Shadee Elmasry – NBF 93 Ibn al Jawzi
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trouble us Libya or truck trouble us Lebanon? That's the question.
Now, right, what I was saying is that we got, today we have one of
the most thoughtful, balanced, interesting and accessible
scholars in the history of Islam. When I say accessible, I mean by
that you can understand his works. It's very easy to understand what
he's saying.
He's the most versatile scholar, probably, I think he's the most
versatile in all of Islamic history.
Right? Because in order to be even in the conversation of Islamic
history, you need to be popular, right? Common sense is that you
need to be well known, if we're going to talk Islamic history,
then part of that is you need to be well known. So
he is extremely well known. And as you're gonna see,
he's so thoughtful. And that thoughtfulness is not thoughtful,
like, oh, how are you feeling? Not that thoughtfulness, thoughtful. I
mean, he's really thinking very deeply about things. Yet, at the
same time, he never gets lost in details and nuance, which is one
of the common pitfalls of Scholars is that because of their short
sightedness, and because of their lack of experience, they're there.
They're just, I don't know how to say it, they get lost, scholars
can get lost in their ideas. Alright. And you read their works
and like what is he saying?
Scholars can get lost, they get carried away by the tide. And they
become useless. No offense. emember had said that himself
useless.
So our scholar today that we're talking about from saviors of
Islamic spirit, which you could buy at Mecca, books.com.
Is Edward Farraj. Even a Josie
I'm telling you one of the most thoughtful,
you will just every page number one, anybody can understand his
works. He does not speak. I mean, there are scholarly terms he uses.
But he doesn't go up and around and all that stuff. As Abuja said,
I've been asked as lost in the sauce as some people, some
scholars get lost. And you're like, Whoa, what are we saying?
What are you saying? It's like am I supposed to be just be
intimidated? No.
Scholarship, if you can't, if people can't benefit from it,
right? If you can't read it, if the scholar got carried away, he's
useless. So he's a scholar. Alright, who hasn't gotten carried
away, he's a scholar who's extremely, extremely accessible is
the word that we like to use that you can understand what he's
saying. Yet at the same time, scholars benefit greatly from his
work like scholars themselves, and he has a major, very important
work in Hadith devil mold a lot. And because of his versatility,
he often has I don't know if it's hyperbole, but sometimes like
a bit of an extreme in his scholarship, which shouldn't be
confused with an extremism in himself. He's not extreme in
himself.
But he is because he is
a scholar and an orator.
And he deals with the masses and he deals with non scholars from
the elite and the poor. He keeps things simple.
He keeps, so he doesn't always go into nuance. And some people view
that as an extreme because to him, he creates binaries in many cases.
Right? And he and some people view that as an extreme. Right. So
today's topic Igneel Josie All right.
Let us
Start off with and we got our little
I will follow gymnast Josie His name is got
he was born 38 years after Sedna, Imam Abu Bakr, LJ Lani, right
we're going to put up the slide decides
38 years after abracadabra Jelani was born
in Josie was born.
Right.
And he also took life in better debt. So he was part of the the
life of the or the scholarship of the people of Baghdad. Okay.
That's what it means. Josie is the career his entire career was spent
in Buckhead.
And physically speaking, he was someone who was well endowed.
His height was average, his look was a, he was handsome. So he was
essentially very well endowed physically, he was healthy.
And he was somebody who he, if there was anything in life that
had any value, he was involved.
He was involved in that.
He used to say he used to take care of his health, because you
need a healthy body in order to achieve scholarship.
But as a youth, he wasn't average. He was completely cerebral as a
young boy. And one of the things about him he never played. Like he
said, literally in his youth, he never ever, ever once
went to watch jugglers or played with the boys. Now this in a
sense,
in a sense like that, that's not always healthy. Because you're you
sort of lose touch. Right? You sort of lose touch, if you you
don't, you can't relate to people if you never engage in what they
engage in, right. But nonetheless, overcome that. He was somebody who
said that when kids loved the jugglers or wrestlers, or
whatever, poets, or whatever it is that kids loved his passion was
Hadith scholars.
And he followed them around everywhere. Wherever a hadith
scholar was, he would run to it, run to him. And he said that he
had in his house from his childhood, a pile of dustings.
From from the from the pens that they used to use. In the old days,
they used to use a piece of wood, that like a tube of wood, no, it
wasn't wood, it would be like
what's the
it would be it there are different different like reads, hollow
reads, and then you slice it, so it slices down. So that's the
first slice you make, and then you cut it into not a V, but I don't
know how to describe it. Imagine you cutting it down to a V, but
then cut off the point of the V at a slant. So you end up it goes
down on both sides, but it slants then you put a little slit in that
horizontal area. And then so when you push down, there could be
there could be a movement between the two, the ink sits in the
middle, the ingress in the middle there, and then when you write,
alright, the incomes that when you push down the incomes up. And then
you shape it, because it's slanted, you can shape it for you
can go from broad to thin.
That's the Eastern read. The western read is not a tube at all.
And it's not slanted, it's half it's just a slice of wood that
they go break it down into a V but then make the bottom into like a
ball ground out the bottom. And that's why the mconnais B script
has no thick to thin lines to it. It's all one stroke. Right? Like
one rounded stroke. That's the difference between the McCovey and
the mash up mash up being the eastern and the western reads.
Alright, so now when we talk about igneous Josie, this is a very
different person from Ibn Ibrahim Al Josina. Even clay mill Josie I
came away later, couple 100 years later in Damascus, Syria. And he's
the number one student of eminent Tamia
if needed, Josie is completely different everyone Farage if
needed, Josie is a different person altogether. He's a higher
up in the chain of Hamleys and he has a different Akita from him
it'll take him and me to Tamia
or we should say they had a different opinion from him. In a
Josie is a humbly who was a move forward and a rear futur of the
end
Per morphic interpretations of things. And he has a book on this.
And that's why he's a hero to the shout out even though he's not an
SRT, he doesn't follow ashadha Yet the SATs in all their OSU, but in
the most important conclusion, which is the divine attributes.
He's onpoint and he has a strongest book on it. It's called
death, fat sugar, at Ashby, the Catholic tansy, the refutation of
the
errors or the sugar, the confusions of anthropomorphism
with the best of transcendence, tansy. So he So on that point,
he's polar opposites of nuclear, who used to say things such as A.
Rahman is she still is still I mean, sitting down, where that's
something that's not even in the Arabic language as SiteBuilder.
makes clear, it doesn't it's not even in the Arabic language that
is the word is in now is still at its completeness. The word is to
means completeness. Okay, I largely still have meaning on all
of His creation, he's in complete control. So that's the
interpretation of that. But he is somebody who ignores Josie was a
hadith scholar, primarily, his first love is Hadith. But here we
go on how Igneel Josie made himself different from everybody
else, because he looked at life. And he says,
I cannot find value in being a hadith scholar, if you also don't
know, the fifth rulings.
Because what's the point of knowing all these Hadith if you
don't know how they're applied? Right?
And what is the value of being a fixed scholar, a scholar of the
law,
if you're also not
up there with the top aesthetics, and worshipers who have a light in
their heart, so what's the point of knowing God's law, if you don't
have nearness to God?
And what is the point of having nearness to Allah subhana wa, it's
out I'm benefiting myself and not benefiting the people. So
therefore,
you're still incomplete. You need to have Tao. And he did TAO to
Muslims and non Muslims. And it is said that throughout his life
20,000 Jews and Christians of Iraq entered Islam.
And over hundreds of 1000s of the city of Iraq, considered him to be
their Imam and the leader of their Toba
or the the spur of their Toba.
And then he said, though, that and I'm going to get to it here. But
the theme one of the major themes here is the balance of images
Josie and that, he would always see that even if I perfect this
silo, of the dean, this silo is useless without that silo.
And this, that silo is useless without the one next to it. Okay,
and so and not only in the dean, but in life itself, because as
we're going to see here, he says, I don't like to be indebted to
anybody.
But I like to write books.
How can I write books if I have to go make my own money, right?
So something's gonna give here. And then if I make my own money,
and I get busy with that, it clouds up my heart.
And I can't calm my heart, with the calmness of worship.
But so if I take a little bit away from making money, and I calm my
heart with the calmness of worship, than I have to be
isolated, then I don't give due to my family. I'm like ignoring my
family. So he said that he considered himself to be of those
who are the most ambitious than life. Like there is nothing that
he did that was ever 50% Everything that he tried to do, he
put a high ambition to it. But because of his balanced approach
to things, he himself admitted, what I'm shooting for is the best,
but I'll never attain it. Because he wants almost like a perfect
balance of everything. Right. Now if you're on Instagram, hop over
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So go over to YouTube, YouTube is really the place where this is
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So,
speaking about his biography, where do we get things about his
biography? From his work sleds, which is the hunter or the
capturing
have thoughts and a thought that is like the very subtle thought
that we all have these subtle, subtle thoughts that we might not
not actually bring up. Right. And so the side of it is his, his
biographer biographical account is taken from there. Okay.
So his first and number one love is the Cerebro. That's the core.
So he said, I never tired of reading books. I've read over
20,000 books as a student. And I don't know how to do how to read a
book except cover to cover like, does go 50% On a book doesn't
leave through a book cover to cover. Okay, I have a tenacious
memory.
And I love reading the stories of the pious scholars to see the
degree by which they would worship Allah subhana wa Tada and devote
themselves. Yet at the same time, he had, like I said, I came to
know of the erudition, the erudition, like the the beautiful
stringing together of language that the scholars put forth, and
were able to move the hearts of the reader.
So he himself began mimicking them, and began to mimic these
scholars. And he began to write himself, right. And he began
writing a lot as a youth. And it is said that he has over 1000,
epistles and books. So an epistle is very short book, like an essay,
like maybe even up to as little as five pages, maybe to 20 3050
pages, but not a book, like a booklet basically. So he has over
1000 separate publications. And of course, we don't have all of them.
Okay.
So he said, Hadith was my number one study. And that's what the
great writers CLT, Ibni, Josie, and Noah, we, well, you have to
have a lot to write about. And that's why they're Hadith
scholars. Right. So do you have you noticed, what is your meme?
No, we, yes, he's a puppy. But he's had need scholar, right. And
CLT Hadith scholar, and even a Josie Hadith scholar, able to
claim Hadith scholar. So this is what they focus on. They focus a
lot on Hadith. And that's what gives them so much to write. Now,
he became a hadith scholar, then he realized if I What's the point
of studying Hadith if I don't know their application, so he became a
humbly 40. And he's a major fapy of the humbly method. I don't
think that he's used in the meth lab today. Like whenever I talk to
Hannibal that they don't utilize him in the meth lab today, the way
that they would utilize others, right or that he's constantly
quoted. No, I don't I don't think he is. But like, the humbled
humbled is that I've spoken to, they don't utilize him in that
way. But he himself at the time was a major, humbly jurist. Okay.
Now, here's what happened to him, he began to become a very popular
preacher.
And he began he because he spent more time with the scholars than
the spiritualists. He ended up what ended up happening with him
is that
he got caught up.
He got caught up. And what happened was him it was as follows
an amazing admission that he says, which I posted on Twitter and
Facebook, he says, My lectures and discourses as soon as he became of
age, he started becoming a speaker. My lectures and
discourses
appear to have been quite effective right off the bat. As
soon as he started, people was in love with it.
And he then says, Hi, officials, chiefs, and the wealthy began
paying homage to me.
And they put themselves at my service. And they would invite
him.
And I was inclined towards them. As they inclined towards me. I
kept their company. But in their company,
I began to lose the sense of peace and grace that I had, in my
youthful days. As a youth, right, he was in peace, and he was in
Sakina and everything, because when you don't mingle with people,
it's very easy to follow the right rulings. Oh, by the way, right. We
have a split screen for that.
Yeah, you could stick it in the split screen. So when you're when
you're when you're youth, when you're somebody who doesn't have
anything to lose,
and no responsibilities and no connection.
It's very easy to fall to follow any opinion you want. But when you
have to deal with people, you have to start weighing things while I'm
trying to convince him of this.
Trying to get him down, I have responsibilities, they attend my
lectures, I don't want to turn them away, you start to have to
balance things.
And that's why extremists are always by themselves. They never
have to be with anybody. Like they can actually, if you if you want
to take an extreme position, you have to cut off friends. And
usually people who are already in those scenarios, they're able to
take extreme positions. So he himself says that he made the
decision as they
are inclined to him. So he's like, Oh, this is a great chance for
Dawa, let me incline towards them. Let me start going to their
gatherings. Now, of course, the rich and the powerful. They're not
firstly, they're not all scholars.
That's the first thing. And because they're not all scholars,
they may not know stuff, and they may make basic mistakes.
Not only that, the world offers them, like they're, they have
opportunities, they have chances to enjoy life.
At all lot of times, there's haram in that their sinfulness in that,
okay.
So he's involved now in company that's sinful, if not sinful,
doubtful. So what does he say here?
He says here, that gradually, very slowly, my specious
and legally profound reasoning, found justifications for the
doubtful
began to justify doubtful matters, good begin to accept what he never
used to accept in the past.
And this, he says, slowly, darkened his heart
until I was in a state of restlessness and disquietude. That
was my default state.
Although my sermons, okay.
Because of that my sermons bore a mark of anxiety. Many people
repented for their sins, like he was so sincere.
Okay. And his sermons were filled with this, this restlessness, and
it shook the people up, and they made a lot of Toba. Now who
there's some there's a wisdom behind this.
If a if a if a person is sinful, and he's got to give a speech,
he's essentially going to give a speech to himself.
And he's going to talk about Toba because that's what he needs. But
other people benefit from that too. And that's what happened. He
said, so many people repented for their sins from their sins. And
they reformed themselves. However, my own guilt weighed very heavily
on my own conscience.
And he became he felt very guilty about this. I became more and more
disturbed, and there seemed to be no way out. Why there seems to be
no way out because he's so busy. He's wanted. And he has to, he has
to go give dower to these people, to all the people, the common and
the elite. He's got to give dower to them. He's got to do all these
things. Okay. So where is he going to get the time to go and reform
himself? I'm telling you, that's why COVID-19 is
locked down was so important for busy people.
It allowed them to just sit down and think. And and it took, I
would say it took a good
six, seven months to actually settle your mind. That's how long
it takes human beings. They're not just light switches. Right? Let's
say you get thrown in jail, or we get thrown in COVID. Well, the
first if you got thrown in jail, for example, the first year you're
gonna be fighting your trial. Right? Then the second year,
you're gonna be like, I gotta make a new life for myself in the jail.
It'll take you a while to, for everything to completely settle in
a new world.
Right, a new mental and spiritual world for you. Likewise, in
COVID-19, the first impetus was, how do we keep the community
connected? How do we learn to connect online? What programs can
we do? And I would say for the first four months, I was as busy
as anything like you're, you're not physically moving out of the
house. But we're still as busy as anything that Ramadan that we had.
Because the idea of going onto the computer seems at face value to be
so easy. You feel you have to do a lot of different things, right. In
order to
To make up so we scheduled so many zoom sessions, different groups,
and then long zoom sessions that started an hour before my live
then went on pause, still screen during Iftar
and then after the break a little talk before Aisha then we put
another steel screen then another close it out after Tata we and
then a segment after fetch and then a segment around the load and
a different with a different group than a different groups around us.
And I realized like, and then there's there's no weekends and
Ramadan, Ramadan, you don't five days a week and then sleep for two
days, and then go back at it. No, seven days a week, literally, like
on the on the Daveed.
I was like so knocked out. I was like shaking from exhaustion, you
realize like your muscles are jittering from exhausted like you
are so you can't even sleep. You're so tired, you cannot even
sleep. And that was the week it was interesting. Subhan Allah
Allah has, I always have good memories of everything. Even bad
things like I look back on it with a good memory was so exhausting
that Ramadan, because there is no breaks at all. And
I didn't know that tapping on the computer eventually could exhaust
you but there's no single like
14 hour break. Even eight hour break, there was no eight hours
every four or five hours back on the machine back on the machine
back on the computer. And then that eight it was just like, fried
like a human being was fried on a skewer. And you don't think about
that because you just on the computer the whole time. But but
it is. And it's on the computer but not satisfying, right? It's
not satisfying. It's just like, Okay, I logged in, I logged in
time. Yeah, I logged in time. And maybe some people in the chat
section were happy, right? That's the best thing because how do you
know that you're having an impact unless people write in the chat,
or say something. So.
So that was that. But then after about five, six months, then the
novelty of zoom wore off.
And now people just stopped blogging on I stopped blogging,
right? Everyone was just tired of it. And it was a summer and now
it's end of the summer, now it's full.
So at that point, that's when I think the solitude actually
started taking its impact. It's when the novelty of zoom and the
novelty of the newness of the situation had worn off and peaked
and worn off. Now you're in a complete state where you can
actually settle. And that's where I think a lot of people around
that 6789 month period of time,
their minds must have really been affected. And either they want one
or two ways, like waste time or make use of this, like this
quietude. So
even as Josie saying, I'm trapped, I'm so busy. I have a family. I
have trade.
I have I have SubhanAllah. He has preaching sessions that were in
the dozens of 1000s people attend his preaching sessions. The
governor, the Khalifa is always asking him for things, right? The
Khalifa himself uses him for questions for guests when they
have guests. So he said, Where do I go get my piety again, this is
what he said.
I took to making time to visit the tombs of the pious.
There are two benefits for this. Number one, you're in a graveyard
reminds you of death. Number two, the tombs of the pious are almost
like little pieces of Jannah because they're they're in Jannah
like their own Genda. And the buttons are not the agenda of
course, but Janet advisor, good to see was calling
over there.
So he said and I took to beseeching Allah subhanaw taala to
show me the right path and get me out of what I am in.
And Allah subhanaw taala answered my dua.
He helped me and I started to see the errors of my ways. And I began
to resign away from some of these gatherings, big dinners. gov so
and so's coming, rich person, so and so come and give a talk blah,
blah, blah. So like saying no to the invitations. I began saying no
to the invitations, and resigning myself to spend time alone in
prayer and solitude who's on the phone
that's what you need. Right. Convert. Okay. was unanimous
Number one,
digital recall her backs. Okay, we'll call it back.
He said then I began to see the errors and Allah Tala returned
this Akina, back to my heart. Right. Lots Allah returned this
Akina back to his heart after he turned to Alana. Allah showed him
the errors of his ways. I see every one of us has to have a have
or a portion of everything in the deen, then you need a good portion
of solitude to sit with yourself. You need a good portion of reading
of like putting all your devices on the side and just taking a book
and working through the book. Okay, and you need a good portion
of socialization. Okay? Because if you're if you're inept, socially,
you can't benefit anybody. You also need to know the the audit of
people. If you don't know the customs, you become an oddball. If
you become an oddball, nobody Mary's marries you into their
family. If you don't get married, you get sexual frustration. You're
going to commit sins or become an extremist, one or the other.
So intimacy is part of our religion. You have you need it,
human beings need it. That's why one of our medical scholars in
Alaska,
he he's always talking and when he's taught, covers the chapter on
marriage. One of the biggest plans of iblees that people don't know
is making marriages difficult. Whether it's the process, whether
it's the galleries, whether it's the weddings, whether it's all the
customs around it, whether it's all the taboos around it, like
taboos or taboos, the taboo of marrying a woman older, the taboo
of a woman initiating marriage, like it's not wrong at all. Like
you might think, oh, no, she shouldn't. But wait isn't when you
have a woman, let's say she's,
like 40. And she has a child or two, right?
She's different than an 18 year old.
18 year old, so ya know, you're not going to initiate they'll come
to you. But after you've lived life, you're different now. It's
not said that Khadija she initiated, right?
So they're taboos.
Okay, initiate through an intermediary.
Not like you took somebody and initiate it directly. That's not
smart. For the for either side, that's never smart. Like you never
kick the door down and go like this, you're gonna get shot. It's
gonna be a bad experience. You send an intermediary, you bounce
it off the wall, right? And it's a bounce pass. Right? Because if the
bounce pass goes bad, at least it's not in my face. Okay? So you
don't do that stuff.
dowries. I'm not even gonna get into the subject of multiple
marriages, polygamy, right? Which, obviously, understand the sisters
don't like and they never liked it. It's not like only the modern
Western sister doesn't like it. Why in the Arabic world, they used
to call the second wife the data, the harm, right, because she's a
harm to the first wife, say to hedge it and say to Saudi, did not
say to Saudi, she is the the one of the greatest believing women
ever. And the mother of so many prophets.
As a grandmother of so many prophets, she was not happy about
this, right? So it's part of human nature, that they're not going to
be happy about it. Nonetheless, it exists in the Sharia for a reason.
And it solves a lot of problems for people. Good. So to just
completely accept it to be shut out completely. And that is not a
solution for certain situations. No, that's following whims. I'm
sorry. See, there's a lot of things in religion, religions like
this. Culture is like this. Every culture is different, right?
Certain things that culture loves certain thing that culture hates.
The human being, is also we have a neffs like this, certain things we
love and certain things we hate.
We don't like to have to quell our anger.
You see someone so angry at what somebody say, have somebody
brother, he's gonna punch you in the face when you say him that
tell him that. So there are certain things our culture likes,
and doesn't like, we ourselves like and don't like, and same
rulings, some rulings people like and don't like, all right, it's
just a fact of life. So
this is something that it would be imprudent wrong, just because the
culture doesn't like something to completely block it out of our
discourse, and, and also the opposite to try to bother people
with it. Like every single time we're going to talk about
polygamy, just to bother people. And, you know, look at all the
brothers talking about polygamy.
Would you assumption that you're going to be a line out the door
for you if polygamy becomes harder, right? You're not exactly
like some kind of Mister whatever. So some of the brothers have to
cool it down.
At the same time, right there act like if polygamy became like a
socially acceptable and legally acceptable thing that they had a
chance at it. It's not always the case, right? You're barely
affording one wife forget you haven't a second wife. Right. And
so a lot of times it's imagination in their head. But I'm just saying
that because I know that some people get triggered just by the
word, just by the mention that is part of our religion, and that it
can have solutions. It can have solutions, if it was socially part
of the thing. Now. I also am not for experimenting, right? This is
like one of those things. If the Islamic society accepts it, I'm
not going to be part of the generation that experiments I
would not experiment with my own daughter. I will not experiment
with my own life. Right? I'm not gonna live I'm gonna take a step
in, in in life real life. That's that doesn't haven't done it
before me. This is not a new business that we can take a risk
in. Worst thing that happens in your business, you go partly
bankrupt, right? What's not a big deal. But marriage and divorce and
disasters. I'm not getting involved in that. Right. So if it
gets socially accepted by the OMA by the community of the Western
Muslims, or it's legalized? Well, I'm going to be watching them
while they do it. I'm not gonna put myself in an experiment. And
when I say experiment, it means yes, it is experiment for us.
Right? in human history, it's not an experiment, but for us, it is
100%. It is. So when a Yemeni chef married a second wife,
his
his first wife called her father, she said, Father,
can you believe he took a second wife? What did the Father say?
Your mom's the third wife?
Your sister's a second wife? Your answer forthwith? What are you
complaining about? Right?
So go talk to your aunt. Go talk to your mom. So that's what I'm
saying. There's precedent in the family. Nobody did something wild
here. There's precedent in the family direct, immediate
precedent. All right. That's what I'm talking about. So
you're going to put your daughter in that situation? And she says,
okay, Mom, I need some marriage advice. Well, first wife is saying
this third wife is saying that what do I do? Who says well, what
do we know? Right? We don't know this. We don't know anything about
this life. Hey, hey, son in law, how are we doing? Hey, man, I have
a question for you, man. What are you doing with there's like, two
tickets on sale. But I only have to take wife number one or wife
number two, what do I do? Hey, son, I have no clue. Right? I've
never had this problem before. Click. Okay. So that's what I'm
saying.
I don't think it's smart for anybody to be part of some
experience experiment. What do we tell the government?
I don't know. How do I lie about this? How do I how do you pass
this off? So all of that is what I'm saying is the experimental
nature that No, I'm not getting involved with it. I'm not saying
that you're wrong. But you guys go. Experiment with it. I'll be
watching your bloopers and disasters, probably my whole life
will pass by the time and your successes too. You might have
success. Right? But you're gonna have this experiment.
And then, and you know what else? Let me just give you another
example. This job that I'm doing here? Is it like a job that be in
high school high school seniors in Islamic school? Okay, what are we
going to be doctor, accountant, nurse? Oh, I want to be Islamic
scholar. Okay, see me after class? Because that's not a real job. But
boom, boom, boom.
It's not a real industry that we could say that. You can go from
middle school. They're preparing you for it. No, it's not a real
industry. Where are the institutions? Where are the people
who could say that? Yeah, I worked as a scholar got this contract.
This is my retirement fund. All my kids went off to college. It's not
a real thing. We're trying to make it a real thing. This is a second
level experiment, I would say,
you know, worst, worst comes to worse, you lose money.
And it fails. Right? But we're trying to create an institution
here and an industry so that it's quite reasonable that around
eighth grade ninth grade 10th graders Oh, okay. You want to be
in the stomach scholar and a Dahlia. This is how it works. This
is how the money works. You earn about this much. And you move on
with your life just like a dentist and accountant etc. So there are
certain things in real life that you can experiment with. Some
people have more appetite for risk. I don't have an appetite as
I'm coming near to my personal life. My bank account now I don't
care I'll take risks but personal life I would have to see people
who have done it.
And certain things multiple people have done it not
is one guy, one outlier? No multiple people. And that's
something that if it ever happens here
and it can, if elberfeld, the ruling deemed constitutional, or
unconstitutional, whatever it was basically allowed for men to
marry, and women to marry, then why not three men to marry? If
three men to marry, why not one man and two women to marry, so the
door could be opened up for polygamy in America. And then some
guys are going to do it. I'll sit and watch, right, I'll root for
you to succeed. Just sweet. So I would not get my family involved
in something unless I've seen it around. That's what I mean. I'm
talking about when it comes to doing something new in your life.
So
how do we even get to that topic? What were we saying?
What's up?
Oh, so he was guarding his heart by and finally he extracted
himself from these gatherings. And he calmed his heart once again.
Okay. He was able to calm his heart down. Now, the next theme in
Ignat, Joseph's life is him.
Him. All right, still, some people are commenting upon the thing. You
know what else I'm going to look at? I'm gonna look at the mental
states of people. Right? Just because something is hella doesn't
mean the mental state of let's say the daughter. You got a teen
daughter? She's 1516.
Life is Mom, Dad. Me, brother, sister.
That's life.
So if an aunt was to come in and move in, that's normal. If a
grandma was to move in. That's fun. Wait a second. Another wife.
I've never seen this before. What does this mean? Right. They I want
to see their mental state.
I want to see that. them to come in. Oh, yeah. The day that it
happens that 510 20 teens. Oh, yeah. That was second wife here.
We know how to do this. We know it's fun. Baba Baba. And they
they're mentally normal. That's all I'm looking for. That that's
the time that you would say, Okay, this is a thing now.
So anyway,
so back to the topic is that he concerned himself a lot with him.
The issue of him is ambition. Okay. He had ambition. And he
said, the greatest trial of mankind is in the is in the
question of ambition. Because you have a fork in the road. You can
either say no, I want to actually live for the moment, have no
ambitions. And he admitted.
These are the happiest people, but they're only happy in the short
term.
Yours will pass and they will find themselves vapid, there's nothing
there. To me, their life is an empty desert. Okay. So he said
those people who are they just move on and they never use their
brains, they never worry about anything. They, they always find
themselves like in a chess game, caught, caught in a corner. Okay?
Or at a dead end, or out of gas. So it's not the right way to do
things, although temporarily it is the best of the right, the
happiest thing, he said. But if you have a mind, and if you have a
spirit, you're going to go the opposite route, which is the route
of ambition. And you set for yourself a lofty goal. And he said
now, you enter into a phase where you are never satisfied until you
reach your goal.
And you either reach your goal, you fail to reach your goal. Okay,
but failing to reach your goal is so risky.
That you cannot even think about it. It's like when you're climbing
a mountain you can't look down. You got just got to be like a
goat. Just climb up the mountain. Don't look down. Don't ever think
twice. Use your instincts only. Now let me tell you something.
Many people say, listen, be reasonable with your goals so that
if you don't meet your goals,
then you fall and you fail.
I say you're a person without faith. You're a person without
faith faith is to go for your goal and have trust that if I fall
Allah will catch me. Meaning Allah will make this easy for me. That's
real faith. Okay, that's the right way. I've seen walleye. I've seen
so many people. They say,
Alright, go but go lightly.
Right, because maybe Allah doesn't want it for you. These people are
contradicting the truth. They're contradicting everything the
Prophet said, and they have no faith in their hearts, and they
must have been disappointed in the past. So they use this as a crutch
going forward. Right? So that's how
that's how to view these things. Right? Do we need to turn on the
air onto the camp so it doesn't overheat?
Or weird camp situation is not even hot in the room.
He's European camera companies.
Okay?
He says My ambition is quite different. It is an ambition that
I know I can never attain.
And he says, lack of knowledge is only attributed to lack of
ambition. Knowledge is its doesn't require a genius. Yes, some people
will go faster than others. Right. But if you study you will learn
and all of us must gain technical knowledge and struggle, we must
struggle through the tedium
of technical knowledge, because the opposite is struggling with
ignorance, and that is far worse.
I love the bumper sticker says you think education is expensive, try
ignorance. It's way more expensive.
Now, he said, here's one of my favorite paragraphs, he says
the ultimate objective of knowledge is to act upon it.
Thus, what I want to be able to do is combine my knowledge with the
piety of the likes of Bishop haffi and modificar feed early days
ahead. But that is hardly possible to accomplish. Alongside the
preoccupation of studying and teaching and other mundane
affairs. Not only that, I aspire to teach others to oblige others,
I want to help others. But I don't want to be under their obligation
means I don't want to be an employee. I don't want to be just
be some employee. Okay.
My preoccupation with my studies is an impediment to learn to
earning, like, either you study or you gain money. Okay, one of the
two.
But I don't want to be indebted to anybody else. I don't want to be
accepting gifts. I don't want to be accepting salary from others, I
want to be independent.
I ardently desire to marry, I want to marry. Right. And if you marry,
you must by necessity, you have children. He says Then, and when I
have children, and I want to have children, it's a sunnah to have
children, it balances your mind, it balances you, when you have
children, it puts you in touch with the future. Having kids put
us put keeps you current, okay? It keeps you current because the kids
are there, they're in their own
life, they're experiencing life for the first time. And they will
keep you up to date on things. Whereas if you're, if you don't
have kids, you're all your memories are of the past. But when
you have kids, they laugh at the past. Right?
They don't care about the past.
kids care about the present. So the kids will make will put in
perspective that Hey, Dad, look, the sports of the 90s. The jokes
of the 90s does not funny anymore. Without them who would tell you
that, right? The ways of the 90s when you grew up, that's not our
way. It's true. We get attached to the past. But kids will shake that
off you and you say okay, let me throw that all away. And they keep
you current, which there is a degree of silliness when a guy is
so current, but he's like 50 see these guys on scooters. 50 year
old acting like a 20 year old or acting like a 15 year old, can
look silly. But that's the importance of kids. So he says I
want to have children. Yet at the same time, this will take away
from my ability to write, write to write books. And it will take away
from my ability to go give down to the people. How can I go out and
give it out to people when I have my own people at home? Who need
doubt. Like you can have students even and listeners and even moods.
But what are your kids? There are your mn the legal category of kids
is that they're your mn in the sight of Allah, he's entrusted you
to them. You're going to be asked about them. I'm not going to be
asked about listeners. Allah is not going to ask me about oh, why
didn't you answer this dark message? Not so I'm going to ask
me. Right? Allah says in the Quran, knock knock three times we
indicated ACOEM regio frigerio When someone knocks on your door
and you are if you knock and you're told, Go back, then go
back. That means the rule of legal ruling is I never have to answer
the doorbell. I never have to answer the phone. I never have to
unless but unless there's a known harm, such as I know that it's
awkward. It's going to be upsetting to the parent for
example, then you have to answer the phone. But technically by
Shinya answering the doorbell answering the phone answering
texts answering DMS zero legal responsibility. I can say no, I'm
not doing it. Man. I feel no guilt. Because it's halal for me.
All right. No one's right. To get their emails answered. Now you
might lose friends and stuff that's different. But you will be
asked about your kids. Why aren't Why didn't you know how to pray
when they're 15 years old? Why don't they know how to apply
asked, Did you not prepare them that there's going to be a job in
this picture? Did you not prepare them that there's going to be
earning someday has to earn? Did you not prepare them? To have
Taqwa? Like you never taught them any of that stuff? You're going to
be asked about that you're going to be asked about anyone else. So
he says, I want children, I want marriage and children, that's
going to take away from my ability to do Dawa. Good.
He said, But then what is the value of all this piety? If we
can't spread it to others, it's patola. It's like a circle, right?
It's like a circle, that wherever you take from one slice, you're
going to lose from the other, we take him out of the universe,
rather. So it's a constant need
to be balanced to be balanced out. He said, I also I enjoy the lawful
pleasures of life, he's living in better that's almost like living
in the best city of the world at that time.
He's, there are pleasures of life here.
Either love to enjoy them. And he was against the excessive
asceticism of some of the Persians.
He says, but
that will take away a little bit from asceticism.
And it will require you to make money
to earn them.
And if I go out to earn, I lose the contentment and peace of mind.
It's a constant nonstop. And if I go and I serve mice peace of mind
and my heart,
I lose the Dow and the earning and everything else. So that's why he
said I have the highest ambition. But my it is an ambition that will
be never be attained, which is like the perfect balance of all
and I will tell you, the best of people. And the best of ways is
the way that has a have a have or is a decent portion of everything.
You should know how to make a buck. You should know knowledge,
you should be able to give Dawa you should have a healthy family
life. You should have a very healthy spiritual life by yourself
with Allah subhanaw taala. It really Josie used to take care of
his health at a time where that was not a popular thing. He said I
take care of my health by moderation and everything I eat.
Everything is moderation, help. Most of health issues happens in
the stomach. So he says I have moderation and everything I eat.
That's his own health philosophy. That's it. That's how simple it
is. So he says all of my aspirations, okay have mutually
opposing ends, that it's a seesaw. Right? Imagine a seesaw, but you
have like 1010 parts to the seesaw, you got to keep them all
up. So if you push down on one, you lift up the other one, you got
to go push down the other one, the other one comes up.
Alright.
This is one of the philosophies behind our organization here
is that the way this organization was built
the philosophy in my head
with tofi, from Allah subhanaw taala is not by looking at who's
the best is looking at where their errors are. Like, where's the
Achilles heel of that organization, where's the Achilles
heel of this organization? Where's the Achilles heel of x or XYZ
organization, because there'll be great downward movements, either
by individuals, or organizations, amazing dowel movements. It's not
about imitating the best, it's by looking at their his Achilles
heel. Good.
And if I could, if you could cover that Achilles heel cover this
Achilles heel cover this is Achilles heel. At that point,
you can't be killed. Right?
At that point. Now, when you move forward like that, there's no
Achilles heel is no your art. There's no kink in the armor. And
that's the philosophy. That's a beautiful philosophy. So that
because Why are soldiers killed? soldiers killed because he's got a
blind spot? What's the point of all your work if you get shot?
As one famous person said, I like people who don't get captured. You
remember that one?
Right? You remember that? Oh, you remember that? It was a hilarious
joke. But that's one of those jokes where like the New York joke
that it's It's so awful. That's the funny part of it. Yeah. The
funny part of it is like how could you say that? Like that's, that's
only a like an East Coast style of humor. Other people think I was so
terrible, right to someone to say that but it's as a joke. It's
actually pretty funny. My opinion. Right? Of course, it's a horrible
sentiment to say about a soldier.
But Anyway, point being is that what is the value of this Zhaohua
if it got shut down? What's the value of your organization if you
burned up in flames, right? So why did you burn up in flames? Why did
you get shot down? Why did you die out? Why did you run out of money?
All these fears
Old dollars provide us knowledge, practical knowledge. So we solve
that problem, solve this problem, solve that problem solve that. So
you have no your lineup, from the first batter to the ninth better.
All right, it's solid.
And I love the base, there's a baseball philosophy that if every
single person in your lineup is reliable to hit a single, you win
every game, you don't need to ever worry about homeruns just a
single, because think about it, you have an infinite loop of
singles. It'll be slow. Not exactly fireworks.
But you know, when he gets you out, like you'd be really hard to
get out. And that's basically what happened came up in, in a study of
statistics of baseball, that if you just if everyone in our lineup
is reliable, to get on base, either getting a walk, getting hit
by a pitch, or hitting a single,
alright, that's the only statistic that matters, just getting on
first base in and by any means necessary, by those three means
you have a team that can't lose.
Right? Even if you have zero homeruns the whole season, who
cares? You keep hitting singles, you're just gonna keep going
around the bases, and no one can get you out.
And that's the philosophy. So if you look at his balance, this is
what he's constantly wrestling with. I want all these things,
because the Prophet did all these things. There's a wisdom and all
these things. So that's why he said it's the best ambition, but
it's one that we will never perfect it. But once you get
there, if you get there, and you do well at it, you have an
unbeatable operation. And that's what we're shooting for both as
individuals and as a community here. Okay.
He says,
He keeps talking about his ambition, I relish the night
vigil. I relish to be up alone at night with Allah subhanho wa
taala.
But if I also want to teach and make money, I have to wake up
early. How do I balance this? Right Subhanallah that's why I
said he's, he's extremely thoughtful.
If I want to enjoy the good things of life, how do I keep my heart
from rusting?
Interaction and education with people is necessary, but it takes
away from the sweetness of vicar, the sweetness of dua, right?
Spiritual decline is an unbearable thing for me.
But dealing with people and making ends meet our necessities, so he
says, because of his thoughtfulness, and his ambition,
I have endured these strains throughout my entire life. Like
I've endured, that if I do this, I'm gonna lose out on that, if I
do that, I'm going to lose out on this
it seems that the path of success and perfection lies in this
struggle of balance, the struggle of balancing it out. And sometimes
everything needs to be balanced even balance itself, right? There
are times where the only way to balance yourself out is to go to
an extreme so in one field of life and fulfill its its do sometimes
you have to stay up an all nighter, right? an all nighter
with snacks and computers and papers all over the place.
There's no spirituality in it. There's no health in that it's not
healthy, but you have to achieve something right you got to do
something, you got deadlines, you have to work sometimes and there
are times where your heart is getting so rusty, you must say no
to everything and sit with Allah by yourself
must no matter who is asking you or calling you. So that is Igneel
Josie is philosophy of balance. Okay.
All right. So the
two themes that we talked about so far was Igneel, Josie is
ambition and his philosophy of balance.
As a scholar, he was extremely balanced in that he wrote books,
and he gave speeches, he spoke to the common people.
And one of his greatest subjects that he is considered like a
master it
is the plots and the tricks of Iblees. Right. The plots and
tricks of Iblees is something that he wrote a lot about.
And of course, this is in his famous book, Toby's IBLEES Toby's
ellipse is to cover something with something else to confuse
something. Okay? To confuse some that's what lips is right to cover
something up. So Iblees covers up a plot
by
tricking you in some way. Let's take a look at his first
his first
subject scholars, the scholars and the jurists have occupied
themselves with vain discussions.
And they drift the listen to this, this is actually really true.
All right, right, you're gonna discover this true that the
scholars have busied themselves with vain discussion, to the point
that they drift slowly away from the scripture from the Quran, the
Hadith, the biographies of the Prophet and the biographies of the
companions, you never see this in their discussion anymore. And
they're only discussing the details in textbooks, in texts and
manuscripts.
So, therefore, they have gone far away from the softening effects on
the souls, their words and their speech, has no effect on the souls
anymore.
And this is extremely true that scholars have this there is an
ability, a slippery slope, to get so into the details of a topic and
the history of a topic that you have completely not mentioned the
Quran, the biography of the Prophet, the ascetic ways of the
companions, for so long that your heart has become hardened, right
and now your scholarship no longer benefits anybody.
Man needs the remembrance of Allah
on every subject in every gathering, okay, so that you can
end the stories of the Sahaba so that they can create a longing for
the success that they had.
Right? There is no doubt he says ethical issues. Legal issues are
not beyond the scope of this video, but alone, they're
insufficient in achieving the ultimate objective. Okay. How can
people be expected to follow such a scholar whose sole is dry?
He professes with his words the law, but he has failed to attain
the ecstasy and the proximity to Allah that the law is meant to
protect. Like why do we have a law is to protect something? What is
it protecting ecstasy? nearness to Allah subhanaw taala?
This Munna jet, this light in your face, the law is protecting that
you have a great law but nothing to protect.
Right? You built a great house and a great gate. But there's no
humans in the house. Wonderful home, no wife.
Wonderful bedroom. No kids, what's the point?
Okay, so same thing he talks here about. He says, I love the teacher
who said, I prefer a discussion that softens my heart over the
study of 100 legal rulings of should I call the serais is the
famous judge that lived in the time of say naughty Ben abitata
Tebay. Now he critiques preachers let's we go from scholars to
preachers.
The what is the difference? The preacher preaches to the common
men, the scholar teaches students. Okay, you need both in a society.
And the number one you need in a society is the scholar. Right?
You need the preacher. You need the aesthetic. The aesthetic is
the one who he he polishes the actual jewel, he's guarding the
real thing. The Jewel. Okay, you need all these things. You need
the financier, you need the administrator.
The preacher is the salesman of religion. He's trying to convince
people, okay, this is called the wolf.
He says now most preachers, they fall into
embellishment, trying to get your attention at every turn.
And they just go to stories that catch attention, not stories that
benefit you and teach you how to avoid sins, and what is obligatory
and what is not.
So that someone will leave with a heightened emotion, but he has no
knowledge of what his obligations are in religion. So what does he
do with that heightened emotion? So it's just hot air, okay,
because he's going to continue living a life of sins. So the
preacher must not limit himself to stories, and he must teach what is
obligatory and what is forbidden. The fundamentals of
both preachers and teachers, scholars and preachers can test
their sincerity. That if another preacher comes in and takes away
the audience, if he's sincere, he should say it hamdulillah the work
of Allah is being done and I can rest and go worship Allah by
myself. The sincere preacher says this. The sincere
Your scholar says the same thing. If he one is more knowledgeable,
and he has taken the audience away, he should say hamdulillah
the job of Dawa is complete, I can now turn to my Lord. Right and
worship my Lord. And the only upsetness he should have is why am
I not that good? I should go learn more. But he should have no envy
to the other one, right? The only thing he should say to himself is,
why am I not? As good? I should learn more.
Now he talks about kings rulers and administrators. Now for us,
what does this imply? I don't think we have any kings in the
audience, or rulers. Right? But we may have administrators we have
what's his name?
Prince, Prince Matt, Prince Matthew.
Prince. Oh, yes. What are you, Prince of Nigeria. You know,
Nigeria has got a lot of princes, they always email us and say that
they are moving to American they need a bank account.
He says the administrators
oftentimes look at administrative logic
and forget Baraka
This is how true is this? The administrator looks at well, the
logic, the the
reasonable or the systematic approach to things and he forgets
Baraka.
How true is that? Hey, brother, I need Zika I'm dying. Okay? fill
out a form. Because if we always just give out cash from the box,
it's not a system. It's not a system, but this one guy is dying.
Right? Okay, well, we have to wait. We have a meeting. Oh, okay.
When can I get my Zika because I'm dying. Well, today is the second
of the month. We just had our first second meeting on the first
of the month. We'll have our second second meeting on the 15th
of the month. And if we don't get to your application, then you wait
to the next meeting on the first of the month. Okay, well, I guess
you'll be paying for my funeral then. Right.
Subhanallah so the the system, the system takes place over the baraka
they lose the baraka, right? They want to systematize everything.
But sometimes you can't.
Okay, they look for political expediency, and they forget to
shittier
sometimes the city I will stall your expediency. It's true.
Shitty, I will be a thorn in the throat of your business.
That's if you're ignorant.
If you're ignorant, if you're knowledgeable, if you understand
then,
risk comes from Allah. It comes from Sakina comes from baraka from
a Berta from PA, not from your systems.
So that's his attack on
administrators.
All right.
And he says they become completely insincere by using the scholars
and the righteous, just using them to appear pious and everyone else,
with everyone else, right, to appear pious and to imagine that
by just by being nice to one pious person, it'll erase all my sins.
Here he says a story about him about Malik Ubuntu not not Imam
Malik. But many Cubans you know, he says once a trader who's
transport filled with trade goods had been withheld by a tax
collector. So he went to the venerated Zia had scholar medic
had been denied for help medic then went to the tax collector
treated and the tax collector treat him with much respect saying
that he did not have to come himself and could sit and the tax
collector said you didn't have to come to yourself. You could have
just send me somebody
and I would have released this min this trader and overlooked his
debt.
So he released the tradesmen thereafter the official asthmatic
to make dua for me Melaka or replied, ask this person in which
you keep your ill gotten money to pray for you. Like why would I
pray for you? You're stealing from people. Like you're stealing
you're taxing people what is haram?
Right?
Muhammad saying oh, that's a microaggression against Nigerians
perhaps. Okay, so So Muhammad is criticizing us for being not
aggressive enough. Alright, so we need to get a bigger aggression
that I guess that's what she's saying. Yeah, so we'll Oh, sorry
about that, ma'am. Next time, I'll try to find a bigger macro
aggression against them. Okay.
How can I invoke blessing for someone you want my job? What do
you want my job for you? I got so many sins. What is this right. I
see this President going to visit the chef. He's so respectful to
the chef
he's kissing his foot, bro. You got like 50 people in jail.
oppressively, you've got deals with interests, you got deals.
What is that? That's just symbolism. That's it. It's
meaninglessness. Right?
He says here, you think that Allah will accept the entreaties of one
person while you're feeling 1000 oppressions to others.
So he continues now, the misguided Sufis, what does he say? They have
worshipped Allah well,
until when they hear one melody, their heart moves so much
that they then deviate little by little, all they do is melodies.
All they do is singing songs, and then imagining that they want to
heighten their mysticism. They use musical instruments.
And they become lavish in their use and concerns with musical
instruments forgetting the Quran and the deen and the basics of
leaving off since that that's what got you to a high in spirituality
in the first place, is the night prayers, the fasting, the
recitation of the Quran, and they forgot those things.
And they become very
lenient with sinners, thinking that this is helping their Toba
thinking that this is good for them. Whereas strictness with
sinners, public sinners, he's saying, is what was actually
better for them.
Anybody who was nice to them, they're so soft, tighter hearted
that they're nice back where sometimes it's not the right place
to be.
So he
goes on, they go astray in a worst way. There's a worse way than this
to go for the Sufi to go astray. How by sneering at the scholars
for not being as worshipful as they yet sometimes a scholar could
be far better to the society in the community by selling what's a
What does Allah love? What does Allah not love? What did the
prophets say? But know what you are? Okay, is putting them down
because they don't do as much a bad as them here. The Sufi comes
upon a scholar and finds him eating during the day.
And it looks down upon him, he's eating during the day because he
has to teach, he has to write he has to think not like you Subhan
Allah, right.
He sneers at the scholar, seeing him talking, talking, talking,
never making dua
to Allah.
So that's what he critiques the Sufi with. You see how
everything's got to balance right now? His style is hyperbole. You
have to understand that, like, his style is all the Sufis are this.
He doesn't mean that it's just a way it's a rhetorical method.
People have to understand hyperbole. Okay. Arabic Quran is
filled with that. The way that the Arabic speaks is with hyperbole.
Like Allah subhanaw taala. Those who do this Except those who
repent, right. So there's exceptions. Of course, if you have
any common sense, you understand hyperbole when we say you're all
these crazy vegans.
I'm sure there's no forget them because they're all crazy. But all
these crazy animal rights activists, I'm sure there's one or
two decent animal rights activists, all these nut job
environmentalists, I'm sure some of them are very reasonable,
right? All these academics, Islamic Studies, academics or
Australian love the coma Lutz.
Right. And their progresses. I'm sure many of them are not right.
But it's a rhetorical method. Okay, that just just with a clean,
and it's the fools, okay, that on Twitter, who takes seriously, who
are so academic, that they look at every word that you say and judge
its accuracy? It's like, you don't know where you are, you're not in
a place of nuance here. You're in a place where people are
scrolling, you need to say what you have to say in 10 words,
that's it.
So he is a scholar who understands that and that's why it seems like
he's extreme and everything. It's not he's just painting a broad
brush, and everything is the rest of his works will offer the
exceptions to the others. Let's see what he says about the common
Muslims. All right. The common the masses of Muslims a regular old
common Muslim, okay.
What does he say about them?
The common Muslims he says Satan has misled them all.
To think that just by attending religious sermons, okay.
And saying wow, and whoa, and amazing and to clear that they
have achieved something in religion.
Just by attending a common a gathering or talk,
he said this is perhaps because the people have been told about
the merits of listening to discourses so much, but they don't
know the purpose is to go home and act upon it.
I've had people in the audience not to criticize
they have attended for 10 years. Mashallah, that is wonderful.
Okay, that's wonderful. Well, lights wonderful. They have not
altered one thing in their life for 10 years. So it's not to say
that there'll be better without it. No. You know, the smart answer
is, well, maybe your sessions aren't good enough.
That's like the smart No, but but some people that's how some
people, one year the person is completely transformed.
There are some people that I've seen them Wallahi I've seen them
go from a knucklehead kid who knows nothing to somebody who I
would ask questions of FIP to ask questions of Arpita to and
questions of Dean to it Hadith helped me research this helped me
give the hook but here helped me do that. They've completely
transformed in 10 years, and another person
has none, nothing has changed, not one thing has changed. This is
what he's talking about, which means that the person he contends
himself with listening and attending, but never acting, he
imagines that I don't have to do anything.
No effort at home. That's what he's talking about here.
They do not appear to be aware that listening is insufficient
without action. And he says, I personally know a number of people
who have been attending lectures for years, they get so excited,
they burst into tears. They love the lecture, yet they persist
cheating in trade using Ribba, not covering themselves, unmindful of
religious duties, et cetera. Satan has led them to believe that
merely attending the sermons will make up for all of their sins will
atone their neglect and their sins and their omissions of fulfilling
obligations. That's the flaw
of the common Muslim. So don't fall into it. Take classes and act
upon it and put some more weight on the bar.
In regard to the rich, what does he say to the rich? Oh,
many of these people spend lavishly on the construction of a
mosque or a bridge. But their real goal is to put their name on it.
Okay, and to win over the reputation of people as people of
piety.
And yet, they will ignore the donations that they could give to
the poor and the needy that will not get them any attention.
And they persist in
unlawful trade. Imagining that building a mosque will wipe it
away
Subhan Allah
and of subjects on Toby Sibelius.
Let's go now to his self criticism.
Because Toby's IBLEES He's taken his Rambo gun on everybody. Right?
It's true that what he's saying
he takes it on himself to, to show you he's sincere. What does he
say? In this book? Seidel? Carter.
He admits that he himself has many weaknesses, and many mistakes. He
criticizes himself for the love of aspiration, that he wants to be
the best at everything. He's too competitive.
And he gives account of his mental and emotional states. You gotta
love this scholar. He's so human, right?
Like he's talking about himself. What most other scholars just call
Allah. God Allah Rasool. Are you human? Like, do you when you go
home? Do you wear sweat pants? Right. Have you ever encountered
this cycle?
When he goes home? Does he stretch his feet?
Right?
Does he do human things? I don't like the person who's a fake. The
Sahaba were not fake. It almost took a nap under the tree. Right?
Are you better than sitting on the Prophet SAW I said up came out of
his house for Salatin Fajr with a wet stain in the middle of his
job. What was he cleaning off? He was cleaning off when the
Rasulullah sai Sanam has known a Jessa but to teach us he's
cleaning the just
He did that to teach us his personal life was right there in
the masjid.
Subhan Allah say that it's just speaks of the personal life of the
prophet size. And yes, his personal life must be exposed we
can learn. So he's he's different in that respect. And it may be
better for other people
to to hide those better for a scholar to have a haber and be a
little distant from the people. But there's a degree to that too.
Even though Josie speaks of his mental and emotional states
describing the impact of his social experiences with the elite
and the common and how they personally impacted him,
and he talks about the wisdoms he learned from the rough and tumble
of political life, that he had ups and downs in political life with
with all these rich people and these governors, he talks about
his dealings with women, wives that he had friends and servants.
The book is extremely simp, sincere and simple.
Okay, which marks the first attempt at an autobiography in the
history of Islam.
One of the first attempts of like a personal autobiography, okay.
In the history of Islam,
one of his passages here, I saw two laborers one day, carrying a
heavy beam, both were humming a song, while carrying heavy been
one recited a verse, the other listened to it, and would repeat
it afterwards, so that it created a melody while they're working.
Some people call these work songs, I thought that they must only be
doing this to allow themselves to pass the time.
By singing the song, they made their labor easy. On further
reflection, I found that by engaging themselves in singing, it
gave their mind some respite, because their job was so
difficult. Okay. This diversion also decreased the consciousness
of their burden by making them think about the verses they're
talking about. Right? So what is our version of that today?
Construction workers when they blast like sports radio, and
they're debating sports, why? Because their job stinks. They
hate their job. So by talking about something, it's a diversion.
My attention was diverted from this scene, to the burden of the
responsibilities and obligations enjoined by the city. I like my
job, his job as a scholar. Okay. And I thought that the perhaps the
consciousness of these obligations is an even heavier burden. Okay,
on man, then carrying a beam.
All right, and the great effort of controlling your impulses. Thus I
arrived at the conclusion that one should never cover the path of
endurance himself, without allowing himself to be refreshed
with lawful pleasures.
All right, that he said, Well, why are they singing? It's because
it's so heavy. Keep their mind. Likewise, some matters of the
Shediac are heavy. A lot of the prohibitions are heavy, a lot of
the obligations are heavy, he said, then, we also then if we're
on this path, we should allow ourselves a little bit of respite
from this.
All right.
I wish that we can go more but we got to go for questions and
answers. All right.
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similar story he says Bishopville haffi was going somewhere with a
friend the friend got thirsty and asked Misha to wait right here so
I can get some water from the well. Bishop advise him to wait
until they reach the next well, and then to the next. After they
covered a considerable distance. Bish told his friend that the life
in this world is just like our journey. Okay. In truth if you're
able to hold yourself a little bit, the longer you're able to
hold yourself, the faster you'll make it the better you'll make it.
But if every time you want a break, you take a break and you
want to take some pleasure you take some pleasure, you will never
fulfill your desires or your goals.
Okay, check yourself from the fancies and attractions of this
world. Do not let it afflict you and control yourself from it. But
as easily Asami once said I used to lead my whaling cell flooded
with tears towards Allah then it grew
agilely became familiar with the way and began to forge ahead
cheerfully. He meant to say by that, that religious teachings
were so difficult to use to cry.
But over time, the human being has a habit of getting used to things,
and I got used to it now I enjoy it.
In another place, he says, I've seen when hounds pass by wild
dogs, the wild dogs bark at them and try to chase them away. Wild
Dogs are envious of hounds, because the Hound is just in a
collar and clothing and has an owner that takes care of him. The
Wild Dog is envious of this. The Hound never pays attention to the
Wild Dog. The wild dogs are fat, clumsy, unclean and untrained. But
the hounds are lean, well proportioned, and they have a
mission every day that they get rewarded for. Right, they get
rewarded for their mission go cuts me a rabbit you're gonna get maybe
you know, some food. So the Hound is not as equal to the Wild Dog,
likewise is the person of religion who has a Lord, his Lord takes
care of him sets up His life, and that that a worshiper knows what
he asked to do, and he knows that he's gonna have a reward at the
end of the day,
versus the man who has no religion and no law. He's wild
SubhanAllah.
He has a dialogue with himself inside of Qatar, in this
autobiography
in which he traces incidents,
and how it affected him later in life.
And how the impacts of meeting other pious people helped him in
life.
He says once I was confronted with a difficulty for which I had to
invoke divine blessings, and I had to make a lot of supplication.
Accordingly, I prayed to Allah with another righteous person. And
I felt in my heart, my prayers about to be answered. But I felt
that it was not because of my own dua. It was because of the other
person's jaw. And I said to myself, Oh Allah, I said to
myself, I am aware of my own sins and weakness, which is not
allowing my prayer to be answered. But who knows, if Allah did not
did, in fact, exceeds my own to my answered my da. I felt that
although the revered man of Allah who prayed for me, was free from
those vices that I had, kept from which I suffered, there's a
difference between him and me. And I had a sense of regret, and self
reproach because of my sins. While he was always cheerful and happy
with Allah, like his reaction with Allah was always cheerful, happy,
optimistic, yet I was like, now I have sins I have this and that,
and how we all feel this right.
He then said,
it is not infrequent that the brokenhearted confession is more
beneficial on occasions like this, that when you look down on
yourself sips man is not alone, like, these people are so sinless,
they're so pure. And I'm so behind. He said, that moment of
broken heartedness may be more heavy with Allah subhanaw taala,
than the other.
But nobody should take this as a green light to stay sinful. Right?
Because at that point, you negate it.
He says, there's another matter which both of us stood on equal
footing, neither of us solicited the favor of Allah on the basis of
our own deeds. Good. So if the circumstances I had owned, make my
mistakes, like I had admitted to my mistakes,
it is possible for the other person to look at his actions, and
think
that his actions are good, and that he is the doer of his
actions, this would be an obstacle to his prayer. So you see, what
he's saying here is that, wait a second, you pious person, that's
not your own action. Allah is the One who gave you this action. All
right.
So from that perspective, or even, he said, Therefore Oh, self of
mine, you should not make it insufferable for a broken hearted
man like myself. I am aware of my guilts I confess my sins. At the
same time, I am aware of what I asked and I have faith in the
beneficence of my Lord, whom I submit my entries, look who's
talking. This is a scholar who has dozens of books, hundreds of 1000s
of followers, and he's talking like this, and he's telling us
writing it in a autobiography.
May Allah help this soul who lacks good qualities? But so as far as
I'm concerned, that confession of my guilt is my most valuable
person.
Listen, Oh Allah, what am I bringing to you the confession of
my guilt? Amazing, amazing. He talks about his inner struggles.
There's so much more I want to keep reading Subhanallah them but
we can't we have to move on. Unfortunately, there's so much
about, he talks about his personal experiences he talks about his
experience with women,
not with interacting with women, etc. The death All right, of a
woman that he wanted to marry. Like he wanted to marry a woman.
She died, what happened to him? Right? Things like that, that
inshallah one day we will maybe read directly from Slidell hotter.
It's a book worth worth having. We have only a few minutes for q&a.
It's 320 now and we have completed this book that you can get from
Mecca books.com with a coupon code Safina wonderful book. Let's now
turn to the q&a. If you put a question copy and paste it here
because
I don't want to scroll up. Okay, and we have Soneva Juan here with
us. And why don't end before we leave tonight we are going to
recite dua a node from the Prophets Allah Allah where he was
Saddam Ryan has already uploaded it. Alright, we will read that.
Okay, Alma Desmond says can you give us a Salah to help achieve
dua
it's a long one.
It's known as Salah Alchemilla Allahumma Salli salata and camulos
Salam, salam, and Turman Allah say dinner Muhammad Allah Deaton Hello
Bill orchids in Farraj with Kurup Dr. Bill Howard with an aloe vera
I was on her watch him when he's just kind of on my movie educate
him while he was zombie was salam. If you recite this dua, this dhikr
it's a drop all Salawat on the prophet or dua, right?
If you recite it 100 times in the middle of the night with
effortless
amazing things will happen to you
it's an also known as a Salah and Neria you can find it solid
Camella, Salah Nordea, can we read to tell this at least without any
teacher? Yes, it's not a physical book or anything like that.
So if you repented, and made dua and did not see any trace of
response, then look into your affair.
What is meant by trace of a response? When Allah Tada answers
your DUA, it doesn't just appear in front of you, there are signs
that he will answer your DUA and there are signs that dua is being
answered. So for example, if I say, oh, Allah, I'm broke, I need
money.
That's like 99% of the draw of the OMA.
And the next day,
you get an interview,
there's a sign that DA will slowly be answered. Okay. Slowly being
answered, how to keep going until it's fulfilled. And sometimes
you may open the Quran to do your recitation. And the first is an
answer of is to, is to Jabba. You feel that Allah has answered me
right there. I prayed and the first rook or that I'm reciting
with his first job, but I'm gonna boom, that's wonderful. That's
amazing. So they're the it's the job. It's a job does not just
happen like that. There are some times Allah informs you, yes, it's
Mr. Job, but it's not going to happen now to some time. Others
that you start seeing the answer to your prayers slowly.
Should be fast for the first of Muharram. Now we fast on the ninth
or 10th or 10th and 11th.
How do you deal balancing a job
and pursuing Islamic education?
You work and you carve out a portion of time every week for
studies and you study but you have to have a consists of like a
curriculum, or a teacher or a course something that's
systematic. Java says concerning Kelemen Arpita is a true he was an
SRE. No, he was not an Ashati. But he was a move forward. And he made
he was strong in his 10 Z.
Of
all the anthropomorphic seeming verses and Hadith. In his book
Diffa Shoba atashi, the Kapha tansy refuting any thought of
ill thought or incorrect thought of anthropomorphism with perfect
and clear transcendence Tenzin. A local chef says Jamal claims that
he can take us to see the prophets in the spiritual world within
three days with some zikr he says he can travel anywhere
spiritually. Is this possible? I have no knowledge of this, to be
honest with you. Sounds interesting. I have no knowledge
of what he's saying. To be quite honest with you
about the whole situation
how do you overcome the fear of death?
Being scared of soul being taken out missing your loved ones? Well,
you think of the positives of death, anytime that Allah wants
you to face a fear.
Okay?
He shows you the reward of that fear. Like the beautiful thing
behind it, you become so obsessed with the reward that you don't
even think about the hardship. So think of the reward but as luck is
a wonderful life, it's so wonderful.
You're going to forget these Don't you forget your own family. That's
how wonderful it can become you'll forget your own family. That's how
wonderful it can be.
We don't worship our family by the way, there's limits right? Your
entire life is not meant to serve your family. Yes, you you love
them you serve them but there are limits to that too. Because if you
don't put those limits people could follow them even in the
Haram
or even stifled themselves. I want to take a drink well, what will my
family think? You stifling yourself? Maybe you want to get a
job somewhere. Might have to move five minutes away, but my family
might be upset. You cannot debt success. There's excess in that
right.
Ibrahim Khan what is the key to finding a righteous spouse hanging
out
with Scott the circles of righteousness gatherings masajid
etc that's where a good woman will be right?
That's where good women will be. Ma'am has to go yes, you can go
while they come Salaam and inshallah we will get you a better
macro Nigerian joke next time. John.
Is it get married, better to get married or stay single? If you're
going to have fitna
you have to get married, not have to
sunnah to get married.
If any man was caught admitting to committing Zina and then repented
Bushra as asking I don't see how he can really be followed anymore,
right?
I don't know when it's hard to say.
Many selfies used YBNL Josie to argue against the solf but he was
actually arguing against the errors of disbelief Yes, he was
arguing against the errors towards Sufi are innocent or something.
They made mistakes like anybody else. They're human beings that
have mistakes and he will railed against those. And he also railed
against the majestic motto in his book definition by tansy so they
should use take that and apply it themselves. So if they love what
he said about the Sufis I love it too. I also love what he said
about the anthropomorphise?
Some of these brothers we have a sidebar on YouTube when that
translates to Instagram we can't control it right that you know
this website they got to make a way where you can control the
Instagram they have to the software that we use they gotta
find a way where
like but in the in the sidebar they got it we have this
drag the sidebar to where where we want it to be Muslimah says what
is the Edit to observe when visiting grave of odia
the added that if they were alive as a nother words you're just
gonna go there. You're going to make to offer them to offer
everyone in the graveyard you can recite Quran you can intend the
reward of the Quran to go to them. Either way, they're going to the
dead we believe that they hear
Muhammad Abdul Aziz what's the consensus where yeah Judah met
Jews are currently Allah Allah there I don't think there's just
somewhere under the earth
I mean, says how do you get into Jannah without a sub
tried to be a murderer? Which means if you devote your life to
Dawa and you die upon that inshallah you will be written as a
murderer.
Share what are Ashley's as Shadi is a meth hub in nakida. It is the
mother hub of the share phase and Maliki's in matters of beliefs and
the Hanafis are maturities and the humbleness or humbleness?
Are there any known scholars who are illiterate?
There's Abdulaziz in the buff. Abdulaziz de Burgh was illiterate,
but he had learned through small cassava and the scholars tested
him and he was correct in being able to do
Tech's false Hadith from sound Hadith but this is not a
methodology we're allowed to seek no one could say let me be so
spiritual that again secret knowledge no you have to actually
go and learn
Okay
this next Thursday
we're going to see insha Allah we're going to have
as we get into Muharram biography of Hussein, Saddam Hussein Abinadi
How do you recite so lots of Camella with Nicolas, recite it
understanding its meanings and knowing that it's a dua
strangest May Allah subhanaw taala make your way out for you, when
you should increase the recitation of learned Subhanak in equilibrium
and of volume in
I heard if you stay pious and be a good Muslim that Allah will grant
you a spouse as part of your risk. Is that true? The answer is yes in
sha Allah that's true. Good. Charla that's true.
And a lot of ways to get a good spouse. Okay, couple more
questions. madhhab Helene Medina, with said Muhammad Ali Maliki, he
says,
also how to make the best Toba. The best Toba is by
leaving off not just the sins but all the triggers of the sins. So
if you commit your sins at so and so's house, stop going to that
house if you commit your sins at
a certain time, go to sleep at that time.
The triggers that's called Cydia and water.
Okay,
let's see what is it that
Sophia says can you please remind us of the FIP of prayer while
traveling the traveller is of two states on his way.
And having arrived
at his visiting destination,
on the way you can shorten and combine with no limits, shorten
and combined door and asked mega Benicia the Florida cars become to
come comma Salah comma Salah in either of the two gaps of time.
When you arrive,
you are a traveler. If you intend less than 20 prayers or four days,
if you intend more than you are considered a
holiday, you're present you're not a traveler, so you pray in full.
But if you are intending less than you shorten, but you do not
combine this is the thick of the medical method on this. So if you
are someone who is intending to arrive at some a place, let's say
I'm going to go visit let's say Florida, I arrive at Florida. My
intention is three days. How many prayers is that? 15 less than 20
Okay, good. Then I may shorten but not combine. That's the Maliki
method on the subject. The Shafia are different and the Haniff are
different and the Hannibal are different. So those are the
methods that you can you can ask those the companions of those
methods
Alright folks, we have to stop here. Let us say
someone said that their grandmother has COVID Nassif
sugary Choudry May Allah subhanaw taala give her a speedy she felt
good
all right, let's put up draw a note and let's pull it up here on
let's pull it up here so we could read it and we will recite this
beautiful dua.
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a big believer that LC for was
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