Shadee Elmasry – Purification and Prayer Class #4 1of2
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Furthermore, the heart of a person is in a constant state of turning
the word heart in Arabic is the word called.
And the word called means that it's constantly moved turning.
That's what called means. Right? So if someone turns, we say in
club, he turned, so the hearts of people are constantly turning. And
that's why it's critical. Okay? To constantly reorient ourselves,
to what's important to us, you always have to reorient yourself.
And this isn't just belief in God, everything, anything that's
important to a person, you must constantly reorient himself. A lot
of people who separate themselves, for example, a guy who works far
away.
A lot of times these guys, they start not loving their family
anymore, and they start loving someone at their workplace. Right,
like I know a guy who
got a job traveling, he would travel three months, come back for
a month, a month off child ended up falling in love with his co
worker more than with his own wife, divorced his wife married
the coworker, whatever we are connected to and exposed to.
That's what we love. So that's why it's critical to have a constant
reconnection
to this. So let's I want to do a review. This really is the most
important chapter
chapter one, it's really so important that I actually benefit
every time I read it myself. So let's do that.
Hassan you want to read for us?
Okay. Lena, do you have a book? Get your book, could you start
reading forcement?
All right, so the Quran has a proof for you or against you. So
if you read it, and you accept it with humility, and then practice
it, okay, at that point, it's approved for you, okay? Everything
that exists, the Quran, the prayer, everything, even things
that you imagine you create in your head, you see in the movie
poltergeists, where things are created in people's heads. On the
Day of Judgment, they're meant they manifest, okay, and they
testify for you or against you. So the Prophet peace be upon him says
the Quran itself comes in the form of a person
and it testifies for the person or against them.
A lot of attributes here, there are a lot of attributes that help
a person practice their Islam that can be learned, okay? In Islam or
outside of Islam, for example, here contentment, what Islam does
is simply it guides us and then it hones us into this how to
specifically establish these attributes. So the first attribute
here is cleanliness. Cleanliness, like you think cleanliness is
limited to Muslims. No, and Muslims can never be unclean,
right? No. So Muslims can be unclean and non Muslims can be
cleaned. So what is Islam do? What's the point? It gives us
details exactly on how exactly to be clean. What implies
cleanliness, because there are things in Islam that are far more
important in Islam there are critical, they're not brought up
in any other faith community. Okay, for example, the first
lesson of Islam, even for adults is basically potty training. Right
we took last chapter on the Hara. It's basically it's potty
training, if you think about it, right? How do you go to the
bathroom and then how do you cleanse yourself? What's what's
dirty? What must be disposed of? If it's on your clothes, you have
to rub it off. Okay, so cleanliness is something where a
lot of people could have it. But what Islam does is it hones in on
exactly what is important in cleanliness, it gives a detail
another thing here, contentment, okay, contentment, that
hamdulillah fills the scale what does it mean fills a scale Praise
be to Allah or gratitude and thanks are to Allah azza wa jal
when it says fills the scale, it means fills your heart with
contentment. So again, sometimes people are content, so it comes
down to it. Sometimes people aren't content and they're taught
by their parents be content with what you have. It's not something
being limited to Muslims, animal, some could not be content. But
when Islam comes to people and they study it, it gives them
justification to be contentment, it teaches them practices to make
them content. For example, the Prophet peace be upon him said, if
in your heart you feel discontent, look at someone who's worse than
you. And know that that could have been you. Okay? If in your heart
you feel down about something, think about those who are worse
than you, you'll be content. It also gives us patience with what
little we have. Because it reminds us of the Day of Judgment. And the
Quran says, this life is nothing more than the bat of your eye, the
batting of your eye, shutting your eyes, you shut you out, you blink,
it's a blink of an eye. This life is a blink of an eye, the Prophet
peace be upon him said, the likeness of the dream to the
living. So you have a dream, and then you wake up. The likeness of
that is similar to this life and the next. So this dream this, like
the dream is real, right? Dreams are real, we believe in dreams. If
it's a nightmare, we believe that Satan got into your head. If it's
just a dream about your desires, it's your own reflection of your
own desire. And if you dream, a good dream, then it's from Allah.
It's from God. So dreams are real dreams are not just nothing like
scientists will tell us that just some neurons tripped up in your
brain and produce this image. No, we believe that dreams are real.
But this world is more real. Right? This This world is more
real than a dream.
So likewise, this world is real. But the next world is far more
real. The same similitude. When you're in a dream, you don't know
you're in a dream, you think you're in a reality. Right? And
you are, but you wake up. And you guys, it's just a dream. Likewise,
when we die, we move on. When we think about these things, we
become content in our hearts. Right? We become we realized it's
not a big deal, right? Nothing in this world is a big deal. Okay,
nothing and no unfortunate event should be that. Strike that deep.
Okay, that it should give us a psychosis, we should realize where
people of faith, we know that we're leaving this world. And this
is the thing, this is the beauty of it. Whether you believe or not,
you're still leaving this world. Right? So just by Logical
Observation, whether you believe in afterlife a lot or not, what's
the worst that could happen? The worst that could happen is you die
and just *, disappear. Right? That's the, what an atheist will
believe. What do we say about that? If that's the worst that
have happened, then actually, again, the result is going to be
not that bad, because it's going to end. So this life will end. So
contentment again, could be there with everyone. But Islam gives us
a way teaches us how to be content and justifies our contentment.
Okay, be content because the next world, the world after this is far
greater, and people should read and look up near death
experiences.
Right? People have had near death experiences. And these really
could if you ever had doubt that there's life after death, just
read near death experience literature. It's a whole body of
literature in the field of new psychology. So there's old
psychology, and then there's new psychology, okay? News and new
psychology, near death experiences is a brand, it's a new field of
literature, that they're studying to figure out why this happens,
okay? And a lot of people have come out, okay. And there are
websites with with narratives of people, and they all narrate the
same thing. And here's the beauty of it. They all narrate the same
thing, and everything they narrate, it is exactly what the
Prophet told us will happen. The Prophet peace be upon him says
every soul that dies, goes straight up to God. Then it gets
buried and it goes into an intermediary realm as just a soul.
Okay. And then it goes, obviously, the Day of Judgment happens, and
it's reconnected to a new body. Okay, and the second task for its
deeds. So every time people have a near death experience, the first
thing they say is I saw a bright white light, right? They all say
that, if they're all making stuff up, right? How could they make up
the same lie? And if it was all some neurons chip in their brain,
and it's all random wires, their neurons all tripping in the same
way. Right? So near death experience, if you ever have
weakness of faith, read about near death experiences from people,
look them up. It'll give you absolute certainty that we're
leaving this world.
And then prayer is the light. Every time you mentioned God's
name, light enters your heart. And when light enters your heart, what
is the sign that light enters your heart? The Sahaba
That's a very intelligent question. Okay, the we don't see
the heart and we don't see this light coming down. You make
prayer, you don't see anything coming down. So what So this
obviously is unseen. So what is the sign that light enters your
heart, the sign that light enters your heart is that your anxieties
go away. Anxieties go away and desire for worldly advancement
goes away. Not advancement, like being successful, but the desire
for worldly things, lowly things such as showing off in front of
people. You're fussing about material things, Ill you'll just
lose interest. Okay? So that's the sign that light is in your heart.
If you're a person of anxiety, right, then you have a sickness.
And that sickness is you're not exposing your heart to the
remembrance of God enough. So you have to go back to remember Allah
azza wa jal light enters your heart. Okay? When light enters the
heart of a person, the Quran says their skin softens, okay, their
skin softens. They age differently, and they look
different. They look more their skin is soft, it's brighter, and
it's got a serenity to it. Quran says seamount if you would show
him the sign of such people, you just see it in their face, you see
that their faces calm, it's not troubled, okay, their skin is
softer.
Alright, so just this paragraph enough really is a review.
Last thing The Prophet said in this hadith, all men go out and
sell themselves. Okay, how to all men go out and sell themselves.
They all human beings are worshippers.
The human being okay, a philosopher once said, Anyone who
observes human beings are worshipers by nature, okay?
They're worshipers by nature. In other words, they go out and they
serve a goal. Humans love to serve a goal. They'd like to climb a
mountain, or build something or do a service or subjugate themselves
to some idea to some goal. Everyone out there. When you look
out at 9am Everyone is serving themselves serving a business. We
are servers, that's what we do. We love to, to worship something.
Okay, so to who from whom will you get your reward? That's the
question, Who can harm you, and who can give you a reward? That's
who you have to serve yourself to. So you ask yourself, if you go out
there every day, and you strive for yourself, can you protect
yourself from death?
If you go out there, and you start strive and serve a boss hoping
he's gonna give you more, ask yourself, can he even control
himself? Can he protect himself from dying, let alone protect you.
Summary, when you go out there and we serve stuff, okay? Make your
service to the one who could truly protect you when you're dying,
protect you when you're drowning, and who could truly give you risk
and that is Allah, Allah azza wa jal, God is the only one who can
protect us. He's the only one that we will pray for. Pray to win for
ourselves when we're in trouble. This is the only one that we
should be serving. We should not be getting any emotional high from
our pleasures of our own body, or the approval of other people. If
you want to know what true enslavement is, is that you get
your emotional high from other people's approval, or from your
own self satisfaction of your passions and your desires. That is
the true slave. But the one who has got gets his emotional high
from doing an act that pleases his Lord will never be disappointed
because Allah azza wa jal is the one who can give the reward. So
there is a story about a king
and this king
could you get Daniel, maybe we turn this on, please.
This king, they were sitting in the presence of this king and a
wise man was there. And the king was eating a chicken. And a
chicken piece had a little bone in it. And he choked on the chicken
bone when he choked on the chicken bone, okay.
And he quickly fetched for a cup of water. Okay, and then he
swallowed it down. So the wise man was there. And he was he told him,
Tell me.
Tell me in truth, if you were to trade if, if I had this one cup of
water in my hand, and you were choking on it, and you reach for
it, and I said to you sign a contract that you would hand over
your monarchy for this glass of water. Would you have handed it
over?
He thought for a second. He said, By Allah, I would have to save my
life. I would hand it over. So he said, Well, that's this then this
glass
Have water is the value of this world, your home monarchy is not
even worth this. When push comes to shove, and he said and tell me
by Allah,
tell me in truth, when you were choking? Who did you think of for
help? He said, In my heart, I called to God for help. He said,
then that's where you should be serving at all times. If at the
lowest point you're going to go to God, then at your highest point,
you should be going to God. And if that's the case, then in the
middle, you should be serving to Allah azza wa jal at the same
time. So we have to always judge ourselves by the lowest possible
moments of Thank you, we should always be judging ourselves by the
lowest possible moment in our lives, where we're going to turn.
Now before we get to the actual fifth. And fifth is the study of
ritual and civil law. Before we get to that, there's one more
comment to make about this, namely, that people, if at their
lowest points, they're turning solely to Allah azza wa jal.
We have to realize that we're in this Islam, we're practicing this
Islam, solely for Allah azza wa jal. And that's so critical.
Because we oftentimes attach things. If you're from a Muslim
family, when you practice your Islam, there are a lot of Muslims,
right? In your family, they're gonna be proud of you. Right?
Well, that's good. But at the same time, it's actually a barrier.
Because you don't really know are you doing it for God's sake? Or
are you doing it because your mom and dad are going to be very
pleased with you. It's a test of sincerity so in one hand and
encourages you, but on the other hand, it disallows you from
knowing what your true intention is, we have to psychologically
sort of psych ourselves by playing out scenarios in our in our mind,
and this is how true Amen works. You got to play out a scenario in
your mind before it actually becomes a reality. And one of the
what I was taught was this.
When you're think making your intention to please Allah, you
have to ask yourself, if everyone I know
turned against me, in what I'm doing what I still do it.
That's the question. If my mom all of a sudden, and my dad, they lost
interest in Islam. And they said, you know, this is path of
terrorists. We don't want you on it. And they fought me for
what I waiver. If my most beloved person to me, changed.
And they no longer believed in the Prophet peace be upon it what I
still believe in the Prophet peace be alone.
If you think about this, this is why the Companions, the first
generation of Muslims, why the Prophet said they are at a level
of faith, no one will ever reach. Why is that? Because there's no
precedent. When the Prophet came and announced, he's a prophet.
They follow the Prophet that their families were against them. Some
people's husbands were against them, some people's wives were
against them. And there was no precedent, there's nothing to say
like, deep down. When I practice Islam, I'm thinking to myself, my
great grandfather, he will be very pleased with this, my grandfather
would be very happy, my grandmother would be very happy.
I'm following in the ways of my great my forefathers.
This, the companions did not have this, and converts do not have
this. This is the reason the Prophet peace be upon him said
whoever is part of a faith then enters into Islam, and can and
stays stable and firm in Islam, they get doubled the reward,
because they can't think back, my mom is going to be really happy,
my dad is going to be really happy. They're actually doing the
opposite. They're going against the grain. So we have to always
psych ourselves. If there comes a day where everyone around me turns
on me, and disbelieves and encourages me to disbelieve, will
I disbelieve, yes or no. And if I don't, what's my drive, and your
drive should be knowledge, the study of the Quran to know that
this book is true, it is impossible for this book to not
have been true because of what it says of the past that was unknown
to the Arabs at the time, and what it says of the future that being
that was unknown to the Arabs at the time. Okay, so this constant
mental exercise, if you do it now, okay, if you do it now, you
protect yourself for 30 years, and there are some people who never do
it. And then a small test comes to them and they collapse.
And it's always the case whenever people get shaky in their Islam,
is to blame other Muslims to say, Oh, I expected this from the
community. The community was like this. That's the whenever you hear
people saying that
Don't ever believe them?
Where was your Islam? In the beginning? Did you become Muslim
for the community, then you shouldn't have come to the mosque,
you should have went to a social services center. You should have
went to
a club where people were there to make friends. People aren't in the
mosque to make friends. People were in the mosque because they
were trying to repent to God. And if you make friends, it's just a
good coincidence. Right? It's just a nice, a side note. Right? But
the reality is, we always have to ask ourselves, if if, if we are
alone, will we still keep our faith? So this question is very
important. And I always wanted to begin with that, because I might I
myself, people, you think, okay, if your, your livelihood is in
Islam, 10 years studying Islam, always born a Muslim, you still
don't think that faith can shake, of course it can. There's no point
where you're home free, you're home free when you're in the
grave. So long as you breathe, you could fall Simple as that. IBLEES
in our belief, Satan, he's a jinn. That means he's a creature made of
smokeless fire. He was a better believer than all of us combined.
he worshipped God for hundreds of years.
But then God tested him. His foundation was weak. He worshipped
God for hundreds of years, he was considered the chief
of the species of his type, chief of the gym, he was so good. God
invited him to live in the heavens. And that's why he was
with the angels. But God saw a problem in his foundation.
He's worshiping because he loves to be number one, in the sight of
God. But when God created Adam, and said here, he's better than
you honor him. I love him more than I love you. He had an issue
with that, and he refused. And then he, he left. So we always
have to do these mental exercises with ourselves very important. Are
there any questions about that before we actually get to the
chapter we're on?
All right, we'll do the review of the last chapter, which I believe
was chapter seven, page 21.
All right, let's go to page 21. PAGE 21 bajada. So again, in
Islam, this theme keeps coming up.
This theme keeps coming up, which is in Islam, we study everything
that is that we don't want before we study what we want. And there's
a great statement that saying
there's a great statement that says, EQ excellence or focus focus
is saying no to 1000 things. Right. So what is focus? When you
focus on something, you have to say no, to 1000? Good things.
Before you could say yes, to one thing. So what we're talking about
here is everything that is impure, all right, so that we could purify
ourselves, Well, we actually studied the impurity first. So the
impurity is of two types. The impurity that is outside of your
body, the impurity that is on your on your clothes, or the place of
prayer, and then the state of impurity. So the first one is
called cover, cover. And cover is basically everything that comes
out of the front or back of your private parts, including blood and
vomit. Okay, with a small exception, a small amount of
blood, okay, is negligible. And a small and a small amount with a
small amount of blood is negligible, such as if a bug bites
you when you scratch it, and you get a little trace of blood.
That's negligible. Okay. Now, what's the importance of this? The
importance of cover is that you cannot do the five prayers with
cover on your closed skin or your rug.
You have to make sure your clothes your skin, and the rug does not
have any cover upon it. Okay, so you simply what do you do less
urine on my pants? Simple. You just washed it off, take water,
wash it off, okay?
It's that simple. You don't have to take your pants off, put it in
the wash. You don't have to do that. You just have to wash your
pets. Okay. So I remember one time I got a question of woman. She
said. She's having very great difficulty with this. Because
every time some of the Jets comes on
her clothes, she's taking it off and putting it in the wash. So
she's like I'm doing laundry all day long. Okay, so I said no, you
don't have to wash the whole garment. Just set slop. Wash it
off. So that's covered which is easy.
Just for your information, a lot of the Muslims add dog saliva to
this, that dog so I was really dirty and the Prophet was like
detested dog saliva, okay and that he used to say you have to wash it
seven times we say that he was doing that because it was dirty
not because it was ritually impure, okay. Saliva itself is not
ritually impure. And the best way to translate calmbirth is ritual
impurity. Now, you have yourself yourself, can you yourself can be
ritually pure or ritually impure. And that is called header header.
Okay. hadda is basically has a greater and lesser variety.
The greater impurity, okay known as Geneva, Geneva is more on page
21 Here
is the result of the man's or the woman's sexual fluid coming out of
their body, okay? Or menstruation, or postpartum bleeding or the
entrance of the man, the head of the male organ into the woman's
private parts. This results in Geneva and Geneva is requires a
full body wash. Okay, it requires a full body wash. Now when we say
menstruation and postpartum bleeding,
menstruation, it puts a person in the state of Geneva when your
person has menstruating poor and postpartum bleeding. They do not
pray at all. You're not obligated to make prayer. Okay? And at that
point, what do you do is you have to count 15 days, if you pass 15
days, which I don't think any woman does, in menstruation, but
once you past 15 days, at that point, the Prophet peace be upon
him said there's something wrong with the individual. That is just
an abnormality. So at that point, the menstruation cuts off and you
pray, even if you're bleeding, you just wash that part off before
each prayer and you establish the prayer.
As for postpartum bleeding, after a woman has a baby, she's going to
bleed out the excess stuff that's no longer needed by the body. And
she doesn't pray either. And that lasts a maximum of 60 days. So for
60 days, she will not have to pray. Okay, she will not have to
pray.
There's a little bit of a cosmology for this, or, and then
after 60 days, she continues her prayer. There's a little bit of a
cosmological note here. And that is, we are creatures that are
aspiring to the heavens, but we're pulled down by the Earth. Right?
We aspire to the heavens, but we're pulled down by the Earth.
Allah azza wa jal has made one of the genders exempt from faith
increasing actions, and the other is not. So the prayer so the woman
will not pray. Every month she's gonna have four or 567 days off.
And a couple of times in her life she will not pray for however much
postpartum is okay. Manifest, we call it in Arabic.
So people said in that case, if she's not praying for like a week,
every month, then her faith goes down. Right or faith, your Eman
will decrease? The answer that the wise people have given is this is
by design. This is by design, right? Why? Because if everyone
had such great faith, okay, if everyone had such great faith, and
such detachment from the world, okay, such detachment from the
world, everyone was detached. At that point, a lot of things won't
get done.
Many things would not get done. Okay? So Allah azza wa jal has
caused the female gender to be a little more grounded in the world
than the male. Okay. And when she is a little more grounded, and the
male is attracted to her, the male becomes grounded to the world. If
everyone was detached and not grounded to the world, a lot of
things would not get done, you wouldn't live in the same place
you'd be moving around, you wouldn't build for the future.
There are a lot of wisdoms behind it. But ultimately, this is God's
wisdom. Okay. And this is why the Prophet peace be upon him said
women lack in religion doesn't mean they have less faith, but it
means there are less obligations upon them. It means that she's not
going to pray all the time. She's not going to fast all the time.
Okay. And she's not going to be observing all these things. So
this is there's a wisdom in this. But anyway, that's a side thing.
Genova the person and the state of Genova is called Jonah. Alright,
called genome, and they obviously require they, they remove that by
doing what's
So, now, lesser impurity, lesser impurity is resulted from the
other things besides the sexual fluid that comes out of the man's
front and back, including the person's pre seminal fluid, any
fluid that comes out the front organ or the back, including loss
of consciousness through sleep, or fainting, as well as touching the
private parts with the inside of the hand, I didn't put that there,
I just did it. So you can add that in there, touching the private
parts, the man touching his private parts skin to skin with
the inside of his hand, or the woman having to put her finger or
her hand inside her private part that causes them to be more depth
more. And the depth simply cannot pray or touch the Quran in Arabic
original, and they just simply have to make wudu.
Are there any questions on this? This is what Alex did with you.
Yesterday, raise your hand if you have any questions.
Yep.
Yes, in dog saliva, you do have to the Prophet peace be upon him said
wash it seven times, and then the seventh time use oil.
Now, the scholars have taken two opinions on this. The first
opinion is that that statement simply means wash it very well and
use something besides water.
So by analogy, soap, right, just some, some something. Others said
no, this is the prophet. So you have to do exactly what he said.
And so there are both readings on this. Why is that? That's because
in things that have to do with interaction, right interaction,
the Prophet used what he had. And the Arabs used to wash things with
water and soil, soil absorbs a lot of oils and dirts and dirty
things. So they said to us that so there are two routes, either you
just wash it very well, or you do exactly what the Prophet said, and
wash it seven times, seven scrubs, and use dirt on the last one.
Whichever way a Muslim does it, he's fulfilled his duty. Right.
Now, you don't need it for cover anything that touches your skin
clothes. You don't have to make wudu from you just have to wash it
off. And you can't pray with it on. So no Jassa Najat that's
covered is being on your skin or clothes or on the place of prayer.
Just wash it off and never requires will do. Only requirement
of will do is what comes out of you and falling asleep. Heavy
sleet.
Anything, any other questions, queries. All right. So that's what
ruins things. Now we go to how do we rectify things, we're going to
rectify things by water by use of water. Okay. And water again is of
three types. This is one of the most amazing things. The first
thing we study in Islam is water. Okay, water is of three types. And
the most important one is the borehole. We're on page 22. Here,
the hood is water that is pure. And you use it for ritual
purification. Now, you might not drink this water. It might not be
drinkable water. Don't confuse the two. Don't confuse that. It's
ritually pure with I would drink it. Right? They're totally
different things. Okay. So what is the the condition for water to be
what we call the whole that you could use it for ritual
purification? That is a it smell hasn't changed? B its taste hasn't
changed and see its color hasn't changed. Okay, the smell, taste
and color. So cruel water, chlorine, it's out. Now you might
say well, chlorine is better than regular water, right? It will make
it more clean. We don't care about that. We care. There's a heavenly
order. And that's what we're following. soap water. soap water
is better than regular water. We say if you have a bowl a pot of
soap water, we still tell you no. Right? You're gonna make will do
with pure water. Alright, so there are exceptions. Rain, water,
spring water, well, water, oceans, lakes, rivers, all of them are a
hole. So you can make wudu from the ocean even though there's salt
in it. You can make it from a river even though the river might
be colored brown. You can make a lake if you come to a lake lakes
are dirty. So what you have to do is
push the water you got to push it and then you can make will do from
that water. Don't make wudu from a lake directly because it's just
that's just common sense. That's not even religion. Okay? That's
just push the water okay, and then make to do. As for rainwater, it
looks
uses its status as pure if it is changed by pollution in the sky,
such as what we emit from our cars, for example, and I tested
this by taking a pot of Tupperware, I put it out during
the rain. And then I smelled it. Nothing looked didn't change, but
I tasted it. And it was so nasty. And this is by Seaside Heights in
my hometown of Toms River. This is not New Brunswick, where we're
only an hour from New York, you could say okay, New York, and
Newark Airport, all the jet fuel. No, this was 10 minutes from
Seaside Heights. And two hours from New York City. The water is
so dirty, so nasty, so nasty. Okay, so just, if you if you ever
in that situation, just put the water up to your mouth. And if
it's got a bad taste to it, that you're like, This is pollution,
right then don't use it.
Okay, so are there any questions on this? This is pure water.
bought the whole water. Now, let's say I'm looking at a bottle and
they say we've added minerals for tastes. Right? All the bottled
water say that? Well, you have to ask yourself is it tastes like
normal water? If the answer is yes, then yes, then you can make
well do from it. Right? We all know what normal water tastes
like. And there's sort of a gradient, but we all know what it
tastes like.
Right we can do the tile here is water that can be used for non
ritual purposes such as eating, drinking, bathing, swimming, soap,
water, tea, milk, orange juice, all of that is fluid that is pure.
Now what what's the importance of this? This section here, the or
this this category of water is that if it's on your close, it
does not affect your prayer. You can pray. So you would not present
yourself with orange juice right in front of someone. But you
should know that God doesn't care if there's orange juice or not.
Right? This is things God doesn't mind. Okay? Allah doesn't mind if
you have that which is pure is clean,
sugary waters, Coke. All of these fluids are not offensive to Allah.
Okay, that's what you have to know you if you pray and it's on you.
Not a problem. Now, what is totally offensive to God and His
angels is the category of the nudges. Okay? The nudges. The
nudges is what we just said urine, defecation, vomit, blood, okay?
Add pus just for just in case, okay, all of these nasty bodily
fluids, okay, get that stuff off of your body off of your clothes.
And it must be it's a law in Islam, there must be
it must be what you would call it disposed of immediately. Like you
can't have diapers hanging around in the sun, you got to put in a
plastic bag and get it out.
There is exception, which is bird poop. And because and there's some
people have an exception with herbivorous animals that don't eat
meat, that they're that their father may be an exception, but
just in case,
all these things must be removed. For this reason the Muslims cared
so much about the cleanliness of the streets. So Muslims were the
first people to establish sewage systems. Why? Because it's a
religious obligation not to have an agenda in the street. Now, what
happens if you step on something, and you need to pray what your
shoes on? The Prophet was asked this question. The women said, O
Messenger of God, our clothes trails behind us. And there are
cows and horses and mules. What do we do? He said, What comes after
it will purify it. So let's say I stepped in poop. And I kept
walking for half a mile more. If you look and you don't find
anything, it's fine. You could just assume that the soil
afterwards, rubbed it off. Purified it off. So we're not we
aren't where people have of reason. We're not hair splitting.
We don't hair split and say, well, there could technically be a
millimeter of urine on my shoe, so I can't pray. Right now. We're
common sense. If you don't see it's not there. Okay. If you don't
smell it, it's not there.
All right. So we'll stop here inshallah. We'll come back and
finish up after the Supreme