Shadee Elmasry – NBF 239 AshShifa, Publishing Fatwa & Shaykh NoorudDeen Rashid
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The speakers emphasize the importance of engagement in marriage, personal reasons, and "weAKier" in addressing problems. They stress the need for being aware of rules, procedures, and procedures, being a "by not" person, knowing the professionality of various topics, and being trained in the world of Deen. The transmission of information and knowledge into media, the importance of learning to use the brain, and the theory of evolution are also discussed. The speakers touch on various topics related to Islam, including the use of words in relation to prophecies and the potential for mistakes, struggles with addiction, and finding one's own success.
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu lillah wa Salatu was Salam
ala Rasulillah. While early he was talking to him and while I welcome
everybody to the Safina sighting nothing but facts live stream on a
beautiful Monday morning or Monday afternoon, noon, midday, I would
say it's one o'clock here standard Eastern time. 115. And we got four
segments to our program today. The first segment is concerning the
issue of fatawa. And what are some of the best practices and
something that you should look for in fatawa becoming
we can say, savvy readers Affectiva. I think that's that's
one way to put it to become a savvy reader of photography and
photo.
So we're going to cover that. Secondly, we're going to cover
we have guests, my bus sorry. Secondly, we're going to cover
something from the shifa of college Al, of course, we always
read from books of Sita, Sita related matters. And today we're
going to read from Caldea yet, inshallah Tada. Next, after that
we have a guests, one of the young scholars of Syria is going to be
our guest today.
Let me fix this thing here.
There we go. We have one of the young scholars of Syria. He is
America is British in facts. And he's going to be our guests for a
few minutes. And then we have the open QA. That's our schedule for
the day. Let's get straight to the issue of fetch. Well, recently, my
friend sent me a fetch what that was beyond.
We could say unprecedented. And it was effect to us regarding the
engagement, of breaking off an engagement when a man breaks off
and engaged. But first of all, let's let's actually just review
here and learn a little bit. What is the purpose of engagement in
the Sharia? And is it allowed, of course, engagement is allowed. And
all an engagement is is a commitment on both sides to enter
into a deal, okay? And it's really no different than me saying to you
listen, when you when your product comes out, and sha Allah, I'll buy
it. I said, In sha Allah, it's not a contract, right? There is
nothing contractual, right? Hey, when you start your plumbing
business, I'm going to use you right when next time, my toilet
gets clogged, when you
start your flower business, I'm going to I'm going to be the first
person to buy from you. It's a statement, there is none of no
contractual obligation on either side. And one of the reasons to do
this in marriage is, is to really remove, I don't want to say
competition. But a man will get engaged to a woman, it's a
commitment to marry at a future date, so that no one else proposes
to her. Okay.
So you're, you're that's the purpose of the hutzpah and the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam mentioned that when two
people are very close to making an agreement, either in trade, any
kind of agreement, marriage or otherwise, that nobody should go
in and try to make a better offer once they're close. If they're not
close, then fine. No problem. So that's an engagement. Any either
side can break off an engagement. Let's first talk about what's the
value of this engagement, there is a lot of value to engagement.
Okay.
You both talk about the big things in life. Initially, Dean,
politics, where do we want to live? How do we want to live? What
is our goal in life? Okay.
Next thing that we talk about
in marriage in a marriage talk is how do we want to get there?
This what we call vision and mission. So what is our vision? Do
our visions align? Yes, they align. Okay, wonderful. How do we
want to get there does that align? That's important too. But it's
secondary. Nobody talks about what bus are we going to use? What
transportation we're going to use. Before we talk about where we're
going. You talk about where you're going first. This is these are
important lessons for anyone who's going to get home or your pay
attention so you can get married.
My wife, the event, by the way, when's that? When's the mod the
event? August 26? I see you there, Omar.
Definitely.
So Paula.
So you see here that
the first thing you talk about is when both sides generally see each
other as attractive and within the ballpark is the vision of life.
Next is the mission. How are we going to get there? Thirdly, the
little specific things, right?
And of course, you're going to ask about the person and do your due
diligence on the side. Okay.
But these are the main things that you do. And then once this is in
place, and you're like, Okay, I liked this person. We aligned on
the important things in life.
And they're attractive. Families pretty much get along, have a
couple family visits now you get engaged. Now, what's the value of
engagement? Why don't get married right away, because human beings
are not like this, when you get
when you deal with somebody you're dealing, they're putting forth
their best face forward. So you have a bunch of meetings with this
person, everything's good, some time passes, you feel comfortable
with it. Still human beings have, like, there's there's sand at the
bottom of the ocean, right? That is not you don't know what's in
the sand. When the ocean is clear and nice.
A period of a few months of engagement, its value is that it
allows you to start seeing their family more often seeing their
friends more often seeing them in different states, things will
happen.
A death in the family might occur, a different wedding may happen and
you get to see their behavior. So you kick in up some sand, right?
And it's you're allowed to see now what is it? What is it like when
the waters muddy? When is it like when
people are tired things like that? Who are their friends? Are they
hiding anything? They could be hiding something
that you can get away with hiding it for three months, but not
seven? Right? Things come out like that. And that is the value of
engagement, particularly if you don't know the person that well.
Alright, so in this engagement period, what's hot, what's hot,
um, there are no obligations at all. And no permissibility is
nothing Haram has become valid.
And nothing is obligatory upon you. At any given moment. Anybody
could say, listen, we're not comfortable anymore with this.
We're out. Now, if they say that, and they don't talk about it, it's
just a little bit odd. And it's hurtful.
Right? They usually should give a person a chance to explain
themselves, right? But sometimes there's no explanation. When the
guy comes and and and all of a sudden, he never informed us that
he has an STD. And you never thought about it. Right? Like you
never thought that this guy's from the Masjid. You never imagined
once to ask the man, does he have an STD? Sometimes it's like that
you're like, you'd never imagined to ask him that.
And he says, Oh, I got it. I discovered that. How'd you
discover it? Oh, I saw an envelope in the house while visiting.
And like, what is that? Oh, that's my test results. Okay, I have to
tell you guys, I didn't tell you this before. But I have an STD.
That's a game changer. Right? How about this, a guy, his credit
score is so bad, he's going to need his wife to rent an apartment
to rent a car to buy a car to buy a house. That's a game changer.
Like your credit scores that is that bad. You might not be able to
live in the country anymore. You might be so you know,
blacked out of of any kind of purchase your credit is that bad.
You won't be able to live here anymore. So these are game
changers that would all come up in the process of that he may be part
of a cult that she a secret cult.
Right. And or she may be just to be equal, because
it could go both ways. So that's the point. Okay.
It could be any of these bizarre things that come up.
And I'll tell you something. There was one time and engagement
were men when we got engaged.
And the man was contacting a marriage, a woman who sets people
up for marriages
while engaged to the other girl.
He didn't know that they knew each other.
And she calls us as Hold on a second. Hold on. Aren't you
engaged to so and so? Yes. SO and SO. This is how he spells his
name. Yes. Is always supposed to Is this his bio data? Yes, this is
bio data. So well listen. I don't want to be the bearer of bad news.
But he he reserved you but he's still shopping around. You know
that the guy did that? Can you believe that?
That's what he did. He reserved the girl by getting gauges still
shopping around. Now. I'm only giving examples but bad examples
of the guys. Right? But the point being is that that is the value of
taking things slow.
In important matters, so that information can rise up and you
just don't want to rush these things. As for the Hadith of the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam, heritability idealo This
has to do with a bed at
the best of goodness is that what you rush to? That has to do with a
bed that where you can never be harmed? Like should I make will do
now so that I have the buttock of being on would do or should I
go home first and make would do after that? No make me do now.
Rush it rush the good. Should I start memorizing Quran now or
should I wait until I graduate? No starting now.
Clay would be ready Angelou does not have
Anything to do with the contracts that you enter into? Where you may
be harmed 100 Video Judo so let's hire someone quick. Any old
person? No. That's not how things work. All right. So that's the
concept and idea of why people get engaged in the first place.
Are people allowed to break off their engagements? Yes. Is there
any punishment to do? So no, there is a courtesy.
The courtesy is to inform them why? And of course, it's going to
be emotional, it's going to be dramatic.
You better have a good reason at that point. Now, if you're playing
games with people, and you're just breaking off an engagement,
because you feel like
you have the sin of it, but you have done nothing unlawful. You
have the sin of hurting people and playing around. But you've done
nothing unlawful. It's just like buying a home. I'm very close to
buying this house. And we got the guy's hopes up and everyone's
hopes up that isn't Yeah, I changed my mind. I don't feel like
doing it. For a home is no big deal. But for a life and a
marriage. It is a bigger deal. Right. But in the same lawfully,
it's the same, like legally, it's the same. So what this
summary of a federal recently said that it should be rendered, the
man should be rendered to have to pay 25% of the dowry. He should
get punished by the Sultan, and he should be suspended from marriage
for a year. Could you believe this? This is worse than Roger
Goodell.
Of course, the fatwah was sort of laughed off the internet. But it
brings up a bigger point. Okay.
And our guest today, he is in the world of FIP. And I think he's
going to totally agree with about oh, I'm about to say.
And that is there. There are really two things that I think
should happen
for Fetzer, but number one, if you're not really well known,
okay? And that's a first of all, a multi doesn't come out of nowhere.
A Mufti is always an advanced. He's a student that he's an
advanced student that he's an assistant for a Mufti. And then
years later, after we all have seen his progression, he becomes a
mufti, right. Like you don't become a World Heavyweight
Champion in boxing out of nowhere. First year boxing at
the teenage level, then you're boxing at the Featherweight then
the next week, then the next week, then you're finally making that
heavyweight, then you lose, then you win. Then you finally fight
for the belt. So if you're truly a mufti, you don't come out of
nowhere.
We all know you in the world of FIP. You know, we're going to know
your name.
So your friends will will be authoritative will be recognized.
You are somebody let's say you're not that famous. All right. You
studied privately and secretly with every which you are, let's
just say privately.
Then this you authorize you as a Mufti? Okay. Very odd. Right away
authorized you but you've never been anywhere they've never sent
you somewhere I have made you teach a class made you write an
article. But it could let's say it happens. So why don't you tell us
all tell the world? Who you are who authorized you. Okay, why do
we need that? Because if you screw up, who do we go to?
Right?
If you screw up
who am I call it who's your personal referee that will put you
in check. Or correct your mistake. That's number one. Number two. So
you so list out for everybody? The public contactable, traceable.
She you not Don't tell me. I studied with the biggest shit in
the African rainforest is their rainforest in Africa. And the
African desert?
I meant to I was going to say Amazon rainforest. It was on my
tip of my tongue. But I'll in the African desert. Oh, really? How do
I get to him? No, no, there's no electricity there. Nobody can get
to him. So you're selling in imagination now? Right? There's no
way for me to know if you're right or wrong. If this is true or not,
there's no way to it's not about what's true. It's about what's
verifiable. Okay.
Next thing
when you actually publish the federal let's say you I'm going to
publish the federal on Bitcoin. I did a five month research, blah,
blah, blah.
Why don't you also publish with it?
What does you said about this festival? How's that? Like when I
get a book? I look at the back of any book. I have here this book in
by Imam Zaid. I mean, it's an innocent book. It's a it's a
commentary on reset. It's in Western Sydney. There's no facts.
There's no rulings or anything. It's a known book, but he still
tells us that this is an excellent translation. KENNETH honnor. Kim,
off top Malik. excellent book. Okay.
All right. All sorts of different people will comment on the book,
right will tell us something about the book. Right? So right off the
bat, I feel that this is a trustworthy source. If people
follow these protocols and procedures, you will not end up
with blunders. Okay, when you have teachers and Ejaz us, does that
mean you'll never make a mistake? Of course not. You will still make
mistakes.
But what does it protect you from protects you from blunders number
one blunders, big mistakes, embarrassing career ending
mistakes. There are career ending mistakes, right.
And it will protect you from prolonging in those errors because
when you have Sheoak you have classmates you have a whole world
around you. That will protect you that will guide you that will talk
to you. Okay, that's the whole concept and idea. All right, let
us now turn
to our guests. Masha Allah out of Luton.
His name is Chuck Noda dean. And we have him here. I watched his
live stream yesterday. Sorry, last weekend, where he they talked FIP.
And before we get into your personal
biography, and background and all your life in Syria, I first want
to welcome you to the live stream. So welcome to the Safina side and
other effects in the Safina society live stream. I don't know
what's on it.
hamdulillah an
honor to have you and now you are in Luton. And as I said earlier,
we're trying to highlight some of the dot m Xu monoamine metallocene
that are on the youth side of life and are available out there in
England. So if you are listening in England,
our guest is out of Luton
and I had went to Luton on the tour by the way. So let me ask
now, do you teach out of a masjid or an institute in Luton?
I do sometimes teach from masajid Mashallah.
Masjid which is I would describe that as my
hometown. Okay. I also deliver a an English teacher you could call
me
at the moment because I have an issue with my knee
The Press I deliver that they aren't I did a speech and that the
Imam delivers the Arabic football and leaves the crap that so that's
also illustrated here and there I teachings. Mainly I teach from a
my own platform, which is the
organization and that's mainly on YouTube, or is it in a physical
location?
In Charlotte and Charlotte
things are in process by the movement. It's primarily through
your website. Nice. Nice.
Okay, good. So I'm gonna just put the website up on
on our YouTube chat. So now let's get straight to the topic of FIP.
And I understand that you teach fff Is that correct?
Kind of he felt okay. Now, because the Damascus connection, I thought
maybe it's chef a folk. But did you heard what I said when you
were backstage about issuing a fetch? Well, first of all, let me
clarify for the audience that there's difference between general
is Stifter and federal. If someone's asking about a ruling
that is known and already discussed, an imam or a chef will
either know the ruling, or he'll look it up in the books, something
in the reliable books. But when we say fetch what we're talking about
new matters, right, something that's new to the community? What
do you think of the two conditions that I think that? I think this is
something that's universal, I think,
often I described them as contemporary butters.
The way I look at it with contemporary matters, we should go
in each of them, we should have a recognition of the most senior
shoe.
And those are the people who should really engage with that
such.
Spa almost inevitably, in my experience with contemporary
issues, it's almost inevitable that you will have a difference of
opinion,
contentious issues, difficult issues, and that's something
people need to be aware of and need to be ready for. If
something's not explicit on
Sunday, no, in the lawsuits, the text of the bad habit. And it's a
fairly contentious issue. It's not clear cut. It's not something like
is a laptop probably similar nor can we drive cars or not be
something organ transplants, etc. Things which are much more
difficult and there's multi multiple
aspects to them. And many considerations at play, we almost
inevitably going to come across a difference of opinion. But yes, my
the way I look at it, we should try to go to the most senior
scholars available, because there's no need for, you know,
those who don't have the same level of knowledge or level of
expertise to engage in that when the Senior Scholars available.
Absolutely agree with yourself, there will be many, many more
settings, which are already present in the book, and all
you're doing essentially is nothing. Yes, exactly. A human
locked out of the Hanafi madhhab, you spoke about that most people
most of the time, all they are doing is presenting to you what's
already been established. Yeah. And as long as that stuff are
credible, reliable books on it represents the more solid opinion
of the madhhab. Or in the Hanafi method, we will say that you have
the concept of OLED and also hand to sound opinion as long as it's
one of the sound opinions page on anybody with some good level of
proficiency and somebody who is diligent will be able to deliver
that and show them the the actual issues of the day, essentially the
controversial difficult issues. These should really go to the more
senior scholars and those who do check out the website, you'll see
that in Sharla, the standard issues.
I ran into them from the Hanafi perspective, Sheikh Mohammed,
Jimmy's answer them from the Shafik perspective, we also have a
Maliki teacher, Sadie sayfudine. He answers them as well. And with
the standard ones, what you'll see is just we have a few humble
answers there as well, too, I think nice. All three. You're just
the standard books of the madhhab. And it's just conveyed. Whereas
any issue, certainly, from my perspective, the Hanafi
perspective, any issue that is the legal somewhat detailed it
requires, you know, there's a contemporary aspect to it.
There'll be a scholar or a list of contemporary scholars, senior
teachers of mine, who would have had a look at my answer. An expert
found it to be reliable and acceptable.
This methodology, I think, is a long post I bless you for speaking
about it is incredibly important for people to understand and to
get used to. It's not the case that any chef and just simply is
anything and Kasi is a Shaffers. Okay, or he has the title, mostly
because in some parts of the Hanafi world.
It's not particularly difficult, even from a recognized
institution, it's not a matter of you know, you're taught for 20
years. And now, we already know it's more so it used to be a
standard program. It was only a specialized program. And then
that's it, you have the trifold you have the so, you know, there
are some concerns with titles at times. Yeah, so we have this clear
methodology when or when something is in the box, it's quite clear,
you know, the way anybody proficient, make it transparent.
present any difficulty whatsoever, let's go to the most senior
scholars we have available. I totally agree. And before I go to
the next question, why don't we just do a fix the audio real
quick, go to the left on the zoom on the Zoom channel. Go to the hit
mic.
Go onto the zoom. Hit Mike. No, hit the arrow for Mike. Now the
mike arrow
where it says sorry, where it says mute right now. Hit that arrow and
maybe put it to OBS.
Yeah, mic to OBS is there's an option for that. To make sure the
shifts audio is coming through
we're having some audio problems for some reason. I don't know why.
It's very check your mind.
Your your audio is coming through to us. The first time this
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it's very strange.
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do how do we do it all the time regularly. Just regular.
Should we close out? Oh, maybe it's that?
Yeah, test. Now the speaker it's the mic that we will.
All right. Can we do a test testing?
All right. Yeah. Could you say something real quick. Miss Miller
speaking about the man had to say the methodology and coming out on
YouTube. So it's gonna be YouTube. It's not going to you know, it's
really weird.
My apologies.
My apologies said we're just fixing this, the audio real quick.
Sometimes these, you know, all these computer
apps having to come together at the same time all these apps and
you never know what's going on.
Try again
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if you can do the test
there's another test
testing yes yeah sure can you say something real quick
maybe let's let's exit out completely and then invite him
back in. You never know
if you cannot alright shake if you can exit out and then come back.
Yep
maybe it has something to do with his mic too.
Yeah, this is weird. All right, well all my fixes that up in sha
Allah it's really one of those frustrating things when you have
no reason no clue why the this thing stops working. But
you got this concept here of people speaking on God's behalf.
And this is where
these are called Elmo aka inand Allah. A Mufti is a moussaka and
that's why there's a book called LM l Moonwalker in its oftentimes
pronounced as lm a more clean but it's it's basically the people
signing off on God's will. When people sign off on God's Will they
have to have some kind of you don't want to do it. You don't
want to do these major things. You can't do these major things on
your own like this. Which brings up the question of so many fit
councils.
The most of these on these fifth councils would not be considered
most these are there aren't they are not Maltese in any of the
format hubs.
Okay, where is fliptop? stood the meth hubs, right? That's where FIP
is. So if you're gonna be a mufti, you eventually got to come through
some of the methods right
Salaam Alaikum I apologize I had to disappear for a moment all
right. What's it we're testing it again?
Seems like apologies everyone for the
yes it was the so just for the audience. Something was wrong with
the zoom settings to zoom setting on the settings and look at all
right, it's perfect. Now it says according to feeding the sun it's
perf not just perfect just perf anyone watching on replay as well.
Make sure to clarify or even mild echo someone said y'all fix tech
when everything all right now I can I can hear him too. Yeah. All
right. Let's let's start the whole thing over Bismillah R Rahman r
Rahim. Chef Nora Dean Alumini
from Luton. We have to make sure how we say a little tinny right so
that we don't stop at Lutz
from Luton is teaching at Luton could you say again the name of
the masjid please
the masjid I teaching most regularly is in Banbury in Oxford.
The boundary madaline Masjid fix the speaker
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all right now everyone can hear him but I can't hear
Can you hear at the end if you can? If you
can't hear us now he can hear us
what is going on?
Oh maybe it's has to do with his mic that he has maybe his mic
chair can maybe can you use the laptop mic? Yeah
this one yeah, maybe that's the issue
because
Okay, let's realize that any better you know Smilla any better
can you hear me now? There's something with the settings I
can't figure it out.
That's really weird. Very strange. This has never happened. Yeah, he
was working before too. I think when zoom started I started doing
something
Thank you. So the issue is that duck chicken here but only one
like if he hears the audience can hear us he can't hear something
wrong with the settings configured
to change
the stream
but the issue is that the doctor surely cannot hear you.
We have like
unless you
So we're we're gonna have to do is they're gonna, there's gonna have
to be I'm going to make the his volume very loud. So the audio is
going to be very, it's not going to be good for the audience, but
inshallah it is the best we can do right now. I apologize. Like, once
again, do you want to try another time to make sure that we we can
still get it right.
Can you hear us right?
Yeah, cuz we need to be able to.
So we can do is we can still have everyone here, but it's just going
to be not audio is not going to be great. It's going to be kind of
why don't we try it another time where we get it right, inshallah?
I don't know if you can see show doesn't hear us even.
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Yeah.
Let's just try it another time.
Because we have everyone waiting here.
So
yeah. All right. Unfortunately, it didn't work out for some reason.
But we will inshallah continue our discussion on this, and we can see
what else what else everyone has any questions on this issue?
It's, so we're gonna go back to our regular programming.
Unfortunately, we cannot continue with the shift today with our
technical difficulties, which is very odd, because maybe sometimes
these these sites upgrade, right?
Are they what is the word? You know, they have some kind of a, an
upgrade or something in the middle of the night. And you wake up the
next morning, and nobody could hear anything. Nobody, nobody
knows how to use it. So let's go back to the issue of FIP. When
your issue of federal like this, you are signing off for a sake of
Allah subhanaw taala. You are saying you are signing off that
this is God's will.
When you study FIP Where are you going to study? There is no
general FIP there is no general broad overview. That's not That's
not a study, you will study with one of the four methods right or
wrong. Okay.
There is no self taught
philosophy here. And this is not acceptable. You can read all you
want, but you need to go through human beings. Number two,
if you're going to reach a level of which to hit that can give
fatwah you're going to go through the ranks of its Jihad and the
ranks of which Jihad the highest that will be reached today
is which to hit finesse Zilla, which to hit and know as it which
means you are on which to hit in new matters within the silo of
your method. You're not in which to had much luck.
You're not even a which set spin method meaning that you can go in
the meth hub and bring new opinions from within the sort of
the method No, you're not even that. wish they had more luck
means over all four schools,
which said overall for school like outside the four schools,
essentially your founding your own school. So you're not that you're
not there is no which said in the method.
And there is no much to hit at but there is much to hit in the
Netherlands means you utilize the opinions within the Smith hub as
an owl sources of analogy as the base of the analogy.
And then based upon what the scholars said within your method
about that issue, you mimic the ruling
that's what which to hedge fund as it means.
Okay, why aren't there in which the head midlux anymore? Could
there be yes, in theory there could be but the Alama have found
no need for it.
Why? Because
when he remembers suit, he came up
and he was
qualified as in which they had mutlak.
And he began to speak that he can establish his own method. The
ultimate said no. Practically speaking, the OMA doesn't need a
fifth one. Right for is just the right number. And it's satisfying
everything here. And he and he so he left it off. And he said it
wouldn't have mattered anyway because that also that he chose
all the rulings would have become Shafi in their nature anyway. Like
very close to the chef a school okay?
Because he was very heavy in in Hadith, and he was an expert in
Hadith mmct.
So practically, it's not needed.
Right? Practically it's impossible as well. Physically, it's actually
impossible because the amount of knowledge that now exists the
amount of Furuya that you would need to know so forgetting which
that mutlak but we do need that to us. The Federals will come from
within the silo of the format hubs. Okay. So when I look at
Most of the fit council members, I asked the question like, which
method recognizes you?
My right or wrong to ask that? Because Where are you coming from?
Where are you coming out of, and to be honest with you, the Fit
councils, that when I look at them, it seems like the first
group of people to call it a fifth Council becomes of the council.
And they give it out, right? And their authority comes from being
the first.
Right? So that's the problem that I find with these fit councils. If
you look at the body have to love em in FIP.
Very few of them
are very few forget the students, the teachers, the main Hanafi,
Shafi, medically and humbly teachers in the world,
the Fit councils that are out there in the world, in these
various continents tend to have nothing to do with that world.
Wouldn't you naturally be rooted
in those teachings, like there's gotta be some correlation.
So it's very strange thing that
now, it's a very strange thing. These fit councils of England and
America and Europe and America, because the Europeans have their
own fate counsel, so because you got to come from somewhere, you
got to come out of somewhere.
And let's say you come out of somewhere, you recognize your
unknown, it's not just about being known.
It's about being trained.
You got known entities there trust, their intention is trusted,
their motivation is trusted, or their motive, I should say, is, is
honorable. And we can know that because the person has lived 3040
years in the world of Dawa in the world of Deen. And there, we trust
them, their intention, their financial dealings, their
political dealings, and the way they live their personal life is
sort of known and accepted by the people. But that's not what it is.
It's about training.
Good.
And, and if you are trained, then you should have people who trained
you to tell the world that you're trained, and it's not going to be
that they just tell the world we're gonna see you with them.
Okay?
You're gonna be with them. It No, nobody could fake it. In Syria,
for example, Damascus is not a huge city. This yoke in Damascus,
let's say a Damascus as an example. They're known.
You can't fake it in these places.
Everyone knows everybody.
All the students know all the students. All this, then the
scholars know that advanced students,
you don't just emerge out of nothing. Right? You're gonna come
out of somewhere, and you're going to be somebody who is trusted. And
his is not just trust. Again, it's competence. We've seen your work.
So that's the commentary that I had about fatwah.
And so unfortunately, there it is possible. You got to be very
careful to really just completely destroy all your credibility. If
you don't.
If you don't follow this, and you don't tread carefully.
The speaking out of turn, can end up making a massive blunder.
Okay.
All right.
All right. Let's move to the next segment. We talked about the
fatwah. We're now down to three segments, since we really
apologize to the shape and to all of our viewers that the tech
didn't work today. But we'll make it happen later on. It's not a big
deal.
We'll have the Shere Khan again. But let's read now.
Regarding the prophets knowledge, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
We were say reading about the prophets knowledge of the Unseen a
few weeks ago. We continue with that today.
Reading from the shifa of cada al I wish I had the Arabic but I read
it from the English.
The prophets of Allah when he was salam was told or told sorry, he
told about the appearance of a group that will speak against
the decree of Allah meaning the Khazaria the people who say that
they do not believe in Kedah, okay, and they say LML almost
never, that man himself is the creator of his own actions and has
the power to do them.
There are three categories in nakida regarding
this subject matter of power and actions, the first
is that of his son, Noah, Gemma that says Calaca como Mata Malou.
Allah is the creator of your actions.
And we merely we have the ability to intend them and we intend them
with our own by our own volition. By Allah's will. Allah has willed
that we choose things on our own.
Okay? Well I'm about to show on your show Allah.
You do not have your own willpower except that Allah willed that you
have your own willpower so you're not you have your own willpower
not independent of Allah. This is what I would have said Abu Lahab
said, I can act if I want to, I believe if I want to know Allah
says Alma Tisha una Illa, sha Allah.
And the third very important verses lemma, cassava Tata
hammock. disebut. So why are we able to be punished or rewarded
rewarded is because we do intent.
Okay, so that's the meat. So these are the three most important
verses on this subject matter. Karla Caccamo matamanoa He created
you and what you do
Lahoma cassava hammock does have it warmer Tisha ona Allah and
Masha Allah.
The second group
are those who say, we can act and we have power because Allah gave
it to us. And we are the creator of our actions because Allah
allowed it. And we say this this group is from not from Edison
anymore.
You've contradicted an explicit verse of Quran Allah COCOMO match
I'm alone. Lahoma cast Kassovitz you only earn what you intended.
Not you do not have power on your power because Allah gave you
power, you have no power at all to create actions.
The third group is outside of Islam completely.
And that is the one who says that anything has its own independent
power independent of Allah has his own power independent of Allah
subhanaw taala. That group is out of that is out of Islam
completely.
So she felt here of Cloudera yard we're reading from he says that
the messenger told about the the appearance of the Khazaria and the
RWA field
and he says the proof of that
is in a hadith Okay, let's see which I did this is
okay
go to page one ad here we
know the footnote here is not correct.
Oh, and he said that
the last of this community would curse the first of it.
The last of this community would curse the early Muslims got
the unsolved
would diminish until they become like the salt in food. In other
words, the number of Muslims would increase so much that the unsalted
the percentage of Muslims that are unsought would decrease and
decrease and decrease and decrease
until they're like the salt in the food.
Their position would continue to dissipate until not a group of
them remained okay. He said they would meet with the with despotism
after him. The unsalted remember they are the bulk of the OMA and
some of the prophets of Allah.
He told about the colada, describing them down to the
malformed one among them.
And he said their mark would be that they shave their heads and
they were very short clothes and they're very worship full. Okay,
don't be fooled by excessive religion and don't be fooled by
piety of literalism.
Now, listen to this and write this down in that dent and pay very
close attention to this.
Things are known by observation, sensory perception, reason or
transmission.
You had a sunnah and Islam puts this in perfect order for us
science, logic and transmitted knowledge for us is revelation.
Okay. Language is also transmitted history is also transmitted.
That there are as a group of people who elevate one excessively
above the others.
And when they do that, with observation and sense perception,
those that is scientism, God the philosophy of scientism elevates
observable empirical data
excessively over logic and over transmitted sources.
have knowledge
philosophers
would then elevate reason, far above imbalanced, far above
observations, scientific knowledge, scientific facts and
transmitted knowledge. Okay.
So there are so that the law ie the naturalists or today's
evolutionists and Darwinists, those who are advocates of
scientism
are the first category. Second category are the philosophers who
is reason alone logic alone that by which we arrive at anything.
And they pretty much dismissed scientific facts or transmitted
knowledge. The third group elevates transmitted knowledge
excessively above logic, and scientific facts and observations.
And those are the littoralis within religions. And they're
extremely dangerous. They're a what are the greatest causes of
people leaving religion are the literal lists because human beings
love reason they love when the fits like things fit like a puzzle
piece, then they abhor internal contradictions.
The human fitrah abhors internal contradictions and you cannot tell
me that to believe something. And there is another source of
credible information.
And these two things are at odds with one another, and you just say
live with it. This is exactly why people left Catholicism,
Christianity in general, it's why they left Judaism is why the Islam
the literalists are one of the most dangerous this group when
they spread. And they had spread in the past couple decades and
maybe close to a century far and wide. No use of awkward at all in
any capacity. Okay, or recognition of observable facts in the world.
So, Rosie says I think it's a Razzie or who was it as Senussi
one of them was Academy. But we all agree on this is that there is
no way for any of these three to truly contradict one another.
They're all but ah heen they're all proofs from Allah subhanaw
taala. Of course, the Quran is the highest level of a proof, the
Hadith, a saw here
particularly that which is much larger and was Suffield is the
next highest level of a proof.
We now have observation that is a proof
scientific observation when it is accurate and correct is a proof.
But when I say proof, it means it's a source of certainty. It's a
source of knowledge you feed on
this phone right here is red. Okay, this book right here is
green. These are facts.
And then reason,
logic, which really only has two essential Essential Laws,
okay?
Is a that things are themselves. In other words, I like to put it
differently I like to put into everything must be crisply
defined.
And whenever that thing shows up, it's that definition.
Okay.
And then secondly,
no statement, no document should internally contradict itself. If
I'm talking right here, and it sounds like I make a
contradiction, either there it is a contradiction that that person
is a Sufi, he's a fool or there is actually no contradiction and you
just misunderstood. Okay.
I was reading up about a person that a very popular type of
self help type of person who claims it's Christianity and the
person says it's not Christianity because they never talk about
Jesus will never talk about Jesus does not make it antithetical to
Christianity. Right. So just because you perceived a
contradiction doesn't make it a contradiction.
So it assay actually be a substance substantive
contradiction. These three sources in the semi wild Buffalo Wild Kulu
like you can have Mfold Allah this is cut out one on one summer,
hearing transmitted knowledge so are loving is by transmitted
knowledge, language, history, religion, journalism, okay, Quran
and Hadith. All of these are transmitted this is transmitted
knowledge yourself even. How do you know your your mom and dad's
kit?
Some kids don't look like their parents at all. It's transmitted
knowledge that this woman gave birth to you. 510 15 people were
there.
On the weekend in which you were born, that's transmitted now.
knowledge. So transmitted knowledge into somewhat bizarre
observable knowledge, which means all the sense perception from
taste, smell, touch, sight. Okay, scientific facts, not theories,
the fact of it, the theory is the story behind behind the why, okay?
But the fact we all recognize is Truth is a source of certainty.
A bone was found a set of bones were found, that's the fact.
Then someone comes with a fanciful theory says, it's the check a
source or whatever, okay. And this was a beast that lived and fed off
of this, that and the other. And we're going to fill in the blanks.
I always got disappointed. And my whole
concept of of these museums was shattered. When I asked one time
at a museum, why is it that some of the skeleton is cream and some
is white. And they said, the white is what was discovered, of course,
it's not the real bone, it's a mimic of the bone, right? A
plaster version. But the white represents the bone that was
discovered. And the cream represents what the what the
theorist had to create, to make an image, right, like filling in the
blanks. And I'm, like, 90% of the thing is cream, you found two
bones. And then you put an animal together. So the theory is, it's
the purpose of science is to come up with the story. The purpose,
that's the purpose. So I'm not blaming the concept of theorizing.
You can't just say here, we got a bunch of bones, you got to use
your brain, well, what were those brains doing? What were those
bones doing? Why were they there, et cetera, et cetera, and come up
with a theory. But your theory needs to be like a lot of
evidence, and then a little bit of theorizing, not a little bit of
evidence, and then making up a long story after that. Okay.
Secondly, a theory stands as a valid theory, as long as no facts,
just prove it. Good. So this is the shape of the dinosaur, in my
opinion, until we find a full skeleton of that same kind with
those bones, but the full skeleton now we know that that theory is
invalid now, right? Is it going to look like this? So for a Muslim,
we do not restrict transmission, observation. And
reason, all of them are from Allah subhanaw taala.
And the truth will never be self contradictory. Okay.
So that's why there is no such thing as a Muslim evolutionist.
If we're talking about evolution.
And that's the, that's the importance of learning how to use
your brain. How to assess if an observation
is a factor theory. And I cannot tell you how many guys I sit with
educated it medical field.
Tech, I sit with them. And they constantly they consistently
confuse fact and theory. Right? And they say, Well, we have proof
that there's Neanderthal man's and this guy, this kind of man and
that condiment, and I'm like, Are you actually serious right now?
Right? You're actually can you taking the conclusion of a
theorist,
a theorist, and you're conflating that with facts.
The fact in Islam will be weighed alongside of transmitted evidence,
the Quran, and the majority of Hadith.
And some of some will, all right, we'll add also this I had these
two, okay.
All had a hadith.
And you have to the theory must fit.
Otherwise, you're saying the prophet is not true. And the Quran
is not true. So I said, you're actually you actually don't know
that. When scientists are speaking, especially what gets
published in Newsweek or New York Times or whatever, or it gets into
the History Channel. This The fact is maybe
four or five 6%. And the rest is a huge tale, and why there's nothing
to lose for them. There's nothing to lose in selling this tall tale.
No one's getting hurt by the theory that there's Neanderthal
man and all these other types of men and hominid, this and hominid
that, right, just to use that as an example.
What do they have to lose? There's no action upon it. No one's going
to be getting surgery based on this knowledge. No one's would be
building a bridge based on this knowledge. No one No one could get
hurt from this, right. So it's okay for them to have 2% pieces.
of inflammation 98%, they fill in the gaps.
One of these guys goes, when he put out the measure of what a
human being would look like.
And his theory is that what he did was he looked at the growth of the
bone that he saw over a small period of time. And then like a
computer algorithm or something, he just stretched it out over a
billion years. That's not how life works, right? But again, why are
they able to do that in those fields that have to do with the
past, because no one's going to get hurt.
You come into the present, and where people are going to are
actually going to use a product or suffer if it goes bad. And you
need far more certainty than this. Right? So this is something to
keep in mind when you're dealing with all this stuff.
All right.
So that's where we talked about the Jaredites. The Jaredites are
the literal lists. They elevate the transmitted knowledge,
which we elevate to but they refuse to recognize when their
understanding of a text or when a solitary text or even a Quranic
text,
there when there seems to be that the outward meaning of it provides
an internal contradiction. Let me give you an example from a hadith.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, when the sun sets,
it prostrates under the Throne of Allah and takes permission to rise
again.
So let's talk about two things here then.
Number one, when the sun sets, is it moving? We now know that it's
not moving, right?
Let's say hypothetically, it's moving. So it sets then it
prostrates under the Throne of Allah, so the Throne of Allah is
underneath us. Impossible is the Throne of Allah underneath us.
It's impossible, right? That the Throne of Allah is underneath us,
because that's what the wording of the means. So let's take a second
point. prostrates How does an orb prostrate? Where's the top of an
orb? Where's the bottom of an orb? Prostration is the top goes down.
That's what prostration means.
Okay. So we take it that is something that we are allowed to
say is
definitely from is a in a sense in which a Sheva because it's unknown
what it means. And the ultimate say, what we can say from this is
that it's an expression that the sun is in complete submission to
Allah subhanaw taala, even if you say the orb has its own version of
such as the font and it was, but we can't say the Throne of Allah
is under the earth.
Okay, and we clearly have eyes on the sun now. And the sun is not
going up to the Throne of Allah coming down.
So we firstly we don't need to interpret it. But we can say that,
where the sun is what we have knowledge of what we have observed
with our own two eyes, it can be considered in the Tafseer of such
an idea.
Right, but the problem with CO adage and this exists in the
Catholic religion and in the Jewish religion, probably even
worse.
And every child that comes out of the Catholic religion, and you
know, becomes a Muslim, they say, you know, I asked the the nun in
school
is Jesus, is he God or son of God? Who is he? Who did he worship?
And the nun said, Stop asking these questions. That's what
literalism is where you refuse to respect the creation of Allah, the
proofs he gave you have observable and rational knowledge, and you
just roughshod over them. This human fitrah will never accept
that.
Human fitzer will never accept us that it's self defeating. You're
ruining yourself, you're already ruining your own religion when you
do this. And if you look at the demise of every religion, it's
almost always preceded by the spread of literalist. So we take
the Quran literally,
we take it literally.
But we have a concept of motor Chevy heads. And the ultimate have
dealt with this, we're not dealing with it the automat have dealt
with it. Then with the Chevy Allah tells us what to shove. It's like
the outward meaning that can't be this, it can't be this because it
contradicts other verses in the Quran that are more widespread.
Right? So then the Allamah have said either just simply reject the
outward meaning of it that is contradictory to other parts of
the book.
And leave it at that. Right? And May and know that it does have a
meaning but not the outward meaning that's the least that we
that we call that 10 Z.
Okay, and that is a position of tough wheat. And we'll is 10 Z
himmat tafsir it's 10 Z
To reject, sort of added manner and thought he these three words
sort of and man on the head he forwards
sort of old man on body and then relying upon the way that the
interpretations
of have the setup
the 100 biller make interpretation of the general verse.
This is on the my interview with Chuck's use solid. He's had been
set up and the Aesha IRA and the match what he do, we'll do that
we'll have that word. They're not interpreting from themselves.
They're using the Arabic language.
In any event, we're not getting into that today. But that was the
that is the reason why literalism leads astray.
And how we are we do take the word of Allah literally. But when it
seems to have an internal contradiction, that must be
handled. And Allah told us that to happen there must shabby heads. He
told us this. So it's not not a mystery. And he said those some
people that have crookedness in their hearts, their hearts are
not.
They don't handle the internal contradiction, and they pass that
on to the next generation. And the next generation inherits a
cognitive dissonance as a result,
then eventually, they leave Islam.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam told us that shepherds
would become the leaders of the people. And the naked barefoot
ones would vie and building high buildings, and mothers would give
birth to their mistresses. So what this means is that the first half
of this points to a people who allow the mess loves messenger
called naked and barefooted ones, which refers to lack of
civilization, lack of clothing, lack of wealth, lack of anything,
that leaders are expected to have lack of history, like a historic a
history of governance, a history of culture, the history of
scholarship, a history of positive things that people would look up
to, yet they will become the leaders, they will become so rich,
they will compete in how high they can build buildings.
Mothers will be cut give birth to their mistresses. This is
attributed sometimes in some cases where
a woman of very low status marries into
a ruler of sorts. And hence the daughter is of higher status than
the mother and Allah knows best.
He said that the Quran and their Confederates would not conquer
him, but that he would conquer them. That was a prophecy that
happened in his time.
The prophecies are divided into three categories. The prophecy
that was spoken, and occurred before it was written down.
So by the time that hadith scholars wrote it down in books
that we could look at with our own two eyes, it had already happened.
That was a prophecy for the sahaba. And for the first
generation,
that doesn't benefit us in the sense, of course, it benefits us.
But it doesn't benefit the skeptic in the sense that the skeptic
could simply say, obviously, they said it, he said it. And they said
it happened before they wrote it down. So they it's easy to say
that you can make that up, right?
Like if I say to somebody here, I foretold, right that Biden would
defeat Trump. We're in the Where did you foretell it?
It's in my book. When did you write the book after the Biden
election? Oh, this doesn't count. Right? Doesn't count. So does it
benefit us? Yes. Because we believe that we'll have nothing.
But does it benefit the skeptic? No, because he could easily say
you wrote it afterwards. What benefits the skeptic that we
present to someone have weak faith or have no faith is the prophecy
that was written down.
And and the event happened after we have manuscripts proof that it
was written down? So it was in Makati, or Muslim or tin MIDI or
Abu Dawood or an imaginary Muslim, Ahmed or Torani. And we have those
books in manuscript form, centuries before the event
happened, that is the one that is a proof. Okay.
And that's what you should be presented to people.
The third category of prophetic
prophecies is that prophecy which has yet to happen, and those two
should be preached to the people. Why? Because we all hear that
prophecy, but we haven't seen how it happens. Let me give you one.
We know the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said a man's
sandal strap and his whip will inform him of what he does and
that metal will speak. And we constantly now are talking to
objects. We're talking to our phone, constantly talking to our
phone, we're constantly go walk into the car, Siri, get me this
Walk at home, Alexa, get me that find me this piece of information,
find me that play me this playlist, play that playlist. We
are constantly human beings are constantly talking to inanimate
objects now.
So we get that.
But there's another part of this prophecy that
we don't see the prophets, I said them said animals will speak.
We don't have that. But we have to say it, because we will have it
someday.
It will happen someday, that what happens in the brains of an animal
will get translated through a software. And then maybe a collar
or something will speak of the animals desire. This is not far
off at all. If you if you put nodes on an animal's head, okay.
And a node will is will be monitoring the area of hunger,
let's say for example, it's not so hard that goes off, it translates
to a software and the animal says I'm hungry.
Where is an animal about to go to the bathroom? It detects that
translates through a software. I'm about to go to the bathroom. So if
you have a dog that's useful for you, okay, um, the dogs that
shouts out, I'm about to go to bath, right, let's take him
outside. Okay.
This is not that hard.
And it's a matter of,
let's see, when they do it, not if but when, because when the prophet
speaks, we hold it to be true. And this is why even I might have been
humbler said Be very careful about transmitting the very weak
types of prophecies. Because one thing that cannot happen for any
said prophet, and we know when that happened for our prophets of
Allah, what He was sending is the prophecy that goes the opposite,
not the prophecy that hasn't happened yet.
The prophecy that goes the opposite direction, like
Nostradamus, when he's prophesied that in 300 years, there will be
extreme drought and the population of Europe will go down. He gave us
a mathematical
prophecy.
And what happened? He was proven the exact opposite. He was proven
wrong. The population went up, he gave us an objective measure the
population. And what happened, modernity was developed, farming
methods improved, and the population went through the roof.
So you got the first one. That is the first prophecy in his book.
It's an introduction. Okay.
Nostradamus is mica ille de notre DOM. That's what Nostradamus is
right? Mike from Notre Dame. That's who he is. And he's, of
course, someone who was doing a lot of guessing. And he was into
the occult was wrong. Right. So once you have one prophecy, that's
wrong,
you're out.
Right?
The whole person is discounted.
Let me talk about something else. This is a little bit off of the
topic of the Prophet sallallahu. It was Saddam. But what do we say
about somebody?
Who claims an unseen
experience a spiritual experience? And it's like a repeated
experience.
Yet seems to us 100% genuine.
Okay.
How do we explain this in Islam? And they're saying things that are
contrary to the shittier.
Like, for example,
they seem 100% genuine. And they say that they have spiritual
experiences. And they their conclusion is like, for example,
universality of all religions, that doesn't matter, the theology
just all come together and be be good, right? And God loves all the
religions, Christianity, Hinduism, whatever it is, just pray to God.
Like what do we do with such a person? First of all, you have to
understand that you don't have to have
a full understanding
of
what's happening with that person.
The first first knowledge that we must have is we must know the
place in our epistemology of that person
and spiritual experiences to not inform our doctrine or our law,
period, no matter who it is. Even if it's shake us you can move to
the Ottoman Empire. His mocha will not inform our Akita nor our Cydia
Simple as that, right
It let alone someone outside of Islam.
No matter how amazing their speeches are, no matter how
amazing their spiritual experiences are, know how to how
uplifting they seem to be, they will never inform our AKA, or our
shittier
we have a prophet who delivered to us a book that's in clear Arabic
tongue.
And what
has come down from that? That's our belief. Okay? No human beings
spiritual experience will spiritual experience. That's your
experience. I wasn't there to see you. I'm not there to see to check
if it was true or not. So it's subjective. The subjective doesn't
override the explicit or the objective, the absolute
which is the Quran and the T and the Sunnah. Overall, the general
son of the prophets of Allah when he was
Secondly, alright, fine, why no the ruling, but explain to me
what's going on? How are they they seem so genuine.
And I am speaking about a specific individual. I'm not gonna mention
their name.
They seem so genuine so uplifting, but they end up saying is so
honest. But they end up bringing us
doctrines that contradict Islam. I say, Listen, I don't I have to say
that they are lying. From the with the definition of the Arabic
definition that what the untruth are being spoken. When we say
covered in Arabic, it does not mean they're maliciously and
intentionally twisting the truth.
It means that they are saying something untrue. Right? If I sit
here, and I tell you, there are only two cars in the parking lot.
That's I could be lying. That doesn't mean I'm trying to mislead
you. That doesn't mean I have no regard for the truth. This simply
means I made a mistake. I could have been, I could have not seen
the third car. I could have not known the third guard came. So
technically, I'm innocent. By moral standards, I'm innocent. But
by objective standards,
I mean, accurate. And that's what we call a lie. So we would have to
say they're a liar in that respect. In the respect of the
truth, they're there. They're selling mistruths. Okay. Now, are
they delusional? Are they fabricating? Are they frauds
essentially, like total liars, total liars, you usually sort of
know them in their personal life. When you make millions and
millions and millions of dollars, and you don't really spend them on
yourself, and you give them away in charity, it makes you sort of
think he's not exactly a fraud, because frauds always have a
motive.
Right? And usually, it's a financial motive.
So may not be able to say he's a fraud.
Can we say they're delusional? If they're delusional, wouldn't they
be delusional in other facets of life too?
Can a person be delusional in one facet of life, but very competent
in other facets of life?
So that's usually how a delusional person it manifests in everything
in their finances. They're delusional in their family
relationship. They're delusional, not just delusional, in one
sphere. Like, I think, for example, Donald Trump could pass
the test as delusional and a fraud. But it does strike
everything. In his business life, in his family life, in his
political life. Everything about the guy is lies. He's just, he's
delusional in that sense, he's under.
He's not founded in truth anymore. He doesn't have any regard to the
truth. Okay, he has regard to what he wants to be true. And that
benefits him a lot. And that he does attain what he wants to
because he just puts his puts it in his mind and in other people's
mind that this is how it is election was a fraud. The election
was a fraud. So repeat it, hundreds upon 1000s of time, it
was a fraud, it was stolen, it was a fraud, it was stolen, then it
enters the hearts of the people who love him.
And then they start finding because they believe it now they
start seeing little pieces of evidence that it was a fraud. Now
it grows and it becomes a whole viewpoint of life. Right? But he's
someone who passes those tests. Delusion means someone who, whose
states the world is a way that he clearly is not. That's one thing.
And there are some times where delusion it's not called delusion.
It's just like a positive belief.
And if you look at everyone's anyone's successful, they're gonna
tell you that
they had to believe a conclusion to the situation that was not very
apparent right now. Like all the people who succeed in life, they
have to keep their mind that everything is going to be okay.
Everything's going to be fine. Everything's going to be good,
even though it doesn't seem to be I wouldn't call that delusion, I
would call that a correct use of hope.
Good. But he took it so far that he applies it to the actual
realities in front of him. So he's someone who you can clearly say is
delusional. And that is a fraud.
Right? He was lies, everybody financially steals from everybody.
He's a snake oil salesman. So but the person I'm talking about does
not have either these two qualities.
Now seem delusional doesn't seem to be a fraud. So what is it?
I don't have to have an answer. That's the thing. I don't know.
And I have to I don't have to have an answer. Right? So it's very
important for us to understand that we don't always have to have
an answer for everything. We just have to know what is obligatory
what we do with the answer we have to have. How does it affect me and
my dean?
I remember back in 2002,
said Jose Nasir was was
the professor at GW that I took my masters with. And he was very
impressed. extremely impressed with the yogi's.
And the yogi, he said, in front of my own two eyes,
buried himself.
Okay, they buried him in an area that where
he had a little bit of a casket where he could breathe at least.
And then they buried him. Okay. But he had a little bit of a
casket enough to have oxygen there. And he said before my old
two eyes, the man spent
40 days
buried, no food, no water.
And he said, we went back, we kept watch on the grave area, spent the
time there in India came out, they dug him up, and he walked right
off.
Okay, so he's saying, basically, this to him was that there's truth
in Hinduism.
Right? So the answer to that, first of all, I don't actually
have to know how he did it.
To know that it doesn't indicate truth in Hinduism. Because truth
is not determined by tricks in miracles, these kinds of tricks.
Truth is claimed by a prophet who comes recognizing the previous
religions, in other words, the Tawheed of other prophets, that's
remember that the oath that the prophets took you Jochum
Rasulullah, Musa Jaya Colima, Markham, he affirms the toe heat
of the ones before you. Okay? And then he brings you another Book
from Allah subhanho wa taala.
And he claims to be a prophet.
So, that is where my religion is based upon the book and the
Sunnah.
Not the tricks. And suppose it miracles of people who come after
the Prophet because he's caught him into being, if the prophet was
not God's intervene, then we would say, oh, okay, there's a new
prophet here. Does he confirmed the previous religions? previous
prophets, previous to hate that we know. And then did he perform a
miracle that shows he's a prophet of prophecy of some sort. So
there's multiple things.
Not just a trick. But now anyway, let me tell you, we can theorize
up now about these tricks, and mostly the theory is gonna go back
to support from gin.
So, there is a truth, but it's a dark truth. Yes, there is a truth
to these guys. These guys are not just they're not digging a tunnel.
There are no physical tricks here. There are no physical tricks, like
the magicians that Do you know, they have shows and then they have
amazing tricks. It's a trick. It's a sleight of hand trick, right?
It's not a sleight of hand trick. These Yogi's are not performing
sleight of hand tricks.
So we know that but spirituality is not all light. There's
spirituality of darkness. And that is the world of gins. So that's
the easy theory of notice. I'm saying it's a theory because we
don't really see these things. We don't know for sure. But could it
possibly be support from gym most likely it's going to be that
support from gyms
All right.
Let's now turn to everyone's comments and questions because I
think this stuff is really interesting for people. Okay.
This stuff is really interesting and I see and I think a lot of
people would want to talk about it
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a lot of people industry and watching to others good to see a
lot of old faces usually industry mashallah
does he What does Mr feel mean? When you say what is most of it
most of it means a hadith that came from
as an Ahad Hadith from one companion.
At some point in the initial transmission, it was one can be
like one companion, pass it on, or one Tebay took it from that
companion, and then it spread far and wide. So it has the effect
later on it appears as more towards it because it's
everywhere, but it started from one
okay, that's the meaning of Mr. Feet.
is asking Can the shahada only be given an English
the shahada is valid in any language provided that the meaning
is that there is none worthy of worship but Allah and that
Muhammad is his messenger. Most of feed by the way, ends with a
letter BOD was stuffy.
Most stuffy meme seen Tet fat yet BOD was Duffield, Yanni a foul FOD
like It's like failed is a flood. It became like a flood.
It wasn't a flood originally, but it became like what like what's an
example of the of almost a field Hadith? How about intimate Armello
beneath it. Now the Prophet did say it on the member, like he gave
it as a flipbook.
So a lot of Saba heard it, but in terms of transmission, what we all
have is sitting on mobile hooked up to one tab a to one tab a to
one tab a Tebbetts IV, and then that debits have a spread it far
and wide. No, actually, he's a tabby. Say no, the chain is one
say normal. And then it's two or three tebing. And then it spreads
far and wide. To the point that is like the first thing that anyone
learns.
Now let's go back to the shahada a couple rules you need to know
about the shadow they can never be delayed.
Oh, this thing I don't accept it anymore. Calls me on Wednesday. I
got a friend can I bring him to take the shahada on Friday? Yes,
you can but give him the Shahada. No. Oh, but he wants to do it in
front of everybody and have a shadow side and we will do that
for him. Right? But give him the shahada right now on the phone.
You give it to him you who can give this to anybody. You can give
yourself a shout.
I'm a convert watching I don't know how to become Muslim. You say
Oh Allah, You're my witness Leila Allah Muhammad Rasul Allah
discussion over your urine now a movement and a Muslim, you just
now need to make the community know about it for practicalities
purposes. So that when we see you on the street, if you die, we know
what to do with you. If you want to get married, we know that
you're Muslim, if you slaughter something, and then we can eat it,
right? So we need to know the community needs to know that
you're Muslim. So we can give you your dues, you can take Zika Okay,
things like that.
We know how to greet you with all that practicality stuff. So the
but the shahada can be given by oneself.
And I can't tell you how many people I met Well, I could
probably count, it was probably three or four people who became
Muslim not knowing there is a shahada to be uttered.
And so they never actually said, Now I'm going to be coming with
some Leila. Hola, Mundo Sula. They didn't know that because they
became Muslim through videos and books. So what they did is in
their heart they said I'm a Muslim now right? And they started making
the do and prank that's it.
So they say was I listened the whole time. Yes, you were Muslim
the whole time? Because in the prayer, aren't you gonna say? I
said to Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Muhammad Abdullah
soon. So they've said the shahada many many times. But they didn't
realize that there is a moment where you could just say the
shahada and boom now you're Muslim. Anyway, we give them
Shahad anyway. They've been already making will do praying and
fasting for years. Not having known because not all converts.
Are these gung ho people, right? Sometimes you have somebody who
has like three kids, single mom
converts to Islam, or I know another guy
went through a phase. watch YouTube videos read some pamphlets
became more
slim went on with his life became a like a I don't know a physical
therapist or something live the average life but they never
desired any more than just to know what to have a religion right
that's it so he never went on studied never traveled to the
different message you don't want to convert comes in then all of a
sudden I gotta go to every Masjid read every book see every speaker
et cetera know about everything not everyone's like that
have there been med hubs that died out in the past? Yes seven in
particular that we can name
if new Jedi to Tibet, he had a method
Abu Dawood
no sorry. Dode
Allah Hetty had a method
I was there I had a method, a lathe of inside had a method
so if you earn a salary, had a mother.
That's five. Right? There's two more who are the two others?
Now those are they never were Edison in the first place. Who
were the two others?
There were two others that had muda hip med hubs, meaning they
had a methodology and people followed them.
Joffrey school like it's alive technically. Right. But like when
it started out? It's about school, right?
I don't think so.
I don't think so. Not that I've read in the history. Yeah.
He wasn't a member of Arizona, but he didn't in our record in
history. He didn't establish a methodology of Fichte to be
followed. Yeah, like if, if it would ever existed, it would be in
the books have called the EOD
because he documented all that all of what happened in Medina and
some of the medic
Senator attic for really long suttas how many verses Should we
read for each raka of Salah for fetcher. Now, let me break it this
way. The length when we talk about length, the hotness is considered
short. I have a set to Doha is considered medium Hojo dots to ABA
is considered long. So that's the general length. So I would put it
as Doha chinesse, you could say,
half a page.
Doha to Abba close to a page. However, such a whole gerat
we can say well, one to four pages, right? More than one page
up to four. So
for February you should recite long Sutras, the whole long
sutras, Ossur medium length sutras, Maghrib short sutras,
Reisha medium length sutras, now you're not limited to those
sutras, we're just given an example of length. So short is
half a page and under
medium is half a page to one page. And long is one page onwards, up
to four pages, and a person should not lead in Salah more than longer
than what's in between novice sets or Hojo dots. Okay?
The hadith let none of you pray awesome, except after reaching the
bene Karela perfectly illustrates literal versus deeper meaning
that's correct. Is it possible that the Prophet meant
miss us? Some of the Sahaba said it's impossible that the Prophet
meant miss us. Right? The prophet, a Prophet, Messenger of Allah will
never inform people to miss us. Right? And yet some Sahaba said,
No, we're gonna go by the letter of what the Prophet said. And the
prophets I said number one, and he accepted both. Right? He did
accept both.
Does MACOM interfere with Tajweed
MACOM is not something that you ever have to learn. You know, the
MCO mats and no one and I never learned that and my teachers
actually didn't mind the Moroccan teachers that didn't really like
those things. The Arabs on the east they love those things. But
you should learn to eat first before you ever learn Mohamed
Mohamed has nothing to do with the Quran per se it has to and the
Maliki has tend to prohibit this.
Mohamed has to do with melodies and the Malkia dislike these use
of melody in the in the event
let alone the chillout Quran. Some of the Syrians don't like it like
especially with like sort of.
Well, ball you know, like Yeah, yeah, go up and down. Yep. So they
would say that's like, it's a different letter. You sign Oh,
you're kidding. SubhanAllah. So that's why
They think a lot of them. Yeah, they don't like that. Maybe
changing the tone.
And he dropped for managing parents frustrations,
and or provision needs. It's a general advice that's all of try
to pour on more honey, someone's upset.
Try to take attention from the upsetness or find the source of
the upsetness try to pour on more honey. people when they're happy,
they find less reason to be upset.
When they're pleased with you, when they're when you're nice to
them. They don't want to be upset with you so they make excuses for
you.
financial needs you need to support them. The son needs to
support them first if not then the son in law.
Chocolate wallow question. My father is in the last stage of a
neurological disorder in that he's in pain. Would it be a sin if we
stopped treating him with antibiotics? Since there is no
cure? And just to pain medications? Yes, it is not
sinful, it is permissible for you to do that.
Man hedge Am I allowed to pray behind my father who makes big
mistakes in the fetch essence? He's not an Arab. Oh, what are the
parameters of those mistakes? I think they said if it no longer
sounds like Quran
or
not letters, because there are lisps and lisps is allowed can
lead to prayer with a lisp.
But if it no longer sounds like the Quran,
then we can't pray behind them.
Okay, how do we explain narrations says Mohammed shack? Like why are
we asking what prevents you from cursing i Li to the Companions?
We the explanation from for those. Firstly, I don't remember
such a hadith I'm not I do know that the cursing of Adi did happen
in the time of
wow you.
If I'm not mistaken, it did happen. And I can tell you that in
general, the way that Allah would
answer that is that it was
not out of cursing him as a heretic, or an innovator or an
empire Muslim, but rather as somebody who
as a method to make the people stay away from him. And it's an
error. Now cursing is less than fighting physically. And Sahaba
fought physically.
And we can accept that as a political dispute amongst them
over the don't over matters of this world. Not over matters of
Deen so we would explain it in light of that we already
understand that they fought cursing is less than that. Good
it's less than that like hitting someone with your mouth with your
words. But I would want to go and look at actually what some of the
automatic said about it
as well.
Okay, when you say they had a meth head they had their own meth heads
not from the four correct Lana's asking you about these Imams that
I say that
I was there a so Fiona 30 Yes, they had their own methodologies.
There was much to had mutlak later been sad.
Okay, even Jedi recovery
diodes, a variety. And there's two more. Can you look up the 11 metal
hubs because there were 11 at some point, but they died out.
didn't have enough students.
One brother saying here that is how could know Hawaii had a meth
lab.
What about shahada for kids? Kids do not need to take the shahada
children, when they enter into Islam, they just start praying and
fasting. They do not need to take this out at centers. They could if
they want to, but I know a person who reverted when they were 16
years old flabbergasted to learn that when he went to Imam he told
him to think clearly for four to three. Oh my gosh, that is haram
for him to do at his homes him to do for the Imams to do that. That
is not right. Okay, because it's Allah's Huck. The shahada is not
yours is not for you. It's not for me, it's not for the person who
does it. It is the husk of ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada to be believed in.
Notice says Islam is not a club that you're joining. It's God's
rights.
notices when I first read the Quran, and Syrah and pondered over
it, I never actually said the Shahada. But one day I asked
myself, Why are you doing this daily? And my heart literally was
because you're a Muslim. That's it. And eventually, in the process
of being a Muslim, you're naturally going to say the shed
Good
my friend's daughter took shahada last week at Azada Masjid in
Midland Park, New Jersey. That's great. She's 19 It was a special
day was right after drummer and her mom with her mom's blessing.
Billy McGuire says I have very few friends, but I feel left out due
to their major topics and interest in dunya. And since, but also fear
that I won't learn the dunya is customs by staying away. I don't
know what to do. The Dainius customs can be learned by good
Muslims, from good Muslims, I say. So I would say go to the masajid.
Go to the mosques, go to the places of Islamic activity, and
make friends there. If you're young go to you young Muslims. And
you'll see good Muslims there and you'll see sinners there. And you
will see everything the whole gamut. But at least you'll be in
the company of people who believe in Allah
and pray and at least you're safe in that regard.
As a UK viewer says a man see, should I wait for the UK program
to release next year or join the current or if I would join the
current market? That's an example of cloud portability I do to the
best of good deeds is that which would you quickly that has to do
with things that for your personal religion? As we said, it has
nothing to do with contracts. It's for your personal religion. And so
you could attend what you can and you could watch the recordings,
and people who do religiously watch the recordings. They benefit
a lot.
All right, one more question.
Can you pray for my deceased father that last died last week?
Grandfather May Allah subhana wa Tada enter him into genital for
the dose without any hisab? May Allah subhanaw taala pour upon him
from his mercy, that may Allah subhanaw taala strengthen him in
the questioning and make his grave a vast garden from the gardens of
Paradise.
Mason Haix Could you please talk about the main differences between
the Salafi and the four month EPS asking for my family who are
unaware of the issue?
itself here is a fifth myth.
It is a fifth myth. That's the truth. It has its own off data,
its own view of spirituality and its own law. The problem with it
is that it cannot be traced back to one individual who becomes like
the referee of what Silvia means.
And that's why in their update and in their FIP they have so many
variations. Right? There's a lot of variations. Hmm.
Yeah, that also, it there's a lot of variation in there also, even
so, a meth hub is established by a human being who will stand before
Allah and said, This is what I wrote. And Allah will judge him on
that, right. And he and we hold him to be righteous and pious and
correct and valid in what he said and did. Okay. And so we will take
our religion from him based upon that said if he attends to be more
of an idea, okay. And it has Imams no doubt about that.
All right, but I it according to Dr. Hudson Hodge, who was a humbly
he said Sofia has none due to humbly school, it is on its own.
And its main problem in my perspective, in terms of its
structure, is that it does not go back to one individual.
So what are is there the book of Sofia note there? Is it right? On
Aki, they also are on the Furuya the branch issues of the law. So
that's one of the biggest issues, right? And secondly, the claim of
the claim that we've got it figured out and these methods are
invalid. These other methods are not valid. That time sometimes
creeps up some say and some don't. Some Salafi say that that these
methods the wrong outrightly wrong, and you should not you
should study them but you shouldn't worship Allah based upon
them. And that I've heard, so we would say no, that's totally
wrong. If an if an itchy head on a matter that is speculative, is
done correctly, then you can worship Allah based upon that
Hanafi Shafi medic your humbly
did he mimetic write any book on his own FIP he wrote them all up,
which does not necessarily go into his soul, but he's also can be
gleaned from there, and his suiting up the ramen Bellossom who
studied with medic for 20 Some years
more than that,
eventually went back to Egypt Tunisian man named noon
had him there and documented
everything that mimetic taught.
And that's the mother book in the Maliki school called Al muda
winner with a one at noon. And the whole book reads as I asked him to
remember Qasim this, I asked him this. I asked him this and updraft
member of Kazim, he is Maddix best student. Of course, the most
famous student is a Chevy. But the best students spent the most time
with him, was the Egyptian of the Rahman Ibn Kasim. Okay, who went
to Egypt shortly after getting married, missed the birth of his
son
did not have much money. So he realized if I go to he's never
coming back. He ended up saying next year won't stay one more
year. So one more year stay one more year.
He ended up staying over 20 years. In the middle of that time period,
somewhere in the middle. His mother realized I don't think he's
coming back. So she sent his son
and his son arrived there as a teenager. But because he grew up,
never seen his dad, but knowing is your dad studying with medic. In
Medina, the love of knowledge grew so much in the sun.
That as soon as the sun came, He came with his pen and paper and he
started a study, he did not want to leave his dad's side for a
minute. And he studied with his father, right.
The man accused contrasts and say my son grew up in knowledge. But
he's out in the streets. You know, buying, selling, playing with
other kids. You grew up without a father without knowledge. You
know, never going sitting with you, but he loves it. Good.
Divine traces. What is the thing with the metaphysics scandal? You
can go back to the early part of this live stream, where we talked
about some advice on releasing fits our in general. I don't want
to bash the person when everyone's already bashing them. Right. But
there's no need, because everyone knows that the feds what was she?
It's really be taken down to be honest.
What about people who can't master to scalar in recitation? Do we
need to correct them?
Sometimes it just upsets them.
Know,
if they can't, and they're older and they just can't recite
properly? I don't believe there's a need to correct them more than
once. One time, yes, two times three times. But that's it if they
just can't fix themselves. They can't fix themselves.
Why are Quranic abrogation is a thing in the first place?
Shouldn't the perfect words come in the first revelations? The
reason is that this Quran came to human beings. And Allah wanted to
show us how human beings changed slowly. So you physically cannot
change human beings, once boom.
It has to be with a gradation, particularly in matters of
addiction. And in matters of,
really, its addiction, right? And it also in matters of physical
possibility and impossibility. If you have if you never had a law,
can you now be given a law book with 500 laws?
Are you going to do it? You can't you physically can't. So it's, I
would say that there are matters of addiction, but also matters of
pragmatics like it's physically not possible to go from having no
law to establishing the whole law. Right. And so that's one reason
why a the Quran did not come down all at once came down when a
German in parts
good over 23 years. Secondly, the issue of addiction. You cannot
tell people stop drinking full stop, it has to enter their head
that this is going to become prohibited soon.
Right? Even somebody who had an article on the blog posts the
other day, where a man said that he can't become Muslim, because
there is no way in the world he will ever stop drinking.
Right.
And so the Sheikh said we'll come into Islam and bring your bottle
with you. Right.
So he was flabbergasted at what is Yeah, Islam is a belief. The
actions can come later.
So even today, when we when the Convert knows it's haram, the
practical and wise schewe, they say yes, it's haram but don't
worry about it right now. Settle your beliefs first. Learn Who is
Allah who is probably learn how to make wudu learn about the
afterlife. Learn how to make Salah
later on as your Eman gets strong with what Eman? Is he going to
remove the bot? kick the habit? With what Amen. So you got to
strengthen that he meant first and then eventually you'll kick the
habit
Ladies and gentlemen, a lot of
a lot of
questions here. I said again, I don't have to read that hadith for
myself and the commentaries. I'm not going to make up a commentary.
I was he says, the Hadith says, Why don't you curse so as to
present the people the virtues of say, naughty, and while we never
cursed Ali, okay, I'll look into that to that.
It is, is it true that seeing a dead person in your dream is the
truth? Yes, the dead don't speak lies anymore in dreams?
And yes, it does mean they are present to you and your dream.
What whatever presence means, because it's not really known
what's happening
can we seek forgiveness of a sin? Even if we know that we're going
to fall into it again? In the future? The answer is yes. But
you're not seeking forgiveness for a sin that you're gonna perform.
You're seeking forgiveness for past sins, while in the back of
your mind knowing that you're still stuck in this. Yes, you can
do that. And you but you have to make dua that Allah removes you
from it.
What is your favorite scholar of all time? Let's put it this way.
If I had to meet one item
had to meet only one item. And I had an hour to meet one item
and sit with him for one hour? Who would that item be?
Let's ask that for everyone. You should all ask that question to
yourself.
And
I would have to say that
I would have a number of Allamah. In my mind. If I had one hour and
I could sit with one hour. It let's just put who would be in our
mind as candidates. Firstly,
Medic knew the Sunnah better than anyone else. So if we're removing
the Prophet salallahu, salam, and Sahaba from this possibility, then
it would be adequate definitely be one of them. Because they don't,
the Prophet himself said about him, they would strike the livers
of they would strike the animals to travel.
Not finding anyone more knowledgeable than that scholar of
Medina. So the Prophet himself called him the most knowledgeable,
of course, later on the scholar said, most knowledgeable of his
time, yes, but he was also the last of the three great
generations, right. And the Prophet never said this about
anybody else. So that's the one thing and with the belief that
truly what he says about the Sunnah of the Prophet about even
not just the Sunnah of the little actions, but
even how to handle matters
was the most knowledgeable and wise so that would definitely be a
candidate another candle be able to play the RWJ, Lani and a third
will be able to have a Chevy
to have one hour just to sit with one of them. Imagine that Subhan
Allah for studying with one of you like could spend like your entire
journey with one scholar? Oh, it would it would it be the same
answer, like here, okay. Now you get one teacher for life. Yeah,
would probably be the same answer it would probably be.
If it's to spend time with them for life. I'll do coffee with Jada
and you're able to have some Saturday, because
I love that they could write and to spend time with them. And they
were such that Gideon.
I heard that I would have to share that he was one of the most
softest, easiest
and most welcoming and,
and I should say, accommodating of shoe,
rather than those who were extremely.
I don't want to say the word pushy. But those who push their
students he was almost like no come as, however, whatever your
strength is, and you know, apply whatever strength that you have.
So that's what I remember reading about about hustler 70 And
remember Shafi was very much like this to write some others, they
were rigorous. Malik was rigorous, right? Like you needed to be at a
level of competence to even keep his company
that a lot of us they can't survive. It's Apollo.
Even in today, so many, many of Hashem that are playing games
can't keep up you move on. Whereas you go off to a McRib and they
have the opposite
approach to you they were willing for you to be as weak as you want
to be and slowly get better
ladies and gentlemen
sadly and unfortunately we must stop here
let's try to
know him and no it's
definitely a madman know he would be up there with studying Allume
for sure no doubt about that right no doubt about that because I
don't think there's anyone we quote more than 11 no way he's
quoted in Hadith he's quoted in Apt in FIP of course FA FIP he's
quoted in nakida even because his shot have Muslim has explanations
there of like everything you can imagine in Aikido
right.
And everybody Oh Subhanallah a sister says here Alright, so
Mokhtar from England.
Everyone I need your DUA delivering twins tomorrow
Bismillah Wow. May Allah to Allah, My Allah to Allah bless them and
make the birth go smoothly, without any hardship to you or to
them and make them come out full of health and make them a source
of happiness for you and Dena dunya and akhira and may Allah
subhanho wa Taala make from them, the Imams of the community,
as Allah subhana wa Tada says that I've been a hablando and as well
as you know what the reality in a Kurata in which an Ellinwood
tacchini Mama So may Allah try to make them for you a Kurata and for
you and your husband, and make them from the leaders of this
room. Just come lock in and everybody Subhanak Allahumma Byham
Deke shadow
Illa illa Anta nests of Pharaoh quality will ache when I was in
Santa Fe Of course. Ill Alladhina amanu I'm you know Saudi
whatsoever so but Huck, what's a while so the sub was salam aleikum
wa rahmatullah?
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