Shadee Elmasry – #SafinaQA 1 Who do I ask

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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