Shadee Elmasry – NBF 232 Stories of the Awliya + Maliki Guest from Texas
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The speakers discuss the causes of depression and anxiety, including mental health and psychiatry, "win win situation" and "has been there" feeling, and "has been there" feeling. They emphasize the importance of transparency and honesty in finding the right person, planting trees in the sky, personal perception in media, and hesitation towards reform. They also touch on the misunderstandings of the term "naughty woman" and the importance of planting trees in the sky, personal perception in media, and hesitation towards reform.
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Oh, well Salatu was Salam ala Rasulillah, who knew he was a
happy woman wala welcome everybody to the SOFIA Saudi nothing but
facts live stream. And on a day, a gorgeous day out in the state of
New Jersey, in which we watered the plants today are sunflowers.
They're grown past six feet, I think I think one of them's past
six feet for sure, if not both of them past six feet, making a
gorgeous image in front of the stucco wall that we have here. And
that's going to be a great backdrop for any future videos
that we make. And we also have those things hanging what are they
even called, I don't know, vines, whatever they are hanging,
dripping, draping down. Now as time passes, and these plants
mature, and it's really going to be like a lush garden on that
sidewall, that sidewall is going to be a lush garden and I want to
actually even
spread it to the back, like the back of the house will keep the
front of the house like simple and clear. But the back, maybe we
could just put like maybe an arm of it, you know what that is our
buddy. Like, it's like a year round type of palm tree, but one
under each lamp. That's it. And the front will be clear, the side
will be all Lush. And eventually those vines, just like they tack
onto the wall, right. And they'll just grow and keep growing and
keep growing. And then the sunflowers will just keep going
up. Right? So the side will be really love Lush. And we'll do
that same thing with the back. And the same thing with the fence. See
those things that we hung on the fence those vines. They're not
Ivy, they're different than Ivy. They're prettier than Ivy, they're
a lighter green, and a bigger leaf. They're gonna latch on to
the fence and that whole thing will be covered.
And then I think what we're going to do, we're gonna put a
playground in the back.
And the kids in the community. They're not playgrounds, right? So
the kids
has a long term doubt, right? The kids will have a free playground.
Right? They'll come in, they'll play, but you got to clean up
after yourself. I know. We're gonna say no food and drink, no
food and drink. People are gonna bring food and drink, right, but
it'll be less. Right. And they'll have to clean up.
And we'll have kids that they're playing in the playground. But we
have to lock that door. Because there's a stream I don't know if
you guys saw it, but see the people, the viewers and outside
there, they don't know may not know what what it looks like is
that it's almost like a Wii, The backyard is like a Wii. Right. And
behind the backyard is a stream. There's a hill that goes down and
then there's a stream. So we can't risk any kids taking a tumble. So
we have to lock that with with a padlock is enough. All right. So
that's the latest in the data center. I love coming in here in
the spring in the summer, doing some gardening mopping up a little
bit taking care of the premises, because you cannot possibly have
anything good in life except that it needs care. Right it needs
constant care, it needs constant attention whereas
resell crusade of yours
needs constant care constant attention.
And so plants are no different.
And the greeneries note today, we're going to talk about three
books. First one is read from the central push idea segment. That's
one segment. The second segment is we're going to introduce you this
book this is chicken Monday's late latest book. No other books, the
foreword publications.
Okay, and you can get it
I guess it's on Amazon, right? I guess you can get it on Amazon
because it says here published by it printed by Amazon. Okay, so you
can get this book very beautiful cover here. And it's based on a
television series by six sides on was on a boutique based upon it's
not word for word. Let me read you the chapters chapter one, what are
the underlying causes of depression and anxiety from a
slept Quranic perspective, which are the the ultimately true
perspective and we can also human beings can discern causes of
depression. But what comes in the Quran will be a greater cause of
depression and ultimately, it's, it's almost like this.
When you when you have
when you have a an atom or any molecule, there's always assented
to that molecule. And then there are other what's the particles
that are revolving around that molecule? And everything's every
molecule is different, right? Every element is different so you
have particles revolving around them. And then there's another
ring and another ring get another ring. It looks exactly like the
universe needs. Do you know the one who made the molecule and made
the universe is one of the same? If you look at the human the cell
human cells probably very similar.
Right, but the molecule and the universe, they have the same form,
which is an orb in the middle, and little orbs revolving around it.
Here's the beauty of it.
The closer you are to the orb,
the faster you moving. And the more power you have. further you
are from the orb you move slower and has less power.
So when you take your particle and you move far away from the orb,
which is Iman
and submission to Allah and constantly having a law in your
mind, with remembrance, and with different everything is good deed,
right?
Then you start to like rock, and you start to go into this
depression, that is the main perspective. I know people,
psychiatrists, they always get upset when they hear this. But I
also get upset when I hear your narratives. Right. So why is your
upsetness any different than mine? Oh, we studied we also studied
right? Revelation gives us one source of information. Observation
gives us a second source of information, they cannot conflict.
They must come like a puzzle piece. So there are times when
you're correct. Simultaneously, Revelation is correct, right? And
there are times when you're incorrect. And Revelation is
correct. There is not a time when revelation is incorrect, and
you're correct. So let's just get that like from the start from the
get go. But there is psychiatrists, they are looking
for the physical and chemical manifestations,
to depression. And we do not negate that. And we don't negate
that year cures, medicinal cures have a benefit. Right? Like, in
theory, I'm not saying one specific one. But in theory, but
what we are saying is that if you are Muslim psychiatrist,
the revelation revelation and analysis, not the truth of
revelation cannot be ignored from your analysis. It's got to be at
the center of your analysis. Everything else is
supporting it. So when the Quran comes in Quran is not saying that
this is the only source of the truth, it is the ultimate source
of truth. But does not the Quran point to other sources of truth?
Observation, right? Observation is a source of truth and Allah points
is to us right? As some Well, bizarre Well, cool, like you can
homeschool? irresponsible. That means if you observe something
that's bad, that's wrong, irresponsible, you have to treat
it. This is the debate also, that gets to in medication. Is it
obligatory upon me to take medication, or is it recommended?
Or is it permissible, the mother had said it's recommended and
permissible. However, when the medication when the illness, it's
almost like near death or great harm, it becomes an obligation and
you have the ability. So CPR is only as always an obligation. But
to put someone on a machine, and they're already a vegetable,
that's merely permissible, and it could be macro even because it's a
waste of money.
But the CPR portion is different. Right? So that's why when there's
a DNR CPR is different DNR, you know, the DNR is when someone gets
really old, and it's time now that they may need resuscitation. So
CPR is different from DNR. Like the DNR is like putting them on
the machine. That's a different discussion than the CPR, which is
like, does need a gasp of air to stay alive to return to their
senses and be alive. But if the brain is dead, we're not obligated
to keep someone on the machine. In any event.
The our Allamah have been the biggest supporters of observable
science, the biggest, because this is the handiwork of Allah. And
Allah commanded us to look at it and learn it and manipulate it for
our own benefit. So the psychiatrists and the Islamic
scholars should be on the same page. It should not be viewed as
antagonistic. And insofar as it is antagonistic, it's a philosophical
difference that scientists in reality as much as they want to
claim objectivity Okay.
Oftentimes they're they're they're informed by scientism, which is a
philosophy, that observation is the only source of true certainty
transmitted knowledge is not a source, rational knowledge is not
a objective, reliable source, this this is scientism, right. And in
our old days and oral theology books, they call them at the end,
remember, because that is to have to philosopher he calls them at
the VA or even those who only look at the natural causes of things.
So if somebody can come on it,
and then he has the philosopher only the rational sources of
things, right. But we also have our type of
the people who are narration only, right? No Montek no
source of knowledge outside the narrations and we consider that to
be an extremism but at least you're within so hate, like it's
the least of the three harms. Right? But you notice that they
they cannot lead those types of narration or bust. Okay, that's
really good for you. You can't lead because Allah Himself
commands as talk to using often commands us to go around looking
at the world look at examine, okay, okay for all all around,
cave Abed, ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada go examine how the creation
begins. So observation, and this why says what is the underlying
cause of anger, depression, anxiety, this is one chapter
chapter two.
The first cause is not knowing the reality of life. And this is where
the sad reality comes in, through the form of Botox. And once you
realize people, the people who had a good life, like alright, good
life, go into the sunset, no, and prepare to meet your Creator. Now,
no concept of that. We're going back to the plastic surgeons to
try to be young again, try to look young again. And it never works
out. It never looks good. Right. And so not knowing the reality of
life is a source of depression. Not knowing how things work in
life is is a major, it could it will lead you eventually to
depression, and where it's not leading you to depression, it's
just over. It's because the the the son of youth, and the son of
pleasures interpretation has put out, you know, has over rioted or
overridden whatever the right word is
over it in that but once you start seeing those people hit 50, and
60, all of a sudden, you're no longer desirable, you no longer
want and you no longer have the energy. Your body doesn't look the
same anymore now, and now you got issues. You got stepkids, you got
wives and ex wives, you got children, you disappointed your
children, you messed up and let now reality start hitting at a
pace you can't imagine and can't control and you don't have the
spiritual warehouse to draw from. Okay. So that's where the reality
of life starts to lead to depression. So never look at
youth. That's Oh, look at all the youth. They're all if you see it,
they're all happy. They're Cafferty youth. They're all happy.
Don't look at that. There. It's the son of youthfulness is
overriding everything. Once that son is going to set quickly that's
the problem.
The third cause for us the Shabaab is a means to Jannah
simultaneously, it's a blockage of spirituality, right. But it's a
massive means to agenda because when you contradict your
temptations and you go against that and you use your energy for
thaw, as we have some of these youth here mashallah
then that becomes a source for them to be one of the seven
categories that are special right there under the shade of Allah on
the day that there's no shade.
So, but, but youth though, it is a blockage, all those hormones in
the head, they tend to block from hikma. Well, you don't have years
of experience to draw from so they're blocked from hikma,
they're a little bit blocked from some of the other matters that
they could attain because their desires is driving them crazy. And
then there just hasn't
grown yet. haven't matured yet. So youth youthfulness when it fades
away. Then madaraka can shine through Wilaya shines through. So
when you have it you're gaining. When you lose it, you're gaining
even more, right. And that's the beauty of being in the win win
situation.
We're having guests today but all moderate, please inform our guests
to not sit behind a bright window. So pull the curtains if you can
pull the curtains because otherwise we can't say
by the way, you know, the Hadith of the shade, the seven who have
no shade on the day, they're the shade of Allah. I'm not even
joking you that someone just talked about
this being a proof that Allah has a physical form, because he has a
shade.
It's how RGB is Wait a second, can it not be the shade of a
possession? That he possesses a shade he owns a shade right?
Come into my shade.
My umbrella or my? So it's a created?
Good? Shake, shake when I Jeep honestly. Secondly, fear of the
future. Thirdly, fear of adversity and affliction.
Okay, fourthly, or the third cause continued having no hope and no
forgiveness almost the fan has to come off to the
next one, the fourth one fear of death. Fifth one inability to
achieve achieve personal ambitions. This is why
I remember in testing,
and I remember some of the, the shield, they're saying that the
more reads do not need to be encouraged to do to the hood, they
need to be encouraged to build up their dunya
Believe it or not, because they're already checked out of the dunya.
And they do want to build up their anchor. But they said that Marines
the shoe
will inform will tell them to build up your dunya. Right. And
what they mean by that is that you can be such an ascetic guy that
you pay no attention to dunya. But then you reach a certain age where
you need that dunya. Right, or others are calling it from you.
They're seeking it from it's not for you to just indulge in. Others
are seeking the dunya from you. The Electric Company will seek
from you tuition will seek from you your your family requirements
will seek dunya from you. So you need to have a trade that you can
play. You need to learn something about business, you need to learn
something about expenses, okay? And all these things so and that's
why achieving personal ambition, in my view. It's part of this
path, because the path is holistic. And you don't want to
reach 35 Yes, you set it all the books have fit good for you. But
all your friends, they're married, they pay rent, they pay for homes.
They have kids, and what do you sell and miss work? Right on the
street. Y'all eat about two years away from given fatwa. But in the
meantime, he's selling miss work, right? And selling little lights
in the masjid. That's what's that's the result. All right. So
that's a disaster. And that's why any any
education program that does not take care of the dunya people of
the Taliban is doing them a disservice. Of course, teaching
them the deen is an amazing service, but
you need to know some of the dunya you need to your duty needs to be
set. And guess what all of us studied? Because our parents did
good in the dunya. Like, why are you here? Why are you here? Why
are you here? Why are you here? We're all here able to read books,
and spend the last three years 30 years of life really sitting on a
couch and reading books, essentially, the PhD is that
everything else is that? Right? All other studies just sitting
down reading books, right? This is not economic behavior. There's no
economy that's gonna grow out of this. And why did you do it?
Because your dad was good at the dunya right. And you live on his
dime, eat from him. And and all that.
All right, we are ready for segment number two, we have a
Nobel guests. Okay. All right. So get this book. The last one is all
the sources of the remedies. Alright, the remedies of
depression but we have now a noble guest. And we have today an influx
of reverse migration from Dallas. We got Dallas all over the place
here. Dallas, Dallas, Dallas Dallas. We got four folks from
Dallas and two of them are medic iya and one I'm very pleased to
have on our program today his name is shift EOD, Chef yet Welcome to
the Safina society podcast and nothing nothing but facts live
stream
ship yet is a student of ship Zuhair while Omar checks our
volume he is a student of some of the greatest medical scholars
alive today. He is representing us yet you represent us all down in
in Texas, in Dallas, in the land where there are very few medica I
think maybe even just a sunnah scholarship in general. So he had
Welcome to the program and why don't we start off by telling us a
little bit about yourself. Happy to be here honored to be with
y'all.
Can y'all hear me clearly? Yes. Loud and clear.
Yes, my name is yeah, the cool buddy living in Dallas now I was
born in America. My family from Palestine
I grew up again here I went to school here 17 years public
schooling here. After that, pretty much when I took on my stomach
studies
I lived in North Carolina for most of my life
probably 20 years of my life or so. So a good amount there. I
eventually migrated to Texas here in the Dallas Fort Worth area and
that's because of the community for the sake of some kind of
community job or Masjid.
Yeah, well, we've always heard you know, Dallas, you know the hype
about Dallas so we wanted to test it out and here we are over seven
years going on eight years here Mashallah. Very good, very good.
Which community in specific or would you say that you're
associated with there there's epic there's
Valley Ranch probably they're probably an hour away hour and a
little bit away. Dallas Fort Worth is pretty much in Fort Worth
Texas. Fort Worth. Okay so explain that to me because
I What is different Dallas and Fort Worth? They called the DFW
area Dallas Fort Worth right to cities like this.
You can look at Adelphi there's like even other cities like
Arlington. There's Irving. There's different cities, but yeah,
they're all like next to each other.
Okay, good. So tell us about your studies with chefs ahead. And who
else? Who else did you study with?
I studied with chef in missionary al Hammadi. I took a fulfill
conflict from him as well. And he's American. Yes, yeah. He's
Malik. Where?
He's from Malmo, Tanya, Masha, Allah, where and where did you how
did you? Is it online? Online online? Yes, he's in Mauritania.
Or he's on the Emirates? I think he might be in the Emirates or he
goes around I'm not sure where he is at the moment. But I think
originally he is from Notre Dame if I recall correctly, yes.
Mashallah. can keep keep going. Tell us more. Now. You mentioned
of course, the noble la chef has who had taken a sample full token
from him as well.
Really a lot of different resources. hamdulillah even, I
think actually a part of it, Chef, the Maliki school. I've benefited
from like, Chef, staple law and Maliki as well.
I mean, benefited from the likes of like, leave his name is
Abdullah the land he has like, gone on for a little while as
well. So really open and actually, you probably don't know, but I
think four or five years ago actually took your soul in that
class actually have your books here benefited from Michelle
Lovelace. Yeah, and honestly, a lot of that has spawned from
Sharon Salah.
So he's the one who brought a lot of people together through medica
Zima. Medic, and it just started as a COVID streaming of his six
classes. Because he couldn't go back to Egypt. It was I think, a
March, April tax season may, end of May, he was supposed to go
back, because he's an accountant. Right. So he was doing his tax
season thing, tax season ended, supposed to go back, couldn't go
back because everything was grounded. So he started this
thing, Hey, who wants to take
shifts to his classes online, and it started off with the bootleg
here, and I remember those lectures would go for like two and
a half hours,
right, two and a half hours. And it was the middle of spring COVID.
And he would give these classes and they went in Ramadan
to like 50 people on the stream after a couple of weeks or like
3040 50 people on the on the on the on the zoom session. And I
remember Schicksal had brought a perspective that I've never heard
from any other Maliki's scholar, because most of the medical school
will teach you the medicine, they'll teach you the book cover
to cover, you'll learn the words of the book, and you move on to
the next book, right. But she also had had almost as if it was semi
academic, were academic in the sense of going back to the history
and explaining how things developed in the method.
And really going into a lot of the names of the figures in the
method. And that was not the teaching method that I saw with a
lot of other people. They just give you the text and that's it.
Right. So that to me was amazing. And you seem to be someone who
benefited greatly from this. And tell me now in Fort Worth, which I
have in front of me here as a map now Dallas, the whole DFW area you
can say is a circle. I got it in front of me as a map here. I don't
know why we're given so much attention to Dallas, but there are
brothers too. So let's take a look at what's going on here. It's a
circle and it has a number of lakes in it, which I didn't know
it's got some decent size pretty decent sized lakes all around it.
Dallas, I would say is a little bit to the east side, South East a
little bit above it Northeast is Plano. Okay, over a little bit
northwest of Dallas is Irving.
Then zigzag down south southwest is Arlington and then almost due
west from Dallas is Fort Worth.
So these are big city centers I guess and they're connected by it
looks like it's route 30 here going across 75 going down this
way. Putting the perspective shift on like 25 to 30 minutes away from
the Dallas Cowboys Stadium. Okay, which is in where Arlington in
Arlington, Arlington. Okay so which is a cathedral of football
basically
Yeah, I mean, it's the it's the nicest stadium so far maybe
competes with it right out in LA. So phi is a gorgeous Stadium and
the Dallas so what is it called AT and T AT and T Stadium. Now all
they need as a team to actually win games, right? Because they
keep getting these decent quarterbacks that are too good to,
to throw away. But you know, he's not winning either. Right. But you
guys had
you guys had
you had Tony Romo. He was you know, he was Miskin from the
start. This guy can get no who's your CD? CD lamb, right? This kid
is good. But But he's too skinny. He's gets crushed. And who did you
lose to last year? Who did Dallas lose to last year in the playoffs?
The Giants, right? Didn't you lose to the Giants? I don't know. See
you guys want to from your memory right away anyway. Tell us about
your your your students in Dallas, do you have? Do you have to love
and in Dallas? Yeah. Yeah, there's students of knowledge. I think the
thing that we face for years, though, is probably the Salafi
influence on the students. And it's hard for me to differentiate
the difference between that methodology that ideology versus
what we're trying to bring with medicinova Jamaah, which I say
over and over again, I think you'll get tired of it, because
it's kind of preaching to the choir. It's for schools up to
three schools of hockey than the way football will. And it's like,
people don't really understand or see the significance of you know,
that classification.
You're doing that it's amazing work because I'm telling you most
of the Muslims in America, they are in general and Asuna in
general, but the what you just said as being the actual pillars
and the the what the foundation of it is it's something that it's
still not like the Rudy knowledge. It's not something that Dodi I
mean by that, like, everyone knows, it's not something everyone
knows, right? It's not a default.
Right? I don't even know what the default is. Okay. You know, be I
don't think people can give, if you ask 1000 Regular Muslims in a
masjid, do an exit poll, like What is Islam based on? They're not
going to give you that kind of answer. And that's goes back to us
and Imams having to go out there and educate and teach. And this is
what Imam had had dad said. He said times were good, when she got
educated and then went out to the people to educate, right and to
teach and to continue spreading the fundamentals and start
teaching Mattoon. So I would say, a sign of success from the
perspective of education, okay, is when children
grow up in a community and in a masjid? And like, a 500 out of, or
let's say, 90 out of 100? Say, how did you learn Islam? Met enough so
and so? Because if you go to Morocco, or Mauritania, even Asha
is how everyone knows the religion. Like how did you learn
your religion? ignatia like, okay, and even if you went to high
school and paid attention, you knew Khalil,
I saw a guy. This guy was a absolute regular guy. And he used
to come in with a job after work to pray about it. And I saw he's
more tenured. So I chitchat with, right. And then he I'm teaching
clearly. Sorry, I'm teaching agnostic. Right? And he's smiling.
And he finishes the line. Right? He finished his lies. Oh, you
brought me back to my childhood, right? And then I said, Well, you
studied agnostic, so everyone's idea Bonacci. It's like a
children's book. Right? And, and then he says, Then I said, what
else you study? He said, You said it's gonna be a middle school,
middle school. And so what do you study what else you said? He said,
Oh, we finished off high school with Colleen. Right? And he starts
even saying some things about honey much.
So I thought Subhanallah that's what an Islamic society should
look like. Right? Or whatever the meth habits, this just happened to
be what we know. Right? So
the study of Mattoon is how people should learn their, their deen and
moving on from there. And that's the whole point of this whole the
whole organization and the live this stream is to get people aware
of that and to make them interested in starting studying
one of the Mattoon so you can give law and order to your religious
education, not just chaos and fooling around. Right. So
do you have opponents out and dial out and forth and you may be you
don't want to say this on the stream. But in general, you could
tell me if there are like are there you can say if there are
there are people direct
actually going around and saying things about you, like this guy's
an innovator Don't listen to him, etc.
Yeah, well opened up classes a couple years ago, and I had a good
amount of students at first. Right, but you kind of found out
real quickly that, you know, they were inclined to the cell a few
ways. And they saw that I was saying things contrary to what
they knew. And they started this whole thing in the background, you
know, you know, she had he had his such and such, and he's doing this
and that, and it was really, you know, disappointing, but, um, the
last one that leaves you with the best inshallah So, okay, what
about also being Palestinian and in the area, because most of the
Texas crowd that I see are bases, maybe is that have make it harder
for you. You're off to hurdles now to jump?
Yeah, it's, it's interesting.
Many people actually thought and probably still think I'm Egyptian.
Right. And I think and Allah knows best about it. You know?
It's difficult to say, but maybe they don't know too many
Palestinians. You are, you know, Islamic figures, sadly. So it's
there, like, you know, your Palestinian, it's like, there's a
prize. And yeah, I really don't like that. But you know, for
better or worse. So, yeah.
Are there any is there thicker? They're out there. There are there
are in Dallas. It's a little bit further away from where I'm at,
sadly, who does it?
There's students of knowledge and shifts. They're based around their
students probably not as open probably I don't, you know,
especially maybe the influences on the outside. But there's some good
efforts from based on what I hear
in public and massage
and massage it I don't know, it to be that open in the masajid I
believe they're probably more closed off and maybe certain
places they had a people's homes. Based on what I heard.
Yeah, probably not the masajid. Yeah.
Someone needs to open a masjid. Right. And do things you know,
their way so like, I always wondered why hide around in your
home? Like you're some kind of criminal? Why not open a message
it right.
Boom, do it in public. Right? So and this is the message if you
don't like it, you can go there's 1000 masajid in the in the Texas
in the DFW area. So go there. But that's that is the beauty of
having a big Muslim population. You have a lot of massage. You
don't have to cater to everybody.
And this the same way in New Jersey, within 20 minutes. We got
MC MC MC GP ICG. I'm sick of these letters, right? M mbyc Is Us
lighthouse. There's only one with actual name, okay?
Dada. Kamau has a message I want to probably reach 10 Because
they're a little more solos, there's one next MCMC there's one
No, what's that message, little little message? metacoda Maybe
there's one up, there'll Bengali community up route route one
towards Edison. Then there's Ford's that's 10 I just named you
10 masajid within 20 minutes, right? So you don't have to cater
to everybody. You can cater to what you could put out what you
believe in
who likes it likes it doesn't like it go somewhere else. Right. So
people need to open up masajid and the way I would design it if I had
to start all over, right which means that I don't and I hope I
don't. But if you had to do I would just design it
with the masjid masala prioritized. Third.
The first priority
would actually it would be a gym.
It would be a youth the something that will bring in the youth
right. The second priority would be the dose the place to give a
formalized does and why can it be in the masjid it will be attached
to the masjid because sisters study and they cannot always enter
the Masjid. Right. Secondly, you have chairs set up you have things
set up. Yeah, it's such a hassle to have to break down the tables,
fold the linens, fold the chairs. This is what we do every day at
the masjid. It's a hassle right? So a dedicated spot just for
class. It's not a hassle that I'm upset about. It's just a
physically it's labor intensive. And it gets tedious but I'm happy
with what Allah has given I'm very happy. So I would have that then
the place of Salah you either add that third or you use the other
two spaces, because Salah is used five times a day, it's not much
space one time a week you need a lot of space, right? So that's how
I would do it. And everything will be public. Right? And no
elections, no board elections you can you can mandate a road
Taste of people, because that's good, bring in new prospective new
blood. But those people can other people can veterans can come back,
you can mandate that. But it's not by elections. It's by the
selection of people from a pool of volunteers. And we know who's
volunteering, right? You look around you see this faces who's
lifting the chair who's moving the chair who's there for the
committee, right? Who's serving the food, that person is your
leader, right? That he is a servant. He deserves to be a
leader later on, you lead for a few years, take a break, bring the
old veterans back. After a few years of that bring, and your each
seat is constantly in flux between veterans, youth, and, and new
leaders. We also have there's a position of a like a resident, a
board member in training, which is someone who's a young leader,
right? Who has proven himself, but it's too young. So board member
training.
And so that's the best way to run masajid. So that and your vision.
The bylaws should have your religious policy, there should be
a section on the religious policy. We're not going to have a debate
on what's true and false here. I'm not debating anyone on what has
happened. But the policy of this method is Edison origin mad the
policy is that if you pick up the mic,
to teach a class, you're going to teach it from one of the methods
with permission.
Of course, you have to have permission, you have to have
strict control over these buildings. It's not a free for
all. It's not a public space, right to hold them. I can teach a
class. This is the policy of the Masjid. So there's no argument Oh,
this is right or wrong. Are you talking right and wrong? We're not
discussing right and wrong. This is the policy of the mosque.
That's it. Right. Simple, Scott. Now, I want to You said something
interesting earlier.
I want to shift No. And you brought up
a part of the United States that I have always thought about, and
felt and seen that is one of the most beautiful parts of the United
States, which is the southeast. Okay. Tell us about North
Carolina. And the topography? You know, I don't know, you know, the
topography the what is the land like the what is the beat? What
are the beaches? Like? What is the weather like? Because I have
you know, I've seen a lot of amazing footage of how beautiful
and I've heard how gorgeous, North and South Carolina, Myrtle Beach
is in South Carolina. So talk to us about that. North Carolina is
beautiful. In South Carolina. The whole east coast. Actually, is
quickly I actually drove from North Carolina to Texas before you
just see it kind of become more like a desert as Yeah, yeah. So
you're losing the trees, the mountains. I mean, just the green.
So you mentioned the beach. It's just beautiful. I mean, it gets
humid there. I mean, Dallas here is relatively dry.
Hurricane Season isn't the funnest. But yeah, just absolutely
beautiful. And I thought that people were pretty decent as well.
What city in North Carolina. So I lived in Rocky Mountain North
Carolina, which is about an hour from Raleigh, Rocky Mountain,
northeast. So how far are you from the beach? Another hour? hour and
a half?
Maybe two to two and a half hours or so? Yeah. And the Atlantic
ocean there. It's it's gorgeous in that area. All right. Yeah.
Beautiful. I mean, people talk about people talk about the
Pacific, the Atlantic Ocean. When you hit when you go south.
It can easily rival the Pacific easily. Once you hit South once
you hit the Bahamas, once you hit Cuba, the Virgin Islands, all
those areas. We have. It's like Florida.
And then it's Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, then all
these little islands. Right. And, and they close off.
On the other side is Central America, Costa Rica, Panama. So
from Miami to all those little islands until South America, and
then from Mexico, from Texas, Mexico, all the Central American
countries. It closes the Atlantic Ocean. And that's what you call
the Caribbean is the Caribbean Sea or Caribbean Sea. Whichever way
you want to pronounce it. What is what's the correct one Caribbean
or Caribbean? Caribbean Sea. When I say closed off on the Central
American side, it's completely closed off. But on the island
side, what they call the Caribbean islands. It's like it's it's not
fully closed off. They're not connected. So it's my it's Florida
than Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto
Rico and on all these little islands. Alright, Montserrat,
which someone has named the font after that.
All the way down until you hit to Trinidad and Tobago where you can
go visit Imran Hussain because he's there, he's from Trinidad,
but all those Caribbean islands
that's why they sort of block off they set a pick for the Atlantic
Ocean. And that creates the crikey the Caribbean Sea, which is the
Caribbean Sea is one of the most probably the prettiest body of
water in the world. Right. A lot of people go on vacation in
there's an island off the tip of Africa or on the east side of
Africa. That's not Madagascar. It's another one it's most
expensive Island you're ever gonna go to that is amazing water to
write but the Caribbean
is one of the prettiest now what is not
pretty is the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean, where it's murky
water and it's dark and it's cold. But the southern part is amazing.
So shaky yet welcome again. And this was your we wanted to you
know, talk to you to meet you to discuss a little bit about life in
Dallas, your origins to make everyone known aware. Could you
tell us exactly where you teach? If Where do you give your public
sessions or how someone can reach out to you how tell the people in
Fort Worth who are viewing this and listening to this can can get
to start studying with you?
Yeah.
All right. Mostly I've been doing it online and some places I've
been able to meet with some of the brothers and give public classes
but yeah, I mean if my number email maybe I can share that and
people can have access to that and yeah, I'm I'm generally known in
the area, but for people outside or maybe a little further away, we
can definitely get them connected Inshallah, if they're interested
in taking classes. All right. So if you are a listener in the Fort
Worth area in the Dallas area,
look up and ask around for Schiff ear that Kubrick to study Aki to
to study Maliki FIP to study these these texts and medica 50 You can
study with the Massimo, we have 30 internationally salah, you can
study with him also, you could study with him on theta.
And so you can learn a lot from him. And this is part of the one
of the plans for our live stream is to highlight the teachers that
are out there. I don't care for big Limelight speakers, no
teachers, people who teach you the nuts and bolts of your deen the
meat and potatoes of your religion all throughout England and America
so that people can get to know them. As long as they're within
one of the format hubs. That's our concern. All right. So again,
thank you very much for coming on shift yet and hopefully we will
cross paths again and you're always welcome to come and visit
us in New Jersey. Thank you for having me on Dunkleosteus way echo
set up Monday.
Alright, so someone was asking, Who do we have here? We have up to
suborder and we have usif
strike to abduct buddy and use it from Epic and Selma and of course,
you know, he's been here all summer and hamdulillah we've been
Allah has sent him to keep me company. And as a lot of our guys,
of course, you know, they leave. They graduate from us. Like four
guys graduated this year. Right? They graduate from here and they
go study somewhere else. Even though we don't have like a formal
program, but it is they've taken they've soaked in what they've
soaked in. And Kadeem has gone on to Turkey. Ottoman is around, but
he's in med school. Right? He's moving on that part of his life.
Of course, we said Ryan went to Teddy Sohaib went to Teddy Schick
Murad,
shake what I'd studied elsewhere. He came here as a teacher, to live
with us and be part of our team and start Dr. FETs. from scratch.
He's one of the originals. And, of course, we've been friends for
years. He's taking he's going to Jordan, but he'll be back sooner
than later. Sheikh Nisar also studied in Pakistan for years came
back taught in the area we've always been friends comes and
visits in Ramadan, also was one of the data sets originals to your
festival course in a Pakistan. And then he's coming back in sha Allah
Tala. So people coming and going and we're building up dotted fat,
and we will inshallah soon be bringing in shoe from overseas.
Right. And we're learning that process so that we could shorten
our chain
get directly from the shoe. Right. And that's going to be a huge part
of our program. Right? Like we're young people young and we can get
people going on or initial Mattoon and get some of the cobwebs out of
the way. You're not going to have a big shed who's like a
6570 year old veteran who's coming like Messi comes to Florida to
play out the rest of his career, right? We're gonna bring some of
those to you that call us the young guns have taken over in
their country.
And they could come here and start something new. And we can get that
shortened chain, right. But we can't have someone coming up to
him and saying what's a method and, and is aligned to place or
not. And, you know, things like that. So we got to get the cobwebs
out of the way, we got to get the track and he's not going to come
and teach you for the salon we'll do, we're going to teach you all
that stuff the preliminary first and get you to the intermediate he
could take those big shields can take you from there, right? Those
senior Allamah from around the world. And that one of those
towards that goal is the acquisition of an apartment.
The acquisition of an apartment and an automobile. Right.
Automobile is not that important. That's easy, but the apartment
once you acquire an apartment
that becomes the abode of the residence shed. Right? And the
resident visiting ship with a visit for one or two years, right?
And that's where we're going to grow and that's where we have to
grow Jolla and people could come and start visiting like these guys
are visiting and take from the shoe. Segment Number Three of our
program today is the providence of man I just started it but one of
the things he
he begins with is the fallacy okay
is the fallacy of scientism. When I say fallacy, we don't mean you
know a silly saying we mean by that a
mean by that? A falsehood. And the scientism is the idea, as we said
earlier is that certainty only comes from empirical, physical,
observable evidence. We say certainty definitely comes from
there. But it's not the only source. So scientifically prove to
me that George Washington existed, scientifically proved to me that
Napoleon once ruled France scientifically proved to me, right
that
that the Pharaohs of Egypt
existed, okay, beyond some archaeology, but archaeology can
prove something but he can't prove cannot be the only source. Right,
scientifically proved to me. Name something that happened in history
that's much larger, namely, something that happened in
history, world history that's more towards getting his car,
scientifically proved to me that there was a man named Jingis Khan,
who led the Mongols to a world empire. Not everything is just
going to be by archaeological fact there is tote or there is a hubba
Rosada sound transmission, and there is reason and why is reason
important because when you bring cupboard Assad's up
and when you bring a physical piece of evidence, right,
and you put them together you get a syllogism. When you bring these
sources together, like when you bring
blue and yellow together, you get green, right? When you bring two
facts together, reason locks them together.
And then he produces a conclusion, that must be true. Although it was
neither observable, nor rational, nor transmitted. The famous one in
all the textbook is all men are mortal. Right?
Aristotle was a men therefore I was taught as a mortal, right? Or
you could say that
all men are mortal. Get all Mater is mortal is a man, therefore all
men will die.
That is a is a fact. Although there's no observable proof for
it. There's no rational proof for it. There's no transmitted proof
for it. But we've combined
a one premise with another premise that produced for us effect. Okay.
So that's the concept of the use of reason and transmission. And
that's the first thing he gets to. Because his point here and the way
he's going to destroy any hope, or any concepts
of Muslims putting together an an Islamic evolutionary theory is
that Satan, Adam never had parents.
Okay, that is the concept if because you can't get beyond that
evolution, the evolutionary
view of humanity when a Muslim adopts it, he has to recognize
that Adam is a first man.
If he's an evolutionist, he will be forced to explain where Adam
came from. Okay.
And his theory would require him
To assert that Adam was came out of a mammal, I guess we would call
it a mammal, right? He is the result of a male and a female,
whatever that is pre human, mammal, okay? And that when He's
the first man, he's the first man that Allah blew a soul in him.
Okay, so that means, how would we classify his parents? So you're,
they have to come upon that. So the Islamic evolutionary
conceptions, they die. When once we start discussing the parentage
of Adam, you are attributing non human parentage to Adam, the whole
book, the idea of the book is to show that Adam did not have this,
right that this is impossible. So the first thing he says is that
why is it rationally comprehensible? Rationally
feasible? It's not there's nothing irrational about it the idea of a
human being existing without parents. If you look at the way
Allah Allah created the human beings created them in different
ways than was created one way how what was created another way?
Zakat yeah, here, and it's it's how it's happened. Yeah, here were
created one a third way. i You said no, he said was created a
fourth way, all of us were created a fifth way, five ways, and then
resurrection. We're all resurrected into a body a whole
nother way, six ways Allah has created the human being in six
different ways.
Which shows us if he wanted to create it us from a monkey he
could or from a map mammal he could have from a beast he could
have from a being he could have, but he chose not to. Right? He has
told us the six ways in which He created Adam we know is created
from the clay of the Earth, the water of the heavens, okay, and
then the actual way in which the water and the clay formed the
statue. And Adam was at one point, a statue saw saw any kind of
facade
that is unknown to us. Maybe Allah will show us one day how we create
the fashion did he cause the wind to move? Like, we don't know that?
Matt as heck don't call customer what you will Odwalla Hulka and
force him. We have not shown you the creation of the heavens the
earth nor the creation of your own self meaning Adam and Eve. We
haven't seen that. We know what he's created from but we don't
know how it formed into a statue. Anyone who speaks about that is
guessing
anyone who speaks on how that mud and water became the statue of
Adam is guessing, speculating. But he we know he was that hard. You
can knock on him.
Say the house was created from the from a living being from the bone
and the rib of Adam, Allah He set up
and was created there. Okay, so she was created from the bone a
body of a human being a male human, like to create a female.
Okay.
Yeah, here, it says hack. The first line after Ibrahim is hop
and the last yaku. Sorry, yeah. Okay.
Both were created from a male and a barren, menopausal woman. Both
of them. The woman was barren in the beginning, in the first place,
she could not have birth for at for.
You don't know how many years but for many decades, you could not
have children. Then
past the age of 80. Not only was she barren, she's menopausal.
Right? That means she cannot have kids anymore. And Allah created a
child from them, miraculously. Okay, this happened yeah, that's
way number three, then number four, even more miraculous than
that. The birth of Satan is the creation of a seven Madame from a
womb, and no male.
And then the creation of all of us from a male and a female. And then
the resurrection of all of us is that the souls will be brought
forth, and your matter will
come and be attracted like a magnet to your soul, the matter
that you were made of in this life will come up and be attracted to
you. Now some people ask questions, well, won't our dust
have
decayed into the dirt? Which then centuries later may have gotten
farmed or then become a pepper and then someone ate that? Like so as
these silly questions right? Whatever Allah wants, it doesn't
have to be even the our old medicine say it's the matter you
were composed of. And some say no any matter right doesn't make a
difference. But what Allah wills for you to be your new body will
just like magnetically almost like a vacuum sucked up by your soul.
And boom, your forms. Hope
first human being could have been formed like that, right? The first
human being could have been grown out of the earth, right? Or come
in a pod,
like the way that they're trying to create human beings they want
to, they're still going to use male and female
fluids. And then they want to grow the human in a pod. So the state
manages that human,
that's going to be an oppression, we have to stop. But Islamic human
rights, if we say anything about Islamic human rights, you have the
right to know who your mom and dad are. Right? You have the right to
have a mother and a father.
Right, and you have the right to go in the womb of your mother and
come out of her. So that the attachment forms, if we ever had
Islamic human rights, that is part of our human rights. And this
nonsense of growing humans in a pod so that the state could could
control them is pure oppression to a human being.
It's now 222. We don't have time to do our reading segment number
four, which is pretty sad out of Crusader. Yeah, we'll do that
another time.
We're going to move now to q&a. You're You're off to pick up check
my D lock. All right. Take care. Sandman is off to pick up our
guests check, Mandy.
All right, who is running arc fuse Arabic programming, this is a good
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So we produce something for you online. And our view right now is
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And so we're providing hips, plus Fick how to pray and fast.
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Arabic requires a lot a big push. Okay. A big push, and check.
Matthew lock runs the Arabic. Right. So
we'll now move to the q&a section.
And as as I read more from this book, I'll be sharing more. But
where can you get this book the provenance of men? You
it's by philosophical publications. It's
just just go look it up. Scene con, the provenance of man. It's a
very Calamy based approach to the mess ELA. A lot of scholars were
have reviewed this text.
Everyone I've heard
praise this text. And I look into it. Let's look at who
he consulted Abdur Rahman medic Suhaila her Mateen clan, his
brother,
Muhammad Asad Hanafi. Okay,
I'm Rana Hamid are Hanafi teacher. Okay, here. Yeah, Chuck. I'm Ron.
Yep.
I wonder what Shoaib Malik thinks of this.
More. So I have Malik should read this book and they should have a
discussion.
So I have medic, interviewed me on a volution wrote a book on
evolution. So like Islamic perspectives on evolution, which I
didn't read.
But why you left them?
Is it a Pro Evolution book at the end of it? What's the conclusion
of Dr. Mullins book?
Well, how do you get around?
How do you get around this issue?
The parentage of Adam. How do you get around that?
We got to look at
In his book,
Instagram,
go ahead, all might have given me the Instagram information
and accuse on Instagram said I want to show you how would you
recommend people going through grad school and undergrad and work
to best study the dean or make sure they keep their masters. The
best way to study your dean is be systematic. Be even if it's
little,
even if it's little,
even if it's 20 minutes a day, but it's systematic.
The course, you got the book for 20 minutes, you close everything
out. You put a timer. You listen to the course, you got the
medicine and you study.
You think it's nothing. You will not believe how far you get in
just three months.
But what should not do? All right, I signed up for ArcView play it in
the car played in while I'm working. It's not real steady like
that. Put the live stream for that. That's before the livestream
just right.
Did if you're taking a course for ArcView
whatever time that you're able to focus just said that. Right? Like
some people might have more time some people might have an hour a
day some people have that depends on your life situation. I don't
think anybody doesn't have 20 minutes a day. 20 minutes, I'm
gonna sit there and I set a timer. The moment that timer goes off,
I'm clicking stop. I click pause. I keep that browser open. So I
know what it is. And in my book, I put a line and I said class number
five minute, you know 30
colon 15 Just in case my browser closes right? Next day, I know
where I aligned the book The medicine with the with the minute
that's how you have to do it.
But do not do it as a while I'm doing the dishes while I'm
ironing. This is yeah, it may work for a little bit. This is
nonsense, right? It's nonsense
that you do that for the stream that's the whole point of the
stream
What else you got from Instagram
what's the roundabout course for the Arabic class costs sorry for
the Arabic course is going to be by the semester and
I don't know yet what they what they thought about the pricing
they're gonna come up with the prices, what is the etiquette of
the more than
it is man dude for him to be on will do
and to not be distracted while he calls then and to face the Qibla
and that then should be loud enough for people to hear you
should not be excessively singIe with and then
you know Medicare did not like that. But some of the chef a
permitted that
a lot beautification of them and they they feel that that's
nothing wrong with that at all. But the Medicare just like to do
that then as the Sahaba did it which was just a call, not a
melodious song. So you have two different opinions in the middle.
If one has made sincere Toba for a specific past sinful action and
those actions begin to become hazy in one's memory, does that mean
that they have been forgiven inshallah the forgiveness is
happening and showing love John, we can May Allah accept it from
all of us? Tala bras, he says Dr. Malik isn't Pro Evolution. He's
saying it's possible for all life except Adam, and how what do you
what do we care about life all we care about this human being? Would
the way to write a whole book for the sake of the frogs being
possibly evolved? Right? What do we care about that? So the lizards
and the frogs, that's what the whole thing is about? Invent
whatever imagination you want. And it's halal in Islam, right? Make
up any imaginary way that you want for for animals to
to have come about who cares?
We care about the human beak, and so does the theory of evolution.
Their evolution has they're not interested in stopping at men.
But I guess that's good then so he's within as long as he does not
hold
not just Dr. Malik. Who's I'm gonna He's been very nice to me to
be honest with you. So he didn't come across as someone who wants
to destroy the leader of Muslims right so I never got that vibe
promote and read his book either though, right? Maybe I should read
his book.
But he's always been very, very gracious towards me.
And usually people who who
Who are evolutionists are not
Muslim evolutionists.
There was once a popular preacher out there, who's also a medical
doctor.
It just got really upset with me because I, we went out on Twitter
we years ago
on this issue, right?
And then when people brought up those old tweets, right, and I
brought him up, I said, Hey, did you change your position on this?
Like the world went after him for it?
Or don't get upset at me? It's your tweet. You're the one who
sent this stuff, not me.
How strangely, you get upset with somebody who still holds that
belief, right? That they asked you, Hey, do you hold your this
belief? If it's false? No, I don't hold it anymore. If it's true,
then we'll put it out there. Right. I don't like secret
beliefs. They make me sick. Reason is that it's going to catch up
with you eventually. There's no should be no secret belief. Right?
We don't have any secret beliefs in Islam. There are secrets,
personal secrets. That's fine. You got a personal secret, right?
Like, I know something that it's that's for your family. But in the
dean, there are no secrets. There's no secret arcade. Right?
So if it's your ability to put it out there and defend yourself and
support it, and Daya martyr, right?
Go down as a martyr for your cause. Allah will send people to
support you if it's the truth. But you cannot have a belief that when
someone says, Hey, you said this five years ago, is it still your
position? Do you get upset at them, but not denied at the same
time? That's something else man.
Anyway, may Allah try to bring all of us together as Muslim brothers
and draw to Islam? So how can I become a medic, he starts studying
a book called DASH Maria. And sign up for ArcView dot O R G
ArcView. Basic, and study the Ashmole via text and start taking
my class every Tuesday, seven o'clock, Eastern Standard Time,
on Instagram, also the red pill movement, Red Pill movement.
But it's a very loosely organized movement. And those loosely
organized movement, you have to be really aware of how the movements
morphing and developing, right. And it's one of those movements
where
there's really no law and order to the movement. It's just a bunch of
guys talking. And it's morphing somehow, and there's different
branches. Jordan Peterson is one of them. And some people say he's
one of them and agitates one of them. And
I never kept up to be honest with you who has time. Interesting.
Last time to keep up with this stuff. I always had a
philosophical issue with it because of the name. Yeah, because
the name itself is derived from the Matrix movie. Yeah. And if you
look at who created the matrix, feminists, one out of the two
creators were men who became transits transients, and they
said, it's a transgender metaphor, the movie itself as a whole. So
why would you take any movements? Why would you want any connection
connection? Yeah, so the so the matrix was was was a movie made by
two transgender individuals. And the red pill I guess is the
reality. And the blue pill is what the what the people want you to
think or what
Okay, a long time ago, I saw the movie but I couldn't remember
really what the red pill and the blue pill
Yeah, yeah. I don't think anyone knew that. That there were
transgender too recently. Right. That came out recently. Well, they
people know that have known that.
I think they
later on said that this was a whole thing about transgender.
About your secret beliefs. Maybe that was
smaller.
Let's go to this question here that states
I'm starting to doubt my path through my medical studies, as
many outlets are informing me that this creed has many holes in the
narrative. First of all, Medic key systematic here are Ashara in the
main and anyone else's exception, and what flotsam a king is essence
wasn't Are you saying that the SID Arpita. That's what you're
questioning?
Which one? Are you questioning? Okay, because you said Maliki
studies which is FIP. And then you said creed, which is updated?
So
I do have a summary of the SID Arcada. But that book, I need to
republish it. What is the best summary of that shoddy aka the
Senussi books those are maybe pretty hard for people to read.
What do you think is the best summary of the sad arcade in
English?
I really need to publish that book again to get a reprinted English.
Yeah, I need to get that book reprinted
Well, why don't you? I mean, definitely the course will cover
it. But will you need to ask me some. So thoughts on Fatima kink?
Send us an email with the specific questions and we can address them.
Do women and pray men pray the same in the Maliki Shafi or Hanafi
school? Now there's some differences in terms of the GEMA.
Maliki and I think that Neff do not have a concept of women's
Jamar prayer they have to pray by themselves, like women do not ever
be the Imam with other women in the American Hanafi schools. So
how do women pray together? Well, they get together, and then
everyone prays separately, right? So that's one thing. Second thing
is that men and women pray separately in all methods
regarding the form
like legs, for the men will be apart for women together, the
sprawling sujood for men is not the case for women, they bring
their elbows in, they bring their knees in, so men have a little bit
of a more of a sprawl and the women have the opposite of that.
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I don't know how he pronounces it cut off maybe I have read that
technology's like smartphone laptops, TV screens, have animal
ingredients, would their reader there? Would that would this
render their possession and usage impermissible? No. Because
whatever animal whatever an adjuster was, in such a product,
which I don't never heard of this before, it has been altered
completely outside of its form. So it is no longer deemed that just
this is called the doctrine of istikhara. How do we answer
atheists as Minaj? who argued that they are morally better than the
believers since they do not do good just because they are afraid
of hellfire or because of the rewards of Jannah? We say to them
on what skill? What, who produced the skill, or the standard that
doing good deeds just for the sake of it
is better than someone doing it for a motive. Rather, we say what
matters is the deed number one.
So that's the first thing Secondly,
you're doing the good for the sake of the good. So you've actually
proven yourself so that when you go to the Day of Judgment in front
of Allah, you didn't do it to avoid hellfire. So go into it.
Right.
Why did you do the deed?
Just for the sake of okay, well, guess what? There's something
called Jehan. Right. So push says you never tried to avoid it right?
You never want to avoid it.
And secondly, I think it's a lie.
You do the good just because it's the good. And thirdly, we do fear
hellfire. We do desire paradise. And we do love Allah. And we do
have a fitrah most Muslims deeds are a mix of all these things.
Right? Many, many Muslims and they see like a poor kid and they give
this person a sandwich or a meal or whatever. They see a poor
orphan in the streets of Medina or whatever. And they buy this kid a
burger. And this kid's eyes light up when he sees a burger and
fries. This is expensive food in the Middle East.
I can guarantee you they're doing it from their fitrah from their
heart and we call that solely for the sake of Allah. Right. That's
what we call it. Hellfire exists. The the actions that are fear of
* are actions that are temptations
that you avoid for the sake of the Hellfire. I want to take an
interest loan and start up a business I could start up if I
could take interest. Right?
That is something I stop
nobody goes this is for the love of the good. I'm going to avoid
interest. Right. So when it comes to the poor orphan we're all most
90% I guarantee you the Muslim will not say will not calculate in
his mind. I can earn 1000 has an asset and
be away from the Hellfire for this reason no, we avoid the Hellfire
in matters that are temptation based, which you atheists run to
show me an atheist who is has a moral upright family and that's it
knows no, no alcohol, no, no temptations, none of that stuff.
No, you have no reason to avoid that stuff for the things that
human beings love to have and love to do, but it's bad for us. The
your motivation is the hellfire.
For to give up the things that you love to have, I love to have my
wealth. But the institution needs money. I love to have my wealth,
but other people need money. It's hard to give up my wealth.
I can,
I can justify that, in my mind. I'm gonna have more wealth later
in this life and the next. So it's easy to give up my wealth. Show me
where how much how much money is donated? Right, let's remove Bill
Gates. He's an anomaly, right? Regular common folk, regular old
atheists.
I want to look at the charity of the middle class, not the charity
of the upper class who are having tax benefits and all sorts of
other things with their money not to forget the billionaires in the
millions. I want the regular guy, regular old atheists. How much
money is he given away every year? How much food is he buying for
people every year? Right? So for those things, that's why we have
to look at what moral thing are we talking about? Because when Allah
to Allah, and Islam teaches us to have different motivations. It's
because there are different deeds,
temptations, think of the Hellfire.
Good things that you don't want to do think of perilous, how about
going to war? Right? How about going to war? The land? I'm living
in a country on the east side of the country. There's an invasion
on the west side of the country? What do I care? They're never
going to make it over to the east. Why would I go to war for the west
side of the country? Right. doodycalls? Go, I think of Jana.
have to think of paradise. Right?
So when I have to do a deed that I don't want to do, John
avoided temptation. I don't want to avoid jahannam. But General
goodness, it really comes from the fitrah. And we call that that is
the same for us as Fifi submitted for the love of Allah subhanaw
taala
that's how you would answer that question.
You become the eyes
that only reach a point all of that they fear the Hellfire
because Allah commanded them to fear it. And they seek to avoid it
and pray for avoidance because Allah commanded them, likewise,
Paradise.
But their main motive of the deed, this is all the creation of I want
to please my Creator and all things, right? Whether it's
walking into the bathroom with my left foot at three in the morning,
or it's going out and sacrificing my life physically in a battle, or
getting up for 200. In the middle of the night when I have no needs.
I just have gratitude I want to give
the data Yeah, it's kind of a trick. Because I remember a
shakeout Kobe had mentioned that, if you do certain Salewa
sounds like he'll 450 times a day, you will if you do it for 40 days,
you won't Shala get what you desire, subhanAllah and event I
did that, you know and until things turn out the way I wanted
them to. But what happened is that I found myself eventually just
continuing to do that. Yeah. Because
there was something there was a connection with Allah subhanaw
taala that had been established just by doing that, even though
I'd already got what I wanted. All these actions are actually
training so that you can make that connection with Allah. That's a
great point. The fear of the Hellfire is the training ground
for the person who doesn't want to do any good. How do atheists train
someone who doesn't want to do any good? How do you train this? train
somebody? Right? How does an atheist reform a bad person?
Islam reforms them by telling them assuming that the person believes
there's hellfire. Oh, shoot, I really don't want to be good. I
want to go in the way of I want to live that life in Las Vegas and,
and all that stuff. But I also don't want to go to *. So I
start changing a little bit. All right, good step, next step,
desiring the good for myself, Oh, this path is not just about what
not to do. It's about what has Allah has to offer. Allah has a
lot of good to offer in this life and the next. So Okay, now we'll
do even more finally, the acts of worship. Once they actually
settled into the heart. You don't want to leave them off. Once it
starts to settle into your heart. You never want to leave it off.
It's just a Sakina and a connection to your Creator that
you that you realize that this is greater even than what I was
seeking. So it's a training ground. So the question is Oh,
all atheists, how do you reform people?
Okay.
Madeira says convert revert question. Some people say revert
and some people say convert
all the same to me. Is it wrong to be disheartened by a woman section
in the mosque to be whole separate room that feels like you could be
anywhere four walls in a closed door is this normal? Well,
I'd probably be bored by it myself.
There needs to be some beauty to the space, there needs to be some
feeling that you're in a mosque. So forget that. I've gone to
actual massage at the front of the masjid and thought, Man, I wish I
could take over this place because I could really spruce it up a
little bit. Right? This is a it's boring. It's boring. And this is
what I mean by that. I mean, it's not inspiring, the space should
inspire. Right.
The Prophet's space was open air space, the messengers space did
not feel like you are closed in. And I think that is a
psychological there's a psychological element to an open
space. Of course the front of the mosque and the back of the mosque
of the Prophet were covered. Right for shade.
There are actually trees in the masjid too, if I'm not mistaken,
they left some trees in the masjid in the in the prophet's mosque.
But you have to make sure that the tree doesn't break up the row. So
you pray in front of that. And behind that, if I'm not mistaken,
there were two or three trees left in the masjid. Okay. But But I
could I could be mistaken but I think that's the case. But in any
event, if you look at fast forward through our our lens, and it's not
to discount the Prophet's mosque but we are not living in that time
and place so we're not that's not going to be our measuring stick.
If you go through what the moguls built, the moguls were persons who
came and conquered India, of course became Indian married and
and became the Mogul kings. If you look at the Ottomans, if you look
at the Mamelukes before them.
If you look at the Islamic West, they put care in the perception
that a person has as soon as they walk in the masjid. And I think
that's there's value in that. I don't think it's superficiality. I
think it's important personally. And many people are going to
actually consider that to be
like the first effect that the masjid has is the visual go to the
Ottoman masajid in Turkey and you'll just see what we're talking
about. If you're not go to Washington DC there's a masjid
there on Massachusetts Avenue. Go to Maryland they have a mustard
there the Turks built one there. What else? I can't really name a
lot of gorgeous masajid in the United States. There's one in San
Diego. Unreal. You've been that one? That's nice one
look at a Humber go to those places. Okay, did you watch the
Mohamed hijab debate in South Africa what he went his outward or
online Hey Oh my urine you're up to date on this stuff? What
happened?
Okay
I think he's kind of stepping away from Yeah, I noticed that he's not
interested in this nonsense anymore. The online nonsense
I don't know who is there to debate down there
yeah
I liked what chocolate Wallace says about the atheist first of
all, what is good and how do you know something is good? What cost
shake and he plans for MBSE during Labor Day weekend? Usually we
don't we don't have anything going on to be honest.
But this Saturday we do if you can come through
is blame work
plead restore I book and on evolution on the stream it would
be great no problem.
What is the debate with who is it against
atheism versus Islam in
and Muhammad hijab sport in the suit with the Koofi which is
always controversial to me stylistically. Either you go
Western or you go traditional. That's me. Right. The suit and the
Koofi.
Yeah.
How is Ryan doing? Messala Ryan's doing good and hamdulillah how can
we improve our articulation? Listen to that hachimura lectures
you will become a better speaker
What is your opinion of college Abul funnels and his also the
institute.
He's very knowledgeable. He's a very amazing
speaker and writer but he has some what Tesla views? Monthly leaning
views. How can we study Kalam? Is it on ArcView? Yes, Sheikh Osama
salah, he is a Palestinian scholar and he's teaching Johanna to toe
head on ArcView plus the very fundamentals of optina are taught
on ArcView basic.
How do we overcome the problem of waiting for the right time to do
something? Well, is to know that that is one of the tricks of the
lazy ego and have shaytaan Wait, procrastinate, procrastinate,
procrastinate, there's never a right time. There's never the
perfect time. Unless you're talking about a specific thing
that does have a right time. For example, when to talk to somebody
about something there is a right time and a wrong time. You know,
wouldn't talk something
that serious in our wedding, for example, right? You wouldn't give
bad news to somebody who just had been you know, fire an employee
when his mom just died or something like that. So you
wouldn't you would think carefully about that has timing but other
things like When can I start studying, there's never a good
time for that.
How much is average rent in New Brunswick for folks looking to do
ArcView we you should split rent with people, and then you can get
by with 500 bucks a month.
That's what some of these guys do.
Popular six is no moment will ever enter *, and no one can ever go
out of *. How do we answer this? By saying it is simply
false. There is a Hadith in Sahih Muslim about the last believer out
of *, believers can enter * but they will not stay there
eternally. And people are exiting hellfire and the prophet called
them when they arrive at Paradise they called them they are
nicknamed Johanna Miyun because they have a bronze tan to them
that is attractive to people. Right? So they're their jammies.
Good.
What does the medical mother consider them? What the above so
Hey, BaKari, why does it because it's a shorter chain.
Right and it's Maddix view of things to Matic puts in there the
Hadith that he holds to be sound and the Hadith that he's telling
you is sound, but it's not his evidence.
He's just saying I know the Hadith. I'm putting it here
because I want you all to know I know that hadith have a stronger
evidence which is the hammer of a hand in Medina. Is the is the Viet
Khaled they're required for leather products like wallets,
belts, etc. Not to use but to pray with according to the dominant
opinion but there is an opinion affetto later on this is when all
leathers of the world have been mixed up then then this doesn't
apply anymore, but you just pray with it all because it becomes
impossible to know what's what whereas back in the town in our
town, we know where the leather came from. So potentially check
the ingredients and stuff like when you buy something when you
buy a wallet you can check like online let's say the company
sources are still Yeah, but that's a lot of how to I think this
excess how much that's not necessary.
Luca Pena says since the USA is no longer at war with Muslims
countries, okay, we join it. Join the army, I would say no, but live
in the country.
Yeah, I mean, we're ready here. So if a guy promised marriage to a
woman then change his mind is he loves him. No, he's not. He's hurt
her though. And he should pay her half the dowry. But that's if he
did the Kitab and then divorced her. But if he's just engaged and
broke it off, then no, he's not bottom but it's it's not good that
he flip flops in such a manner and hurt somebody's feelings. That's
not good. But we can not say he's sinful. For breaking that off. We
can say he's inconsiderate. He hurt someone's feelings all that
is very apt to say but he's not sinful.
See that everything
that is a bad experience is always sinful. Right?
How would you advise family member who used to pray regularly but now
say they feel empty inside and find themselves depressed and
missing Salah and they just make that next day? Such a person you
need to take them out and about get them out of the house the
anything still stable that's not moving in this house at the dunya,
rots, right everything. A lake that doesn't move it rots, a cup
of water will just collect dust and will collect will become a
source of disease. Actually puddles in Africa are the source
of malaria. Okay, when the Prophet arrived in Medina, he said put out
all the puddles no puddles, puddles are a source of disease,
whereas a moving river is pure. Okay, so Chanukah this is what we
say how to kobada how to go about it. And one of the nature of life,
the blessings of life is busyness. You
Even in what you hate, busy doing chores and errands all day and all
night until I'm colossal collapse, right here in an AMA. This is how
Allah is protecting you from a grief and a sadness that is
looking to try to settle upon you like a like, like imagine a
like a drone that's trying to land upon you. But you keep moving, so
it can't land upon you. And that is sometimes when you wonder, Why
has my life become so busy? I'm just so tired all the time I wake
up. The day starts as soon as I step outside the room, the day
starts and it doesn't end until I come back and I just collapsed on
the bed. Allah is protecting you. Allah is protecting you from
something that's hovering an idea of thought a doubt. Okay.
Something that is about trying to fall on you. But there's no minute
no free minute. So this protection from Allah to be busy.
What are ways to build a class? In private do much a bed in private
is the way to build a class. And to remember to keep in mind that
Allah is always observing you. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, there
are a lot of questions here. I apologize, not be able to take all
your questions. However, we have to go. And we have some
busyness here. And we are off we got today meetings, meetings,
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