Shadee Elmasry – NBF 23 Virtues and Manner of Istikhara +Q&A
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nothing but facts live stream. And today, it is the CETA of the
Quran, which means that we're covering the circumstances of
Revelation, going from SUTA to nurse all the way up. And today
we're on sudents in Kathmandu and I'm joined by Sohei from Denver.
Right? You're from Denver, right? from Arkansas, okay. Our Kansas,
if you ever studied the state's our Kansas,
just in case any kids out there who need to spell Arkansas, so
students in Cameroon, it's a Mexican SUTA consisting of six is
of course, as you will know as number three and number five at
the same as it's repeated, but there is no repetition in the
Quran that doesn't have a purpose.
And as we're going to see, the purpose of that is one is in the
present ones in the future. But the Sunnah came down for a number
of Quraysh, who came with a proposal to the Prophet. And this
proposal is so important because the middle of Cofer, they do the
same thing every all the time, the middle or the milieu or the
mentality of disbelief. It's it's one mentality, whether you're
talking about the seventh century, or whether you're talking about
today, and you're gonna see that they're doing the same exact thing
as what these guys did. In the past the Quran, they came to the
prophets of Allah and he said them said, they said, Oh, Mohammed, oh,
may have been cut off Abuja, and I will have all these people, they
came and they said, Well worship your God one year, who worship our
gods for one year. If you're right, we get the reward and the
benefit, if we're right, then you get the reward and the benefit,
and we're not at war, we're at peace. What's the mentality here?
The mentality that what's the basis of this mentality? It's
doubt, it's complete doubt that they don't have actually no
certainty in what they're upon. Right? It's almost like alright,
just in case, we'll worship this God just in case worship this God
just in case worship this God just in case, right and who knows
what's right. And there's no real commitment to anything. And
they're in doubt about everything. And so the prophets I seldom said,
God forbid that ever matter the light and wishing he could be
vital, the will never happen, essentially. That's the summary of
what the prophesy, Sam said, seek refuge in Allah that ever worship
any other Lord than him. And then he left them. Next day, he came in
his usual spot where he recited the Quran out loud, and prays, and
there was almost like a place of where he would make his
announcements. And he recited suicide caffeine. Good. Yeah, you
would get is like a respectful statement. Oh, disbelievers.
Right, yeah, you had caffeine. Yeah. Yo, is for respect. So it
doesn't mean we're muscling in here, which is saying that we're
not worshipping your God. No, I would. I don't worship what you
worship right now. You don't worship what I worship right now.
And I will not in the future worship what you worship, okay.
And you will not in the future. You know, like the middle of
Schick will never be the middle of the heat. Right? You have your
religion, and we have our religion, and that's our path. In
today's world, you see the same thing from people who have no
certainty about anything of the unseen.
Okay? And it's cloaked in a type of diversity. So diversity is
alright, and things that people are born with, that you have no
choice over. Okay, so things that people are born or perspectives,
but when it comes to truths, and you're uncertain, then it does
make sense to be diverse. So if I don't know what's better for me
beef, vegetarian diet pescatarian diet, like I don't know, what's
really the healthy thing. So let me just do a little bit of each.
So, you know, sometimes we'll have pitched sometimes will be
vegetarian. I don't know what's really best for us. Whether it's
like Sprint's or long jugs, so I don't know, I'll just do
everything, a little bit of everything. If I ran a store, and
I don't know, what's the best sell? What's the best product that
people are going to sell? What do you do? You do a B testing, right?
Let's bring them all out and see what happens. Because we have no
certainty. But once you have us some kind of belief and some kind
of certainty you never go this route. Right? You know what your
position. So
the left in this country, they are always seemingly includable They
are. They're actually I should say, seemingly inclusive of the
superficiality of Islam. Right? They're seemingly inclusive of all
that. Good. And that inclusivity is only of the fun
side of Islam, not the essence of Islam, because you literally can't
be inclusive of two polar opposite doctrines. So when I see like
inclusivity, when, when the when the left talks about inclusivity,
they're merely only talking about the different facades of people.
But the essence of what they believe in is always the same.
When it comes to their what they actually believe in these, they're
like, as dogmatic as anybody else. Right? I would say stick quit
saying this diversity thing. Just come out and say what you what you
are as is right. And so diversity thing is just to make themselves
look good. Yeah, it's diversity in the superficiality. Yeah. So well,
let's get a an Arab person to say the same thing. Right, that we
believe in? Yeah, let's get a Korean person to do that. Let's
get a whatever all the different. The facade. real diversity would
include an an Orthodox Jew, doesn't even want to talk to you,
you know, that they don't even. They don't even go to interfaith
dialogue. Yeah, I don't believe in this garbage. Right. They don't
they don't believe what you're about the hardcore Protestants.
They don't go to interfaith dialogue, the hardcore process,
and one of my friends was that an interfaith dialogue. And by the
way, I have a position on interfaith dialogue, when it comes
to the point of like, just like, we all live in the same town, and
we could just be nice to each other, I'm fine with that, right?
I'll have lunch with anybody. But when it comes to like, their type
of
bringing Muslim, bring a Jew bring it, you're bringing your can only
survive by bringing a liberal Muslim, a liberal Jew, right, a
reformed Jew, a reformed Muslim, a reformed Christian, you'll never
be able to get a firm Catholic who believes in what he believes in
that this is the truth, affirm Protestant. And one time they did,
and this guy to clear his conscience, he had to say, Listen,
this is the truth. And I would I would be, you know, dishonest with
myself. And you all if I didn't say like, if you don't accept
this, you can burn in *. Right? He said it. I was like, hey, like,
we're actually on the same page, just on different routes. Right,
but you are as exclusivist on the truth, this is the truth. And here
he had the courage coming with this angle of doubt, of disbelief.
That's really what their angle is, they actually have no certainty
about anything, you know, what else you got first. That's as sad
as this interview. It's a sad position to be in, but they're in
a complete, you know, there. But when they do have when the left
does have a position,
they go on a witch hunt on anyone who's speaks a word against their
position. So they actually don't have any real tolerance of
opposite opinions. And I say, Listen, I actually have no problem
with I respect that, but tell me what your list is.
Your problem is your list changes. And it keeps expanding, and
transforming, constantly expanding and transforming. And no one knows
where this thing is going. I feel bad for anyone who's on the left
camp. Anything that you guys are saying now 50% of it is going to
be politically incorrect. And it's gonna be you know, cancelable
every five years, we got it all recorded. Yeah. Oh,
good, all permanent. So this is what
this is what he said. And he says here that, let's go. That was, by
the way, let's see what a CLT MFI brings anything different, which
he probably doesn't. But because sodas have caffeine, it's very
clear what it is. That's what it is that they asked, let's just
let's just alternate, because they don't believe in anything. Now,
you know, that India, Muslims went certain places, and they the
religion was accepted. Muslims went, they went other places, and
the religion was not accepted. Now, this is almost
counterintuitive, but it's really amazing study, where there are
pockets of Muslims, the Muslims went to Buddhist areas, and where
people didn't convert into Islam, they were Hindu areas. Now, you
might think, Oh, the Buddhists must have been open minded. And
the Hindus were closed minded know, the exact opposite. Where
they went to the Buddhist areas, the Buddhists have a certainty
about their belief and an exclusive worldview done a binary
world, this is the truth. Everything else is not true. So
when Islam came, it was one or the other. Right? And eventually it's
not one out. So that's the Muslim areas.
Where when Islam went to the Hindu areas, Hindus like got 1000 Gods
now you got 1001 Right? That's how they viewed Islam right? They
viewed Islam as that the Hindus are we have all these gods All
right, you guys got your own god, no problem. Join at the table will
come and worship with you guys. And some of these shrines.
My friend of mine tells me all the time, at these places, some of
these trucks masajid, right. We got Hinduism.
Hindus doing their own bad, trying to take some kind of blessing from
the Muslim who's very there.
Right. So they got Hindus there, because the Hindu mentality is
fluid. There's no one set truth, right?
And that fluidity is more dangerous than someone who says
no, this is the truth and everything else is false. Yeah,
that person in the short term is dangerous to you, guy. But the
other side in their long term, they will they all they do is put
doubt constantly put doubt because they themselves have no firm
beliefs on anything. All right, so, a CLT says the same thing he
says, but they actually offered the profit a number of things.
First, we'll give you plenty of money mad and fair. Kunal
alcanada, Julian B. Makita, where he was a widow Murad Mina, Nisa,
Mary will marry you to the most beautiful women, we'll give you
the most wealth will make you king just stop all this right. Or we
will worship your God one year you worship our God another year. The
prophesy said that he sought refuge from ever making Schick
good. And then he says had to unload Ma. Dini. middleby Let's
wait until I give you a direct answer what Allah says fans that
Allah who could Yeah, he would care if you don't. Then the next
day, okay, he came and he recited it out loud. And that was
oftentimes his way of response. So one time they responded, they said
to the prophets, I send them that we will sit with you will be part
of your circle will do everything. Okay. But we won't sit with these
poor people. Right, we won't deal with them. So the problem is I set
them left them
came back the next day and ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada says, revealed the
idea from certain KEF
was good enough second, Alinea honorable Mala that well, actually
you need to be patient, make yourself patient with those who
love Allah, and seek His countenance, morning and evening.
So he then took out his shawl, he put it out the next day, he
recited the A and then he invaded the Sahaba that they didn't want
Miller above are the Sahaba that were in their eyes, lowly, too
lowly for them to sit with. And he said, Sit and he sat with them.
That was the answer. To put the answer on demonstration. Right?
There was a chef who took inspiration from that. Right
answer by demonstration. He said, They said that, oh, he's getting
really popular because he truly wants to be the head of us. He
wanted to be shaken outside. So he said, No, I don't want to be so
close. And the rumor spread. He's just he's just preaching and
getting famous because he wants to be shuffled out. So he said, Okay,
I'll give you my answer tomorrow about that. He came on TV the next
day. And without those clothes, wear those hat and he never wore
it again. He never once wore the US had a garment again. And that
was his answer. Right? Because cloths if you're, if you're an
outside of Canada, and you want to be shipped us and you always have
to wear that guard. So by taking it off, he canceled and he thought
of that.
Then on the province, I said I'm recited with an F Aveda light and
maroon me will do your job alone, other than Allah to Allah, you
want me to worship you? Ignorant? Right jehlen. So this thing, we
have to be very careful when we're invited at the table, there are
always implicit, or unspoken terms that we will eventually have to
accept. And that's a simple political game of you scratch my
back, I'll scratch your back. It's the same thing, right? And that's
what we have to people have to be conscious of. And they have to be
aware of that that's what's going on. There's no such thing as
being accepted by both sides. Like say nobody when he said that.
You want to know where the sorts of, of who's on the truth. Look at
where the swords of falsehood are pointing. Right? Yeah, look at
where the swords of falsehood are pointing. One of the things about
Afghanistan people talk all say a lot about things about them and
they're so strict and blah, blah, blah. Okay, there could be some
things you just you disagree with. There's one thing that they don't
have an issue with, they have no doubt about what's truth this
right. And they have more like this is it and there's not even a
discussion about this right about the fundamentals. They're not even
a discussion about that. That should be praised for that. Right?
And all that other stuff to me. Well, a lot of it is is is PR it's
or it's just like their natures different their mountain men,
right? These aren't okay, so yes, you may argue one thing here or
there and maybe some of them are big issues. Right? But on the
fundamentals, they are who they are. So you have to respect that
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Rihanna I am and when I when I read your Ella Jeanne Carmen same
thing. We worship your God one year you worship our God another
year, and another caller lapel will either been will gira Well,
I'll see if newer, well as was happening, but it will may even
cut it for the Schofer of Quraysh. They came to the messenger
Hola I suddenly felt Korea Mohammed they said oh Muhammad
Halima fell down with mana Bucha went up with my childhood what an
aesthetic. Nano NTV and Marina ko li Alright, let's will worship the
same gods that were upon and then will be the same and everything so
everything will be the same will be all equal because if you're
where you're right we'll be right where you're wrong we'll be wrong,
right? Perfect said no. So that's basically where we're at and
you have anything else to add right now? Okay we are Monday is
the day that we do an open QA. We're not going to be doing open
QA every single time but Monday.
Oops. Monday we are on open QA. So let's start with whoever wants to
talk. Who do we have here? Open QA, Mondays open QA Tuesdays,
we'll probably make will be thematic Wednesday affairs of the
Muslims Thursday stories of the Olia Okay, so let's see Ryan once
you kick us off. Somebody said greetings from Leeds England
Leeds. They would like a reminder of the dua of Shiva the dua of
Shiva there's a number of drops Shiva. Firstly, there are six eyes
of Shiva in the Quran and you recite those in your Autopia
rokeya is nothing other than dua while putting your hand up on
somebody. Or
or you're excited on water and you blow on it and the person drinks
the water. That's the real deal. But okiya is DUA and vicar while
putting your hand upon the pain. Anybody can do it. Okay. All
right. And rookie is a great thing to do because it sort of reflects
your Eman right what okiya reflects him and that's why it's a
wonderful thing that anybody should do it at all times. Don't
ever think that only certain you know people can
can can do it. Okay. No. And so there are six areas of Shiva in
the Quran.
And there are another dua Ness Abdullah Al alim, troubleshoot him
and yes fear. You repeat that seven times. That's it Allah Allah
the mobile option up any Salah on the messenger is a Shiva, right?
They used to read Hadith over people as Shiva. They used to
reach them and over people just the book just read the book out
loud, they used to recite, called the yards book which is sort of
technical on the rights of the Prophet they used to read that as
a she felt as if you're any vicar of the messenger sites on them.
And specific areas of the Quran are Shiva because Allah says in
the Quran, Winona Zulu min Al Quran Maha Shiva what how much
anymore? We need, we reveal from the books not means not every
book. Verse is Shiva. Okay?
You don't go to somebody, for example, who's dying? And then you
put your hand on him or he's sick. Right? And you say cool enough
since
every soul shall taste of death. Right? That's your look. It's not
an opiate. Right. So
further proof, I think it was how I always forget who the Sahaba is.
He went and he did Rukia on his own. Right. He did okay on his own
because it existed before it's now and then that he did rakia on a
man with sawdust and fat. Yeah. And then he split from the saliva
onto the piece of pain that he had. And then they went back and
they told the prophet this is what he did was he did was he correct
or incorrect? The prophesy Salam called him he said he's correct.
He said, How did you know? Fattah? How was Autopia? Which means that
not all the Quran was rakia. Right? And that he was correct in
assuming that fecha is okay, so he did that
Pakistan and Pakistan, Israel and marriage is tonight. Yeah, we just
had three events on the marriage or two events on the Mirage
mashallah, actually we didn't do the stream about it. But we could.
Maybe tomorrow, Ryan, what do you think tomorrow?
The podcast was about it too, even though we didn't get to the
details, but maybe tomorrow we could talk a little bit more about
sort of marriage? Did he mathematic and Sheffy forbid
traveling to the blessing Muslim of Rasulullah? How would that be
possible? How, in fact is the opposite the prophesy said don't
visit say I'm visiting the grave of the Prophet say the Prophet
because the prophets are alive in their grave. Cloak cloak top. Is
it true that in order to qualify as one of the 70 1000s get
Baroness without judgment, you couldn't have had someone to do it
Rokia on you.
Allow them about that. That's it's another Hadith about about that
there is a Hadith about that. They they don't even try to disrupt the
will of Allah even by Rokia. There's 70,000 people who never
tried to disrupt the will of Allah, not even by the gorilla.
Below it will lodge Allah and that's it. How does it staccato
work? Very good question. It is a dua
that dua is recited after you pray any to no effort. Let's say
praying the Sunnah of Medvedev you make a dual intention. So no of
Maghreb and its Takata okay, then you are
Like this door, that door,
which you can find online, it is saying, Oh Allah, this is my
choice. If it's the right choice, make it easy for me to sign that
it's a right choice, it becomes easy. If it's the wrong choice,
make it difficult for me and make it away from me. So when you
praise Takata, right, has nothing to do with seeing a dream
afterwards.
It can't overstate dreams, what matters is what happens on the
earth. Okay.
And so you start looking at how is the matter becoming easier for
you? Or more difficult for it? That's it, like our doors opening
up or doors closing up? If you say, Oh, I prayed Estacada and
nothing changed. Okay, the praise to God again,
is to God as a DUA, there's no limit on how much you can do is
Declutter. You continue to get as much as you want. Okay.
With with up to seven times, you should usually they say, at the
seventh time, you should receive an answer if you're sincere. The
answer would be that things start to open up or close up. And as
not, I saw dream, or I saw coincidence. No, you can't
overstate those things in making big decisions. You see if the
matter starts easing up or not. Next question is that hadith
marriage us? is half of faith authentic? From what I know, yes,
it is half of faith in the fact that it pulls out half the
virtues, half of a person's virtues, and tests. And hence
their Amen comes out in marriage. Patience, generosity, forgiveness,
you can't say that you have any of these qualities until you tried it
with the person you live with. You can't say you have any patience.
You can't say you have any forgiveness.
Until something someone in your household, right, people on the
street cares about people on the street, in the workplace, right?
When you live in a family, you're married, and you have kids,
the weight that they possess in your life out will outweigh
everything else. Right? And people always talk about like priorities.
You put a gun to anyone's head and say, Listen, you're gonna lose
your job or lose your family. You're gonna lose your family,
lose your job, right? You wanna, you gotta go?
Yeah, then we probably need to fix that camera too. You want to lose
your your your, your your health, or lose your job. My lose them, I
lose my job, over my health, right?
But how much effort do people actually put in their family?
Like reading, studying how to be married, how to be a good husband?
How to be this, that or the how to?
How to be a good dad. All these things require study.
Everyone will say that their job, their family is more important
their job. But you look at their library and what they actually
study and examine is all about their job and nothing about how do
I be a good dad? What are the harms that you know, kids are
facing these days? What are the best practices to being a husband
or a wife? Okay. I mean, most of them and secular authors can give
you, you know, good advice on this. It's not just Muslims that
can give you good advice. So
marriage is really half of faith, because half of a person's
attributes will come out in marriage. Okay?
What's the best way to observe the blessing event? You don't have to
worry about the exact night of this marriage. You just have to
spend all of Rajab reviewing it, and at least reading it once. So
you by reading this once a year, it's a good practice. Can one
Zootopia for severe constipation inside the bathroom? Yes, but with
your mind only not with your tongue. You can't recite the
Quran.
Inside the bathroom.
Go ahead.
Someone asked if reading the Quran out loud in the mind and also
listening to it has the same reward. reciting Quran in your
mind is not going to be the same as if your tongue is moving. For
sure. No doubt about that you because your tongue moving is
important. When is we'll have something cut a dilla l
permissible only if it's called a delay, then you can't ever do that
we'd have it called a delay. It means that the language is so
crystal clear. That doesn't provide there's no
watershed involved. There's no
contradiction of anything else involved. But if we add the Sona
and it's an RP, the Vanessa fee is that everything we take from the
text of Allah we take it literally, except when it
contradicts another tech
for stronger proof texts, in which case we know that the meaning must
not be the literal meaning it has a meaning for sure, but not the
literal meaning.
Or if it if it itself is contradictory,
it rationally contradictory, like what for example, when prophesize
Saddam said the Sun goes under the Throne of Allah every night, and
then prostrates so what is the frustration of the Sun look like a
low atom, and we know that the sun get where's the sun moving, when
the sun sets we know that the sun is not setting and then go into
Throne of Allah is not under the earth. Right? Because that it
would it would indicate that the Throne of Allah is under there, so
that we can make it that we'd have advice for someone who feels like
their past marriages are getting old and less like oh, that they
are past marriage. And they're getting old and marriage is
getting less likely. The only thing I could say to such a person
is control your thoughts.
Control your Thoughts don't allow your thoughts to go negative.
Okay, is it okay with waters in the corners valid? Now the words
that you recite and you're sprinkling it all over? You can
sprinkle it anywhere? Yes, you can. It is valid that you can
recite Quran on water and sprinkle the water. That's okay. No harm in
that.
I know someone who does draw for his Takata and then randomly opens
the Quran to get direction is that acceptable? No, it's not
acceptable. We do not open randomly open the Quran and go
into this like lazy thinking. I don't want to make a decision. Let
me just go by lottery. There's nothing in the Sunnah like that.
There is nothing in the Sunnah that just randomly open a page of
Quran and name your kid randomly open your page of Quran and you
know and
make a decision based upon that never you just pull this out if
you want,
right, we never do that.
I don't think I'm a true believer fear overpowers my faith. What
should I do about this? You should recite the Quran with
contemplation and read the stories of prophets with contemplation.
Should a person abandon Dawa if their own life is a mess no
sometimes when you teach other people about something you get
stronger at it yourself
yeah
all right, Ryan, what do we got?
We have a spicy Aki THE QUESTION All right, spicy Aki into
question. Is it correct to say that Hola, todos, hearing and
seeing is eternal without a beginning, and that whatever
sounds or events that occur in existence, do not bring out
anything new in his hearing or seeing as the first part.
So, this is this is good premise, right? And they, they pretend to
everything that exists. How do we explain that we speak now and he
hears everything. But we did not speak before was our not speaking
also heard because he knew pre eternally that we would speak so
the question is about divine speech. And
sorry, the Allah is Hearing and seeing and his knowledge. Allah
subhana wa Tada has had knowledge over all events and all actions,
and he manifests them when he wills but the knowledge of that
action has always existed with him. He manifests it we'll move on
up here while I edited the He
manifests these things when he wills and he has foreknowledge of
them. Pre is knowledge is his attribute and his pre eternal
there is nothing that will happen. That is new knowledge to Allah
Tala.
Okay, it's very important point. He manifests it when he wills his
speech to Musashi Saddam was not something that just happened new.
It was rather his speech. He manifested it at that time, and
his speech exists eternally with him as attributes all of his
attributes are pre eternal.
That answer the question or anything Yeah, yeah.
Dean it good to see you here. This time exists in Johnny Yes, time
does exist. There are days and nights in paradise, but the night
never gets dark. It stays like dusk, like the sky turns purple
and magenta. And then that's that's what nighttime is in
paradise. What is meant by the note of the messenger is the new
that ALLAH SubhanA which Allah bestowed upon His Messenger
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
That is the note of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
All right, let's hear it. Somebody seems like they need some
clarification here. They said they're confused who's on the
truth asking help from profits? I'll answer them 1000s of miles
away seems like a bit. But would you permit it? While there's no
action from the companion?
This is a question on St. Martha
they still gotta
I don't know if we're gonna go into this about the right now. I
never go into this too.
Yeah, it's not something that
I want to go into right now because it's going to open up a
big bag of worms. Anyway we never even preach it to be honest what
we preach is to look to better look seeking the belt the
blessings for example, if you're going to do something you have to
do to buttermilk, any good deed Okay any good deed
research you have a new home called the and then it's gonna
bring you back a bad call the solo established Allah recite Quran you
got a new business open with a big drop in the business to us soon
with Tabarak with a bad by Vikram Allah Vikram is messenger
sallallahu alayhi wa salam decrease Sahaba the little bait by
reading their biographies, okay, this is the Baroque.
That's, that's what I believe in. And that's what everyone believes
it. Little pearls of wisdom when having a bath is it important to
make will do in the beginning or the end of the bath, you start
when you're taking a loss, you clean out you clean your private
parts, you're out and you never touch you're out again.
And then you do the limbs of wudu except the feet. And then you do
everything from top all the way to the bottom. And
you do the feet at the end. Okay. And that's you've done will do and
was correct was is would do
includes will except that you should not touch your private
parts. If you're men, you don't touch your private parts again.
Because that breaks your will do.
All right.
Dean says can you speak about the soup kitchen Soup Kitchen is
really important. And by the way, our construction is going to start
next month. You're not even gonna recognize it. It's going to be so
pretty okay, that we ask Allah Tada tofu Clinet and we need your
DUA because I really we believe in da is more more important than I'm
gonna I'm it is important DA is stronger will do if one person can
open so many doors for you. And we don't know who out there watching
and listening will will make a sincere do out for us for the soup
kitchen. Because this soup kitchen is not just going to be just given
up food because it has to really create a mood for the person who
comes in. It's got to create an ambiance for the person who comes
in. They got to feel that the Muslims have done something
different from all the other soup kitchens which feel like you're
going to jail. You ever go to the soup kitchens, you feel like
you're going to jail.
It's not homemade food. It's terrible environment. You just
want to leave you feel like I'm in jail and my school lunch line or
something like that, right? We don't want that. So it's starting
up We ask Allah subhanaw taala to give us it Sophia. If you want to
help you go to Safina society.org. Backslash Dawa center. If you just
go to sofia.org You'll see it there. It says Dawa center.
Next question.
What is the ruling of someone who identifies as a Muslim but out of
carelessness? Neglect, they only pray occasionally what happens if
they die in the state? Are they still Muslim ruling about somebody
who they identify as a Muslim, but they don't always pray. Sometimes
they pray, sometimes they don't.
You know, major could be they're going to need the chef out of the
prophets. I send them as in our Arpita, the chef Farah of the
prophesy centum is for the people of major sins in our OMA
Shiva, it will kibarim an almighty so they're going to need the
intercession of the prophets I send them because Chacao it's an
all the updated books is for the people of Kabbalah and skipping
Salah can there possibly be a bigger computer, skipping your
Salawat?
Good. So they are a Muslim, for sure. But they're upon Kibito
major sin.
I make dua that Allah puts me in a position where I can significantly
contribute to the projects that will be wonderful because we have
recurring donations that you can give to the project. And if you're
in the area, right, and you want to volunteer to cook, there's also
a link for that, that you could cook for us. You either drop it
off, right every Wednesday, and then and then the people eat that
food so you get rewarded for that. It's going to be a big comfort of
our sins, the soup kitchen. I really believe that we have too
many sins stuff for a lot of them have way too many since then, by
doing the soup kitchen and we ask Allah to Allah to look upon us
with the eye of mercy and forgiveness. Next question. Okay,
somebody asked if someone were to do a documentary about the deen,
is it permissible to have a musical score assisting the
narrative structure of the film? Having if you haven't been doing a
documentary about Islam, and then you know, you need to have a
musical score. They're saying that. I mean, I would say look, we
have a ruling on music offense.
Times and the ruling on music is pretty straightforward.
The stronger ruling is that all the instruments are haram except
for the duff. Another opinion and the duff only in weddings to the
other opinion, which is lesser strong is that the duff is allowed
all the time. The flute is mcru. The wind instruments are mcru. And
the string instruments are haram. And there's a reason for that, but
we can't get into that right now.
But the issue is that oftentimes Media Productions, we How do you
How does a Muslim compete
in the media sphere without music? So I don't enter the competition.
That's what I would do. But it's you can't advance the deen by
something that's prohibited. That's not my belief. That's a
principle. It just doesn't work.
If people do it, okay, they did it. But I can't say that it's
valid. You know, that's the that's the thing. I can't say that's
harder to do. I can't say that something that is known in the
books to be forbidden. And the reason it's forbidden, I will give
you the evidence is that and then the viewpoint is that the Prophet
he forbade all instruments, my eyes if all of them. Then he came
upon there was a wedding in the province and use the duff. So they
said that's an exception it's can be used. Then he came upon a boy
playing the flute and he didn't say anything. He covered his ears
but did not say that it's haram. And then a Sahabi came and he said
O Messenger of Allah, when we call the event, Should we blow a horn?
The prophets simply said no, he did not say no, the horn is haram.
So when when the Prophet was exposed to the wind instruments,
he just he turned away from them. He did not explicitly say they
were haram based upon that logic.
They said as Makoto Okay, that's the minority opinion that is mcru
and maybe in the sheffey they have that opinion with more strength
than others but it's it is comes in the medical books as a minority
opinion not the majority opinion. Geordie opinion is to Hatim
okay. And then there was no exposure the in some of the
province of the string instruments so the prohibition remained on the
string instruments. And that which is a made up sound follows
whatever it sounds like. So a computerized sound file if it
sounds like a stringed instrument haram if it sounds like a drum
permitted, if it sounds like a flute then mcru in the minority
opinion haram in the in the dominant opinion, I think of all
the schools. So I personally, I don't see how you win those, this
this thing, the media production thing. So if they're gonna do it,
let them do it, but don't get it. They don't try to get a Mufti to
squeeze something out of it. And especially someone like myself,
who just merely transmits to you the dominant opinions. We can't
get photo
How can we increase my How can I increase my chances of being
accepted? Worship Allah very good in that well in the day, as much
as you can worship Allah in the daytime recite Quran makes Allah
on the prophesy Senate, give sadaqa then wake up in the middle
of the night and ask what you wish and repeat that every day. Repeat
that every day. Worship Allah as best as you can in the daytime
while making dua to and then wake up in the middle of the night and
take your needs to Allah Tala.
Rhonda OG she's an OG. She says, there's an IG company selling kids
Quran but they included pictures. So basically it's pictures
describing the verse of the Quran.
And the verse of Quran is on the bottom making it relatable for
kids. Is that permissible to use? I mean, I guess that is a good
question to be honest with you, because
probably they would be 100% safer if it was merely just like
a semantic meaning of the verses and then a picture that would be
much more safer but to mingle the two. I'm sure that many Halima
would not like that. So I can't necessarily give you state
straight wording on the ruling on it but I'm sure that I can tell
you that many autumn I will not like that. If it was just a theme
that's fine. Alright, one aka today remember Monday we do open
QA on Monday, Tuesdays automatic Wednesdays thematic, Thursday's
thematic, so today's open q&a, but the rest of the week will not be
one AK says one Ock he says there are parties in families with
music. But if we don't go our parents get angry upon us. What
should we do in these kinds of music party gatherings. So you
have to always be political, and I call it just wiggling it and
jamming it. So you may show up a little bit. You go out for a phone
call. You go inside you eat and you smile in everyone's face. So
they don't give you you know, think that you are rude to them.
And then you leave again, step outside, right go into another
room. So you have to wiggle it in a way that is in a sense,
diplomatic in the sense that you didn't offend your family. And at
the end, maybe you can bring it up. Right? It's like blasphemy.
You say what's the rule
Pulling on music, right? Because I know that a lot everyone listens
to music. Like we're not from Mars, right? But we're our job is
to tell you what the ruling is. You have to do as much as you
want. All right? I can't control people.
But I can't tell you I've never seen someone who is really on HIV,
the Quran I've never seen it. A half is of Quran, who listens to
music? So what does that tell you? If the word of Allah will not
coexist in the heart that has music in it?
Can you elaborate this is nebula she says, Can you elaborate on
seeking assistance through subtle watts. I've seen wordings and
expressions that sense a lot and then directly is help from Lulu is
this correct approach? It's valid and Addison.
So the Rhonda says, They have shape on pictures as this big red
blob with devil ears. And she's like, I'm like, No, thanks. Yeah,
I'd probably be like, No thanks to because it's sort of silly. And
the shutdown is a serious thing. This is not some character, right?
This is not some silly character. So if it would if they had this on
other themes, right, then maybe, maybe themes, because it's like
the thing that makes people, some Christian people so disgusted with
it is how unrealistic and goofy it is. It's goofy and unrealistic.
You're 100%, right? Like putting forth a religion that sort of in
the vibe of fairytales, right? Whereas we have the supernatural
rational. We believe in the supernatural, that means things
that we haven't seen before. And that, to me, is more amazing than
fairy tales. Fairy tales is a mimic of that, right? We do have
that we do have a world that we can tap into in our lives. That is
totally like, I wouldn't say fairytale but it's, it's mystical.
We totally love that. And we live that every single day. And then
fairy tales, were mimicking that fairy tales were a mimic of the
truth, not the other way around. So we totally have a mystical
reality. In our in our in our head of sunnah. We totally believe in
that. And this one is marked by we totally accept the super rational,
but we reject the irrational, the irrational is a contradiction in
itself. Something but a super rational is something you've never
seen before. We've never seen wings, angels with 600 wings,
right? Or 300 wings. We've never seen the idea of an angel filling
the horizon. It's super rational. We've never seen this concept of
angels coming down to the earth, the moment that you are in the
desperation and coming to solve your problems. We believe in that
100%. And it's not something only from the ancient times, if you
make a dua that is strong enough, it will reach the heavens, you'll
get an answer.
This is not this is this is our mysticism, in a sense of what is
the world outside of this world. And fairy tales are mimicking
that. Not the other way around. That's like fairy tales as a
default. And then we're constructing a religion with fairy
tales. No.
Next question, can you reconcile the fact that Allah is our man,
and but it also gives people eternal punishment? And how far
can we reconcile that Allah is all man yet there is people who have
eternal punishment in the hellfire. Yes. I don't know, man.
He's all merciful, but he does not force you to do anything. That's
part of His mercy.
That's part of the mercy. He will not force paradise upon you.
Do we believe that it's wrong to force someone to accept Islam? Can
I take someone took his chair back, put a towel on his face and
waterboard him until he gets says the shed? Can I do that? No, I
can't do that.
Yeah, doing the Pledge of Allegiance maybe but
waterboarding, no. Shahada? No. Can you force someone to say shut
up? No. We also don't force people to go to Paradise, you have a
choice. Someone goes to eternal hellfire. You chose your path.
Allah doesn't send people to hellfire on tricks. He doesn't
send people there because they didn't know any better. He only
sends people there when the hijab or the proof was laid in front of
him for a long time. And they rejected it. Okay, they rejected
it over and over and over. So part of Allah's Mercy is He doesn't
force you, you do whatever you want. There are outcomes and
consequences.
Let's go No.
was equally says a sin. I'm like, like I'm gonna be in it says is
there any extra value to doing a non Quranic word? Yes, of course
the prophets I said Lums sunnah.
The Prophet sunnah. He has to Serbia. He has no idea. Okay, that
are wonderful that we should use. So they're not necessarily from
the Quran. But the Prophet gave them we are not Quran only. We
accept the Quran says follow the Prophet. The Prophet has his own
idea
and his own of God and His own OTA.
To that, or from his sunnah.
All right, what is the hikma of the punishment of kofod? In *
forever. they disobeyed an eternal God, the punishment, they waged,
they went against an eternal God, the punishment will be eternal.
Right? But look, we're Muslims. Allah says, In the Quran lives
Allah Maya. He's not asked about why he does what he does. Right?
So we don't ask that question. We just hope to avoid it. So but he's
the person not saying why as if it's moral? No, he's just asking,
what's the wisdom? Right, the wisdom is that people are going to
be in heaven forever. There needs to be a contrast forever, right?
Because part of Paradise is the contrast of where I could have
been, if I had done those deeds, right. Why do they get to do
deeds, or take positions that they intend to have forever? And then
sort of, in a sense, get away with it in a sense by disappearing?
Unless the afterlife there's no disappearing? There's no death,
you get what you did. So act and believe with caution in this
world.
Ryan, what do you got? I was one choose them. How does one choose a
method by reading the biographies of those scholars, for example,
you could read the 40 Memes by Abu Zahra. It's an English book, read
them watch the YouTube videos of their biographies and their
methods. And also be practical. If I'm going to the subcontinent
there's no point in being a medical, right, you're not going
to find a medic you for 100 miles, right? Maybe more,
unless you study online. And then anyway, when you go to practice
it, everyone's going to be against you. Right? They won't, they
won't, they won't know that there's another method, in some
cases, the common man, so you're just going to be constantly in
pressure. So you might as well be practical about it too. If there's
1000 Hanafi scholars in your town, then it's practically be Hanafi.
But if you do have a choice by reading the biographies of the of
the Imams, and then choosing that method next, and you go to Mark
v.org, and start studying next September is going to be
completely revamped. And we're going to have all four methods
taught and Shawn loves
to say it says if after it's Takata, my heart feels anxious
about something but the dream one has seen is seemingly positive,
one must do. Ignore both. Remember, what matters is what
happens in the wake in the light in life in real life is to God is
not determined by how I feel.
Or how my dreams are, is Takara is determined by the realities of
life. If the matter is becoming difficult, then I start taking
that as a sign. If the matter is becoming easy, then I take that as
a sign as well. That's what the wording of his Takata is, Oh Allah
make it easy, or make it difficult, or make me move me away
from it or move it away from me.
were difficult is not in there, but make it easy. Okay, or move us
away from it. Ryan, someone asked a good question. He said how do
you distinguish someone mistreating you as being
legitimate injustice or a way for you to be
retribution for your sins? The question is
how do I know if someone mistreats me that is because of my sins? Or
that they're just unjust, it could be both and it could be not your
sins, he just made a mistake in life. Right? So example you get
fired, it may not just because because of your sins.
It may be because you don't work well.
You show up late, you're difficult to deal with.
So that your the punishment of those worldly things is that you
got fired. Right? You Allah is not gonna write any sins against you.
But the result is you got fired, right? So it could be that you're,
you're treated unjustly, that Allah may use someone who does an
injustice to teach you a lesson. Not all divine lessons come from
good people. It could be a lesson from Allah for you through a bad
person.
So it could be they may be completely oppressors but you also
deserved a little bit of it. All right. And Allah tells us in the
Quran, he uses one oppressor to neutralize another.
Let's take one from Instagram here from New
what's also the wisdom and the concept of heaven, things being
good all the time.
What I know it's a silly question, but it's hard to understand
completely. Okay.
Allah changes our nature. Don't try to understand it, just enjoy
it if you get there, right. But Allah changes our nature because
our nature here is not all pleasure. The enjoyment of life in
this world is balance, some a Betta, even some little bit of
hardship, so that when the hardship has room
We feel the blessing of our state,
some work and some enjoyment, the blessing in this world is
balanced, right? But in the next life, it's not balanced. Like
there's no concept of satisfaction from work. Work is one of the most
satisfying thing you could do in this world. Because you see,
you're changing the world, you're improving it. Why? Because it's a
flawed world. It's flawed. When you go into an unflawed world,
your nature is going to be completely changed.
So what the fulfillment is to enjoy Divine Blessings all day.
And it never ends. Unlike here, it does have an end. All pleasures in
this life, they have a limit. So if you enjoy the pleasure of let's
say, a beautiful, wonderful Saturday night dinner, right? And
then you hung out all Saturday night, and everything was
wonderful, and it was like the best night
and then Sunday, you rest up, you get ready for the week. Then
Monday, you work because you can't keep doing the same thing every
night, you're gonna get depressed. The joy is the balance in this
world. In the next world, there's no such thing as good. It's all
enjoyment and it's all increase of pleasure, nonstop increase of
pleasure. We're our natures are going to be changed completely.
How long should we wait before repeating the staccato prayer?
It's da therefore there's no hesitation with every Sunday with
every Salah you can make a staccato, right? Is it wrong to
stand in a bathroom bare feet? Where you're making wudu? Like
because you can get an edge? It's on your feet? Is it wrong to stand
in the bathroom? Bare feet? No, if it's if it's not an edge, it's if
you know that there's no no adjusted and then there's no
problem. It's only a problem if you know for sure that there's an
adjuster there, or even that you have doubt. But if you know that
most bathrooms today are very clean, right? Most home bathrooms,
your home bathroom is going to be clean.
In most cases, unless you have certain kids that are not clean,
like little babies and stuff, and they're, you know, getting
everything out. But
the question is, if there's an agenda there, that's all it is.
Right? Is there a specific dua for sending the reward of your good
deeds to the loved ones? Is there a specific doctor sending the
reward This is called hibbett. A thorough job the gifting of your
good deeds to somebody else so that you recite sort of guessing
and you give the reward, you simply say with your heart or with
your tongue, I intend this in any language, this the reward of this
recitation to so and so. That's it. Can you return intended for
yourself and for them? Can you intend it for yourself and for
them? Yeah. jolla could be 5050.
Next question. So someone who is praying according to Maliki, if
they're behind somebody who is praying with their arms crossed,
folded, yeah.
Would they follow that? You don't have to if someone's if someone's
praying with their arms down and the amount of praying with the
arms folded, it has no significance on the prayer needed
in all them other hip. This is like a light sunnah. And all that
other hip. There's no issue on on that at all. And we pray behind
anyone whose prayer is valid in any of the four methods and you
pray, how you know how to pray.
flotsam have been top the roof says, What if things become
difficult between husband and wife after marriage in a dilemma,
Anita? Rajon is that also the answer to this Takata prior to
marriage or best to make another as to how to post marriage about
it?
I think that we don't have to always
get spiritual and mystical and unseen about these things that can
be examined. If there's a real if there is difficulty marriage,
getting along with people, is not all an unseen thing. That we have
to just go by the unseen and go by signs. You can study this stuff.
There's a reason there. I know people don't like this idea. But
there are like counselors. Yeah, there are books. Things can go
right or wrong in a marriage for reasons that you can identify.
It's not all just unseen. Like I'm telling you, people, when they
study us a subject, they'll study the books and they'll know exactly
why the surgery went well or went wrong. Or exactly why the internet
connection here is right. strong or weak. Or exactly why the
numbers in this business are adding up but this business is
failing. It's not a random crackpot. But I'm not saying this
about Fatima bent up the roof here. I'm saying in general.
People treat Marriage Marriage like an unseen crapshoot in the
sense that it's just random. It's like rolling the dice. It's not
getting along with people can be studied. Personality types. Birth
orders, can methods of communication, expectations,
finances, gifts
Sitting down to talk family dinners. These are all factors in
law pressures, children pressures from within job pressures, health
pressures,
different politics, different religion, you can discuss this
stuff, okay? You can study it objectively. You can set plans
that will meet men hearts, and make sure that two people's hearts
are aligned. Okay. And parallel to each other.
So what I see is that many, many people treat marriage like an
unseen crapshoot.
And it's not like that. It's not like that at all. I actually truly
believe that most of it can be analyzed logically, by
observation. Not that it's irrational. It's an observed
thing. You can observe it, you can see what other people say about
it. And you could study this thing. So if your person is having
issues in marriage, I wouldn't say that this is the result of
Estacada this that or the other I would say work on it. Study it.
I've said earlier in this stream, someone says you're going to lose
your job or your marriage gun to your head, you have to choose one
which one will you say? Everyone will say I'll lose my job, not my
marriage. How many books do you have related to your job versus
how many books do you have related to marriage? Read study?
Study this stuff.
It's not an unseen mystical crapshoot random think it's not,
you can study this stuff, but people don't. So treat it like
that study it since then, is saying is it Islamic to believe in
energy chakras? I'm not exactly familiar with it? Exactly. You
know, how they work to be honest with you.
But I would say probably, it's not going to be an Islamic thing, nor
is it a scientific thing. It's it's it's probably what I would
consider a
a theory
that it cannot really be proven right or wrong. And, therefore
action upon it, as long as it's not contradicting a shittier. And
it's not. You got to know, epistemologically, where it is, is
this a rational knowledge? No. Is it an observed knowledge? I don't
I don't think so. It's not a scientific knowledge. I think it's
a theory about how energy flows. And that theory may be proven
right or wrong. But actually, you can't even prove it. It's just
you may think, in your personal life, that it benefits you or not.
Okay. And so that's where I would put it epistemological. I don't
think that's directly connected to some veganism. Ryan, what do you
think? It's not? It's not direct? It's a theory about energy. Right?
Yeah. In the body? Is it paganism? It's not vegan.
So paganism, right? There's it's just a theory about the body about
energy. You just have to know that epistemologically, it's very low
on the bar. Like, there's very little certainty about this stuff.
In my opinion, from the little that I've, I have examines it
enough, right. That it's a theory about how things work, right.
Yeah, I think it since it's so open ended, and just there's no
structure and it just leads people to these weird pagan things,
though. Yeah. So associations, so you can't base too much on it.
Right? He cannot base too much. It's like astrologically let's say
you are whatever the zodiac sign that it says it is right now. What
we know is haram is to the prediction of what's going to
happen to you today because you were born on a such a such a date.
That's haram. You can't even read that. How do you even read them?
But when they say oh, because you were born here, you're a leader.
You know what these these these websites they never tell you think
that right? Whatever they tell you is gonna be nice. Oh, I'm a
leader. Right? You're the life of the party. I'm the life of the
party. Someone once did this for me. Right? They said okay, I need
your information. I need your birthday. I need you to born at
night born in the day born on what like, line of longitude. I was
like, what knowledge is this right? Then they said your this
that your personality? Is this this this this this?
Then Then my daughter said Papa is real. I said if I like it,
if I like it, if I like what they're saying, Okay, if I don't
like what you're saying, forget it. This is not a real knowledge.
Right? It's like a view. But you can't so you can't really base too
much on it. In my opinion.
All right. Kadima. Zayn says Send I'm gonna send him send them to
him in a staccato only after I shut no I still got it can be done
anytime that it is permissible to pray no effort, and it can be
joined with your other Noah like sunnah of Muhammad. So no offense,
but it can be joined with that dual intention. How do you
memorize the 99 names in a short period of time? Keep repeating
them and listen to them in a song form.
Neville says personality types actually mind blowing everyone
should look into it by the way. So
And once told me about what is it? The Briggs Myers Briggs. Okay, so
I took it, I took it three times in different websites, right? It's
a different one every time but everything's good. Every single
rep every single reason E and TJ away en TP, whatever. All of it's
good. It's flattering. Because they want to keep you on the
website. Take the next test. What animal are you, right? You're
never gonna get some like, oh, you're a weasel, right? You're a
you're like a chicken. No, you're always gonna get oh, you're an
eagle. You're a you're a fox. You're a falcon, or you're a lion.
The website will flatter you write everything is going to be good
know how answering this question is going to be good.
Yet, so don't put so much weight on these things. Johnson or John
siddur says
Do you think it's a good to film a document about the Messenger of
Allah but minus a musical score?
If people watch it, try it.
Why wouldn't it but you can't have a movie with the Sahaba he can't
depict I wouldn't depict the Sahaba and the prophets I said
I know they made a movie about that but just because people did
in the past doesn't mean that that's the right thing. So from
what I from what I know of my shoe they wouldn't like this happens
iFixit RYAN What is the shortcut to become a wealthy there's no
shortcuts you put in the work but the fastest route is Nicola.
And avoid the Haram lower your gaze temtem num one says What's
your opinion about saying haram? One gum Han after Salah Oh,
Holloman gamma.
Yeah, it's a dua but it doesn't have to be it shouldn't be said
all the time as if it's a sunnah Harmon gamma, it's an old Egyptian
thing. Nobody says it anymore. It means may we pray together in the
huddle.
And then the other word says gamma, which means altogether,
right? It's it's a nice job, but it shouldn't be treated like
something you have to say.
Amina says that chakras is Hinduism stick. Yeah, I know that
it's Hindu a stick and it's their theory about how energy flows in
the bodies. Okay. I guess chakras are more like stations of the
seeker.
Alright, what is the method of is Takata Halima Whitehead? So We
answered that today it's
it is essentially
two cars Rakas pray that anytime that you can pray, no effort, and
a DUA and then you wait if the matter becomes easy or difficult.
Marmee says how should we go about it is to call any specific
guidance, a lot of question as to how it's unbelievable, right?
So the so we just answered that. And if you go back to the stream?
Well, I guess that's the title of today's stream, right?
Yeah.
The Personality Inventory is subject to personal bias, by the
way you can change to, if you become a CEO of a company, you
have to change. If you're forced into being an employee of a
company, you will change, your personality has to adapt. So
you're going to change on that Myers Briggs every two years
probably?
What's the Islamic view on meditation, meditation, if it's
the idea of clearing your thoughts, there's nothing wrong
with clearing your thoughts. directing your thoughts, we do
have guidance on that directing your thoughts to
is going to be based upon the ruling of what you're directing
your thoughts to. If you're directing your thoughts to
something valid, then it's merely valid.
If you're focusing upon something that is that in the Quran, or in
the Hadith that is good to focus on, that has been Dube. And the
highest thing is focused your thoughts on Allah and His
messenger?
If you're focusing your thoughts on something that's discouraged,
then it's discouraged. So if we define meditation on honing in
your thoughts upon something, then the whole practice takes on the
ruling of what you're focusing upon? And also what Wait, do you
give this? Like, am I going to arrive at Allah, high stations of
spirituality by this? Yes, you could, but by skipping other
things that are obligatory and as soon as the No because we also
have a hierarchy of recommend what's recommended and obligatory.
You can't mess around with that hierarchy. There there was a camp
some of them someone I knew one too, they meditated through so
lots of French
Islamic camp.
They literally meditated through fetch and the person was like
wasting don't have to pray fudge like this what they said. Why did
Allah reveal Quran Alchemist Salah delay decree established the
prayer to remember me we're remembering him, right? So okay,
let's leave this program right away.
And prefetch somewhere they can get my suitcase and leave because
you guys are way off. So it's this it's the what
are they woke up for? 200 No pre 200 Then they meditated through
fetch. So
of the ruling is not just what you're meditating upon, but what
is the weight that you give to this thing and is it pushing away
something that is a foot or a sunnah you cannot draw near to
Allah to Allah by anything greater than a foot
and then the Sunon that are from the prophesy seven and then
anything after that, that is within the category of no effort,
and Ficker is definitely in the category of no effort. We cannot
deny that Ficker which is they say victory will call all the same,
that are contemplation or the remembrance of Allah in the heart
silent victory. All that's wonderful, within its position.
Next,
brother, so hey, yes, with respect to rakia for a particular part of
the body that is unclean. How does one follow the protocols for this
with if you have a rookie for let's say, someone has a sickness
in his private parts?
Right, he may put his hand where there is pain
and recite the Quran, or the rocket or the DUA, whatever the
door is. There's nothing there's no hydrogen now. I'm going to lean
back because we got a lot of questions today, which is good
kick off the week. Because by the way, we don't do open QA all the
time anymore. We only do it Mondays.
Kareem Zan says
we when we use it in psychology, it's usually skewed in the sense
of the framing of the question. structure.
And Nunu says Mohamed is hawk has a great course on temperaments
knowing yourself when it comes to personality.
I have a podcast about this with a Hakeem the four personality types.
He told me he said your personality, you should eat the
opposite food of your personality. So I said what do I eat? Mostly
you should be eating salads. I was like Okay, next.
Give me Give me meat. Hot meat hot potatoes, coffee, right? And
that'll eat salad just to digest
whenever I become regular with my Ahmed, such as Tila to spear dua,
is it a good sign and when I become irregular, the urge to stop
eat the the best of a bed and liquor is the consistent, what is
consistent, to be consistent, whatever you're consistent on
that's the best and it's a great sign if you're consistent. What
kind of sunnah ring can a man have one silver ring? That's it. And
the Sunnah is to have Arctic stone in it. What's the what's the call
it a translation for optics
Kerrison through something
notch says chakras crystals open you up virgin possession is what I
was hurt.
You know, the crystals is unbelievable. This thing I had a
friend. Okay, he left his job in accounting. I'm not gonna say his
name. Right but he was an accountant for KPMG he left I was
like how would you leave KPMG I see you in sweatpants all the
time. What are you up to? He's like, Oh, I got my own business.
What's your business? I'm thinking it's gonna be some great business
he saw ripping off hippies
that's what he said. He said I go to the Chinese websites that are
producing glass junk. Essentially. I go to these Chinese websites and
I deal directly with them and then he makes his own websites with a
whole bunch of you know hippie nonsense on crystals.
And he's selling these like five cent crystals for 50 bucks. Right?
So that's what he told me I rip off hippies, right. I was like I
don't even know if your money's how they're gonna donate to Safina
society.
Right is to Shara what is the chakra is the chakra is the twin
of istikhara is to Hara is the Salah is to Shara is to ask the
people who know about the field that you're asking.
You have to ask people who know you don't do is to shut up about
let's say, a big financial contract by asking a dentist you
ask someone who knows that field who's done it before?
So he says what is Islamic understanding of emotions? How
should they be viewed and treated as Islamic source of information.
Emotions in the sense of other people's emotions are your own
emotions. If it's other people's emotions, we have to monitor them
we sawed off to hurt people's feelings.
In certain circumstances, if people are their emotions are hurt
and they're upset. Because you said something that's true, but
you said it in the nicest way possible. You're not responsible
for that. So if someone says well, what's the ruling on X, Y and Z
and you say, well, the ruling is it's obligatory or it's forbidden
you
You just have to say it in a merciful way. But you're not going
to be held accountable. Someone's upset about that. That's number
one. But if it's the power of emotions, I believe, I don't think
that that's an Islamic thing. But emotions are highly tied to da, da
and emotions are very highly tied because Allah does not accept the
dot from a heart that's heedless. So you have to have some power and
emotion in your job. You have to write so and when you do things
you have to do with passion. This is not Islam. This is just life,
right? When you do stuff, you got to do it with a passion, which
means a lot of emotion. So I don't know which
the question is sites aid feel free to, you know, put in what
aspects of emotions are you talking about? Look at how ugly
this this planter is. Let's change it today. I'm changing that. Look
how ugly this
rubber piece of junk is. I'm changing.
Zaid or Zed
Zed KY M says Are there any courses you know that cover the
FIP of business and financial transactions? Good question. We'll
look it up and we'll let you know but we don't you know we should
teach that someday Ryan as a as a ArcView like intensive
you know with our mental hub that associate he's our man.
Yeah, we do have a podcast on with Tom Debussy. If you look up the
podcast with the hub does it? It's there. And also we had a live
stream with him last year about Zika Kadima Zane what is a good
introductory level book for a higher level of knowledge someone
looking to pursue advancement should read in what subjects
Kadeem if you can answer me what subject please keep my marriage in
your DUA. My husband gets a little compassion in his heart. While May
Allah subhanaw taala make things really easy for you and all the
married couples and keep away shape on.
Never underestimate. Can I keep toys and stuffed animals in my
room? I need them to feel better. But people say It's haram and
angels won't come. Can you explain the ruling? Please, if you're an
adult, you're not allowed to have toys anymore.
Don't accept this genre of the security pets.
There was a guy who tried to get on a plane with a goose
and said it's my security pet.
So he was laughing at that because that's way crazy. But for the
sister. Truth is Romera put your feel better. You know you can have
a pillow. Right? You just because it's warm. But no. Once you're an
adult, you know that to have toys, figures, figures, I mean, figures.
Anything that could live. All right, if it could live as it is
like a bear of full bear stuffed or hard, whatever, it's a full
bear, you're not allowed to have those as an adult. And I would
highly recommend
thinking about Allah's attributes and that that's going to make you
feel better. Or you can have a fuzzy blanket or a fuzzy pillow if
it makes you physically feel better, right? But we're not to
have toys anymore. After we become adults. And this security thing
through stuff. I would also caution against it. It's not the
great way for us to keep the world to go down. You know, it's not the
path of of living. We want to go down like a security blanket for
an adult's right.
I've seen a lot of focus Nunu says on affirmations, but something
doesn't feel right about saying I'm great etcetera. That just
insecurity or affirmation is not assigned my key we have
affirmations from the Dean. Our affirmations revolve around
Allah's creation of us and Allah's attributes, those are the
affirmations and we call those out. All these affirmations are
self centered. But there is I have seen scholars, they have a sense
of affirmation, which is the idea of remembering your goals. Yes,
Habib Ahmed has spoken about that remembering your goals, right?
Whether you say it, write it down, remember it any way you want. Or
Sheikh Mohammed did, Jacobi said that his dad told him when you go
up to give the hook, but if you're nervous, tell yourself I'm the
most knowledgeable person in the room. But once you feel secure,
tell yourself I'm the least knowledgeable person in the room.
So you can't just take an affirmation from somebody. It's
got to be based in our theology and our what's acceptance accepted
for us? Is yoga permissible. I think yoga as defined as
stretching is permissible. If there's any unseen or belief
element that has to be examined or an incantation that they utter,
it has to be examined. Have you written a book of any kind, I have
written a primer, a little bit more of a than a primer, actually,
I would say intermediate level book on off data that you can get
at Safina press
dot com
Okay, great. Ryan hauser Safina press.com going
down. Yeah.
Okay, good. I would says once a Hindu Yogi told me, all the
chakras can be opened through sincere honesty to yourself
what am I getting when my chakras open? And what am I losing when my
chakras close?
I don't know any thing about chakras? I guess after this
episode Ryan, we have to study chakras, so that we have gluten
we're talking about seems all of our listeners, they're experts in
chakras.
A guru Sadhguru what's his name?
Is he a fraud? Or what is he real or what?
He gives advice that is impossible to prove right or wrong, right?
That's, that's the genre I guarantee with the genre of all
these Yogi's is to speak with absolute confidence. But make a
statement that is impossible to be proven as right or wrong. Right.
Some girl said, I have trouble staying awake. He says what do you
eat? She said listed what you eat. She said everything you eat is
dead. That's why you sleepy? Eat stuff that's alive. You'll be
perky and awake. But how do I know that? It's not going to just be
like
placebo effects right? There's no way to prove it right or wrong. So
I guarantee you all these frauds. They're not frauds they're YouTube
Artists that's what they are. Right? He's a YouTube Artists you
make you feel good. He's a feel good artists. That's what he is.
But nothing can be said as can be proven as right or wrong.
Where did you get your wisdom? And is there a book I can read that
you got your wisdom from?
Amina says what is m and o Rasool the vicar of m and o Rasool is the
last three verses of Surah Baqarah. Because it says m and o
su
St. scant fly, have the same question. If its own if yoga is
only done for breathing and focusing and stretching, there's
nothing wrong with that. If the income there's no incantations,
there's no pagan beliefs, then it's stretching.
Baller says can you shed some light on the Ukraine issue and in
general how Muslims should respond to such issues.
I'm not an expert in political affairs. But I did follow that the
guy Zaretsky or Zelinsky he did a great PR campaign to be honest
with you over the weekend. He did a great PR campaign and he to me,
he won the weekend. I don't know if he's gonna win the battle or
the win the war, but he beat out
he beat up Putin. And this last weekend, he out PR Putin and the
whole world like rallied around him. So he did a good job with
that.
All right.
Go ahead. If one is not getting married, and how often should he
fast if you're not getting married, how often should you fast
you should fast as long as you as much as you need to stay away from
since
that rubber planter is bothering me so much I pushed it out of the
screen.
You should you should
fast as much as you need to avoid since
let's go to hasn't Mozart says that Carnelian is the name of
octave in English Carnelian.
Marami says what can we find? Where can we find the podcast with
a key Marcela? It actually wasn't lucky Marcela, it was Hakeem
Subhan Allah His name escapes my mind. He's wonderful guests. And
he had a lot of nice things except that his advice for me that I have
to eat salad all day.
But it was really it was a good podcast and you go back and this
feeds it podcast on SoundCloud. It'll and type in
Hakeem, so if you decide the podcast and hiking, it'll be
there, Ryan. So let's see if you can find it and find out what the
exact name is.
is called a gate. A gate. A gate stone. Someone says that.
Just named said it's a gate stone. Okay.
Please remove the rubber planter. That's disaster.
I know. That's what I'm gonna do. We're gonna get planters. Do
stones have healing powers? Did they impact your mood? Again? It's
something that we have to know where these things are. Let's say
someone comes up with a theory. Right and says it and makes the
claim. We would say backup your claim with an experiment. So then
I could say certainty it is.
So I remember I remember one time you notice
Sometimes you fall asleep with the TV on Yeah, you wake up at like
3am Yes. And it was like some ancient aliens show or something.
Yeah, but they're actually talking about a History Channel they're
talking about like all the prophets and how all these
significant people who are making like spiritual claims in history.
Yeah. Did so in mountains and mountains and like they were
talking about the rocks in the mountains are like energy portals.
And oh, okay. Also so Ryan was saying that he watched the show.
And he said all the spiritualists and prophets, they, they, they at
one point were in mountains, okay. And that, you know, there's energy
portals and things like that. There's also simply something
called Allah chose him to be a prophet. Right? Okay, so yes, it
is true. Adam was in a mountain. Well, I don't think say Nisa was
in a mountain. Musa was in a mountain and Prophet Muhammad SAW
I said, and went on a mountain. But how many prophets? Did it go
on a mountain? How many people okay, here's this, how many people
did go on a mountain and we're not prophets, right? Or even
spiritualists, or even anything successful? Right? So when we look
at these things, you can't just do a causation, a correlation and
match it to a causation. So by the way, you know why the blue stone
is used? Right for has said they say, they say that it distracts
the eyes of the person to look at the blue stone, as opposed to like
the baby.
That was one of the philosophies. What would remember what we say
about this, is that if you can't prove it scientifically, with an
experiment, we're going to downgrade this, we're going to
completely downgrade it to something that you think has an
impact. But you can't prove that as impact. Therefore, how much
emphasis Are you going to put on it? I don't like putting emphasis
on something that I'm not certain about. I enjoy certainty. I love
certainty, right? That's why I love vicar.
And the draft of the Quran. This is guaranteed from Allah subhanaw
taala. Not, you know, from from some fed.
Exactly. And anything that is, you know, the store East meets West.
You know, the store, East Meets West, it's a hippie store. It's a
shopkeeper. If they're selling it, I don't want anything to do with
it.
They sell you every type of FAD that's out there, crystals,
stones, bracelets, that's going to be good for your
you know, your arthritis. Okay. There's no way to actually prove
even if it works for you, you don't know if it was the bracelet
or something else. You don't know if it was a placebo effect, right?
So I'm not a fan of uncertainty. And I'm not saying that there's
impossible for anything to be true. These things could possibly
be have some degree of truth, but we'll never know. Unless someone
does some kind of experiment for it.
Okay, let's look for my laser that can be hidden. When Allah says it
means don't put yourself don't
put your weight on something that's not certain. have certainty
when you do things. Okay, so that's what
that's personally what I'm all about. And do stones have an
impact your mood, I would say that there are physical things that can
impact your mood. What's the proof of that the prophesy some said if
you're feeling down, drink something hot and sweet, warm and
sweet. Whereas I have a hadith for this, right? Hot, creamy and
sweet. So what is Robin saying here? Cindy? Yeah, there is a
degree to which something external can impact your mood. I think the
whole coffee industry is based upon that reality, something sweet
and something caffeinated. It does have an impact on you.
But I would say a greater thing that has impact on your moods is
the thoughts that you when you inject into your own head. Right?
That's something you have with you at all times. And it's free. The
thoughts that you put in your own head, and the image image that you
create in your own head. That's why everyone has to have a goal.
If you have to have a goal in life, that's a reason for you to
wake up in the morning. It's more important than trying to get a
shortcut
through a rock or a stone or something like that. All right,
Ryan, you're up. Well, I just want to open up a can of worms because
sometimes I like doing that. I'm sure. Ryan's about to open up a
can of worms, folks. What is it? What What's the deal with people
being addicted to coffee? You know, what is the deal with people
being addicted to coffee in our city? I think one of the best
logic behind it is this listen.
We don't look at we don't drink wine.
We don't take
we don't smoke. We don't look at *. So give me one little
pleasure that I can have. Don't take this one away either. Right.
Now, I'll tell you what's annoying about it though, is when it
becomes like a bed almost like it's got to have this type of
thing. And it's $50 Right? And then it's just like, like you're
on a like an airplane and you got
Like a little French press, and a traveler's kit, and it's like,
it's sort of ridiculous at some point, right? So I say about it. I
get my one life pleasure. When I fast I fast from it right?
Colossus now I'm not gonna slave to it, but that's the maximum it
should be. It's a halal pleasure that people take just a lot of
other things are haram. So I'm not gonna get on their back for that.
But I will get on the back of the this idea that becomes like an
elite snobby thing, right? That and that's it. I wouldn't say it's
haram. Like because it's subjective, right? It's just how
you make people feel about it or like, you're like so much emphasis
and money's put on this thing. So at that maximum, that would be
like a discouraged thing. That's it.
Next question, what if someone wanted to like, memorize like a
couple of edges, so they just went on a coffee binge?
Maybe taken a coffee binge to memorize the Quran? Why not?
Just memorize the Quran, leave him alone. He's not doing come. Mommy
says any general advice on knowing it's time to pursue knowledge. If
someone is working full time right now. It is always time to pursue
knowledge. And pursuing knowledge does not mean it has to be full
time or part time. It could be one hour a day, it could be 20 minutes
a day. It could be one hour a week. But you have a curriculum,
you've decided who your teachers are going to be. And you stick
with that curriculum. She? Yeah, she told me a story one time about
a guy who was 40 years old, and he's like, Oh, I'm I'm too old to
start seeking knowledge. And then when he turned 50, he was like, I
couldn't use this last 10 years. I know. He's so I'm just not gonna
do it. Oh,
yeah. So why don't I say it's on track to there were there were a
few we have that started their journey of knowledge past the age
of 40. And one such shake. He was a chef. He's a big shift.
From the olden days, ancient times. He came from the
countryside of Egypt. And he saw a preacher young preacher speaking
he was so well. He said, Where did he learn? They said, Assad, he
said, I'm gonna go to this. They laughed at him. He's a year or two
old, he was illiterate at the age of 50. illiterate. He went there.
And he asked Where's Masjid Al Azhar? He didn't even pronounce
it. Right, right. And I said, You mean that as her? He said, Yeah,
where's that place? He got there. He studied 20 years from 50 to
7070. He became a chef. And he elevated himself to the point that
he was one of the big few of us are by AD. Right. So there's no
limit to this thing. Let's take two more questions. One from me
and one from Ryan for for from me. Alright, let's actually look at
see which ones are these are not repeated. In the meantime, Ryan,
you can give me your question. We got it ended up on my brother. So
hey, by one okay. He said Is there a healing property to Zamzar
motor? Is there a healing property to Zamzam water 100% There is.
Marmee says I have I have a mug with a cartoon cat face on it in
the shape of a cat. We would say that, if it's not something that's
that
3d Three dimensional, and it's a complete figure, then it's not
haram.
If it's a complete figure, or it's partially, if it's only one of
those two qualities, then it's makuu. So that's a Hareem is if
it's a complete creature, and it's three dimensional, like a statue.
Basically, that's what's haram. If it's merely one of those two
qualities is mcru. If it's neither of those two qualities, that is
how that that's the ruling on the statues. And lastly, since it says
please do a session on New Age, spiritual energy, this is going to
be a blast. It's going to be basically a sledgehammer session.
Okay? Knowledge on chakras are becoming a real thing. I got to
learn that my Muslim friends are really falling for it. I'm going
to learn to figure out and then bring the sledgehammer to all this
stuff. Let's see if I asked if chakra is our lips if the person
didn't know
All right, let's stop here because we got to run Xochimilco don't
everyone. This was a really nice, open QA and that's what Monday is
going to be open QA on Mondays, and then Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, we have our own specific themes. There's going to be QA but
specific to that theme. Just echolocate and every once upon a
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