Shadee Elmasry – Policy Violations – NBF 397
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The upcoming election between Mondavians and Mondavians is discussed, with some confusion and misunderstandings and a focus on protecting against the upcoming war. The speakers stress the importance of protecting against the "has been" label, with the Tah attraction Creed being used as an example. The speakers also mention the use of "has been" in various groups, including the Tah attraction Creed and "has been."
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Well obviously there's two matters tangentially related to
the Dean.
I mean one of them is definitely the
affairs of the Ummah no doubt about it.
Everyone is talking about the latest so-called
policy violation.
I mean I think we all know what
we're talking about.
We're talking about this incident or this arrest
or arrest warrant or whatever you want to
call it of this Quran teacher and what
he's done with a convert woman and her
daughter.
And what we're talking about here is a
couple of important things is that these allegations
were absolutely beyond disgusting.
There's not even a debate about it.
It's not like this is debatable.
Of course he has to face these are
this is the government's the FBI's accusation of
him.
I read half the files I couldn't even
read the rest of it because of how
gross it was.
But most people have read it and they
pretty much seem that they pretty much seem
to be damning I guess you can say.
And I just ask a couple of questions
every time I see someone who does this
to a student.
Couldn't you do your sins with somebody else.
You know I really just wonder about this.
It really makes me wonder.
And it must be that you know that's
too boring so he wants to experiment with
something else.
But think about it.
I mean if I want to commit some
sins why would you loop in innocent people.
Why would you loop in students of Quran.
Why would you go that route.
Why don't you go do your sins somewhere
far far away.
The reason is shaitan sins are people are
blinded.
That's one of the reasons.
Another theory going around is that the person
himself was abused.
So it's all mixed for them right.
Person himself did take courses with an abuser
at some point in time a convicted abuser.
Of course some people will say that it's
all conspiracy.
We're not going to get into that.
But it just makes you wonder like why
would you ruin another person's life.
And it appears to me that this is
like somebody you know from who is a
convert.
You duped a convert using the Quran.
That's like on top of that you're.
That's like a second crime right there.
And I asked my shaykh I said hypothetically
this happens.
What do we do.
Married man uses the Quran to lure other
people into sexual deviance.
I said he thought for a while and
he said because you're you're abusing kids.
You're misusing the Quran execution by Sharia.
That's what he said.
That's what his opinion was.
Our deen is not dependent on any single
individual.
And there is a big difference between caution
and suspicion.
Everybody should be cautious.
You don't have to be suspicious.
But everybody should be cautious.
And there you don't imagine perfection from anybody.
And that's the beauty of our religion.
We don't rely upon people.
Of course we rely upon people to transmit
our religion for us.
But not one single individual.
The transmission of the religion is in mass.
If a large swath of those people were
to be highlight delete you still have the
transmission of the religion.
And here's another thing.
You can never trust your nafs or anyone
else's nafs.
Even if anybody asked me.
If anybody asked me do you trust your
kids?
I say do my kids have a nafs?
I don't even trust myself.
I don't trust myself.
Nobody should let their guard down with their
nafs.
So when you're talking to a woman or
to a girl online.
It is a location where intimate inappropriate talk
can occur.
Right?
Yes or no?
The answer is yes.
Therefore you can't really trust yourself with that.
And some people say how could we say
that?
Because we have a nafs.
That's the philosophy in Islam.
As long as we have egos.
As long as we have the self aspect
of things.
We have to be very cautious.
We have to be very cautious of everything.
Any kind of knowledge that doesn't refine our
akhlaq.
And our akhlaq is the first determiner of
character is the sacred law.
That's the first thing.
Sacred law is the first thing.
I mean if we're not observing that then
what is the point of all that knowledge?
Right?
What's the point of all that knowledge?
If we're not observing character and akhlaq.
Okay.
Secondly, there should be zero tolerance for the
abuse of kids.
If a Quran teacher or a scholar of
sorts ended up committing zina.
That's bad.
That's terrible.
He's especially using his status as a teacher
to lure the students and do that.
Of course he's got to be eliminated from
the community.
But if he does that with a child
and he destroys the innocence of a child
by this deviance.
That's a whole nother matter.
Like you're literally ruining someone's life.
That's a whole nother matter.
Okay.
That's a whole nother matter.
So that's what we have to talk about.
And of course I see here LeVon Brown,
Jonathan Brown said the same thing.
Hold up.
It's an allegation.
We need proof.
Of course we do.
Yes.
The affidavit does look damning.
Nonetheless, of course there's going to be a
trial.
A hundred percent there's going to be a
trial and we'll see the result of it.
But ultimately, at the same time, if you
were viciously smeared, wouldn't you be on the
next live stream declaring your innocence?
Is that logical?
So O.J. Simpson, why are you running
away on a white Bronco?
Of course a lot of you guys are
too young to know this, right?
But wouldn't you be on the next live
stream that you can get your hand on?
Next phone.
Hey everybody, I've been framed.
I'm innocent.
Where is your declaration of innocence?
So that's also a factor.
That's not going to be the factor, but
it is a factor.
Is your mic on?
Get your mic on.
Yeah.
You put out a post, but I'm very
confident that it looks like it's from an
AI.
I can pull it up.
I think on Facebook you posted, I'm very
shocked at these allegations and I'm not like
this and things like that.
It actually does seem like it's written by
AI.
You can kind of tell.
I'm shocked by these allegations.
It was insufficient.
Your wife is the one who brought it
forth allegedly.
That's what the word is saying, right?
Is your wife going to try to destroy
her life and her marriage and her kids
and everybody else?
So there will be a trial, but either
way in the court of public opinion has
already pretty much made up its mind, right?
Because of the evidence of all that stuff.
Let's take a look at something else.
Al-Maghrib Institute.
I'm not going in on them and people
have issues with them from the past.
In the car.
Yeah, go ahead.
In the car.
I'm not going to go in on these
guys.
It's probably some 25 year old wrote the
first thing.
Didn't really, never handled a situation like this
before.
So accidentally put this, what is it called?
Policy violation.
Which was like sort of almost a laughable
expression, but they did clear it up.
And listen, none of us assume this.
So why should we assume that some person
in the hiring committee of Al-Maghrib Institute.
So I'm not going to go in on
all in on them.
Was this something that happened in their platform?
The guy has many platforms.
The guy is speaking at IKNA.
Was scheduled to speak at IKNA.
Are we now going to go after IKNA
now, right?
He was scheduled next month, this month actually.
The guy is all over the place.
Islam Channel.
Look at Omar has got the screen open.
Muslim Matters.
Everyone uses this guy.
How are we supposed to know?
We're not supposed to know any secrets of
people.
So I can't go out and try to
smear an organization that put him on.
Not knowing what nobody else knew, right?
Nobody else knew this stuff.
And I met the guy once or twice
like 10 years ago.
Just goes to show you that Shaytan works
extra hard on people.
And sometimes maybe some people help him, right?
Some people maybe they have this capacity in
them.
And maybe it was also, as we said
earlier, many people hypothesized.
Maybe the person himself was abused.
That doesn't take away any blame.
But it does explain a lot.
And we know that there was an institution
in Chicago where someone was arrested.
The headmaster there was arrested and pled guilty.
Am I mistaken on that, Omar?
Do I have the facts right on that?
Pled guilty.
What person would ever plead guilty to something
like this?
And we can get the exact.
Don't quote me on it until you get
the exact.
What was the plea on that?
Okay.
All right.
I'm not going to mention a name.
I'm just going to say an Elgin.
Accused.
What was the result?
Move this stupid paywall out of the.
Okay.
That's.
Oh, geez.
This stupid paywall.
Go to another.
Go to another website then.
Because I would never.
He had pleaded guilty.
So he pleaded guilty.
Pleaded guilty of molestation.
Listen.
You know, my sheikh said to me something
else.
He said.
It's a joke, basically.
He said that a man came to his
sheikh.
And he said, sheikh, sheikh.
Help me make.
I repented.
I committed Zina.
And now the woman I committed Zina with
is pregnant.
He said, okay, you committed Zina.
Why would you get someone pregnant?
Why wouldn't you at least avoid that part
of it?
He said, because I heard pulling out his.
They're pulling out his.
But the Zina part you left.
You're okay with that.
So that's what I'm saying.
What innocent person would plead guilty?
No, I will stand innocent until death.
If I'm truly innocent.
Isn't that the psychology of most people?
So if you got one person guilty of
abuse.
And involved with kids.
And stupid enough to keep it on his
phone.
And to be involved virtually with this.
Right?
Where there's a record.
There can be screenshots, etc.
I mean, subhanallah.
Because as.
Someone booked one on me.
And as Allah says about the heart when
it deviates.
You do really stupid things.
So the person studied under somebody.
Who was guilty of this stuff.
Now they do the same thing.
Right?
It's important to know.
Okay, a person going to do this.
We're going to be very cautious on.
Who we allow around in our kids.
And you're not going to know anyone's background.
So you're going to assume.
Or you're going to hold that.
Any kind of interaction between people.
It needs to be fully transparent.
Like a bitcoin transaction.
It needs to be fully transparent.
In our Mosalla, in the back room.
We got like a camera, two, three cameras.
Okay.
Any type of virtual.
Should have TAs in it.
It should be there.
It should be recorded.
And there should be no kind of.
Private virtual meetings.
But ultimately at the end of the day.
There needs to be something else.
Which is Allah's watching us.
Where is that?
Like all the technology in the world.
All the supervision in the world.
It's not going to stop.
It's not.
If you're not going to benefit from it.
If you don't have that part inside your
heart.
Allah is watching me.
Ibn Qayyim said it beautifully.
The moment it actually enters your heart.
That Allah is watching me.
Your actual desires cool off.
Right.
And that is so true.
No matter how inflamed the person's desire is.
The moment I discover the neighbor is watching
me.
My heart would cool off.
Your desires would cool off.
Okay.
Subhanallah.
The mother is in jail on bonds of
2 million dollars.
Which she's not going to pay.
And the mother.
Her mugshot went around.
And it looks like.
Astaghfirullah to say this about somebody.
But it looks like it really just took
advantage of a crackhead.
Basically.
I hate to say that.
But that's really what it looks like.
Because if you're thinking what kind of mother
would do this.
Probably a mother herself has been used and
abused.
And that's what it looks like.
Right.
So.
There's nothing much to say.
I mean people wanted to talk about it.
But what else is there to say?
Omar do you have anything else?
I'm saying these strange things.
Also there are people that I know personally
that used to study with him.
And they would say like he had a
very bad personality.
He would like yell at the kids.
Like he was mentally not okay pretty much.
So I think.
Like it's not unexpected for something crazy to
happen from this guy.
Like he has a clear track record of
doing some insane things.
SubhanAllah.
SubhanAllah.
This is the importance of like being attentive.
And like you can have husn al dhan
of someone.
But at the same time you can be
a very analytical person.
Well you have husn al dhan about the
person.
And you have caution in how you behave.
Husn al dhan having a good opinion of
someone.
Never means that I have to give you
and entrust you with my property.
Or my family.
Or whatever.
That's it.
That's it.
And second piece of news today is obviously
the elections.
Which we have really nothing to say about
them now.
You want to play a game of guessing
how it's going to happen.
That stuff is always sort of meaningless.
But you want to know my opinion Omar?
My opinion is that Trump has more support
this time around.
Than in 2016.
Hillary had more support than Harris.
Institutional support.
I mean the newspapers, most of them wouldn't
even endorse anybody.
They didn't endorse Harris.
It was a clean sweep endorsement of Clinton
last time.
You went into that election and it was
like Clinton's got the edge.
That's what was the feeling in the air.
This time it's the opposite.
Trump's support and his base are far more
open about it.
It was 100% socially outcast if you
support Trump.
People secretly supported Trump in 2016.
Now it's not the case.
You just go on any social media and
people are openly supporting Trump.
So that's the factor.
The second factor is who had more support
in 2016?
Hillary or Kamala today?
Hillary for sure.
And yet still Trump won that one.
The 2021 though was slightly different.
Because Trump had sort of exhausted everybody.
And really dropped the ball on Corona.
And just made up all sorts of, he
totally dropped the ball on that.
And that's probably what cost him.
And he didn't go in with a lot
of momentum.
He went in, he had to govern.
And campaign at the same time.
This time around, full campaign.
No governing.
And for those reasons, my estimation will be
a landslide victory for Trump.
Just a guess.
Or just an estimation really.
Can't really tell.
Nobody ever knows anything.
But just my thoughts on it.
Alright, let's move on.
Let's move on to Tafsir Al-Quran.
Which we haven't read in a while.
Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Rahim.
Surah, we
read Mumtahina, right?
And we now start Al-Hashr.
We finished Mumtahina, didn't we?
Alright, let's read it again.
If we realize that we read it, we'll
just go to Hashr.
Because I can't remember whether we finished Mumtahina
or we're starting Mumtahina.
A'udhu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem.
Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Rahim.
Ya ayyuhal ladheena aamanu, O you who believe,
why do you take my enemies, or do
not take my enemies, la tattakhidoo adoowee wa
adoowakum awliya.
Don't take my enemies and your enemies as
allies.
People you rely upon.
People you, seeking their help and support.
So Akhbarna, of course we're reading from Al
-Baghawin.
He gives us the whole Sanad.
Sima'tu aliyan radiallahu anhu yaqool.
He narrates with the Sanad and that ends
in Sayyidina Ali ibn Abi Talib saying, Ba
'athani Rasool Allah, anu az-Zubayr, wal-Miqdad,
faqalin taliqoo hatta.
Oh, we read this, right?
Yeah, we read this.
We did read it, Surah Mumtahina.
So let's go to Al-Hashr.
Surah Al-Hashr, Madaniya, wahiya arba'u wa
'aishroona ayah.
Surah Al-Hashr is a Medinan surah revealed
in Medina after the Hijra.
By the way, Madani means after the Hijra
because it could not be in Medina.
It could be listed as Madani, but it's
after the Hijra.
The Prophet went to different places, of course.
He didn't stay in Medina for the whole
10 years.
He traveled and revelation was revealed while traveling.
So therefore, Madani means after the Hijra.
Hijra is the migration of the Prophet, peace
be upon him.
You see this verse of Tasbeeh.
This surah opens with Al-Tasbeeh, which is
when we say the word Sabaha, we mean
that we declare Allah and our belief to
be free from all defects.
That's the meaning of Tasbeeh.
So it is, تَنزِيهُ اللَّهِ عَمَّا لَا يَنبَغِي
وَلَا يَلِيقُ بِجَلَالِهِ It is to clean our
beliefs from everything that is not appropriate for
Allah.
The previous scriptures, they were corrupted, and the
previous religions ended up believing things that are
not appropriate for Allah, such as that God
was stingy with the Jews.
So what does Allah say?
غُلَتْ أَيْدِيكُمْ وَلُعِنُوا بِمَا قَالُوا بَلْيَدَهُمْ مَبْسُوسَةً يُنفِقُونَ
كَيْفَ يَشَاءُ They said, God's stingy with us.
You're saying God's stingy?
What does Allah say?
Alright, you're cursed.
What's the curse?
Everyone will call you stingy now.
Okay?
So that's the curse.
Secondly, of course, the Christians said God had
a son, and they said that God's three
in one, three essences in one essence.
قَالَ الْمُفَسِّرُونَ And by the way, the Zaboor
of Sayyidina Dawood, he was given a book,
and the Hebrew prophets were given, each Hebrew
prophet was given a book, and that book
was added to the Torah.
So the first five books were given to
Moses.
Then many books after that were from different
prophets, and that's why the Bible is so
big.
The first five is the Torah given to
Moses.
Then different prophets had a book, it was
added to this book.
Okay.
Hey, Omar, check your email, will you?
Check your email and add that.
Then keep it up the whole time.
Okay.
Our friend telling me that the arrest of
this fellow has occurred.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Interesting.
Alright.
So the Zaboor of Sayyidina Dawood, is add
some white.
Just put a white background there.
No, shrink it and put a white background.
Yeah, that's good.
Now put a white background yourself.
Put a white background so it doesn't look—
Yeah.
You want to put it like that?
That's fine, but make it a little bit
bigger so it's legible to everybody.
That's fine too.
Good enough.
Okay, listen up.
The Zaboor to Dawood is all Tasbeeh.
It's all Tasbeeh and Dua and Dhikr.
The Torah is law.
The Suhuf of Ibrahim is Tawheed.
The Gospel or the Injil revealed to the
Prophet Isa bin Maryam is—it's all mercy and
wisdom.
Okay?
That's the difference the ulema say— or the
Prophet Isa bin Maryam told us that those
are the natures of the books, the different
holy books.
So the Quran combines all of these.
It has Tasbeeh.
It has law.
It has Tawheed.
It has stories.
It has mercy and wisdom.
So the Mufassiroon say— the exegetes or commentators
of the Quran say— نَزَلَتَ هَذِهِ السُّورَةَ فِي
بَنِ النَّظِيرِ This surah was revealed specifically about
one of the Jewish tribes called Bani Nadhir.
وَذَلِكَ أَنَّ النَّبِيَ صَلَى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَمَا دَخَلَنَا
الْمَدِينَةَ فَصَلَحَهُ بَنُ النَّظِيرِ عَلَىٰ أَن لَا يُقَاتِلُ
وَلَا يُقَاتِلُ مَعَهُ So the Bani Nadhir and
the Prophet ﷺ had a deal when the
Prophet arrived in Medina.
I love listening at how the Prophet made
deals because he is the— not only is
he the most intelligent of creation, Sayyid al
-Qunayn ﷺ is also guided by revelation.
So we get to see what his deals
are, what the deals look like.
The deal with the Bani Nadhir is you
will not fight us and you will not
fight with us.
So you don't have to fight our fights
but also don't fight us.
That was the deal with the Bani Nadhir.
فَقَبِلَ ذَلِكَ رَسُولُ اللَّهُ صَلَى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَمَ
مِنْهُمْ He accepted that from them.
Why would they fight his fight?
They don't believe in Islam.
But at the same time I'm your ruler
now so don't fight us.
Now when the Prophet ﷺ fought the Battle
of Badr and he defeated the pagans in
the Battle of Badr the Bani Nadhir were
not happy.
They were rooting against the Prophet ﷺ.
Rooting against the Muslims.
They said وَاللَّهِ إِنَّهُ النَّبِيَّ الَّذِي وَجَدْنَا نَعْتَهُ
فِي التَّوْرَةِ وَلَا تُرَدُ لَهُ رَايَةٍ They said
by Allah this is exactly what the Torah
says.
He will win or he will not be
defeated.
فَلَمَّا غَزَ أُحُدَ وَهُزِمَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ اِرْتَابُوا وَأَظْهَرُوا
الْعَدَاوَةِ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَالْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَالْمُؤْمِنِينَ Once the
Battle of Uhud came and the Muslims suffered
great losses.
Right?
They suffered great losses.
Now they took advantage of that and they
openly spoke about their animosity to the Prophet
peace be upon him.
وَنَقَضُوا الْعَهْدَ الَّذِي كَانَ بَيْنَهُمْ وَبَيْنَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ
ﷺ They broke their oath with Sayyid al
-Konayn.
They broke their oath with the Prophet peace
be upon him.
How did they broke the oath?
وَرَكِبَ كَعْبِ ابْنِ الْأَشْرَفِ فِي أَرْبَعِينَ رَاكِبًا مِّنَ
الْيَهُودِ إِلَى مَكَّ فَأَتَوْا قُرَيشًا فَحَالَفُوهُمْ وَعَقَدُوهُمْ عَلَى
أَن تَكُون كَلِمَتُهُمْ وَاحِدَ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ صلى الله
عليه وسلم Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf who
had a Jewish mother and a pagan father.
He was close to Bani Nadir.
They rode to Mecca and they instigated.
They cooked.
They did their work.
You see they're always instigating.
They're always cooking up stuff.
And they cooked up stuff against the Prophet
ﷺ and they said let's work with the
pagans of Mecca.
We'll work with you.
You and your mischief.
Again.
Alright.
Doing your thing.
So they worked up mischief against the Prophet
ﷺ.
وَدَخَلَ أَبُو سُفْيَان فِي أَرْبَعِينَ They came with
40 people and Abu Sufyan entered in on
them to make a deal.
Alright.
And this was at the Ka'bah.
Before of course the Prophet ﷺ is in
Medina.
And he has no control over the Ka
'bah.
For those who are still learning the seerah
or the history of the Prophet ﷺ.
So they began to take an oath with
each other upon the holding on to the
cloth.
The kiswah of the Ka'bah.
The cloth of the Ka'bah is called
a kiswah.
Holding on to that.
And then Ka'bah went back to Medina.
And Jibreel ﷺ informed the Prophet ﷺ بِمَا
تَعَقَدَ عَلَيْهِ كَعْبُ وَأَبُو سُفْيَان فَأَمَرَ النَّبِي ﷺ
بِقَتْلِ كَعْب So the Prophet ﷺ then commanded
Ka'bah to be executed.
Muhammad ibn Maslamah who is mentioned in the
seerah as such a loyal servant.
And he was loyal to Abu Bakr and
loyal to Umar.
He killed him.
He killed Ka'bah ibn Ashraf.
كَانَ النَبِي ﷺ اطْطَلَعَ مِنْهُمْ عَلَى خِيَانَةٍ حِينَ
أَتَاهُمْ يَسْتَعِينُهُمْ فِي دِيَةِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ الَّذِينَ قَتَلَهُمَا
عَمْرِ بْنُ أُمَيَّةٍ فَهَمُوا بِطَرْحِ حَجْرٍ عَلَيْهِ So
there was another incident in which there was
some blood money and some meetings that were
needed to take place.
And the Prophet ﷺ went to have these
meetings with the Jews of Medina.
And Jibreel ﷺ informed him, O Messenger, they're
about trying to kill you by throwing a
rock from the rooftop to crush your head.
Prophet ﷺ immediately put his shawl down, got
up.
Everyone thought, oh, he's just going to get
something.
He came back with an army and removed
them.
فَلَمَا قُتِلَ كَعْبُ ابْنُ الْأَشْرَفِ أَصْبَحَ رَسُولُ الله
ﷺ The Prophet ﷺ next day أَمَرَ النَّاسِ
بِالْمَسِيرِ إِلَى بَنِي نَظِيرٍ He commanded everyone to
get up and go to Bani Nadhir.
وَكَانُوا بِقَرْيَةٍ يُقَالُ لَهَا زَهْرَةٍ فَلَمَّا سَارَ إِلَيْهِمْ
They were in a place called Zahra.
So the Muslim army went.
They went as an army.
وَجَدَهُمْ يَنُوحُونَ عَلَى كَعْبِ ابْنِ الْأَشْرَفِ He found
them mourning Ka'ab ibn Ashraf.
فَقَالُوا يَا مُحَمَّدِ وَعِيهِ عَلَى أَثَرِ وَعِيهِ وَبَاكِيهِ
عَلَى أَثَرِ بَاكِيهِ قَالَ نَعَمْ قَالُوا ذَرْنَا نَبْكِي
شُجُونًا ثُمَّ تَمَرْ أَمْرَكَ They said, let us
mourn.
The Prophet ﷺ said, leave Medina now.
فَقَالُوا الْمَوْتُ أَقْرَبْ إِلَيْنَ مِن دَلِكِ We'll die
instead of leaving Medina.
فَتَنَادُوا بِالْحَرْبِ وَآذَنُوا بِالْقِتَالِ So they said, alright,
it's war.
وَدَسَّ الْمُنَافِقُونَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بِنْ أُبَيِّي بِنْ سَلُولِ
وَأَصْحَابُهُ لا تَخْرُجُوا مِنَ الْحِسْنِ So now, there
are hypocrites.
This is the real sign of a hypocrite.
People in the chat, don't get into these
Aqidah disputes.
We're not doing it.
We're not doing Aqidah dramas anymore.
We've said what we've said about Aqidah.
You all know what we believe.
You can go back and look at the
videos.
We stand upon it 1000%, but we're not
going to have this.
We're not going to go into this every
two seconds.
We're not going into this.
It's not the wise course of action.
Alright, so now, the hypocrites, what do they
do?
They went to the Jews, to the Bani
Nadir, and they told them, No, don't leave.
You're not going to win this.
فَإِنْ قَاتَلُوكُمْ فَنَحْنُ مَعَكُمْ They said, if the
Muslims fight you, we're with you.
وَلَا نَخْذُرْكُمْ وَلَا نَنْصُرَنَّكُمْ وَلَإِنْ أُخْرِجْتُمْ لَنَخْرُجَنَّ
مَعَكُمْ And if you're expelled, we'll leave with
you.
We'll support you.
We're with you 110%.
Okay?
We're with you.
فَدَرَبُوا عَلَى الْأَزِقَّةِ وَحَصَنُوهَا So they locked up
all their doors, and they barricaded themselves in.
ثُمَّ إِنَّهُمْ أَجْمَعُوا عَلَى الْغَدْرِ بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى
الله عليه وسلم فأرسلوا إليه أن أخرج في
ثلاثين رجلاً من أصحابك وَلَا يَخْرُجَنَّ مِنَّا ثَلَثُونَ
حَتَّى نَلْتَقِ بِمَكَانٍ بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَكَ So let's fight
30 versus 30.
You bring 30 and we bring 30 men.
And let's pick a location and we'll fight.
فَيَسْتَمِعُوا مِنْكَ فَإِنْ صَدَقُوكَ وَآمَنُوا بِكَ آمَنَّا كُلُّنَا
Okay, so no, this is not a fight.
This is to talk.
They want to talk first.
So the Prophet ﷺ agreed to that.
They agreed.
30 and 30.
We'll talk.
كَيْفَ تَقْلَصُونَ إِلَيْهِ وَمَعَهُ ثَلَثُونَ رَجُلًا مِنْ أَصْحَابِهِ
كُلُّهُمْ يُحِبُّ أَن يَمُوتَ قَبْلَهُ فَأَرْسَلُوا إِلَيْهِ كَيْفَ
نَفْهَمُ وَنَحْنُ سِتُّنَ رَجُلًا أَخْرِجْ فِي ثَلَاثَةِ مِنْ
أَصْحَابِكَ وَنَخْرُجْ إِلَيْكَ فِي ثَلَاثَةِ مِنْ عُلَمَائِنَا فَيَسْتَمِعُوا
مِنْكَ فَإِنْ آمَنُوا بِكَ آمَنَّا كُلُّنَا Okay, so
now they said, you know, that's too much.
Actually, three and three.
Okay, fine.
The Prophet agreed.
فَأُرْسِلَتْ إِمْرَأَةٌ نَاصِحَةٌ مِنْ بَنِ النَّظِيرِ إِلَىٰ أَخِيهَا
وَهُوَ رَجُلٌ مُسْلِمٌ مِنَ الْأَنصَارِ فَأَخْبَرَتْهُ بِمَا أَرَادَ
بَنُ النَّظِيرِ مِنَ الْغَدْرِ So a woman there,
her brother was a Muslim, so she informed
him.
By the way, this is a trap.
They're not there to talk.
They don't want to talk.
So first they said, send 30 and 30
and have a meeting.
Then they said, no, no, that's too many.
Three and three.
And whatever the outcome of the meeting is,
the whole tribe will accept.
But the plan was to stab the Prophet
ﷺ and kill him.
So they had snuck daggers with them.
Immediately that brother, that Muslim, went to the
Prophet ﷺ and he informed him before the
Prophet arrived at the location.
So the Prophet returned.
He didn't go.
فَلَمَا كَان مِنْ غَدَى عَلَيْهِمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
بِالْكَتَائِبِ فَحَاصَرَهُمْ إِحْدَى وَعِشْرِينَ لَيْلَةً So the Prophet
ﷺ said, there's no more talking with these
people.
And they went with the army and surrounded
them for 21 nights.
21 nights.
فَقَذَفَ اللَّهُ فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ الرُّعْبِ They began to
be afraid.
وَأَيَسُوا مِن نَصْرِ المُنَافِقِينَ And then they realized
the hypocrites can't help them anymore.
فَسَأَلُوا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ الصُّرْحِ So they said,
okay, let's make a deal.
The Prophet ﷺ said, no, there's no deal.
Leave.
فَأَبَعْ عَلَيْهِمْ إِلَّا أَن يَخْرُجُوا مِنَ الْمَدِينَةِ عَلَى
مَا يَأْمُرُهُمْ بِهِ You leave with the conditions
the Prophet ﷺ said.
And they accepted that.
فَقَبِلُوا ذَٰلِكَ فَصَالَحُمْ عَلَى الْجَلَاءِ وَعَلَى أَن لَّهُمْ
مَا أَقَلَّتِ الْإِبْلُ مِنْ أَمْوَالِهِمْ إِلَّا الْحُقْلَةِ وَهِى
السِّلَاحِ You can take whatever your camels can
carry except weaponry, no weaponry.
وَعَلَى أَن يَخْلُوا لَهُمْ دِيَارَهُمْ وَعَقَارَهُمْ وَسَائِرَ أَمْوَالَهُمْ
If it can't fit on your camels, you
leave it.
So whatever money you can't put on top
of camels, you have to leave it.
قال ابن عباس عَلَى أَن يَحْمِلُ كُلُّ أَهْلِ
ثَلَاثَةِ أَبْيَاتٍ عَلَى بَعِيرٍ مَا شَاءُ مِنْ مَتَاعِهِمْ
وَلَنَبِيِّ اللَّهِ صَلَى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْ وَمَا بَقِيهِ Ibn
Abbas clarifies, and he says, every three people,
أَهْلِ ثَلَاثَةِ أَبْيَاتٍ every three households, one camel.
Every three households, you get to load one
camel.
That's it.
So however many households, divide that by three,
and that's the amount of camels you can
take out.
If you can't carry it, if your camel
can't carry the load, you leave it here.
And then, the Haq says something else.
He says, no, no, no.
Three people, every three people, one camel.
Not three households, three people, one camel.
فَفَعَلُوا وَخَرَجُوا مِنَ الْمَدِينَ إِلَى الشَّامِ إِلَى أَذْرُعَاتٍ
وَإِلَى أَهْلِ بَيْتَيْنِ مِنْهُمْ آلَ أَبِي الْحَقِيقِ وَآلَ
حُيَيبٍ أَخْطَبِ فَإِنَّهُمْ لَحِقُوا بِخَيْبَرٍ So some of
them went to Khaybar, and some of them
went to Syria.
وَلَحِقَتْ طَائِفَةٌ مِّنْهُمْ بِالْحِيْرَةِ So again, it's the
same thing.
It's concern with them.
It's just their concern with themselves, even if
it means betraying the city that you're in.
And amazingly, those three promises of Solomon, the
three oaths of Solomon that's in the Bible,
state that, number one, their punishment for their
paganism that they fell into in the time
of Solomon is that three things are going
to happen.
You're going to lose your country, and you're
going to be wandering around the world.
You're going to be wandering as, what's the
word for that Omar?
You're going to be roaming.
You're going to be, what's the word for
that?
No, in English.
I hate when there's a word on the
tip of your tongue.
Yeah, as a diaspora, that's the word.
Okay, so the three oaths of Solomon state
that as punishment for your deeds, for your
paganism, for all your mischief, is that, number
one, you will be a diaspora.
You will lose your state.
You will not have a country anymore.
You will be roaming around, living amongst the
people of the earth, of the different nations.
That's number one.
And you can't come back and try to
make a state.
They can come back as one individual, or
a family, or a small group, without the
intent of making a state.
You're going to be in exile.
Exile, okay?
That's number one.
So exile is written upon you.
Number two, if you live peacefully there, and
you respect those people, and you respect their
laws, and you don't cause mischief, you'll be
fine.
Everything will be fine.
But the moment that you do, those people
will torture you.
And is that not what their history has
shown?
They go into a city, they usually just
go live in a corner, nobody has a
problem.
We don't have issues.
But now once you start losing your way,
and not following your own book anymore, and
now you're undermining, and you're money lending, and
you're sucking their economy, and now you're causing
problems for these people, and all you care
about is your own little community, to the
expense of these other people, or at the
expense of these other people, these people are
going to turn on you.
And that's exactly what happened.
The Prophet ﷺ said, you can live amongst
us.
You have one community.
You have one condition.
Don't fight us.
Don't undermine.
What did they do?
They undermined.
They fought.
They had no loyalty for the government that
gave them this deal.
فَذَلِكَ قَوْلُهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَ هُوَ الَّذِي أَخْرَجَ الَّذِينَ
كَفَرُوا مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ مِنْ دِيَارِهِمْ لِأَوَّلِ الْحَشْرِ
So, he is the one, it says here,
he is the one.
Allah is the one who removed them.
How?
It was in their heart, they spit it
out.
The treachery that they have in them.
Okay.
الَّتِي كَانَتْ بِيَفْرِبْ قَالَ ابْنِ إِسْحَاقِ كَانَ إِجْلَأُ
بَنِ النَّظِيرِ بَعْدَ مَرْجِعَ النَّبِي صلى الله عليه
وسلم مِنْ أُحُدٍ وَفَتْحْ قُرَيْظَ عِندَ مَرْجَعِهِ مِنَ
الْأَحْزَابِ وَبَيْنَهُمَا سَنَتَانٍ So, the Bani Nadir, there
are three Jewish tribes in Medina.
Bani Nadir were removed after Uhud.
Bani Qurayza after Ahzab.
Uhud is a mountain in Medina.
It's one of the names of the battles
that the Prophet ﷺ fought.
Bani Qurayza, sorry, Ahzab is a big battle
that actually there wasn't a lot of fighting.
But the Muslims were surrounded by 30,000
of the enemy.
All the different tribes participated in removing and
eliminating the Muslims, kill all the Muslims.
But the Prophet ﷺ and the Sahaba, they
had dug a trench.
And as a result of that, nobody could
get out.
Nobody could get into the city.
But the one section where they could enter
from was the Bani Qurayza.
And these, they were convinced to go to
open the doors for the enemy to come
into the city and kill all the Muslims.
So what did they do?
They betrayed.
And they were all executed after that.
Because they had agreed basically to try to
kill all the Muslims by opening the door
of their part of town.
The trench didn't reach their part of town.
So they lived in a corner.
They said, OK, we'll come around.
We'll open the door for you guys.
You guys are coming to kill all the
Muslims.
So they were all executed.
And the Bani Qaynuqa, which was another Jewish
tribe, they were removed.
And they betrayed the Prophet ﷺ after the
Battle of Badr, earlier on than these two.
OK.
So your Prophet kicked us all out of
Medina.
OK.
But you're not some innocent lambs.
Right.
Always look at the second half of the
story, not the first half.
They say don't blame someone who shows up
to you with a black eye.
Right.
Another person may show up with two black
eyes.
Yeah, you started it.
OK.
Of course, this is anti-Semitic truths here.
Some truths are anti-Semitic, I guess.
What can you say?
Qala ibn Abbas, man shakka anna al-mahshar
bil-sham fal yakra azihi al-ayah fa
kana hadha awwalu hashrin ila al-sham.
So li awwali al-hashr, the first hashr,
the first removal is to Syria.
They went to Syria.
Qala lahum al-nabi ﷺ khuruju.
Prophet ﷺ said, leave.
Qalu ila ayn.
Qala ila ard al-mahshar.
So he says here, to the place where
people will be resurrected.
Thumma yuhsharu al-khalqu yawm al-qiyamah ila
al-sham.
So therefore the Prophet ﷺ is saying that
on the Day of Judgment, the place, the
location where all people will eventually gather, the
center point will be Sham.
Sham is a very special area of land
on the earth.
And although on the Day of Judgment the
whole earth will be different, will be transformed.
Yawma tubaddalu al-ardu ghayra al-ard.
So it will be the earth, but it
will be so different.
But the headquarter, the main area where the
Prophet ﷺ, where the hashr will occur is
Sham.
Sham is Syria, Jerusalem, all that area.
It consists today of four nation states.
Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel.
Is that the Bani Nadir were the first
to leave the whole peninsula of Arabs.
Because the Bani Qaynuqa didn't leave the peninsula
of Arabs.
They left Medina but not, they were moved
from Medina but not the whole peninsula.
So first they were removed from Medina.
Then they lived in Khaybar for a while.
Then they were removed from Khaybar.
And then Umar removed all of them from
all of the peninsula.
The believers did not imagine that they would
ever leave Medina.
Because they were powerful.
They had fortresses.
They had wealth.
They had land.
They had orchards.
They had dates to buy and sell with.
They had fortresses.
And they also thought that their strength is
so much.
Their strength is so powerful.
Hosoon looks like lobbies today.
No one cares about having a fortress.
Today it's lobbies.
It's influence with the media.
It's owning newspapers.
It's all that stuff.
That's what they have today.
They thought that they're protected even from the
power of God.
Allah came to them, meaning bought his affair
to them, bought his justice to them, bought
his punishment of them from where they didn't
expect.
Meaning that they did not expect their prophet
to be informed of all their tricks and
their plots.
So what does it mean?
They destroyed their homes with their hands and
with the hands of the believers.
In other words, that could be in meaning
they destroyed their own life in Medina.
And the believers came as an army to
threaten them.
But also physically.
They would take the good pieces of wood
from their homes and take it with them.
And then the believers came and you got
a home with half a pillar.
You can't live on that.
So they just demolished the whole home and
built from scratch.
They would actually remove the pillars because they
were good pieces of wood and they would
take them with them.
And therefore the roof would collapse in.
And also people, they have this attitude and
you're taking over their home.
They don't want you to enjoy it, so
they'll destroy it.
You know, that's how Napoleon got totally messed
up.
Because he made a deal with the Russians,
whoever the czar was at that time, whoever
the king was, Nicholas or something.
Together they would attack somebody.
Can't remember who.
And he betrayed him.
The Russian czar betrayed Napoleon.
And then Napoleon, of course he can't accept
that, had to go attack him.
When he got to St. Petersburg, which was
the capital at that time, the czar had
left and burnt it all to the ground.
He burnt it all to the ground.
So that Napoleon wouldn't enjoy it, wouldn't be
able to say that he took over Russia.
Then Napoleon became so enraged that he went
after them.
He chased after them.
But that took him into the middle of
Russia and it was winter.
And he lost tens upon hundreds, possibly thousands
of troops.
All because of the winter in Russia.
They couldn't bear it.
And when he came back he just had
to resign right away.
You can't be responsible for that many losses.
Omer's making the thumbnail.
Alright, don't give me a haircut Omer this
time around.
Because these other thumbnails, not yours, but some
of the other ones, I keep getting these
haircuts.
No, no, I need hair.
I know it blends in with the back.
Anyway, let's get back to the tafsir.
They did this so They hated the idea
of the believers living in their homes, so
they just burnt the whole thing down.
Burnt it all down.
Qatada says So the believers had
to demolish these houses anyway.
Okay.
Alright, let's stop here from the tafsir, mashallah.
No qalam to leave a bookmark.
Oh here, here's the qalam.
And we will leave a mark right here
where we left off.
Alright.
As we usually do on the first day
of the stream, we give a little bit
more of Q&A.
Someone's asking.
I saw the starboard website.
I don't know about America's condition, but being
from the subcontinent, the price is too much
and religious guidance should not be costly more
than necessary.
I don't know.
Maybe talk to the people.
Go leave them an email.
There's a little button at the bottom.
You can give them an email.
Maybe they'll give you a deal, but I
don't know because it's not really meant to
be for the subcontinent.
The mentors are here in America, so they're
going to be considering the US context.
And it's not just religious context.
There's worldly mentorship in worldly life.
There are other things that are not necessarily
sharia here.
The issue is that the household is like
a factory.
It's where our children are produced.
It's where the next generation of humans are
produced.
These factories have got to be set right.
It's got to be set right.
And that takes mentors.
It takes knowledge.
And that's the whole idea behind starboard.
It takes knowledge.
It's not some kind of easy thing to
do.
It's going to take knowledge to do this.
So we need a lot of people to
start studying.
Just like you study any subject.
You study surgery.
You study medicine.
You study all these subjects.
You need to study this.
Are the Jews in the
West actually Bani Israel?
Well, at least they're attributing themselves to them.
Maybe they're not by blood.
They're probably Khazarian, as some people say.
But at least they're attributing themselves to that.
And they've absorbed the ethos of that religion.
Is there a cure for schizophrenia?
We treat mental illness and believe in Islam
that mental illness can be physical too.
It's not just jinn.
It's not just these bad things.
Hey Omar, can you lift this image up
a little bit?
It's good, but I want to slouch a
little bit.
I don't want to slouch too low.
There you go.
That's perfect.
Good.
Perfect.
Where's the ruling on horror movies?
I don't know if there's a ruling on
it.
But I think those things are connected in
some way, shape, and form with some kind
of devilish approach.
I'm not a fan of these things.
But I can't say that there's a ruling,
per se.
How do we balance judging, condemning someone, first
giving chosnodan?
All right, I answered that.
But to go back to the horror one,
what I have heard is that this screaming
and this…
It's not beloved to angels, and it is
beloved to demons.
Screaming, startling, all these types of…
I can't say there's a ruling, per se,
that I know of that has any certainty.
It's all speculative ruling.
But I do know that some ulama, they
really dislike these things.
Should we vote on ballot amendments?
There's always the two sayings on voting.
The first saying is that it's the lesser
of two evils.
And the second is that if it's something
that the shariah would be accepting of, vote
for it.
Like that.
And so that's usually how it's approached.
Here's another question for you.
They say, you Muslims need to support everyone's
rights because you enjoy the same rights.
That's the argument.
So you need to support everyone else's rights
since you enjoy these rights and freedoms.
And the answer to that is that, hold
on, but what if those rights contradict the
shariah?
They say, well, then you're being a hypocrite
because you want those rights for yourself, but
you don't want them for others.
I want the right to practice my religion
in public, but I don't want other things
in public.
So that's hypocrisy.
I said, okay, hypocrisy with whom?
Hypocrisy within a man-made context?
All right, let's hypothetically say, okay, I'm politically
hypocritical.
I want for myself something that I don't
want for others because that's what the shariah
says.
That's what my religion says.
So what's my punishment then?
What's my loss?
That's my question.
If I practice such a standard, I'm not
double standard.
I'm one standard, which is the shariah.
That's my standard.
Islam is my standard.
So it happens to appear as a double
standard or in practice with the secular system.
Okay, fine.
What are my losses?
What am I going to suffer?
Hypocrisy is terrible when you're dealing with God.
Hypocrisy is terrible when you're preaching something and
doing the opposite.
But hypocrisy, it's almost meaningless to me when
it's your standard accepts something from a secular
standard and rejects other things from the secular
standard.
I don't need to be consistent with that
secular standard.
And that's what the so-called liberal Muslims,
that's what they do.
They care more about that second standard.
They want to be consistent with the secular
standard, even if it means being inconsistent with
God.
When you die, where are you going to
go?
When you need help, who's going to help
you?
Where is the power?
The power is not with the secular system.
The power is with the Creator.
And that's why if I'm given a choice,
I'm going to side with the Creator every
single time.
That's where real power lies in the world.
We're being tested here.
And we're being doubly tested here.
Besides the regular test of life, we specifically
have another test.
We have to live with this system and
this structure of rules and this belief system
amongst a people who have another system.
So I'm not allowed to undermine and do
harm, but I don't have to be consistent
with that other system.
Fine.
I'm not consistent with the secular, liberal, democratic
system.
Fine.
What are you going to do about it?
Is it a crime?
Am I criminal?
No, I think you're inconsistent.
I'm actually not a double standard.
I'm one standard.
But that one standard doesn't align perfectly with
the man-made standard.
So I'm going to support whatever my standard
supports, Islam supports.
And I'm not going to support whatever Islam
doesn't support.
And I'm going to condemn whatever Islam condemns,
even if that system agrees with all of
it or disagrees with all of it.
To be consistent in the eyes of a
liberal order that we're living in is not
my goal.
It should not be the goal of any
Muslim.
We don't undermine.
We don't cause harm.
But we're not supporting everything and having to
be consistent with that system.
That's the difference.
I'm not undermining anybody.
I'm expressing my views.
You don't think my views are consistent with
your system?
I couldn't care less.
My views are consistent with what God revealed.
And that's what I believe in.
And that's what we're going to die upon.
That system of yours, it's a man-made
system.
It can change.
It could be wrong.
And that's essentially the argument against the so
-called liberal Muslims.
That's the argument against them.
Because what they're about is being consistent with
the liberal order.
What is that consistency going to get you?
What reward are you going to benefit?
And if you're not consistent with it, what
are you going to lose?
You're going to lose that someone's going to
call you inconsistent.
That's it.
That is the loss.
People will say, ah, you're inconsistent.
Well, all I have to do in order
to cure that is to tell them, listen,
I'm not operating by your laws and rules.
I'm operating by these.
If you want to know where I'm going,
this is where I'm going.
I have a predictable book right here that's
telling us this is where we're heading.
This is what we believe.
Wherever the system allows for it, we go.
Whatever the system promotes that our book doesn't
promote, we're against it.
That's it.
The difference being we're not undermining, we're not
trying to harm anybody, but we have our
beliefs.
That's it.
Tony says, does saying ameen after dua of
Imam count?
If you don't understand anything, yes, it does.
Because you're intending to pray whatever he prayed.
Are we closer to Christians or Jews, says
Adam?
Christians have softer hearts according to the Quran,
and they will therefore have better relations with
us.
Not all Christians.
Obviously the Crusaders were Christians.
The election today is between Crusaders.
It's between the Crusaders and it's between Sodom
and Gomorrah.
That's how I view the Democratic Party, right?
Like morally speaking, they're Sodom and Gomorrah.
And the other side are Crusaders.
Pick your poison.
Office Siren says, my work is having an
off-site where I will have to stay
in the same hotel as my male co
-workers.
I'm hijabi and unmarried.
Should I bring a mahram with me out
of pocket?
I believe that you should because in our
religion, the four schools of thought highly recommend,
and if not, they obligate that when you
travel, you take a mahram with you with
differences amongst them.
But they do usually say this.
So it is better for you to take
a mahram whenever you travel.
At least you'll be on the safer side
of what the sharia says.
A thousand caliber phoenix, 1080 caliber phoenix says,
hey everyone, please pray for my interview result
to be positive.
I need your dua.
Well, you know what you should say from
now on?
رَبِّ إِنِّي لِمَا أَنزَلْتَ إِلَيَّ مِنْ خَيْرٍ فَقِيرٍ
Oh Allah, from what you have brought down
of me of good, I'm in need of
it.
So keep saying that nonstop until you get
the results.
Is it halal to transact entertainment for children?
Like a video game for children?
Yeah, nothing wrong with that.
What's halal of the content is halal.
Children can play with toys, figures, virtual, digital.
That's all halal.
As for the techniques that make kids addicted,
like Coco Melon, you're harming the kid like
that.
Coco Melon, they broke it down to a
science.
They broke it down to a science to
keep the kid addicted.
Well, that's a harm.
What is a valid reason to become a
raqi and pursue that science?
I can't tell you anything about that world
of jinn.
And I know a raqi, but I don't
get involved in it, to be honest with
you.
I don't want to pick a fight with
a jinn.
And I like to see the enemy that
I have to fight.
How do we know that ulama did not
expand things in the religion or overcomplicate things?
Like did the early generations really get this
specific and detailed in questions and also?
Well, our religion is passed on in mass.
Our religion is not passed on by a
small organization, which we would doubt.
And say, okay, there's just a few guys.
What if they made a mistake?
Our religion is not passed down by any
organization.
So our deen is passed down by— essentially
it's organized as the chains of transmission that
go back that are still alive are the
chains of transmission of the four schools of
thought and these four madhabs.
As we can see, there are hundreds upon
thousands of people correcting and self-checking everything.
Now, just because the companions didn't answer certain
questions does not mean those answers should not
have been answered.
To give you an example, for example, like
what foods can I trade usuriously and which
foods can I not trade usuriously?
Just to give an example, so usuriously means
two things.
It means one is more than the other
or that there's a distance between the two.
So let's say, can I trade a pound
of my green grapes for two pounds of
red grapes?
No, you can't do that.
So there are certain foods that you can
trade within the same genus and certain foods
you can't trade within the same genus.
So that's the question that you have to
ask.
And the usurious food is that which you
can survive on and you can save or
you can save.
So that's what is usurious food.
So these questions didn't come up in the
time of the Sahaba.
And as for if it's ta'am ghayr
ribawi, food that is not treated as usurious,
it's food that I can trade it with
itself.
My apples for your apples, for example, different
amounts like that.
Not to say grapes, I just threw that
out there.
But we're not going to get into the
details, but that's the idea.
The companions, they did talk about these things,
but maybe at that time they didn't even
have certain foods that existed, that people came
upon later.
So we have to categorize them.
And the Prophet ﷺ gave us certain parameters.
And so just because the Sahaba didn't discuss
something doesn't mean it shouldn't have been discussed.
Okay, what was the army like for the
companions?
Right?
Nothing.
A bunch of you, you group of people
go use bow and arrow over here.
You go ride horses over here.
You pick up swords.
You take spears.
That's not going to be the army of
today.
It's going to be super sophisticated.
So don't come and compare that era with
this era.
Our army is going to be far more
complicated.
Likewise, our law is far more complicated.
Anytime you get people who are trying to
move around the law, you end up having
to have more laws.
Yoav Gallant has been fired according to the
news.
Thank you for that news.
What's better, dhikr or salah on the Prophet?
Salah on the Prophet is dhikr.
So don't separate between salah on the Prophet
or dhikr.
We have to do with some Quran, some
istighfar, some salah on the Prophet ﷺ, some
dua, a little bit of everything.
Is it appropriate for youth to debate issues
of ikhtilaf in college, like aqidah and theology?
I believe it's not.
They just learn your belief, have your own
belief, share the video with somebody, share back
in the day it was a tape or
a book, and leave it at that.
Do not argue and waste your time.
Is it wrong to be alone all the
time and not want an active social life,
and not want friendship?
That's not the way of Islam.
We should be with the jama'ah.
If you have a decent group of friends
out there, you should be with them.
We need a jama'ah.
And part of...
You need...
100%.
You need friends.
You need a jama'ah.
There's no doubt about that.
What's better, dhikr...
Oh, we read that one.
Is it halal to go to university parties
where there will only be eating and meeting,
but there will be mixing?
Let's reverse it.
The eating and meeting, the eating and the
food and the whole party has really one
purpose, which is mixing.
That's why you'll never see on university campus
an all-guys party, an all-women's party,
unless they're gays and lesbians.
But the whole purpose of these parties is,
of course, shahawat, desires.
Is there a party out there that's not...
that the goal is not on that?
It wouldn't be much of a party then,
right?
So, you should avoid environments like that without
a doubt.
Any thoughts on the imam's crisis?
We talked about that, so you can rewind
and see that.
There's not much to think about in the
first place.
It's as clear as day, that fitna.
What is the meaning of the hadith saying
Allah will put a foot in hellfire?
It means that from the hellfire, that which
will be stomped out.
And we do not say that Allah has
limbs, Allah is ahad.
And this from the sifat, or from the
narrations, that are mutashabih.
And therefore, we just affirm what Allah has
affirmed for Himself in Surah al-Ikhlas.
قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ Allah is One in
Himself.
So therefore, does not have limbs, nor is
He in a location.
As the Tahawi Creed says, He's not mutahayiz
fi jihah.
He's not limited in a location.
I saw in the end times hadith, someone
makes dua to Allah, and Allah replies, Make
dua for you and your family, but not
for the masses, for they have enraged Me.
Have you heard this hadith?
No.
No.
I don't see any dua that says, Do
not make dua for the ummah.
We make dua for the ummah all the
time.
Guide us to the right path.
You're making dua for the ummah the whole
time.
Okay?
Right?
Ladies and gentlemen, we have to stop here.
We stopped pretty early today, but that's okay.
We have a long day ahead of us
here at Safina Society, and we need to
go.
Thank you all very much.
We'll see you tomorrow.
See you tomorrow with the results, and maybe
we might not have results tomorrow.
Maybe some things get wacky, just like the
Bush and Gore elections of 2000.
Things got wacky.
We didn't have a result for six weeks.
So we'll see what happens.
Jazakumullahu khairan, everybody.
Subhanakallahumma wa bihamdika.
I bear witness that there is no god
but Allah.
I ask forgiveness for my sins and I
repent to Him.
By the hour, man is in loss, except
for those who believe and do good, and
follow the truth, and follow patience.
Peace be upon you.