Shadee Elmasry – NBF 244 Progressive Muslims vs Imams
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The conversation covers the topic of hesitation, political activism, history, and privacy. The speakers emphasize the need for community support and privacy, as well as the importance of shayacy in political expression. They also discuss the use of gay language during events and the potential for political and political influence on the political climate. The conversation concludes with a discussion of digital newspaper and a discussion of a horse.
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Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim hamdu lillah wa Salatu was Salam ala
Rasulillah who Allah early WASAPI woman Hello welcome everybody to
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state of New Jersey, the weather report. It is overcast here, not
too gloomy. So the clouds are light clouds, but it is overcast a
bit and
it's not hot and sunny. And you can really start feel feel in the
fall coming in the air. And you got the Rutgers students are now
coming in
packing up the highways packing up the streets coming in to study who
knows what they actually do here if they actually study some, some
majors are actually real, almost I think you take a real major, right
you actually study classes. And there are some other that's a
beneficial knowledge right there the science of it. You don't how
many knowledge is a human beings have had? And how many get lost?
You got me thinking yesterday about what we talked about the
world of the jinn and everything you know that this thing it's
there's a physics this stuff isn't just supernatural mumbo jumbo,
there is a there there's a physics there is knowledge, there's a set
of laws by which different creations operate. I think about
this, how do whales get around? Don't they get around with
detecting sonar? Right? If you study fish and stuff, many of them
can't see, well. They can't smell.
They have a ability to
recognize vibrations, and they know where things are.
I don't believe that fish have a strong sense of smell. Right?
Yeah. Contrast that with dogs.
great sense of smell. Good. Well, this is the physics that we know.
If you went to took a person from 1995, sorry, 1905. Someone who
died in 1905. Okay, bring him back today.
Will he not think that this is like a magic land he's in? Okay.
It's so easy to just say magic and superstition, when the set of some
knowledge doesn't make sense to us, or when we're ignorant about
something. But that world which we shouldn't delve into, we shouldn't
get involved into we shouldn't really think too much about but
just to have an understanding where it fits, epistemologically
for us, and where it fits in terms of like, how do we make sense of
it, that there are realms out there?
Based upon transmission from the Quran from the Sunnah. That's our
only trustworthy source, right? For these unseen things. They are
unseen to us. It doesn't mean they don't have their own law. It
doesn't mean that some people have not been able to manipulate it.
There was a time a man a time of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
salam
that could, he said that his head was so strong. The hazard in his
eye
was so strong, he could knock down a camel, and he did it in front of
people. What is hesed? It's very ill will in the heart,
and it comes out of the ice.
That's what has it is, its ill will inside your heart, it comes
out here as it come out of people's eyes accidentally. And
why do they worry about fame, so much of fame is a disaster.
Because as you stand up in front of an audience of 30,000 people,
10,000 people and you keep talking like this, and like, you reach a
great pinnacle of success, little bits of hesed come out of the eyes
of the people.
In intentionally or unintentionally. This is a belief
we're taking this now the general concept of hesed is we have to
believe it as a Muslim. The details of hesed they come from
scholars experience, people's experiences and how to be
scholars. Right. But observation, general observation and I think we
could call it anecdotal evidence can yield absolute certain
knowledge. Maybe and maybe not. Because if everyone in different
cultures of humanity and different eras are all reporting the same
thing, then it reaches the level of to them whatsoever, but it's a
it's an observation that denying it is absurd. Okay. And when you
look at every culture, they do believe in Huson they call
different things the Chinese famously used to put mirrors on
the outside of their homes. Okay.
Why? Because they believed it would reflect the hassad back, the
Turks, the Ottomans are in pre Ottoman even. They had a different
belief that semi scientific they believed that the there was a blue
stone that actually absorbed the physical hazard that came out of
people's eyes.
So that's all by observation and interaction. Why because when
people are tested with a misery when a calamity comes down on
human beings, we have to find an answer. So scholars work to find
answers.
Of course, greater than all this their highest source and a pistes.
Our highest epistemological sources is the prophets of Allah
what is in the Quran and we're told that suits and falak is a
medicine for us so here the divine has intervened or or, or given us
a medicine because this hesed thing is so prevalent everywhere
in the world.
Okay,
and so we get this
the this this secret medicine from the Prophet sallallahu he's from
the Quran now there is an unseen the world that we live in today.
Let's take electricity. Mike, what do you need for electricity? You
need copper? Right? The copper is always involved in anything
electric, right? Walmart year and IT guy, right? Does that Do you
know this stuff? Computer science it? Electricity?
Mechanical. Okay, so but electricity? Copper? Yes. would
know, right? Like, if you want to stop electricity from flowing
somewhere, you put wood? Well, why does this because how Allah made
it well, in there is another unseen, that under unseen realm
that we're talking about does have its own physics and its own laws.
It's not randomness, and it's not just superstition. And words is
what matters in that world.
The words you say,
in the same way that like electricity to conduct
electricity, you need metals, and you need these water right when
they are when they electrocute somebody, they need water, they
need metal, right? They don't want hair, they don't want wood. They
don't want leather. Those things don't conduct right. So why is
that the case? Just how Allah made it as simple as that? Why don't we
think that's a crazy idea, copper, who would know it's ours.
In another realm, it's words that you utter. So this word right here
will stop hazard from affecting. And what do we mean when it stops
hazard from affecting it means that a
are the could could be strong enough that it literally repels it
how because a light comes out with the newer comes out with a
thicker, okay?
And it repels that, or the hazard is stronger than our remembrance,
and hence the hazard will come. But it will only affect our
external.
So yeah, my car got dinged up, but I didn't emotionally get upset
about it. I didn't you know, it's not gonna cost me much. So the
hazard was decreased like that. Okay, or I've totally got sick as
it can make a human really strong hazard can make human being sick.
And that person gets sick. And then, but the sickness, it's like,
it's not really affecting them. Like they didn't miss much work,
they didn't get emotionally affected, stuff like that.
Alright, so that's, that's how the vicar will help us in different
levels, depending on our spiritual strength. How do you get how do
you become a conductor of great spiritual strength? Well, how if I
want something to be to be conducive to electricity, I want
to, I want to rid it of certain things I don't I don't I want to
rid it of, of non conducive things like wood,
rubber, there's certain things that stop conduction, right?
So likewise, the heart, it sins.
Sins will stop the conduction of nor, for us, our power is light.
This is not just
nice words and nice talk, there is a science behind it. Okay.
The conductor of spiritual light, you need to read the heart of
since well, what is recommended to read the heart have a lot of
distraction. Like even a righteous person, if he's very righteous
does a lot of the good, but there's 1000 things on your mind.
Okay, you're so righteous and praiseworthy in the sight of Allah
but you are not able to be as strong of a conductor as you would
be for example, if your schedule was like, of interacting with
people was less on your mind, fast saying, okay, doing more thicker.
Alright, so you could have a very pious person but their
spirituality is very low. And you can, you can have a very
at home, I need you to go go into the car and give me that green
towel. We might bless you No, use the key.
And you could have a very a person the keys over there.
You could you could have a person who's not that pious
But they're able to conduct a lot of spirituality and a lot of
light. The question is, look, if you're not pious, will it lead you
to benefit? Or will lead lead you astray? That's the question. Okay.
So now
in order to conduct things,
you need metal, you need copper, they do all sorts of stuff. So
teach this stuff in eighth grade, right? But
in order to conduct spirituality, wedding of God, a lot of
remembrance, so you need to empty certain things out shouldn't
shouldn't come in, and certain things should come in. All right,
let's talk about when we talked about that world. And not to
really go into this and I'm really talking about this in a funny way,
not in a crazy talk way. Alright, fireside Jen story's not want to
talk about but that world has its own
its own set of laws.
And when people we're not allowed to go into that world, by the way,
as a ruling, we're not allowed. But when has it become permitted?
When the people went in and hacked into the dark arts
by uttering certain words doing certain deeds, very bad deeds.
It's as if you opened in your heart, a portal to talk to dark
jinn. I mean, evil jinn. Okay, well, how else why else would the
Quran come telling us that Satan has to lay man had to teach this
to the people? Because once you know how it works, you become less
scared of it.
Okay?
How roots and my roots were two angels that were sent down in
ancient times to Babel.
They were not fallen angels. They were not angels that took the
challenge will give us temptations, and put us in the
abode of temptations, as the Benes royal said, you know, the
beneficiary all the stuff they say about their profits, forget
profits, the heavier they went on the angels too. They say how roots
and my roots were to angels. And they kept looking at the human
beings and their sins and the shaking their heads.
Okay, and then coming and saying that we could have done we we
wouldn't have committed these sins.
And then according to them, they're this false stories. Then
Allah said, Okay, how about a challenge you three days go down
and three days, that's all you need to spend three days with
temptation. So he made them very handsome and very wealthy, and
they descended on the earth. And of course, the first thing that
happened was, they went to the temple and they worshiped Allah
well, and then they got tired and they went and ate. And when they
ate,
they
they drank
my drink someone know when they drank some wine they committed
Zina. Next day they drink more wine, they committed Zina.
Someone saw them commit Zina, they killed the witness.
Okay, so
this is a lie, the whole thing is a lie first and not even
reasonable. No one just goes three days, boom, boom, boom, commit
three combat and in three days, right? You cannot leave if you're
going to fail, and you're gonna tell a story about angels who
failed make it like reasonable. Like on the second year, he drank
for the first time now not three days. So the whole story is that
will lie. But how to turn my roots
were sent down as Mala Inca to the righteous to the Prophet,
in the form of human beings to quell the fears of people from
sorcerers from magicians, who people who gotten into the dark
arts. What, how and why because a human being when he puts his mind
to something usually can do it.
That's how simple it is with the human being put his mind so mad,
guess what, at least wants to help them of course, right? So
they got into the dark arts, they're dividing people, they're
hurt, hurting people, how do they do this by uttering certain words,
they got poor, but doing certain very bad deeds. They become so
evil and dark. When you become so dark, they are attracting dark
spirituality. Not all spirituality is good. You're You're a spiritual
person, and it's all said
and it's all dark arts and occult stuff. And then they attract these
evil jinn. And the jinn wants something. The shaytaan wants
something and the human wants something and they make a deal.
Okay? And it's always, always, always involves harming somebody.
Oh, it's, they never do anything good. It's constantly non stop.
They're in a state of harming people. Okay. And the greatest of
harm is to create a divorce
or to effect a divorce you they whisper they plug away they, they
try to get into people's heads with Wiswell yes, they can even
though uswest can become so much
that it becomes essentially a force a driving force that a
person can't stop. That's what was was
It's all these towels are amazing for cleaning glasses. Microfiber.
How did I just discover this
was worse, one time two times this like a little gin, no problem. You
can ignore that. But we sweat can become so incessant. And that's by
a legion being sent to you. So in the same way that, like, I have a
flashlight, I can see in front of me. But a stadium, what is a
stadium other than the same concept repeated,
you know, a million watts more, right?
It's the same thing. So one was Swiss, but multiple Swiss was like
so much with Swiss that you can't sleep you can't think all you're
thinking is an obsession with this person or obsession with something
or to do something. So that's how they operate. So how do tomatoes
came to teach people this sadness Sulaiman Ali Salam. When he saw
that the Oracles you know, go to Disney and they have an Oracle,
right? Disney uses these all these old stories with an Oracle a
magician, right? A medicine man. All of that was based on ancient
times when that stuff actually happened and existed. And then
over time, different profits curbed that stuff even more until
now it's just a myth, right? Because they go out of business.
These guys are out of business.
At the time of the province, I set them suited to the gin tells us
that the Gen used to go and go to the heavens and be able to see the
future of Earth. What's gonna happen to people on earth?
They come down. They can't just talk to anybody. They only talk to
the one who has a portal open. Can you send a text to anybody? No,
you got to be signed up with a cell with a cell phone company.
Okay, then I can send you a text can I WhatsApp? You only if you're
online can't WhatsApp you for not online. So they go to these people
who are have opened up a portal with them. Okay, an ability to
communicate with them. And they will start telling people Oh, tell
the king this is going to happen. So he tells them this is gonna
happen and it happens. So the king starts trusting the Oracle. But
remember the Gen the demons, they don't want anything except
destruction of human beings. So now that you trust him, now he
will misguide him next, and that's what the prophesy centum said,
give you one word of truth.
And then 10 words of falsehood. And then ensued agenda tells us
that
this was this closed off. Now, one of the gifts that we have in the
time of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Allah aided the
OMA of the Prophet against these Oracle's and magicians and future
fortune tellers and all that and that's why they're all out of
business. They're all poor.
Go tell me a fortune teller who's driving around in a Mercedes and
living in a suburban house next to dentists and surgeons and stuff,
right? When was the last time you walked out as a hey, oh, that
neighbor. He's a dentist. That guy he's a real estate guy. Alright,
and then oh, yeah, he's a fortune teller. No, they'd never live it
with suburban, suburban homes. McMansions driving SUVs, taking
their kids to soccer. They don't live like this. They're all
unemployed because now that whole world the profit has
in since his time, they don't have access now to really know the
future anymore. In the past they did.
Okay.
And they use it to misguide people. Okay, so the world is say
I thought now what is the difference gene has said and said,
Okay.
The sign of hesed is that usually it comes right away.
And it's just like one moment, it's almost has it is like
throwing a baseball, right? Like a baseball got thrown in my window.
It happens once. Right,
sir, is something that someone's got something against you, and
they're planning to incessantly berate you, with gin. hassad comes
from within the person. It's something that is developed by the
Ill Will in the heart comes out of the eyes, and that's it. There's
no gin involved. There's no gender involved.
surgeon is involved. Someone is doing something contacting and
unfortunately, all throughout our worlds
some everywhere in the world, there are people who connect to
these dark arts.
And so it's not so far fetched. You pay somebody and they will go
and have a shaytaan have a demon have a bad gin doesn't have to be
like very evil. Could just be a
mischievious Jin, who's willing to disobey Allah commit sins and
bother you in exchange for something that they want. What do
they want? Sometimes they just want to be around somebody
sometimes the shayateen just want they want to smell something. I
remember a person that
told us that there was a gin
that was nice.
They're really a demon, but it's just a mischievous gin like a one
of these
idiots on the street, right? He'll do anything for a buck. And that's
all they wanted was the love of the smell of a certain herb being
burnt
and in exchange for that he go and pinch whoever you want bother
whoever you want do some silly stuff to whoever you want that in
that world is silly. Like any of these horror movies, the bulb
shuts out the bulb bursts or, you know, light flickers that's like
that's child stuff in the world that in that world, but that's how
it works and how to it's a mirage came down to dispel the mystique
of it and the sign of said is that you someone is paying somebody to
have some kind of gin or more than one go and bother you.
Okay, go and bother this person.
In our worlds what would that be look like?
Probably mafia work.
Pay some
I don't know the names what do they call the in the in the mafia
hierarchy. There's like wiseguys and all that you pay some thug to
go up smash up your store for 300 bucks a month. Right? Or else we
burn your store it I give it 500 bucks a month, we're still burning
your store down.
Like that. That's basically what it's like right? Now, this is why
this part of it I believe it's important to dispel the mystic
now, let's not we're going to talk about how it's cured. How do you
how do you handle this? I shouldn't say the word cured is
not a disease, you're a victim of abuse
has said we know that we know how to treat that.
What about that heavy duty set
is
cured by Muslims who because of the Aurora, the aurora of harm
that is happening here.
Had to no choice but learn
that worlds and they did learn that world in an permissible way
in Islam and a essentially use utilize the righteous and pious
Muslim Jin to fight the battles against that other jinn. Okay.
That's how it works.
Right?
That's how they do it. So when you have a serious situation like
that, essentially they ask you some information about yourself.
You don't see them for two weeks, and then all of a sudden the
senators gone. Alright, what happened?
They Those are their techniques, there are unlawful techniques to
to deal with evil, which is dealing like sad with sad, like,
how isn't it isn't there aren't there unlawful cures for diseases,
you can drink certain alcohol, amount of alcohol and pain goes
away. You can smoke, you can take different drugs and your pain goes
away. Right? You can probably treat certain diseases or
illnesses unlawfully, you can heal, you can solve your poverty
problem unlawfully. If the if a thug is after you, you can fix
that problem unlawfully. So everything can be done lawfully or
unlawfully.
And we as Muslims are only going to go the route of treating it
lawfully. Okay. So when you the people who do that, who treat it
lawfully, they should not have any of the signs of oddness upon them.
Like what are the signs of oddness?
reclusive? Nonna
recite this Hocus Pocus, were some kind of shapes and odd languages.
You're just treating magic with other magic and superstition? No,
we don't do that. Okay. What we do is these are all usually Imams,
and I know when he works as an imam in a mosque. He's living a
completely normal life but he's it's a handed down knowledge that
he learned from his dad from his uncle, etcetera, etcetera.
Because, again, in certain every Islamic country has this, we had
to find the ultimate had to find a way and they did find a way to
communicate with the righteous Muslim jinn for the sake of
removing evil jinn. And that's it, not for the sake of getting an
advantage in life.
Okay, or using it to make someone fall in love with you or any other
that's all forbidden or even. And what is the what about charging,
can they charge, they can charge but oftentimes they don't, because
of the fear that they'll be
labeled as something because the ones who do it incorrectly they
always charge so they want to be labeled and also because it's not
a knowledge that unlike or actual medicine, we it's empirical in
front of us. This is not exactly empirical. Most of the time they
will not even tell you what they do or how they do it. But in
general, I do have come to
Learn that that's how they do it. They do it by they have some of
God that they recite and they speak to a Muslim Jenna haven't go
and remove an evil jinn. Okay, that's a generality. And that's
all I know about that. But a lot of them don't charge because they
don't want to be deemed. But in a sense, it is a service. And if
they were to charge you that is not was not even unlawful, okay?
Because doing you a service.
So, but they oftentimes don't, because they don't want to be
labeled with those,
you know, other types, all right. What else? Is there a lot of
charlatans in that world a lot of charlatans and the charlatans how
do they operate?
This is very common in this world. They the way they operate is that
they found a way to get in contact with just a innocently
rambunctious Muslim,
usually a Muslim person or even if it's not Muslim, but not a demon.
Why? Because these people, they oftentimes are in the Islamic
community go to masajid recite the Quran etc. And, and they're so
they don't they don't attract demons. They just attract a type
of rambunctious person, right? Rajin.
And what do they do? They then send that Jen to go bother so and
so
knowing that so and so is going to come to them for help. Right?
Community member, go start bothering them, then drop a hint
here and there that I know how to take care of this stuff. And then
they get paid.
The person consults them. Okay, well send me Western Union 500
bucks, I'll take care of it for you. Then they just tell their
Muslim Jin to lay off, lay off the person for a while. And then the
person comes. Oh, it worked.
Why do we say it's a charlatan? Did we because that's his earning
now. Unlawful earning, like making people sick? And then curing them
at the same time? Well, isn't that Monsanto is accused of that all
the time. All right. You can see parallels from that crazy world,
we consider crazy to our own world, which Jen consider Crazy,
right? So all of this is to dispel some of the mystique about it, but
also to be very serious about our limits and our boundaries. And why
is it that I sort of limit myself to this amount of knowledge? Why?
Because
let's say someone was wanting to get be righteous say on a clean up
the streets, right? goes out there and little guy peddling some weed.
I'm going to stop him and I'm going to beat him up. All right,
good for you.
But people aren't in isolation. You just beat someone up? Well,
that person works for somebody. Right? It's connected to somebody
a bigger gangster.
Okay.
You don't don't mess around with something that you don't know.
Okay?
And you may be in a situation where you think I'm gonna go take
on the shell teen and all that stuff.
Do you you may end up messing with, you know, the son of a
Russian mob boss. Do you want a message you really want to mess
around with the Russian mafia. Now that Italian Mafia may have
weakened, right? So you might be able to take them on and survive.
Because I think they're pretty weak now. Russian mafia is taken
over.
You see, see a V and your last name. I'm running the other way.
Listen, I'm not playing games. Okay, you commit all the crimes
you're going to commit. Let the cops deal with you. They can't
even deal with you. The Russian mob is do you do not want to mess
around? Okay. Likewise, there are shayateen and legions of demons we
cannot handle. And if you could handle it, it would take your
whole day and your whole life and don't mess around. Okay. This is
what I was taught very early on. From Sheikh Abdul Rahman will see
the Mohammed and Mecca I was chatting with him and he told me
that they have Rockies in their family in their family their
office.
But they stopped the head which was his uncle put an end to the
whole family doing it. Don't eat don't nobody. Why? Just like today
are we going to go and take on the Russian mafia? No.
You're gonna go and stop drugs in the in Camden? No, because you
don't know the level of gangster you're dealing with.
So he stopped why is it that shit his uncle was one of the best
Rockies in Mauritania.
Until the day came that he messed with a certain type of shaytaan
that could not affect him because he would recite over his family.
Right he would recite so does it bucket a first thing every
morning. You imagine how how could you live? Right? If I had to sit
and do a three hour two hour recitation of suicide advocate
every morning. Now for him it ended in I think that sort of it's
20 minutes of Joe's, let's say 15 minutes at Joe's 30 minutes.
Let's say it takes 45 minutes, but not all, you know, it's every
single day of your life.
Every single morning, soon as you see the sunlight recite Susan
buckler,
but his family grew. And he ended up with a grandson far away. And
that shaytaan attacked his grandson and made him permanently
paralyzed.
So, oh, by the way, you know, what you could do is you can add the
new logo to.
So, yeah, so he told he put on his family, a complete ban of anybody
ever dealing with this dark world again, and that's my advice,
everybody else here have knowledge of what's going on, let the
Rockies do it, they live a certain way that allows them to have the
time and the energy. And I was told it's exhausting to have to so
much thicker. Okay.
That's for their worlds. We're not in that world, but have a concept
of how things are happening. Okay, and why they're happening in the
spirit of how roots and Marut they came down to inform us all or to
inform their generation with what's happening. How is it
happening? Okay. So that you
and Hamdulillah we we are here in the area. We have someone who
knows someone that we trust, and we know and works as an Imam, in
the masjid. There's no funny business and he doesn't even
charge people money. That's one of the signs and it works for people.
Okay, that's all he could tell you. Right. So
that's a little bit of a,
an opening here on that subject. Okay.
Let me see if there any questions before we move on to the next
subject?
Very nice.
Okay, let's see
what kind of I only take a few questions so we can close this
topic and move on to the next subject, which is progressives
going on the attack against some Imams really, really wanted to
progress? Alright, what about dreams? Dreams is
there are three sources.
One, it's almost like you have three.
It's there's three types of dreams and three sources. The first
source, most common to all people is just your thoughts. Okay, it's
just your thoughts. If you want something really badly,
and then you see yourself doing that thing, chances are not all
the time, but chances are, that is a nothing other than
your own thoughts. A lot of people, when they are they become
deprived of something they always do, or something that always ate,
or something they really want, they will see themselves doing it
in a dream that just reflects that. You want it so badly.
In the flipside, anxiety, you're anxious about something you may
see yourself. You know, how many people are there out there have
have had a really serious appointment like an exam or
something, and then had a dream that you missed it right? And I
have an all the time to people. It's very common. So the first
source of dreams is it's just a reflection of what's on your mind.
That's the only value that it has. Other than that it has no value is
neither not a message from Allah. Nor is it a nightmare from shades
on.
The prophesy Selim tells us in Sahil in Booker is at the bottom
of flood a narration stating that when you sleep,
your leaves your body, but it's connected with a small string
is like a tether tether.
And you don't go in different places.
It may go somewhere and receive from an angel of dreams a message.
encoded message. Okay. Why would the angels encode the message
is to separate it from the other two sources, which is a Satanic
nightmare, and
a dream of your own thoughts.
The Divine wants his message to be known. Allah wants his message to
you to be known. So I'm going to give you a flash drive and has a
password on it. You got to know the password to open up the file.
Oh, that's what dream interpretation is, okay? Or it's
in form of a coded language that only you can understand.
Right? Or, or only an interpretation. All right? That
you can understand. Okay?
So this is really important to know. And this language of dreams
is not difficult, it's really not difficult. Alright, but you just
need someone to teach you, within three, four months. If if you have
a clean heart, you can understand the basics. And you could
definitely be able to tell the difference between the true and
true dream and not true dream.
Lastly, there is and that message is given to you
in the form of a visual or an experience, right, that sort of if
we can use common language today, downloads in your mind or
downloads in your heart,
as if isn't good.
The third type is that if your
rule travels, and we don't know how, or where when we sleep, this
happens, but this is what happened, we see the effect of it,
right? Does anyone know where the Wi Fi waves are, that are given me
Wi Fi, then I'm able to talk to you all on this phone? No, but we
know the effect of it, we see the effects of it. And so you may come
in contact while sleeping with the demon
or shaytaan a evil jinn and they what do they want to do for you?
They want to scare you. Okay, they want to scare you. And the very
highly sophisticated ones don't scare you.
They lure you and misguide you, right. So
it's almost like this. It's almost like what when you see a thug, a
mafia thug, you get scared because all this idiot knows how to do his
punch, and kick and shoot and break stuff, right? But if you end
up going and sitting on a table with the mob boss, and you find
this mob, but he's not someone who's gonna kick and punch in and
beat you up and shoot you. He's someone who's going to try to make
a deal with you. But you got to know that deal is all in his
favor, not in your favor. You're not from the family who didn't
care about you. So you may benefit in the short run, but as soon as,
okay, he does done with you. You're finished. Okay. Likewise,
the shayateen they have their small ones that they're just the
thugs. They scare you.
The big ones. They have complicated methods of misguiding
people and the only solution to those is Aim. Aim of Sharia of
Arcada
Alright, so that's the concept here and that's the idea
behind this question that this is just had to link of all this with
dreams, but about seemingly random objects and random Alpha Arabic
Alpha geometric form former mother in law gave to me to hang on the
house freaked me out. Yeah, there's some automat who say
ultimate hoof is a thing.
But, and they say it's like, it's no different than like, physical
vitamins and herbs and drinking
medicines and herbs and stuff. But the magic is say no.
Okay.
Christian priests, can they perform exorcism successfully? Of
course they can.
If I have a thief in my house, can a Christian cop remove him? Yeah,
that doesn't mean his Christianity is right. Right.
The Shayateen do not like the mention of God Jesus at all. God
or comma, Jesus, comma, marry. The name itself. The name itself
drives them crazy, right?
Allah Himself praises all of these houses of worship. He doesn't
praise them I shouldn't say he says he does mention the one good
thing that they do.
Use Gadhafi has Smola the name of Allah is mentioned.
So the word Allah subhana wa Tada the word Mohammed, the word Jesus
these, remember I said earlier on, in this world, what you utter is
extremely important. What you utter with your mouth is extremely
important. And they cannot stand the utterance
of Moses, Jesus God.
So yes, they're Akita is messed up, but they are uttering those
words that are painful to the shayateen.
Okay,
a Christian person
Can a Christian cop can remove a criminal from your house? Okay, a
Christian person can protect you from a gank a Christian person can
cure you of cancer, right? Jinn possession,
exorcism, de Jin is not worse than any of these things, right? It's,
it's, it's an attack, that leads to a sickness, okay? And they can
exercise and we can take information from them about the
nature of the shayateen in the same way that we can hear from a
Christian cop, the nature of a bad gang that's out there, or a
Christian doctor, the nature of cancer, or of a disease, or of
anything else, right? You can take that knowledge, but when but their
understanding of the unseen is all wrong.
Like they're what they attributed as those like a criminals coming
to attack you, right?
The cop can stop the criminal. And he could tell you about the gank
but he still may have misinformation about and they're
misinformation. What they misunderstand is they considered
demons to be fallen angels. So likewise, oh, this gang member
Yeah, this gang they came into the town and they're doing all this
stuff, and we got to stop and find he gets out. And then but he may
doesn't mean he got their history, right. He may have gotten their
history all wrong.
Doesn't make a difference, he could still stop them. So they're
all wrong in their knowledge in their what they're transmitting
from the Bible, that every demon was an angel. That's wrong
completely.
Secondly, of course, they're going to use the crucifix and they're
going to use their religious language and we're gonna use ours.
Okay. Christian surgeon
opens you up and start saying Christian prayers to get God's
help to remove you know, to do his surgery on you the surgery is
successful because of the knowledge he has that is accurate
knowledge and we are Muslim could learn that accurate knowledge and
then obviously the Muslim surgeon is not going to use
you know those those preps that's obvious one, right. So we are able
to take
certain knowledge from people who are not Muslim.
A Muslim said there is no evil No, that's false, completely false.
Did not Allah say in the Quran, Min Saturday merkler He Allah has
created a shutter and Allah has created a shape on and that is
everything that is far from the Mercy of Allah and opposite of the
Mercy of Allah subhanaw taala.
There is a convert sistah Hedda who was into strong voodoo
Yeah, maybe hopefully that he can use that knowledge to now dispel
that world it's a dark arts is dark knowledge and we're not
allowed to seek it by the way for no any other reason except if you
plan to cure people on it. Okay, from it.
Okay.
Eve evil is the absence of Allah's goodness. Not just that, no.
Not just that there is pure darkness, exact negative, pure
negativity, pure harm. Evil is not just the absence of goodness, evil
is characterized by the absence of goodness, but it is not a void.
Evil is not a shakedown is not a void, right? He there is evil is
not just that he's void of goodness, void of goodness to be
empty, right? He is against goodness, he has set up an entire
world.
Okay to fight the world of angels and the world of Prophets. Okay.
So if they meant that, yeah, there's some times you can say
that, that and what that tribulation is characterized by
lack of mercy, but it's not defined as a lack of mercy is the
prophesy set him said Malaika are commanded to por Bella on people.
But and when it falls upon you, your bad things happen such as
accidents or something, and we can put an umbrella up. That's an
umbrella of Vicodin, a bad and good deeds. You can do even more
good deeds and you have a full roof over your head. So bear that
can fall a lot. What is the difference between but that falls
on somebody who is out in the sea? It's raining a storm out there.
One is in the streets.
One has an umbrella, the other is in a house. What's the difference?
All of us are feeling it and hearing it and knowing it exists.
We're all the same in that we're all inconvenience a little bit. It
may be really loud. Okay, but
The one in the house. He's like, Oh, I can't go outside. Maybe my
electricity gets cut off. But he's not getting what he's not getting
flooded. He's not getting sick. That's the way of the odia. And
the prophets, they have a lot of betta, but they also have a great
protection, amazing protection. So they feel it, they know it's a
storm, but they're not hurt as affected person. Wow, with the
umbrella as protection in the beginning, but eventually he's
gonna get soaked. Okay, but it's just not falling hard on his head.
And if acorns and leaves fall, he's protected from the one who's
with nothing at all. Okay, he's just getting the whole brunt of
it. And that person would nothing at all. If it was a minor
rainstorm, he's still getting more wet than
actual like, Hurricane if you had a house, right? Where you won't
get wet at all. So likewise, the prophets in the odia on the side
of heat, the more a bad and decree good deeds they do, the more
protection they have, because they have that protection, they can
withstand more buildup
I get how people define evil as the absence of mercy. That is one
perspective, but it's not 100%. Correct. I think I have may have
said that in the past to
me.
What's up? So
like the connection between good and evil,
evil and good don't really have a link. Right? We characterize it as
absence of good.
It's yeah, it's characterized that by that for sure. So like, that's
the definition because that's how we know. Yeah. 100% It's like a
blind person. Like, we say he has no sight. But yeah, there's not
really a link between sight and like, in not having sight. Yes,
like a definition. It's a definition. Exactly.
Tell me what's coming out of
we don't have Instagram right now. Okay, no problem, the Android
thing.
I'll try to get that fix. Well, we do have a question.
One of the browsers he's asking, I grew up as a speech impediment as
a result of social anxiety, no confidence. I can't build ties
with extended family slash friends, etc. Because I can't
speak. I have no aspirations. What do I do?
Have you?
So this is not related to Sir yet? No, but okay, we'll get to that
question, because it's a very good question. Lack of him a lack of
everything. All right, we're gonna talk about that. A couple more
questions. We're not even in q&a, but just happens to be I want to
close this real quick before we get to the next subject.
Pain is a real thing is not just the absence of preservation. It is
characterized by the absence of preservation, for sure. Allah
preserving us and having Rama with us. Yes, but it is also a thing.
All right, the word. I cannot emphasize enough the recitation of
ROTC bad debt
or any word written by one of the trusted
Elia of our OMA
what are the Olia? Allama
allow me to the scholars who acted upon their knowledge by the
testimony of the people and the other scholars and their family
until they died. Okay. And they died upon that we call those nasty
woman at Olia.
Potential for like, we live for someone like you know, they say
the amount of the old woman like she doesn't really know anything
yet knowledge. But her connection with Allah is like stronger than
anyone. Okay, so is there rely on like, yes, you can be a non
scholar who's already however, that person is not to be followed.
That's the difference in law inochi data in decision making. So
that's the difference. And so the Quran mentions
in Surah two never mentions walled gardens and wildflowers.
Wildflowers you look at them all you want. You don't eat from them.
The walled garden it's all safe. Okay, it's all safe. You can eat
from them. You can eat anything from them.
So irritable had dad will cut through much much much so much.
Anyway did what did you let me know nawawi for example, these a
rod will cut through so much of the bad things that could happen
to a person puts
A wall between us and it actually kills the light that comes from
those Oh rod will kill so many so much evil. Okay
when a ship authors a word of their authors a dot, there still
remains to be some kind of a, it's as if there's a connection between
them, you establishing like a connection between you and that
person. Right? And we benefit from that if and so one put it very
simply says, Allah loves them.
He loves their work, and he loves those who recite their work. So if
you were to say, I'm going to take the word myself, I'm gonna make my
own wish I looked at the woods didn't know we I looked at lots of
it had dead, which you can get us fantasize.org/wood lowercase w
IRD. I'll make my own. Well, what's the problem here is that
you're not benefiting any more from the actual
element of Allah's muhabba. Allah loves jobs, he loves their work,
he loves to see their work being benefited from he loves this, and
he rewards everyone who takes part in it.
So why would you deprive yourself from that? And why would you then
go and try to do it yourself?
Right?
Me, you know, pump up your ego
well, then what about those? Why did they author the ODOT? Well,
they went through life, they were graduated by shield, they moved
on, and they when you become an old man, and you live that world,
and you give your due respect to the elders on the shoe, that maybe
one day, you can do the same thing for yourself. Right? Same thing
with fatawa Didn't we talk about fatawa last week, like legal
fatawa
as some youth coming in writing of fetch was meaningless, thrown in
the garbage. Just like a young person come as I got into
medicine, hold on, is it was this tested? Was it tried? Did you you
know, have a career with, you know, in the industry, that we all
know you? And they all know, you know,
same thing with these things. Okay, do you need permission from
shield for these words? No. What did the know we thought somebody
had done no. And if you do, then here, you get it from me right
here.
But you don't know.
If if you when you get it from a person through an unknown,
broken chain is always
better, it's always
nicer to have that complete chain. And, and that is something that
many, many, many people have that complete unbroken chain regarding
ROTC, but had dad and these major o'rawe the Buddha didn't even know
his bill Barr and so in route with respect to having that then, if we
want that Baraka then
you, you know, I try to transmit it to you, okay, to the degree
that that chain of transmission has buttock and that was taken
directly from the Habib many different times when you recite
the ROTC with them, and then they give you the permission and really
what they want is they want it to spread to the people.
Can I keep the things of my dead loved ones? Yes, you can. For
example, my father's
anything really, yes. There's nothing wrong with that. It's
doesn't mean necessarily that we're going to be using it for
powers and stuff like that, because we could start now, it may
be something you keep for Baraka or just for sentimental value
that's sentimental value is 100%. Fine. I like to have it there.
It's sentimental to me. That's it. That's your 100% safe.
Nothing wrong with that.
I have a speech impediment, says one brother. And this has resulted
in me losing confidence, social anxiety. And really, in a bad
state. I would highly recommend you look up coaches, speech
coaches, they deal with everything. They deal with the
psychological aspect, the social aspect, the lisp, whatever the
stutter is, get a coach, stick with that coach, don't try to fix
the situation yourself. Get a coach.
Evil exists and has a great wisdom, not just Yes, Zog is
saying here. Can we say evil exists but it has was always
always always has a wisdom.
There will be benefits at the end of this for the one who
understands it properly. And who and for the one who handles it by
saying to themselves I know
For sure
there's a benefit from this. Right?
And then that just because you say that doesn't mean that you will
just gonna go away, doesn't mean you're not going to be hurt by it
doesn't mean you're not going to struggle.
But in the end, there will be a benefit for you.
Tyler Grazi says that shook up that hachimura Put it perfectly.
He said the fact that there is evil, or that there that there is
evil, the presence of evil, the existence of evil
is good. It has a good purpose to it. But evil itself is not good.
Okay.
Can we define evil that? Yes. Can you just invite him for sure. Can
you define evil than evil? Is that which is free? It is far from the
Mercy of Allah subhanho wa taala. And in the end of the day, there's
an that's actually some people have different definitions.
There's that there is one is defined as harm
is defined relatively anything that we human beings would call
harm. Okay, but ultimately the ultimate definition
of evil.
That is,
the ultimate say is that it is
disobedience of Allah without repentance.
Everything else can be
there can be discussion about it. But the only thing that is the
source of this pure evil is
going far from Allah. Disobedience of Allah without Toba. So even
someone disobeys Allah subhanaw taala.
It's not fully known yet what his results will be he may make Toba
okay?
What is the sustenance of jinn?
Yeah, some people say they actually eat the bones and Allah
knows best.
All right, it's what times you know,
to 21 Now
we're going to have to close this subject and we're going to talk
about the some of the progressive Imams what happened
and why they some of them not all of them, but
progressive Muslims are now going on the attack now, as they see
election times coming around.
And
they're now really, really, the progressives are reeling because
they did have some what they imagined to be
a nod from Imams to continue being progressive. And now that they see
some imams are realizing that we're not about going Lutz and
they're openly saying it.
Okay, they're openly saying it
that
they're now writing articles. And essentially, I would say
mischaracterizing a lot of them and then bashing them. So let's
read this article. Where am I reading this real clear
religion.org Good real clear religion dot orgy
get
and they're saying now that
the Imams they're only mentioning to hear Mamiya almost cinnamon, so
could that have done an about face? Okay, and a really attacking
how much of the men here have done an about face? turning their backs
on liberal activism. Okay, and taking a political stance? Well,
in Islam, what is a political stance, first of all?
And what is a religious stance? Any stance that is merely citing
the dean and saying this is Allah has said this in the book, we are
not allowed to do this. We have to do that. We're not we cannot
believe this. This is a incomprehensible or a inconsistent
belief. This is an obligatory belief.
That's what we call a religious statement. That is a religious
statement. That is not a political statement.
A political statement would be go out there and vote for Person X.
Go out there and support
person why?
That's a political statement.
When you specify
a certain political person or tool, okay, vote for this bill,
that bill that's a political statement. No doubt about that.
Religious statements is Allah says this. That's it.
Now what if someone says, Oh, yes, but the timing, the context
doesn't change the fact that it's a religious statement. Okay.
So this one is said when celebrity Texas based Islamic faith leader
Sheikh Omar Suleiman posted a 30 minute Maiya culpa video in June,
recounting all his progressive activism relating to the LGBTQ
community, he left liberal allies and progressive Muslims
floundering in dismay. First of all, I felt it was more like a
clarification that I what I did this, intending that, and it may
have come off as something else. So I'm clarifying. So it's not
like there you can find anything where he's
openly allying himself with liquidity cue. Now, there was that
Pulse shooting statement, and they just gave it to him and he read
it, right. But he even said that in the video said, like, I didn't
write this. I got it, read it on the moment. And it came across
that I'm like, with them or something, but it's not. So in any
event. He says that they released this during pride month, and
attract over half a million views. And it raises questions about the
role of spiritual leaders and political activism.
They're flipping out when your activism or your religious
preaching contradicts leftist politics, progressive as liberal
politics. They love you.
Of course, if your conclusions match their politics, this was an
extraordinary volte face.
From the poster emem,
who revered who was revered as a fear of the civil rights champion
and vowed and had wowed crowds at a Bernie Sanders rally in 2020. He
had been invited to offer prayers
at the congressional House of Representatives the year before
and prior to that was courted by then Senate hopeful beta O'Rourke.
So they might quickly became the nation's favorite Imam as a repeat
guest on Good Morning America. Yeah, as long as anyone beats
little, but seems nice to you guys. You'd like him. Soon as he
says something that's from the dean that you don't like. Now, all
of a sudden he's going to be
getting an article written about the Louisiana by the way, who's
the author of this? Awesome refund? malloc
What if that's the Louisiana born native bursts into Dallas Fort
Worth moss in 2012. With his powerful oratorical skills and
intellectual prowess, he soon became a ubiquitous and sought
after speak, managing track Muslims traditionally sent
modernists as a prominent leader of the faith. He took on pressing
mainstream issues such as police brutality, Refugee Rights and
fighting racism, so a man was feted by some will some liberals
by some liberals.
And Democrats thanks to his inclusive message, including his
outreach to the gay community. In 2016, Omar Mateen, massacred 49
people up the pulse bar. So they men organized a statement of
condemnation signed by Muslim scholars and community leaders and
he went further he attended a press conference in his home
state, and later a village outside the Resource Center, a Dallas
based gay social service facility where he addressed more than 1000
people. Okay. Many activists still recall his searing words about
human rights and dignity were determined to cry together to pray
together stand together straight gay, flirty, and a Texan. Okay, so
that one was a little bit. All right. He read from a prepared
statement and an off the cuff remark he also added there, this
right here is America. Take a look around you. This is the future of
America and no bigger terrorist is going to stop that.
Saying something about terrorists and bigots. It's fine if you
define a bigot as someone who you know physically harmed someone
unlawfully
because of a trait that they have
days later so a man extolled the virtues of compassion, orthodoxy
and humanitarian Islam in an interview with The Dallas Morning
News, I did go and stand in solidarity with the LGBT community
said
because idea of homophobia which is a real problem in the country
is that people should be targeted as less than human because they
choose to live their lives in a particular way and that's what's
problematic All right, probably. That's gonna get you
people who are looking for that they're going to use that
obviously
Okay, he's a continuous gay Muslims exist in their part of our
community. It depends on the mosque you go into whether the
mosques are going to accept them or not. A lot of that has to do
With how American those mosques are, how acclimated they are.
Okay, so in light of these supplements changing views, how
should muscles respond when a spiritual leader has a 180 degree
reverse epiphany? Is it theological regression? Or is he
seeing the light?
Can they be considered trusted and credible sources of religious
guidance now penitence. Solomon blames his exuberance on the
prevailing anti Muslim climate partly stoked by Trump
as well as his youth, okay, the man who inspired 1000s of Muslims.
In Texas, I can't lie that those statements tills quotes to sort of
send a message that people
may take the wrong way. Or liberals may consider a green
light. The man who inspired 1000s
to protest at an airport against the Muslim ban, and inhumane
condition migrants face at the border now argues, uncomfortable
situations arose while marching with gay clergy and activist.
Things get really tricky with vigils and the type of practices
that have the origin different thoughts and practices in these
places. I should have done a better job when it was brought to
my attention. All that knows, I seriously really repent and ask
forgiveness for that. Well, that's good, because those statements any
statement that gives sort of a lukewarm or a green light to
something that is not Islamic, but people may understand it that way.
That is a problem, too. It's not just the technical word of the
law, or the of the utterance that you make. Technically, what does
it mean? No, it's also what do people get from that? How do
people perceive that you know that the
Imam is not allowed to attend the funeral of a Publix? unrepented
shameless public center? Why? Because he gives a message that
that's okay. You know, we support him, we still pray for him. We
love him. Know, he's public and shameless. It's not like he's a
sinner on the side.
Right.
In hiding No. So it's, it's forbidden for a Muslim to Imam
who's looked up to to fraternize with an innovator. For some sector
other it's forbidden for us to even fraternize with an innovator.
Right. So
as forbidden
for us to do why, because the message it sends, so those
statements, if they give a seeming Greenlight, then yeah, that's a
problem. So he did, he said he
should have done a better job and asked forgiveness for that. So
that's good. He insisted he was handed a speech he had to read in
Orlando, and the Muslims panicked response was reactive, I wish
first of all, as Muslim community, we didn't accept the premise of
that so quickly. I think that's the spirit in which a lot of posts
and
and the Orlando statements, and so many things came out. I also
wished personally I would have handled that differently. Good. I
agree.
To the question of whether Muslims can form alliances with liquid IQ
who support our right as Muslims, so the men now would now answer of
course not.
Okay, it's important for this thing.
If you're drowning, and a bliss lends you a hint. Or if you're
drowning, and a very crafty person politically, who's going to ask
you favors you cannot live up to
and you what you cannot do.
reaches out
to get at your own risk.
We can't, you're going to ask us to support something we can't
support.
So I don't want favors from you in the first place because I cannot
repay what you want. I can't pay repay you the price that you want.
You want to price from me. I can't pay you back. Can't go against my
lord, I can't go against my religion. You're asking something
I can't fulfill for you. So I apologize.
And I can't I can't take favors from you. Okay, and that's the
problem. A bliss never comes at you whenever at least comes right
at you. Look at where your first instinct is to run. Because that's
probably where he wants you to be. He's too smart to just come at you
like a thug.
Think about this again very closely. When Iblees comes out you
with fear your first instinct of where to go let's say politically
or they forgot your first instinct. The common man's
instinct of where to go okay.
is probably where he wants you to be in the first place. So when he
sends okay a wolf a dog at you naturally where you're going to
run exact opposite direction of the dog is probably where at least
wants you to go. Okay.
Politically speaking, so send Britt brought George Bush in the
war on terror. Well, where did the War on Terror send all the
Muslims?
Okay, it sent them to the left.
That's where he wanted you in the first place. Okay.
You know much knowledgeably says,
you know his game plan of his house Tao how strategic if you
played chess, you didn't train you didn't think you didn't study. He
just played chess
for 100 years, okay, let's say you lived a long life, you play for
100 years, how good will you be at the 100th year, like you've seen
everything, you play chess all day, every day for 100 years. If
Bliss has been added at the destruction of the human being for
1000s of years 1000s
his chess moves, don't try to use your brain against him. Just
follow the book.
Just follow the Quran. Okay. Don't try to do anything against him.
You tried to outsmart him use the Quran. So when a dog comes at you,
you go up, go and follow the way the Dean that's it. All right.
He now says it's important for us collectively as a community to
actively oppose the LGBT agenda, which must be rejected
religiously, socially and politically. Critics say there's a
kick to the teeth to LGBT activism. All right, I advocacy
groups who publicly rejected Trump's concern trolling over the
Muslim ban. And it's just justice and specification for targeting
Muslim majority countries that discriminated against people's
sexual orientation. You know what might happen? Now, these LGBT
advocacy groups may no longer support Muslims against Trump's
ban. And I say good.
Don't support us. Don't have anything to do with us. Don't
benefit us don't harm us. You do your thing over there, which I
disapprove of, but I can't do anything about it. Let me go live
my life over here. Okay. And I do have a position. I'm not neutral
to this. The Muslim position is not neutral, towards your agenda.
We are actively against your agenda. Okay? It's not live and
let live. It isn't. You can't be live and let live.
Alright, you may be legally physically, like my neighbor may
be a Hindu. He has God's right. Live in that live physically. But
it's not what I teach my kids. I say La ilaha illallah lair Shetty
killer. We're going to teach them that this is wrong and bad. But I
physically cannot go and break down your gods. I don't have the
authority.
Okay.
If I had the authority I would like if you bought a God into my
house, I have authority over my house, right?
I have the authority to throw in the garbage right? What did I
leave it if I come home, so Oh.
The neighbor came.
The Hindu neighbor came and what Oh, really what they bring they
brought us edible arrangements in the kitchen. And they bought us a
god. Okay, they don't know any better. Maybe they're just being
nice. Fine. Give me the edible arrangements.
Now we'll take the God say kids, we're not allowed to have a
Buddha. An elephant. The lady with the hands. When ought to have
that? Yes, Mr. Our neighbor, so and so he's a nice man. He doesn't
know any better in terms of gifting us with this. But we're
not married again. We're not pagans is the worst thing you
could do we have an idol besides Allah. Okay. So we're gonna throw
in the garbage. Okay. What we're not going to do, we're not going
to go it doesn't have to go to the fact that we're going to go and
start hating on the guy who was trying to be nice, right.
So being against something does not necessitate going to have a
civil war in the coldest sack, right. Hey, Vishnu, take this
boom, it doesn't have to go to that. Extreme. Okay.
Okay, hey, Bhakti Go tell your dad, no idols in this house. And
now all of a sudden, we just created awkwardness in the coldest
sack, right? And all sorts of war in the coldest sack when
you know, it can be done different way. And we're still against it.
Right? So
that's an example. Likewise, somebody comes to women move in,
hey, we bought you a fruit basket, okay, wrapped in a rainbow flag.
And say kids, listen, we're gonna have to eventually explain to Mrs.
and Mrs. Smith, that we don't do this. Alright.
Okay, but we're gonna take this and we're gonna put in the trash.
How hard is that? Right. And is that wrong in any law? So yes, if
I had the authority, which I do in my house, I have the authority in
my house or they could take that away too. They want to take
everything away these people, okay.
If they take authority away from my house, but if you bring it to
my company, and you bring it right here,
I have authority in the building. I throw it away.
Okay
in May, so a man signed a well publicized position. Now Bob, I
said this to before I keep reading, if you truly respect me
respect my limits. If you truly respect me and I want to fight for
your right to be Muslim in America, wait a second, are you
genuinely doing this? Or do you want something back? Right? Are
you genuinely listened to this? If, if a man has two daughters,
on a regular day of the week, all of a sudden those two daughters
come prepare him a snack, start giving them my back massage,
saying how good of a dad he is telling them how much Quran they
memorized.
It's Tuesday at six o'clock, what's going on? What do you want?
Right? Right. Anyone who has any experience? This is not normal.
What do you guys want dessert? There's an Ask coming here, right?
This question and ask.
Same way, all of a sudden, what do you guys have to do with us? If we
fighting for our right to live here and you want something back?
Like, right? Because you know that we don't live like you guys. We
don't approve of this. Wilson's would have stood up if Muslims
existed at the time of Elvis that would have been corruption for us.
Right?
I mean, good old Elvis, who's considered like the the old days
the good old days, right? Where shutter was limited to that? No,
that would have been, that was a calamity. For the Muslims at that
time. If a Muslim lived at that time, and women are throwing their
clothes at him. And he's giant dancing and gyrating and moving
his hips around, and getting all the girls to go crazy. And having
these concerts that itself would have been shut up for us. And it's
not you cannot as Christians, you cannot know, or, or Americans or
any American cannot know that Islam was
not against this stuff. Right. So what do you want from helping us?
And they are here are talking about Muslims being politically
naive. What about you people? Do you think they're just genuine
from the goodness of their heart? I want to put a rainbow flag on
and for the goodness of my heart go fight for the Muslims to live
here and be against Trump.
Are you naive? They want something back of course, right? So if
that's the case, and you love me so much that you want to protect
my rights, can you do you respect my limits? Okay, I may be against
Hinduism. I may be against all these other religions, but I know
my limits as a citizen. And I know that there's nothing I'm doing
about it, except in my own home. Okay. And in the public sphere, I
can write books I can write whatever
say my opinion, but at the simultaneously, you have a right
as a neighbor, in the cul de sac.
To live peacefully without me bothering you. It is your right.
Good bye secular law and even Islamic law. It's your right do
you do that in your own home? Yes, you may have a symbol for that.
You're a Christian, Hindu Jew, whatever religion you are. Okay?
That's your right to go live. I don't have a right now to start
blocking your driveway and harming you and abusing you and all that
stuff.
All right. So I'm respecting that and you were you I need you to
respect me. So in May, so they men signed a well publicized position
statement with 200 other Imams.
Okay entitled navigating differences, clarifying sexual
gender ethics and assignment broadly aligned with the
traditional view of the Old Testament that sees homosexuality,
sexual relationships as immoral, not immoral. Haram immoral is
something like we determined right? No haram Allah forbade it
while acknowledging that the liquidy Q community constitutional
right to live in peace and free from abuse that's what I'm saying
like in the cul de sac in the street in the workplace the guy
has a right to walk down the hall without me like what am I going to
body check him because he's hidden door gay right what that's what am
I going to rail him against the wall trip him up now like that's
what I understood from that right which is why signed it as the
right to go banana constitution or by use by Cydia to I can't go
behaving like that.
A fellow signatory acid kadhi likes to lay men is based in
Dallas Fort Worth.
The heart of an Islamic scholarly revival, deemed conservative, high
profile Yale educated theologian. He elaborated this in a June
article on Al Jazeera. To his credit, he urges Muslim not to be
misled by the political ideology of the right. Yeah, we're not
running to the right. A fool would run to the right.
They do not want you there. They may use you as a shield against a
problem they couldn't solve because their theology was too
weak and their spirituality was too weak.
To convince their youth
okay?
And they're using Muslims as a shield fine. It doesn't matter
whether you use this as a shield hide behind us or not doesn't make
a difference because we're going this way anyway.
Man, Catholics even why a thought? If we're gonna have any allies,
it'll be the Catholics. I ended up somehow in a Catholic I was
looking up something and having a Catholic listserv or, you know,
one of these chats, wrote, they despise Muslims. They loathe
Muslims, okay. So don't think that the Catholics are too much of our
friends. But if I had to choose anyone, I would choose Catholics,
but they also have their limits, right? They really have limits.
They're just probably easier to deal with.
A Sunni Muslim claudi had a history of shifting the sands of
Scripture.
That's pretty rough. He moved from a largely neocon view of Islam to
a liberal one.
I don't know. He publicly repented for his intolerant views of Shia.
Okay, I regret statements I made inflammatory remarks. I was taken
aback. I don't think he regrets the theological position
he renounced his allegiance to Salafi Islam
he was no the Salafi originally School of Islamic thought is no
longer sacred to him because it's become associated with extremists
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Yeah, we're gonna have Sheikh Abdul Hakim Murad inshallah we're
gonna reach out to him and we're gonna try to have him on the
podcast as well. Yes, here's Sheikh Abdullah. Mr. was a good
one as well. So yes, with this associate we said if Islam is not
only because of extremes, but also for theological reasons.
Some of this is yes. Or cloudy.
Or Mirza? Keep all these in mind and I'll write them down in
shoulder.
Second, yeah, she did. Hakim Murad is a big one that we definitely
want to I'm going to try my best to get him on
your bomb is a
big request. But
so yeah, we're gonna watch the podcast you can watch it on
YouTube. Also on Instagram today, we're not Instagram because of
some technical difficulties. But on YouTube, I believe on Facebook
and Twitter as well. You can watch the podcast and then Spotify
should have like the recordings of the previous podcasts as well. So
you can go on Spotify. Not sure about SoundCloud
we're gonna have to make sure come the use of okay Sheikh Hassan
Rashid, digital good requests and I have some of these written down
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obviously inshallah we're gonna I'll have him on the list as well
how many JVM how many Javelin Tiller we can have we tried to
best try our best to have him as well as you have to use of
lot of these figures are very busy as well. So it's it gets hard to
kind of catch these people.
I'm saying yeah, good one
actually want to meet him but here's the thing is His English is
very like, it's not up to par, you're going to need a translator.
But actually we'd love to have that guy on as you can still
enrolled for argue Arabic. I'd like to share he can give you more
details on the specifics of the program. But just know that it's a
lot of stuff.
When we had Sure yeah. Hey, rotors on. If you go to a previous
stream, you can search it up on YouTube. We can always have him
back on the game interpreter. Yeah, that's a good idea.
Bobby, I would love to have that
in your mind.
And you had brown?
Yeah.
All right, here we go. Mr. Medulla.
He says here, he's talking now that
about so called these
history here, says I do disagree with some of the methodological
practices, the current set of who movement, not the Salafi
theoretical understanding of Islam, okay, he's against the
harshness, the exclusivity, the way they treat other people that
he disagrees with. Okay, but not the theoretical understandings.
This again raises the question, when your faith leader turn
when your faith leaders turn, should congregation follow like
sheep.
It's time repeatedly tells us that people are prone to error and ego.
So resilience, reliance on humans to filter our faith means
dependency on their foils, or foibles or whatever, or
fallibility, which is true, which is why we follow a Jamara which is
why we follow a method have something established something
with more than
one person who I because seamen have vulnerabilities, we have
biases, we have weaknesses, we have politics, we have contexts,
and all that stuff.
All right.
Critics argue that because it's them does not support higher
hierarchical structures, adherence should develop a direct
relationship with God and understanding of His divine
message perhaps and Muslims will recoup some agency from both
pundants and their own well meaning spiritual leaders. We
don't believe in a specific hierarchy, but we do have
hierarchy of understanding. Definitely.
Okay. We have hierarchy of understanding.
All right.
There's hierarchy there, there are automa that know better than non
Allamah. And there are that's why there's Gemma. Okay.
And there, there's there is Masuda admithub.
Okay.
All right. This question is critically important in an
election year if the upshot of the combined statements on liquidity
related issues is that Muslims should not support candidates
affiliated anyway with that community. Then we have two
possible consequential outcomes mostly either refuse to vote or
they will vote for conservative candidates. Of course, these are
liberals so they're going crazy here. According to F top Siddiqui,
one of the founding directors of the Muslim Democratic caucus of
Texas. This is what happened in the past local election, a young
Democrat standing for a City School Board, who was a Latino
Muslim convert was rumored to be gay in an online Muslim group.
This claim which he never publicly confirmed, led to a vitriolic
backlash against him. This resulted in some Muslims,
including Democrats either voting for the other candidate or
standing. Okay, that would not be good if it was false.
On the basis of a rumor, that which couldn't have clarified the
rumor, right.
Or do you expect Yeah, like you want Muslims even to vote for that
for?
I have a lot of spectral Imams who said but they should not get
involved in politics.
Yeah, I would also say if you're an Imam, you don't necessarily
have to tell us who to vote for. Don't tell us who to vote for.
Okay.
But to tell us what Islam is that's not a political statement.
After 911 Many Muslims were worked hard to build partnerships and
allies. That's why when the Muslim ban Muslim ban we can all
Americans came out to support us including illegal ridicule. They
are a minority under
Attack from the right and we should support their
constitutional right and not during the Republican agenda. Wait
just because they support again that there also is they supported
us so we should support them.
Last month, Trump signaled that if you were reelected more Muslim
men, this is a real, there's a real chance that led me to Q
issue, which many fields being hyped up by the right wing fear by
right wing fear mongering could result in Muslim voter self
suppression. This comes just when Arab Americans are becoming an
important electoral force in key seats like Michigan, as our South
Asian Muslims, and K in other parts of the country, right, more
than a million Muslim voters made a difference in key battleground
states, Georgia where Biden won. Why are we cheating Biden? Like
it's like, that's
something like amazing, right? Like, that's the context here is
like, oh, he supported you got Biden to Being Well, why is Biden
any good?
For Muslims in Islam?
What do we care more about just who likes us? Or who actually
respects our deen?
If our spiritual leaders must really play a role in a socio
political arena, let it be humane, constructive, okay. He's saying
human dignity. Right. should outweigh all policies. What about
gun violence? Wait a second. How is that not a political issue?
Right. Yeah. Violence, yes. But they're eventually going to get to
gun ownership. Immigration.
What how is immigration, not a political issue? There's no right.
In Islam to go walk into another country.
Or rights for women like what abortion? We can't speak about
that either now,
as well as human rights or more broadly, should be considered
unlike some groups invested in an anti liquidity agenda. What do you
mean some groups that's what Islam is, is an anti liquidity cue, in
terms of the practice and the belief in it. As a minoritized
community Muslims understandably become protectionist about their
identity and core values. He again, this person is completely
secular. It's not identity core values. It's it's the Dean it's a
God given religion. You think we're choosing this? It's not our
choice.
The length of the words you choose it means a lot here. Then while
there are genuine religious freedom concerns keep in mind as
attorney Asmaa Odin recently chronicled the hill in the hill.
Regarding the Maryland school officials treatment of Muslim
parents feeling under siege should not mean losing sight of our
humanity or our circumspection. Listen, you all felt underseas
after 911 and you ran and lost your deen forget humanity and
circumspection. What about your deen you when it's supported the
left's right accepting their promotion of 1000 unlawful
matters.
Odin was one of the speakers with Dean Okay.
At a conference liquid ACU plus bouncing faith and civil rights,
organized by one of the Texas largest mosque in defiance of
considerable local and some national opposition with increased
security. It was possibly the first time that any major Islamic
institution is going to take on the subject. Although it no way it
endorsed homosexuality appeared a courageous and sincere attempt to
defuse growing tension and reach out to Muslims struggling with
their sexuality. One of the organizers was the trailblazing
initiative. So of this trailblazing initiative was so
cloudy in the headline speaker on what they meant by the central
event speech at the Bernie Sanders rally was a massive victory for
Islam in America and that community needs to become more
mature and stop demonizing those who form alliances with other
groups not our job to be judged during execution or for somebody
who's engaged in any sin.
The Masjid is open to anybody who wants to come to Allah and His
messenger. Perhaps this checkered spiritual path of these
charismatic leaders should encourage them to show humility on
an issue that has become highly polluted by we it doesn't make a
difference what they say the religion is very clear on this.
Right? You had 200 other people you think they just followed them?
Right? Do you think you just everyone just followed to Imams to
sign that document? They should focus on spreading a message of
tolerance? So why don't you be tolerant as well, and tolerate
those who are against the liquidy queue? Right? Why does tolerance
only go one way, the way you want it to go?
Let's pray. They also stress Muslim civic engagement and neat
and the need to consider totality of issues when it comes to voting
who was referred Malik a freelance journalist in Dallas. I was sister
she is as a as a woman I thought we've had in our culture as a male
and Arabic it's a male Arab culture, we refer to the mill
but it doesn't have to be male could be a female too. She's the
founding editor in chief of American Muslim today, a nonprofit
national digital newspaper, transforming the narrative about
Muslims in the West I saw that
website and it's basically a website that highlights Muslims
who made it famous in any way shape and form. Some of it good
some of it not that good.
There is on the same website
misrepresenting Islam. Here is an article let's see, liberals try to
push Muslims to accept an LGBTQ agenda agenda that is
fundamentally at odds with their religion. Okay, who wrote this
Oh no, this is w n g.org. article by a s Ibrahim posted last month
okay
all right. I don't have time to read this. I'll read it later. We
got to run some people here not gonna mention names have dentists
appointments.
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