Shadee Elmasry – Spiritual Struggle – NBF 395
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The speakers discuss the importance of giving people a good day and not missing a meal, as well as the economic model of the church and its importance of giving money to cover groceries. They also touch on the importance of literature and daily life in the Bible, as well as the importance of exposure to the Prophet's name and the importance of knowing the church's history. The speakers also discuss the negative impact of Islam on people's lives and their relationships with money, social media, and culture, and the importance of not hitting walls and not overdoing physical barriers to achieve spiritual success. The segment also touches on the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on people, including the importance of dressing up for the right to celebrate events and the rules on health savings accounts.
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First hundred people to show up, seven days
a week.
And that hundred people may expand to 150
if we break down the wall downstairs in
the room downstairs.
That's what we're doing, folks.
We're not playing games.
That will be one of the strongest demonstrations
of Islam.
And the Christians have like 50 soup kitchens.
The Catholics, because of course the Catholic Church
has a lot of money, but these soup
kitchens, I have to say, have no taste.
Nothing about it.
It's like, it's not community run, it seems.
It seems like it's just, of course, obviously
members of the community run it.
I feel like I'm in a jail.
Elijah's Promise is down the street, not to
speak ill of Elijah's Promise, but also to
speak ill of parts of it.
Is that I feel like I'm in a
jail when I go to Elijah's Promise.
That's what their soup kitchen.
You genuinely feel like you're in a prison.
Lights are dim.
It's a miserable experience.
And we're here to give people a good
day.
You're miskeen, you're poor.
You're from one of those whom Allah has
tested.
And He's testing us with you to see
what will we do.
What is our reaction?
We share a life with the unseen or
the invisibles.
You know, there's the movie, what is it,
The Invincibles?
Incredibles.
No, that's The Incredibles.
Sorry, I got them wrong.
But there's, these are the invisibles.
Les miserables, the miserables.
The people who are cutting up your french
fries all day.
Eight hours a day, he shows up.
Go cut the french fries all day.
All right, put it in the heat.
Get hot, get sweaty.
Do that for eight hours a day.
Cutting lawns all day.
All day cutting lawns.
They're invisibles.
You sort of know that they exist.
You see them, but you never look them
eye to eye.
You never think that's a human being.
He's married somewhere.
His wife is in Honduras.
Or he has a fiancée or a woman
he wants to propose to in Ecuador.
We don't think like that.
And we have to start to, too.
Because that's what the Prophet would do.
And we're not going to rest until we
have done something to make the Messenger proud.
And to show Allah Ta'ala that we
care about this deen.
And we're not just, we're putting our money
where our mouth is.
I'm proud of our community for putting out
100K to help go to the building.
Pay off this building.
All the rent.
We never donate, raise money to feed people.
It's just a waste.
It's not the right economic model.
You raise money to buy an asset.
Okay.
Mahboobullah.
Ahna wa sahna.
You raise money to buy an asset.
The asset you work at the limit of
what your asset can produce.
That's the right way to do things.
And that's how we're doing it.
Omar, let's fire it up.
You got it?
لا إله إلا الله الملك الحق المبين بسم
الله الرحمن الرحيم واسع كرسيه السماوات والأرض ولا
يؤدي وفظهما وهو لا نيعظيم بسم الله الرحمن
الرحيم لو أنزلنا هذا القرآن على جابنا لرأيته
خاشيا متصدعا من خشية الله وتلك الأمثال نضربها
للناس لأنهم يتفكرون هو الله الذي لا إله
إلا هو عالم الغيب والشهاده ورحمن الرحيم هو
الله الذي لا إله إلا هو الملك القدوس
السلام المؤمن المهمن العزيز الجبار المتكبر سبحان الله
عما يشركون هو الله الخالق البارئ المصور له
الأسماء الحسنى يسبح لهما في السماوات والأرض وهو
العزيز الحكيم وإذ نفسي بالله يتعالى من كل
ما يسمع بأذنين ويظصر بعينين ويمشي برجنين ويبطش
بيدين ويتكلم بشافتين حسنت نفسي بالله الخالق الأكبر
إن شاء الله ما أخاف أحذر من الجن
والإنس وأن يحذرون عز جاره وجل ثناؤه وتقدست
أسماؤه لا إله غيره ضامني جعلك في نوري
أدائي وعذبك من شرورهم وتحيورهم ومكلهم ومكائدهم أطلق
نارا من أراد بعدوة من الجن وانت يا
حفظ يا حفيظ كافية محيطة سبحانك يا رب
ما أعظم شأنك وعز سلطانك تحصنت بالله باسم
الله بآية الله وملائكة الله وأنبياء الله ورسول
الله والصالحين من عباد الله حسنت نفسي بلا
إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله صلى الله
عليه وآله وسلم ومحرسني بعينك التي لا تنمك
نفني بكنفك الذي لا يرام وارحمني بقدرتك علي
فلا أهلك وأنت الثقتي ورجائي يا غيات المستغيثين
يا غيات المستغيثين يا غيات المستغيثين يا دارك
الهالكين يا دارك الهالكين يا دارك الهالكين كفني
شرك لي طريقا يطرق بي ليل أو نهار
إلا طريقا يطرق بي خير إنك علي كل
شيء قدير بسم الله أرقي نفسي من كل
ما يؤذي ومن كل حاسد الله شفائي بسم
الله رقيت اللهم رب الناس أدب الباس أشفي
أنت الشافي وعافي أنت المعافي لا شفاء إلا
شفاؤك شفاء الناي وغادر السقمة ولا ألم يا
كافي يا وافي يا حميد يا مجيد أرفع
عني كل تعاب شديد وكفني من الحدي والحديد
والمرض الشديد والجيش العديد واجعل لي نورا من
نورك وعزا من عزك ونصرا من نصرك وبهاء
من بهائك وعطاء من عطائك وحراسة من حراستك
وتأييد من تأييدك يا ذا الجلال والإكرام والمواهب
العظام أسألك أن تكفيني من شر كل ذي
الشر إنك أنت الله الخالق الأكبر صلى الله
على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم وتسليما كثيرا
طيبا مباركا فيه والحمد لله رب العالمين ظاهرا
وباطنا وعلى كل حال يا أرحم الراحمين صلى
الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم سبحان
ربك رب العزة عما يصيفون وسلاما على المرسلين
والحمد لله رب العالمين هناك
نصح حمد للسلام على بيت العكس من
أوامر
التسهيل المدهشة، honey هناك استجابة عربية من العقل
ال addict هناك استجابة عربية من العقل العقل
المدهشة، حتى ذلك كانت تقول أعصاب الط all
messengers, and he is Mahboob Rabbil Alameen, he
is the most beloved to the Lord of
the worlds.
He has many, many names.
Jabir ibn Mut'im narrates that the Messenger
ﷺ said, I have several names.
I am Muhammad, I am Ahmed, I am
Al-Mahi, the Obliterator, meaning, and he said
the Obliterator by which Allah obliterates disbelief.
I am Al-Hashr, the Gatherer, the one
who gather at whose feet all mankind would
gather.
What does that mean?
It means all people will, the only safe
haven on the day of resurrection is the
encampment of the Prophet, peace be upon him,
and all people will come to him and
there he will do the shafa'ah, the
intercession, and the divine wrath will quell only
upon those prayers.
And I am Al-Aqib, the Final, after
which there will be no prophet.
That's from Sahih al-Bukhari.
The most honorific titles of Sayyid al-Kawnayn
ﷺ have also been mentioned numerous times in
the Quran.
Some scholars have stated that the Prophet, peace
be upon him, you can count up to
99 names.
Imam Ibn Dihya, he writes, if all the
names and titles mentioned in the Quran and
other divine scriptures for the Prophet ﷺ were
to be enumerated, we would reach around 300.
When he says names, it's just descriptions too.
Okay?
Descriptions too.
So this is around 300.
Some Awliya have stated that Allah Ta'ala
and His beloved Messenger, Muhammad al-Mustafa, you
can count 1,000 names.
Az-Zurqani says this in Tahdeeb al-Asmaa
wal-Lughat al-Nawawi.
Nonetheless, the two most famous names of the
Messenger are Muhammad and Ahmed.
And what is the difference?
Muhammad is actually one of the proofs of
the Prophet, peace be upon him, because it
means the most praised numerically.
And if you actually ask the question, what
human being is most praised in history?
So now we ask the question, well, how
would you prove the praise?
Number one, you could look at the written
word.
Number two, you could look at daily life,
daily human behavior.
Those would be proofs, right?
Indicators of praise.
And praise would be basically anyone speaking well
of you.
So like right now, we're not saying praise
on Muhammad, but we are saying, sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam, we are praising him by spending
this time reading about him.
That's praise.
That's a form of praise.
Let's just take the first one.
Let's limit the first one on literature alone.
Just literature, just books.
How many books of praise are written for
the Prophet, peace be upon him?
You can't count.
You can't count, including simply gathering his words,
writing his biography, praising him in poetry.
All of those types of books.
Who's going to compete?
Let's ask that question.
We know that we can't enumerate that.
It's past a million, no doubt about that.
A separate authored works on the Prophet, peace
be upon him.
Poetry about the Prophet, peace be upon him.
So clearly the only person that I could
think of that comes any close is Jesus.
How Christians, we know that they praise Jesus
and love him and even edify and even
make him divine, but is praise of Jesus,
is that a genre of literature?
Is the Seerah, is the Shema'el, Shema
'el is the description of his character and
his body and his life and everything.
I don't think so.
Name me one book in English on the
praise of Jesus, the description of Jesus.
That's a great point.
Name me your children.
The only people I know is the Mexicans
who name Jesus, Mexico.
So when we simply look at, just objectively
speaking, his name itself, the name of the
Prophet itself is a sign of his, that
how would he, how would anyone at that
time, well he didn't name himself.
How would his mother have wanted, even if
she wanted it, she couldn't have gotten it.
Keep in mind, Arabia back in the day
is like Haiti relative to the Western Hemisphere.
Arabia relative to that world was like today,
Haiti relative to the Western Hemisphere.
The least developed.
Haiti, at least you can say, you can
go, has nice beaches.
Arabia, you're just out in the desert.
Very few people live on the coast.
It's just all desert.
There's nothing there.
Haiti, I'm sure you can probably get some
vegetation in Haiti.
So the name Muhammad refers to the numerical
amount of praise.
So literature is the most objective thing because
we can literally count books.
You can go around and you can count
books.
Let's just go to, as what somebody said,
naming.
We already know that Muhammad is the most
named first name, most given first name in
the world right now with all of its
different spellings in the English language.
The most popular last name in the world
is Lee because of how many people are
named that as a last name.
So if there's someone out there who's Muhammad
Lee and he's your friend, don't try to
look him up on Facebook.
There's going to be tons if we combine
these things.
All right, so
now let's
go to the other name, which is Ahmed.
Oh, by the way, let's take one other
factor.
How about in daily life?
What's the most Christian nation out there?
Poland.
So if I walk the streets of Poland,
will I be exposed to Jesus, the name
of Jesus?
Let's go to the least Islamic country.
Who is the least Islamic country out there?
Whoever it is is going to get upset
that we're saying that about them.
But if I walk the street of that
least Islamic country, will my ears hear the
name of Muhammad?
You will, right?
If I go to the Vatican in Rome,
which is it, it is its own little
state.
If I walk around in the Vatican, I'm
seeing all sorts of paintings and all sorts
of those saints that they allege.
Where's Jesus in all this?
You won't hear the name of Jesus.
They don't have a concept of an event,
a call to prayer.
But you cannot enter one Muslim nation, the
least Islamic country, and not be exposed just
physically.
We are hearing it, to the name Muhammad.
Yeah.
So we looked at literature.
We looked at naming children.
And we look at lived life, daily life.
And the name Muhammad is truly elevated.
The Quran says, وَرَفَعْنَا لَكَ ذِكْرَكَ We've elevated
your remembrance.
You can't go anywhere.
You cannot go anywhere where there are Muslims,
except your ears will be exposed to the
name Muhammad.
And that's definitely a sign.
How is someone's message going to reach people
if you never hear about them?
Can you be involved in any entertainment, sports,
or restaurants, or the movies, without being exposed
to Coca-Cola or Pepsi?
In any place you go for entertainment, you
have to be exposed to those two.
That's how getting your message across to people
is all.
That's what it's all about.
It's nonstop exposure.
And that's why when Christians in Europe, they
get nervous and they get angry at the
growing presence of Muslims.
I want to tell them, listen, you guys
had your own continent for a long time.
And you had no competition.
Explain now why couldn't you transmit your religion
to your kids.
Why?
Because of secularism.
Because your kids didn't believe it.
Before your kids didn't believe it, your intellectuals
stopped believing it.
Just read the chapters of history on the
Enlightenment and the Renaissance.
Your own intellectuals rejected this thing.
They rejected it.
So when Charlie Kirk comes around and he
says that Christian nationalism is the way, how
is it the way?
This is what got you here.
You had the Christians had America to themselves
for how many decades if not centuries.
You had no competition.
You did not have Jews, Hindus, Muslims, atheists
even.
You had zero competition.
And you failed miserably.
It's a miserable failure.
If you wanted to uphold a Christian nation,
you failed miserably.
Your own founders and intellectuals did not embed
Christian law or make Christianity the official religion.
They could have had a separation of church
and state while recognizing the permissibility or the
lawfulness or recognizing the idea that the people
are Christians.
They could say, listen, we're not going to
sponsor one religion over another.
The government will not sponsor.
However, given that the majority of people are
Christian, you may express this Christianity in public
spaces.
I could have said that.
That would have almost been like a fair
and balanced approach between looking at what's actually
happening on the ground, but also you don't
want to fund any religious wars.
So you're just not going to fund anybody.
All right, fine.
Because which sect are you going to fund?
Which Christianity are you going to fund?
Catholicism?
No.
Which group of Protestants are you funding?
So that would have been an argument right
then and there.
Methodists, Lutherans, Baptists, the Pilgrims were some pretty
crazy extremes.
All right, so we're not funding any.
But the township may decide which religion or
what symbols they're going to put up and
let the people decide in every town.
That could have been a middle way.
They weren't even convinced of that.
They didn't even want that.
And French secularism is like atheism basically.
It's like not only are we not supporting
one, we're actually against all of them.
Get rid of every symbol of it.
So that's what I would say to the
Polis.
The reason is that Islam is a religion
that is extremely sticky.
It's sticky.
As soon as it lands somewhere, the seeds
will fall into the earth very easily.
And when you embrace it and you start
living by it, it gives you a lot
of – it gives you firstly a breakdown
of what you have to do and what
you can do.
So I pressure to do what I have
to do, and then I can at my
own pace do a lot of other things.
But here's the beauty of it.
It gives you a lot of physical, little
physical things to do.
In education, in childhood education, they say you
need tangible activities, tactile activities.
Tactile activity is how children learn.
Or is how children learn.
I need to relearn English.
It's how children learn.
Tactile activities.
That's what they say in childhood education theory
and concept, and it's proven.
I would venture to say even more than
children.
Even adults.
Some of them, you talk theory, it's gone
way over his head.
But you put like an engine in front
of him or a motor, he could take
it apart and fix it for you.
Islam is extremely tactile and physical.
The little things that eventually you realize your
whole life, every day, you're thinking about God
and his prophet without trying.
All right?
I remember seeing the first time I see
a toothbrush.
This is the miswak in an Islamic conference
on a table.
I must have been like 12 years old
or 13 years old.
My parents just started to really get involved
in religious meetings and stuff.
Before that, we were just hanging out with
Lebanese doctors and doing that, listening to their
music and all that stuff.
Lebanese doctors, I don't even know.
I think they're mostly where they were Christian
anyway.
But the Arab nationalism was what we were
into.
I remember that for the first part of
childhood.
And then we started to have to get
into Deen after a while.
And when I went to the first conference
and I saw a table that had sticks
on it.
And all of this was new to me.
The whole thing.
And I think that was an important experience
because you got to be able to see
how other people view the Deen.
And as Sayyidina Umar said, nobody understands Iman
like the one who was in Kufr.
So we weren't in Kufr, but we were
in non-practice.
Certain ideas were like really big sacrifices.
Having a beard.
I was like, oh my goodness.
If I saw someone with a beard, I
thought, man, this guy is all in.
At the time, no one had beards.
It wasn't even fashionable in America.
But when we saw Muslims, we were like,
oh my gosh, that guy has grown a
beard.
He's like, right, this guy's all in.
Hijab was like, that will never happen in
our house, right?
Then I start seeing the tooth stick.
And I'm like, what's this?
What is this?
What is this stick?
And someone says, we brush our teeth with
it.
And I'm like, a miswak?
It was my first time seeing a miswak.
And they said, it's called a miswak.
You brush your teeth with it.
Like, why would you do that?
Right?
And they're like, oh, the Prophet brushes his
teeth with this stick.
Immediately, what do you do as an 11
-year-old, 12-year-old?
You picture.
Put some in the imagination.
And I'm like, okay, if I hold this
stick, this is how the Prophet brushes his
teeth.
That's extremely tactile.
Right?
Tactile means it's something you touch.
It's something you feel.
Right?
So I'm like, no, I'm not doing that.
I got around to getting one.
Right?
When did I get one?
When I saw the older guys getting one.
Right?
When I, when I do these conferences, I
would go outside, find the older guys, and
we'd play two-hand touch football.
Then I see one of these guys pull
out a miswak.
And I'm like, all right, that's cool.
I'll get a miswak, too.
I'll go ask my mom $5 and get
this toothbrush.
Get the miswak.
So it's extremely tactile.
And it has things in it that maybe
you think are so superficial, but for other
people, that's really what they need.
Right?
So then now you got koofies.
Now you got, well, your beard in the
first day, that's the most, it's like right
there, right in your face.
It's literally in your face.
So these little things become really sticky.
Then somebody says to you, when you eat,
you only eat with your right hand.
Oh, shoot.
I didn't know that.
Okay.
So now every time I eat, oh, shoot,
I gotta eat with my right hand.
That's a remembrance of Allah.
That's a remembrance of Islam.
When you walk into the bathroom, enter with
your left foot and use your left hand
to wash yourself.
All right.
Let's do that then.
Okay.
So now in a mundane day, I walk
into the bathroom.
Oh, let me walk in with my left
foot.
Okay, dude, I did it.
Right?
I did it.
You see these little physical things make an
impression on you.
I guarantee you that Christianity doesn't have anything
close to this.
And that's why it's so easy to forget
it.
It's so easy to forget about it.
On top of that, let's look at the
prayer.
The prayer in Islam requires you're washing, getting
wet.
You're also then physically moving.
There's physical movements in the prayer.
So children recognize prayer when it's happening.
It's like a two-year-old, a one
-year-old will start mimicking the movements.
That's the salah of a child.
That's their version of prayer.
You see this tactile stuff?
This constantly around your life in a way
that it's so minor, you don't think about
it.
But you do think about it.
That's the deen of Allah.
And that's why it will embrace, it will
grow roots wherever it goes.
It will grow roots.
Set aside all the other things about Islam.
Just the fact that the common regular person,
once Islam sets foot in his heart, these
little tiny things will start growing in his
heart.
One little thing here, one little thing there.
Multiply it by a year.
One little thing here, one little thing there.
Right?
And it starts to grow in his heart.
And it will never leave his heart.
And as long as it's in the hearts
of the people of Europe, it's in Europe.
Eliminate all the mosques.
Try it.
Islam doesn't care for the buildings, it cares
for the hearts.
Make all the laws you want.
It's entering people's hearts whether you like it
or not.
That's the thing.
So just don't hit your head on the
wall.
You're wasting your time.
Wasting your time.
And secularism and atheism, I believe, it's like
a tank that Allah sent throughout the world
to destroy literally the competition of Islam.
It's destroying every faith tradition that it hits.
None of them can stand up to it.
None of them.
Whether lifestyle or intellectually.
Intellectually, it slaughters them all.
And lifestyle, it slaughters them all.
So what is the point of calling yourself
Christian, for example, when you're just living like
every other atheist?
Your economics is no different.
Your sexual lifestyle is no different.
What is the difference between you guys then?
How are you affecting the world then?
Gospel rap.
Yeah.
There's gospel rap.
There's gospel rock.
There's, what do they call it?
This church, Christian rock.
What is the difference between how you live
and how everyone else lives?
When I go to New York, Manhattan, and
the biggest church there has got a gay
pride, then what's the difference then?
You have no impact except you just change
the label.
That's it.
You just put a cross up.
The same thing.
Islam is going to come and change the
way you interact with money, the way you
interact with sexuality, the way you interact with
drugs and alcohol, the way you interact with
a lot of other things.
And that's where it is a significant and
consequential difference in a person's life.
That is all on the, it is a
miracle.
It is a type of, we could say
an ayah.
It is a sign of truth that the
name of the prophet, peace be upon him,
actually in fact is the truthful, it turned
out to be true at the whole level
of the world.
He is the objectively the most praised human
being in the world.
As for the name Ahmed, it refers to
the most qualitatively, which we can't judge.
Qualitatively we can't judge the quality of the
praise.
So that's why in this world his main
name is Mohammed because we can objectively assess
that.
In the next world his predominant name is
Ahmed, the qualitatively most praised.
What is the subject of today's talk?
Al-Mujahidah.
Let's do a little bit on that section
of Al-Risala Al-Qusayriyah.
All of us, we have to do spiritual
struggle.
If we don't engage in spiritual struggle, then
we don't have piety.
So piety requires effort.
Piety is not just a word that you
say.
It requires effort, right?
Wealth, how much money do you have?
I'm a millionaire.
Well, show me the money.
No, I'm just saying I'm a millionaire.
So likewise, piety is not just a word
that we utter.
These people talk about the cross.
The cross has just literally become an aesthetic
now.
You know that?
I saw a debate happening and I saw
a couple news outlets had put the cross
as now simply being like a fashion symbol.
So secularism and capitalism have literally gone into
the heart of that religion and stole it,
made money off of it.
Let me tell you something else that's very,
very damning to showing the weakness of a
religion.
Omar, what is Sunday known for in America,
in the United States?
Football.
Your day got stolen by football.
The NFL has literally stolen a day from
the church.
Your only day.
Your only day was Sunday.
Sunday is NFL day, right?
For 18 weeks of the year.
A football game, a game, a child's game
has stolen the day from the church.
Nicholas Mercolini, with that name, that's a nice
Russian-Italian name there.
Tell us, what are your questions about Islam?
St. Nick Santa Claus.
You know that St. Nick is Santa Claus.
Yeah.
All right, Santa Claus, what do you have
for us?
It says, Islam is a very easy and
simple and logical religion that matches with the
world that you see, the observed world that
we see.
And that's what the truth is.
When the transmission of the revelation coincides and
fits perfectly with what we observe in the
real world, and it also has no contradictions
in it, such as the Trinity, that I'm
going to say, come on, this thing makes
no sense.
You can't be one in three.
Yes, we can have miracles, God can do
whatever He wants, but you cannot have a
contradiction.
Allah says in the Qur'an, we have
no contradictions here.
If this book was from other than Allah,
you find in it much contradiction.
When these three things come together, you have
the truth.
With the insignificance of the cross, does it
mean Muslims can wear it?
Not yet, because it's not fully.
The cross has been stolen, Sunday's been stolen.
What the heck?
Well, what do you have left?
Jesus has been mocked.
You are joining a very weak religion, and
it's weak because it isn't supported by God.
It's a book that did come down, has
been altered, the theology was altered, therefore it
no longer has any support from the Creator.
But look at Islam.
After a hundred years, and it's been more
than a hundred years, they have been waging
war on Muslims, yet still, it is so
significant.
Islam has actually increased in world significance in
the last hundred years.
A hundred percent increased.
Don't be fooled by the politics of it,
that we can't say that we have a
single Islamic country, Muslim country, that's like the
pride of Islam, right?
We don't have that.
Yeah, but did Islam come to make governments
only?
Is that the only thing that we came
for, right?
No, Islam's primary goal is to guide humans.
So if the best way, of course, which
Islam brings, is let the government help do
that.
So it came with a military, it does
come with a government, we don't deny that.
But for some people to say, oh, okay,
so there's Islamic countries because the government made
them Muslim, right?
All right, let's put it to the test.
Demolish all these governments, very few, if any,
of the governments of the 60 Muslim majority
nations, very few of them have a wing
to support Islam.
Very few of them are model nations where
the government says, all right, let's have a
Congress today and all hundred of us sit
around and say, how are we going to
promote Islam today?
They don't do this.
They're just semi-secular, half-secular.
Let's put it to the test.
When you have a world when no government
is standing up for Islam, will it still
enter people's hearts?
That's the question.
And that's the wisdom for why we don't
see Islam in the government.
Yes, this is from Allah to put it
to the test so that nobody can come
and say, I don't know if it's the
truth.
It's just the government-sponsored religion.
Don't really know if it's the truth because
that would be a fair question, right?
That's a fair question.
Is it the truth or is it, do
people really believe or is the government pushing
them to believe?
It's a good question.
Just like anyone who raises his kids.
Oh, my kids pray five times a day.
My kids fast.
My kids say it all.
They sleep on time.
My kids don't curse.
That's when they're with you.
Send them off to college.
Let's see.
Send them off.
Just, I'm not even saying go dorm.
No, just go to the college campus and
hang out with, have all the freedom you
want all day.
You have your own car.
You got your own phone.
You're not following a schedule of high schoolers
anymore.
And let's see what happens.
Then the kid graduates and he moves out
of your house.
Oh, dad, I got a job in Wisconsin.
All right.
Let's see now that he's without that adult
supervision.
Let's see what you do now.
And is that not the whole test of
human beings?
Creation is created in a state of bliss.
الوجود والوجد.
Same word.
Same roots.
Creation, existence, and bliss are one and the
same.
Existence and bliss.
The human being reached for the highest bliss,
which is the bliss of paradise.
But it comes with a test.
You have to willingly follow the path of
God, believe in Him, obey Him, willingly.
Then we'll give you the highest bliss.
All animals and all of nature is in
natural bliss.
Like a baby.
Like a baby has no religion, but he's
always happy.
I don't remember if you remember just childhood,
right?
Up until like the first time you got
in trouble.
Your life is like, you want to be
awake all the time.
And you're in bliss all the time.
Then you get in trouble, that's like the
first bad thing that happens.
You get sent to the corner, that's the
next bad thing that happens.
You get told, no, you can't have a
lollipop.
It slowly etches away at your bliss.
Right?
Then you become mature, and your mind grows,
and you start realizing that life is a
bit different than what childhood told you.
But all animals are in a state of
bliss.
The mountains and the trees, they're in a
perfect state of bliss.
But the human being had an option, and
he chose to reach for the highest level
of bliss, which is paradise.
And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
says, then we have to have a test.
We gave the choice of consciousness, and the
choice of decision, the responsibility of moral decision,
we gave it to the heavens, and the
earth, and the mountains, and they all refused
it.
No, I'm not taking this risk.
It's like this, I can give you 200
grand a year for life, or I can
give you 300k one time, and you go
make a business out of it.
Right?
Tough choice.
9 out of 10 people, what are they
going to say, Omar?
99 out of 10 people will probably say,
just give me the 200k a year.
That's it.
You can't make any more money.
200k a year is maximum.
You're maxing out at that, but it's guaranteed
for you.
Most people would take it.
So the heavens, and the skies, and the
earth, and the mountains, they refused to take
this responsibility, because now I could be homeless
with 300k a year invested.
I could be homeless, or I could be
a millionaire.
Depends.
Or somewhere in between.
So they refused consciousness.
No, we'll stay in the obedience of God
that is a blissful state, but without the
reward.
You're just in a blissful state, and that's
it.
The human being took it, said, I'll do
it.
Yes, you don't remember it, right?
You know, Omar, people say, well, why don't
we remember it?
Okay, what's the response to that when someone
says, Allah told us in the Quran that
you, human being, chose moral consciousness, moral will,
moral ability to do right and wrong.
You chose that.
I don't remember choosing that.
Really?
Okay, do you remember when you were 7
years old?
Do you remember October 30th when you were
6 years old?
You don't even remember that.
Why are you so shocked that you can't
remember something that happened in another abode?
You don't even remember that.
You don't even remember, all right, what did
you eat for dinner last year on October
30th?
Right?
Who did you meet last year that you
had never met before?
Right?
Who did you meet for the first time?
So it's not surprising that from the other
world, and also if we remembered, there would
be no tests.
So Allah told us, Allah told us, you
are not forced into this, oh human being,
you are not forced into this.
You are not forced into moral choice because
you know what?
Some people have the nerve to say, God
is testing me without my consent.
You think the heavens and the earth are
operating on some woke standards of yours?
That your royal highness needs to consent to
everything?
Shay ajib.
Shay ajib.
First of all, you actually did.
The actual answer to the question is you
actually did.
You didn't consent to be brought into existence.
Trees, mountains, they're all fine.
There's no heaven and * for them.
They're all fine.
Even animals who are prey, you might say,
well the zebra gets eaten by a lion.
But Allah has actually adapted their minds to
that.
The moment it's over, literally the zebra doesn't
go to therapy.
You know, you see this zebra that gets
chased and the lion fails.
The lion fails a lot, like 8 out
of 10 missions fail.
So the zebra gets away.
The zebra doesn't go into therapy, depression, I
got traumatized.
No.
Within like 3 seconds, the thing is grazing
again as if nothing happened.
Allah puts a short term memory for these
things.
Right?
So don't worry about them.
So we did consent.
We didn't consent to coming into existence but
we did consent to moral choice.
They had the choice too.
Allah didn't deprive them either.
You're a mountain, you're a tree, you're a...
that for a moment there, you have the
choice to choose.
No.
Subhanallah, even the mountains and the skies and
everything else, they're honored.
And they have no argument against their Creator.
If a tree comes and says, Oh Creator,
why don't I get a chance to have
moral choice?
I see all these human beings doing all
these terrible things, I'll do it.
No, you won't.
You chose not to.
So even the سموات والأرض والجبال and you
know that's كناية for everything.
All the خلق, almost you can say.
سموات والأرض والجبال.
What else is there?
Right?
All the spatial, the cosmic things in space,
السموات والأرض, the earth, والجبال, the mountains, meaning
everything on the earth.
Right?
They chose to not have a choice.
So would that be like a showcasing of
why choosing is better, basically?
Yeah.
The only reason you don't have the choice
is because you chose to not have the
choice.
Yeah.
And so it's indebted to that.
Yeah.
Subhanallah.
Yeah.
Choosing is choosing is literally indebted to choosing.
Subhanallah.
Not like not having choice is indebted to
you being able to choose that.
They have no choice by their own choice.
I mean, it happens to me all the
time.
Like where do you want to eat?
You guys pick.
Surprise me.
My choice is to not is to have
no vote.
Whenever whenever I'm with the guys and they
say whenever I'm with the family, where do
we want to eat?
I'd rather be surprised.
Like I'm the most pretty much not 100
% easy with food but 90%.
I'm not going to go off on which
cuisines are a big disappointment but And تختار
ألا تختار So they chose not to have
a choice.
Were there any souls that didn't consent?
No, it looks like all the souls when
Allah says حَمَلَهَا الْإِنسَانِ it would appear to
be all of them.
All human beings consented.
SubhanAllah.
We don't have time to actually get into
our subject of Mujahidah but you cannot struggle
if you don't have knowledge.
You don't know what to struggle for or
against.
Keep that in mind.
You do not have knowledge to struggle for
or against.
Okay.
Alright, let's go to a couple Q&A.
Take some Q&A's here.
What's up?
Yeah, read us some.
Someone's asking how do we return to spiritual
states that we slipped out of slash did
not put in enough work to maintain after
realizing the distance and just wondering if it's
attainable again or sustainable?
How do we How do we recoup
our old spiritual states?
Well, first of all you never really recoup
your old spiritual states.
You always surpass them because if you notice
you had a spiritual state you hit an
obstacle.
The nature of fighting against that obstacle you
get stronger.
Then you'll be thankful for the obstacle because
you get stronger.
Okay.
Next question.
Let's see.
My kids are teenagers now but I let
them dress up for Halloween 12 years ago
and a Christian at work told me she
don't celebrate Halloween.
Now pretty much Halloween is pretty much known
as a Halloween that originated or a holiday
that originated in Christianity believe it or not.
Right?
If you look at it and then apparently
it's like co-opted by devil worshippers now
but if you actually look at the history
of it I'm not going to get into
that because every year we have to do
the same thing.
So let's skip that.
Someone's asking Sheikh what do I do?
I'm a revert and my daughter was born
on Halloween.
I talked to her about Tawheed but she's
still very young.
Please give me guidance.
How old is she?
He doesn't mention that she's very young.
I'm assuming that's like under 10 right?
Well when your child is in your care
and they're not hit puberty you don't have
to bring them into Islam as converts.
They just start praying with you and then
taking on your religious practices and activities.
Once they do hit puberty whether they live
with you or not then you have to
give them dawah and they have to enter
Islam willingly on their own.
But if you have like a 3, 4,
5, 6, 7 year old 8 year old
he just follows you right?
And he doesn't have to take Shahada.
He follows you he learns how to make
wudu and start praying and doing those things.
And that's it.
They don't have to take Shahada.
Children.
Adam and Bawami ruling on men having hair
past the shoulder length.
Well anything that is a sifah or an
attribute of women is makruh.
Right?
Kinetic Nomad says Halloween is pagan in origin.
Right?
Are you sure?
I thought it was actually it started off
believe it or not as Christian in origin.
And then it somehow became but let's well
we can look that up.
Who needs to argue anymore when everything can
be looked up.
I mean I know it's pagan now for
sure.
I could oh there it is.
See it's All Hallows Eve.
All Saints Eve.
Alright?
It is a celebration observed in many countries
on 31st of October on the eve of
the Western Christian feast.
The beginning of All Hallows Day.
Okay?
It is the beginning of the observance of
All Hallowed Tide.
The time in the liturgical worship year dedicated
to remembering the dead including the saints the
hallows martyrs and all the faithful departed.
In pop culture the day has become a
celebration of horror.
See exactly what I said.
It's like I read this every October 30th
for the last 15 years.
Okay?
And it's associated with the maqabir which is
like graves maqabir I guess and the supernatural
but it all started as All Saints Eve.
The eve before you celebrate the saints in
the Western Christian worlds.
That's it.
Okay.
My textbooks I haven't yet really published them.
I will inshallah publish them.
The textbooks that I teach here at MBIC
at the masjid here.
Alright.
Let's see what else we got here.
Emails info at safinasari.org What is the
bare minimum in salah?
Reciting Fatiha is a fard.
Reciting surah is a sunnah muakkadah.
If you don't there are 8 sunnah things
that are sunnah muakkadah you must do them.
If you forget them not omit them forget
them you can make up for it with
sujood as-sahu with the prostration of forgetfulness.
That's if you forget them not intentionally omit
them.
It's called sujood as-sahu not sujood as
-tarq.
Kills me and makes me angry when I
say people make fun of scholar Hanafi madhab.
Why don't you go look at the video
recently released by our friend who says that
they are the Salaf.
You want to follow the Salaf?
We had him on.
He studied with the Syrian ulama.
His friends were Sheikh Tabriz I think though.
We had him on.
He's a student of Sheikh Samer.
Sheikh Nooruddin.
Go look at Sheikh Nooruddin's video.
Solid video on how the Hanafi school if
you want to be a Salafi follow the
Hanafi school.
Let's tell you the same thing about the
Mariki school.
Who's in the Salaf more than them?
Mariki's look forward instead of the sujood in
the place of prayer.
Yes.
Both opinions are there but looking forward is
stronger.
How to deal with non-Muslim grandparents treating
differently than non-Muslim grandchildren in a better
way than the Muslim ones?
Well, I would just say you know that
this could change by how your children treat
them over time.
So over time whoever is more respectful become
more loved and it's a great opportunity.
You should look at it as a great
opportunity to demonstrate Islam.
Model it.
Show it.
Physically.
What does it mean to be good to
the grandparents etc.
It's my child's birthday.
It's on Halloween.
Can we throw her costume parties before or
after and she's seven?
So I can't say
like this is like something sunnah or anything
or rewardable but what is the ruling on
kids dressing up?
I don't think that that's unlawful but don't
associate it with Halloween.
I would do it like way out of
the range of Halloween like outside the season
even of Halloween.
And then in itself kids dressing up and
being kids that's what kids they do.
They be firemen and stuff like that but
I would say that's just halal.
That's it.
It's not something unlawful.
The celebration of the birthday is essentially has
no standing in the religion neither law forbidden
nor is it recognized.
So it's just it could be lawful if
there is no takalluf maximum at max and
it could be deemed makrooh as imitating the
ways of kuffar right?
That's possible too.
It's a possible angle to look at it
from the perspective of Islamic law but what
I've seen the ulama say is that it's
just it's neither is it recognized by the
sharia nor outlawed by the sharia.
You're allowed to celebrate stuff in Islam and
the celebration the ruling on the celebration is
the ruling on what's being celebrated and the
ruling on the actions remain.
So you can only do what's halal and
good in the actual celebration.
Make sense or?
Kaiser Soze says Safinatim whoever increases his prayers
for forgiveness Allah will grant him relief for
every worry a way out of every hardship
and provide him in ways he does not
expect.
What is the ruling on health saving account?
Health savings account?
What does that actually entail?
Let's look that up.
Health savings account.
What does that entail?
What's the actual definition of that?
Personal savings that you can set up to
pay certain health care costs.
I'll have to look into what they mean
by this.
What actually happens with the money.
It allows you to put money away and
withdraw it tax free as long as you
use it for qualified medical expenses.
It's like a little piggy bank that you
set aside money that is only used for
medical care.
So it's like basically a savings account but
I don't have the discipline to I want
to make sure somebody else holds my money.
I don't have the discipline to monitor it
myself.
I'd have to learn a little bit more
about it to make it to give you
anything useful.
How do you detach your heart from something
that we know rationally isn't good for us?
Decrease your exposure to it.
Don't look at it.
Don't talk about it.
Where can I get that shawl?
Well this is one of the most famous
types of shawls in the world.
This green shawl with the brown trimming.
That's a really nice picture there Omar.
It's the very popular shawl and any Islamic
bookstore site that sells shawls maybe Yemeni Threads
has it.
Should have a shawl like this.
I work on Fridays but I make sure
never to miss three Jummahs in a row.
So most of the time I miss two
and then attend one.
Well first of all where is your work
relative to the Masjid?
Because if you work and there's no Masjid
within a huge radius Jummah is not even
obligatory upon you.
And you should be able to possibly ask
your employer for lunch off and then go
catch the end of Jummah at the very
least if not the whole thing.
Ruling on Thanksgiving since it's not a religious
holiday.
What is Thanksgiving?
What is it?
It's eating turkey and cranberry and that food.
Thanksgiving was a day where allegedly the pilgrims
made peace with the Indians and had a
great meal together.
Thanksgiving to me has nothing to do with
it's not even a holiday.
It's just like a day off and everyone
eats turkey.
Has no what is it even?
It's not a national holiday.
It's not a religious holiday.
Giving thanks.
What Americans are giving thanks?
Let's give thanks by gouging ourselves and stuffing
our faces.
I mean nobody's gonna deny that that stuff
is good though.
Right?
And you watch the Dallas Cowboys and the
Lions on TV.
That's the old American tradition.
Right?
Onyx Chaney says Thanksgiving in the urban community
is huge.
I can't tell you that it's unlawful.
It's hard for me to say it's sinful
for somebody to eat a turkey on Thanksgiving.
Like what are they celebrating?
There's no religious implications.
There's not even a celebration.
Right?
It's just like nothing to me.
What are the benefits of reading Jalal al
-Khairat consistently?
People who do that they oftentimes start to
see visions of the Prophet.
I moved to a small area and I
have doubts about the Imam there.
Only if that Imam of that mosque says
something explicitly forbidden or sorry explicitly heretical then
we don't pray behind him.
Explicitly.
So not by suspicion.
Not by he looks like one of them.
But explicitly also refers to can also refer
to physical signs.
And if I go and I see someone
who clearly looks like a Shiite I'm allowed
to make a judgment that's a Shiite so
I'm not going to pray behind him.
That's something that's allowed because that's obvious.
Everything about it is obvious.
But for Ahlus Sunnah you don't have to
ask.
We don't do these inquisitions and we don't
just judge a person by how he looks
either.
Yes he may look like that but he
may not be all his beliefs are like
that.
So we don't have to go there.
But if they do make some explicitly heretical
views or you don't like their teaching you
can go to another masjid.
No problem.
Is the Salah Ibrahimiyah wajib in the Maliki
method?
No.
Any Salah on the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
is Sunnah Muakkadah is part of the Sunnah
I should say in the Maliki method.
Wait.
Did I get that wrong?
Subhanallah.
The Tahiyyat Yeah it's a Sunnah.
Wait a second.
Now you're getting me there.
I don't know how I Give me that.
Can you give me this book because I
don't feel like getting up.
Now you're sitting on the ground too so
I'm making you get up.
This one right there.
The top one yeah.
Subhanallah.
I forgot this one.
This is not even the best book to
look at it to look at because he
doesn't always he just describes the prayer.
I'm trying to think of there are no
comments I don't think on the Salah Ibrahimiyah
it's just Salah on the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam Yes.
The Salah on the Prophet in general is
a Sunnah.
And the best of it is the Salah
Ibrahimiyah.
The best of it is the Salah Ibrahimiyah.
But if you say Assalamu Alaikum as Ibn
Abi Zaid tells us here right after the
Tashahud the Tahiyyah element Ajzaaka Fa insallamta ba'da
hadha ajzaaka says Ibn Abi Zaid Al-Qayrawani
Wa mimma yaziduhu in shi'ta if you want
to add to it if you wish is
all the other Ad'iyah and Salawat and
Salah Ibrahimiyah.
And that's it.
I just had a confusion in my head
about two different things here.
Ladies and gentlemen we got to run.
Everybody
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