Shadee Elmasry – On Happiness, Its Sources and the Secularization of Happiness Through Mindfulness and Wellness.
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Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim hamdu lillah wa Salatu was Salam ala
Rasulillah while he was talking to a woman who Allah. Today we're
talking about the secularization of happiness. And the issue of
happiness is one of those types of self health issues that a lot of
people make a lot of money on. And talk about how to become happy and
people like things name is Timothy Robbins, back in the day.
Millionaire on the stuff and a lot of things are sort of common
sensical. Having good health, having good sleep, having good.
Being gentle in your relationships, having financial
stability, a lot of things are common sense. And it goes to
brings us to the question of
what is the what are sources of truth, common sense, an awful and
human experience is a source of truth, we don't deny that it's a
source of truth. It's totally a source of truth.
The province of Allah who it was Saddam, or sorry, Gemini, Bess
translates or gives a tough see it of Northern Ireland or is shut on
Allah al Sharia upon intellect. And so the intellect by itself is
a source of truth, there's no doubt about that. And the
experience shared experience of people is also a source of truth.
There's no doubt about that. But we're the secularization we use
this word a lot, what exactly does it mean? It means the
determination of a thing without recourse, intentional or
otherwise, and most likely, mostly intentionally, without recourse to
the Divine to the why, okay. So, again, it is the deed that suits
me the determination of a thing, okay, of a concept, a phenomenon
or something without recourse to the Divine or intentionally. All
right, sidestepping and why the divine and this is the meaning of
when when the when we say, okay, the
secular I secularization of something, that's what it means,
okay, the secularization So here, you have the secularization of
happiness, happiness itself is something that is something we all
seek, and how do we get to it is also something that our dean and
the NBA and the Quran and the white is giving us, right? So we
cannot secularize the subject, what you're going to find out a
lot about his wellness, you got a lot of what's his latest
phenomenon is mindfulness. Okay,
mindfulness and all these types of things towards wellness. Well, we
said earlier that in the famous Hadith of the creation in the
womb, that you have 90 days and what about 90 days Allah? And then
finally, all the destinies written and lastly, a Sufi Yun upside, is
this person going to be miserable? Or is this person going to be
happy? All right. So, we do have
a very, very important, a great amount of emphasis on the issue of
attaining sad is one of the purposes of life, they should he
is nicknamed by the ultimate party episodic, right. Also we have many
references in the Quran of the what Nina and in the Hadith about
Nina is to be at a state of rest. And we have reference to Sakina.
Being at a state of rest, we have references to Maha but love,
right? The attainment of love all over the Hadith. Alright, so be
careful when you're out there. And when you're thinking out there,
and sometimes they offer these classes, in colleges on happiness
and the attainment of happiness, where you're taking your sources
from and I'll tell you why. One of the reasons is that
a lot of one of the Theses that's found in a lot of these
wellness programs is staying away from negativity. Right? Stay away
from negativity staying away from judgmental ism, staying away from
anxiety and fear. Now, we have certain concepts, there are
certain negativities and certain fears that are necessary for
happiness, okay. being negative about towards alcohol leads to
sobriety, when we must have a negative about the issue on
alcohol, right and intoxication. It leads to sobriety when we're
negative on issues like Ribba okay, it leads to potentially
possibly most likely All right financial stability, more
financial stability, if you remove rubber from your life, like as
much as humanly possible, good,
then it should lead to more financial stability. So certain
negatives fee
fear of Allah azza wa jal in the fear of Allah azza wa jal, and
when we believe that sadness, happiness is a creation of Allah,
He gives it to those who fear him who have Taqwa, he gives it to
those whom He wills. Alright? So the fear of Allah azza wa jal is
actually not a like the fear of any MK, Luke, the fear of creation
is a negative anxiety that ruins a person, the fear of Allah is a
motivating force that brings happiness to a person, the fear of
Allah and the fear of creation is something totally different. So
when you come upon a secular author,
and they're talking to you about removing negativity, removing
fear, removing anxiety, but then you go and find in Islamic
literature, a lot of negativity, a lot of
fear. But you have to know that those fears, okay, in the system
that the MBAs are teaching, these are the sources of happiness. If
you have a nation that's really negative about the enemies that
are trying to ruin them, isn't that negativity, reading security,
they have a lot of fear and concern about the enemy to the
East or to the north or to the south, that's bringing their army
down, right? And we have a lot of fear, and we're mobilizing, and
we're protecting, right? So that all that negativity, and that fear
and anxiety and all that, okay, is breeding security for the rest of
us and for the future. All right. So likewise, when you come across
upon these things, don't ever discount that the greatest source
of happiness is the obedience of Allah and His messenger. If we're
Muslim, if someone is a Muslim, this is what we believe, right?
There's going to be no more happiness, right? attained to
someone that someone who fights against what displeases Allah and
His messenger. So when we have negativity about * and groups,
for example, okay, I'm fed up, and you're negative, and we're not
welcoming to these ideas, and we're pushing them back. And we're
going on against them, right? This isn't negativity at all, this is
actually freedom from darknesses things that make no sense things
that lead to nothing things that have no basis and things that
anger Allah subhanaw taala. So here, you have to understand that
there are a lot of situations where it could be that something
an outwardly negative feeling, outwardly harsh, okay, is actually
the source of a person's happiness. You're gonna have a
military out there, what do you want them to go with the enemy's
given flowers, okay, and being soft, your military is out there
pushing up your enemies so that everyone else can be happy.
Likewise, when people go out there and push aside what a lot is
messenger have told us is a source of your misery. And nothing is
prohibited, except that it's more of a source of harm for the human
being than a source of good like alcohol. Even the Quran tells us
there's good money to be made, right? It is can has enough to be
made from alcohol, right? And not everything. Haram is 100% bad. It
could be mostly bad, right? Okay. So in this case, everything that
Allah and His Messenger prohibited has some degree, some greater
degree of harm than good. So to be negative towards those things to
push them aside. is locking more happiness going forward. Right,
more stability going forward. Okay, who established the
millennium of stability for the Muslims? Is the first three
generations if you look at it, they're their push their fights,
their wars, right? pushed off this darkness, right, and paganism and
idolatry and volume. Right? That allowed a man to flourish and
stability to fleurs look in American history. Who do you
honor? Right, the armed forces, you honor the founding fathers,
the Revolutionary War, the heroes of the Civil War, World War One
World War Two, all right, when America went and saved, England,
get and then the Western world flourished after World War Two.
Okay, well, what is that these wars were positive. Were these
wars, like all happiness and accepting and everything is just a
nice and good are there wars, people died, right? But because of
that fear, and because of that negativity, and the action upon
that negativity, and all the hardships that they faced, you
want you got 50 years of the Western countries, being not only
not only stable, not only secure, not only fruitful, but they ruled
the rest of the world. Okay. So in this case, when people come upon
the issue of sad, we have to know that we do have doctrine, we have
a theology of happiness, and it should not be just tossed off.
Okay, and we should imagine that this is some neutral subject, like
being a car mechanic, where there's no theology on how to fix
cars. There's no theology on on these types of worldliness.
This is directly a matter that pertains to humans to everyday
life, to the purpose of life. And therefore the first source should
be Allah and His messenger. All right, if we are mean and ALLAH
SubhanA, which Allah says in the Quran, if you truly believers,
then go to Allah and his messenger as your judges, right? And they'll
show us the path. And anytime that someone is down, someone is out,
and then you cite to them. The anything that comes from the
sources from our books on side of that, wait a second, did you check
if you have any more, Marcia, any act of disobedience
is a source of misery. Anything that you haven't made Toba from
any miskeen that you haven't?
That you haven't miski And that you've stepped on, that you've
hurt their feelings, right? Like could cause you a problem in the
sight of Allah. Okay.
Any item that you've accosted and tried to humiliate, could cause
you misery? Of course your family, direct family relationships. All
right, all these things you are a bad that you were thinking Allah
Are you abandoning liquid Allah? Whoever abandoned zicatela? What
does Allah say he level nicer than Bunka a miserable life. So what is
the status of your Salah your sunnah, you are thicker your
exposure to the haram. All right, your relationships with people
your attendance to the masjid. Are you showing Allah any effort? So
whenever people bring these, and if someone was to ever toss these
out, right, that would be like, Wait a second. This is the hokum
of Allah and His Messenger on a side which is happiness, and
ultimately, ultimate Nina, which is to be in a state of rest,
neither desiring nor fearing. Like I'm not totally desirous of
something that it's driving me nuts, nor am I totally afraid of
anything. I'm even right. It's from what I love you Nicola. He
taught me no clue. So if there is no too much, Nina, the first place
we should look is, is there the gorilla, if there's no stability,
amongst in our inner interactions and relationships, the first thing
we should look to is the Sharia. Are we obeying Allah his Messenger
in every matter if there are bad relationships, we also look at the
Sunnah how the Prophet interacts with people. Okay?
Wheezy, gentle Welcome to for don't have any other name for them
and Holic. Okay, if you were hard hearted and harsh people would
leave you. Okay, so we have to record this and our understanding
of sad and happiness, and not just imagine that this is some neutral
thing that anyone could teach us how to do. Alright, so that's our
short little wild for today. I think I'll take some of your
comments or questions here.
Omar Han says your thoughts on Chica Rashid, is it Russia or
Russia? I don't know. And
I will leave discussion on the return of Asa.
He's Schiff Assad, Rashid said in his discussion not believing in
return of Asa does not take one out of the fold of Islam.
Well, either way, I mean, Prophet ASA, Masanobu malerkotla lu wala
can shoot me Hello.
They didn't kill him. They didn't crucify him. They didn't kill him,
but he was made to appear different. And
many other two as in particular, women Elif Kitabi, in La La Mina,
Nebia, Cabela moja, there is none from Al Kitab, except that they
will believe in him say nice and muddy and properly, they believe
in him properly before his death. And we know he hasn't died yet.
Where you call him UNICEF in Matthew, aka Allah, and he will
talk to people from the cradle to the in the cradle. And in old age,
we know that he has reached old age, okay, and this is all people
so that he's not going this is not referring to talking to people in
the afterlife, because there's no old people and afterlife anyway,
everyone's returned to youth. So he's speaking to people in old age
must happen on this earth. Is there any one who's going to tell
us that a seven mme reach old age on this earth? answer's no. So
there's really no discussion on it. And I don't know why anyone
would
try to, you know, propose that say nice is not coming back, that this
is not part of our PETA. So just ignore this. Honestly. It's a
waste of time. And it's an absurd notion. And Chef Estrada Rashid
will just explain it when he does the debate, but honestly, no one's
paying attention to that stuff.
Fatima bin Abdullah, who says what about those who do not believe how
are they still happy? Or is that a delusion deluded form of
happiness? No. That's what we said is that the sources of truth and
the sources of sad like the source of truth, including the sources of
Happiness is not just Revelation. Revelation is one common sense
interaction, natural feelings that Allah gave to all people in this
way, the concept of Rama, the meaning of mercy. The word Rama,
is something that Allah azza wa jal gave to all people, and
animals and fish and trees and Kapha and whatever. And from that
mercy they can attain some degree of happiness. However, the sukoon
right, the degree of sukoon, which is from his name, Rahim, okay, is
specific for the Momineen there is a degree of sukoon that is
specific for for those who believe. And just like, just
without revelation, do people have no direction on how to live? And
the purpose of life? No, there's some direction right? But it's not
complete. Okay, without revelation, that's why neuron
Allah Noda Light upon light is Shediac over intellect. So if
someone has no idea, they have intellect, they can get half of
the equation enough to make them survive in this life. Because you
have to realize, Allah has made us that
so that we could survive, even most of them are Catholic, you
need to survive. So to continue the lineage of human beings,
right? So there is enough mercy, enough happiness, that people are
all killing themselves out of misery, right? That they're happy.
So in this sense, in this respect, that they can achieve a degree of
happiness, but what we're saying just like they can achieve a
degree of stability, a degree of purpose of life, etc. But with
Revelation, it completes the picture. Revelation completes the
entire picture. Okay? And gives us far more so that we can maximize,
stabilize and elongate. So so the Western Hemisphere just had like,
50 great years, right? Let's say, Well, what the machete offers it
says, we don't deny that without with only your intellect, you can
attain that, but what should he does it prolongs that stabilizes
It codifies it, right? And allows you to, to have that same namah
for longer, okay? And if you look at a lot of if you look at
whenever civilizations adopted Islam, they actually prolonged
their happiness and give it more life. So this is what we say,
Rahim bill macmini Not at all for Rahim Allah says for the
believers, he gives two things that he doesn't give to anyone
else, which is a woof Rahim that is more compassionate. And he
gives them a Rahim which is the ultimate Nina. Right? More
something deeper on the inside. All right, that a moment will have
that others will not have. Okay, that is something that is unique
for those who believe because those who believe are not going to
be given something equal, right to those who don't believe. Okay, so,
an answer to the question, yes, they can attain a lot of things,
however, what without ye they won't attain it fully. They want
it they will be able to stabilize it, codify it and prolong it. This
is what Revelation does. Okay. And Ahmed says, where should we draw
the line between practicing fatawa and having a good opinion of
people overlooking mistakes and commanding right and forbidding
wrong? The line
is that when you go about commanding right and forbidding
wrong, okay, do it in such a way that you would want it done for
yourself that we separate the person from his mistake that we
don't insult the person rather you can attack the idea all you want,
but not the person okay. It unless very specific case, that person
has openly established animosity towards Allah and His Messenger at
that point, like the prophets I said was Salem, and could that
most animal the liar he attacked the person himself at will? Al
hakam he made named renamed him Abuja, right Abu Lahab. He was
known as I will have because he was very white skin and he had
red, really red cheeks when he would get worked up. So the
province I sent him interpreted that as SAS law not on that, the
Lahab the flame of the fire, so only when people are an open
attack on Islam, that the messenger himself got personal
with them, otherwise we separate their mistake from their action.
So as What's the proof of this is this some kind of like hippie type
of
fuzziness let's all just get along No. Kumbaya? No, in fact, the
prophesy seven himself did this with a Muslim whom was the
drunkard and he would get drink and then get caught for doing so.
And then finally, one min Kirsten, right? And the promise I sent him
said, Don't curse him and help shaytaan against him. All I know
about him is that he loves Allah His messenger. So the poor
prophets I send them separated between demand and his action and
his mistake. He saw that the man is in his essence is good, but he
has a mistake. Likewise, the province I said never went after
him while we had been Abbey, Sophia and as the person, right,
he never went after the person of Mali, he fought him. Right. He
fought him, but he never won after the person because the person
while we never insulted the dean, he never insulted me. He was an
enemy, right? He fought, but the Prophet realize he's fighting for
worldly purposes. He is not personally attacking the Prophet,
he never called the Prophet in name. He never called he never
said anything about the Quran that it's a lie. So he was the type of
enemy who was merely an enemy for worldly purposes. Right? And he
never went after the person of the prophets I seldom nor did he say
anything about Allah azza wa jal, nor did he say anything about the
Quran or the message itself. He never mocked it. He never attacked
even so much. So that so sorry, I meant to say Abu Sofia was Sophia,
we're talking here about Abu Sufian. While we have NaVi Sophia,
okay, says that while my prophet My father was a avowed open enemy
to the Prophet, salallahu, alayhi wasallam, I knew that he actually
believed he was correct. And the way I knew is that one time a
Muslim made a dua against us, as we were about to kill him. And my
father took me and lowered me and put me behind him so that I
wouldn't be touched by that. So I knew right then and there that my
father actually believes this to be true. Right? So from his video
from his
natural internet reaction, without thinking about it, sometimes the
best truth comes from a natural reaction, that he took his son
while we and hit him so that he's not affected by the dua of a
Muslim. So while we said I knew my father, I was Sophia and believes
so I believed, right? So that's the ghost example that when we go
after someone or something, there's going to be a difference.
Those who directly attack God and His Messenger, then sometimes,
what does the Quran say be harsh with them? Right? Because that's
your the goodness isn't being harsh against them harsh when you
got some clogged sink? Are you going to put nice soapy water with
flowers, or you get the harshest material to unclog the sink? So
again, these happiness movements that want to try to sell you
something where it's just all Kumbaya and all good. Well, no,
right? Not at all. We actually go Alright, go and lie about them.
lie about that professor, that book that self help operation,
you'll find yourself in court. Right. So where's all the kumbaya
stuff? Now? After you go about them spread lies about them,
you'll find yourself in court getting letters from lawyers. So
harshness has its place? Good. It has its place and we're going to
be harsh on certain things and push aside certain things because
we believe they're bad for us. Good.
All right, so next question.
All right, how's Aziz talks about the mic and we have to thank thank
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This mic a quick cue for a friend. When we feel that our demand
fluctuates. Normal, how does one ensure that their immense stay
stable is that the answer of stability of the man goes back to
the concept of a consistency of deeds that a person has certain
deeds
that they never miss every single day. Okay, and the best of this
is, is is the easiest of this is the deeds of Vic, that you have a
word of the vicar such as certain suitors that you never miss or
certain dua that you never miss are certain of God or Elrod that
you read in the morning or night that you never miss. That is how
you stabilize. Amen.
Alim Hussein says Did did an Imam Razi say Light upon light as
reason over the Cydia so we'd be lost without intellect well I
don't know if he said that all I know is if not best as shitty out
over intellect reason does not go over Sharia it Sharia over
intellect because Sharia has limitations Shediac fills in those
gaps.
Intellect for example, can only lead a person to know that there's
a maker with certain attributes but you don't know his name you
don't know our origin you don't know where we're going etcetera,
etcetera. Okay.
So, Shetty are only by accepting a profit, okay. gives us these fills
in those blanks.
likewise, we wouldn't know how to pray we don't know how to vicar.
Right. All that stuff.
Rizwan Maru says Sarah Marie komarek Messina requests might you
be able to do a talk? A lengthy one preferably on the teachings of
Al Bates and the lessons that we can take from Kabbalah just feel
sometimes not enough as All right. Why don't we talk about how to
bake next week? All right, so next week we can read the Hadith about
the football debate. No problem.
All right. mol says
there are chefs who claim Jesus was crucified but did not die on
the cross.
See, honestly this brothers keep not this brother but
the whoever keeps the people's keep spreading that profit ASAP
and Medea
are
and all this doubt about his being raised and coming back. I mean, I
keep getting questions on this. I mean, why would you bring that up?
What is bothering you with this belief?
Not him not the questioner but in general. So he says here that
there are six who claimed Jesus was crucified there's not a shift
then he's a quack, but did not die on the cross. I said Quack,
because Quran clearly says masala boo. That means he was not even
placed on the cross. The Quran says masala boo. were mad Cthulhu
they didn't crucify Him nor kill him. What does that mean? That
crucifixion does not necessitate killing. You can put someone on a
cross and take him down. You've crucified Him but you haven't
killed him. Quran negates both, he was never put on the cross.
And he was not killed.
Due to what the historians been claiming regarding the
crucifixion, what historians do that what history do they have?
They barely have anything to go on, barely have anything to go on.
And anyway, let's say they bought you a hill of evidence this big a
mountain of evidence. And then Allah says something which one are
you going to believe this is a epistemological
disqualification right there, you got your revelation telling you
one thing, you have a theory.
Right? On the other side, what I'm telling you there is very, very, I
have taken these courses in Georgia, Georgetown, George
Washington, Rutgers, all the biblical the history of the Bible.
And these courses, I've taken all these classes, right? And you can
just read about them. By the way, you don't even need to take
classes, you can just go and buy these books and force yourself to
read them. Okay, they're tedious on the history of the origin of
the book, the Bible, right, let alone the person forget the
person, the book itself, right and how dubious the whole thing is.
Right and how no certainty exists on the book, let alone the person,
let alone how he died. Okay.
Doesn't really make a difference. To me what anyone says, Once you
we have already established our epistemology as Muslims is and why
and the correct understanding of why then adopted then and his and
his which is like empirical data.
Right, whatever it is, then a lot of what people do, okay. We've
already established that. So once ye has plugged in something that
on this issue, the ruling is X, okay. Then when I look down the
epistemological chain, if someone is bringing me something else, it
doesn't make a difference what you say? Well, he has already made a
statement on this, if the Supreme Court makes a statement on a
matter, okay, and then some lower court comes and issues a
statement, the statement of the lower court if 1000 lower courts
make a statement, it doesn't matter. All right. It doesn't
matter. On the scale, the Supreme Court, right is weightier. If they
make one sentence from them is weightier than 1000 treatises.
Alright, from legal experts and lower courts. That's how
epistemology works. That's how these things work. So if these
Michela are going to now I don't care what you bring me if it is
certain, and we have certainty, and there is Jim hood, I'm not
gonna say it Jamar because these machines are so touchy about edge
mount forget edge map, Joe Moore, opinion of the whole amount of
athlete and tafsir and hottie, okay. Okay. That a certain matter
ruling is xy and z. That now we can take our make this our dean
and make it part of our Dean wajib to believe, all right.
It doesn't matter what anyone else brings. I'm just shutting the door
right now. Because what's the point? Let those specialists in
history deconstruct these things.
He's okay. And we know that historians and scientists, it's
not objective. They're still human beings with agendas, right?
History, the idea that science and history can be totally objective
is one of the biggest myths out there, because the scientist is
coming with his preconceived notions, the historian is coming
with things that bother him, right? And so constantly the
scientists and historians from the West, they are coming with a anti
Christian background. If they're coming like that, they oftentimes,
that's what pushes the research, right. So, to think that they're
all just objective history doesn't exist. All right.
All right. Mustafa monsoon says salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa
barakato. When it comes to down what happened to Allah but a
catch? What do you think about have a special wit of Sen. Salam
on the Roberts, I send them along with what it says, upon Him alone,
then what you do is if you want to do that, then you take the level
hierarchy. And you either take a seventh of that, that is divided
into seven parts, or you take less than that and you divide it up
yourself. But better to go with the seven than read the seven
it'll take you 15 minutes. And that's a beautiful word. Do you
believe that gel to be a chef individual or assisted more
confusion on fundamentals of religion?
The Dejan is a person. Okay. He is a person. The Prophet talks about
his mother, the prophet talks about his hair. The Prophet talks
about his body shape. Okay, the prophet talks about him being
killed. Right, that he's going to be killed.
Can he be a system? Yes. Can it be a worldview? Yes, he's also a
person. Okay. We are going back here in our levels here. We're now
bringing up and discussing and may Allah and these these this
confusion on the ECOWAS demand issues. Now. Now this is a
controversial issue, or an issue to be discussed. Why don't we now
discuss how many gods there are next? Because that's where we're
going. Okay. Okay, because there is no discussion on the subject
that DeGette any ma'am and Maddie and Prophet ASA, Medina, they are
all real human beings in the flesh that will come. And that's part of
our Amen. And if you have a hard time believing it, go polish your
heart with some thicker, remember, okay, recite the Quran. And
remember
that our deen is about a vape belief in the unseen, the unseen
is in the past, the unseen is in the future, there is partial vape
that means it's a vape for a bulk of humanity. Okay, but soon in
this life, it will be hot data, it will be a real thing that you see
right in front of your eyes, right? Maybe not us, but future
generations will. Okay, and for them, it's not vape it's his
physically right in front of them. So that's partial vape shifts a
gentleman on the booty divided up the vape in that certain things
will always be a vibe for us. Right? There will always be a vibe
such as Accra. What does it look like the Day of Judgment, okay. Or
there will always be a vibe no one will ever see that. And there's
partial vibe. Okay, and that is that which is to come like yet
Judah met Jude Why don't you tell us what is the judo mat juge.
Okay? Is that something else too? Is that
what is that? What is yet judo? Judo virus? Right? That goes
around killing people? Is it a bacteria? I mean, come on.
Fozia howdy says how do you understand the Hadith if you knew
what I know? You would laugh little and weep much? That means
if you saw, how do we have Sakina if we were told to remember the
harsh reality of the punishment in the grave.
Again, the meaning of the hadith is if you saw what the Prophet saw
on the era and miraj of what the Hellfire looks like, you would not
extend your your time of heedlessness, your heedlessness
would be short. Your entertainment would be less Yeah, we take breaks
as Muslims I would go to the site great Sahabi said I engage in some
matters of budget a little bit to refresh myself for the future
remember, had debt and teaches the same thing. So we have to be have
a sustainable balanced approach towards Dean. There's got to be a
time for unwinding in a halal way so that you can come back with
renewed energy in the morning right. So this hadith means when
we remember the the seriousness, okay, of this issue of life, then
our times of heedlessness and entertainment will exist but less
okay, it will be less. How are we supposed to have Sakina if we
remember the harsh reality the grave very simply by remembering
the harsh reality of the grave every once in a while.
Okay, forget the grave just Africa in general, and forget Africa, the
future of this life. By remembering how bad it could be,
it moves us to do the right thing. Okay to live properly, to make the
necessary sacrifices to do the required hard work that yields
future stability. So it's the same way as the high schooler who
always has College on his mind medical school applications on his
mind, I need to get a scholarship or I'll be in debt, that high
schooler he is more serious in his mentality more nervous than the
high school that's just being a fool and just doping around and
and playing around. Well, which one in the future will have a
happier future? Okay, obviously, the one who's nervous today will
be happier tomorrow. The one who's laughing today will weep tomorrow.
So it's the same way. So the more we remember these matters. Okay,
the more our future is going to be safe. All right, how to install it
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Well, I was honestly planning to go this summer, but instead the
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Junaid sada had says the Qadiani is have spread these lies about
isa mme, that's why people are having doubt you're also missing.
Abu layth Who's spreading this? May Allah azza wa jal give him
guidance or stop him from spreading these lies because it
was fine in the beginning. All right, you give a federal here or
there that you disagree with. But this is something about activism.
And that is important. Why would you go against this right?
People don't have enough if you want to say Well, look, the people
are weak, smart people are weak. So I'm going to make that
feedback. And I'm going to give fatawa that are really easy going.
All right, that's your choice, right?
We can disagree. But are you gonna say that there Amen is so weak
that they can't bring themselves to believe that Jesus is going to
come back, Matt is going to come Prophet, the JAD is there, right
so
so we're going to eliminate that belief because they're they're not
people aren't don't have strong enough man to believe in these
things. You're gonna be on your bounce. I'm telling you, you're
gonna be on your bounce. And, and anyone who goes beyond their
bounce from within, I had some them Jamar and starts preaching
this stuff. It's not going to end well. I'm just telling you, it's
not gonna end well.
Do you believe the judge to be an individual system are both? I
mean, unbelievable. Let me the all the questions are on the subject.
We answered that of course, he is a individual in the flesh.
I don't know honestly, what is hard to believe in that right?
What is so hard to believe in that man believed the gel to be an
illusion. Eisah will not return. And same for mmm, and Maddie.
Alright, well, let it let him believe what he wants is wrong.
Right. I'm just so I'm telling you is wrong. Simple as that. I mean,
sometimes there's just no way to have a debate. You're just wrong.
There's no debate on the subject. There is no controversy on the
subject. There's nothing except that he's wrong.
If they're and it's and it's a dangerous mistake, if there is a
huge pothole, right, and a trap down the road.
And everyone's warning about it. And then someone comes and says
there is no trap, that person is dangerous. Right? Then everyone
will fall into it and be head towards it. Okay, because of that
person. So that person has to be stopped. I can't stop them. Right.
But he there's a creator watching and he's going to be stopped.
Often people say, Why can't you follow any opinion from the four
schools the responses that actions could be combined that they become
invalid? According to the four schools? Could you please give a
practical example, very easy.
Marriage, a Willie is not required to make a marriage contract valid.
In the Hanafi school,
two witnesses are not required in the Maliki school to make a
marriage contract valid. It's required to make the consummation
valid, okay, or it's required before consummation.
So if you combine these two,
if you combine these two, then you're not going to have you're
gonna have Zina, right, that you neither married neither actually,
and you didn't have a
marriage con, two witnesses, and then you went living with each
other. Right? You didn't consummate the marriage, but you
just
being together, you're doing something. Right. So that's an
example. And in every method, there are really easy rulings.
And there are really hard rulings. Okay, if you mixed take all the
easy rulings, you would end up having an Islam where there's
really no no hardships at all right? And the hardships are there
occasionally to strengthen our Tableau. Okay. And the more you go
into the rulings on FIP, the more you realize this, okay. So in the
the chef a school is easy on one aspect hard on another aspect. So
what are they easy on in the bath slaughtering animals, okay, is
that the best Mala to say Bismillah is recommended.
It's recommended. So the issue of mechanical slaughter becomes much
easier, all you have to do is have someone make sure that the neck is
actually being cut by the blade, right? And no specimen is
required. However, the Sephia are very hard on how they define
People of the Book, so that you can't really eat kosher food,
because the people of the book would have to produce their
lineage back to the Edo Kitab of the time of the prophets of Allah
when he was sadhana. So Al Kitab are the people who were Jews and
Christians at the time of the prophets of Allah when he was
suddenly not pagans who became Jews and Christians afterwards,
they those would not be considered kitab. Alright, so basically,
you're not even going to basically eat kosher food. kosher meat, not
food, sorry, but kosher meat. Okay, so the Shafia have something
very easy on one hand very hard on the other. Alright.
So, the let's take another example. The Maliki's for example,
they require the beard and the Shafi opinion the beard is men.
Dube, however, is recommended only. So a man ship trims it
shaves his beard, he's not sinful. In the medical school, he's
sinful.
If a man a woman in this in the chef a school plucks, and shapes
her eyebrows, she is very sinful. Right in the Shafi opinion. In the
medical opinion it she's only sinful if she's does that after
her husband died in something called the Dead period in which
she's not to beautify herself for four months and 10 days.
Otherwise, trimming eyebrows in medica is the only opinion based
upon the hadith of Seda Isha that where it's not sinful in the
medical school, it's not sinful for a woman to do that. So in the
medical school, you have women men who have to have beards. And women
who consumed their eyebrows and the shabby school you can have men
who don't have beards and women who can't trim their eyebrows,
right? Are we going to keep mixing everything up, then you have a
religion with where there's nothing difficult. You see in the
Maliki school,
the leather that you were in Salah, you have to make sure it's
the
right is really hard ruling. So if you want to wear a belt, the
leather according to Malik, that tanning is insufficient. For
purifying leather, you have to make sure the leather came from
the via slaughter in order to wear it in Silla. So if you buy a home,
you can't just go buy any of that made in China, you have to buy a
home and make sure that that home was slaughtered properly. In the
chef a school much easier. You don't even have to wear a cloth.
You can wear waterproof sock, like one of these hydro skins, okay,
that are really useful, okay, you just wear a hydro skin, right
where it's a waterproof sock. And that's sufficient. In the humbly
school, you just have to wear a thick sock where the water doesn't
wet your foot when you wipe over it, Joe Robin semicolon and you
can wipe over your turban or you can wipe over your hijab. So the
humbly rule school has some a lot of easier aspects into it right? A
lot easier, a lot easier things to it, but also in the humbly school
years. If you hear the event, from voice with no mic, let's say
there's a masjid across the street or down the road. And if that man
calls then with his voice, not with a microphone, and you could
hear that then your prayer at home is invalid. You have to get up and
go pray every five single prayers in that mosque. Okay, or else your
slides not valid, same method. Right. Whereas in all the other
three schools, it's mcru frowned upon to hear the event in a mosque
and pray at home but you're still as valid. Your prayer is valid.
Okay. So here you go. You can make things the more you learn in FIP,
the more you're going to you should feel guilty. And this by
just taking all the easy ones What is this? And if you there, some of
the Arabs unfortunately have a sake which many people mistakenly
innocently think is one of the soul and that is could be Isetan
mother herb, take the easiest ruling of the methods. And I met
him and honestly he was totally honest. He said in any matter. I
look up the four methods and I follow the easiest one because
Roberts I said him when he was given a choice of a matter he took
the easiest one. We tell him
Brother, I know you didn't mean that right to be bad or anything
but the reality is the prophesy Selim used to do that for worldly
matters that were presented to him. No Dean was ever presented to
the Prophet. He's the prophet the Dean comes from him, right? The
matters of the Dean came to what matters of dunya worldly matters
like should we go right or left? Well, if we go right, it's better
to go right the prophesy centum said, If you ever had a fork in
the road go right. However, there's a lion over there. And
over here, there's a kitten. So which way should we go? We'll go
left. Okay. All right. Well, should we stop here in pitch the
camp here, but the well is down the road, which is going to be
easier? Well, let's go to the well, okay, and stop there.
Alright, so worldly matters presented to the province. I said
no. In the Hanafi school, the women do not have to cover their
feet that could wear sandals in the summertime, right? In the
Hanafi. School, you can't eat lobster and shrimp. Okay? So take
Red Lobster off of your list and put or put some socks on. Okay, so
you got to pick one, you can't go this route. And this is not right
and all the automat call this a Tisha? He
you're your methodology is now your whims, your helwa and our
religion is not based on whims, or religion is based on knowledge and
evidence and decisions. And we should study the azul the legal
methodologies of how the the full QA handled things for example, the
reason that the eyebrows in the medical school is permitted for a
woman to pluck is a sound chain Hadith that goes to say that Isha
and who's going to know the rules of plucking, plucking hair and
etc, better than say that Isha? Right? Nobody?
She's a woman came and said, Am I allowed to pluck my eyebrows?
Right? Because obviously, she had hurt she must have heard the
Hadith, right? Can I pluck the hair off my forehead? Right from
my because I'm now married, say that he says do it and make
yourself beautiful for your husband. Okay, so now Maddock has
that in Shafi will soon that's a federal from a companion. And they
Hadith that a woman who plucks her eyebrow hair is cursed. So the
feds will have a companion will be set aside and we'll go with the
Hadith that Chef ate also,
what is medics also know, the Federal of us a habia or a
companion in general, if it's if it's a scholar from the Companions
must be taken into account. If it's a Noma say the Isha said
neighborhood Ira there fatawa must be taken into account. So he has
to combine the two and make it make it work. How does he do that?
He makes qualification he qualifies it sees. And therefore
he mimetics that therefore, the plucking of the eyebrow hair by
the woman can only be forbidden in the time where all beautification
is forbidden, where the dead period there's a period called
Dead four months and 10 days after the death of the husband, okay?
That all beautification of the woman is forbidden, just out of
respect for that man. Okay? So include, and if she does that,
during that time period, then it's forbidden. Okay. And that same
methodology that he uses that ematic uses is the same
methodology that gives us the very hard ruling that leather
tanning it does not make it that
far pure. You can use it, you can wear a belt, you can wear leather
shoes, you can have leather sofas, you can but you can't pray with it
on your body. Okay, so if you have a set of leather boots that you
got from some regular store, you can't make will do upon it. And
you cannot pray with it. Very hard ruling right? It is. Well, that's
what it is. There's how much there has to be something called How
much could you imagine? If you had a you're raising a kid, right? At
every turn? Right? You just took what's easy, no hardship, never
has to sleep early. Never has to go to Kumaon for math never has to
study math on a Saturday never has to review their spelling test.
Always just easy, easy, easy, easy. parties, parties, parties,
invitations, playdates naps, okay, snacks. What kind of kid are you
gonna get? The fifth and the Sharia that Allah has brought to
us through these form of the hip are all modes of tarbiyah.
And there's going to be ease and there's going to be hardship. And
then the end, there's going to be a balance. The aggregate of all
the four methods is the same. It's going to be probably, right, the
same. The aggregates the same, the hardships are in different spots.
So women all of a sudden they love the Hanafi ruling when it comes to
feet, right? Chef a Maliki woman all of a sudden she's Hanafy and
feet. Well, why don't you Hanafi and food because you love to eat
crabs and lobsters doesn't work like that. This is called to say,
let's not play games. Okay, let's not play games.
Seaman.
It is pure. According to two schools chef and humbly school, if
you have * on your pants, right, you don't have to wash it
off as pure. Chef A says, The human being is well, I had to cut
Ramona, Benny Adam, we've ennobled the human being, so * is not
going to be impure, right? In mimetic says the prophets I send
them always washed off the *, right? So it's impure, you have to
wash it off. Okay?
Different rulings there.
According to Matic if a man touches his private parts, with
the inside of his hand, he lost his Willow doesn't matter if he
just took a whistle and made the perfect will do. And then your
hand touches your private part on the inside, you lost your will do.
There's another method that says it's part of your body, right? It
doesn't break your will.
So the more you learn FIP the more you see that the each method
offers ease and hardship. So it had be better off to pick a
methodology and stick with it. Rather than a playing games. You
know, and people say this, you know, when it comes to slot to
load, all of a sudden, if they're busy, they become Hanafis. So they
can pray through it all the way until like four o'clock. This is
games, honestly.
Alima St. says, Are we just read that question?
What is the controversy people have with the SID creed? Nothing?
There's no controversy at all. It's 100% sound and it's what?
Mmm, no, we see you at it. But 100 All of them were upon
no controversy at all.
It's like saying what are the controversy with the sahaba? was
no, the Shia haven't this is their problem.
How to incite a
Daniel hockey coach who recommended the Structure of
Scientific Revolution to us for this Okay, good.
You put a link to
Amazon.
Hamza, as he says, PS the confusion is coming from the
people who have seen Abu layth videos. Yeah, I mean, you could
watch this stuff if you want to entertainment, but not for Dean.
Honestly, you know, I hate to say this, but that's the fact. The
honest with you
saying something really?
It's contradicted scholarship that over 1400 years, Ramiz, Allah says
chef Imran Hussain believes that the the judge as well as gaga for
just forgetting amounts and I'm not even going to read the rest of
the question is not he's a self taught man who changes his
theories every five years every five weeks now. And I know him
personally. He knows my family. We're he's a great is a good like,
I'm not that not that I say about the scholars is personal. Right?
But you can't go I've seen these videos. He's he went on a rant the
other day a year ago against Muhammad Fattah,
whom the OMA has accepted as like the one of them rejected the
conqueror of Istanbul that the prophecy is about him how much he
went on a rant that said he's actually that the Christians were
the martyrs in that battle, not the Muslims. So someone who says
that immediately just discard it. Again, that's more entertainment.
I would rather you watch like, a comedian, or real or sports for
four hours, and then listen to our actual scholar for 10 minutes,
then to confuse yourself with the likes of these individuals who
have went against the grain. I hate people going against the
grain. This is not some golden age where we're going to discover that
all the scholars of the past were wrong on certain things. Come on.
You know, trying to bring something unique and new. You want
to be unique. Go into the innovation business, go into
technology, move to California and invent something. Okay, you want
to be funny and go into go make movies go make a YouTube prank
videos, or go to Hollywood if you fail, you're not good enough to go
to Hollywood make YouTube prank videos and don't try to be funny
when it comes to Dini stuff. All right, when it comes to
you know, matters of deen and making your video like a comedy
session
I
you know I hate mixing this stuff up. I hate mixing this stuff up.
You know, you want to be a conspiracy theorist go talk about
like 911 Don't talk about yet Georgia marriage and things of the
grave you have no knowledge about a couple years back. Someone was
telling me Juju Juju is the Russians and the Chinese. My
goodness
the latest theory from Imran Hussain is yeah, do Gemma jujhar
The Ashkenazi Jews and the white Protestant Christians
please not sure if you read the his books but he justifies his
position with Hadith ad from the Quran.
It's meaningless. I add from the Quran the interpretation is
totally wrong. I'll tell you the interpretation the reason that he
says that he is against Muhammad Fattah for
example is that there's another Hadith that says that Imam Mehdi
is going to open up.
Constantinople, right? But if you look at it, it's with Takbeer. Not
with war with Takbeer. That means the people of Constantinople will
have been overtaken by a golfer and heedlessness, right? And then
he will re revive the man in there. It doesn't mean that
Muhammad Fattah was not a true
Fattah.
You know, the liberator.
Don't read those books, I'm telling you, you don't waste your
time read actual scholarship on these things, then you can weigh
the moderns, the contemporary authors with scholarship, okay,
you weigh it against the scholarship. That's how it works.
You don't take the modern thing. And then theory of things and then
study it. No, you study the original works of scholarship,
okay, of the past where there's agreement, and its actual
scholarship was a time where there were actual institutions, where
people will get paid to wake up in the morning and study the dean.
And there were 1000s of such people that they would get paid.
And they would study one another and compare and contrast like a
real industry does. And when you study that, then you can come back
and read the modern theories and weigh them against actual
scholarship. There's a big difference between speakers.
Okay, as authors and scholars, and all that me and my colleagues do
is all we do is take the scholarship of the past that's,
you can rely upon it. You could base your deen and your life upon
it, and just bring it into translate it for the people.
That's all that we do nothing new. If you again I said if you want to
be an innovator, if you want to be unique, go into fashion, go into
technology, because then they're not smart enough. That's why
right? So they got to take what they know and play with in a field
that there's no industry, there's no peer review anymore. There's no
institutionalized scholarship anymore. So no one's going to
check what you're saying. You can fool people. You can't fool people
in Silicon Valley. Why? Because there's too many professionals
there to critique your work. But in the Islamic world is in such a
shambles, that there is not enough scholarship and there are not
enough institutions, there are no incident there are not institution
set up where your work actually has to go through filters. Right?
It's a industry in shambles. So it's easy to become a charlatan in
this field, to say whatever you want, and people will buy into it.
But tell them go into a field where there's peer review. And
there's an there's like filters, okay? And their standards that are
up kept. They won't survive.
A Mufti also said in a live stream that to see the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam in a dream is not the Prophet coming to you in your
dream but rather you are simply Jamie with the Prophet. What is
your understanding of this?
No, it is Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam his role in
meeting your role and the proof of this is in
Masha Allah Faraz Rabbani joins and for us urbania is a real
scholar whose Kalam his speech is more orthop tried and tested so
please him for us feel free to chime in. He is more is older than
me. Right? He's
more knowledgeable and his chain to great scholars is shorter than
my chain. Mashallah. So, as someone that you think, why don't
you listen to for other Benny stuff, instead of listening to
these? Who are you listening to? Right? Telling us the dream of the
Prophet? What does it mean you are simply seeing him in a dream? What
does that mean?
In a memorable comedies book
on edit other than Morford, he says that the prophesy seldom said
two people meet each other. In Ireland allawah That means when
you sleep your Hodor leaves your body and is connected with a small
connection, a connection, and it travels around optimal Arwa and
may meet another person, another rule and the communication that
happens between them. If the person's rule can absorb it and
recollect it, it manifests in the form of a dream. Okay, who said
this say that Kony and Adi salatu salam who transmitted this Imam Al
Bukhari, Radi Allahu Han, in which book addable mo flood? This is
what we understand about dreams. When you see someone from the this
life or the afterlife, then this is a true meeting in Ottoman
Ottawa. Do we base stuff on it? Do we go and make decisions based on
that it's a whole nother subject.
Right. But that's the understanding of dreams. So now he
wants to give you a check. In dreams of the province, I said,
Hey, will you continue at this rate, we're not going to have a
religion I'm telling you.
Mohammed Rima Salam said much love from Australia, Sydney, Australia,
Maya, much love back.
mol says, I agree with the classical interpretation of Jesus
not being crucified and not dying and Hamdulillah. So stay Muslim.
But unfortunately, the respectable Dr. Sabina Ali, who debates a lot
of Christian apologetics, such as James White, has come with that
new interpretation. Okay, so we're in such a golden age of Atomic
Research, right? And the predecessors were so weak, right,
that we have to come up with a new interpretation. I mean, this is
not like a physics where you can overturn like 50 years of theory,
right? I've mentioned above a, he bought that theory that he
mentioned, which I find fallible, you can say laughable as well. And
there are Muslims who will adopt such new interpretation. I'm
telling you, this is not like the study of vaccines where we can
overturn research. This is the sacred ditch which means the
further back you go, the more reliable Alright, right. The
further back you go, the more like science is the opposite
technology, the opposite. You want to be out with the old in with the
new when it comes with technology, and even science, right?
Not revelation, not the sacred. Now when you get take medicines,
right? You constantly get updated, right? Science and technology. You
want to be out with the old in with the new, they're trying to
take this and apply it to Dean doesn't work like this.
My concern is the division among Muslims with regard to the
crucifixion of Jesus, we need scholars to perhaps confront and
debunk such new interpretations as problematic.
I would agree with them as a Hanafy. Can we take the somebody's
opinion to catch a Juma timing before though to make it easy for
working people? There's another example for example, the medica
hold that
Jim I can be prayed from anytime from Lahore to Magnum, the hammer
is hold that it can be held from anytime from Doha. Right? Even
before the event of the Lord comes off, goes off. Right? The answer
to the question is is the general subject of when can we take from
another method whenever you have hardship that is legitimate, that
if you were to share it with someone that the person would
agree that this is a hardship, then yes, you may borrow from
another method. That's the criterion. The the to borrow a the
dominant opinion of another madhhab is when you have hardship.
Please recommend a book where we can learn about these fifth
differences in the four schools. Okay, this is how it works. First,
learn one school, learn it really well. Okay, then we could discuss
the other subject so let's say your Junaid, you're in Buxton. Go
and learn the Hanafi madhhab really well inside out. So it's
like water, so that you know it like you know suits and Facha then
afterwards, you can look at the other method. How do we explain to
someone about this? Oh, when we say it wasn't around at the time
of the Prophet neither was grammar neither was also lynfit. Neither
was refutation of heresy. Right. So So Wolf, what is the definition
it is all the I S and the Hadith that do not have to do with 50
rulings, or doctrinal beliefs or the end times, but rather have to
do with the heart and the state of one's Taqwa an amen.
That is to solve anything else is a falsehood.
All right, Kareem even Sikander says, What's the ruling on talking
about dreams that you have, you should only talk to people that
you trust
about them, and you can talk to them and use it as encouragement.
But if there's any sense of showing off or any sense that
people are like, Oh, well, why are you having gyms and not meat then
avoid it?
Yeah, so any two people that met in a dream that is according to
the Bukhari Hadith, that they have met in Ireland mulawa. And that
many people because of the darkness of the neffs may not know
what the darkness is on the heart and the clouds, they won't
remember what happened in Ireland in Ottawa. So that at that point,
they may they may travel around and do things okay. However, they
will wake up not remembering anything of it. This is the
explanation.
Next one says
Yeah, these people who are spreading doubts needs to be
refuted. Yeah, they need to be refuted. 100%
in the time of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam, this
is a question from Fozia. People were encouraged to share their
dreams with the community. That's correct. But if, if it's a time
when people would feel that the person is showing off or feel bad,
we are never supposed to make people feel bad. Like never
supposed to say, Oh, I dropped this. And all of a sudden, we all
feel that well, we don't see dreams. So what's going on here?
Right. So that that point, you wouldn't just for that reason, but
otherwise, it's fine. Also, back in the time, everyone was
trustworthy today, maybe people aren't trustworthy. They might
doubt you, they might back bite you. They might feel bad about it.
So you have to be very selective. And also, dreams don't prove
anything doesn't prove Taqwa. Right? And does it proves that at
this moment,
there's something good happens. It's like meeting a shift. Right?
Doesn't mean that you're anything's changed. The challenge
is still there. And many people see dreams as beautiful is a great
sign. When you see dreams. It's a sign of clarity, right? of the
heart.
All right, Daniel bucht is from London, Russia, Allah nsfx Ahmed
says what is the medical route, the medical which is every unseen
realm, so that Holloman Urwa is something that belongs to a
medical route. All right, so we went for a good hour and five
minutes here. So just come look at it Subhanak Allahumma, where we
have the condition to Allah Allah Illa Lanta. Let's talk frequently
to relate. We hope that the people from Mr. Dillard were able to tune
in and I'll be back here next time. I'm online. Sometimes I'm
not online for days on end because I'm writing things and recording
things. But when I'm back online, we'll take any other questions on
this subject. Again, just like Kamala Harris was salam aleikum wa
rahmatullah