Shadee Elmasry – Questions around Tranquility NBF 280
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salam ala we're on
Smilla Rahmanir Rahim Al hamdu lillah wa Salatu was Salam ala
Rasulillah who Allah early he was the woman who Allah welcome
everybody to the Safina society nothing but facts live stream on a
day, which is really a G Bo and have to say because it feels like
it's sprink
it feels like it's Sprake. And it's very strange to have this
kind of weather. And then in a sense, I sort of kind of feel bad,
because
I'm a big fan of the four seasons. And coherence is important to me,
right? You don't eat cereal before dinner. There's a reason for these
things. It's not good for your stomach. Right? And also, for your
psyche. This the seasons exists, right for your psyche.
I think that people experienced the four seasons are going to be
the most
would say, able to handle different things in life. Right?
Because you have contraction, and you have expansion, and you have
all the things in between. Okay, so that's where I feel like I
missed the four seasons. And November should be this time a
month should be a time which we're in jackets.
Idea of people walking around almost in shorts, you could today.
And then a t shirt, it messes. It's messing with my head, this
stuff, this, this global warming is messing with my head. It's like
a transition, where are we headed are we going to be like the
Carolinas, like gorgeous weather. Like it's on one hand, it's good,
on the other hand is really bad. Right? Like, on the one hand, it's
a very nice thing. But on the other hand, it's sort of a nice
thing that's out of place. It's like somebody, when you get to,
you've been waiting for a friend to call you forever, right? Then
you're on unimportant, or really, you're also waiting for a really
important call. But then they both come at the same time. Right? It's
like the one that you want, and the one you have to be at, at the
same time. It's like two different necessities. But that being said,
I watched a Buddhist monk give a TED talk the other day.
And all he really, you know, talked about was that he said that
the reason people have a lot of mental issues today is not just
spiritual is not just family, it's also physical. They're not tired
enough, right? They're not strong enough. People aren't tired
enough, right? They're sitting on their laurels all day, the blood
is not flowing nicely, right.
They're not breathing well, because you don't have to read
they're just sitting there you have shallow breath. And he talked
about parts of the lungs. And doctors can confirm this parts of
the lungs that for some people maybe all day, if not hours at a
time, if not even longer stretches at a time. Never ever gets
stimulated.
Because they it's shallow breathing. The breathing is like
only like 50% of the lung. But when you're running, and you get
this bizarre sensation, it's because for the first time air is
going somewhere you've never felt before, right? You need to take in
so much oxygen. But what is that oxygen doing? It's like
strengthening. It's giving your body food. That's the the food of
the body, right? It's also
when you sweat, you sweat out
all the bad toxins. And that's one of the problems we got here. We
eat junk. But we're not sweating out the toxins. Right? And that's
a problem. When you sweat stuff out, it's really good. You can eat
this junk that we have here. And then you sit you're absorbing all
these toxins. So we just it's all about I came up with a in treating
myself essentially, who never had to sleep at any time never had to
like all youth. I mean, you probably you guys are probably
like that right now. Never had to eat, watch my food, eat anything
at any time of day. This was a great time that I never knew was a
blessing. Right? It'd be 11 at night have a cheeseburger nothing
happens is stay up till two in the morning. Wake up next day as if
nothing happened. Right? never drank water.
And at a period of time, once I got into knowledge and entered the
Ph. D program and was studying and doing dhikr 20 All this all I did
for a period of years. Literally all it did
was in England too. So I didn't even have a lot of friends. Right
did not have a TV. There was no internet dead no Nokia cell phone.
And I realized shoot this is a problem sitting all day is a
problem. Right? But that didn't harm me. But then you hit a wall
and it harms you. You start realizing what in the world
happened and you can't handle that.
510 years of bad habits and they amass you can't fix that
overnight. You
It takes a while to fix that. In the process of learning how to fix
that. I put together the avoid disaster wellness program is not
going to make you an Adonis. But you will guaranteed to avoid
disaster if you follow this wellness program that I invented,
right? All of it's common sense, but it's based upon.
It's all based upon experience. All of it's based on terrible
experiences that probably most guys go through. And I don't know
how they struggled through it, but I put my head to it, I'm going to
find a solution hamdulillah
these things are tried and tested solutions, right? It involves the
first thing it involves is taking long walks, if you can just walk,
right like walking is the first step. I'm not even gonna say
running, just walking. If you have a treadmill next time you're
watching TV, or it's not great to watch too much TV, right? But if
it's the only thing that'll keep you on the stupid machine, then do
it right.
And it's watch it's put something on and put it get yourself a
cheapo any old treadmill. 200 bucks, 195 bucks, 300 bucks,
right? A decent treadmill, and just walk on it. And the beginning
is just walk and try to walk a lot, right.
And Saturday morning, for example, you wake up pretty quiet day, get
yourself a cup of coffee, put it on the ledge there, have a cup of
water, and the remote. Right? and walk and walk and walk and why
watch a whole movie walking, right? You will just it'll
transform you. And then if you every day after dinner, you
suddenly just go get the milk, go to the end of the block, come back
right click rat lap around the block. Just some simple thing just
walking, walking walk. Right number one.
Number two.
Water.
I'm telling you it's secure for your skin. For your hair. For your
your even your mind. Like when some something happens when you're
hydrating yourself. Even your mind clears up. Right? Water tons of
water and replace sodas. So sugar is an enemy right? But with sugar.
We're not going to cancel all sugars at once like some crazy
people do no bread, no pasta. No, the. It's too much. You're already
in a disaster mode. And this is the avoid disaster diet. This is
the avoid disaster wellness program. Okay.
In order to avoid disaster, you got to take it one step at a time.
Don't swap out sodas and you get one exception. You get one
exception. Basically when you're having pizza. I think it's
psychotic to have pizza and water. Right? You ever seen people have
pizza and not have a soda next to it? Right? You worry about such
people. Okay, you need to have an ice soda. You go to an old Italian
pizzeria. Right? There's you either be one of two people.
A skinny guy, or a very big guy. Right. And there should be soccer
playing on the TV. It should not have been there. It should be at
1970s
interior design.
There should be Mary somewhere does got it. I'm not eating if
there's no there's no. Okay.
I know you're a fraud at that point. Every Jersey New York
Connecticut pizzeria is the same. If it's doesn't have these
attributes, walk right out the door. Don't give them your money.
Okay.
That that's the sign of a good pizzeria. Secondly, if there's
customer service, varices be very suspicious.
This is an American eyes person. Right? If it's what you want,
you're on good hands. Okay, you are. So this is basically the only
exception that you get to drink a coke. Okay with ice.
I also don't understand someone who drinks a coke without ice.
Right?
So that's the one exception. So water is the second thing and how
much water Japanese water therapy is absurd amounts of water. Four
cups in the morning, four in the afternoon. Four in the evening. I
took it out to have one of those big
Yeah, one of those big ones. I don't know if I don't even know
what the how many ounces but one of those big ones three times a
day. You're gonna find yourself really good. That's number two.
Number three, eat try as best as possible to be wrapping things up
around
eight, make your way up by nine and be snoring by 10 amazing thing
happened when you do that. Just regulating I'm telling you you're
just changing a little bit at every level. Right? This is if
you're just joining us the avoid disaster wellness program. Okay,
that's come up over experienced that's number three. Number four
is a bit disgusting but it is
Is it's important, I have to say it for your own benefit. A lot of
people, they walk around lazy, tired and miserable. And one of
the reasons for that is that the Western civilization, they don't
know a lot of things, they don't know how to go to the bathroom.
Okay? They go to the bathroom in such a manner. All right? That
nothing It doesn't squeeze out what's in your in your bowels.
Okay, what's your in your intestines or your bowels or
whatever the biology is going on down there.
It doesn't do anything. And then they try to sell you a stool to
sit on no pun intended, I guess, to sit on. Okay. And that's
terrible, too. It doesn't do anything for you. It's a you sit
on it, I mean, and you put your feet on it, it elevates your feet,
it slightly squeezes your stomach useless. It's useless. The only
way is the old fashioned way, how human beings have been doing this
behavior since the dawn of time, okay, is to squat and to squeeze
that junk out. Okay. Every time I open you to one of these days, I
see this bizarre advertisement. And these people selling you a
potion.
A gut doctor basically, coming on the non TV with an actor and
actress and saying about stuck poop. And how it bloats you, it
makes you miserable. And that stuff could actually believe it or
not start if you have any weakness in your lining of your body
inside. If that stuff starts to ooze out bad chemicals, that's
where you get your pimples. That's where you get your skin reactions.
And that's what you get all your problems from. Okay. So once a
day, once a day, you got to do this once a day, and how do you do
it? I don't know. And don't ask me about that kid be like, Hey, if
you figure it out, right? How to do it, because we don't have the
toilets for this stuff. But you can find your way to do it.
Alright. Got Adam at the masjid. The one of the janitors there the
end of the building and ground crew. Okay? They always tell me,
they got to always replace toilet seats because people do it at the
masjid. Right, and but don't sit on that don't do it on the seat,
do it on the rim. And you got to wear something on your feet
because it's gonna hurt you. But as disgusting as it sounds, you
got to do it once a day. Okay, because this will clear out
all your intestines over a span of a few weeks, and all of a sudden,
you won't have that terrible feeling. Okay, and another of
stuff. Now, if you're under the age of 35. None of this really
matters to you. But it's gonna. Okay, so you better off get ahead
of the curve.
Okay, so that's, that's the fourth. The next one
is that it sort of saddens me to see people
with very skinny arms, and sort of No, unlike their concave, almost
right, the trust of the concave.
It saddens me because the solution is so easy. Right? If a person was
to simply do just 10 Push Ups a day, you know what that is? It's
essentially not much, right. But it at least will give you
something right? It'll give you something right? At the least 10
Push Ups a day. Right. And this is remember the avoid disaster diet.
We're not You're not going to be an Adonis after this. But in every
realm of your health and wellness, you won't have a disaster. And
that adds up to a healthy person. So I'm not even gonna say push
ups, sit ups and flutter kicks because that covers your whole
body. You do that to cover your whole body. Mark can even say that
because that's too much at one time, just push ups.
Right? Just if a person does what did I list four or five things?
Just these five things on your fingertips. Walking, drinking,
sleeping, right?
waste disposal,
waste management, which is to give it a sophisticated name and push
ups. This doesn't even take time. It hardly takes effort. Right?
You're swapping your water for so your soda for water. It takes no
effort, right? You're saving money.
Alright, so that is the avoid disaster wellness program. Do it
in a year. Firstly, you're right away in two weeks, you're gonna
feel amazing. Even less than that with the sleep less than that, but
you will feel amazing.
Within a year you will be a different person.
You'll be a different person.
That's segment number one. Segment Number two ladies and gentlemen.
On one hand, I sort of want to apologize but I also want to lower
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So that sign up for the ombre trip. That is segment numero dos,
what is segment number three.
And this I'd like it to be clipped out for a short, or a video by
itself.
And the subject of this little segment is the sense of
tranquility that enters into a person's heart
and off and claims of truth, right? Sometimes you hear
something from somebody, and you know that that person is not on
the truth. But a sense of tranquility enters your heart when
you hear it. And you wonder Hold on a second. I'm not supposed to
feel that when he's talking about that when he's talking because
he's on his astray. Other times, you hear the truth and no sense of
tranquility answers your heart and you're wondering what's wrong with
me. Other times you see somebody
who is not on the truth, yet they say, Oh, the sense of tranquility,
I feel it, right. And you notice that every religious person will
tell you and will swear up and down that they feel such a
tranquility with their worship. So how do we make sense of this? How
do we make up and down about this? So, the answer first of all,
is that there are multiple reasons why people have tranquility, while
person will sense have a sense of tranquility. Well, one of the
reasons that people will have a sense of tranquility is internal
consistency. Okay? Now, let me ask you, though, imagine I teach you
and exhibit a some math equations. And we do them I teach you them
in a certain way, and I test you and I prepare you for the exam.
You go to the exam, and you answer them exactly as I taught you,
right?
You come back and the exam, you get an F, right. But when you left
the exam and you answered them exactly the way I taught you, how
do you feel?
You feel great, right? You feel like I did it. Lo and behold, you
get a rude awakening that I taught you all wrong. But between me and
you, you are consistent.
You feel that you did the right thing. So the feeling of doing the
right thing according to what you believe is a source of
tranquillity right
that that doesn't deny that your teachers could have been wrong.
Right That doesn't negate the possibility teacher could wrote
about this.
I got
big burden on my head. I saw Simon stealing from Paul.
Right? It's a burden on my head, right?
All right, I gotta go report it. I go to the boss, I say, Hey, boss.
I saw Simon going into Paul's cash register and stealing the money.
Right hand now how do you feel that you given the testimony you
feel? weights off my shoulder? Okay?
What happens next, you discover Hold on a second. There's a guy in
the company who looks like Simon.
I was mistaken the whole time. Right? So you have tranquillity
about falsehood? If that falsehood was what you thought was true. You
see the difference here? That's the difference. You thought the
falsehood was true. But because you're consistent with yourself,
I'm acting upon what I know is true. Well, what you know, is true
is not absolute, you can make mistakes. And that's one of the
reasons why when you look at and I watched these days, I'm watching a
lot of
I'm watching a lot of rabbits, right? I'm like in the algorithm
now. I know multiple robots. And by the way, their community, it's
smaller than ours. If you know, for example, like just the Desi
world of shoe, you cut it in half. That's the whole rabbinical world,
right? And probably half of them are in English, half of them are
in Hebrew.
Okay, and there's the Arabic Jews and Sephardic Jews, Mizrahi and
Sephardic third, they're negligent. They all speak English
or Hebrew, right? Now.
Imagine in in the American Dawa scene, right? All of the Imams, we
know the scene. We know what the YouTube is going to bring you. We
know who wrote the books, we know who they're quoting. Okay? It's a
small community, every single one of them says, oh, when we practice
this color Holika this is what they call the Sharia. Right. And
we practice all these myths votes. And these devotions, and these are
commandments from God, you feel such peace at your heart. So
what's the reason for that? Just because he's he believes himself
is consistent with what with himself. So internal consistency
is a source of tranquility. That's the point I'm trying to make.
whoever's going to clip this video, might as well summarize
what I just said, and take out what's unnecessary.
Okay. So that's the first reason. And that's that people have
tranquility. And it is not negated by the concept that you could be
wrong, be totally wrong. Right yet, feel a sense of tranquility,
because you believe you're right. And you're consistent with
yourself. Number two.
The second source, it hasn't gone. So good. The second source of
consists of tranquility may be as follows.
Anytime that you devote your all of your energy to something
outside of yourself, it produces a kind of tranquility within you.
And people tend to call that a Zen state. Okay?
Anytime that you, your mind is thoroughly 100%, outside yourself,
meaning my focus is on something else completely. It produces a
type of Zen pneus inside of you. Prayer is one of the best thing
that does that. Now, ask somebody who does any profession. They
always if they do it long enough for a long enough period of time.
And they do it for long sessions. They all say the same thing.
Right? I know a guy who is an electrician, right? And he does
this job and he's working. And it's not a fun job to think he's
like, I get into a Zen state. When he's doing the job, right? It's
relaxation to me, right? I'm upset, I go to a job I take on
take on a job, guy, and he says he likes to do it alone. And he
listens to something. And it is a relief for him. It's a sense of
relief. But we would say for him. The problem with that relief is
that
what you're devoting yourself to Yeah, it's a relief, but it's not
going to solve your problems. In contrast, when you're standing in
front of Allah subhanaw taala. While you're doing that, Allah
also controls the hearts of your adversaries, he also controls
money, he also controls bills, he controls all those things, and he
can go and he can solve those problems, right? Another guy,
college basketball player was watching. He said he gets so many
problems in his life, that shooting free throws just go into
the gym and shoot free throws is the way that he gets away for his
problems. The reason is that eventually after like a bunch of
free throws, and he's like on a roll, his mind is so focused on
something other than himself. So that is a source of tranquility
and quote unquote Zen pneus for a person. But again, you
You devoted yourself to something right or your your your source of
relaxation could not benefit you anywhere else. Except for that
temporary moment in which you're not thinking about your problems,
right? So that's the difference between, you know, prayer and
those other actions, but the similarity is in the idea of being
outside yourself. Number three, the Quran mentions and he speaks
about, Allah speaks about the benefit and value of temples and
synagogues, because Allah Tala tells us the truth, right? What is
the soul? The main we should say? Spiritual, really, we can say the
only spiritual value in temples and synagogues. There are many
social values, okay. Catholic nations.
Catholic people are mentally well off much better off than
Protestant nations. Why? It's like one of the reasons is to have big
families, right? And some people say no, it's not Catholic and
Protestant, it's Mediterranean and Northern European. That's the
break and it's because the Mediterranean people, they have
these huge families and you know, My Big Fat Greek Wedding and all
that, you know, the movie and stuff. I never saw the movie, but
I saw the title. Is it a movie or a play? I don't even know. It's a
movie. So I never saw that. But I You get the idea. Because all
these families are huge. So the family aspect of the church is
really beneficial.
But the point being is that the Quran recognizes the main
spiritual benefit, and that is you've got Wolfie has Mala he
cathedra the names of Allah and the prophets, by extension, their
names by themselves, the word itself brings much tranquillity.
Right?
That's, that's why why why else would Allah does not Allah say?
Don't we say in the US, God Bismillah, Allah, the lead aroma
is me che by the name of Allah,
with whose name no harm can be attached, which means at that very
moment, that's the only good deed you did. Like it does have a
positive impact Allah has just, and he gives you the positive and
the negative, right? So the positive part of that is that the
devils Satan's and devils despise, to hear the name of Allah, Jesus,
Moses, marry, whatever you say else in the sentence, they may
have had a part of that, right? They may be involved in that, and
they are happy that you're misguided, but they despise the
mere name, Jesus, Isa, whatever you language you want to call it.
Moses, J, Allah Elohim, whatever you want to call it, in any
language, they despise that name. And there was one time a guy who
said that he had a I
started thinking about this a lot.
When a guy came, and I'm not one of those who says, Oh, he's a
Christian, he's a liar. And that's not that doesn't make any sense.
It's not a way to do things. There was a guy who had no religion,
Christian, of course, but no religion, had a massive, terrible
accident and was knocked up passed out completely.
In he woke up and testified, none there have no reason not to
believe his testimony. Right?
A non religious Christian guy has a terrible accident wakes up and
tells the story. He says that I woke up I when I went in, when I
got knocked out in the accident.
I was in a coma. I guess in a coma. He said, I felt like my soul
was being attacked by devils. They kept attacking my soul and
laughing as they're attacking my soul. And I felt like all my whole
body's being scratched up.
And at that moment, I was scared as I ever was ever,
at that moment. And so I said, I reached back, I didn't know what
to say, or who to call upon. All I remembered, was childhood Sunday
school. So I started saying, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, the moment I
said that, they started screeching, and saying, Stop, stop
saying that word. Right? And I kept saying, Jesus, Jesus helped
me. And then
all of a sudden, they shrunk away as if they were hearing scratch
the, you know, scratching noises, and they couldn't stand it and
they ran away. He woke up and he realized it because it could
become a Christian again. Now, how do we make heads and tails of
this?
His conclusion that's calling out Jesus means that the Christian
doctrine is true. That's a mistake. Yet at the same time,
I don't know if that's the case. If we do if you follow me and you
take his word for it, that that actually happened. There is an
explanation for it. It's not what you believe about Jesus, you may
be mistaken in your belief about Jesus, you may be mistaken about
everything else, but the name of Jesus bothers them.
And that's why
I Allah mentioned youth Kuru fie has Mala he cathedra. He, he says
that is the it's as if he says only good thing that you have that
you say Allah's Name much. And that causes the Satan's to leave.
And when the Satan's leave, there is a sense of tranquility you're
at Nate normal nature now plus the added blessing and the and the
beauty and the lights that come down with the names of Allah and
His messenger. All his prophets. Okay, now everything else you say
about it is pleasing to say and in fact,
and I'll tell you why. And I'll link this with segment number four
of this of this of today's episode. So that's the third
reason that tranquility can coexist with falsehood.
Is that number one?
The first thing we said was it being internally consistent with
what with yourself, even if you're wrong, at that moment, you're
going to be all messed up when you hit a wall. Like all the
communists. When communism collapsed, they, they hit a wall,
they thought this was reality. For many people, you think there's a
reality? Okay, that you think something is true. And then you
hit a wall? Okay, I'll never forget one time
defeating an opponent in a championship game that believed
for the whole season and the whole game that they're gonna win.
Right? It's a belief, right? They're already celebrating. And
then we made like, a miraculous comeback at the end. And they
totally collapsed. But it was different than seeing any other
person that you defeated. Because we all saw that for a decent for,
I would say, half of the third period of the game, or more than
that, no more than that. More than half that 15 minutes. Let's say
for 15 minutes, they all believed the championship was a lock. You
could feel it in the air. Like you could every one of the moms are
joking now no one was tensing with this championship game right. Now
no one's tense. You also have Mohamed Sanu when it was 23,
having a party on on the sideline.
Right. And the other play the older players like gotta be
careful. They got Tom Brady, they got Bill Bella check, right. And
he's having a party on the sideline. So when you that high
up, and then you crash, it has a tilt, you can see different look
on their face. And sometimes they never recover. None of those guys
recovered, follow all their careers. Julio Jones, Julio Jones
never made another important catch in his life. He we're getting into
Tafseer of football here. But he never made another important name
one significant play that he made in his life and his whole career.
And he's still playing. Okay, anyway, people will have a rude
awakening, rude awakenings exists when you for years believe
something to be true. And it turns out not to be true. That's a
problem. That's why you got to be very careful when you construct
when you take on a belief. That's number one. Number two,
we saw he said that internal consistency with yourself. Even if
you're proof, you're going to learn later that you're wrong. But
that internal consistency gives you sukeena. Okay, that's why
liars, they don't have a schema to themselves. No, he's like, okay,
that's number one. Number two, is we said that
focusing on anything outside yourself, people who pray do this
more and more intensely and more in quantity than anybody else. And
as a result, you're focusing on something outside yourself,
whatever that is, whether it be shooting free throws, painting a
wall, doing dishes or jogging, people say they're getting into
Zen state when they jog, anything where you're not focusing on
yourself, you're thinking about something else. And prayer is
probably at the top of that list. And that's the second reason that
they get Sakina and tranquility. The third reason the mention of
God's name and his prophets names, even if the theology is wrong than
the name expels Satan, and does have goodness connected to it, we
can never deny that even if a Christian keeps saying that right?
Or a Jew, or what have you. So that's three reasons. So when a
person is telling, let's say, a wonderful story, and they're a
Christian or a Jew, and I'm a Muslim, and I know they're wrong,
and I don't believe in anything that they're saying that they
believe, but they tell you a beautiful story about God and say,
Okay, I'm gonna even know that the narration is true, but the story
touches your heart. Or you see about the devotion, the nature of
a person's devotion, right. I was listening to one of the rabbis and
I'm telling you I was touched. He was saying he doesn't understand.
Okay, he does not understand how people could say such terrible
things about God. Right and feel no pain in their heart. I thought
Subhanallah that devotion is a beautiful thing, and it touches
your heart. So, at first I'm like, wait a second is this. How do I
make sense of that? Well, that's this is how because sometimes it's
the devotion that is good not
theology, the devotion is nice.
Next, this is also how we explain many people have deviated or false
beliefs. We believe that they have false beliefs, but they will
testify that they have great Sikhism. Well, I just gave you the
three reasons why. Now, the fourth reason, or the fourth item here,
not really your third, the fourth to the third, but separate subject
is Sakina, by itself is never a method of arriving to the truth.
It cannot be, it could be something that is salt on top of
it, it could be something that supports it, it should be
something that sweetens it, but it is never by itself, a source of
the truth. And this is the mistake many beginners make
in the beginning, and I think over time, people do reconcile this
stuff, but they just haven't put it in words the way I did just
know. Right. And that's the importance of putting things into
words so you can remember them.
They know they feel something is good, they follow it. And
something else inside of it. Makes them leave it.
So they'll come upon some religious preacher, and he makes
them feel so good.
Then halfway, maybe but a year later, they realize this doesn't
make sense, right? But I feel so good. And that puts them in a
problem. They're, they're in a bind, like this stuff doesn't make
sense. Or it feels so good. But it's not practical. Right?
It's not practical, or it feels so good. But this is ruining my life.
Sort of right. Many religions ruin your life. If you don't practice
it properly. They will say okay, study. Alright, I'm studying. But
while I'm studying, I'm not working. I'm not going to school.
You wake up one day, oh my gosh. I'm 29.
I studied 20 books. And my I have no income. I need to get married.
The clock is ticking on me. Right. And you look around, and your
friends from school. Right? Your youth friends are all having two
kids already having a six figure salary. The other one. The next
one, you know,
is finishing up a fellowship in medical school. After medical
school, and you hit a wall that's where your your beliefs that this
is good, the studying is great. This is the best thing you could
do. That is a belief, right?
All of a sudden it hits a wall. Turns out I was wrong the whole
time. I should have studied and pursued some kind of worldly
thing. Now I'm
floundering. Well guess who benefits from that? shaytaan.
Number one make you regret everything make you hate your
teachers. And then all of a sudden you can be an extremist, extreme
people go to extremes. Okay, well, what's my method of earning now? I
guess I have to get a lot of attention.
Right? And maybe, you know, becoming a get a job as a speaker
somewhere and get a speaker's contract. Oh, what does that gonna
give you 500 bucks to give a talk.
All right, I gotta give an amazing talk, because maybe this talk will
lead to another talk. So you start being crazy. Let's start getting
attention. Let's start, you know, saying something so unique. They
got to invite me again, you're gonna go straight like this,
right? It's not a way to live. So
that's a problem, right? So Sakina it is something that it adds
support, but it has to be complemented or the foundation has
to be rational and textual, rational and textual. Okay,
practice has to be practical. Right? When you practice it has to
suit your dunya. This higher to dunya has to that's why I love
herbal Hasina. Shahidi. He was Sufi leader in Egypt. He's
Moroccan originally, he ended up preaching in Alexandria, Egypt.
And he had conditions you have to have a job. It's part of your
social familial well being
Alright, to physically have a job to have an income to be able to
have a wife to have relations with, well, physical relations if
you don't you have problems too. Okay. So in any event, I hope that
clarifies for a lot of people the concept of 16 I know I got a bit
long winded about it. But that's the concept and you got to
understand
you cannot ever really overthink or overlook this stuff. So people
get confused. And then they end up saying things that make no sense,
right? Like, oh, don't dare ever appreciate. You know something
from a doctrine that's false. But that's not in line with reality.
Because sometimes you do hear something from somebody who is
misguided, we would say, and it's but you
opes but you do try to reconcile these things. That's how you
reconcile it. This is how you reconcile these things. Okay.
Truth is never known is not driven by Sakina. Like some likewise,
some people their
fifth
common folk, they make this mistake. Is that fifth rulings on
Sharia. It's like, driven by
compassion. Right? Allah is merciful. So why is this ruling
tough? That's not what drives the law.
That's not what drives the law. What drives the laws? Did God say
it or not? Did the Prophet say it or not? Yes or no, that's what
drives something being a law or not a law in our religion.
Okay.
Good.
Connection has been severed is it?
No, it's fine. I guess. Right. We never severed did we know. Okay.
All right. What are the other segments that we needed to cover
before you go to our guests? Let's go to our guests right away. Is he
here? I tell them to come on quick, because I have to actually
be I got the pickup today
Yep.
He's still not here. Everyone. What is the big deal with the bin
Laden letter? Let me just okay. shook us rod and Humvees and the
bin Laden letter? Well, the first thing that comes to my mind with
the bin Laden letter, is that the sourcing of it, you know, as
somebody, we're always asked for evidence and sources more How do I
know that's authentic? That's the first thing. Is there any way to
make to know that this thing is authentic?
Secondly, I read it.
I didn't see there.
I didn't see I didn't see like,
I didn't really read it carefully. I just skimmed it. But
he's citing all the grievances. Right.
And I didn't understand like, is this like, anything new here?
These grievances? Why are Why are liberals? I mean, I guess I
welcome it. But why are liberals saying they're mind blown? The
reality is, like, crushed now. Right? Like, I don't understand
how it reached that level. Anyway, I'll read it again. But sec, I'll
read it. Not holding, considering it basically like reading a
hadith with no chain.
Right? Because
even a hadith with no chain is superior, because it's the words
of the Prophet. But let's say a story with no chain. Because I
really don't know. We nobody really knows who wrote this.
Right. That's number one. Number two, what am I believe about Bin
Laden? The premise of it is that he took credit for the bombing,
right? Why I attacked America.
That's where I think that he's sort of pulling a fast one on
everybody because he didn't do it. He admitted, he also said he
didn't do it. And then he said he did it.
Right, the week after 911. He said he didn't do it's on CNN, right?
It's still there in the archives. The week after 911. He said, No, I
never did this. Right. I'm telling you, they had did not have the
capacity to do it. They know they don't have the capacity to do it.
As a result. He never even imagined it. He was probably as
shocked as anyone when he saw it. And he said, Oh, they're going to
put it on me. Initially, the truth came out. Oh, no, I didn't do it.
That's the first reaction is always usually the truth. Then,
hey, they're blaming us. Let's play the villain. Right? Let's,
let's let's let's Whoa, the jihadi world. They're gonna love us now.
Right? They were the top of their number one Jedi group. Right? The
give you basically stole the moon. Okay, this is the number one
criminal act that could be done in the villain world. What's the
villain world's called? Right? In the villain world? You are number
one. No. Okay. You pass vector you pass Gru. Okay, you are number one
in the villain world right now. You are the villain champs. So he
said Alright, let's take it. He was better than nothing. Right? So
I believe personally that a zero ability competence, resources to
ever do this or come close to this to doing this number two. I think
that he said, You know what?
All right, let's say let's say say we did it. Let's play along. All
right, well,
because at least it gives us something in our little world that
we're the ones who gave America blaka. So that's my belief, in
terms of the precedent that are the premise of the letters is that
he
is that he did it. So that's why he took credit.
Hey, it's a credit to flex exactly what chocolate was this? Right?
It's not like it was gonna be taken away.
prac let's be practical here. They put it on him. Do you think
there's like an ever they're gonna ever retract it? No. So let me let
me do jujitsu here and see how far we could go with this. Okay.
Yeah. Thirdly, as a little footnote, just take a look at
footage of bin Laden.
I don't know if you get in trouble for this. But look at footage of
bin Laden over the years. Right? There's a certain point, the guy
on those videos is not bin Laden. I guarantee you. You look at the
footage of Ben Latin for a bunch for a while. So you get to know
his face.
Then compare it to the last few videos. It's not been Latin,
right? All of a sudden his beard is darker. What they got dye. They
got just for men over there. Right? If anything, he would have
dyed his hair orange henna. With the reddish No, all of a sudden
got a black beard. Right? So they're out in the caves of
Afghanistan, but they have just for men down the road, right? Are
they got their own type? His beard looks different. His whole face is
different. And that's why the video has to be grainy. Right?
It's grainy. So I'm supposed to believe that these guys who don't
even have cameras,
but they're gonna hijack planes. Come on. You cannot be dumb,
basically.
Okay.
Robert Westmoreland also agrees to different people. All right.
Haley Edwards is saying Rukia
there's two, there's a couple of different things. First of all,
there are a car the general protections that will protect you.
Well in advance from the comings of Satan's and demons and if they
do come at you and attack you, these will obliterate them. And
that is called the reminder the remembrance of Allah of the
morning in the evening, and it wears off every sunset and
sunrise. Not wears off. But the shelf life. It's got a shelf life.
Right? Why does it have a shelf life? I don't know. Why does water
have a sofa? I drank in the morning. Why am I thirsty in the
evening? Why do you ask questions like this? Right? It where it
doesn't wear off it has a shelf life, right? Just like anything
else has a shelf life I took a shower.
Today, I'm gonna have to take another one tomorrow. It happens.
So that's that's how life is the the remembrance of the morning and
the evening. You can find examples of them and they're many different
compilations of prayers that's what they are compilations of
prayers that protect you according to the Quran and according to the
Prophet peace be upon him. You can find it as Safina
society.org/witted W IRD. Okay, so if you decide to org slash wit, W
IRD. Alright, so listen to them. One in the morning, listen to one
in the evening, until you memorize it, and then start reciting it
yourself. You do that? You'll be ahead of the curve against the
demon world and the shale team.
I mean, like for dominance funded program, you know, like, for what
I do?
Is there a reason for that? Rather than just keeping it to where? No,
the more more? Yeah, stronger. It's like washing your hands once
in the morning at once at night versus four or five times in the
day. All right.
Okay, next, what else did people want to do? One is an introduction
or DME goodness, I guess he's from Turkey. I'm new here. Can you
introduce yourself and what kind of videos to try to make? Or is
there a video about that? My name is Shadi, animosity. We're out in
New Jersey. We're streaming here in the city of New Brunswick, a
live stream that is meant to bring the fundamental core teachings of
the religion of Islam. Right, along with q&a, current events
analysis from a Muslim lens, the lens of the Quran and the lens of
Islamic theology. Okay, and we stream three times a week to do
that. And we have an educational platform called Ark view. We have
a mosque called the New Brunswick Islamic Center, and we have a
seminary called dotted FET. And we have a soup kitchen, which is
downstairs called La Cosina. We have a lot of things going on. And
this is our online wink. Essentially, our YouTube channel
has clips of these live streams plus other videos. Okay, and
that's essentially what Safina society is. So thanks
You for, for asking that because we oftentimes assume that people
know what's going on. Okay?
What else do people want to say? Sheikh Hamza Yusuf, and Asad
Rashid.
So the thing is, whenever you have a critique of Sheikh Hamza use of
the wording is always put in a way that could have two different
meanings. And in this clip, it stated that extremists only want
one
group to worship on the Temple Mount.
And when you listen to it, you start thinking that what he meant
was that
Muslim extremists only want
one group
to worship there, and that there is room I think he just said,
there's room for like a synagogue and a mosque or something like
that.
So people said, Well, what is what are you saying? Are you basically
advocating for there to be a synagogue
on the temple on the on the haram? Haram, Al Sharif is called that
whole area on the top of a hill, it's on a hill. It's all marble
that has gates, it has a dome of the rock and has Mr. Luxor. That
to us is the third most sacred area. The mosque is there, but the
whole thing is like a hum. It's treated as sacred space. So they
said to him, or people replied, basically and said, How could you
want a synagogue? On that place? The synagogue is saying, what's
false about God? Like very false things about God? Now that I'm a
man, I'm in the rabbi algorithm, right?
I'm in the I'm in the rabbi algorithm. I know, some of the
things that they say, and I'm going to share with you some stuff
that they say even just today, just discussions about today, or
contemporary discussions, theological discussions where
they're way off. So
he said that and inflamed the number of people, but some people
said no, no, he meant Jewish extremists. And that's where, when
you you see
Sheikh Hamza as clips over time, you start to see a pattern is that
it don't exactly know what he's saying. It could be read in two
different ways. Just like the perennial list thing, where he
said that I don't believe in perennialism. Okay, but that
doesn't mean currently as Miss Cofer. Most people will probably
assume Okay, he's, he's not that. But is it? kofler? That's the
question. Is it disbelief if I become a perennial list? I don't
believe it's, it's it's, this is what he says basically, I don't,
I'm not a parentless. And I believe that Islam has abrogated
all premises. Okay. That's wonderful. No, that wasn't the
accusation. That wasn't the question. The question is,
why don't you not say that it is Cofer. Because you're a scholar,
you gotta clarify truth from falsehood, right. So things like
this, and up that you can never pin down a mistake per se. Because
things can be read in different ways. Right. So and that's another
that's this one probably could say is another example of that. Shika
strada, she did clarify something very important in the religion,
which is that the hadham When we say message Luxa it means a whole
lot, um, like the Kaaba. It's the whole mosque. And the Kaaba is a
structure for those who are new to Islam and the Kaaba is a black, or
it's a structure, a cubical structure that symbolizes sanctity
in Islam. We don't say it's, it's in itself sacred, right? Like all
might have been cut up said, I know that your rocks you don't
benefit or harm, right? But Allah has appointed this structure as a
symbol of sanctity. Right? So we treat it in a sacred way. It is
the direction of the prayer. We don't pray to it, but we pray
towards it as a direction it is the unifier of the OMA. It's a
symbol of Islam, the Kaaba. The Kaaba is a structure inside of a
huge mosque, that Muslims have expanded over time because of
need. The first expand it was all made up. Then it was expanded
later and later and continue expanding. We are allowed to
expand it if we need it, right. All of that is the sacred mosque.
You can enter it with the with gender agenda, for example.
Ginebra is ritual impurity, like after a man has slept with his
wife? Yes to take a shower
with the intention of entering into a state of ritual purity,
right. Things like that has a wet dream or woman menstruate Alright,
you're upon Janab ordinate or your job No. Woman is hot. If she has
menstruate, for example. Just take a shower before you enter the
mosque. That's an example. Okay.
Someone says if it wasn't cool for wouldn't he believe in it? No, not
necessarily. You could believe that it's a mistake. Right? So
it's not just she's asking about the perennialism. perennialism is
not just a matter of is it code? Or is it truth? It could be
something in between there. kofler is the worst kind of disbelief,
right? It's completely contrary to Islam cover something completely
contrary to Islam. Right, to the point that you are not a Muslim
anymore, if you hold this belief.
So there's less than that. There's innovation, where we can't say
you're not a Muslim, but your deeds are not acceptable to us
that to Allah Amin, your deeds will not be accepted. Unless you
take back what you believe.
Okay, you refuse to pay me rent, right? You owe me $5,000 to three
months of rent. You refuse? I'm not paying you. Guess what? I'm
not paying you. But I did bring you a gift. Here's a cake. Here's
a cupcake. Get your company get here. Give me my $5,000 why I give
you cupcakes. At least I should be nice. Right? You should be nice to
me. All right. No. Rejected,
smiles and sees me in the masjid smiling. Your smile is rejected.
Right? Right or wrong. We treat people like that. So likewise,
with Allah if you have certain beliefs that is very clear in
Islam, but it's not widespread.
It's very clear in the Quran, or Hadith, and you go against it
knowingly, you're still a Muslim, but your deeds are not accepted
with Allah, we won't pray behind you marry you do anything with
you. Okay, that's called innovation, then there's something
that the words of God and His Prophet can be understood in
different ways.
And there are a number of correct interpretations.
And you chose something outside that. So we say about it, it's,
you're just in a mistake, we're not going to sit we cannot say
your deeds are fully rejected. And we cannot say you're not a Muslim.
So that's a misguided error. Okay, in this one issue, you're
misguided. That doesn't mean everything about you is miscut. So
that's the concept of the layers of differences. Also, the last
layer of this the most innocent one completely is valid
differences of opinion. So the language of the Quran and Hadith,
sometimes it can carry one meaning and sometimes it can carry many
meanings, many valid meanings right.
Within those you choose to hold the one I choose to hold another
we can't blame each other. That's what we call a valid difference of
opinion. Okay, and that's where no problem at all and having those
opinions even in your course of your life you can change I once
held this now I'm going to do that no problem because they're all
valid. So that for the for the answer to the sisters question
melody is that not believing something does not mean that I
hold it to be
no for example, I may not be humbly in my school of thought
that doesn't mean I hold it to be innovation or wrong or Cooper
okay
all right, ladies and gentlemen, we got to run
okay
hello, ye says I agree he was too harsh.
Okay, it's up to that's a matter of opinion in which you can have a
multiplicity of opinions but I don't think that he was incorrect
what he said that the content was sounds in my opinion, but whether
you need to call someone in ignoramus or not and get angry
that's that's really subjective.
Because someone may say Listen, he's been dealing with and
refuting she comes as statements for many years now. So he just
like enough is enough. And others may not know that so they may
think that he was very harsh.
By the way they do know each other and they talk all the time.
Okay
is Shiva straw Rashid, a moshed shake a straw Rashid has a
spiritual path he completed at the hands of a scholar much in the way
of the spiritual path and that scholar
I studied with his brother assayed Mohammed Allawi al Maliki. He's he
took
His spiritual path is with the brother who passed away. May Allah
have mercy on they both passed away. And so, but he does not take
disciples not that I know of, but he can give out I'm sure I would
odd our prayers.
Okay. Chow says it's not the first time that Hamza Yusuf has said
something that sort of confused everybody or bothered some people.
And that's probably why he was harsh. That's fine. That's that's
how I understood it.
Ooga panda says, Have you heard of Benny Islam?
That sounds like something. Sheikh Hamza says that treating Muslims
as a tribe, he says, Benny Islam, meaning just defend Muslims at all
costs. That's what he said. So if it's other than that, I didn't
hear about it.
Okay.
Isn't a reaction clip a bit of rolling of the eyes in which we
are warned about in terms of form of backbiting? I would say that it
depends on how the reaction clip is done. A reaction clip can be
done. Number one.
To clarify mistakes. We should have those reaction clip. I don't
believe if it's a Muslim, and you're dealing with a pious Muslim
who's trying but he made a mistake. They shouldn't
be demeaning to that Muslim, unless it depends on the level of
the mistake two ramie tell him put a synagogue suggested putting a
synagogue on and we're next semester. If that's what was
intended. I can understand someone being very angry at that. Okay.
But I What should we should know the level of the error too. We
should also look at the person who's making the error and the
track record. Okay. This is one of the things that I disagreed with
Daniel hochiki. Chu, is that the track record of some of his people
that he attacked? It's a good it's generally a good track record,
they made some terrible mistakes. Right? I mostly, he does put out
evidence almost
for years before this, where I always read all his stuff, and it
was always all good. It's my point of difference was when you take
someone who's you to tell they made a mistake. Or they're on a
they made a conclusion that we could say is not right. And they
ended up with some blatant errors. Okay, but is this person, someone
who is just rejecting the truth? Or did they make a mistake? So,
and I'll tell you why he took one route. And,
and I didn't take that route, I took another route. Because I took
the route that I felt was cohesive, coherent, he took the
route that was effective, because he, whether you like it or not, he
did affect a change. He made people so nervous about supporting
any liberal idea, okay, or you will be smeared, your life will be
altered. I'm not kidding, when I say your life will be altered, if
he comes at you. Right?
Your life will be miserable. If he comes at you, at least for that
period of time that he comes at you. And I just because I felt
that that wouldn't be right for me to do that to another Muslim. Even
no matter how misguided they're at, what I'll do is, I'll just
clarify what I believe is to be true. And it's haram for me to do
that. Okay.
My method, that method, not my method is most immense, right?
I'll tell you the problem with is not effective.
We're not effective. I'm telling you, that's straight. When we
politely make a correction,
it's effective in making people know that, okay, he doesn't
believe that.
And he responded, but it does not alter people's behavior. It's not
painful. That's why I say that's the will of Allah because I am
bound by Sharia. I'm bound by the Sunni and the Shia and that Allah
is the Creator. He can change things how he wants, but I am
bound by certain behavior. I'm not bound by the result. I'm bound by
certain behavior. Right. And that's, that's the conclusion that
I reached.
He looked at it and he had, by the way, this is thought out. This is
not something that I remember, way back. He said something like,
I'm going to be doing my own thing that a lot of you guys can't do.
Right. I didn't know what he was talking about. I found I
discovered that later on. Right. But it's one thing to be
effective. Right? If you want to be effective, it's different. If
you're an Imam, you can't you can't do certain things. Right.
Such as, like, let's say, repeatedly, referencing a person's
terrible blunders.
until many people who are new to the scene feel that that's all the
person does. And that's his policy, as opposed to a mistaken
action. All right. So I'm saying these things so that people could
know
you know, how we, how I analysis analyze these things
so that's where the, the issue here was about being harsh and
demeaning. And but I have to say, truth is that
truth is that shift a surah.
That was just like off the cuff. You can't he's not his pattern of
being angry or demeaning. Like that. Okay, I haven't started
reading intellectual Intifada, and I'm going to do that
ladies and gentlemen,
unfortunately, I got to run.
Shoot, got a 1520 minute drive. Alright, ladies and gentlemen.
Subotica law Moby Dick. Misha Illa Illa. Antinous doc Falcone today
call us in Santa Fe, of course, Ill Alladhina amanu aminu sorry.
What about sobered up? What was so bizarre it was salam aleikum wa
rahmatullah?
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