was
King fat invited him and was very cordial to him, was very nice to
him. And he said, Let's make a deal. You stay home, do anything
you want within the four confines of your home. Nothing in public,
nothing on TV. It's a deal. The only thing that he was allowed to
do in public is Hajin ombre and even then he's not allowed to
attract a crowd or give a speech. Lately attracted crowd is out of
his control. We can't give a speech fine. Now his home house
the rest of you think like one of our homes know His home was a
compound so
Part of this was that the built by properties and build literally a
compounds and that's where he lived. He would travel to Syria,
Egypt and give talks there find no prop, Sudan. He had Sheoak in
Sudan, Morocco. He traveled the world and give speeches but in
Mecca roadsafe as the area, he had to stay in the four walls of his
home. And it was a whole block. He had supporters, worldwide
international businessmen, they supported him. A whole block in
this block was a dormitory for students. Indonesians came
in this block was a masjid, his personal house. And it was also
there was a guest masala and then beyond the guests on Sunday was a
very nice courtyard outdoor courtyard.
And that guests will Salah basically was an area where he
would hang out after between Micronesia. So I get there. And
they get very suspicious, because the area is like under suspicion,
even the cab driver, the cab driver who dropped me off.
He said, Why are you coming here?
I said to somebody was saying Muhammad. He said I came drove by
here one time before and I heard everyone saying, Yeah, Hannah and
Yemen then
I heard them saying, Yeah, Hannah and Yemen.
So I was like, and and he's like, Oh, what is this better? To say?
Yeah, Hannah and Yemen. It's like Subhanallah the the duct
indoctrination had reached such a point that you think that yeah,
Hernan Yemen is no longer an issue of FIP because we do agree and
concede
that the way in which it is done can be a discussion in fic that is
valid 110% If you say we do not say Vic could enter GEMA it's 110%
valid, it all of them are the hip.
And to say that you do it in one voice is also 100% valid and all
that.
Right? That is not an issue at all. If somebody says listen, I do
that by myself with Allah subhanaw taala. I don't do it in one voice
with everyone. I consider that to be wrong. Okay, or incorrect. But
the way they talk about it was that it's like you're on the cliff
of Schick.
So it was really like a bizarre
today, you may think that that's crazy, right? Given everything
else in the world at the time, that was a norm that you do those
things. You're literally on the cliff of Schick. Okay, so that was
a normal perspective at the time. And most times, I didn't tell
people who said who said, Unless I felt like I wanted to see how he's
gonna react.
I saw some two lovers of Omen Cora, I knew they were too lovely.
And they look like the students. They had
books in their hands. And they said they struck up a
conversation. And I told them, I wanted to see how they react. I
said we're going to study with said Muhammad.
Oh my goodness, they Your face is turned like Janaza level.
Hello, Hola. Bucha villa in LA. He was in LA Raja own Baba, we need
to tell the authorities. And I thought when you tell the
authorities what? It's that serious that they had shut him
down.
So when I went knocking, and I have a letter in my hand, stating
that I'm here as with a reference from an Habib Ali, to study would
say Muhammad didn't believe it. Doorman did not believe it. And
they wouldn't let me. And at the time, remember, this is not the
era of just pick up the phone, connect to Wi Fi and send a text.
Communication was really hard back then. And so the communication at
that time I was like really devastated. I didn't even know if
this was going to happen because I had no way to convince this
doorman. He's the only connection that I had eventually, before the
law. I ended up meeting I use Becca Stan, the man his name was
college. They used Pakistanis have been there for generations. He was
one of them. And I had by asking around poking around, ended up
somebody right in Mecca in the Haram connected me to him.
And that person then he would he helped me get in. Then you get in
said Mohamed that at the time he had surgery on his knees and he
was not in good condition
physically. So he would sit on a Maharajah type of chair. Like they
got him like a throne. It's a big chair. And the Mejlis had a big
picture of of the green dome on one side and the cab on the other
side and people would come in tea would be served. It was like a
Hangout was real like pretty much all the way to Asia. And they
would hang out have sweets, chit chat people who needed to meet him
would meet and there he would
call bring me up. It'd be like my turn basically to talk. And I
would ask him about questions and whatever and he would bring
Bring this book bring that book, I ended up leaving with a pile of
books this big. Essentially. It's he wrote a lot of books. But this
was his books. And then he said afterwards, it was a little under
the two months. And back, you know, these people, it's amazing.
They don't have no such thing as a weekend. Right? You know, the
weekend is the invention, and we really established it was Henry
Ford. So the rest of the world don't always have this, like the
Islamic world. Thursday night was the big night.
Because there's Hadith about Thursday night, in terms of a bed
being answered gatherings. Friday morning, there's no work. This is
the oldest comic schedule. And that's it. So Thursday evening,
and Friday morning, but other than that, so there was no such thing
as a weekend. Like go to him Monday through Friday. No, you
went every day. He was there every day.
And there were some times where he would not come out. Like maybe he
was sick or something he wouldn't come out.
And in those days when he wouldn't come out, then I would go to
after Aasif
till negative until a sharp there were there was a group of
attorneys and as I said I had the mortality a bug that I had gotten
from Sheikh Hamza, the love of Mauritania, and I want everything
Mauritanian and then there was there, Sheikh Abdul Aziz in Mali.
He's well known. He's a very good scholar. He's from Maddy. And then
there was Sheikh Abdul Rahman will see the Mohammed in Medina, there
was Sidi Mohammed met Moon Mauritania as well. He prayed
every Salah in the same spot all the Mauritanians in Medina, they
pray in the same spot because in the Maliki, when the Hadith of the
prophets I said I'm saying how Salah to female SGD Heather,
alright is worth 100 salah. They consider it only the Prophet's
mosque, not the extension, the extension gets the reward of Salah
in a masjid. But when the great reward only applies to that so all
the Sunako Schumpeter's, one of the word terms were genuine. They
pray in the front of the mosque and you could tell them the way
they dress. This shit. He takes a little cabbie for like three reels
a day.
Three blocks that takes him to the masjid, no CD, Mohammed metazoans.
If anyone's been to his house, you cannot believe the conditions.
They sold me where's his house go there, there's a white building.
And at the bottom of the white building, you'll see a door. So I
get there. And he literally lived like in a basement. Literally, it
was a basement. There's a white building, about three blocks from
the masjid. And never we should leave. And there's a little door,
right metal door. You go down the steps. And he literally like lives
in a basement filled with books, very musty, with the bathroom, and
then you can go upstairs, only his family goes upstairs, but he stays
downstairs. He sees the students Downstairs there.
And he would recite the Buddha every day.
Not like a singing recitation, the way the martinis they'll do that.
They just recite it like a poem. And then he reads from his books
and he sees students all the time. Right. And there they he, we
started that I started that he said I love him and Abizaid with
him
started before I studied ever with chicks attic, and the other shoe
started with him. And it was very hard to understand these
mortalities to be honest with you, they have an accent that's heavy.
So unless he was going straight foot, ha, it was hard for me to
understand. But in any event,
I'm just giving you a glimpse of what life with the shoot was like
back then, where before WhatsApp today, you're lucky that you can
connect but at the same time, there's so many other
distractions, right.
That's what technology brings you
say Muhammad Ali when Maliki died about three years or four years
after I met him,
he passed away. But also at the same time, a lot of the
restrictions were lifted towards the end of his life. He became on
he went on Syrian TV, Egyptian TV, a lot of other things. And so
I say that in the spirit of mentioning the the the righteous
people that live before us, because when you have a love for
them, you have a love for what they used to do. You love what
they used to do. And you love what did they stand for? They did
dedicated their lives to preserving the knowledge of the
and acting upon it and spreading it. What else is there that's the
inheritance of Prophets. That's what it means to be the inheritor
of a prophet is you focus on
preserving the knowledge that has come down and you transmit it
exactly out as don't edit things. Don't bring your new any
prospective transit, preserve it exactly as it is.
Practice it, and balance whereas balances by looking at
At the other scholars, how to scholars practice things, how do
they measure luxury versus excess? And, and zoo hood? How do you
measure all these things? By their? By analogy? Like, how much
do you know? How do you know if you're spending too much on a car?
Who's to say or what's to say that $17,000?
Is a good price for a car? Well, you look at the other prices, of
course, right? It's all relative. So likewise, luxury zoos, etc.
It's relative. And if any of you are out there, our youth, one of
the best ways to make use of your time and your money is to
physically travel.
And just to try to study, let me tell you, there's a lot of people
who did it a lot way more than me. I met anemia here and jamaludin
high school.
Right. And one of the things that they used to do is let's see your
passport. See how thick it is? Their lid, password was bursting.
They had to go to the embassy to add pages. Right. And some of
these countries like they had to give you a piece of paper that
said that. I don't know what it was, but they have to staple
papers to your passport committee. I'm looking at his passports like
this big bursting at the seams.
jamaludin hysol. He was a student of knowledge from Atlanta,
Georgia. And I think he moved to I don't know where he moved. But
he's doing darwino His passport was like this big, right? I looked
at my that minor though you're still like,
you know, those little fish used to look a guppy right. Because I
was young at the time. They were much older than me. And they 10
years older than me. And they had more experience. And obviously,
you know, I used to envy the comforts.
us our parents Desi parents, you go home, right? They don't have a
concept of going home. No one's ever called When are you coming
home come home. Now. By the way, come home now is not a word to be
uttered by some families. For us. That's the norm. When you're, you
know, still living with your parent come home. Right? We have
big guys. 632 100 pounds 250 pounds, Hey, you want to go out?
And oh, my mom won't let me. Right. As long as you still live
under your parents, they have the right to tell you what to do.
You're living under their roof. So I used to empty the conference for
that reason. So if you're somebody who is not able to study too much
and not able to travel and you're sick, you feel like you're on the
outside looking in. Don't even think about that. A lot of people,
there's no such real, it's all relative. And as long as you
measure yourself against yourself this summer, what did you do this
winter break? What did you do, don't waste it. measure yourself
against yourself, don't measure yourself with somebody else.
Because I used to envy a lot of those concrete families, the
comfort guys, because there's no such thing as going home for them.
They're allowed to do whatever they want. At the same time, they
don't have a lot of support that we have. Right? You don't realize
when you have a Muslim family, and you have an extended family, you
don't realize how much warmth and support that is, okay. They have
to go home and their parents don't know what they're doing. Right.
Their parents don't have any appreciation of their Islam. And
some of them fight it. I heard there was a converse sister one
time she would pray. And her mom was Protestant. And you know,
these Baptists, what they're like, good, she's a Baptist, she used to
take the chair and sit in front of her daughter and fold her hand
like this and hold the cross, right? While the daughter is
praying, and said, to make sure that you're bound to the cross,
and you're bound to me. So wait, she's the girls making sujood and
then her mom pops the chair sits in front of her has the cross. So
now you're prostrating to the cross and see what you're gonna
do. Okay, so she was a Nigerian Baptist. It's tough, right? So,
never measure yourself against other people. Just measure
yourself against yourself. When you go to meet Allah subhana wa
Tada. He's gonna ask you, what did you do with your time, not your
time versus somebody else's time. So I don't I want to make sure to
sort of inspire people to study with these. Try to seek scholars
out. But I also want to make sure nobody feels like Oh, I'm on the
outside, and everyone else is doing amazing things. And I'm on
the inside. That's how I felt every single day until I would
travel. And then every time I'd leave back, I'm like, Oh my gosh,
they're still there. And I have to come home, blah, blah, blah. So
that's the first segment of today's program tell you give you
a little bit of a some of the stories. And a lot of people have
a lot of amazing stories. So try to read and hear about these
stories of meeting scholars as much as you can. Because it makes
us love. Love them. Love the journey to them and love what they
stand for. All right, now we're gonna move to our segment of the
day which is the no effing done at home.
And that,
at Tata walk, voluntary a bed is better to be done in the home
than
in the masjid for a couple of reasons. Number one, when you're
in private, the class is better. So then you ask, Well, why is the
obligation better in, in domestic? Well, that's to encourage and also
to bring people together and to let you see the piety of other
people. Sometimes you come to the masjid and your heart is in a
regular state. And then you see somebody in a fervent
and that inspires you. And you ask yourself, Why is my heart so hard?
And this man is crying? Right? So it moves you sometimes you have a
question, you know where to ask some tough times you have a Muslim
masala is a worldly benefit. Such as I need a doctor, I need a mover
right? And it's not that you go to the master to ask for that. But it
gives you a connection. So you see some guy who comes in overalls
every day. Well, you know, he's a painter now. You see a guy on his
he rose up to the masjid with electric company USA now, you
know, he's an electrician. So it brings people to you see another
guy coming in his scrubs. So you know, he's in the medical field.
The Masjid brings people together in that regard. Okay, it's so
that's why it's the obligation is better done in a group, but no
effort is better done in private by yourself.
Right. So the only time that no effort is better to do in a group
or in public is when there's encouragement of others. Are you
trying to encourage others even Tarawa is better done at home as
long as the masajid will not become vacant? So if you fear that
if a trend develops and everyone prays Tada we had home that it
would actually cause a stagnation of the masjid then to go to the
masjid is better. Man and um to Akbar Al masajid This is in
Australia.
I've done an update on Ameer Abdullah miss out. Okay. This is
from haram even more Alia on the authority of his uncle Abdullah
Agnes out, sell to Rasool Ullah sallallahu alayhi wa early he was
a lemma and his Salah te fi Beatty, was solid if a masjid kala
Katara ma crab at mineral Masjid Fela and also Lea fee Beatty or
hub boo Ilya Minh and also Lea Phil masjid, Illa and takuna Salat
and MCDU but the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
Do you see how my house is so close to the masjid?
Which means there is no hindrance at all from the Prophet praying in
the masjid His house is bordering to the masjid. He says to pray in
my house is more beloved to me than to pray
in the in the masjid, except if it is a Salah MK tuba, okay. And here
we see the prophets of Allah what He was saying, I'm saying I have
mu e layer, it is more beloved to me. This is important because in
the early generations of scholarship, this expression
I love more beloved to me, was one of the expressions that later on,
we be crystallized and formalized that to mean mcru
or Mundo, LA or hip mcru Right, when a fucky um, which to hit
Imams such as
I don't know if others use it, but I know for sure medic used it a
lot more beloved to me, men do recommend recommended based upon
HG head. You see the difference here? You could say if the prophet
recommends something that is sunnah. You don't say like it's
beloved to me, no, but recommended based on his analysis of the
evidence which does not have an explicit pneus. Okay, it's not
explicit, but there's evidence for it. At that point, they say more
beloved to me. And likewise, if it's my crew,
and in some works forbidden, but by he had he had me in scholarly
effort as opposed to cut and dry, no discussion text from Quran or
sunnah, or Hadith. Then at that point, they say, No, I don't like
it. I don't love it. So some have categorize that to mean mcru
others have categorize that to mean haram. Okay, probably
depending on other contexts around it. So the prophesy Saddam used to
pray in his home and we should always establish the Salah in our
homes. It's going to bring baraka to the house and Mala it could
descend upon a house in which the Quran is recited So, the Quran
should be recited in every house the Prophet SAW Selim said do
portion of the Salah at home and do not make it a cemetery. What is
the cemetery it's a place with no life. Well, how could my house
have no life in it life?
When the Prophet uses the word life or refers to
The Life and the Quran uses the word life it oftentimes implies
heavenly life
right like that which draws you near to Allah Tala have Mala
descending upon it. Alright, descending upon the house.
So, nema you hear come
okay, what gives you life means the life of your heart. So give
life to good deeds that bring down my that it gets to attend with
you. You see good deeds.
It sounds like a Sunday School tacky thing right? Do good. I
remember sitting one time with an Egyptian men very well off family,
the girl comes. And he's trying to relate to his teenage daughter. So
he says, How was school today? She said, Good. What did you do?
Nothing. You know these teenagers when they get like that? You got
to be parents. If you have teenage teach them how to talk, how to
hold the conversation, how to smile to an adult. Look them in
the eye talk ask a question back say something. I can't believe
some teenagers are still like this. How's it going? Good.
That's Don't you know how to talk how to hold a conversation. This
needs to be part of our education. So then he says to her now that I
can tell in her eyes this is like a teenager is like on the brink.
She has no interest in the dean is like Did you do any good deeds
today. And she's like, everyone in the on the tables like how tak use
this. But we have to understand that at Ahmed Osada brings down
melodica. And it brings down Sakina with it.
And that's why that's the busyness of meaning. They're busy finding
one what way can I do something different here? That's going to
bring a different type of medic, a different type of Sakina.
A different type of reward? Because the reward of for example,
what's the reward of tending to your family? Why is it better than
doing a battle for yourself? Well, the reward is, there's an earthly
reward is that you have a good home life. Right? The more you do
those deeds, and you feel like well, I'm losing out, I'm losing
out on time I could be working on my career. But the more you do
those deeds, it's going to come back to you in this life before
the next in this life, it's going to come back to you that your
family, your your your kids are upright, they're mentally sound,
that they're well adjusted. They like you all that is part of the
reward. And then all of their good deeds that you do you have a
Sharon, you're a steer shareholder as an investor in their book of
deeds.
No effort are based on concealment. The default of Noah
fill is it's based on concealment.
So the default of extra worship is it's based on consumers now, you
may go to the masjid or to a public place because you need the
encouragement that's fine.
But to keep it from showing off and pretense a man it was web,
even Web. Even Wahab was a famous student of Magna Anas and a lathe
of insert. Ibn Wahab is the one who famously said Al Hadith to
Malala hadith is a place where you can get lost remember not Bala
Bala is misguidance religious spiritual misguidance. But mandala
is a place where you can get lost. And if it were not for medic, and
a lei and a lathe I would have been destroyed. Malik's would say,
leave this hadith take this hadith leave this hadith take this hadith
don't act upon it. Yes, it has a chain but don't act upon it
because we have stronger evidence. So there must be something about
this hadith, the context of it is incomplete. We don't know how to
derive a ruling from it.
So leave it off.
You have to understand there are sahih Hadith that medic himself
said
I have narrated Hadith, I wish that I would I would have rather
been struck by two whips than then have narrated those.
These are the Hadith that would confuse somebody let's say about
Allah subhanaw taala.
So not everything that's here, we just take it and throw it out
there because you don't know the context around it. What did the
Prophet intend by it? How do we make sense of this plus an
opposing sounding Hadith. So even what have himself describes the
first time he saw Malik, and he says, I saw upon him a wakad and a
Sakina and a serenity and a light.
And I said what is this ye Malik that you are upon? Maddix said to
him, let your worship in private, be greater than your worship in
public that ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada will place in you a note on a
Sakina
so if you want to ask yourself How are you doing Dean in terms of
since
Saturday, ask yourself, Is your worship in private better than
your worship in public?
There? What about the people who are so busy in life? There is a
famous
saying that sometimes scholars are too busy. They get so busy in
their schedule, they don't have time for their own self.
And the answer to that is this is exactly why the prophets Allah
Allahu alayhi wa sallam said, that
the birds in the sky and the fish in the sea, all seek forgiveness
for the scholar who walks the earth. Why is that?
Just because the scholar, like as a student of knowledge to
the scholar is, so it's preferable for the scholar, to spread
knowledge than to do private worship.
It's preferable for a student of knowledge to study than to do
private worship. So therefore, the result of that is that Allah has
Saqqara made the animals and the trees and the fish and the birds
and everyone in between, to seek refuge for the righteous scholar
and for the student of knowledge.
Wasn't it?
Not sure if he slept over
100% So remember, I met him in Hamburg was in Baghdad, and he
would speak to his family so, so much about a Shafi. Now he had one
daughter, he had other kids but one of his peers at the at the
house at that time was one daughter.
She said she was so looking forward to meeting this legend, Al
Imam Shafi.
Then when he came, and he's he spent the night
she said, I have to see what this chef does in the middle of the
night. So she sat
I guess peeking out of her door, waiting to see the a bed of a chef
a in the middle of the night.
When she looked, she saw, not a single lamp had got it opened up.
Not a single drop of water was used.
And he came out for fetch. And he didn't make wood.
So the next morning, her father realizes she's not as excited
anymore. Like she was excited to meet a Chevy. She's no longer that
excited. So he asked her, he said, she said, a chef is not what you
make them out to be. That's what she said. He's not what I
expected. And he said, why? He said,
she said, I did not see him open a lamp for prayer the entire night.
I did not hear any water for
the entire night. And he comes out for Fudger without making water.
So it's not what I expect to sleep all night no tahajjud not a burden
and nothing.
Muhammad
he knows something else is different. So he brings a Sheffy
and he says can you explain to us why that is. He said I prayed
Aisha and on my mind were 70 New matters that were brought to my
attention that needed a ruling.
So I spent the entire night writing the rulings
or thinking of the rulings and solving these problems for the
Muslims.
Until you call the then fetch then I came straight out.
So email Akhmad said to his daughter, you and I spent our
daughter for our own afterlife for ourselves. A chef a spent it for
the OMA and that's why he is who he is. So the scholar and the
Sunnah of knowledge, it is better for him to attain Fick
than to do private a bad unless of course, his heart is going to
harden and he needs to do a bad for for himself of course. So
we're not saying you never do that, of course, but we're saying
that the priority is I hidden knowledge benefits everybody. I
bad sort of benefits yourself only.
But there is another reaction to that or response to that is a
better does benefit others too, in that when you soften your heart
and your interactions with others better, your sincerity is better,
your position with Allah is better your DUA is answered. So there is
some back and forth in that discussion.
There is always more reward gained
by doing the obligation in the masjid in all cases.
And of course, there are some EVA dots that can only be done in HTML
such as, of course Joomla without a doubt
Kusu the solar eclipse is done in Gemma. The lunar eclipse is done
at home.
And of course they're either in the two aids. So that's the end of
the chapter on the prayer of the prophets of Allah when he was at
home being better than in the masjid. Let's now open it up to
YouTube for your questions and answers.
And let's see what Instagram has going on.
What are they saying on Susan answers, oops, Insta
witness a Latif I've heard magic being denied by educating
practicing Muslims and Christians as a real phenomenon. No set of
course is real. The prophets of Allah when he was what is said,
essentially said is to have a an illegitimate communication with an
angel. A sorry with a gin that gin gets his other gins to harm
another Muslim. That's the whole Lhasa. That's a summary
of what black magic is. Remember, today's Wednesday, so at three
o'clock we're going to have the door or maybe even earlier.
Okay, I'm not going to scroll up. So if you put your question up in
the back up before put it here again so I can see it.
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all four methods are taught.
Secondly, Joe Herrera to Tauheed RP. They were teaching intro and
intermediate intro. Octavia is taught Sunday
advanced or intermediate? I think it's advanced. Octavia is taught
Johanna Tawheed by ship or San Miguel here of North Jersey. He's
a Palestinian scholar. He's American like us. But Palestinian
of origin HE IS SHE teaching shuttlebay. Judy upon Joe, what is
it? So he'd Wednesday nights?
How you attend these classes is that you're either going to attend
there's two levels. There's basic, and then there's scholarship
track. Hey, do you have the schedule? If you have it, stick it
up here.
There's Wednesday, there's ArcView, basic and ArcView
scholarship track. Alright, and when you sign up for these, you're
given a zoom link and you show up to class two, you just show up to
class. That's it with the Zoom link. And secondly, there's over
50 pre recorded classes that you could take from and we have
classes for kids. We have classes for youth on Sunday morning. All
right, and Ryan's gonna put the screen up. Put this up right now
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So sign up for ArcView dot orgy, and you will inshallah see that
the website, we're still improving the website, but nonetheless,
the website right now is very crisp and clear. And you'll see
you'll be able to see exactly what the classes are when they are,
it's very simple. You sign up, you get you either watch the pre
recorded classes on my RFU dot orgy, or you
click on the Zoom link, when class is scheduled. And by the way, you
got to keep up because with McGraw prayer times, there's always a
little bit of a change in the class schedule. So sign up for
that today.
Even Waleed, why do Maliki's recite the Quran in a different
recitation? In fact, the Maliki you? It is sunnah for Lila or
sunnah to recite the Quran into the whitewash
and that is because that is the way of the kurush. So that is the
original
recitation and revelation came in what we call wash
UNEF What is it Egyptian naffaa is from Medina himself. He took it
from the Quran. In other words, the Sahaba who were from Mecca,
and that's the chain of transmission. So the narration of
Welsh is in fact, you think it's odd? No, that's the that's the
norm.
At the time of the prophets, I said that was the recitation of
Quran that's their dialect.
When you say kids, what exactly are the age ranges for the
classes? My kids are nine and eight.
The kids the classes are made for a very broad audience that I would
say income
is from age nine to age 14.
The online classes, the online classes, they're very broadly
done. Some of them are specifically for kids ages, like
nine and down, such as head armors class fit for kids. If you all go
to when you go to my ArcView dot orgy, actually, right? Could you
get a screenshot and put it up? There's including the search box.
It's very important for people to know about the search box there at
the search box. Okay, you
click in Yeah. No, hit all hit all go down to the bottom. Hit all
view of products. Yeah, that screen and you see that find a
product or find a search that search box. include that in the
screenshot so everyone can see it.
When I was in the history class,
took a poll that you guys have been with you guys for a couple
months. People were saying that like in second grade? Yeah. That
was good. Even the people in second grade.
Understand? Yeah, because you know, what happened? Was that head
up? Does our kids classes she noticed that moms are taking the
class with her. So she's like, Okay, well, it's a little bit
broader than just kids. So we just made it youth and kids.
Ibrahim Khan, are the lectures pre recorded. Can they be pleased in
case we don't make it, everything is Riri is pre recorded and
uploaded. It's not pre recorded, the live classes are live. But the
recordings are uploaded every single day, every single course.
And if you go right now to hit click on arc v dot orgy, you can
go through the list of courses, go through the list of the classes
that we have, that are already pre recorded. Some of them were pre
recorded by design. Others of them were live classes that got pre
recorded, or that the recordings which of which are up.
Most of them mom says, I'm asked to help a family who is in dire
need, financially, but I have my own financial debt, which is less
urgent, should I help the family or pay my expenses, I would say
you divide it up,
divided up depending on their level of need. If their level of
need is dire, that like they, they they don't have, for example, a
place to live and they need a down payment for an apartment, that
would take priority over my debt. If it is a regular case where
they're just short of funds all the time, then I would take maybe
a sliver of my money and give it to them every month, a sliver that
your heart will never say enough, right? Your heart would not ever
tell you enough with this. So you don't want that to happen.
How to get 10 year old who refuses to pray or hates to pray to pray.
Salah says Mohammed Abdullah, well, by 10 years old, to be
honest with you, it's a bit late. They should have habituated them
to Salah when they were young enough that harsh measures are not
needed.
Right.
But now that you're in the situation, and everyone's in a
situation, people don't all have, they don't come up in a family
that's exposed to the dean all the time. And they have situations
maybe somebody was not even on the right track. They started
themselves got themselves on the right track way later.
No problem. Things happen. And there's always a solution for
anyone who's sincere. So I would have to say very quickly before
they get older, in the same way that you make them go to school.
You make them go to bed on time. You make them not eat ice cream
before dinner, what happens if you have a kid who you see taking out
a bowl of cereal at 5:45pm And you're the stove is cooking in the
table set? You ever see like kids do this all the time, right? They
don't know any better. Take out a bowl of soup. What do you what are
you doing?
We're about to have a snack, what snack we're about to have dinner,
put it away. He doesn't know any better, what can he do?
But you just tell them what to do. Right? And they do it. Likewise
school. So you got to sort of get this done quickly before he gets
too old, then he's going to maybe be resentful about it.
That's my advice. Because so I would go based upon how do you do
this with other people? I mean with other things. How do you get
him to do his homework?
And yes, he may not like it in the beginning that's fine. You have to
understand human nature.
You don't like something once you get in the habit of it you change
so you not liking it. Someone not liking something should not disc
deter us.
In the beginning, they might not like it they will get used to it
after a while and the day that they need
Do Allah suffer something and they make dua and they get saved. I had
a youth, this youth must have been in seventh grade at the time
to sort of come to the masjid.
And they said, You know what? I used to come to the masjid and
pray with everyone just because everyone else did it. And I didn't
really want to come to the masjid unless I saw my friends or go to
the gym.
Then I needed something from Allah listen to this youth fitrah of a
human being also like they're exposed to the basis of Islam.
I
started to I needed something from Allah, I needed help. So I started
coming to the masjid and praying because I needed to help.
And Allah solve my problem. Now I come by on my own. This is like a
child saying this. So some things that you don't like, they're good
for you get used make you make your youth and your kids get used
to it. The kofod on the moon are filthy and let the most Oh, this
is indoctrination. Us. Okay. We don't care what you have to say.
Because you don't believe what we believe. Okay. Oh, but you're at
kofler does not indoctrination. Your evolution is not
indoctrination. Everybody is transmitting their beliefs to the
best of their ability to their kids, everybody? If you don't,
then you don't truly believe it. How's that? If you don't,
then you don't truly believe it? Or your belief in it is, you know,
lukewarm.
Everybody does this and you have the right to and I expect everyone
Yoga should be expected to do that. Right?
The question is, is your belief right or wrong?
Is your method of transmitting it healthy or unhealthy? Of course,
there are unhealthy ways of doing these things help not they're not
good for their mental health or the emotional or even the success
of the transmission.
So the question really is, is it the right belief or the wrong
belief is the manner of doing it right or wrong? But the idea of
you transmitting your beliefs to your kids, and that's one of your
number one priorities? Are you kidding? Every single human being
does that on the earth? Right? You think a Dawkins out there is not
very keen on his life agenda to make sure his kids don't believe
in God.
That he would be awake at night, tossing and turning if he found
that his kids like a born again, Christian, or became a Muslim.
So when people thought Muslims fall for these things, and say,
Oh, I don't want that.
Then you're yourself. Your Eman yourself has issues to be honest
with you. Okay, because if you truly knew this is 100%, good for
you. And abandoning this is 100% bad for you. You would do whatever
you possibly could to ensure that your kids have the same thing if
you had a cup of poison right here. Right. And you believe that
was poison. You think that Tom Brady's letting his kids have
coke?
Or food in general besides grass? Right?
These people, that's their belief, their belief is dietary. Right?
Other people have political beliefs. I'm sure the Clintons
made sure their daughter grew up a democrat and a liberal.
And every woke person makes sure that their kid
is not hates Trump, hates right wingers hates everything, you
know, that's not woke.
And the right wingers are doing the same thing, making sure their
kids are not supposed to get or not woke.
Everyone does. So for us to do that is an expectation. And it's
just a matter of the way in which you do it. At that point, it's the
matter of how you do it but the fact that it's a high priority on
your agenda.
That's expected. I don't think anybody you think the rich want to
see their kids becoming poor, the educated or will they sleep at
night if my kids are not, is a complete fool.
In the story you just told us Sophia was Imam Shafi at Imam
admits house. Yes, they were at my friend's house, a chef he was
visiting Ahmed, a chef he lived in Baghdad for a little bit when the
crisis came of the Morteza lights and the government of
the buses were doing what they were doing a chef a went to Egypt,
but he would visit duck and dead
if you're playing a video game says Adam, who has a little
picture of Bernie Sanders there has his profile pic. If you're
playing a video game that has background music, is it obligatory
to turn it off.
Okay, so background music.
It is according to some Allama tree
read it as music and some, like chicken booty do treat it as they
do not treat it as music because that's not the intent of you're
listening to it. So there are two different, but I would say yes, I
wouldn't Oh for like, if you're going to play these video games
for a long period of time, and you're listening to this all the
time, then maybe at some point, you want to mute it.
I don't know what the background music like is for games these
days. The last game I played was Mario Brothers, I wouldn't call
that music, I would call it noise. It's like an elevator that you
have experienced with this.
New Rap music and pop songs. So it's just like the radio
basically. So I would mute that stuff.
You know that Mario Brothers had the same tool and just go and over
and over and it's like five notes. And it's not even an instrument.
It's like, who knows what that is? It's a weird sounds. I think some
of these kids don't even know what Mario Brothers is. Right? If
there's a chain of transmission of video games, history of video
games, it's Atari. And Atari Ping Pong was the first game, just ping
pong, it's like, a pixel goes like this. And three pixels, you have
to hit the three pixels or the five pixels. And it's a black
screen with literally 11 pixels on the screen. Five on one stick five
on another stick and one pixel going in the middle, right and
hitting each other. And that was the first ever video game.
And people used to be excited to play that. You're excited to go to
someone's house that has Atari. And then Nintendo came out. Oh my
gosh, the revolution of Nintendo, with the little Italian guys jump
in and chasing the turtles and trying to save the princess at the
end. Mario and Luigi. Alright, so Nimra Ahmed says. So it is true
that there are a hadith which aren't widespread and kept away
from the general public. Yes, Malik has fatawa you do not if a
hadith will be misunderstood by
the people. You don't publicly preach it. You may teach it in the
student to the students but you don't publicly preach it if it
will be misunderstood
by the people. But these aren't rulings of religion, their
narrations. Big difference. It's not like the students of knowledge
and the shoe have their own religion. No.
It's
it's like a narration a narration is very different from a religious
teaching. That is yes, something's more to shove in a one off
statement. That is not something repeated over and over as part of
our religion. That's the difference.
Ibrahim says a lot of people say I'm very mature for my age. Is
this bad do I need to change this?
Think that's praiseworthy to be mature for your age.
So you better marry someone with your two or she's not going to
understand you.
Sophia says Imam Ahmed but I thought I heard him tell the story
with him and Medic was no but a chef a did stay with the mimetic
for a period of time when he arrived at Mecca but this specific
story that we said is
was about a member
random user says I should be doing my homework right now.
Ma'am says what is the crystal so when I when we had to redo the
myopic view page? I thought one of the best ways to make it distinct
that we're shifting from subject to subject is that there should be
a theme of the thumbnail for each topic. So for opting into what was
it well what is it that it's not right? But what are we going to do
put knots pictures of knots? No. Oct is like an oath or a nut. But
I felt you know what when we study Akita when you hear something,
what do we call it? Don't we call it gems? Right? It's a gem.
So the thumbnail for in my art view for all the theater classes
is gems gemstones right
Right yeah.
Johanna to toe heat the the jewel or the Johanna is like the like a
jewel, like some thing that you find in the earth of value. Okay,
so it's that for the Hadith of the prophets, I send them it's the
spirals that expand out because for the prophets, did not the
prophets say that? He was given Joana al Kalam, Joanne, I'll tell
him, which is
the
gathering of all words. So you get one Hadith, but it spins out too
many meanings and that's why we use radios for that for
or flip flip is what it's the it's the bastion of Islam. So we use
mosques, pictures of mosques for FIP. Of course for history, we use
maps and for youth we, for the Quran, we used the folios the
beauty, the beautiful illuminations that the Muslims.
calligraphers did in the past, of course, for theater, different
pictures of the Prophet's mosque for two so wolf because of like
the romantic nature of two. So if we use the orientalist paintings,
right. And then for the, you know, these orientalists, they loved the
Islamic worlds, their paintings are amazing, right? Their
paintings are amazing. And none of the thumbnails I don't think has a
full human being. So that's makes it harder, right? Unless maybe
some of them well, don't look at that. Right, then it's my crew, at
least as maximum as my crew. And then for the youth, it's just
silhouettes. So you could tell that you shifted from category to
category as you scroll? Isn't this makes sense, right? Because in the
past, what were we doing any old picture? Right? We just throw up
any old picture that doesn't make any sense to just throw up any old
picture that's related. So there's no logic to the images, right?
Yeah, so now just by Arabic, of course, you're gonna see the
letters, right? Arabic letters, you see Arabic letters, then you
know, this is Arabic. You see mosques, it's the fortress of
Islam is fit the law. Alright, so you see these big bricks, stone
massage, and you're there to study the law gems, it's up to you to
write romantic pictures of the past that's to solve.
Yes, seeing is saying is the Arabic track on ArcView? is a
comprehensive, or should it be supplemented? Here's my thing in
Arabic, it's the time that you spent in it.
Don't ever imagine all you can go through all of the recordings
once. Do not imagine that. That's it? No, you, I would say you have
to go through the recordings, two, three times. Watch every class
every chorus to three times. And I really think that for all the
classes but more about Arabic than anything else.
Right? Especially the ones where we read Hadith, we read from Imam
Batmans book of Zod.
Read it over and over, or pause it, read it for yourself, then
click play, then listen to me read it and give the explanation.
Right. So that's for Arabic. And to me, it's not about which course
it's really about the one that will hold your attention enough
for you to repeat it over and over and over and over.
I think Arabic the best honestly, the best way that I think Arabic
is taught is somebody screenshotting themselves reading
a text and then explaining it. You can pause it, you can read it
yourself. And then hit play and listen to them read it and then go
over it because and I think the worst way to study Arabic is from
a textbook. Nobody understands this. So why don't we call kidding
ourselves a textbook today we shall study this. No, just give me
one or two rulings about the grammar.
Give me a table that I could refer to like pronouns or whatever. And
then let's read read and then we'll get to see it in action.
That's the best way to study it my personal opinion.
Farah Denio says I sign up for the medically fit class.
Yes, if you can purchase the books I smell we is actually we I've
been out to be purchased. I don't know it is.
Okay, good English, Arabic or just Arabic. Okay, I smell Ouija,
buddy, even I should get those books, hard copies and put it on
your phone or your laptop. And we will be reading directly from
those books. And at the end of the year in sha Allah, Allah, you will
have studied and all the recordings are already there if
you need to study it again. Alright, if you need to go over it
again, because this is one of the courses that we're doing. Even
though we already have the recordings there, but we do it
live.
As my way is short, too, you can just print it out how to not
become bitter and angry in difficult times. I'm going to
close with this question.
And I'm going to point to not just this person, but a whole genre
of blame, sophisticated blame culture. And all they do is blame
other people. Let me tell you this, as bad as the oppressor is
the oppressor is nothing other than a tool of Allah.
Either, that
you as Muslims were taught as Muslims, we If Allah has
sent an oppressor upon us. It is for one of three reasons
to elevate our ranks, if we're already ready righteous is not the
rank of Satan. Now he's elevated. Every prophet is always being
elevated, right? Allah sent him and oppressor, some of those
rabbis in combination with the Roman governor.
Okay, as much as they want to tell you all those rabbis were
innocent, they weren't good.
It elevated his rank. So the oppressor is sent to us to elevate
our rank. How do we know that? If we react to the oppression with
more good deeds, we do better in our Islam. And our Eman goes up
and our a bad and our prayer goes up. That's number one. Number two.
If we stay the same, it's a it's a purification of our sins. So Allah
has sent us a suppressor to purify our sins. Number three,
it's a punishment. If, if an oppressor comes upon us and we
become worse, less Eman, less Deen less a bad less dua, it's a
punishment. I have no business I could care less about the
oppressor. The real question is the perspective is, Allah has sent
this person to us
to see to test us to purify us to elevate our ranks and maybe even
to punish us. May we ask Allah protection from that.
But I see a video today I cannot even believe how what these what
is liberal arts doing to these kids.
Indian pod Tik Tok or influencer? podcaster who knows what? I am fat
because of white supremacy. What I will prove to you she says why I'm
overweight is to be the blame is on white colonizers.
Where's your head?
Are you serious? And then long winded stories about how they came
in and they impose the new diet and they used up all of our soils.
So we all that because they wanted our spices.
At a certain point,
the looking at the oppressor becomes an excess.
And it becomes no different than a heedlessness of somebody who is
always just chasing money and building up homes and buying cars
and homes. They're no different. They're no different. Both of them
are heedless of Allah. And that's why for us to look at the
oppressor, you are doing yourself a disservice. Unless okay, if
you're analyzing whatever fine, but out of out of spiritual level,
the oppressor is nothing other than a tool.
And your question is, how does Allah want me to react? Because
that's truly what Allah Tada is looking is that's the wisdom.
That is the wisdom. And yet we have a culture in which people
spend all their life and academic departments all to blame. A
different. It started with Karl Marx, and all his issues with the
owners of production find you have a critique friend, but it's like
an obsession. Right? Marxists are just obsessed with anybody who has
any power, or anybody who has any structure. Right? Or any
hierarchy. Okay, you know that there's a war now being waged on
the food pyramid, right? That this is a hierarchy. So they're just
obsessed with anything outside of themselves, that is doing well in
life and yes, maybe oppressing. Right, even if we said they're
oppressing 50% of the time.
What's your business, the oppressor? Allah, Allah will not
get you out of the hands of the oppressor. If you are obsessed
with the oppressor,
we as Muslims, that's how we do and if you view the oppressor as
merely a tool of Allah in developing yours, personal story,
then you would not be bitter at all. You wouldn't be bitter at
all, and care less about him. He's just a tool. Yes, I hate him from
an emotional standpoint. I hate him what he's done to me. I hate
them. Even from a religious standpoint, we're supposed to hate
the oppressor. We're supposed to fight the oppressor. But why?
Because Allah commanded us to. Yes, emotionally. I hate the
oppressor, but I'm going to to couch that in the commandment of
Allah. I'm only going to hate him to the degree Allah commands me to
hate him. If that oppressor tomorrow, repents and becomes a
Muslim, that's a different story, or repents period.
It's a different story. Now I see What is Allah commanded me to do
towards that? I would say okay, I forgive you, but I need justice.
You still owe me right? But I forgive you your Colossians
between you and Allah Tada after that. So
this is extremely important.
As a prospective for Muslims to realize that this and to identify
a constant non stop study, analysis all of how the oppressor
is oppressing. And they consider this knowledge and benefit when
you're actually dragging an entire generation of people. All of their
energy is directed and attention at the oppressor. Nothing to the
creator of the oppressor. Nothing about the wisdom of wires Allah
allowing that oppressor to come to us. Okay.
So that, to me, is actually as bad. It's a misguidance of the
victim, the victim, yes, he's a victim. But he can also be
misguided.
Just because you're a victim, that is not a moral state station,
that's illegal station. In court, you're a victim. But the victim
can be as misguided as the oppressor.
Of course, the oppressor has to miss guidances, that he's
misguided in himself, and he oppressed the victim, the victim
will could only have, he'll have one thing for him and one thing
against him. So even if the perspective of the victim is
misguided, they still are owed the Justice right in this life for the
next. That's why the Prophet there's a hadith in which he says
if there's a presser and victim be the victim, okay? But that doesn't
mean the guidance, the perspective, the mind mentality,
the attitude of the victim cannot be misguided, it 110% can be
misguided, you're obsessed with the repressor. You don't even
realize he's just a tool.
So that's something that will help a person avoid bitterness with
this question are asked, because I don't even view you.
As an autonomous creature, you're just a tool of Allah subhanaw
taala. And you're part of my story. I have my own story. And
Allah has chosen in my story. And every one of you this is not some
self help self esteem talk. It's truth. Every single person has
their own story, and is at the center of their own story. And I
quote to you, I will pass in a Chevy.
He was in a state of maraca and he said, Oh Allah, when will I become
one of your earlier?
He heard a voice that said, when you become a potential kura when
you become a grateful servant.
He said, Oh Allah, when will I become a grateful servant? I thank
you for everything.
He's he heard a voice, he said. And he's he heard a voice that
said, when you realize everything was created for you.
He said, Oh Allah, the cow, the goat, the sheep, fine. But the
prophets and the kings,
the prophets and the kings,
we're, we serve them. We follow them, they're more important than
us. That's his mentality. He said, Oh, he said, Oh, but the Prophet
and the kings, prophets and kings, then you hear the voice say, the
prophets were sent to guide you, the kings to protect you. So we do
view as like a cosmology and Aki, the Anna, from a perspective is
that you are the center of your own story. There's, that's a, it's
not self centeredness. It's not narcissism, that's if you abuse
other people for the sake of yourself. And if you refuse to see
the perspective of others, and the rights of others, and the respect
that others are due,
but
you're at the center of your story here, when you look at some of
these Marxist leaning views, or whatever you want to call them,
and the whole world culture is all about this. You are not, in their
view, the oppressor is at the center, and he's using you and
they've like, they're obsessed with the oppressor. All they care
about is everything is an oppressor and oppression and a
structure and a blah, blah, blah.
All of their energy and their him is there. Whereas for us it's not
I don't even want to hear about him. Yes. Analysis of their thing.
Fine. See what's going on? Fine. How are they messing us up? Fine,
but there is definitely an excess
in how they revolve around this concept. And to the point of the
colonizer is guilty of everything now, it's ridiculous. You have no
agency of yourself. Okay, so that's a little thing on the side
there for this brother, and for everyone else Inshallah, that
could, you know, take from that perspective, I have to go now.
Hey, Roy, why don't you can you do the vicar and the DA. All right.
So everybody, I would highly suggest you do it for yourself. I
actually have to literally have to run right away. And unfortunately,
but you all do the vicar of Wednesday in the next 10 minutes.
And insha Allah to Allah, we will continue it as we're not stopping
it as a weekly tradition, but this week, I have to run a challah.
Does that come along here on Subhanak? Aloha, Moby I'm going to
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