Shadee Elmasry – NBF 241Iranian Sunnis & Discussing Fatwa Shaykh NoorudDeen
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu lillah wa Salatu was Salam
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shining the weather is I would say spicy because it's got a tinge of
humidity just enough to you know make you feel a little bit sweaty.
But also you need the air on and it's it's hot. So but it's very
nice out. Sun is always better than no sun today it is Wednesday,
which means it is affairs of the OMA that's what we're on today.
And we begin
with the news.com.au Ladies and gentlemen out of Australia
brothers and sisters, listen very closely from the Almara Lebanese
friends in Australia. Muslim preacher warns is haram to watch
the Matilda's now apparently this news outlet found this so bizarre,
so comical, so crazy that they decided to write an article about
it. Okay. But when I listened to it, I didn't see anything crazy. I
think that this brother takia. Dean, Daddy, I agree with him is
simple reason. It's haram to look at the output of another woman in
Islam, like it don't like it. Your liberal friends are gonna cringe
at that. Well, tough luck for them. Right? Sorry to say that,
but that's the rule. And he joined the religion and that religion has
rules, right? It's forbidden for the opposite gender to look at
each other's out. Is that so bizarre? On top of that appeared,
Dean says something we all understand too. He says, Yeah,
they may be carrying the Australian flag.
But he says pretty funny. He says they're all alphabets. Right? And
so you're liking supporting. Now he also addresses another point
that's very important that anytime someone brings something up, they
say, Oh, it's this is a minor matter, right? This is a small
matter. And he addresses this very well to where he says that is not
all of our record of deeds on the Day of Judgment, small deeds, that
compound nobody should in Islam say that this is a small matter
because all of our lives with ALLAH SubhanA wa, tada consists of
small deeds, no one's going out there establishing looking at for
no one's own out there. Abolishing poverty, what you're doing is you
may abolish poverty for one person for one day. Right? You may
talk about something related to that hit if and educate one person
on one Messala. Right. But if you think about what the the behavior
of a Muslim is that the prophets of Allah when he was salam,
a train his Sahaba on is that we should be looking out for all of
our small deeds.
And if everybody does that, we have a whole different community
now. And then we have the ability now to rise up to higher things.
But there is no such thing as one big master plan. And let's only
talk about the big issues of the world No, where Islam as is
practiced by individual human beings. Who's the your definition
as a Muslim is your compilation of your small deeds. The collectivity
of your small deeds, that's what you are. So when the brother
addresses smoking, while also he's not exactly writing a PhD thesis,
he's making a 42nd Tick Tock video. So it's not like he's
taking a PhD thesis on a small matter or what people deem to be a
small matter rather, he's also treating it very simply. Let's
listen to the brother
because I personally
and then and then let me tell you something. They contacted the
National Council of Imams and the National Council, the Imam says
we don't comment on individuals.
social media posts, hold on a second way to go and just tossing
your brother to the to the wolves. Why don't you say? Yes, we don't
comment on everyone's because we're not going to set a precedent
for that. However,
the ruling that he stated is a ruling in Islam.
And the National Council of Imam upholds the ruling that a Muslim
is not allowed to look at people of the opposite gender for no
reason.
And we're not allowed to be supporting liking whatever people
who may have a view that is outside of Islam so let's listen.
So what is this about this about the Women's World Cup?
Hold on. How do we got to get this? You know, they you click
play but the things on mute? Their default is on mute. Alright, let's
go to this brother takia de moda. Does anyone know him? Tell him
that we here at the screen society nothing effects livestream said
Well done to sit on money. Recycle. Okay.
Here let's go to
the Matilda's
Muslim brothers.
For us to look at the opposite gender, Allah subhanaw taala has
commanded us to lower our gaze to the opposite gender. Forget this.
And not just the Subhanallah Jana Yanni did we forget who was
supporting their mother hiding under the threatening flag. But
the reality Subhanallah these people that you are supporting,
you're liking their posts, you are sharing them, you're commenting on
their posts.
These are people of the alphabets the majority of them, and they are
pushing his agenda through the athletes when they keep looking at
you shoot supporting him showing them the things okay.
But hold on, are you worried about this, but your actions are
Subhanallah showing something that's different.
You're gonna say Brother, you're too extreme. Tell me a small
thing. There's more important things to worry about. You know
what maybe the small thing
that the Melton has met up with smoke petals.
So you know, there wouldn't really have commented until I see this
newspaper here tried to bully and make fun of them and all that
stuff. So and put quotes on stuff you know, when they put quotes on
something that you know they're trying to make fun of it. or what
have you, so we got to give the brother some support on like his
own national Imams Council. I don't know who's on there, but
they just threw him. Well, we don't comment on anyone.
All right, let's move on. Omar. Do we have our guests ready?
All right, we shall experiment with our guests Jeff noted Dean
who has studied with the the great and the legendary odema is Shem
and he is out of the city of Luton, whom we went to in 2005
when heavy one would have been healthy it came to the big mosque
in Luton Shinoda Dean, take two which Jeff noted in Hello said
Omar. Welcome to the Safina society podcast
Allah All right, let us test everyone on YouTube. Can you hear
Shannon would it Dean this time around? We are good to go and
hamdulillah Omar and Noah troubleshooted. They they
troubleshooted for about an hour. And that's why we got a late start
because they troubleshooted for about an hour well done by the
guys want to know if we're doing the job. Now let's start all over
from what we were doing a couple of days ago. She has noted Dean is
the Imam of Luton. Can you tell everyone where you teach because
one of our interview
sort of just selection is based on young Imams who are physically and
online teaching people so that people could get to know who these
imams are and they can start studying with them. So why don't
you kindly tell us where do you teach on site in Luton and where
online?
Okay, so let's start with online online I have an organization
called Islam answers on that platform I teach on the website
itself it's primarily written so we have I have answer questions
and the answers are written out with the Quran and Hadith
as well as classical scholars and that's something that
I really tried to emphasize right do Quran Hadith and classical
Arabic and obviously everybody agrees on Quran and Hadith but
classical scholars, this moves us away from sectarianism and it
brings us to something which is more
unifying in sha Allah. So I have that I also have channels on
social media and YouTube others etc. And I teach there as well. I
have classes almost every day which are live streaming, as well
as in person
the
policies out at the moment very often at my house, we are at Islam
answers we are in the middle of trying to acquire engage an
institution in shallow physical building that will have no
institution based in shallow data. But sometimes I teach in masajid
so I teach while I'm about to each other how to start a course and
bend the mustard at the moment it's a Selection series that will
become a course and then the masjid in new turn by sometimes
teach at some of the local massage hub talks and such things in the
past so it's not there wasn't a university course but we hide the
university premises and I had some courses there as well. various
places, community centers, etc. But inshallah Inshallah, in the
near future, we will have a physical building a physical
center. At the moment, much of the teaching is out of my own house.
Okay, so, Banbury, Masjid, Islam answers.co.uk and classes are at
your house, I'm on the website. Now there's a retreat.
I see here in the advertisement to Istanbul.
September 23 24th, how can some of our nothing but facts
friends and family here, attend.
Inshallah, if they go on to the website even on the home page,
they will find a link for the assembled retreat also for the
upcoming O'Meara Inshallah, but it's time to get to me an
opportunity to link up with a number of my teachers as well,
because many of the scholars of Damascus have moved to Istanbul.
Can you tell us who for example,
in the course itself, at the moment, we have Chef Mojito Hoppy,
who's a teacher of mine, he will be delivering a lecture and and
shahada casa, he will also be delivering a lecture. But the
third person, I haven't quite decided who I'm going to invite at
the moment, we'd like to have a range of different scholars in
child load data. So I have a couple of names in mind, but I
haven't approached them yet. So
excellent. So Shikata, it's caatsa, who I met last trip, I did
not meet shake Moogerah khateeb. And it was a big family in
Damascus.
They have there are many I met with the last name Alkhateeb and
shift Majid and khateeb. Recently, to broach our topic had to retract
his name from a document
regarding effects where that was
not to his agreement that he did not agree with, then I think
nobody agreed with and I actually feel really bad for the person who
authored it, because they must be going through some kind of, you
know, emotional and mental crisis. The whole basically Islamic 50
World has basically,
you know,
dumped out there Fetzer into the garbage. But it calls for us to
think about this idea of publishing photo. You said that
you what you publish is answers to questions from the books. And you
provide the the shadow the the evidence from those Knossos so
that people could see what the evidence is not just pure
chocolate of the book fun. But these are questions that are
established questions as opposed to new matters. So when we say
fatwah, if you ask somebody, does bleeding? nullify will do. This is
not a new matter. This is a question that's been around for
hundreds of years. So we can go into the different books of the
month hubs, and provide you with the news and the evidence, right.
So that's not a problem. But when there's a new matter, that's
coming up,
that's where it's a sensitive issue.
And that's where a lot of people like to run and, and give an
opinion. What I had said earlier is that there has to be a
methodology in our community, where
we sort of judge where people actually put out there, why is it
that you should trust me?
Right. And not only that, I'd like to add to that, when a person
actually issues a festival, it would be a very good idea
to put down to have your shoe, read it in advance of the
publishing, and put their comment about the festival in advance of
it being published. Right?
And that way people would actually trust the federal even before
reading it. So can you comment on the need for some kind of law and
order when it comes to publishing fatawa. And by the way, if you're
on its, if you're on Instagram, come over to YouTube, because the
Instagram you're gonna see just the empty space between me and the
sheikh. But come on to YouTube Safina Saudi YouTube channel and
you'll be able to hear everything, see everything.
This is an absolute necessity when you have new issues, no doubt we
have contemporary scholars are gonna draft a test with them. And
I agree with yourself. Absolutely. When you have established Messiah,
and then we have to go back to the books, you know, that's where the
authority lies, fine. Some people may misunderstand and
misinterpret, and that can be clarified, Inshallah, new issues
is far more difficult. Because when we speak about the classical
works, there's, by and large, there is agreement where your
authority lies, is this an authoritative work in the method?
Is this not an authority to work? By and large, we have agreement,
when it comes to contemporary issues, one of your concerns is
then going to be who are the authoritative contemporary
scholars, and that's why I try to emphasize as much as possible,
whenever it's a non contemporary issue, go back to the sources
because at least we're all united and unified. But yes, my approach
is the following. Whenever it's a contemporary issue, I believe we
should try to go to the most senior scholars available in sha
Allah. Again, people will differ but that you are somebody who
studied in Medina who
One of the most senior scholars of the world today the foot Baja, and
have a different answer to me who studied in Damascus and a little
bit interesting
to somebody who studied in Karachi, for example, they,
they're going to have different ideas with regard to that. But
there's still, you know, there's some understanding that these are
the people who have been teaching for 20 3040 5060 years, you know,
and they recognize at least in their community, maybe not
worldwide as people have some skill, some authority with
regards, right. So I practice that on Islam answers, and I find that
something is a contemporary issue.
What tends to happen, I have the answer. I have the answer with the
the de la with some relevant NAS because of course, we're not going
to have a direct NAS NAS, for those who aren't familiar is a
text from the classical works, some relevant NAS and then at the
bottom, a list of scholars, usually we've had a few issues, I
tend to reach out to five or six different scholars
a list of those who have replied to me and said, Yes, this is the
answer. Yes, we agree with this answer. Whenever that we have a
contemporary issue. I have that even if it's something which is,
you know, you have some basis for it in the classical works, but
it's slightly different, somewhat different. I tend to do that. And
I feel this is best practice. But I don't rely on the title alone,
that it can be misleading. You mentioned last week that or the
last time we we tried to do this is that a lot of people receive
the name mufti, after finishing an academic course, with actually
very little life experience.
And that seems to me, one of the issues is that a word is just the
title that's passed around. And sometimes you look up and
someone's like, 22 years old, right, barely reached blue. last
decade, he reached blues last decade. That's actually the truth,
right? He literally has not been bedded for 10 years. And he's
given the name Mufti. Now we know that in the past, there have been
automat who attained
the rank of mufti, very young. But in today's world, just to study,
the contemporary issue, oftentimes takes
a great amount of secular knowledge, like some of these
contracts that are bought and that are used to finance things and
finance homes. The language of the contrast itself, sorry, of the
contract itself, may need a decent amount of time studying it, right.
medical matters.
need plenty of time to examine, right to actually understand what
the actual, what is actually happening here. Oftentimes related
to food and the chemical transformation of things. So
there's, unlike in the past, it seems like this day and age, a lot
of secular knowledge, worldly knowledge
is needed before federal can be
disseminated. Right? So
yeah,
yes, absolutely. And also, it's one thing when you're in the
madrasa you're studying, you know, there's a particular curriculum in
front of you particular books and such things. It's another thing
when you're in the community teaching, but when a mother has a
teaching, and you're constantly going back to those books,
referring to a different works, how it varies, how the answer
varies. There's life experiences, absolutely important. fundamental
importance and understanding of the issue at hand itself is
incredibly important. But also, having had enough time to become
familiar with the words actually, from the Hanafi perspective,
become familiar with, you know, the commentaries on a hidayah. For
example, to become familiar with the words I've given Aberdeen, in
America, it's one thing to just read through it in a class. It's
another thing to go back into a dip into it again, and again and
again, and compare one last one text to another to a third to a
fourth. And to really take that time, you need time you need years
to be able to really hone that skill and gain that knowledge is
so and this can differ from culture to culture as well,
because in subcontinent culture, it seems like very often that is
the case that you'll graduate from a particular program. You have the
title mufti, in Damascus in my experiments, absolutely no, but
they rarely use the word Mufti Murthy is only I've only really
seen it used when it's an official position, government position. So
the Mufti of Sham other than that you can have great great scholars
and don't be known as chef for them.
Example Halaby for example, he wasn't moved. But he wasn't
referred to as Mufti doesn't refer to as you know, in our culture
said movies are referred to
now let's talk about another thing is that photo op are not binding
in any way, shape and form
Are
there only acted upon they only have any value, if you will, if
the reader willingly acts upon it, okay? Otherwise it's just ink on
paper. So one of the reasons why the other factor beyond your
education and your certification is experience and trustworthiness
in the community is because before you give an edict for people to
act upon, there needs to be a track record of trusts in that
community, right. And this is where sometimes you sort of get
puzzled because they may be totally correct on affetto and
knowledgeable, ineffectual, but nobody knows them. In contrast,
you may have a person who maybe read a couple books here and
there, didn't like formally study founded the mosque, collects the
Zika, helps the poor, raises the Shabaab has summer camps for the
Shabaab does all this stuff, right doesn't know a lick of fit. And
then he gives his own Fetzer on a matter. Right? He's totally wrong.
The whole community follows him. Why? Yes, it has nothing to do
with the what's on paper, or what's being the evidence it has
to do with trust. So talk to us a little on the importance of trust.
Yeah, absolutely. I
agree. I couldn't agree more SubhanAllah. And this is one of
the main reasons I'm on social media. It's only fairly recent, I
think it's been just a few years ago that I agreed to, you know,
start speaking in a more public realm. And Islam answers itself is
roughly two years old, the website and writing there, etc. And it's
been the in terms of the videos, I've been producing videos for a
longer period. But
you know, my image on the video is quite recent, I think that's maybe
two, two and a half, three years old. Because I'm somebody who, who
loves the anonymity that you have, when you're not a public figure, I
really like that. And it's something that was really dear to
me. And I did not want to lose that. I think maybe for two years
or so, I was producing material for the public via the radio
station, or via the Islam answers, or prior to that the channel was
YouTube channel, just on my name. I really liked that I can speak to
the people, but my image is not on it. But the brothers who assist me
with this, they kept on telling me that unless you put images on
there, you're not really going to have much, much of a reach. Not so
many people will listen to you. And I gave that up, I made that
sacrifice, I sacrificed an aspect of my anonymity. Because now you
know, I will be industry and people will come over and say I
said I'm where they come from, I know you, I know you from such and
such, I know you from such and such, and I prefer the privacy. I
prefer the anonymity. But the whole purpose is exactly as you
have said, the reality is, if you don't, if people don't have a
connection with you, if they haven't seen before, it doesn't
matter how senior you are, it doesn't matter what your
credentials are, they will not take from you.
It's incredibly important. And that's one of the main reasons
there are another reason is I, whenever I came across
misconceptions, misnomers or problematic things being taught
fine in my class, I would raise it to the handful of students that
were here, and I'd explain why it's wrong. But then that's not
getting to the masses, the person who said that's incorrect, or
taught something incorrectly raise something, which is incorrect, may
have addressed 100,000 Muslims in the UK, and I am addressing, say,
2030 4050, we're going to how are we going to leave the masses to
those who are spreading misguidance? That was the the
other factor in it. But yes, absolutely. You know, you do need
to be a public face. Otherwise, you are reliant on those public
faces otherwise a senior scholar, he will only have value if those
public faces say, oh, yeah, by the way, he's a good scholar. Yes.
What he's producing, pushing him for, it's somebody who has very
little knowledge but has the outreach. And that's where I see a
lot of to lob LM, okay, get frustrated and the whole class
have to love admin focus. Sometimes I see this frustration,
where there's a disconnect between the everyday life of the community
and those automate. Now some, like Shikata, Tulsa is very good at
bridging that gap. And he bridges that gap. It's actually much
easier than people imagine. It's just the you just have to close
your book, get up, maybe change your job sometimes, because he
takes kids he takes Shabaab on like, camping trips on boat rides,
and he probably at this age doesn't do it himself. You know
the shape, but he now has a home or house that is rent
it out up in northern Turkey. And he says every few months, they
take a whole bunch of Shabaab out. And they do a whole bunch of
things hiking, grilling, swimming, Turkey, it's the landscape is very
much like the United States, where you have these camp outs, you have
these hills, you have these creeks and rivers and streams, and you
can grill and live in a like, I don't think this is more, you
know, the the topography of England isn't like that. Point
being is that he bridges the gap between everyday life and the way
of the scholars. And what got my attention to that is that on your
website, you now have a youth club,
which makes me think that you're on the same page on the importance
of bridging this gap between the folk Aha, and the regular people.
So why don't you tell us about your youth club and, and how that
relates to translating to tattoo via Antani ensure that we have a
lot more planned this is often referred to as the BJJ. You have
so how did the local BJJ club we have here, we were paired up with
them. So they provide that that aspect of the training. And at the
same time, there's a lecture that takes place, although that one the
lecture there is delivered by a student of mine, but we're trying
to pair between the physical activity and also some Islamic
education. Islam answers are still relatively young, and we have a
lot of plans with regards to the you, we want to do more and more
regarding you. And Alhamdulillah by the Grace of Allah subhanaw
taala, my most successful platform is actually Tiktok No way. And
that's one of the reasons I'm on Tik Tok is I've been told that
that's a younger audience, you know, if you want to get to the
youth themselves, that's the platform for insha Allah
hamdulillah by the Grace of Allah subhana, Allah, the, you know, the
figures that are very good. So that's an aspect of it. But in
terms of practical
providing practical activities for the local youth community, we
intend to do a lot more in sha Allah, Allah, there are many, many
plans.
If you look at the, before we move on to my next question, if you
look at the in, at least maybe in the last decade or two decades or
so, before the Arab Spring, the there was a group the Muslim
Brotherhood. And I would always see the majority of masajid, at
least from the Arabs are run by an f1. Right. Now one of the things
that they do is there's so much into these the general activity of
regular Muslims and into sadaqa. Right, so there, and that's how
they get their authority in the community. Now, when you now look
at their books, and their their men, hashtag AMI, it doesn't match
anything of any of the curriculums of the past. I mean, I looked at
some of the books and it's almost like
a complete, it's almost as if it was chosen randomly, to be honest
with you, like,
act Khilafah, we're going to look at say to click on Hadith, we're
going to look at it and Hajin Alaska learning right now on a
different, every other subject on FIP is going to be focused on
Okay, so it seems there's no men hedge, there's no school in the
world that teaches these men a hedge, right, a man hedge that
looks like this. That's their specific minute. So, but they did
earn
the trust of the community and the love of the regular person just
because of the hikma that they did, which is always makes me feel
that, like, that was the part that they got, right? Forget the
political stuff. I'm not interested in the political stuff.
I'm talking about the like British and American Arab communities.
That was the stuff that they got, right. And they did that very
well. And they reaped a reward of that. And that is that people tend
to follow them when they do something. Right. So what I would
love to see and this is what Sheikh Ansari, I don't know if you
know him but he's all about this too. He does.
All sorts of sports. He has a soft he purchased a soccer team, right?
A youth soccer team and they play and they have the you know, their
his his organization's logo and everything. And they do also
boxing and BJJ training. So he's he's figured that out, and he's
doing that heads Quran, homework, help, etc. So that act of activism
in the community is so important to translate your men head over
otherwise it's just ink on paper, right that a few people
appreciate. Which leads me to * yeah, if you want to comment on
that go ahead. Yeah, just a shout out to Medina three one for I know
you're
incredibly well he the student of mine, but he's always
So they also sponsor.
That's, you know, you're absolutely right, he does a lot of
community to work on the most high person. But as often as he can, he
tries to support
Islamic educational initiatives as often as he can a real interest in
supporting people have managed people or teaching in the
community to try to support them. So they can focus on teaching the
deen of Allah subhanaw taala. And they're not distracted by other
necessities, essentially, I really, really do respect his
approach to things in Sharla, that has served the community that
connects the community to knowledge as much as he can, and
supports the scholars very well to those children. They come to do
hips, they come to do their homework. And then if they have
free time, then they get to play on soccer fields that he's
established, or join his team or go boxing and BJJ kids are going
to leave when they like 1718 1920. They're all their youth is going
to be with his organization, right at that building. That's where
their memories are formed. And that's where this is what's
important to be able to translate this over and trickle it down. Now
I really am curious, what is the British obsession with BJJ? Every
single Masjid I go to organization has a BJJ session or branch or
whatever it is. So what exactly is it? Is it that it's the most Halal
popular sport out there? Is that what it is?
I think then, I'm not too sure. I don't practice it myself,
unfortunately. But I think there are three factors in my mind. One
is the.
Yeah, froze, froze there for a second that speak about the profit
some.
Yeah.
About
the aspect of some of the martial arts have an aspect of striking
the pace and then you have issues related to that. So it eradicate
it. And I think thirdly, there is an appreciation that it's very
effective. People who are who understand martial arts, and many
of them seem to feel that in terms of defending yourself in terms of
practically using it when needed, it's more effective than other
forms other martial arts. I'm of the opinion of that the Islamic
schools need to Nick's gym, gym class, and they need to establish
martial arts. Right? Like, imagine if a kid did grappling for four
years in school, and boys or girls grappled for four years in school,
right? Then that least they they go home with self self defense?
What is exactly the value of any kind, in going to gym class and
bouncing balls, right? Yeah.
It's good exercise, I guess. But they shouldn't be doing fitness,
they should be doing some kind of martial art, because I actually am
of the personal belief, although I don't practice it myself. That
to do two years of a martial art, it's almost as important as
learning how to read. Just so that in case someone bothers you, you
know how to defend yourself. Right now I got this mentally. I never
actually did it. And never lived that that life of martial arts but
in theory, that's my theory. Like
this gym class thrown balls around. Right? No, do some martial
arts, right? Do running training and martial arts? Right? Do you
you'd come out with kids that are more solid. Right. And it's a
useful thing. Yeah, absolutely. It's something I emphasize a great
deal for to the the importance of learning self defense, that
especially somewhere I can I unfortunately, I have. I don't
practice it myself.
I done a little bit when I was younger, and not BJJ per se. But
right now, I don't have an issue with my knee at the moment as
well. But you know, I don't know maybe it's not the right time to
stop now. Maybe it is the right time. Maybe I'm just making
excuses. But I for years, I've been encouraging martial arts,
Muslims, males and females should learn martial arts, of course,
females and the females, males with males, but they should learn.
Generally, it's very good. It's great exercise. There's the
discipline aspect of it as well. And to learn to defend yourself is
incredibly important, especially when you're living in lands where
Islamophobia is rife, and it's being able to defend yourself.
We're not aggressive Insha Allah, Allah, but we need to be able to
defend ourselves. Let's go now and zoom in to some FIP how is the
Hanafi education and and the meth have different in Syria when
compared to the subcontinent or Iraq, or turkey or forget Iraq,
Turkey, subcontinent and Syria. That's where we find the Hanafi.
School. How are they similar or different?
I'm not too familiar with Turkey. I have a lot of familiar arity
with Damascus say and no doubt the subcontinent although I haven't
studied there. Throughout my life, I've encountered people who have
one of the reasons I decided to study in Damascus as opposed to
the subcontinent as opposed to Pakistan. Well, there were two
reasons. The main reason was, you may be aware there's a significant
divide in the subcontinent, you have the brain base, and you have
the the abundance, and I wanted to stay away from that I didn't want
to involve myself in that. And I felt that whenever you have this,
because there's a lot of hatred, unfortunately, then you know, your
things can become skewed.
Whereas in Damascus, my impression was that's not the case. The
second reason was the Arabic language. So in Damascus, in my
daily life, I'll be speaking Arabic and strengthen my Arabic
control data. So what I what I suspected was actually true that
in Damascus, they focus more so on earlier works. Earlier, Skype was
agreed upon scholars classical works. And although no doubt, they
do teach those works in the subcontinent. But they tend to
have more of a focus on
more recent scholars, scholars belonging to the Deobandi school,
or the very end of the school.
From the founders they have on they tend to focus a lot more so I
may be quoting from the hash of even Aberdeen or from pothead
paddy performing anomala Ami. And they're going to be quoting from
such and such from 20 years ago, 30 years ago. But that's a
significant practical difference. But I don't want to misrepresent
in any way. It's not that they don't accept the authority of
those words. It's not that they that they disregard them, but
usually they will focus on them and they may become upset with
you, if you contradict them or reasons for this, because
inevitably, at times, you know, I may be speaking to somebody have a
buddy in the background and says another leader found but he said
this. So look, hold on a minute here in the house yet says the
opposite here in Medina, it says the opposite like Yeah, but it's
such a great you might have, you'll see that they will end up
with a bit of a difficulty. And at times, it may be similar with the
deobandis as well that you know,
you're saying this, were you getting that from him say food
from you know, some 50 years ago, and pull hands from some 500 years
ago and I'd say look, your own scholars will recognize the
authority of those people. So that's a difference in sha Allah
Allah. Other than that, when we're all working from the same texts,
we tend not to have a huge difference the Hanafi madhhab is
vast and we you know, Alhamdulillah we have a great deal
of flexibility within the Hanafi madhhab especially this entire
concept of a whole learning and more so Han that you may not
restricted to opinions but we have the concept of having if you have
to sound opinions then the scholar the teacher, the Mufti may give
fatwa according to either one of them, so it allows us allows the
broadness of the madhhab to flourish. Okay, let me then ask
you practically speaking, in a subcontinent dominated lands, such
as England, and Luton, specifically, how do you
physically navigate this? Since most institutions are of the
subcontinent and are one of the two methods of the more current
contemporary branches of the Hanafi school? So how do you
physically
handle that?
Yeah, I you know, I don't mean any disrespect by it. But I do know
that later scholars, because, as I said, I'm always trying to avoid
sectarianism. I'm trying to bring people together. And for me, of
course Quran and Sunnah by classical scholars will help us to
achieve that because otherwise have been able to say I haven't
agreed on but he said this a Day when they will say Ashraf Aleta,
and we said this and you know, that all stick to their own and
fine if it's a valid opinion, no issue in sha Allah. But you see
that there's a great scope for division then. Yeah, so I'm always
pushing for that. I'm always the way I will navigate it with them
in discussion outside of that's fine. But doesn't Imam read off on
except fatawa Hindi, for example, doesn't accept what they call
fatawa. Show me the hardship. They've been Aberdeen. So why
can't we go to that? Let's go to that. He accepts and he Daya he
accepts the commentary. So let's go to the let's go to something
that united says I'll do something similar with the deobandis when I
come across a difference in sha Allah, when there is no difference
when we're all saying the same thing, but from their resources,
there's no issue. But when we have a difference, that's what I push
to where they say, look, let's all go back to what's agreed upon. And
Alhamdulillah. From a fixed perspective, I've seen a lot of
acceptances, they'll say, yeah, actually, you have a valid point.
I haven't seen too much. In my experience on people's experience.
Maybe they my expense, I haven't seen too much. Too much pushback.
They'll say, actually, you have a point there. That's valid. Yes,
fine. Let's go back to that. I like to stay away from the fitting
and, and if the love and so you're actually part of maybe
establishing a third route of acting upon and studying and
teaching and acting and living by the Hanafi school, which is
admirable, and I think should be promoted this idea that you're
going to separate out from this from a divisive
without its controversy. I find outliners that really have an
issue with that, because they see that hold on a minute. He's taking
people away from where we have them and pushing them towards
something more unifying. So it's not without controversy, you know,
every now and then, you know, I find her and said, You're wrong,
or he's bad. Don't study with him. He's not on our man. EHEDG full
answer this, but by and large and humbling that my experience has
been great, but you will always find pushback. There's always
deemed controversial bias. I think that's the minority. That's the
fringe. Are there Syrian immigrants? In England?
Yes. From the from the after the war?
Yes. So do they have they settled in a specific community?
I think that, Benny, I haven't looked into it in direct research
there. But in my experience, they seem to be around various places.
Banbury, which is my home, essentially. That's where I grew
up. We have Sunday, we have plenty in return. We have lots in
obviously, no doubt lots and lots of them. I think there's somewhat
scattered up north no doubt.
Okay.
Can you scroll down on that document, see some of our notes
there?
Look around.
All right, very good. Last question we have here, how does
the layman who is Hanafy square the circle, have such a wide array
of fatawa found within the meth hub especially now that there are
many websites? And you mentioned cola and Musa Han However,
sometimes if it's our differ, not, if it's our new matters, just
regular q&a differ on the Hanafi school? What should be the go to
resource for starter in the Hanafi school? Like when they see this
book? They should know that's 100% about? Okay.
I feel there are quite a few questions within that. So I'm
going to answer the direct question that you mentioned at the
end.
I believe that the latest book we have that is agreed upon Hana
phase B in the subcontinent, Iraq, Turkey, Egypt, Syria, Sham, they
everybody recognizes as authority to my knowledge and understanding
in my experience, that's the hash of the Benevity love them.
So if you see that work, then that's obviously authoritative.
Now I have to be very careful not to be so restrictive to say, you
know, that's your suit of approval. If you see that it's
fine. If you don't, it's not you people do have to study and and
they have to become familiarize themselves with this. No doubt. If
you see that fine. And if you see a book earlier than that, then
usually that's going to be fine as well. That's I see that as the
last work that we have is agreed upon. I'm just going to just
tackle another question that's related to and I'll be brief in
sha Allah.
Many of the scholars including one of my shifts as your sound that
I'm not one of my teachers, he used to say that even if it was a
great favor, as Hannah V's he really did help us out why because
prior to that, it was difficult, it was very difficult. You may
have to look at 2030 4050 different works before you can
start trying to work out what the fatwa position of the madhhab is
given everything because there's so much acceptance and because of
the way he presents Messiah and it's made everything so much
easier. Now I'm never going to say a scholar at each omocha chair you
should restrict Himself to it but it certainly does help. It's
fairly rare that you read something from the hash of Ibn Abi
and then you read from other works and you come across something
completely new, something you haven't come across, it will
happen at time.
was face fan
the question No you did you did. Can you tell us a little bit about
the life of a bit Aberdeen?
I've been I've been racking my load down and he's relatively late
as a as a scholar, especially somebody so authoritatively passed
away. 1252 read aloud. Danna, you know, he was in Damascus itself.
MashAllah really
diligent student initially, inevitably is going to become such
a great scholar.
To the extent that in his biography, it speaks about how he
used to have a lesson with one of his show you
had your time before. And he used to go to his house and
the, the CHE he was generally speaking, it had been lagging in
bed at the time, and given him a lottery, he would go to knock the
door and then the chef would start preparing himself and
the story goes that his wife said to him, but don't you Aren't you
concerned that if you keep doing this, he's going to stop
attending? They said No, not him. He will continue to pretend he was
a very diligent
Masha Allah, he was shepherding for a good period of his life,
which is very helpful Alhamdulillah because he will act
on a Sharpie. And self you'll know when when scholars, even great
scholars, when they mentioned Muda, that are not their own.
There's more tendency to make a mistake. It's not of course, it's
not inevitable. They are great scholars, they're going to be
right much of the time, but there's more of a tendency because
even everything was a shattering for a good period of his life. We
can have greater competence. When mentioned the Shafi method it's
it's accurate, and I do tend to check with Shafi friends of mine,
especially with scholars, when he mentioned micellar. And up until
now, I haven't come across a situation where he was wrong, so
that he will be everybody makes mistakes.
Is there a story about why he became a Hanafy? After being a
chef and
to be quite frank, I haven't researched his biography
thoroughly. And I haven't come across one I read a couple of
biographies of women over the national data, quite a long one at
the beginning of what we refer to as the artful copy of the hash.
Yeah, it was quite a long one. I don't record a story I'm sure
there will be one somewhere and since he's a relatively recent
scholar, if it's not penned down, it might be in the minds of
people.
Well, then, inshallah for next time.
Thank you so much for coming on. And everyone again, Islam
answers.co.uk
Brett Banbury, masjid and shake noted Dean also teaches in his
home so if you're in Luton, ask around, maybe you can get invited
to these home classes. Again, this portion of our live stream is
meant to highlight some of the young teachers have and Asuna who
are teaching them of their hip teaching the sad and mess with Ed
after he does and are out and about he's on tick tock, you can
find him there. What's the name of the Tick Tock handle?
Islam also has one Islam on tick tock so get benefit in sha Allah
Thank you very much noted Dean. We hope to see you again in the
future beating Allah next trip to England sha Allah we collaborate
just a couple Okay
All right ladies and gentlemen there we have it we fix the
problem we did it. We had the interview and
and hamdulillah Masha Allah was very good. And thanks to all Mata
and Noah, for fixing our situation. Now let us turn to our
topic today. affairs of the OMA because we do have a number of
affairs of the omen. Here's something very interesting. Who
here has ever heard of a
scholar who was in a Iranian Sunni because I personally cannot name
one of them. I cannot name one Iranian Sunni I would say we are
we are flanked here by woodsy out of the Starbucks. All more in the
front. Okay.
And we got these butter cookies. impossible not to eat. Yep,
possible not to eat some enough.
A prominent Sunni cleric has been arrested in some southeastern
Iran. Sistan Baluchestan province.
Mowlana Fatima Mohammed and Natasha bendy get is the Friday
imam in ROSS town of the Sunni majority province that borders
Pakistan Afghanistan. Okay, that's where it makes sense. That's where
it makes sense. Baluchistan. Okay, the bordering town on the Iranian
side, but these are probably not.
They may even speak a different language Allah and Allah knows
best. Let's
Let's let's read here. In a statement the judiciary office in
Sistan. Baluchistan said that uh Nexia bendy has in recent months,
adopted extreme positions and aligned himself with the opponents
of the Islamic system. The press release accused him of inciting
street riots through his sermons. And that was he was given
necessary warnings but insisted on his positions. Okay. The charges
against him include disturbing public opinion. Well, what is the
issue Exactly? Disturbing public opinion slandering the Islamic
Republic of Iran, acting against national security and illegal
occupation of land knocks bendy as well as Zaha Deen Friday Prayer
leader Mola Abdel Hamid Ismail Zahi have frequently made anti
government speeches in recent months. I think they're like
Afghan he's like living in the Romanian border. That's what is
the name sound like? Last October, Amnesty International accused
Iranian security forces of unlawfully killing at least 66
people,
including children and injuring hundreds of others outside of
Sunni mosques outside of a Sunni mosque in southeastern where is
the West's
advocating minority rights in Iran, right? Aren't the Sunnis, a
minority in Iran? They're all about the minority, right? No
matter who you are, okay, they're all about the minority, which is a
ridiculous way to determine things. But there's no you don't
have any you're not any more moral. Because you're a minority.
You're not any more right or wrong just because you're a minority. In
any event, the Human Rights Organization said security forces
fired live ammunition, metal pellets and tear gas at
protesters, bystanders and worshipers during a violent
crackdown. after Friday prayers, got
another 16 people were killed in separate incidences.
And last October, Abdullah Hamid Ismail Zahi.
Oryzae, the Sunni leader Anza Hidin recounted a crackdown in a
video testimony says more than 40 people were killed. Okay, we still
don't know why exactly. people were killed. And were they
targeted for being Sunni? That's another question because, again,
people could get killed. Right? People might get killed and happen
to be Sunni. You know, like, this is we read, we recently read
something like this where
people and it was Muslims, right? Where people claimed it was like
Islamophobia or something. But I'm like, wait a second, is it a sama
phobia, or you did something wrong and happen to be a Muslim? To be
fair, right.
They blame the deaths on terrorist rioters separatists who were
acting
on behalf of foreign governments.
The province has also witnessed several fatal attacks on security
forces in recent months, Iran's population is 95% Shia
and the remaining population consists of various minorities
amongst them Sunday's amongst them Christians amongst them Jews,
amongst them Zoroastrians, and Bahais and others.
All right, so So basically the number of Sunnis there
in fact,
is in fact,
at the Afghan border, that's really where it is. And Peter
Buckley says, this is all wrong. All right. And senior cleric
claims religion in Iran is weak, blah, blah, blah. I'm not going to
go into the repeater. Buckley is some odd person who is the like
the only person who ever comments on five pillar news stories. Okay,
so let's forget that. All right. So that's the first news story.
Now let's go to another news story.
A woman is arrested after spraying
listen to this. If I could just get these
popups off the screen women as women arrested after spraying a
Koran burner with fire extinguisher in Sweden.
Hilarious.
This thing is continuing and Denmark is actually going the
opposite side. They're like thinking Hold on. We don't want to
be like Sweden. But Sweden continues and many countries
refuse to allow a Swedish Ambassador into their land,
including them Iran including other countries. Swedish police
have detained a woman who sprayed and anti Islam activists with a
fire extinguisher as he staged a Quran burning protest so it's just
trying to put out the fire is not what you posted it when you when
you're when you see a fire she did a good deed. Video of the scene
showed the woman rushing to up to Salwan mica and spraying white
powder towards him before she was intercepted.
And by plainclothes police officers, okay.
He remit he appeared sons, but unhurt, then resumed his
demonstration which was authorized by the police.
Mica is a refugee from Iraq and he desecrated the Quran in a series
of anti Islam protests that have caused anger in some Muslim
countries. So we just released have allowed the demonstration
demonstrated to continue. Okay, police spokeswoman tow hag said
the woman who was not identified but but by police was detained on
suspicion of disturbing public order where it why is there any
suspicion which he did in broad daylight? It's a clear very clear
what she did. Right. Prosecutors are investigating whether his
actions are permissible under Sweden's hate speech laws, which
ban incitement and hatred against groups or individuals based on
race, religion or sexual orientation got and he said my
protest targets Islam not Muslim people will do to think that
Muslim people care about Islam.
So again, these people extinguished the hate was the
motto that this
group went out with and they went and
fire extinguished these Quran burning protests. Alright, so
there you have it a quick summary of what's going on in Sweden.
Let's move on now because we have a number of things here. All
right, let's move on to Pakistan where the Muslims they're
rioted
on the public display of Christian worship.
Members of how weird is this desi Christians? Now the words like
Yanni, I know it's there, but personally, you see a Pakistani
person you think most of them right away. But now here there are
a growing number of Christian Pakistanis.
Okay.
So this one says that Pakistani Christians held services on Sunday
at churches that were vandalized and torched by vigilante mobs.
That's not right. Okay. Because they do are they they are Alabama,
right.
And two of the Christian people were accused of desecrating the
Quran says the US News and World Report.
Sir, the services out a handful of churches in the city of Jordan
Walla in eastern Pakistan were led by the Bishop of the Diocese
Christian community. Their recommended bhakti said he
attended one of the services which drew hundreds of Christians whose
homes were partly or completely destroyed when the mob Burton
looted them. On Wednesday, the pastor later distributed food
rations.
The government said in his statement that they will
compensate
2 million rupees which is $6,750. For all the families that were
affected, and they will help rebuild their homes. paramilitary
troops have been guarding the sights of the arson attacks, which
is the historic Salvation Army church.
It was a church that was handed down from England or something
Salvation Army, right. And St. Paul Catholic Church, three small
churches and scores of Homs a Christian graveyard was desecrated
residents and community leaders said that the mob was armed with
iron rods, sticks, bricks, knives daggers, and they went on a
rampage without any intervention by the police and they did this
for 10 hours. The police said no we tried to stop them. Clerics
from an outlawed Islamic party to Honeycutt a bake we know about it
if you attended nothing but facts on Wednesdays you know about your
International Islamic groups. And this is one of them so he could a
bake the
it's a group led by
khademhosseini Rizvi Of course he passed away but it's his son who
now reads it, but they denied that they had any
took any part in these, these riots to Heineken a big party says
that they were not part of any of these riots. Okay, so police have
arrested two Christian men who were accused of instigating all of
this through blasphemy
and saying things that inflames Muslims. Blasphemy is punishable
by death in Pakistan, but no one has ever been executed. Numerous
people accused of blasphemy have been lynched by outraged mobs in
the past, so maybe don't don't do blasphemy because you can't
control these mobs.
All right. $1 in Pakistan, if you want to give charity
is 296.25 rupees that is
that's something else. So TV's country in the world right now
actually. Got the worst. Got the worst currency. It's the cheapest
country right now. Cheapest Wow. It's like Venezuela or something.
Oh, Lebanon.
Lebanon is the
their currencies with 1000s per dollar
let's move to another story. This is supposedly
okay a an inspirational story to Muslim youth. Either rapper
is his name. He was previously one of BBC Asian network future sound
and voice has now given up rapping for his faith. Ibrahim Watson was
tipped as the next big thing on the British Asian rap scene. 22
year olds known just by as he was working in grime music, explained
grime,
grime music for five years and he had a huge fan base, hundreds of
1000s of hits online it'd be had previously been one of the Asian
networks, future sound artists, but recently, he gave it all up.
He said this is because he wanted to take his Islamic faith
seriously. So he could practice that the way he felt he needed to.
Okay, there was a point where I was earning 4000 pounds a month,
but I quickly realized that the money I was earning had no
blessing. I couldn't feed myself with that money. I couldn't even
give any of my money to my mum.
While I was trying to practice and make music at the same time, I
realize that music cannot be in the same heart as the Quran. By
the way, anyone who talks about music and so there's discussion on
music, there's debates there's Kalam. Okay, fine, but show me one
half is Quran, who regularly listens to pop music. Right? Show
me one. Just one Hafez Quran, who regularly listens to pop music?
You can't.
So yeah, you want to have an academic debate on it and go and
get
a show Kenny, and his essay on music where he lists like three or
four quotes here and there, on the permissibility of it, fine, go do
that.
But also, at the same time, show me one person who has the Quran in
his heart, who recites a little bit more than either just sort of
lightweight fats and insults and I could go through insula.
Okay. And regularly can recite Quran from memory, who also
listens to music.
Right. But the music that a person may have, can have a Duff in it,
and can have something that would not be labeled as a string or a
loop. And it can be with the voice. So there's there is some
things that people could listen to. And if something slips in
here, and they're at a wedding or something fine, but it's it's not
something that is going to be an everyday we're listening to the
radio now or listen, we have like 55 playlists, you know, with all
sorts of pop music on it, and we're listening to this all the
time. Now. That's where you got to draw that line. If he says it's
not just the making of music that made him feel uneasy, but the
lifestyle to really make it in this industry, you need to talk
about what people want to hear. And in this day and age, it's
Phil's. I tried to implement good in my rap, but I was naive.
Okay, if he was a British Pakistani, it says it's not been
easy, changing his ways and dissing himself from music.
His current currently working on developing his career into Sheets.
He says that he wants to use skills, that lyrically to make
music That's hella
good. The next thing is to take knowledge from the music industry
and bring it to this new thing. I want to be known as the guy for
that scene, the goat of new sheets. The sheet is basically
like, it's Arabic word for,
for singing. If he also says he's trying to stop others from being
distracted by the lifestyle that surrounds me as a young kid came
to me and said, You're the reason I quit music. Okay. And that's the
reason a guy like me, does this for the youth for the next
generation. All right, good job. It'd be alright.
Yeah, good to be on here and and invite them why not? Always
looking to invite different people here. All right, what what do we
have next? How about this? This isn't this is specifically
American news. Donald Trump. Here we go.
He's negotiating, getting books at the Georgia jail. And of course
now if you're wondering about this, he's not going to spend any
time behind the jail cell. Donald Trump is
of course accused along with 18 others of trying to steal the 2020
presidential election
and he will be books
in Atlanta's Fulton County Jail.
But he is negotiating right through his lawyers to have this
aired in primetime.
Okay, so he is the guy is taking reality TV to the next level a
president at court in court, a president and trial because you
His Wild takes in his wild tweets that ran its course he did that he
got all the attention he could from that, that doesn't move the
needle anymore. Donald Trump says something wild about somebody call
someone a name, it doesn't move the needle anymore. So he needs to
find a way to move the needle. Because his whole game is being a
ratings machine. So what's going to make the liberal news outlets
cover him?
What they want to see? Right? Crucifixion execution of Donald
Trump. Okay. And so they're gonna want to see him
getting booked getting, I don't think he's even going to be
handcuffed. What he's going to do there. It really takes four
minutes, essentially, I think he's doing the whole thing for the
mugshot. Then he's already beat people to it by putting mug shots
on T shirts, right? His mug shot on T shirt, but it has like a
slogan that something like
they're trying to get to you, but I'm in the way. Right, like he's
the defender of the people. Right? Yeah. No. And that's one of
Trump's brand new branding things that they give out and sell at the
at the rallies?
Yeah, I'm really curious how he plans to win the election with no
airtime at all.
From the main stream, I mean, they are talking about him. But I just
don't see him. There's nothing on Twitter, this is not moving the
needle. There's no outrage. So this is the biggest amount of
attention that he's gotten. He's gonna be there for four or five
minutes, then he's going to leave, and everyone's gonna want to see
the mugshot, right? So is he going to wear a tie in the mugshot? Is
it gonna loosen it up and look like he's just been out of a car
accident or a fight for the mugshot? And that mug shots going
to be, you know, the mug shot seen around the world? Because this is
the moment Everyone has haters have been waiting for. So I think
what he's doing is he's playing into the hands of his haters. As
like, what is it going to take for you to give me more attention?
Right, what does it take for CNN to have a whole hour on Donald
Trump?
And then from there, he could start saying things and, and
rallying up his base. Right. We also know that he's not attending
the
the debate. Instead, he will be airing his own interview with
Tucker Carlson on Twitter. That's one of the brilliant things that
that Elon Musk has done. And he's made Twitter a broadcasting
outlet, of course, now known as x a broadcasting outlet. But why is
that brilliant? Because if he can incorporate clipping the way
YouTube has, where you could actually clip something in the
video on the platform, and people don't have to go into their phone
and, and, and do a screen grab from the phone and clip. You know,
few seconds from the front and the back. And then tweet it. You're
right there on Twitter as is right. If he could get an
algorithm where you could clip 20 seconds to 40 literally live
retweeting while it's happening. Okay.
Let's talk about something else. And this is the last segment for
today.
We will do a little bit of q&a. But how many times have you went
around and heard people talking about everyone in the world is
today full of anxiety, and the world, the economics of the world
today, the structure of the economy is now causing everyone to
be, you know, in fear of poverty, etc, etc, etc. Now, you see this
all day, every day,
on different podcasts on articles and you say everyone's miserable,
and all that talk, well, let me tell you something, all of that is
the reflection of their heart.
The physical, external conditions will not alter that. If you
brought in a whole new economy and you said it's totally fair it
will, it will not alter. You know much of that. The reason that
people are in a state of misery. The prime reason is that they have
no connection with Allah subhanaw taala. And Allah Tala says we'll
call him Nubian. It's murky at home with taboo to force a kid to
become that there are things in this world that are the conduits
of Sakina.
He says, From Anza, Allah Azza Kena to who Allah rasool Allah
means Sakina is something that Allah only controls.
I'm going to read again on the ends that Allah Who Sakina to
Allah Rasool, Allah brings his Sakina on his prophet, well I let
me and upon that mean there are conduits of the Sakina of course
number one being alright staying away from the Haram number two
being vicar Allah.
Another says he The accordion is so heavy letters and in Allah
hermana
in Allah hermana this may have Allah is and may have a Sakina for
ends
that Allah Sakina. So who are they? Who are you? Who do you know
the lamp Tarawa. So why are people at peace?
It's because listen to this
one the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said to his companion in
the grave about Christa dip Loretta hasn't Do not be set in
Allah humma. Anna, we have this witness, we are with Allah
Subhana. Allah is with us, how is Allah with them? By bringing down
16 upon him and supporting him with soldiers that you cannot
imagine? And that you cannot see be Jerusalem? Tara, what were the
soldiers that helped the prophet in the cave,
a pigeon, a spider. And the angels, the angels calm them in
the cave, surround their wings around them.
And the pigeon builds laid the eggs and the spider built a web.
Okay, and those are the end for them lumped Aroha. Because they
physically didn't see that that
pigeon did that. And the spider web did that. Okay.
But the angels are the ones that you don't see. So Allah helps
people calm down. By melodica, the presence of melodica. And this
something you just change the economy, you're not going to bring
me like you do.
Everywhere you turn, if you pay attention, people are complaining
about the spread of social anxiety like it's a disease. And that is
not a spread of social anxiety. It's a lack of emotion. They don't
have email, right? And they have no connection with Allah subhanaw
taala. So what they anything they see, they're gonna interpret it as
a source of anxiety. Whereas the opposite. I don't know if you all
remember a picture.
But there was
a raid one of these IDF raids going on around the OXA area.
Maybe it was because I can't even remember where it was. And you had
a rickety old plastic chair and on it was sitting in old Palestinian
men with a gray beard and a coat and a Koofi. Right, and thobe
right. And he's sitting there cross legged with a misbehaved
watching it. All right. Not a single trace of anxiety on his
face.
And you had soldiers with guns NERT who are nervous, right? And
you could see them taking two steps up two steps back to yelling
at each other fleeing right. What how is it that this man is I wish
I really wish I had the picture. I think I deleted the picture for
you. Let me see. See it my trash. If I have it, it's an amazing
picture.
But this this is this is the caption on it was amazing, is that
Sakina is something that Allah sends down to people. Okay, Allah
sends it down to people. And these people then no matter what
situation they're in, all right, are in a state of Sakina, Rama,
mercy. All right. Let's go to town to trash recently deleted.
It's one of the most amazing pictures you ever see. But that's
the source of Sakina is not going to be an external change, folks.
It's not that it's an internal change. And that's what people
don't get and they keep trying to change the outward and all these
Marxists in past history they saw like the world is not good. It
doesn't seem fair. Let's set up some kind of revolution blah,
blah, blah. And none of that is solves anything. You just create
more problems when you do that.
Carla laka Radi Allahu Allah and what we need is you Bay owner
Qatar to shudder at vitamin F equilibrium for NS Ella Sakina
daily him just to have a good sentiment in your heart towards
Allah and His messenger and the believers and people. Allah will
bring Sakina down upon you for Alima Matthew Kulu be him he saw
on Allah knows what's in their hearts for NZ Allah Sakina Tala
him so then he brought the Sakina down upon them. Well as I've owned
Fatah, but even given them a reward of of imminent success, if
John Allah the Nikephoros Sophia coulby him will hammy Yetta Hamid
Al J. Leah and Allah place in the hearts of the ignorant. Okay.
The hearts of the disbelievers, the anger based upon ignorance,
good friends that Allah Who Sakina to who Allah Allah SUTA who I
mean.
I mean, so many doubts about this Akina. So, we'll stop here. Let's
turn to our q&a portion for now. And then we go to our dua on
Monday.
All right.
Let me let me tell you something about technology that's really
weird.
Is spend about
20 minutes every few months deleting pictures from your
Phone, because the phone tells you that it can't handle any more
pictures. And you spent 20 minutes deleting deleting the lead, and
then you feel that after 20 minutes, you feel like you've
achieved something, right?
In reality, you haven't achieved anything you just wasted 20
minutes of your life by necessity.
All right, first question I've got z Read me a question.
Lives of the prophets. Yes, one day we'll do lives of the
prophets. Why not? drawn with that?
What else we got?
is yawning come from Satan. Yes, it's a sign of laziness and person
should close their Aeon upon themselves, not try to yawn out
loud and it is not can't say it's from Shaytaan. It's from
exhaustion. But the prophet did say that it's on urinates in the
mouth of the person who yawns with his mouth open.
What do I do? says oh, gee Muslimah. In these weddings that
are have so much monka in them, I just step out. Right? I go there.
Right, except the invitation. And as soon as the munkar starts, I go
take a walk. Right? I come back, I eat the dinner.
I leave my gifts, I say hello to the people I need to say hello to
then I go back again. Right? Outside, hang out with my friends
outside. Find a little prayer room. Wherever you they tuck you
in a little room to mix a lot. You go there you pray there.
And you hang out with your friends. Go and get some dessert
come back out. And if once it gets like they're absolutely crazy,
then you just leave.
Can you talk about profits? Can you talk about football? Well,
yes. Why not? Is taking welfare from the government? Hello?
Yes.
What's the Sunnah and the best process for presenting yourself
and intentions to get to know someone that you're interested in
marriage? I would say that maybe you could use a middleman
to go and represent you for the first time. Let's say like for
example.
So and so is very interested in you or you want to talk. And then
they say yes or no, they're going to tell you yes or no. Right. And
so using a middleman is probably the best way to get a start. Can
you hunt squirrels and eat them? Yes, you can't.
Are they rodents?
But they're they're generally clean. So they're not going to
fall in the cutter hiya of rats and bats.
You can you squirrel. I've always said to my kids, we're gonna go
out camping and hunt squirrel. Right? But you need to hunt like
five squirrels to actually eat. Because they're so skinny. Right?
There's no meat on here.
If the only effective pain medication for a terminally ill
person clouds the mind.
Some of these medications are drugs, there's no different
difference. There are mind altering drugs and the mind
altering drug is forbidden in Islam. But you may it's not
necess.
So you may take a small amount that does not alter your mind like
Percocet not not just so it's that the essence of it is not
forbidden. But it's the mind altering degree that's forbidden.
So you take a small amount that doesn't
alter the mind
I take karate crap man out of Philly tells us don't eat those
city squirrel. Yeah, because they're probably dirty. No doubt
about that.
Is it possible to self study material and don't self study
stuff? Unless you do plan to get a teacher then you can self study in
the beginning. But then when you sit with your teachers don't say
Oh, I know this. He said chef tells you every time he tells you
something, oh, I know this. Don't say that. Right? When you sit with
your shield, pretend you don't know anything.
Okay? Otherwise the sheriff starts to not say stuff because he
imagines that you already know it. Okay.
Let me tell you this. One of the main reasons why people do not
succeed is because they want to do something themselves. Now you may
have to do something yourself, which is fine. And you could do
that. But you have to get the intention of getting a teacher,
you can study shaft effect got arcview.org The reason we made
ArcView is so that every time we talk about studying, we have a
resource to send people over and it's such an efficient resource.
You get a calendar, all the classes are recorded there right
there. You get a WhatsApp group. It's so efficient people have put
their time in ArcView they have learned
Alright, they really have benefited. So ArcView dot O R G,
and you should wait for a few more days to see
that
The website because it will be up and running. Let's let's see if
they put it up now actually, I don't think they did but arg v dot
O R G the new website is going to be so pretty. No, they didn't it's
still redirects my arc v.org. Alright, so my arc view is the
portal where all the classes are at. But the classes are always on
Zoom.
And they're there on Zoom. And there's a portal that records all
the classes and the discussion happens in each discussion group
Whatsapp group, so there's opti the WhatsApp group and medically
fit WhatsApp which I have to catch up on. There's it's a solo
Whatsapp group Hanafi, fiqh, Whatsapp group, somebody FIP,
Whatsapp group, we mainly focus and there's a hadith Whatsapp
group and attach read Whatsapp group, right. So we mainly focus
on this show command D lock will be teaching Arabic.
So why people don't succeed in life is that they're too afraid,
too hesitant or too arrogant, to take on a teacher and obey that
teacher. Right? That's why they don't succeed. People, it doesn't
take a lot of brains to actually achieve stuff in life. My personal
opinion, I really don't think it takes a lot of brains to be an
achiever in life. It doesn't take a lot of energy to be an achiever
in life. What it does take is the right teachers and the right
mentors and the humility to do exactly what the mentor tells you
to do. Go and do it.
How do you control your desires?
Great question. The best way to control your desires is to not
have to control your desires. Right? The best way to control
your desires is to put yourself in a situation in an environment
where you don't have to be disciplined, right, the most
disciplined people, the environment does the disciplining
for them. So you're not going to go now we are at Rutgers campus
here. And it's the middle of August, well, in a few weeks, all
the students will be back and the weather's hot. And you go out
there and you sit on one of these lawns. And you say I'm going to
recite the Quran, while on the lawn as all sorts of half naked
people sitting around, right?
And say, Oh, you need to be disciplined and lower my gaze.
Alright.
You put yourself in an environment that's almost impossible to lower
your gaze, you literally are set up to fail we are we have we here
being in America, we are almost set up to fail. Like just to be
neutral, you have to put in so much effort. And you have to
create this, these these little environments. But and that's one
of the things I'm telling you when I was at Yale, and I was at
working now as I was seeing myself and all the other Muslims slowly,
really, truly going becoming more and more liberal, more and more
loose. The very small increments, very small increments, right. And
then the biggest contrast for me was the Muslims in jails. They
just came out of jail to go to Mr. Islam. And these guys had beards
out to here. And we're practicing every sunnah that they learned
about and I said, Well, Allah, these guys, they're gentle. The
they barely know two things about Islam, but they have more zeal and
Taqwa and love of the Sunnah.
And I became embarrassed to be honest with you. And I said,
there's no solution to this chapter yourself in the masjid.
You got to chop yourself in the mustard. It's got to be my nine to
five job because Yale and stuff, you will obey the person who
writes you the check. Forget you, Trinity in general, it's not just
about Yeah, it's all the university you will obey. And you
will live according to the person who writes you the check. Right?
So how could I be in a situation where my income is actually
dependent upon
practicing the deen and being in the house of Allah. So, if you can
put yourself in an environment where you don't have to have
discipline, that's the smartest thing to do. Because to go against
your environment is against nature. It's not the natural way
to live. Okay? And it's not something that you could do
forever so, so alter your environment, alter your
companions, who do you hang out with? Don't ever be alone. Like a
lot of these kids in college they say well, what do I do I said
don't be alone. Study study with a good group. Eat go out and eat
with some with some good guys gotten on the do go out to the
masjid and study there. Right.
Here's a question for you. Does a female need a shake?
Do you need a shake in your life as a woman you need? We need
mentors.
Okay, if I need to do thicker and I want to advance and I need to
program, say these two, you're good to go. Okay, if I need fit,
okay, there's the book we're studying right now. All right, if
I need fitness, right, this is a mound of running we're gonna do
right now. This is one we're gonna eat. This is one we're not going
to eat.
That's what you need.
So it doesn't have to be something where it the shake is in your life
100 All day and all night No, but do I do Am I getting direction?
Yes, that's that we do need, we need direction
and don't be arrogant or lazy or afraid and say oh, you know what
I'm just gonna do myself. The do it yourself. You end up staying
just like yourself, you don't change.
What's the best way to do it the Miss Urraca and Gemma, you get up
you owe the recitation that you missed. So if you prayed three
rock guys with the imam for Aisha, but you missed the first sucker,
so what do you owe now you owe the recitation of the first rock that
means out loud with a sutra. You owe that but then the bottom half
of the Salah will be the same so forth. Raka is to shepherd
and to hear and salam out. Go.
Do you guys have Hadith class? This semester? We don't have a
hadith class. I had I taught it last year, but this year, it's
it's OfficeSuite class by Nora Saunders.
Is there a limit on writing fiction and poetry? I think, can
you I think that
you just have to make sure that you're not writing something
unlawful. That's it.
If your parents are emotionally abusive, how much you have to
respect them, listen to them.
You still have to respect them and listen to them despite how much
they abuse you. And as you grow up, you can protect yourself from
harm that you can do.
But you still have to respect them and not upset them. Do the effects
of sin still reach you after Toba? They do.
But Toba is not just one thing. It's not a switch Toba is degrees.
You notice how Allah Subhan the messenger of allah sallallahu
Sallam says Joomla to Joomla is a co Farah will do to do as a co
Farah. Okay? Every time you read Quran you're wiping away since
every time you fast to modify your weapon away since every time you
fast Muharram Ashura, you're wiping away a year of sins. Every
time you go to ombre. Ombre, you're wiping away a lot of sins,
you gotta have joy, boy, a lot of sense. So when you're when you're
making Toba, the first Toba is that you're you're seeking
forgiveness for intending to do this wrong and doing this wrong.
So that's, that's the first level. But every time you do these deeds,
you're washing away your past, washing away your past washing
away pass until even the effects that you have earned OF YOUR SINS
get washed away.
So just okay, I stopped for the love for doing that. But I'm not
going to but don't do any more good deeds.
And not much thicker or sadaqa or anything that no the effects are
still going to come to you. But when you start getting more pious
and more righteous and doing good deeds, and putting effort in, you
start also wiping away the bad effects of those sins.
That's the beauty of it.
Turquoise says I dislike systematic study.
You need systematic study whether we like it or not. We do we really
need to have
a system to our study.
Okay, show me one institution of achievement.
The medical field, the legal field, the engineering field, show
me one where it's not systematic. Okay. You know, what's not
systematic? The field of art?
You know, who's poor artists? Okay? It's not systematic. Right?
Okay. Neither is your income.
Right? So neither is your benefit that you give to the world. I
don't know what artists are going to do. And photographers now that
AI takes creates better pictures. Right, right. Now, what why do i
Why would I need to ever get a photographer, right? And get a
photographer for the moment, right for a wedding or something? Yes.
But if I need actually to get a picture of a nice sunset, I can
make that for me. I needed to go download a picture guy waited
there for eight hours to take the picture of a deer or something or
have a gazelle running in the woods. Well, I can I mix that in
two seconds, right? So in any event, I'm just I'm not totally
making fun of artists, but I'm saying you may dislike it, but
it's good for you.
And if you dislike something that's good for you decrease the
dosage. So be systematic for 10 minutes a day. That's it. You
don't have to be systematic for the whole 12 hours, 18 hours, 20
hours that you're awake. That may be too much for someone decreased
should be systematic for 10 minutes a day.
Is you if Halal I've seen many Imams use you if I learned the
next question Didi says I learned medically fit if a woman enters a
marriage, but before consummation was engaged to another man that
the original suitor can go to a party and have the marriage ended
true.
I don't know if he could if she's engaged to one man that she goes
marries another man. I don't know if because he will dissolve the
second marriage. I don't know about that. I have to look that
up.
Should Muslims visit Karbala? shastra said they shouldn't and
should go to Egypt instead where the head of Hussein is yes. Yes.
Reading SUTA testing 41 times removed difficult. These is an
authentic practice. Well, I heard it was 40 times. But no, it's not
something that is a sunnah. It is something that is Moogerah. And we
act upon them without robots without up means someone's tried
it and found it beneficial. Likewise, a saying husband has to
be alone emo kid 1450 times a day for 40 straight days. Those are
one of the examples of Majora but they're not in the Sunnah. There's
no specified reward for it, but someone tried it at some point.
And it works for him. So we are allowed to act upon them. But
we're not allowed to believe that there's a special reward to it
like the test be after salah or things that the prophets specified
specifically.
How do I make Toba? Toba is in your heart that has four
conditions regret what you've done. Admit what you've done. seek
Allah's forgiveness for what you've done.
In make the intention never to return to that action again.
What somatically ruling on pictures, and the prohibition
comes upon something that has two qualities quality number one, it's
the complete being such that it could live like that. Like the
whole being, for example, the a person's head only can a person
survive with just a head? No, of course not. But can they survive
with everything minus a hand? Yes, that could survive. So the
question is, can it survive like that? That's number one. Condition
number two, it's three. It has a shadow, it's three dimensional or
has a shadow. If it has both of those qualities, It's haram if it
has one of those qualities is makuu if it has neither of those
qualities, it's Helen
I heard some Sufi say that say Nisa is the son of Prophet
Muhammad is ridiculous. No,
that is absurd. He's the younger brother in new boo, the prophet
all the prophets are brothers. And hence they are their brothers and
the prophets I send them came later right so they are brothers
in new boo
okay.
But what we do hold is that who is the husband of the Virgin Mary in
Jana?
The Prophet sallallahu Newson. So you want to say stepson
right.
What are the benefits of reading dodo tangina If you read that
Allahumma Salli ala Sayidina, Muhammad, Mohammed Salah tend to
Jean Ebihara Jimmy Allahu Allahu Allah photo, it's gonna be a gem
in hijab, actually. You see those are individual DUA and you get
those dua in general and in specific, that is the value of
that you're mixing Salah on the Prophet and dua.
Each one of those is a draw. I don't always feel yearning for the
prophet but I love sending Salop on him. Is this wrong? No, this
the love of the prophets I send them has two levels rational and
natural. And the rational love is that I know that I should be
devoting my time and energy to the prophets of Allah Hudson that's
what we're asked upon to do. That's what we're asked. And as
for the heart it will follow when it follows
okay, it is not a theories that the prophets of Allah when he was
salam will marry say to Miriam, it is a narration.
And what man
has the what man has the who was most qualified to marry the
greatest woman who has lived sending money? Now it can't be
profitable for him? Because that's his granddaughter. From obviously
with many, many, many fathers in between, but still say to marry
him is from the lineage of Prophet Ibrahim, right. So Who then is
remaining, there is Prophet Musa Prophet doed Prophet, sunnah.
Amen. Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, well who's OMA
gives victory to her son
did the OMA of Musa alayhis salam Give victory to her son or they
tried to to
How to disbelieve and kill her son and get his say now he said Ben
Murray, executed by the Romans. Yes, they tried to do that. Right?
So the OMA that gives victory to her son, that prophet is most
worthy. Right and hence the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam is the husband.
Macedo met him is the wife of the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Sallam
and Jen. You know, the Christians. I've never seen them like flip out
about that. They must not know it. They must not know it. Okay.
All right, let's go to our dua of Akkad
have human Arviat beta voti what also Do
you all know that we do a dua after the Harun dua between Dr.
Nasir on Wednesday, inshallah that is an accepted dot. And it's
always a time where a person should
make dua at this hour at this time, anytime at this hour.
Between Dora and us, and you never know it's a hidden time may have
passed or it may have not passed, maybe right now. But if you hit it
every single day, at the same time, every single Wednesday, then
chances are that you'll hit that hour someday, throughout the year.
Insha Allah and the proof of this is it's in many different Hadith
and it happens to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam, where
the messenger peace be upon him,
made dua on Monday and Tuesday, and then he made dua on Wednesday
between Dawn and asana and was answered and so jabot and
Abdullah, the narrator, that hadith and the witness to it,
said that he held it to be and he knew that this would forever be a
time of answered prayers. And so hence
would want to take advantage of that and anyone who has a need
from Allah subhanaw taala you should always take it
to Wednesday between the US
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