Shadee Elmasry – Sacred Activism w Dawud Walid NBF 317
AI: Summary ©
AI: Transcript ©
Hey Manuela welcome everybody to the SOFIA society nothing but
facts live stream on a rainy Tuesday, which is going to last
Tuesday before the month of Ramadan, which is coming in upon
us on Sunday evening we'll be checking. And most of the Eastern
worlds apparently will not be seeing any Hillels any new moons
on Sunday evening as estimated, Alright, why don't you want to
pull up the halal or the crescent moon watch websites? Okay, most
likely, and then we will end up waiting for San Diego to do us a
favor will end up be waiting for Hawaii or one of these other deep,
you know, western cities to find us, you know,
to find this that Hillel so that we can
we can be in line aligned with our local massages because all the
local masajid like I would say 90% of the country, they operate by
the Mecca calendar. The Mecca calendar is when the moon would be
visible. Right. And it's always an issue and always a problem. You
know, when you're you're
community's on one wavelength and you're on another wavelength, you
don't want that weight is the worst first date on without no not
an issue. Because you could show up to taraweeh
and pray to it. But you can't show up to eat, and just say let me
just do what everyone's doing.
It's a problem. So Hamza, we won't have much of an issue for aid. But
we probably will have an issue for the first day of Ramadan. And
that calendar is mostly correct. It's once every seven years you
have an issue, right? And we're lucky because we're all the way on
the western hemisphere. So we got to wait on for all those countries
to have a moon sighting. Right? And if just one of them has a moon
sighting, call us we're off the hook. Right? Then our A Beta is in
accord to the maturity of all the methods which is now why is it
Moon sighting over this calculations? The reason is that
the moon sighting is something that everyone has access to. And
the city requires acts of worship, to be done in such a manner that
it's definitive. So a calculation is not something that a single
Muslim in New Jersey knows how it's done.
Right? If no clue how it's done, you just trusting somebody and
religion and major matters of religion like this cannot be based
upon trusting somebody expertise, anything that's limited to
expertise. right in? It can it's not accepted for our I bet for a
bet that you can accept it for other things, but not even that.
So even the even the calculations of the prayer times, right? Just
merely the the the number on a calendar is not sufficient. But
there's no harm in that because I could just wait five minutes. And
then pretty much sure it'll be in. So Allah Tala gave us the sun.
Everyone has access to the access to the sun. And he gave us the
moon everyone has access to the moon as Shem so welcome Ruby
husband solar to Raman. Right. The sun and the moon are by are meant
for us to know how we're operating in the day, and how we're
operating regarding the month. Okay.
All right. So that's, that's coming up. We are streaming.
today. We're streaming tomorrow. We're off Thursday, though.
Thursday, we are off.
And
Thursday, we're off. We're not streaming Thursday. I'm off
Thursday. But then we are streaming on Ramadan up to the
last 10 days. So we are streamed Monday, Tuesday Wednesday, but
Ramadan hours are two o'clock. So it's two o'clock to let's say four
o'clock in Ramadan and then last 10 days, it's lights out. All
right, we're lights out on the last 10 days. I want to read a
little bit and I have tafsir hear from students from students at
Bacara on Imam al Badawi Muhammad Baba we on his say his
mother to him.
Gotta Rasulullah Donna about the Humala about
these messengers, we preferred some over the others, some over
others. What is the meaning of that? That means each prophet was
given a different virtue that no other prophet was given.
Each profit was given a different gift. So each profit is unique.
Right from every other profit, and it is said that we could find a PS
for the miracle of every profit or the gift of every profit given to
our messenger. So Allah what He said or something superior. And
it's not true that the Prophet was given every miracle that every
other prophet was given. That's not true. But you can argue that
he was given something superior to that. Now why would we
say that we say that because what is the purpose of a prophetic
miracle? It's to point people to him. Right? to It is a statement
from Allah two out of that this is a truthful out. There's a truthful
messenger. He's telling the truth, the sign of his truthfulness is a
couple of things. Number one, he confirms the messages before him.
Number two, he behaves righteously.
We see righteous teachings from him. Number three, he has
miracles. So miracles is not the only sign that Allah sweet, he's
speaking the truth. Why do we have to say that because the jet also
has co article that the judge does things that normal everyday people
don't never do. So what is the difference between that and a
miracle? The judge, at some point in time, he tells you, he's a
king, then he says, I'm a prophet of a messenger, then he says, I'm
God Himself. Okay.
So the so the assessment is not just the miracle, the assessment
is, does is it in line is is his teaching aligned with the previous
prophets. And that's where we can say, his Kawada, that is Cofer. Or
or it's rejected. It's from Shaytaan, its source is darkness.
There's a world of darkness. And there's a world of light all the
Hindu gurus, and all the Hindu Shiva 's and all these people,
they do call out about that. But their sources darkness, it's a
world of darkness. And it's the world of the dark jinn, and black
magic and all that stuff. So it's important to know this, because
essentially, a lot of good debt is not limited to profits, we have to
understand that a lot of people can do things that you've never
seen before. Alright. So if you notice the ads about profits is,
and I confirm what came before us.
So say now Isa, comes doing miracles and confirming the
teaching of Moses, the position of prophethood, in Moses, in the
Torah, it's not the law that he's confirming. It's the octina That's
confirming, because clearly a new messenger comes in, he brings a
new law. So what how is his confirmation of the past law?
relevant notes a confirmation of DACA? Not the new law. Okay, it's
a confirmation of those past profits. So I had this debate with
somebody one time, he says, Because you all actually don't
believe that miracles
are intrinsically different
halacha that are intrinsically different from what like the jello
does? And the answer is no, they're not different. In a
miracle, Allah says, confer Kuhn live, and he lives, that that gel
is not doing these miracles by himself, Allah Himself. Everything
is by His power, the good and the evil. Right? Good and evil are by
His power. The judge does not do any of these. They're not miracles
are codified that changes of the norm. He only does them because
Allah permits them that simple answer to that, right? Because
Allah does it through him to test us. We don't even say Allah
permits it, as if there's another power. And Allah is allowing that
power to do its thing. No, Allah does everything. He does those
things, and he has the right to test us. So the difference being
this to Judd is going to speak words of Cofer, when compared to
the opposite of the previous Prophet, which is Mohammed Salah
when he was meant all the mbf say, Now, Isa will come, he will do go
out of debt, and he will affirm the update of previous prophets,
okay. And the law of the Prophet Muhammad, Salah is synonym. So as
a result, we can follow that, let's say a blind person comes
upon, or a person who have never seen the image of say nice, it's
not loaded, he looks like he's never seen another Muslim.
And now Prophet ASA comes to him. And he does these cloudify that he
raises the dead he does whatever the miracles that he's going to do
in the end of time, just a hypothetical. This is not going to
happen. Because all Muslims are in touch with other Muslims. But
Let's hypothetically say he's in a position where he can't ask a
scholar, he asked to make a judgement for himself. So someone
does a miracle right in front of him.
The question is, am I not going to follow you just because of a
miracle? Right? Give me some other evidence that I should obey you.
And in what am I obeying you? And the point is and really, this is
almost insulting, irrelevant, because Prophet ASA never commands
anybody to anything contrary to the Sharia.
schicken McGee in a video series that we're going to release on
questions and answers we asked one of the questions I asked him was
when someone claims to be an Imam and Maddie,
how do we confirm him? And what do we do about it? And he actually
paused a while for this and he said all of us should try to be a
MACD. And what he meant by that is that what is the MACD other than
A Muslim who, who acts upon the Sharia, and the Mende acts upon it
at the biggest level, the level of nations, right? He unifies nation
nations come under him, but he's literally doing nothing other than
acting upon the Sharia that's between our two hands right now.
So he says, As long as you know, the shittier.
And in terms of your judgment of him, if you feel like I'm not
strong enough to judge what he's doing, we'll ask other scholars
and they affirm that this is the correct action according to the
shittier that we support him. There is no Aki, the point that
says I have to believe you are the Maddie. We support him. That's it.
If he's the mentee that the Prophet intended or not is
irrelevant, because there is no act and Shetty called affirming
the Mandy, there is affirming the truth, whether that truth comes
from you whether that truth comes from him and Mandy, whether
Mohammed Bin said, man, Allah guides him and he now starts
acting upon the truth. It's irrelevant, right? Whether the
label of Alma D, it is a true label, but there's no shutter or
legal action regarding that. There is no shahada for him. I don't
have to testify that you are admitting it. I just have to
support you. Like he will be such a clear proof of religion and such
a clear. What he's doing is so is sound, that what I'll be rejecting
is the truth.
That's the rejection and that's the sinfulness of the rejection.
Right? the sinfulness of the rejection of MADI is the
sinfulness of rejecting the truth.
And that's why it becomes that person is in is in the ultimate
say he will be not in a good state. Some even said no one will
reject him accepting one ethic, because of how clear
the idea that he's acting upon this. Like he doesn't act upon
debatable matters. He's not making judgment calls. It's crystal clear
law of Allah subhanaw taala. That's it. So for that reason,
that that's the basis for actions. So when we say prophets, some
preferred
some over others and we say no, the Prophet Muhammad SAW I said it
was gonna have the greatest of all miracles. So if a miracle is meant
as a signpost, follow this person, he's a true messenger. Well, then
we have to ask the question Who has the most people looking at his
signpost? In other words, who, which Prophet is doing Dawa to the
most people was the prophet Muhammad Seisen. Right? Said no
Musa. He did Dawa to people and his message was for people for a
certain number of years until Prophet Isaiah came Prophet Isa
through a certain number of years, both of them limited to Venezuela,
the Prophet Musa was not sent to the people of China. The Prophet
Musa was not sent to the people of India. Okay. The Prophet Musa was
not a Prophet Isa himself was not sent to the people of Scandinavia.
Right, although they've made Jesus Scandinavian, right, he's not even
sent to you. He was not a messenger sent to you. He was not
a messenger sent to South America or to Africa. Good. The Prophet
Muhammad sigh Saddam was sent to all these places say Nisa was sent
to his people. He was a local Prophet, right? Or for that OMA
local doesn't mean in a small neighborhood, it means for that
OMA, it was a big moment, but that only so being that the messenger
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was sent to more people for more time.
It makes sense that his signposts his sign has to be bigger than
everyone else's. It has to be bigger, it has to be categorically
superior. All there's their their proofs
could end
all of their miracles did come to an end. So for example, when Satan
I used to raise the dead, how is anyone supposed to believe in that
except through? Either you saw it, or you believe the person who told
you
right? In comparison, the Quran
is a sign of Allah subhanaw taala that any one of us can read?
None of us had to be there. No one has to trust a single individual
about what the Quran is. Now you could read it for yourself. And
that's why it's categorically superior. So when we say that the
miracles of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam are categorically
superior and greater than anyone else's miracles. You have to
understand that this is not just boasting. There is a clear
rational purpose behind it, which is that He's appealing or his
message is to more people his own meta Dawa, the OMA that he's doing
Dawa to
our greater number, wider spread in the world and are unlimited in
time.
As a result, that sine has to be bigger. So when there's a sign for
example,
a local road, your local street sign is this big
That little highway sign is this big. But when you're on the
turnpike or the freeway or the parkway, those signs like New York
200 miles, that sign is much bigger. Because now you're
appealing to everyone drunk driving up from Florida and up
from Atlanta to New York. Right? You don't need signs that says
route one or route 130. You don't need to see those signs. Those are
local signs. You much less than see James Street or Patterson
street or Adam street or Main Street. Those are even more local
signs. So the smaller the appeal of a profit his omit to deal with
the less His signs have to be. Okay. So that's the that's the
understanding of the miracles of Prophet Muhammad SAW sent him
compared to the miracles of other prophets and messengers.
All right, we have Dudhwa Lee. Today we're going to talk about
sacred activism. And we'll be pulling
bringing him on soon.
is following a meta bidet says mulberry Mulberry,
you can watch our whole
video series on muda hub. And that whole video series essentially,
on muda hub is it points to a very simple analysis. Number one the
verses of the Quran they divided into two categories. There's
actually a third one, but we're not going to mention which shall
be heads. Alright, so do divide into copy.
And Vani which is verses that only have one meaning and do not need
scholarship.
Okay, I'm gonna give her How are you good. You're taking school?
Gold
Oh, you want spring North Jersey, what to get dates for Ramadan?
Oh
there's some verses of Quran you don't need scholarship and, and
all of knowledge is like this, like two plus two, you don't need
class for that. If you put a kid out there, and you never gave him
an education ever, which is a lot of people in the world, he'll know
what two plus two is. Okay? But you can't know you can't expect
him to know the square root of two plus the square root of two.
Because a square root of two, that's something you need to study
math, someone has to educate you on math, or you want to expect him
to really off the top of his bat off the top of his head, know what
a quarter of a 10th of 40 is. Okay, one quarter of a 10th of 40.
Like that's going to take any one of us a little bit of processing
even like 10 seconds to process, what a quarter of a 10th of 40 is.
So all knowledge including the Quran has two levels of it. One,
it does not need scholarship. That's how people open the Quran
and convert to Islam. Right. They didn't need scholarship for that.
But that person will never know how to do traveler's prayers,
unless someone teaches him unless he thinks he does research. Right.
So that second part, which is another it is the speculative
verses of the Quran which require judgments by scholars. Okay. And
that's the funny set of verses. And that's where schools of
thought and valid interpretation exists. The multiplicity of
different interpretations exist, right? So the first
the first set of verses, the first set of teachings does not need any
scholarship. You just read the Quran and you see right there in
front of you. If you go against that, that's what we call the
sect. That's the divisive sect, and that's where your deeds start.
No, you're not valid anymore, and some to some of them even not even
be Muslim anymore. Which ones those which are known in religion
by necessity. If it's known in religion, by necessity, like a 11
year old boy knows it, nine year old boy knows it. Seven year old
girl would know this, and you go against it. Now, you are out of
Islam. Because when someone converts to Islam, they convert to
Islam based on the shahada attain and the general understanding of
what this religion is. Religion has prayer, fasting, Mecca,
alcohols forbidden? Or is one God one prophet like that. Right? Do
you go into Islam with that? So what makes a person or motivated
or as in deep is negating what you entered Islam with? You went to
the sandwich not just to had to attain the shadow attain and the
basic default knowledge of what the word Islam connotates the
teeth those teachings. So if you negate any one of those, one of
the two shadows or what is madwoman a demon dododo known in
religion by necessity of what the word Islam connotates you're out
of Islam. Okay. So that's why we have made that and the difference
and what
In one brother said,
one time brought an analogy regarding perennialism
perennialism is this idea that all these religions are all just
relative? Right? And they're pointing to the same truth. He
said you believe in muda him
muda hip, and you hold them all to be valid. Okay, so why are not the
different aka it? Christianity, Judaism, Islam Hinduism, also
differences of opinion that are all valid? Well, the answer is
that muda Hib are only interpreting speculative verses.
They're, they're all valid because the language allows him to be
valid. But the cuts versus the language does not allow for any
interpretations. Okay. So let me when I tell you that, go get me a
cup of Earl Grey tea.
Get me a cup of Earl Grey tea, there are four or five different
things that you could do
that are all be valid.
Like you can bring me the boiling water,
and a cup of Earl Grey, with an Earl Grey tea bag in it. And the
sugar on the side. It's valid, you did exactly what I told you to do.
Another guy goes and brings me mix it himself with assuming with what
I like, and brings it to me wicks with the sugar and with the hot
water. Another guy and so these two people, they both did
something valid. Right now another guy goes and he brings me jasmine
tea. At that point, no, nothing you do after that. You can't bring
me jasmine tea. And then you bring me the prettiest tray, the
prettiest Cup, the most fine sugar. None of that matters,
right? So that's like the Xindian or that person of another faith.
Who does very well in his religion. The other guy gave me a
foam cup. Earl Grey tea. The sugar was missing and the hot water is
not hot enough. Right. But he fulfilled what I asked him to.
It's not good. I'm not pleased with it. But he fulfilled what I
asked him to the other guy. Perfect hot water, most organic
sugar, the most expensive jasmine tea, beautiful cup. Beautiful
tray. Right? But I cannot accept this. This is not what the order
was. As much as you did a great job. That wasn't the order. It's
got to be sent back to the kitchen.
This is the difference between schools of thought and
interpretation and completely incorrect beliefs. Right? It's all
about the language. All right, our guest is with us.
Our brother NAMM
dodo lead out of Detroit where we're surrounded here with the
folks from Atlanta, Georgia. We have some noble beautiful brothers
from Atlanta, Georgia watching and now we go to another city which is
Detroit, Michigan. And let's bring our guest on Imam that would
really similar Rahmani Raheem. Okay, so we need your question,
Senator a little bit
there you go. Perfect. Perfect.
Why they call Mr. Raja Lovato catcher how are you? How's
everything going? hamdulillah everything is fantastic. It's
wonderful to see you I haven't seen you since I ran across you a
mecca really know him right? Yeah, hamdulillah Mashallah. Those trips
are great. And you get to see basically you meet everybody and
those winter Omona trips now everyone's going in Thanksgiving
because it's a bit cheaper now the Thanksgiving prices go up. Right
so, but mashallah, welcome now. You are in Detroit, correct? Well,
technically in Canton, which is a western suburb of Detroit, but
yes, and Metro Detroit, the Detroit area, what were all
Detroit area? Yeah, very good. Very good. And the population in
Canton, is that a little bit more diverse, or is it like Detroit,
mainly Yemeni?
No, the majority of Muslimeen here are predominantly Indian and
Pakistani. We do have some items here some West African immigrants
and some African Americans but we're one of the more populated
areas of Metro Detroit, of Muslims after Hamtramck Dearborn area,
then it would be Canton which has which has a large population of
Muslim mean. Okay, very good. And that seems to be more of the North
American culturally what the North American Muslim community looks
like Detroit it's unique right there's there's no other city that
is predominantly Yemeni.
Except for Dearborn, so where your I can't Canton is predominantly
Desi. That's pretty much falls within the average them, right?
Yeah, well, Dearborn is actually majority Lebanese. Lebanese was
majority Lebanese, so you mean, Yemeni? And then Iraqi. So those
are like the in that. Okay, good. Good. Your main work in Dawa
regards. Activism through the framework of the Quran.
Now one question I've always wanted to ask, that I believe we
should begin with when we talk about activism. Activism is
seeking to affect change, right? Seeking to affect and in a
democratic world, where the people affect the change.
Right?
We need to discuss power.
And one of the things I find that is like I always want to say
whenever I see a regular activist is what is the source of power?
Like most of them cannot be a materialist and only operate with
what is visible to us.
So, that's what I want to ask you. The first question I want to ask
you is, how would you answer an activist on the question of what
is the source of power?
This means somebody that wasn't Allahu Allah See, you didn't want
them while your software he was selling.
So number one, and I've been talking with a number of activists
and organizers a lot about this very thing that this direct
question but trying to remind them, that we as Muslims, we don't
put overly amount of emphasis though it's important but we don't
worship s Bab mean that we don't worship actual means a fiscal
means that most of that we worship Allah Subhana Allah, Who is the
Lord of the means, and that true empowerment, and tell feed comes
from obedience to Allah subhanho wa taala. So this is in a
nutshell, is not about numbers, per se, it's about a seeking to
please Allah Subhana Allah who is the true source of power,
empowerment, and strength and what I've been seeing a lot, actually
in the first two months of my given clip at the Juma after
October 7, and I've not just here in Detroit, but I've been in
Florida, Southern California, and some other areas of the country
speaking. And I remind them that, you know, when there was the great
revival of Islamic knowledge, like at the time of * Islam, elder
Sally breaking the law to Allah, and then we have shake up the
college learning, even predominately market to see, and
these great giants in the establishment of the fatawa
guilds, in Iraq under the best team that, you know, Ill cooks was
under occupation by the Crusaders. But when you read the works of
these great scholars, they knew Al Quds was under occupation. Yet you
won't mention you won't see any mention about crusaders or
occupation in their books at that time, because they understood that
number one, the beliefs had to be corrected amongst the Muslims and
also the issue of test gear, or we will say to soul, Wolf, that the
people had to be purified. And once that work was done, then
what's Allahu DINELLI? You became an ill cooks, isn't it? It said
that he only had two books with him, and most likely the Quran and
a copy of a Yama, Deen. And that was the secret of the real, or the
liberation of Al Quds. So I remind people it's not about numbers, per
se is not about money or organizing, we need organizing we
need people to give, but it's more about, you know, number one,
in our Obadiah in general,
we know Allah number one, number two, we learn what is pleasing to
Allah and what is displeasing to Allah. And number three, we try to
follow what is pleasing to Allah, and just try to stay far away from
that was displeased Allah, and this is how Delphi comes. So this
is why it's so activist. That's where when I see a lot of
activists and I blame it on the universities, because they, they
go into these universities, take the Palestine classes,
come out Marxists.
That's the truth. Right? Take the political science classes, right?
In which the Palestine issue, they they view it favorably, in other
words, they are,
you know, viewing this as, as a as an apartheid, they're viewing it
as, as a genocide in this specific case, and before that, they view
it as colonization of Eastern Europeans, over a country that had
desert they have no business with right, in general, but their their
view of power is, is atheistic. Their view of all they view is the
material. And when I see a group of people trying to have success
for an Islamic cause, and Allah's Name never comes up once, nor is
they giving him any attention. I just asked myself How do you
expect to get victory with what are you going to get victory on
your on your with your own selves? Right? So this idea of paying
attention to where the real source of power is, I think is a major.
It's the number one pillar of what
this term sacred activism has to entail. Right and
If that's the case, when we pay attention to a low, if that
involves our own personal selves, half the time, and our work half
the time, and that's the meaning of monks by night and nights by
day, nights by day, monks by night, that was the saying of an
Anon, that was saying of a Christian, a Byzantine spy.
When he went back to the Emperor,
and was asked, Tell me about all modern hotdogs, people, why is
almost cooked up winning so many wars? Why is he is succeeding over
these massive empires? He said, All I can summarize his people is
that they're nights by day, and they're monks by night. All metal
hot dog himself was asked, When does he sleep he said, maybe the
afternoon nap. When the sun is so hot, and everyone runs home. Maybe
he gets asleep under a shade of a tree. For a chi Lulu. He says
because if I sleep in the day, I lose the rights of the people. The
people have rights over me as as their Hanifa. And if I sleep by
night, those are the hope of Allah. Those are the rights of
Allah, I lose my lords.
I can't I mean, the worship that I'm my Lord has do. So so that's
really the number one issue here and
paying the idea of paying paying attention to the real source of
power. So if we do that, in our day to day in our world today,
what how would the
Palestine movement? Look, in your view, the movement to and I know,
we're going to discuss the phrase Free Palestine in a second, we're
going to discuss that in a second. But let us just use it for this
this for the sake of you know, what we're talking about. How
would that movement look like today?
Well, it's like night and day to be honest with you see the night
and day Subhanallah night and day and actually, prior to this,
this new Nakba that's taking place I went to Cairo and I was Sheikh
Ahmed is already happy LA to Allah. and I we went in for a
mentalist and had dinner and discussed number of issues with
Habib Ali Hafid lot in Cairo. And what what Habib Ali suggested to
me is that, he said, Look, you need to teach your book towards
sacred activism in your book on for tour together, they should not
be taught separately, right. And he said that part of the issue is
that he said this, he says many of you in America, and he actually
said, You American Muslims are actually different from the
British muscles.
Meaning that he believed that we're more loose in regards to our
adherence to certain principles that are politics, he says, You
all would get much more done that's beneficial. It in did a lot
less outward work. If it were two things, he said, number one, if
your activism was conformed to the shipyard to the secret law. And
then number two, if the people took more time to purify
themselves to get Murphy Diem, and that 85% of their activism was
actually pmla. On tahajjud. He said, much more a success as a
community be said, but many times you get laughed at you say this to
some of these Marxists.
I have to say there's a gradient, right, there's a gradient. And I
do have optimism that there is according to Abdullah, that there
is a change, but it's it's a gradient. Right? It's a gradient.
So just so people don't think that I that my perception of the world
is just Alia and Marxist. No, I'm saying those are the extremes
right? And there and
it's really got to lean and there's got one sides got to be
eliminated altogether. Continue. Yeah. So you know, Habib, Ali, and
he actually doesn't know a lot about what's going on here.
Probably from his, from his students, and keeping up with
things actually was quite a surprise that he knew about a lot
of things going on. But for instance, this whole idea that
thinking that we are going to liberate full of steam by allying
aligned with with como roof Yeah, yeah, like the four roofie
movement like you know, so I said this to be Ollie because he was
asking about some of the problems we have and I was mentioning this
and he said, like, come on the roof. I said, I said yeah, I said
I said to him let bear game off like Canada Canada right. Now he's
so then obviously he knew I was talking about them. So for
instance, to have a march or a protest on a college campus like
this happened here. And you're so you're going to liberate full
steam. And the way not to do it is to have Muslims and will hedge
your bed, screaming profanity, saying f the police and they say I
want to introduce
Like the Muslims are writing the platform is different. If someone
else's writing the platform, then the Muslims are writing the
platform. And then you want to invite the LGBTQ Student Alliance
because they talk about freeing Palestine This is the very type of
Neo Marxist in critical theory comes out of Marxism, by the way,
which which influences this whole thing. This whole, like
intersectionality of
sexuality with gender with ethnicity, it's a hodgepodge.
And if I could clarify that for everyone, too, it's also a
paradigm of haves and have nots. Yeah, but now it's in every
category. There's haves and have nots in every category and the
have nots have to wrestle power or they have to get justice from the
haves. Right, but now, it's not just the sources of wealth, and
production, it's every category, every possible category has a have
and have not, and the have nots are morally entitled just by
virtue. And they're morally superior just by virtue of being a
half not. Correct, correct. So like, so some people may accuse
with saying, Well, what does this have to do with anything this is
moralizing? Well, we, we mostly mean we should respect everyone's
humanity. But there is no quid pro quo activism because what also
goes along with this, they're strings attached to so called
solidarity because they say they're a marginalized or
oppressed community. And then we as Muslims and Arabs were the
marginalized oppressed community. So we're supposed to be in
solidarity. So then this, this is what okay, they came to this,
you're supposed to them as a Muslim, advocate for it and be
okay with.
I'll give you an example. My daughter goes to university here
in Michigan, I pulled her out of the dorm, she lives at home now.
Why? Because she's a female only dorm. And after this dumb law
passed last year in Michigan, she's an a female only floor. And
this person claiming to be a trans woman is in the dorm, my daughter
gets out of the shower and comes in, there's a guy standing outside
the shower,
goes into the bathroom, to go and freshen up and a guy who claims to
be gender neutral. And you know, I'm a big guy, a CD, I'm like, I'm
six, one. And 220 pounds, who's bigger than me walks in, into the
woman's bathroom. So like, my daughter is like, she can't be
staying on campus, right? But we have muscles that say, Oh, you're
transphobic you know, these are our allies, this same person came,
and we gave them the mic to talk about Palestine, you know, so this
is a problem. Let's go back to one of these things. And if you're on
Instagram, hop over to YouTube. So you could see us both at the
Safina society channel and you can
like subscribe to the channel and like the channel so that you can
get information on it. What is the hotel fee movement? Is a question
here. The huddle fee movement is a movement that we don't want to
mention it because we need to get bands. Basically, the liquid of
cue is another way to put it. Let's talk about this issue of
within critical theory, that merely being in the minority,
elevates you morally. And that just because a group is in the
minority, as if nothing they can do is blameworthy at that point.
And any blame of them is blaming the victim. That's always a
handcuff that you put on people are that this this ideology puts
on people? Can you tell us that is it possible for a group and
expound upon the possibility of a group to be a minority, but also
to also be wrong about something or to be oppressed in one element
of life, but also blameworthy in another element of life?
Well, it's clear when we start I mean, the best place to start is
kitab. Allah, right, like these are not mutually exclusive
identities. One can be from a group that's meth Luma, and
individual Rizal and so for instance, we know that Nebbiolo
Musa alayhis salam came to rush in to saw a dispute with one of his
people who was in a Gyptian excuse me with an Israeli with an
Egyptian, he came to help this person and in the process, he
accidentally he struck them and accidentally killed him. And the
next day, he saw the same man getting involved in fitna and he
realized that his own person who was kempty, who was in a Gyptian,
excuse me, wasn't Israeli. He actually was the wrong who was he
was stirring up the wrong even though Israeli people were
oppressed people have been the slave in Egypt, right? So we even
have this example in the Quran. But for instance,
we know that
that
in the United States of America, that historically speaking, you
know, African American African Americans came here were brought
here taken away from our deen, our names were stripped were treated
as chattel, like chicken and cows, we have Jim Crow, all of these
things right?
At the same time, this doesn't give someone black, the excuse to
be anti white. Right? So for instance, I got off of social
media about three years ago, simply because it was a discussion
in a convert group somewhere in Newstead, the Joe Brown, Joe
Bradford is engaging in some young Muslims start to cuss him out and
say that he couldn't speak about, you know, converts going through
this because he's a white man, which is white male patriarchy.
Like these young sisters are like, using profanity him I've simply I
said it was wrong. And I got accused of being an arm of white
supremacy, like what's wrong is wrong, like, yeah, you know, like
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam He said, Let further into
our being our Jimmy with an entrepreneur lobby will ask what
Ashmont
Taqwa so the and the black is not better than the red or the white.
Right? So that virtue is in piety. Right? So you know, a, it, a black
person doesn't have license just because of historical harms that
have been done by the broader society to be racist against
individual white people, or to try to cancel someone in the Muslim
community, because they make a mistake. It's almost like a type
of
social political tech fear
is placed in our community that
you're right in the Marxists. They have a sense of justice.
They have they have they believe that there's right and wrong, and
but they're they and they make too clear, they cancel people, right.
And sometimes some Muslims, they they adopt some of these ideas.
Right, as a law. And I'm telling you, there are some people that I
know, cut others off solely on the fact that that person has a
relationship with law enforcement, because in their position, and
their conclusion is that all of law enforcement is corrupt. And
therefore, they've essentially treated it the way we would treat
a das sect. Right, as a group of people that have contradicted a an
explicit verse of Quran when someone contradicts an explicit
verse of Quran and says, This is my position. We say okay, you
know, we're not keeping your company we are dissociating,
disavowing from you. But they've treated this matter, which is a
judgment call. It's a judgment call, how much you blame law
enforcement and how much you interact with law enforcement at
the end of the day. It's a judgment call based on different
amounts of information. Okay, but they elevate that to what we would
consider Wella and Bara Well, Amara is when Allah says you must
be loyal to this group. This is your support group, you have to or
a group that you must support. And Baba is you must disavow from this
group. And we don't disavow on matters of opinion, even a
terrible judgment call misguided judgment call, as long as it's
within within the realm of judgment, I can disagree all I
want voice might disagree, but don't cut that person off. Treat
them like they're canceled. Treat them like they're they've got a
some kind of a disease. And then we bash them and then all is heavy
enough. At this point. If you notice with these types,
everything is held at all cursing you making fun of you throwing you
under the bus, everything becomes highlighted with this group
thesis. There's some of the worst attributes and o'clock comes out
of these types of these while they're also professing being
Muslim. So this is a group of people who are brothers sisters,
but they need some someone needs to point this out to them. That
you're you. I'll give you a tangible results ad so for
instance, I had a a falling out with a prominent activist over
something like this. So you mentioned like really, you're
talking about the language of coffee Anthony basically right.
Now a lot of things are speculative and and definitive.
Those are the languages didn't talk about
Eman being involved in CVE. Yeah, countering violent extremists
program and working with the FBI to stop Homeland Security. Right.
I'm personally I'm against this. Yeah, right. But if another imam
or someone who's senior to me was a sheikh, I think that there's
some sort of benefit that it's it's stopping some sort of harm
that's coming to the community or if they're serving a community,
for instance, where some youth have gone to join Shabaab in
Somalia, for instance, right. Yeah. Okay. This is something that
speculative and I can strongly disagree, but I'm not going to
cancel this shake and still have good relations. So, one activist
basically called this Sheikh who I'm not gonna mention his name,
but we would know him basically call him a sellout and all these
things like an Uncle Tom and he meets with these people and these
people right they burn. Now, this same activist basically has has
said that
so * work in their state should be decriminalized in their city
should be decriminalized. Because the law against * work is part
of straight white male patriarchy and my body my choice. So, so this
is something to sell once bodied Is he not is clearly prohibited.
But now it's something speculative about whether you sit and talk
with Homeland Security. And then I and then like, my, my body my
choice is, is is, is deceptive language because for us as
Muslims, our bodies are an Amana lots of kind of medalla. Like,
we're, we're we're men looking. And he's Malik. Yeah, our bodies
belong to Allah Subhana. Allah. So like, my body my choice? Yeah, we
have the choice that we have FDR, we can choose to disobey or we can
be punished for that. Yeah. But but to say my body my choice, this
is foolishness. It's actually completely false. It's false. You
you actually it's, it's, it's you have the choice to do what you
want, and what you purchased or produced in a factory or in a
shop. So did you produce it? Your body? Or did you buy your body?
Not neither, right? It was given to you. If it's given to you,
someone gave it to you, that means that person has rights over you.
They can take it back, they can tell you what to do with it, etc.
It's an A man, I go into my house, and my driveway and I find a car.
And I walk home and enter the house and kitchen table. There's a
key there. Right? And a note, use it only to go to work. This is not
my car, right? It's not my car, right? Park it where you want.
Change the rims all you want. It's written there. But only take it to
work.
That's the rules of the car. Right? If someone asked me, Hey,
you got this car? Yeah, do you drive it yet? But come with us to
New York, let's go. No, I can't write. There are rules. I didn't
buy this car. Nor did I make this car. This the same logic with the
human body. You didn't make it. You didn't buy it. You don't own
it. Right? Namely, one other thing that you didn't make that you
didn't buy that you own?
Nothing even nature. You have follow laws, rules. You've chopped
down a tree. You can't use it to burn someone's house done. You can
only use it where Allah told you to use it buying and selling. Let
me let's turn to another question here.
We need our voices to be heard.
So an Egyptian actor, and a musician. He's almost like the DJ
Khaled of Egypt's like one of these DJs. And he's a rapper, and
he does everything.
But he, he got fed up with these activists, he doesn't even pray or
anything. But he said the right thing, right? When this Palestine
thing was happening, and everyone says,
forward this so our voices can be heard.
He said, heard by whom?
Right? Who's going to hear our voices? Who is going to help us?
The only voice to be heard is our government, who will then wage war
and go free the Palestinians,
or the creator? If our government doesn't move, or the creator? So
why don't we talk a little bit about
the concept of make our voices be heard. Maybe I'm wrong. There
could be possibly
some element where making the public know about something has
value may be that I'm sure there is to a degree, but there's
constantly make our voices be heard, we got this. It gives a lot
of power, in my view
to people where people in my view have very little power. So why
don't you talk a little bit about that and correct me if I'm wrong
about this.
So sad, in my opinion.
In we talk about the issue of enjoying the good and forbidding
the evil which I think lays into or resides in sometimes having our
voices being heard. But
number one, what are we saying and number two were the means and then
to what level responsibility is this a foreign key fire or this
become a foreign nine? Right so Allah Subhana Allah says what to
come income went to him look at the roof your one on one call can
lead to so this is for them to fire somebody Ma'am, I know we're
gonna move on to either this idea that there'll be from you a group
that calls towards
care. So number one, we've neglected giving down Well, yeah,
that's the be the first thing we're raising our voices with
people and raising our voices to the public, not just in our
actions and our o'clock, but in our words, we should be telling
people about this Dean balgonie, when I write it each and every
Muslim amongst what they've been given permission and knowledge,
and in fact has been given given by the prophet, so I saw them and
that wish they know and understand that they should be conveyed.
Hadith. So here, then, enjoying what is good and forbid, was evil.
And these will be the successful people. So this is a communal
obligation mean that everyone doesn't need to be in the streets,
raising their voices. Everyone doesn't need to be on the stage.
Everyone doesn't even need to be posting, making comments about
every single thing, even on social media, I believe. Now it does
become an individual responsibility. I believe that we
know something clearly. Is is wrong. Right, that we do raise our
voices within a controlled capacity following Islamic
leadership. And those talking points, for instance.
Philistine is the issue for the OMA. Of course. It's also an
American issue in general. And the reason is, our taxpayer dollars. I
mean, this is so our jeep, right, we're dropping a few tons of food
in there, but we find it and given them all the bombs that have
killed over 30,000 people, even bombs have been dropped on
masajid. And churches, as well as talking out of both sides of your
mouth. Yeah. Sharon has done watching. Yeah, okay.
So we, as Muslims, but also as citizens should call our Congress,
people, I believe, to say, Look, you work for us. We don't want you
voting on these appropriation bills. And if you continue to do
this, we're going to vote against you. And unlike just last week,
you know, the Michigan Muslim community did something
unprecedented with the uncommitted vote over 100,000 votes. And
basically, we had unity between the massage and the religious
people, and the secular like Neo Marxist Muslims, right, we had
some sort of unity. So our voices were were heard on this issue and
related relationship to uncommitted. So sometimes voting
can be
a way of expressing one's voice as well. Now, I want to I want to say
this too, right? In regards to the elections in general.
Some people will say, Oh, well, we have to vote for 46. Because 45 is
so bad, and he's a white supremacist and all that stuff.
One of my friends who's Nigerian who's a chef, he says, you know,
he says, American Muslims are strange. This is like, sometimes
we we make the argument I don't like shaytaan. So at the vote for
the Jeff,
and sometimes muscle a hot mess, so that there is no clear, better,
better, better one, in effect when it comes to our religious
liberties, and our First Amendment rights, the progressives and
liberals, the Democrats are worse than Republicans.
There were worse, they're worse. So I mean, we have to we have to
weigh things, but this whole thing about well, we have to let our
voices be heard. There's a way of doing that. But I also want to
bring in that element as well, because, you know, there are some
people who are who are saying, well, you know, we voted
uncommitted, and Michigan and these other states, but when it
comes to the general election, you know, Trump is just so scary in
bed. And I mean, I don't think any of them are moral individuals, and
very rarely can you find a moral politician anyway, such as a chef,
use of sodic. I feel sorry, you had him on your show. And
he's, he's he made a beautiful statement to Muslims in general.
He said, Muslims, the general Muslim, like, like an army,
shouldn't be involved in politics directly, anyway, said if you're
going to be a politician involved in politics, the only way you can
do it is to be a Sufi and have a shake and said, Even still, you're
still going to make mistakes. Yeah. But for a general Muslim,
who doesn't have a shake or more rugby. It has not dissolve.
You know, politics is cannot only be problematic in sinful it can
cause people to go into spiritual crisis. And that's because there's
a lot of power in politics and power is a great temptation. Some
have even said, being in charge is a greater temptation than wealth,
women
and anything else and intoxicants like alcohol. The some of the
automa have said that the last love that leaves your heart is the
desire to be in charge, or to have influence because even the Zed
hit, I think it was
Sophia and authority
who there was a Zara hid in Mecca and will cut aroma. Azhar had he
lived in a hut and worshipped Allah all day and night. And he
wouldn't visit him. So they asked him, Why don't you visit him. He
said, This man, he's here, he's a set isn't ascetic in his home, and
in his clothes, and in his food, but criticize him once and take
the attention of the people away from him, right and see what kind
of reaction you get. In other words, he was still in love with
the idea of mystical influence over people are spiritual power.
Right, he loved the idea that he has this reputation of an ascetic
and a mystic, and that everyone comes to seek blessings from him,
and the governor comes to visit him and everyone visits him.
Right? So that it's that love of that influence. It's extremely
intoxicating. And it's so hard to get out of the heart. So that's
why you mentioned spirituality in relation to politics, because
politics is a very, very strong magnetic temptation of power.
Right? So let me ask you this now, do you believe that it's fair to
say that no two Muslims should really have
strong opinions on whether or not to support Biden or Trump? Because
in both cases, there is no clear answer to who's worse. Nobody
should say the better have two options, the less evil have to
both options.
There can be an argument why Biden's worse an argument why
Trump's worse? In each way. It's a judgment call. And as a result of
that in our phip, in our city, I know that we don't separate or
fight or have arguments or or personally differ, I should say,
on matters of judgment costs. Is that a fair assessment of the
matter? Yeah, I would say it's a fair assessment. And I look at
this, I look at it this way. This is from talking with my teachers,
and from my own deliberation, that if we were to take see most most
of our political organizing organizations, they have no
metrics on how we should vote for people, most of its base how we
should, how we should vote, like who we should vote for, or how do
we prioritize issues for the general people's based upon
feelings for some organizations, it is Who funds you runs you
because we have some organizations in our community that 90% to 100%
of them are funded by outside money, they're not funded within
our community. So I will just say in general advice for any of you
Muslims, you look at a big activist or you look at certain
organization claiming I'm speaking backwards politically follow the
money because who funds you runs you 100% That's in general you
should be a general practice now.
If we take the five principles of Mikasa Sherea hizzle Dean for us
and America I believe is the number one marks it head is the
Dean yep here's what Dean the protection of our of our dean then
we have his his oneness our lives His Will Aquila his little no
matter what his will NASA so we have priorities then we have we
have on the other hand we have a total Riyadh well had yet we're
testing yet yeah, we have these principles. Basically we can say
what are absolute necessities life or death situation you said the
rule yet
and hygiene yet had yet at a testing yet? All right. Before you
continue, let me tell you the samba give us summary to everyone
watching and if you watch on Instagram, hop over to Savini
Saudis YouTube channel. What a meme just said is that our
religion the purpose of religion is to preserve five things faith,
Dean, the religion itself, life, wealth, intellect, and lineages,
in other words, to know who's born from whom.
And then he said, when we assess issues we assess them based upon
whether they are life and death dire needs are sorry, life and
death needs, dire needs, which is like your eyes, you can still live
without your eyes, but that is a dire need to life altering. you
losing your home, that's life altering, being put in jail,
that's life altering, life altering versus life and death. So
that's the second category third category is that which improves
your life. So to move from a house with no air condition, new move to
get some air conditioned, these are Senia things that would
improve your life like
Even we can say dramatically, but your life has not altered without
it. And you definitely won't die from it. Alright, so continue,
thank you, I should have translated those terms myself, no
problem. So if we take these objectives, and then take these
three standards, if we looked at our local and state issues, or
national issues, and the international issues, if we took
these two things, we can then come up with a metrics of how we
actually prioritize things, and we can look at the candidates and see
how they fit into this metrics, then we can make a less emotional
decision and say, Oh, Trump is just so bad. And he had he banned
five Muslim countries of people being able to get asylum, so
therefore, we can't vote for him. Or if we say, Oh, well, Biden is a
is a miscreant, and he has been aiding Israel commit genocide. So
we can't vote for him. Which by the way, we shouldn't vote for
anyone who was actively involved in aiding and abetting the murder
of Muslims General, I don't care how good he is on others, we were
not to give a hand or give aid to that person. Right? No campaign
contributions, nothing, right.
But then if we have this, at least starting like at the state level,
federal level our congress people, then we can make a more educated
guess, than just saying, oh, Finland been financed with this
party, or for lambin, Finland is this color, oh, he's a person of
color. She's a, she's a woman of color, or she's Muslim, or he's
Muslim, or Arab. I don't even believe on voting for someone just
because they're Muslim, like this whole thing about being seen, or
we have so many more Muslim politicians. Now, I don't see
that. I don't see that as a fumble or a virtue in of itself. It is
one of the standards that person is living, promoting in the
political realm where they advocate for, that's what they're
great upon, not whether because they have an Arabic name, or if
their parents emigrated from the quote, unquote, be led that I
don't mean anything to me. I agree. And, and the proof of that
is that we could probably list and point to 60 countries where the
entire governments Muslims, and you wouldn't want to spend two
minutes in these in these rotten countries. No offense to the
Muslims into the OMA. But these are countries that are corrupt,
you can be thrown to jail for no reason. I remember one guy, he was
an Egyptian, he went to Egypt.
He started going to the masajid and donating to causes and stuff
like that. When he got to Egypt. He, he got arrested. Right? And he
got thrown in jail. Right? And he said to the guard, where's my
phone call? Right? I get to call my lawyer, the guard just left,
right? What a naive human being. Okay, you're not in one of these
other countries that you have rights. You don't have rights. So
those countries are run on 100% by Muslims in some cases, and you
wouldn't want to live there. Okay, you would you rather go and have
and be arrested in Cairo arrested in New York. Oh, got arrested in
New York. These kofod with their coffee rules, they're gonna give
me the right to their coffee rules, these muscles with their
city, they're not follow it, right? All gonna go with the guy
who follows who if I get the book, I can study the book, and I can
win. Right? I can figure out how to get my rights because what
whatever they go by their false book or whatever it is. They
follow? It is predictable. Right? I just talked to a brother said,
What about some of these racist townships they won't give Muslims
permits, right? He's a builder. He's built more than 700
structures across five different states. He said nobody talks about
if it's by the rules they have to, because then they get sued for for
not giving you your rights. According to the book. This is the
value of a people, whether they're on the right law or the wrong law,
who go by the book. You go to Egypt, they got the best book and
they don't follow it. Or Tunisia, Morocco, Morocco. They're all the
same. Right? They got the best book and they don't follow it. So
which one do you want to go to? Which one do you want to be tested
by and go to court with? So the idea of, we need to have a Muslim
in here and we need visibility. We got plenty of visibility in United
Nations, no one respects those Muslim countries. So I'm totally
in agreement with you. It's about what the person is bringing forth,
not just the identity of Muslims. We got even to the point that a
Muslim sister was interviewed in *, and we celebrated first
Muslim sister in *. What are we talking about here? Right.
How absurd is that? Good.
Luck me bring another question to you.
The question of
there was a question here that I
I wanted to ask
you the question of how you've been received now, you know, in
the activist world with your ideas, which I agree with 100%
Have they have you found any, that you've changed the ideas of some
of those who are more left leaning to bring them back to the Quran?
So, yeah, we've been teaching this book for a few years now. And
there's been some other honorable people who've been online and in
taught it online, as well as in person like Sheikh Jamal do one,
for instance, and will preserve him. And we have seen with some
younger, some younger people who've engaged in this and sat and
talked that I've seen a shift in some of them, right, where some of
them were real, woke and out there, and they've come more to
the center. And like many of them, like I see them, like only I see
some of them live to Joomla, like, every Thursday at the CDROM
silhouette, where she can do Creme de la shmatte is are we right?
These young people. So we have seen it. But these are primarily
predominately the younger people and not to professional activists
in a profession, professional organizers, to professional
activist and professional organizers who are who are older.
Made them
find, at best some of these things I say, I'm strategic. I've been
told this, I'm strategic or to say that we should not support people
who are appropriating Koran platforms. That's so that's so
called moralizing. Like, we don't have time to moralize right now.
Right.
So I've heard this type of language. And unfortunately,
there's even a couple of people who I used to work closely with on
some things. We don't even talk anymore, unfortunately. So which
is what which is, which is unfortunate, and even to the
extent of some
sisters who happen to be black who have accused accused me of being a
an arm of white supremacy, unfortunately,
what do you think of the philosophy that because if you
don't if you don't affirm this whole paradigm of power dynamics
that you're talking about, in the underpinnings of critical race
theory that go beyond just a legal theory in court, but become a
social dynamic, then to critique or criticize that must mean that
you are an agent of white supremacy. So that that's, that's
the logical conclusion of those individuals, unfortunately. And
you know, the same people, though, you know, I prayed and made to our
Willa Lim, making to off even though Sunday's people canceled
me, those that I know their names, I've actually prayed for them
while making to offer in the Congo, because just because
someone from our for tour, just because someone
curses us, or slanders us that our reaction should be to pardon them
and to pray for their their he died. So I'm trying to it's not
easy all the time, say, Ed. But yeah, we try to we try to practice
what we preach. And the key here is that they critical theory has
been taken as an Akita, not a strategy, not a political thought.
It's a Aqeedah. So if you contradict it, or if you go
against any of its principles, or any of its ideas, you're going to
be treated like a,
like an apostate, essentially, you're going to be treated as one
as a Catholic, for example. Let's talk about this. What's your
Philip? What do you think of the philosophy that neither of these
political parties?
Do we have any space with them? Nor is there really any avenue to
affect certain changes at the national level of policy? Why are
we even bothering with this? Why don't we just go to the grassroots
and affect change amongst the in the culture of the people, you can
alter, you can alter policies, but you can also also alter the
culture by spreading Islam to regular people. And regular people
go home to their families, and then that becomes a memory for
their kids. And it becomes something that their kids take on
and it becomes widespread amongst regular, politically insignificant
people. But what you end up doing after a generation is altering the
culture. Right? What do you think of that philosophy? So I agree
with that and add something on so we know a hadith that raised the
level of Aziz that the prophets of Allah Salam, he said Juba to
Colombia, Allah Hobin escena Illa their hearts they actually
inclined to love whoever does good for them. Right. So we do good not
too
win over people we should be doing good seeking the pleasure of Allah
azza wa jal at the same time we know as as a byproduct of that,
that are doing good and bringing benefit to the people is going to
soften their hearts towards towards us and towards Islam.
Because we are we are Muslims. And we are we aren't. We're being
unapologetic Muslims in the true sense. We're standing by our
virtues and our values, not just as some sort of quasi ethnic,
socio political identity. So yeah, I believe totally in doing good
for the people. Treat not just treating neighbors Well, feeding
the people helping bring safety to communities. I mean, subhanAllah
we look at the likes of our, of our of our elders, and many
communities, like what Imams they did back in the day happy lie to
Allah didn't connect with a minister Raja Hodge. These are
people that help establish places of worship and literally cleaned
up drug infested neighborhoods. And then property values went up
and people felt safe on the Muslim block. Yeah. Right. This is
bringing actual benefit people, right. And people who sell drugs,
are we now in a few nights be standing in the first Sofitel? Are
we some things to be cracking dealers? Yeah, we know, we know
many stories like this right, to bring benefit to the people not
just in urban areas, but suburban areas and inviting people to
Islam. And we should be instead of seeking to be accepted by everyone
else, we should be calling them towards what we believe. Yeah.
Instead of people pleasing. The second thing is even politically,
and I believe that there should be political engagement.
The the late Speaker of the House from Massachusetts Tip O'Neill,
he's a famous saying that says All politics is local. And what really
starts and we focus too much on national elections. Yeah. Who is
on your school board, help. This determines what the curriculum is
of school, if you're having not only racist books, but you're
having sexually deviant books in your school, about bathrooms,
locker rooms, like the quality of your of your school,
you know, certain programs after school activities. This is what
this relates to school board. What's your city council, your
mayor, this relates to your city services, from your policing, to
your city services, like picking up rubbish and things like this is
these are things that affect our day to day lives? Right, who your
senator is, isn't really affecting your day to day life as much as
your state representative who was on your school board was on your
planning commission, who was on your city council. And I think
that we would be better to, to focus on that and like look at
like in my area, Hamtramck Michigan, Muslims did this. We
have now a Muslim mayor and every one of the city councils a
practicing Muslim. I know that actually the mayor of Hamtramck, a
Yemeni brother, he actually used to be my personal physician, he
would give me my annual physical like I get the phone and call the
mayor and city council. These are people we see in the gym. Ah, we
see them. Yeah, right. But this started locally now we just got a
Muslim police chief.
So I mean, you know, this this this to me is where the real if
we're going to talk about politics, right? And now we have
people in here who can you know, we help work to block a liquor
store getting a cheap stream from from a masjid you know, inshallah
we're gonna get rid of get rid of the wheat dispensaries. Yeah, this
is this is the local politics and you and you actually ended up that
same district or the same town banned all flags except the US
flag, right? The US
the pride flag, right? Right. But US flag and state flag are the two
flags bust a flag to you button Hamtramck. You can hear the event
five times a day, all throughout the township with all the masajid
you can be waking up in time for a whore here, so Subhanallah you
know, but this is where the local organizing event and like look,
you know, the township is still like 45% not Muslim. Yeah, you
know, but, but, you know, people, people, people appreciate the
Muslims and even their property values have gone up in certain
streets and area because the Muslims came in, they cleaned up
the neighborhood. I think that's where we're headed in the future
because the Dallas guys
you know, epic and these places and those towns around there, what
are some of these towns called
Irving Valley Ranch and, and these towns, they're eventually going to
be
I have extreme ly a lot of influence, an extreme amount of
influence, a lot of influence over the local township rules like what
do they call these blue collar laws or these, you know, basic
local town rules. And also daily life will be affected because when
you have pop population, certain population that has a teaching,
theft is gonna go down, right car theft, which is going crazy in
Toronto. If you look up Google car thefts in Toronto, it's out of
this world, right? But I wonder if it's the same in Mississauga as
other suburbs where there's a lot of Muslims who have a teaching. So
actual daily life is altered just by population. And that's where I
like this idea that politics is more local in reality then than
elsewhere.
So why don't we open up to comments and questions from people
here and
see what's 15 minutes max? You got to 15 minutes three, but I can
stay until 310 inshallah CD. Okay, sounds good. Give me this question
here. What does it say?
Recommendations for raising young sons
where Islamic school is not affordable.
raising sons where Islam as school is not affordable. Well, I would
say number one, like are the person are they living close by to
Muslims. If they are not living close by to a Muslim community,
they should they should try to move close by to a community that
Jemma even if they are downgrading the size of their home. And I've
told this to many people, like you know, you don't want to live out
in this big house out and out, and suburbia, and there's very few
Muslims meet up losing your children, it's better for you to
come and live around the community. Number two, if we look
at the establishment of the fatawa gills under the Bessie Khalifa, an
oscillating Illa, you'll see that when the fatawa gills were
started. And this was during the time of Shikaku, cottagey nanny
and humbly
that you'll see that it was a gradiation of where you had young
males. So they come into the guild around 15. Then there was another
younger man that was a little bit older, that would help kind of
like steer them to look after them. But then there be the
mothership. So it's almost like having a mothership. And it will
cut them or representative. And then you have the young students.
So there's a type of
installment of manners
etiquettes and also we can say virtues are a clock. But in this
there's a level of discipline in order is given, like rigor, like
young children, especially young males, need to be put forth some
sort of rigor in order to be men. And part of the problem too is
that I feel we have too many softies in our community. They've
been hampered too much. They've given too much comfort. And this
is like part of the reason why is Sheikh Abdullah moody and I are
playing in December. We're not we're a publicly announced it in
Ramadan, but we plan on inshallah in December,
taking a group of young men and flying into jEdit and going to
Mecca for two nights and then we plan on doing the walk 280 miles
to walk the same path.
I sell them and I will Becca Sadiq, Raglan walk from Mecca to
Medina. Imam.
Imam they've just seen just did it in January. We spoke with him
Sheikh Waseem in the UK. So there's some people have already
done it. So
young men need to be put amongst young men with some discipline and
some structure. And so maybe you can't afford this lamp school, but
try to find the environment. And then if you don't live close by
the environment and can't afford to move, then look for those
opportunities. In those places where there's some actual like
training of young males are going even if it's for the summertime,
we have can't see here in Detroit, you can send them with like, here,
Sheikh Abdul Kareem Yahia Imam Amin, Muhammad Molag. So he comes
up, and we have camps, at least bring him somewhere so they can be
around some men and give them some discipline and I toughen them up a
little bit. I have an idea to combine that with the walk.
Because the Hijra walk is not right. The Hijra is not 100 Walk
you're not making Hijra. You're not running away from anyone. The
real 100 Walk is to say, here you are in Mecca. You get a three day
Head Start. However you get to Medina after three days, a band of
people 10 guys are going to come after you
And if they catch you, they're going to, they're going to spray
you down with with water guns, they're gonna shoot you with water
guns and roll you in the sand
until you got sand all over yourself. And they have to run
away from those people that is actually more mimicking the spirit
of the Hijra. You got three days to get to Medina, no cars, no
trains, right? You got three day Headstart
to get to Medina, what do you think of that one?
A band of people I think was the afloat but actually
the people listen, they cannot if they can't bruise you or cut your
skin, but they could wrestle you down tackle you down, wet you,
okay? And roll you in the scent. Okay? I mean, how miserable is
that going to be? They're not going to kill you. They're not
going to punch you. Right? But they're going to do that as a, you
know, in replacement of what was really happening in the hedgerow.
Well, I like the physical part and this is why this summer when
Brother Yes, yes to say it and I we held the for to a camp in
Pennsylvania close to breezeway. Actually some of your students,
Josephine society, a couple of them actually went, Yeah. And we
actually had a, we had a grappling session where we had been
grappling in the sand. Yeah, in the summer. So yeah, everyone
needs I grew up,
you know, doing martial arts and also play football, you know,
everyone needs to be, I think it's a rite of passage for every young
man who has to be punched in the stomach or thrown on his back. You
know, it's something it's something humbling about that. But
there was there was a head of school that said that no one in
the school is allowed to touch anyone else. So I said, but that's
not good that you want to have physic guys needs to be physical
with each other. And they replied, they said, I agree with you, but
not on our premises, because we don't have the insurance to cover
an accident, right? So I said, Okay, good. As long as you agree
with that. It's a fair rule, not in our premises, because people
sue these days fine. But as a philosophy, it's extremely good
for guys to be brought up in some kind of a rough sport, or a
physical sport, where they realize Hold on a second getting smashed
is not it's not even that big of a deal, right? It doesn't hurt as
bad as you imagine it to be. So there's a last question for you,
before you have to go.
The woke life and the woke philosophy is getting so far out
of hand to the point that basically what you mentioned that
Muslims are advocating * work, let alone all the other incentives
with gender. At what point do you think this thing is coming to an
end? When is it going to implode?
Well,
we don't know when that actual moment will come. But we have from
the vigorously authenticated Hadith on authority of cotton
Rasul Allah Subhan, Malik Rundle, and he said that of the signs of
the times, the end of time with Prophet saw some of them said
this, that there will be a decrease of LM of knowledge. And
that predominant will be general. Then there'll be the predominance
of sexual immorality and Xena but sexual immorality in general. Then
what then there'll be an increase in women and a decrease in men
until there will be come seen MRR 50 Women for every claim overhead
for every one real man. Right SubhanAllah. And so these, these
are the signs of the end of time. And where I see things going right
now is I don't see a lot of men being real men. And I put the
responsibility and a burden on on us as men that we have to come
back and to the wasa Thea to the middle ground. We're not supposed
to be brutes, but we have too many softies in our community. So now
what's going on is that
I believe that in many of our spaces, and especially the woke
left, they many of our sisters are being exploited.
Yeah, many of our systems have been exploited through this
movement and being used, and they don't even know they're being
used. Yeah. Right for other people's interests. And I'm
concerned that at some point in time, in the near future,
without divine intervention, yeah. That the American Muslim community
is going to start looking like the Jewish American community where we
have a so called liberal or like progressive reformist Judaism is
going to be a shell of like, like sticking to any secret law. Not
going to have any to sell off. It's gonna be more of like a
Jewish identity and other people over here who are the conservative
or the
up ultra orthodox, in which there is a
fissure in their community and basically for the Jewish community
politically, the only thing that they really come together on
masses is Israel. And right now, I think that once things die down in
Gaza, that we're going to see a fissure in our community because
what's been uniting us, those to the far left, and those who are
more traditional has been Philistine not the starting point
and the means, but more so that the actual violence that's been
taking place against our brothers and sisters, that's been
artificially uniting us. Right. But but in reality when it Icardi
speaking, our methodologies and worldviews are very different.
Yeah, totally, totally. So I have this concern long term, that we're
going to have a, a permanent split in our community that might be
irreconcilable for a couple of generations. That's what many call
the Identitarian Islam, which is just just an identity. And by the
way, that'll only be good as long as the left continues to promote
minorities, because it's your only sort of, appreciate it for that,
because you're a minority, go to any Muslim countries. And liberals
are not going to support most Sunni Muslims, they're going to
support any crazy little fringe group that exists as a minority,
like the way they went crazy over the Yazidis who sympathize with
the bliss. The philosophy of Yazidi sympathizers with bliss,
right. Yazidis is a group of people that they're heretics,
right? And I think at one point, in one of these crazy, crazy
jihadist groups, like went after them, at some point, right, and
then all of a sudden, the liberals like on minority, like we're
worried about this minority. So there's, it's a minority badge.
And that's the only reason those leftists still like to keep it on.
Right? And I'm not judging people's you, man. But maybe some
people actually have the men but if you actually have the men,
wouldn't you want to submit to the whole thing? Or at least believe
in the whole thing? All right, no one's saying to do everything,
nobody can be fully righteous, and do 100% of the show and never
commit since no one's gonna do that. But at least you submit to
the whole thing as it is, right? Yeah. Mashallah, this been very
fruitful conversation. It's now one of the combat domains where
the audience is on my mind. In you, you said something that
sparks in my mind, the so called conservatives, the so called
conservatives, they dislike Muslims. As a so called quasi
ethnic group. Yeah. But they respect Islamic morality. Yeah,
the so called progressives or liberals, they like Muslims as a
so called minority group. Yeah, a marginalized group, but they
actually load in disdain, Islamic morality. So one, one doesn't like
Muslims, but has some respect for Islam has gotten one of the others
say they love Muslims. But in reality, they hate the show via a
prophet muhammad sallallahu Santos. And that's the, that's,
that's the reality of it. And to see it any other way, I believe,
is really delusional. One's going after your body and the others
going after your Africa. The the liberals, they they don't mind
your body being around us, as long as they can poison your Africa and
your beliefs. And the other group. They actually like your influence
against Coleman roof. And Pete, for people who don't know that
whole roof is means letters in Arabic, you know, alphabet soup,
essentially. Right? They like that we stand against alphabet soup.
But they don't like anything else about us. And if we didn't stand
for alphabet soup, they'd be totally against us in everything.
They're against us on Palestine. They're a lot of them are fully
racists. Right. And secretly, you know, that's really their agenda.
And they're defending their nostalgic, you know, white America
and white Britain. Right? They're fully racist. And on top of that,
when they're if they're not either those two then they're hardcore
Christians who believe that your prophet has all sorts of bad
things. So they're also a group of people who are going to not going
to be our friends. And it's strange that anyone could not see
how the right and the conservatives also have these
critical issues that will never be friends with them for this reason,
and will never fully be allied with them. So either way, either
way, it was Malcolm X ended up 60 years ago with the wolf and Fox
analogy. Yeah, yeah, that's right. One is the the liberal and I think
you've said is like the the one drives you to the other. And
that's how the police is using them. Right, the terrible
Republican who tells you where we're gonna ban you
When we're gonna bomb your country's Dr has driven you to the
liberal who's inviting you. Right but he's a wolf in sheep's
clothing. So he's driven you with one fitna to a worse fitna. Now
he's literally lost your deen forever before you would have just
lost your life which is bad. Now you lost your deen right with the
other group. And we see that with a lot of these types of activists
who are essentially leftists at their core belief we ask Allah to
guide us and to guide them thank you so much for for coming on and
being part of this and may Allah accept your work and continue to
bless your work and inshallah we will cross paths again soon to
Zack located for coming show on CD ROM, take care so that when your
ticket Why come sit on my bucket?
Alright, let's go to the comments here. Really open floor commentary
here on
on what everyone
is talking about here is this has nothing to do with it. We'll we'll
read the comments that have to do with this. And we'll also read the
comments that are just general. First of all, if you are a
convert, there is a sister here who is an American or Canadian
sister who have become Muslim and I did have some interactions with
her on Twitter when I used to be on Twitter, I can't stand being on
anything related to Elon Musk. He just hit a nerve with me with his
filthy
love affair with God sad. And the Zionists. Right. So I just some
people say is it strategic? I don't know. I don't know if it's
strategic, but I despise unload, the guy refused to log on to his
platform ever again. And I will not buy a Tesla as long as he owns
it. Or log on to Starlink if I need to, unless I have to.
Even then.
But she has a a where is this? Is it on Twitter, Quran? space? I
think it's on Twitter for non Muslims. So Quran space, and it's
after if dar I believe.
And it's for non Muslim for converts and born Muslims to talk.
And we're talking about things and the Convert life, et cetera.
So, Ali fours if you want to put the link there for people to
benefit, get
all right, let's go with another question here is this Allah of a
myth of women, the same as salam for men in Islam. Okay. The there
are a couple of answers to that. Because you can't just say that
there are some differences in the time of the Prophet peace be upon
him. The females
never lead the prayer. And there is maybe one time or one narration
in which females lead one another in prayer. So females never lead
the men
are nor lead so lots of drama.
But there are some narrations that it was a case in which they lead
other females in Gemma. And as a result that's different upon in
the schools of thought whether women can lead a gym out, the
women never prayed in front of the men or equal to the men in a
jamaa.
And that is only permitted if it's impossible otherwise, such as in
Mecca, while people are making Tawaf and suddenly they have to
stop and a woman may end up
praying in front of or next to a mill.
Okay, the body that has to be covered, is different, as well.
The coverage of the body for a female has to be everything about
her face in her hands. And in some methods, even that has to be
covered.
Whereas a man can pray with his shoulders barren, it's
discouraged, but he can do that. He can pray with his knee all the
way down to his shins, and his feet. Bear. He can pray with his
arms completely bear his head bear. And that is a valid prayer.
He can pray with.
Of course there's Hide. Hide hide manifests, exists for women,
menstruation and postpartum bleeding and doesn't exist for
men. And a woman does not have to pray at that time nor make up his
prayer.
Of course we can get banned now the saying menstruation is only
for females. Right?
Okay, so now there was a follow up question about and all this is
questioning that
questioning regarding salah. All right, and he's saying here
if all the females Sahaba prayed the same way.
Well, we don't know. Every single
aspects of how the Sahaba prayed regarding certain things called
haga the physical manners of how they sat down, where they placed
their arms, how they move their fingers, and when they raise their
arms, how they raise their arms, like this, like that. And all
those are matters that are just, they're not even secondary, their
tertiary matters. Hence, whatever the math hubs find evidence for,
it will be valid as long as they they follow the right process.
Okay, and any companion that you follow in these matters will also
be valid. Good. So that's where the differences between them Adams
is irrelevant for us. It doesn't it doesn't affect the validity of
Salah. Okay.
All right. Next question. Guys here. Do you have any quote Ryan,
you want to speak?
What's that? Look, look up that Chef a Jaleel. We are now
represented. We have Chef a representation on the live stream,
by the way. Ryan has now that he's studying Yemen has become a chef
a. Right. Yeah.
Question was more common. When he was talking about
how he mentioned about the whole idea of Amtrak and having, you
know, slowly speaking, they're open his mic, please. Yes.
Test 123.
Introduce yourself to the audience.
So Hey,
Chef. So hey, what's your what's your YouTube name? Maybe people
know you by that? I'm Suhaila. Hamid, I believe. Okay.
Yeah, I guess I don't have any special No, I thought you may have
we may have one of these. Chief is right in front of us. Chief Latif.
As you guys know about chief Latif. He's here right sitting
right next to me now
that the chief was anti marriage. Yeah.
Hold on a second announcement here. I think that
every night if dar Hey, can you unhide that comment there from Ali
Forza. She says her every day her if DAR is on YouTube.
I don't know why it hit. Oh, I'll put a link in and YouTube
automatically hides links. They want to keep you on the page
essentially. But every night if dar with Ali is on YouTube, it's a
YouTube discussion between converts and non converts on
matters related to people entering into Islam. I think this is
extremely important. Dawa is really one of the main to believe,
to believe is Dawa, at just the beginning someone outside of Islam
into Islam. Okay.
So that's extremely important.
All right, keep going. Sorry to interrupt you. So I kind of saw I
guess two different
I guess are going back when my dad was talking about the how Amtrak
and slowly slam has been involved in the communities and you know,
things like you know, things like the LGBT are often looking at cue
flag, you know, aren't being displayed or whatnot. And it's
slowly kind of going on the people and being a former dollar I saw
like two different skills were visited Dallas over the summer
where Irving like we mentioned earlier Irving has their, you
know, the neighborhood right by the masjid called andalusite
believe, okay, things induce someone related. Epics trying to
form their own city now, like the epic city.
But then in Atlanta, which I just recently found over this past
weekend or so. There's this. So we had linguish is from my closet
come and visit us. We had chef, um, Jason, Chef Yousef, and they
were in a place like this apartment complex called Glen Rose
gardens. And in that is 60 Muslim families and, and Jean in South
Atlanta.
Or, you know, could seem like the hood. It's pretty, I mean, from
the outside, you wouldn't imagine, you know, but then when you look
inside, they have like an area where they had like a third, third
space. They referred to as a soul space where technically they can't
have it as down as Autobot or like a slum a gathering or his alley or
anything, but it's a place where they gather Abuja, these Muslims
that kind of, you know, use it, and mean it's nothing bougie
nothing too fancy, but it's kind of like implementing it and then
you see, like the kids playing outside, and they kind of grow
around to this and it's kind of
it's just crazy how that form itself can. It can grow on people
and show like the effects that it has, you know, later on it's
that's really good, quite big. I'll show that. That's really
good. That's really good.
Someone says I want to move to East Brunswick recently.
Oh, I did move to East Brunswick recently. Anyway, I can help with
NBC la Cosina Safina
Inside the building up, all right.
This person is also known as uka panda. Ah, who we met, who we met
at NYU.
When we spoke and I was surprised they even invited me to NYU
because they're more on the little bit left aside of things woke side
of things. But I was surprised. And they took a lot of flack for
having that invitation. By the way, remember, when we went there,
they're like, yeah, like half the story and why you wouldn't come
out to, to something like that. Were you just talking, you know,
the way we talked about the dean, they had those ideas, but
nonetheless, and also Emco Latif came in and
welcomed us, which was very nice of him.
But it will depend to you move to you can help out for sure.
Depending on your skill set, we want to be part of the events
committee. You got to meet us and hang out with us and, and we got
to see you. So you moved in recently. I guess that's why we
haven't seen you. So you need to come out and meet us. Insha Allah
to Allah. I'll probably be there at the masjid tonight, probably
for for Asia. And you can come here to the stream when we stream
and then we could plug you in somewhere. Wednesday, you want to
help with the soup kitchen.
We need help with that. Right. You know, when we met him, I told him
like, you look like an ogre pen. He
said,
that's crazy.
Yes.
So I seen a pretty famous Muslim speaker. Like, I like when I met
all these guys. Like I used to watch him. I kind of stay away
from him now. Okay. But he recently had a podcast where he
identified himself as an early Hanafy. Was there a difference
between an early Hannity
show?
I can't answer that question early Hanafy and later Hanafy? I can't
answer that. But we take the our methods but Toto, right. So when
there's an opinion weigh up in the history. When we take a method and
we act upon a school of thought to Well, today is very important mass
transmission. Someone said to me, what if we have absolute certainty
that the amendment buddy or one of the other Imams? I was a guy who
used to have a method he was in which said,
if we know for sure, he has an opinion on a matter. And that
opinion contradicts the four schools of thought, why can't we
follow it? I said, because it hasn't reached us with Toto. With
mass transmission, it only reached us by that one quote. And a such a
solitary quote, no matter how authentic, or how
respected or trusted that authority is. It's still one
quote, right? It's not TOA. So we have to accept, we practice what
came down to us with toa today, like the analogy that someone
wants gave of, of medicine, there are medicines that have been that
are transmitted to us, anyone who prescribes it, they will not be
accused of malpractice. But there are some techniques and some
medicines and some things that are so unique,
that they haven't been tested. They haven't been approved. And
you could actually get
charged with malpractice, for discharge for prescribing this
medicine. That's how we view things. We want our religion to be
on the trodden path. And not only that, that unifies you with the
OMA
unifies you with them, where you're practicing something that
has a strong basis, a good swath of the almost practicing it.
All right, next question.
Are religion and culture opposed? First of all, no human being
doesn't have a culture. What is a culture? It's all the little
things that you do, and you have to decide how to do it.
Right in life, and everyone makes a decision that basically makes
life better. Right? That's what culture is. It's every little
decision that I have to make. When you got up in the morning, you
dressed a certain way, you come to her your certain way, when you
went to the barber shop, you ask them to do certain things with
your hair, and you didn't ask them to do other things with your hair.
When you when you eat food. That's how you ate certain foods. You
didn't eat certain foods, right?
When you go to a wedding, you behave a certain way you do
certain things, you dress certain ways, every single decision that
you have to make. Right? Add the whole thing up together. And
that's culture. The only difference is that we have to go
through a second
filter. It's not just what benefits means, what my religion
says.
So when I dress in the morning, I have to make a decision. Right?
And my decision is that I'm not going to disobey Allah and that by
doing this, so we call those
cultures that are motiva Milcah canceled, a cultural thing that
contradicts the Cydia is a culture that we cancel the city I
cancelled it up, it deems it invalid. Its culture for certain
people to wake up in the morning in the spring and go out in
shorts. Okay, well, if you're a guy, you have to lengthen your
short, it has to cover your thigh up to the knee, minimum minimum,
up to the knee, so your knee can show at them least in Islam, and
according to the difference of opinions at the least it has to
cover your knee, or at least at the knee, and a little bit more
because when you sit down, it's gonna go up. So you need the to
the knee and a little bit more. Because when you sit down, when
you go down for sujood, your knees gonna show and if you're a woman,
you can't wear shorts at all, right? So now here's here's, and
this is, especially with the conversations with converts,
culture, it cannot be canceled right away. It just doesn't work
like that. You personally, can can fix a lot of your culture. But
Muslims have to realize that culture changes slowly. And when
you're when someone enters a slum, if it's too drastic, you can imply
impact them negatively. So we have to have some kind of suburb. When
people come into Islam with a culture that contains a bunch of
prohibitions. We have to be very patient with them.
We can't jump all over them and assume that their religion is
invalid because they're not practicing 100% of Islam. So we
have to have somebody with that you just can't cancel cultures.
Right? When when a religious brother becomes Muslim
in his in his family, when a Muslim brother becomes starts
practicing his Deen his own family has cultures that's forbidden.
All the weddings.
Half of the stuff is forbidden.
Okay, I know for example, you're Palestinian. A lot of the the
weddings like a lot. I can say for Egyptians too. It's as if she gets
suspended on that day.
I'm telling you, even the bride, she doesn't wear hijab on the
wedding. I'm telling you.
Yeah. And there are more hijab that women in hijab with white
hair, who tell her to take it off.
Like, Sister you're like literally about to go to your grave. You're
on your last decade. Why are you telling someone to do something
haram? Right? So maybe they don't know. Right? And you can't be
surprised how much people don't know. Right? You literally you
you'll be don't be surprised when people truly have no concept of
font
versus culture. They may think this is a cultural thing, right? I
know a woman in her mid 40s thought that hijab was a cultural
thing for older women.
Because their hair no longer looks nice. Subhanallah the shadow is
the exact opposite. Old women there is like
it gets looser with older women. We have an older woman 75 year old
woman comes up to you in her hijab falls off and she hugs you. It's
hardly any sense in that a loss of onwards Allah, Allah subhanho wa
taala. He mentions in the Quran, the COA admin and Nisa, women who
are electroless left out to graze and ready to die.
Right? That's old people like that. Right? They have different
rules from them, it's less of an issue. Now, she grew up with the
mentality that it's the opposite. Right? That they're the ones who
make wear hijab and they pray and they go to Hajj, because they're
about to die. Okay. Whereas the young This is just like a
suggestion, a cultural suggestion, scope, cultural practice. This is
somebody who grew up in an Islamic city, Islamic world.
And up to mid 40s, this is what they fought.
Right? So Subhan Allah
is One cultural practice in the subcontinent. I think any like
anyone from the subcontinent knows about it. Pretty much. Yeah, like
when the event starts, all the women wear the hijab. Yeah. I
know. It's like the cetacean or the, like, whenever they hear.
It's, it's as if like, it's cool for not to do it. Yeah. Extreme.
It is. Yeah, with these people. I know a guy is like,
I want to know where that came from, like, I actually don't know,
well, what is this? As soon as that, like the event plays? Maybe
malaria could come the presence of melodica. I've heard like, it's
from like, it's, it's not like a big thing. It's like, it's
allowed, anytime that Mullah acre there they cover up. Let me tell
you this, too.
I was going to tell you that I knew a brother
that his understanding of Islam had sort of confused he had never
had categories of what's obligatory. What's sunnah? What's
what's lightly recommend?
Good.
So this guy is like swimming and interest, rib.
He curses.
There's all these things. But as when he prays, if and when he
prays, he rolls his pants all the way up, right?
But you know, may Allah accept it from him because it's, it's like,
that's what he thinks is a slam, right? So he rolls it all the way
up. And if you see someone not rolling up his pants, he tells
them off, right? Because that's what he understands. So lot to be
in Islam to me, so you can't see. So we, when we talk about when we
strive to learn, it's extremely important to understand what the
mentality of other people is out there. So that we don't end up
stepping all over them with assumptions, right? And offense,
essentially, maybe driving them away. Okay.
All right. And we're also going to, we're going to develop,
we're gonna start witnessing a middle culture like that, where
people are very slowly.
Mmm, dude, when he said, people were selling crack, and then now
they're praying, tada, we're, I wanted to say, and then you go
back to selling crack after title was over, right? Because that
exists too. Don't imagine that people are not light switches that
go on and off. And when people who come from very sinful backgrounds
try to come into Islam, okay, you can imagine when they fall back
into bad habits, they fall into calamities, they don't fall into
little bad habits, like a Muslim boy, back listening to music
again. That's his bad habit. Okay, I'm back to you know what it is
sitting very casually with his female cousins. In a way that's
not appropriate.
Right? That's not the bad habit they're falling into. They fall
into Zina
if that's what the life they came from. And if they need a quick
book, they know how to sell drugs. So we we can't be, we have to have
an understanding that when people come from a background, you don't
just backspace and delete their background right away. It takes a
lot of time. And the best advice is not really the best advice is
that they not try to bite off too much. As you bite off too much.
And then you fall you get worse and you feel terrible about
yourself. But makes change slowly. There was a brother in London one
time using the MS. Suek is using the sweat. So I went up to talk to
a Muslim brother, right? Use right outside the schools using miswak.
Then my friend came over and called me over so I talked to that
guy, right? I said, Why not his brother, who has a beard and uses
him Suek would chitchat with the guy. It's like that's the local
weed cellar.
So you have to be very slow, very slow and very consistent on
something that's suitable to you. And you will slowly erode your
Jamelia and your darkness, small habits speak
that this applies to all which is non Muslims like, Okay, so for
example, and within our context, we're looking at doing more Dawa
on our practice, yep.
Because we see that there's a need for it. There's an interest in
Islam. However, you know, we also have a lot of hostile characters
on campus, like, you know, people from Christian groups coming to
try and debate, you know, slender, the prophesy. So, so slow, kind of
kind of introducing Islamic culture, to these people kind of
help with that kind of thing? Especially because we're not,
we're not, you know, we don't really
I don't want to say,
we're not super qualified to be able to, to handle these kinds of
people in a way that.
I don't know, it's a good question. Basically, how do we
interact with
with different groups on campus is a summary of your question, right?
Like those who are interested,
I would have to say that,
to be active is always better than to be inactive. Yet, activity has
to be what knowledge? So know what you know, and know what you don't
know. What chicken martinis answer to that question was very simple
to and he said, speak about what you know, and ask about what you
don't know. But don't speak about what you don't know. Right? So you
have to know what you know. And you have to know what you don't
know. And don't let your mind guess. Right. And don't cut
yourself defending something you don't know. Just say, I don't know
the answer. There is an answer. But I don't know what it is.
Right? You have to be able to say that because they may have
questions, especially the Christians, the Protestant
evangelicals, they may have questions that they've studied.
They studied questions about Islam that you may not answer, and then
you get nervous. Why would you get nervous? You're not advertised as
knowing everything. Say, there is an answer to that. I'm confident
there's an answer to that, but I don't know it.
Yep
All right, let's take a couple more questions here. Ryan, did you
get the evidence
Okay, so the one one of the pieces of evidence of the chef aka that
they allow for women to lead women and sulla is a Hadith that a woman
shall not lead a man in prayer therefore they go by my my
formidable Karlovo
my phone will qualify as understanding from the opposite so
if the prophesy seven said a woman cannot lead a man in prayer, that
means she can lead a woman in prayer. The other thing is, I
believe that show FL allow for PS in a bed that they allow for
analogy, as the question Yeah, but the magic is rule on is very
simple. The Salah is only taken on what the Prophet did and what the
Sahaba yet the female companions did in prayer, because the Prophet
specifically said this. He said, Take your prayer rich. I'll pray
as you see me pray. And that's so therefore, prayer, there's no room
for analogy. There's no room for adding and subtracting what we
think is good. Hey, go up. There's a question on odia on Instagram,
let's see that
what is the difference between earlier and earlier and I had a
biller
okay. The Oh Leah is a broader term than I had Biller, Willa
is is as to conditions, fulfilling your obligations and doing money,
no effort, no effort is
extra ibid. On top of that, the ultimate say that because you need
to know the difference between an obligation and an ephah. And you
need to know no effing. They say the unspoken premise is knowledge,
the unspoken premise here and precondition is knowledge. Because
think about that, you do need to know what's enough. Right? And you
need to know when to stop you're nephila for an obligation. So you
need to have some basic knowledge. So they said that too. But if
Billa is a specific
quality, in which a person studies the ways in which Allah interacts
with his creation,
the ways in which Allah Tala
does things with his creation, so the Sunon of Allah in His creation
Allah mentioned is in the Quran that he has Sunon which are his
ways of doing things in the creation and that's what it
focuses on he looks for these patterns and he studies them and
he reads studies them in the Quran and Hadith and etc.
Mas W any recommendations for a brother to gain weight?
What problem do you have and where can I get it? Right
maybe I shouldn't say that. Right but if that's your issue, a lot of
people hear and view there are a lot of wonderful restaurants does
your what is your mom cook what kind of cuisine Does she cook guy
you know you can now have sugar in your chai instead of having
monkfruit Okay
thanks. You can have gainer shakes you can go have burgers you can
have fries you're not that's not good wait though. You want to have
good wait you
can go have chicken you and have rice get homemade food get lamb
chops, put them on the grill any one of you fasting here all right,
pull the grill out it's soon it's gonna get warm pull the grill out
get some lamb chops make some homemade burgers
get married get married that's a great answer get married okay
victory of the wife is when he starts to gain weight right you
know the wife is winning get so so do that you need to gain weight
that's the answer for that.
If all dua is accepted by Allah, what is the difference between dot
made generally and dot made during times of acceptance? Time of
acceptance The answer
is more likely.
No, it's the DA is is accepted.
It is accepted could be in different ways number one, but you
know not all dua is accepted. When we say accepted it means as you
asked,
okay, all DA is rewarded. That's a different point. Okay, every dog
is rewarded, not necessarily accepted. Your job may be rewarded
by removing harm from your path. Right. So do not may be rewarded
by it being saved for you and you get its reward on the day of
judgment which is better for you because it's eternal. The reward
of afterlife is eternal. The reward of this life is temporary
However the beat when your DUA is accepted, it increases your love
of Allah and your Amen. Because I may drown was answered from that
respect, do not being accepted as better. So when a hadith say dua
is accepted
in those specific times, it's more more likely to be accepted as you
ask it. So don't
confused my dot was accepted for as my drop was rewarded. That's a
big difference there. Okay.
How do we attain we layer we attain we layer by seeking
knowledge of the shittier and nakida from the correct sources
and acting upon it as much as we can. And then busy yourself was
saying Allah, Allah illAllah. Anyone here who's listening, who
was trying to,
to learn for the first time, learn about the and you pick up a
Mitzvah and you busy yourself by saying La ilaha illallah all day
and all night whenever you can, whether you're in the car, whether
you're walking, even if you're watching TV, busy yourself with
saying La ilaha illallah day and night, you will see that you're
polishing your heart the first vicar for the first one starting
on the path of they could is Leila. Hey, Lola, and you will
notice yourself that your attachment to the dunya is
decreasing. And you should know that you should get the Misbah
that has counters like this, there is a counter that counts 1000 And
every time you move one of those there's a second counter this is
1000 2000 3000 up to 10,000 Get those counters and everyday finish
it
with the COVID La ilaha illallah if you don't know how to read
Quran, if you don't have a teacher to learn from which no excuse for
that there's no they're good YouTube videos that people could
that are trustworthy knowledge on YouTube explained very easily. But
if you're someone who's just starting out and you want to
strengthen your Eman,
repeat La ilaha illallah all day under your breath or out loud
but you do need to move your tongue move your tongue with La
ilaha illallah How simple is that? Chat
Let's wrap it up with oh it's 342 Let's wrap it up with one or two
more questions before I have another four o'clock appointment
that I have to
that I have to go too far to my King says NBF hits differently
when in the hadham.
Masha Allah, so make dua for everyone who's here and us. All
right, it's the sister is in a how to. So what's his biggest service
in the medical school? From the different regions?
Okay, this is a good question in the Maliki school, medical school
spread to Syria, to Iraq, to Egypt, and to end the use of these
for the opinions, the books, the knowledge that came out of Andalus
is the best reason is that is very simple.
All those other regions were mixed. The metal hubs mixed. And
the medical school went up and down. At some point in Egypt, it
was gone for a couple 100 years. When it came back, he came back by
a scholar named Ben Ches. Ignition Ignatius, he was raised around
chef ace, he had a chef a mind.
And he approached the medical school and he revived it. But he
had it his methodology was very influenced by the chef phase as a
result,
right he deferred with the magic is of the west of Tunisia, Morocco
and endless that's all one when we say endless, we mean Tunisia,
Morocco and Andalus. Those meta keys were untouched. So that is a
Malachy way of thinking meaning how to assess evidence, how to
come to conclusions, that's what we mean by that, right? On
speculative matters on in definitive on definitive, not
definitive. And so whenever we have to have a, they differ, we go
to the west, Islamic West, and we take their opinions, so they are
the best preservers the purest preservation of the way Matt
ematic himself would have
thought about things. Can I have a good dream when when I'm Judo Yes,
having a good dream is not predicated upon being sleeping on
Sahara. However, more likely if you sleep on Ginebra you will not
have a good dream
because sleeping on purity is a sunnah and it's better. So let's
say a man is Jonah.
And he doesn't want to take a shower. Before he sleeps he makes
to
speak
Yeah,
Yes, why did the Muslim the Medicare prefer Muslim over
Behati? Imam Bukhari did not set set out to compile the summary of
Hadith related to sunnah. And that's it imaginable Hadees book
is his opinion, he is doing he hurt, he is telling you what he
believes is correct. So he is bringing his mother hub, his
opinions with him. Good. Imam Muslim, in contrast, is like
giving you the top, let's say five Hadith on each subject. Right? And
he's not and it's more encyclopedic, it's like a mini
encyclopedia,
rather than a book of knowledge. Al Bukhari his book combines
between being the having the greatest the strongest chains,
good, no one disagrees on that his chains are the strongest, but it
also is his opinion on matters. Okay. And there and he, he, he
takes out portions of a hadith and puts it in a chapter. Because
again, his point is not to bring you the whole Hadith to be a
reference for Hadith. His point is to bring you what he believes is
what you need. So that's the difference in Bukhari and Muslim
What is it considered?
What is considered mixing, mixing in the medical school has
different levels, first of all,
the first level is what is forbidden and that is mixing that
involves the touching of the bodies mixing in such a cramped
place that your bodies are touching, that is the mixing that
is forbidden, then there is a mixing that is
highly discouraged in itself, because it can lead to
prohibitions, that is the mixing in which there is unnecessary,
unnecessarily close distances between genders that where they
can look at each other. And hence, a man could be staring at a woman
or a woman could be staring at a man. Okay, and then they both get
fitna in their hearts. So in that there is not a direct prohibition,
but it's so it's discouraged. But it's highly discouraged because it
can lead to a prohibition.
And I'm gonna have a hot tub said separate between the breaths,
meaning that you shouldn't even hear each other breathe. If you're
each other breathe, you're too close. So that's the unnecessary
mixing like that is highly discouraged, if not forbidden. If
there's like a Shebaa have a reason, it goes down to
discouraged, right? But if there's absolutely no reason, then it may
elevate to prohibition, like absolutely no valid when we say
reason, valid reason, a valid reason like
a client, for example, lawyer and a client like that, a doctor etc.
So that's, that's a summary of it right there. Now online data, you
have to be very careful of falling into the trap of what they call
slipping sliding into the DMS right. That's what you guys call
it right? So you got to be careful that and that's happens all the
time. And shaytaan you know, easy go to with with righteous Muslims
is I need to message her for the sake of Dawa, I need to bring her
a benefit. Right? There's probably what a bill, half 1,500,000,000
Muslim females, but this is the one that you want to benefit. You
want to bring benefit to her. So that's the problem. And there's
tons and tons and tons of online drama. And
one person once told me,
you know, I was messaging her then she stopped answering me she must
have taken it the wrong way. But I was like, No, I think she took it
the right way. You're messaging her for no real reason. So she
says so she didn't answer you. So I think she took you took it. She
took it the right way. Right and she acted right but you're gonna
do that then you're gonna be heartbroken.
Right and feel stupid for being ignored. All right.
I can fix her
ladies and gentlemen.
We got to go. All right. subharmonic Allahu mobilehome
digna shuddering Illa illa Anta nests of federal Kona to the lake.
What else in Santa Fe Clyst Illa Latina ammonoid Minnesota to
Ottawa. So we'll hop what also the sub hold on we have take one more
question Osmani says who institutionalized the process of
Wilaya and Sufism the scholars. First of all, nobody can say who
attains Willa, we can say this is the path to Allah. Only Allah
knows who is already and who is not. But the path is what's
In the book and the Sunnah, that's number one. Was it Sunnah of the
Sahaba or later? Bidda Hasina. vidaa Hasina is something that has
come up
by implication from the sahaba. All right, by implication of all
might have been a hot dog when they established toto and other
things that they did such as divided the Quran into edges and
other things like that and later by a chef ate when he approved of
certain things that were not directly in the Sunnah. But they
were he found them good. Okay, such as the elongated tech, the
Eros of aid,
that were meant to educate people on other things. Right. So they
elongated the tech theatres of aid, things like that. And the one
who formalized this in scholarship and also it was Elizabeth Abdus
Salam soltana. Alma, as he is known as a Syrian chef, a scholar
who ended up moving to Egypt because he forbade wrong against
the Syrian governor and the Egyptians welcomed him. And many
of the matters of associated with Sufism are not even needed, not
even in the slightest, in order to achieve the Wilaya if you just
took on what every Muslim agrees upon, do they could read Quran
pray, no effort fast give sadaqa do good deeds, go to the masajid
believe what is
you know, directly there without interpretation in the Quran about
Allah's attributes you can attain what is not so difficult as one of
my teachers used to say, hola makes it easy. Mufti makes it
difficult, right? So that's how easy it is just echolalia and
everyone's monocolor hum decrescendo Letterland. Let's talk
for a minute tubule X Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah?
God
God