Shadee Elmasry – #SafinaQA 1 Who do I ask
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Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim Salam aleikum everyone welcome to the
first Safina, QA, video, masha Allah, you all sent a number of
good questions, and we're going to get to the most of them as much as
possible. But first, I want to talk about how we're supposed to
learn how are we supposed to gain knowledge? How are we supposed to
go about getting our answers? Or questions answered? Now one of the
thing things that it's sort of hard for people to realize that
not every question in Islam is black and white. Right? Not every
question in Islam is found in detail, that really you just have
a list of permissible things and a list of forbidden things. That's
not how the deen works, as human beings are far more complex than
to have simply a manual that covers every single aspect of
their lives. Right? And the Quran tells us methyl Ratana filled
Kitab imagery, we haven't left anything out and that so how do we
reconcile the two? Okay, the answer is the Quran gives us
general instructions to go by, that will get our gray answers or
gray questions answered. So consider this. If it's a Victorian
consumer data animal. This is a very heavy item, ALLAH SubhanA
which as is asked those who know if you don't know right now, one
of the things that the automat do is they don't always look at what
the Quran says. They also looked at what the Quran doesn't say. And
in this case, what the Quran doesn't say is if you don't know
open the Quran and look because the Quran is not claiming to be
this type of manual that has all the details in it. Okay. Also if
we open it and look we might misunderstand.
So human beings need other human beings because we're so complex we
need other human beings and this is why knowledge should never be
separated from companionship. Right knowledge should never be
separated from from human beings we shouldn't ever try to to simply
think that there is going to be everything in the text another
thing this is also doesn't say first lol I am in control at
alamode they it doesn't say if you don't know as people have
knowledge, it says people have thicker because the word thicker
it implies two things number one it implies knowledge because
knowledge is knowledge of the deen is remembrance of Allah azza wa
jal and Victor in the sense of people constantly repeating,
repeating seeking knowledge, constantly studying alright
repeating the same questions over and over until they become experts
at them. Okay, we're the same sciences. But vicar also implies
that there are people have a bad there are people of worship, there
are people who take the remembrance of Allah seriously
their teacher and the chief Moment of Remembrance of Allah what is
it? Someone said what is the best they could? Someone said La ilaha
illallah right another said it's upon Allah Subhan Allah Allah them
yet enough on top came, he said it is remembering Allah at the moment
you feel like committing a sin, remembering Allah by pulling back
from that temptation. Alright, so first, the vicar so people have
vicar meaning the people of knowledge and piety. They act upon
their knowledge. Allah says about the Kudo my son to be be with them
keep their company because any great issue right any great issue
their lives how they live their lives, okay. They will will show
you whether or not they do this thing or they don't do this thing.
Okay and a lot of our knowledge is do this and don't do this. Or what
about the gray areas of profit talked about it? He said in two
things. Halal is clear Haram is clear between them are gray
matters lay animal near zero minuteness. Not many people know
the gray matters. Okay. Another thing he said in Allah, Farah
Farah who had alluded, that was second to Anisha Rahmatullah
Kamala this year, which means ALLAH has obligated certain
things, he is prohibited set certain limits, and then he's
remained silent about certain matters out of mercy to you, but
not out of forgetfulness. So everything in this Deen in is in
the code, everything we need is in the Quran. And in this case, it's
in the general so so you're gonna come upon questions, and there are
a lot of these, you know, hot button questions. This is how
often or how that and there's a lot of discussion, a lot of times
your answer is going to be what are the signs of hate? What are
the pious and the righteous of your time doing? Right? How do
they interact with it? You know, the question is going to come up
about music, right? And there's fatigue on on both sides. Of
course, there's the majority. There is a majority in that
question about meats, okay, there's fatigue and people it's
sad to see you're always confused, right? They're always confused
when there are opposing factors on matters. All right, but always
look back at what the Quran says. All right, V with the righteous,
the Prophet himself sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and this is not
that he needs to be with people he can
Be alone, but just to teach us Allah subhanaw taala said to him
as soon as silica was good enough, sec modelinia do not have been,
beloved that you will actually you need to be patient with those
seeking Allah azza wa jal is countenance, morning and evening.
And why does Allah say to be be patient because sometimes you
don't have anything in common with them. If you go out there and you
go to your local masjid and you look for who has the signs of
piety, right, who we can only judge by externals, right, but who
has the signs of piety and at the same time makes me feel when I'm
in their company that I'm drawing near to Allah. My heart is opening
up and what is the sign of the heart opening up? The sign is that
we don't seek dunya anymore. We're not we're no longer interested in
dunya as a province I sent him said you lose interest in worldly
affairs and you start desiring to prepare for your other worldly
affairs. Okay, so that's a sign that your heart is opening up your
Eman is increasing. When you keep their company their words are
matching the Quran and Sunnah. Now one of the things you realize that
you might not have a lot in common with them, right? What does Allah
say? Be patient stick with them, right? Learn to have more in
common because if they're the ones whose Deen you can rely upon, and
you want to go to the ACA, alright with those people, okay? You want
to go to the multi ama with those people, be patient with them. It's
worth the effort. It's worth the effort to say you know, let me
look out let me go to my masjid and the masajid are the houses of
Allah and in the houses of Allah will be the guests of Allah azza
wa jal, right, and masajid. Whoever's in the masjid he should
be honored. He's invited, right? Whenever you're in the masjid, you
should say to yourself, Allah invited me because Allah called
that his house. No one enters his house without his will. Right?
Anyone in a message it is upon divine invitation. Okay, so the
people who are constantly being invited, namely the people who are
always in the message, right, these are the people most likely
they're going to be a lulu the people who are people of Taqwa.
All right? So you want to be in their company, you want to have
some, if you don't have much in common still, you know, it's worth
it for you. Right? Imagine you had if you had a boss, you don't have
anything in common. But by keeping his company, you're going to get
promoted? Aren't you going to keep his company? Of course you are.
Right, you have a father in law, or a brother in law or a future
son in law, daughter in law, what have you mother in law, maybe you
don't have much in common with them, but right, you want
something from them, right? You know, you want to marry their
daughter, or they want you want the you're going to be related in
some way, right? So you're gonna keep their company, you're gonna
make it happen, you're gonna make sure that relationship works
because you need something. Likewise, we can never feel that
all we need is the Quran. All right, so he broke it a couple of
websites and that's all I need. I don't need to deal with people.
It's not going to work. It's not going to work. So the men heads
here again, the men which I'm going to inshallah be answering
questions,
will probably try to give you both sides. And then also try to give
you a type of nausea, right, so what we've seen work by the
practice of the pious, so but then again, at the same time, keep in
mind the principal the Prophet, peace be upon him be with the
righteous. And in Morocco, Allah dini. kalila. A person is on the
religion of his friend, right? A person is on the religion of his
friend. All right, family on board LM and Eukarya. So take a look at
who you whose company you keep, because that's your religion. Zack
Kamala Hara. The second Safina QA video is going to be on a serious
topic namely belief in God why we believe in Allah azza wa jal and
in specific why we believe in Islam. Does that come okay, we'll
see you then.
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