Shadee Elmasry – Tafsir Surah al-Hashr – NBF 399
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The segment discusses various topics related to global warming, including the effects of climate change on schools, language learning, and global Relief Trust. It emphasizes the importance of following Prophet's teachings and avoiding discomfort and distrust, as well as the shaping of shaved hair and the perennialist side of things. The segment also touches on the concept of " pest control" and its potential for growth and development in one's spirituality.
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the ahl al ghanima wa arbaat akhmasiha lil
muqatala wa lil masalih so one-fifth is
the khums to be set aside and then
the rest is for the fighters wa dhahbal
akhtharuna ila annahu la yukhams bal masraf jamee
'ahu wahd others said that the fayt not
the spoils of war now the fayt is
all of it has one place to go
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gonna talk about other things which you will
have a grasp of not everything will be
for one audience right or another some some
parts of the talk can be beneficial to
one audience and not so for the other
for another demographic in the audience so but
if everyone walks away with 70% that's
that's good with the have an Aktharuna ila
annahu la yukhams wa li jamee' al-muslimina
fi haqq fihi haqq qara omar ibn khattab
ma afaa allahu alaa rasoolihi min ahlil quraa
hatta balaqa lil fuqaraa wal muhajireena allatheena ukhriju
min diyanim wa imwalihim yabitughuna fadlaa man allah
wa ridwana and then he said hathihi istawaabat
al-muslimina aamma so omar ibn khattab said
the verse covers all Muslims wa qala maa
ala wajhil ardi muslim illa lahu fihadhal fai
'i haqqun illa ma malakat imanukum he said
that everything except for slaves is mentioned in
this and therefore everyone except for slaves has
a right to the fate all right kay
layakuna doola okay and what does that mean
so that it's not only in one location
yaani bayna al-ru'asa wal-aqwiya so
may so that it the wealth that comes
in from these places does not just become
circulated amongst the rich only and that it
would circulate amongst the poor too kay layakuna
doola bayna al-aqwiya all right so that
what sharia does not like is that wealth
is restricted only yes there's a difference between
ghanima and fate of course ghanima is the
spoils of war fate is the wealth that
comes from there all right and therefore if
it's only circulating to the rich that harms
everybody else with that again ahlul jahiliya kano
idha ghtanamu ghanima akhadha al-ra'ees wa
rub'a haa li nafse so the head
of the army the guy who did the
planning recruited the soldiers did everything he used
in the jahiliya used to take a fourth
of the spoils of war okay in the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam faja'alahu allahu li
rasulihi yaqsimu hafima amara bih thumma qala wa
ma ataakum al rasool faquthuha ma nahaakum anhu
fantahu all right next ayah
lil fuqara'il muhajireen alladheena ukhriju min diyarihim
wa amwana min tawla wa fadlam minallahi wa
ridwana there are three categories of sahaba the
sahaba are divided into three categories muhajirs ansar
and those who came after what does that
mean the muhajir are the people who became
Muslim in Mecca or in their homeland their
city then they were kicked out of their
city or they had to migrate and change
their whole life around those are called the
migrants the muhajireen the emigrate emigrants then the
ansar is the people who hosted the Muslims
so they're at the next level because they
they never suffered in their home all the
muhajireen the migrants they suffered in their home
they had to leave their home it's not
easy especially in a tribal world it's not
easy to leave your home and leave your
tribe and leave all your support group and
everything like that just think about back in
the day if you wanted to eat meat
how hard it was this was imagine remember
a lot of the Arab lands is like
camping there's no marketplace to go and just
buy meat there was in Medina because Medina
was a city but a lot of other
places there's no marketplace go and buy meat
so it took the whole family just to
prepare a dinner right and then the third
group although the ansar there was no suffering
in their home or their home city essentially
they wage war it was they're essentially waging
war on the whole Arabian Peninsula or we
could say the opposite the Arabian Peninsula is
waging war against them and then the after
the conquest of Mecca there was no struggle
and everyone wanted to enter Islam so those
believers suffered far less so by the degree
of their suffering that they they had to
go through to be Muslim is their reward
so the muhajireen are the highest level of
reward from the muhajireen which one are the
highest the ones who attended better and from
the ansar which are the highest the ones
who attended better as well and from the
after that those who attended or heard from
each group and then thereafter those who attended
funda and so on and so forth because
your your your greatness your worthiness your reward
is all based on your sacrifice and suffering
and suffering is not something you could do
to yourself you can't go and say all
right I'm gonna increase my word and make
myself suffer it's not how it works it
has to come to you and it came
to them it did come to them let's
look at this narration it says here and
fought Fudayl Ibn Ghazawan and Abi Hazim and
Abi Huraira and a Rajulan at an Nabiya
sallallahu alayhi wasallam a man came to be
the Prophet's guest people said he said sent
to his family do you have any food
they said they said we have nothing but
water who
will take this man as a guest host
him a man from the ansar says I
will so he went to his wife and
he said we let's be generous to the
guests of the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi
wasallam she said we have nothing except the
food for the kids but he said prepare
it turn your light off and put the
kids to sleep and prepare the food prepare
the food shut the light off and put
the kids to sleep okay if they want
food okay the Aradu Ashaan Fahayatu Taamaha Fahayat
Taamaha Wa Asbahat Sirajaha Wa Nawamat Sibyanaha so
she did that then she got up as
if Fajala Yuriyaniha Anahuma Yakulan they shut the
light off and then they began to just
tap at the plate as if they were
eating okay as if they were eating so
the kids didn't eat they didn't eat they
shut the light off so that he the
guest doesn't know that he and they fed
all the food to the guest so this
is why Allah and his Messenger loved the
Ansar as we said earlier that the Ansar
if you call for money there's hey there's
money there's goods there are new products here
nobody moves but if you say hey we
need something we all need help they run
to it that's the Ansar Falama Asbaha Ghadan
Ila Rasoolillah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam what did the
Prophet say he said Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala
has laughed laughing a Layla Oh I Jeeba
min afaalikum is amazed by your action Allah
Ta'ala revealed way you see runa ala
and pussy him well oh can I be
him ha ha they give despite themselves even
if they have a need for it I
mean the kids need it they need it
just imagine the idea of going to sleep
without dinner most people can't imagine it can't
even fathom the concept imagine your home doesn't
have any food fin in it hooks imagine
your phone your home sorry doesn't have any
food in it you just water people be
in shock oh my you'll go show her
nafsa like a woman will be home Allah
gives us a formula for for success very
simple overcome your desires overcoming your desires really
is the formula for all success whether it
makes total sense because everything that you want
to do you're gonna need it's gonna fight
against your desires all goodness goes against desires
so simple formula for success simple habit for
success avoid desires raising kids very simple formula
for success watch their desires and always curb
it a little bit curb it a little
bit I want this okay in five minutes
not right away I want this in 10
minutes not right away I want this not
you're not all of it half of it
I want this you can't you can't simple
as that sometimes you just can't sometimes the
answer is just no we're going out for
a 10-minute errand I gotta take a
little one with me oh let's take a
snack but the errand is 10 minutes it's
5-minute errand 15-minute errand what do
we need to take a snack for this
is a terrible habit it's literally a terrible
habit let's take a snack we're going on
a road trip you know snacks in the
car used to be for road trips long
road we used to drive two hours to
visit friends up in North Jersey there's no
idea bringing a snack with you snack you're
driving to Ohio you're driving to Chicago you're
driving you know down to Florida then you
take a snack now you're gonna pick up
the kids from school take a snack yeah
gee this is not a good habit yep
it's not a good habit a little bit
of roughness but on a regular basis really
make somebody strong a little bit of roughness
but on a regular is not so much
roughness that you hate your life and you
hate everything around you know just a little
bit of sandpaper but on a regular basis
they get used to it and used to
it and used to it then they go
out into quote-unquote real life which is
I mean being at home is real life
but going out to deal with the rest
of the world you got far more sandpaper
in you than everybody else you're gonna cream
your competition your competition will be soft in
comparison be completely soft so very small dosages
but at a regular basis of disliked things
that's all that's really the summary of it
things that are disliked and things that are
disliked and it will increase over time without
even even realizing it right take the garbage
out eventually that pile of garbage is bigger
then take the recycling out it's a bigger
pile of recycling then one day you say
clean out the basement and it's easy because
it went little by little by little by
little right and that's you may you cash
on FCE hold your greed and your desire
right don't indulge it but sure enough see
avoid it aksum a pain and a on
a beho that the Prophet divided the palm
trees amongst us a cousin come in they
said no for Kalu to phone and Mona
when I'm sure no she didn't come fifth
summer I was a man of Atana he's
they said at least give us some and
divide the rest they said we listen and
we obey hence Allah loves the saying Samana
what Atana if you want to know to
be honest one of the most important features
in Tarbiyah and in our Islam and our
deen is Samana Atana submission there's a whole
section in the on the importance of Taslim
where is their thought and where is their
submission the thought is in my belief in
Allah and his messenger in the first place
we cannot make taqlid blind imitation in being
Muslim there's no taqlid in that you have
to it doesn't have to be that you're
writing a whole epistemological essay on why you're
a Muslim but you have to be convinced
and you're doing that on your own in
the food or in the speculative matters you
choose a shaykh and that's my shaykh that's
my method that's your choice but in both
cases once you come into the Islam make
that decision you submit and you act upon
now it's a time of learning what's said
and acting upon it I don't need to
now review my decision afterwards so to give
an example person you who enters Islam you
think about it if God and his Prophet
are actually true that's what you think about
then afterwards once you've accepted that after you've
accepted that then you simply accept the rules
you don't go and do a whole assessment
of the rules and see if I'm gonna
accept it that makes no sense does not
make any sense what makes sense is you
choose your doctor first and then you accept
it you don't go and you look at
all let me look at all the rules
no ask yourself is the Prophet true right
once you accept yeah the Prophet is true
now the only question is did he say
it all right and the same thing for
madhabs in four madhabs are in four four
means this the secondary matters that are not
the primary basis of the faith that are
up for discussion all right that's what a
four hour and they have schools of thought
on that interpretations but like even in that
you don't go and look at every interpretation
and say okay I'm gonna I'm gonna assess
this no you look at simply the source
the interpreter who is the Imam doing the
interpretation do I accept him as the most
worthy of interpretation so that's how it up
that's how it operates that's how you do
it so this is the important of Taslim
and at some point everybody's got to learn
Taslim but you got to learn where is
brainwashing and where is Taslim the idea of
brainwashing versus submission is that you're not allowed
to think about certain things a you're not
allowed to look at any contradictions within the
source every person is invited to look at
the Quran look at the Prophet peace be
upon him study it examine it and then
make a decision yes I believe this is
God's Prophet and then once you do though
now there's a different kind of question you
may ask next question you may ask is
is what's in the Quran actually what the
people are saying it means that's the second
question you may ask the third question you
may ask is not why we do something
but what are some of the wisdoms behind
it and that's the difference between Al-Hikmah
and Al-Illah hey Omar can you bring
us our starboard banner please our Hikmah and
Al-illah so some things the Sharia tells
us directly this is why it exists like
you don't drink so that you don't lose
your intellect okay all right so you can
know what you're saying at the time I'm
a matter cool on that was the first
the prohibition of alcohol in degrees was that
do not drink until you or do not
pray until you know what you're saying that
was the first prohibition so you can only
drink when there's no prayer right then it
was forbidden altogether so there are a little
and there are Hikm I know are the
legal reasons why so if the legal reason
is not there then it's the prohibition is
not there right if the legal cause is
absent the ruling is absent but there are
rules in Islam where God doesn't tell us
the reason Allah does not tell us the
legal cause silk being forbidden you know that
so the idea of silk being forbidden was
an old world thing the Romans didn't allow
men to wear silk at some point to
they said it resembles the clothing of women
and it makes you soft maybe that may
be just a wisdom but the Prophet didn't
give us a legal cause of why silk
is unlawful therefore if you give me a
material that is not silk but it looks
like silk I can wear it it's not
silk maybe it's discouraged if people think I'm
wearing silk and they'll say ah this is
a sinner he's not wearing silk that my
reputation will be smeared maybe and when we
do that we don't ask if they should
do that or not right so you may
say well they should have a good opinion
of me and they shouldn't backbite me and
they shouldn't say these things about me that's
true but that's irrelevant the Sharia judges on
what could happen or likely to happen whether
they're sinful for that or not you say
so yeah nobody should say that they should
assume the best of their Muslim brother but
the Sharia doesn't go on the ideal it
goes on the real chances are people will
do that whether they should do that or
not they will say we're not marrying this
guy we're not befriending this guy he's not
leading the prayer for us it's gotta wear
silk yeah they're wrong in that false assumption
but because it's likely to happen regardless same
thing with you know sinful things you we
don't walk in certain streets because you'd likely
see something sinful you don't say oh well
you should lower your gaze chances are most
people will fall into those sins if they're
tempted to so if you avoid the thing
altogether I think differentiating between the Hikmah would
save so many people from like major errors
like so one example I give is like
travelers travelers prayer a lot of like the
older uncles and stuff they say oh no
you like you have to shorten it because
like we're killing you know it's only for
a hardship but here's where this difference between
Hikmah and Ilah like manifest and you see
like how it affects the Hikmah so the
Ilah in travel is the travel itself mm
-hmm right the Hikmah is that you know
shortening the prayer like easens your burden and
things like that yep right that's not the
Ilah that's the Hikmah so even if you're
like you know killing and you have no
hardship and travel and stuff like that you
still have to shorten it because the Ilah
is the travel itself it's not a traveler
was your mic on though then okay the
can you lift our screen up a bit
I slouch on this couch when it's comfortable
so the yeah the travelers prayer it's not
about the hardship it's just the fact that
you're traveling so I didn't travel on a
five-star go to five-star hotel be
on a you know Emirates airline one of
these really fancy airlines watch TV all the
whole way there if they stuff you and
something hey didn't you travel with us recently
homero one of these flights they're like Turkish
airline just stuffs you they just bring in
snacks out every five every every no no
hour goes by without them bringing something out
you feel like what the heck I'm stuffed
I have to have Zod in the plane
now that doesn't change the fact that it
is a Sunnah to shorten the prayer
yep
yep mm-hmm so that is Allah legal
cause explicitly written by the given by the
Quran or the Sunnah and then there is
Hikmah which is the possible wisdom that we
speculate about about that about the reason like
fasting why do we fast to feel healthy
to feel the poor you can have a
whole month of Ramadan and you cannot have
either of those things all right so you
a person many people who are really really
healthy they hardly eat anyway they try to
you know have these water fasts year-round
okay so when Ramadan comes they're not affected
at all so they don't feel hunger and
then there are some people who don't feel
the poverty at all either they sleep all
day they wake up and they binge all
night so what poverty did they feel so
those are maybe wisdoms but they're not the
legal cause ultimately the legal cause is we
stop eating simply for one reason is that
God commanded us to right that's it yeah
Ibn Saeed Sami Anas Ibn Malik Heena Kharajah
Maho illal Waleed Qala Da'an Nabi Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam Al-Ansar Ila An Yaqta'a
Lahumu Al-Bahrain Faqalu La Illa An Taqta
'a Li Ikhwanina Mina Al-Muhajireena Mithlaha Qala
Ala Fasbiru Hatta Talqooni Ala Al-Hawd Fa
'inna Hu Sayusi Bukum Athara Ba'di The Prophet
called the Ansar and said let me split
some wealth for you give you some wealth
cut some wealth for you the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam they said look at the
response not until you include the migrants with
us that's why Allah the Prophet loved these
people the Ansar right don't give us any
you're gonna give us something give everyone else
something too yeah give everyone else something to
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said to them
have patience until you meet me at the
fountain for hardship will come to you okay
that was for those specific people because the
Prophet loved them so much he wanted them
to be patient that hardship is coming Shaji
you see that there's a video out there
recently of three kids doing trick-or-treating
and I guess maybe it was late at
night or something and the basket was empty
at the people's door sometimes people you leave
a door a basket at the door and
the ball there had no candy in it
and these people who were there they published
this from the ring and they saw that
the kids said oh shoot there's no candy
in it let's leave some candy for the
next kids that are gonna come and they
took some of their own candy and put
it in the bowl all right it's a
great video isn't it I mean they're just
kids so clearly their parents taught them well
where are they gonna learn something like that
except for their parents so that each one
put a I love that one kid he
they all put some candy from themselves for
the other kids and then one kid he
saw something he liked and he took it
back that's why the Ansar are loved they
don't want for themselves all the time they
always they're always thinking of others hence the
hesab on them is so easy like they're
there when they get taken to account it's
very light when people are that good and
decent and generous what are we on a
minute Abbas and Carla Carla Rasool Allah sallallahu
alayhi wasallam Yoman Nadir little on SAR on
the day that they had that issue with
the Benny Nadir the Prophet said to the
Ansar in Chittum Sam Tomlin Muhajireen amin Amalikum
wadiyar ikum what to share ikuna home Fia
the heel anima if you wish you can
get a portion of these spoils of war
and divide up your own wealth with the
Muhajireen or the opposite okay keep your wealth
and your homes leave that and and don't
take anything of the Ghanima so the spoils
of war so either way you're gonna end
up the same you either give some of
your wealth to the Muhajireen and take some
of the spoils of war or don't give
away your wealth and don't take from the
spoils of war yeah the Ansar said Bell
Naksim will a home in Amalina wadiyar Ina
when you feel on the Ghanima will I
know Shariq um Fia subhanallah they said messenger
of Allah we're gonna give them some of
our wealth and leave the whole spoils of
war to them too subhanallah hence Allah Ta
'ala revealed we threw an island for seem
what I'll kind of even Khalsa you see
how much generosity that they had you don't
know that I'm forcing him what I'll kind
of him Khalsa they give even if they
have a need therefore someone said that giving
when you don't have a need is less
reward than when you have a need of
course when you have a need and you
give you have more reward no doubt about
that and Sayyidina Ali is the one who
said when you give after being asked it's
adab just just manners it's not charity it's
just manners of course it is charity but
he's saying in Mubarak this is just being
polite rather true charity is that you go
around looking for the poor and noticing oh
my these guys had a hole in his
shoes for the last month let me drop
some money in his pocket while he's not
looking right something like that let me just
put an envelope of cash in his mailbox
just say gift on it stick it in
his mailbox like that the secret Sadaqah is
what makes the poor it deflates the envy
out of their hearts from the rich because
the natural reality between rich and poor is
that the poor will envy the rich how
can you share a message see most people
don't have a shared space right the poor
the third space of the poor there's work
home and there's a third space where you
socialize the third space of the poor is
like some dingy bar the third space of
the rich used to be like a country
club but it's still they have these fitness
clubs that are like ridiculous $600 a month
then you just go there get on a
machine there's some snacks there's some food there's
a massage whatever 600 sometimes more too by
the way two three thousand dollars a month
right so they still separate they don't hang
out in the same space well in Islam
it's not the case in Islam you hang
out in the same place you go pray
in the same masjid so you someone's riding
up in a rickety Honda another person's coming
on a bicycle another person's walking and another
person's coming in an Audi another person's coming
in a SUV Mercedes another person's got a
driver and you're all praying in the same
masjid so what's happening Allah does done this
for a reason so you all see each
other it's a test and a benefit it's
a test for both you're coming in in
your Mercedes SUV and parking you pay $800
a month for your lease or your car
payment and you're praying next to a guy
who's has been praying with the same outfit
on for the last week so Allah wants
us to notice people there's this idea okay
don't look at anyone and pray that's good
to a degree there's a time and place
for that but there's also a time for
do notice everybody you have wealth you should
be noticing everyone around you take notice who
has holes in his socks whose kids have
holes in their pants whose kids you can
tell where this stuff was bought you can
tell this shoe is not even worth $10
and you could tell other people when they
buy their kids those ridiculous ugly-looking Yeezy's
for $300 piece of plastic flip-flop looks
like it's made out of marshmallows and it's
$300 that just just tells you something right
so well that tells you that that person
doesn't need sadaqa and it tells you another
person doesn't look at when you pray look
at the socks of these guy you can
notice these things and the rich should notice
them and they should take the initiative to
find a way to get that person a
gift of money it's not have to be
a lot 50 bucks can go a long
way for people hundred bucks in a way
that they don't feel it you can go
to the masjid administrator and said listen that
person over there just give them this envelope
and don't say who anonymous the Muadhin the
front row brothers at the front row they
know everybody they see everybody all the time
and they simply say here a gift from
one of the Musalis oh who is it
no no don't say it's just a gift
I'm embarrassed okay what's embarrassing I don't want
it to be awkward poverty is more awkward
poverty is worse so it's not awkward number
one poverty is more awkward right you just
go up to the administrator and say you
see that guy over there just slip this
in his pocket give it a tell him
it's an anonymous brother give it how hard
is that you swing by the ATM you
pull out a couple hundreds you give it
some people if you earn let's say 50
60 70 80 K a month I'm telling
you you can all make that amount of
money it is not hard to make that
amount of money you just have to follow
certain principles and you have to have suburb
and focus and you have to go against
your desires and you have to take a
mentor but you can get to that amount
of money it may not be overnight it
may take you five six years eight years
ten years but you will get you can
easily get to that if you follow certain
spiritual and worldly principles but if you're making
80 K a month then your Sadaqa can
be a thousand dollars a month what is
it really the difference between 79 and 80
thousand a month it's nothing so imagine now
you go to the bank every time every
beginning of the month you know these well
at that point you don't have a beginning
and end of the month because you're earning
from like ten different places so you just
click on the ATM machine $1,000 withdrawal
in hundreds okay and you stack them you
through put them in envelopes or in a
piece of paper you go to them I've
been every month every few days you see
that brother over there just slip this in
this pocket tell him it's a gift from
an anonymous source this is how the misset
this is the function of why the prophesized
set of them said it's better to pray
in Jamal it's not it's by a focus
intention and sincerity it's far better to pray
alone but Islam is not just focusing on
your own spirituality it's focusing on the bodies
of other people the wealth of other people
the well-being of other people hence it's
greater to pray in the mosque so that
you can see other people when you have
I'm telling you if you become somebody who
prays regularly in the masjid you will eat
so much for free the amount of food
that just gets passed around right all of
these benefits telling you so many benefits but
it's up for the rich it's up to
the rich to be aware to be aware
it's not even Zakah this is Sadaqah in
the realm of Sadaqah the rich have to
keep their eye out okay and be and
notice and it is a test this shared
space of the mosque between the rich and
poor is a test for the poor to
don't have envy this is the Kisma of
Allah Allah's divided the wealth like this and
we can also say one of the ways
in which maybe you are to blame to
poverty is not always it's not always based
in innocence it could be and it could
not be it's your decisions you decided to
go into poetry as a major nobody forced
you to do this your best childhood friend
he said you know what I'm gonna go
into dentistry and you all live the same
way and you don't realize any difference in
that one decision until you're now hitting the
age of 20 and 30 you're living like
this now your poetry this is what he
got you crumbs and dentistry you said I
this is so boring you're just you know
a laborer but at a higher level that's
it I mean our dentist always makes fun
of himself he were just like high-level
skilled laborers that's it what is a they
we always I always joke around with the
gastroenterologists the guy who studied that the people
who do stomachs and intestines and I always
introduce them it's funny when I see them
I and some there's a third person we
don't know I said this is a plumber
he is a plumber he's just a plumber
for humans right so that's why he's making
30 times more than a plumber for toilets
but it's for the poor not to envy
the rich and maybe you'll learn something from
them maybe you'll get a job from them
and maybe you'll start to ask a question
hey how did you get like this I
wouldn't mind a six-figure salary as a
monthly basis right as a monthly salary six
figures person makes six figures over two years
another person makes six figures in a month
so why don't you learn something right that's
why the third space that is shared between
rich and poor those are the wisdoms behind
it if that's implemented you don't have socialism
and Marxism as revolutions of like jealousy this
really like anger and hatred injustices rich not
being just to the poor poor having no
spiritual teaching that is amazing from the answer
they said to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam we will give them some of our
wealth and give them the whole spoils of
war of Bani Nadir subhanAllah.
Al shuh is stinginess that's shuh stingy some
said there's a difference between shuh and bukhr.
Some said one is desire and the other
is stinginess a little bit of a difference.
A man said to Abdullah bin Mas'ud
I fear I've destroyed myself he said what's
that for he said I hear Allah saying
in the Quran whoever fights their greed and
desire they're the successful ones and I am
Shaheer Shaheer between stinginess and greedy for more
by the way greedy for more fadl of
Allah Ta'ala is acceptable if you're going
through the right channels which is dua and
taslim to Allah's will and dua.
He says nothing ever comes out of my
hands like I'm so greedy like I'm stingy
I never give sadaqa.
Abdullah bin Mas'ud says this is not
shuh.
shuh is to take wealth oppressively okay but
what you're suffering is stinginess so shuh is
to take people's wealth illegally unlawfully but what
you're suffering from you never give is but
if you ever you want a trick this
is for our souls we should really do
this.
Anytime that you see a charity that you
see a call for charity sign up for
it with your debit card for $2 that's
it it just gets your wheel going don't
ever underestimate it you need to get your
wheel going right get your wheel going you
know that saying do a push-up a
day because you just get used to going
down on the ground doing the push-up
but you never actually will end up eventually
you'll be doing like a hundred a day
because you get yourself used to it you
become so used to it you marinate in
the push-up you are in the in
the act that's the key.
Ibn Umar says shuh is
not that you don't give shuh is that
you want what's not yours lawfully.
Ash-shuh huwa akhthul haram says Saeed Ibn
al-Jubeir waman aiz zakah taking wealth unlawfully
and not giving out what is obligatory because
zakah money is not yours by the way
so it is this type of theft zakah
money as soon as you have zakah applicable
to wealth that money technically is not yours
anymore let's say I have $200,000 at
the end of the year that I have
to pay in zakah that money is not
mine if I keep it I've stolen from
the poor.
Ash-shuh huwa al-hirs al-shadeed alladhi
yahmiluhu al-irtikab al-maharim.
Others said and I like this definition shuh
is the not an act but it's the
feeling of coveting money so much that spills
you over into haram therefore the sinful act
becomes the result of shuh the inevitable result
of shuh.
Ibn Zayed said man lam yaakhuth shay an
nahahu allahu anhu walam yada'a shuhu ila
an yamna'a shay'an min ma amrallahu
bihi faqad waqaahu shuha nafsi as long as
you don't steal wealth that's not yours and
you don't stop giving the zakah that you
have to give you don't have shuh.
Ittaqul dhulm fa inna dhulma dhulmat yawmal qiyamah
wa ittaqul shuha fa inna shuha ahlaka man
kana qablakum la yajtami' ghubarun fee sabeelillahi wa
dukhanu jahannam.
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said for those
who are sincere the dust of the fight
of the battle and the smoke of the
hellfire never meet in one person so that
when you go into battle and we're talking
about the old days not today's remote control
battles the old days and really some of
the Palestinians today the way they're fighting on
the ground literally by themselves like with their
bodies I mean in the middle of the
fight that smoke and the ash and the
and the smoke of hellfire they don't meet
in the same person it's time for Q
&A we only have two segments today tafsir
Q&A we're going old school oh we
have a third segment all right fire it
up while I pull up this these questions
Kenneth Leachman wants a mentor right now starboard
is for marriage mentors but we will eventually
in the future I can't make any promises
right now but in the future it will
go to other forms of mentorship as well
and the
mannequin method is it permissible in the third
and fourth Raqqa afforded Salah instead of reciting
Fatiha to say subhanAllah three times then go
to the Fatiha is for for the person
who is praying by himself or is the
Imam cannot say subhanAllah three times all right
what do we have here one of our
own guys from New Jersey I lean Othmani
click volume on my
name is Alian Othmani and I came from
America four months ago and there's our guy
that's a Leon you know him in America
my parents came many years ago for college
and stayed since then they
worked very hard to give
us a very comfortable life in America when
I told people I was going to come
to Yemen to study they were confused they
asked me why do you want to go
back in time and then I thought and
that's any that have you know and Yemen
America may have a lot of luxuries electricity
cars big buildings but it lacks the most
essential part of being a human being and
that's recognition of our slavehood to Allah all
of these luxuries are in reality a veil
how is it that people there have so
much money so many things but they're still
depressed still have anxiety and they're suicidal for
us Muslims the answer is very simple happiness
and pleasure only comes from Allah and the
Lord of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam the
Lord of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam removes all
anxiety and worry and stress I grew up
around Muslims and I went to an Islamic
school where we were taught all the basics
of the deen alhamdulillah
but due to
my weakness I always felt like I was
just doing movements and motions and that there
was no real meaning to it while I
was in college I started taking classes in
our masjid with our Imam Dr. Shadi al
-Masri he's
someone who benefited from Tareem immensely he helped
me to realize that Islam is much more
than just movements and motions it has a
much deeper internal reality and it has a
living senate back to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wasallam he
introduced me to this path about five years
ago and ever since then I've been longing
to be in this masjid with you guys
it
always
just seemed like a dream that would never
come true until about two years ago I
went on a trip to Umrah with Dr.
Shadi al-Masri while we were there we
met some of the Habaib like Habib Ubaidullah
al-Attas and Habib Muhammad al-Saqaf in
Jeddah this
was the first time I had ever met
Habaib in real life and it was a
very surreal experience while we were in Medina
we had heard that Habib Qadhim was also
in Medina at the same time one morning
after Fajr I got a call and my
friend told me that Habib Qadhim was in
Jannatul Baqi but everyone can see the link
and the videos are there mashallah amazing and
we're going to see him inshallah in December
the Dora to Tareem we're all going a
bunch of us are going to the Dora
in Tareem this winter break Omar you can
fire up the website for that for people
to sign up we're going on two trips
actually one is local Chicago Dar es Salaam
winter intensive if you all want to go
to that we're going as a community caravan
I mean I'm taking the flight but these
guys are taking a big van a big
15-seater or two so you guys are
going to be leaving Friday December 21st I
don't know Friday morning no Jummah for you
guys Friday Uga you coming to that Yasin
you coming to that and yeah another road
trip what's the map Omar open up a
map huh Chicago yeah it's long open the
map let's see type in Jersey type in
NBIC to Dar es Salaam yeah you guys
should leave at Fedge take one break and
then keep driving take a second break short
very short coffee break and then go how
many hours 12 hours listen 12 hours it's
a bus it's a minibus of 15 people
if you if you go in the middle
of the day though and then you all
stop at a hotel and a motel right
that's the weaker way to do it right
but if you guys are on a bus
of 15 guys and you take two breaks
the whole total will be 15 hours but
it won't feel that bad yeah so I'll
see you guys there because I'll know I
got Tajudin and I got other people with
me right starboardmarriage.com works yes it works
who says it doesn't work starboardmarriage.com type
type in your look in your I'm on
it right now look at look up how
you spelt it that's why okay my supervisor
is Jewish how can I explain the verse
of all men you will find the Jews
and those who associate others with Allah his
divinity to be the most hostile to those
who believe I mean you don't have to
explain that you just have to do your
job and go home but if you did
get there any verse like that is in
general right and do we need to explain
it go on to open the TV why
don't you go to Twitter Instagram you see
it happening see it happening right so that's
how you explain it it's in general and
not absolute okay it's in general because the
Crusaders were not so nice to us as
the Quran says though the best of the
nicest to you will be the people who
had some Mawadda will be the Catholics well
the French were not so nice to us
right in our history so there's exceptions of
course in general and with exceptions how to
manage the fluctuations in Iman and to be
more consistent with Nawafil says Irtida Arif and
the best thing is to a it's through
habits it's through habits so going to the
Masjid regularly helps Iman not fluctuate so that
if you tell yourself I'm going to go
to the Masjid at least for three prayers
in the week and that's not a lot
right but at least is better than nothing
I'll go on Monday night when I'm off
I'll go on Saturday afternoon when I'm off
and I'll go to a class on Sunday
wonderful so Iqbal
you see that statement about the Jews is
in general it's not all of them are
going to be like this well you can
also show them another verse of Quran why
don't you show him the opposite verse which
says there are some people from the people
of the book including Jews you can trust
him with a mountain of gold and you
can trust him he'll watch it for you
so there's those two so Iqbal also show
him Allah saying they're not the same it's
the same verse they're not all the same
we don't have a one blanket statement of
Kuffar that they're all like this why don't
you show him the fact that a Muslim
can marry a Jewish woman or Christian woman
also tells you something because marriage is made
for Mawadda it's made for good feelings and
love and all that so therefore if Allah
permits it to a Jew and Christian wife
as a wife then it's assuming that it's
going to be there that means she's also
very good to you too so that's how
you answer that Iqbal by looking at the
summary look at all the evidences and all
the statements about Jews and Christians in order
to form a conclusion is a boxer's income
halal?
no it's not hurting people is not lawful
wrestling was made lawful by the Prophet there's
no severe pain in that nor are you
bursting arteries or breaking bones you are doing
that in boxing and especially hitting the face
can you explain surah 5 ayah 9 let's
see the tafasir I can't explain anything from
ourselves let's go to the tafasir oh why
don't we just look here open it up
for us my older sister is a cat
owner and she keeps them locked in a
small room but provides necessities makrooh it's not
sinful it's makrooh discouraged only it's makrooh we
said that what's sinful is not giving them
their needs and to trap them from being
able to wander as Allah created them to
be free Allah created them free you can't
trap them when you came when we first
discovered these animals where did we discover them?
in nature animals are meant to be free
and that's where it's discouraged to take those
animals as pets provided unless you let them
roam outside and then risk getting fleas if
you want that's up to you what's the
problem here?
why does this need a tafasir?
what's the question on that?
Allah promised those who believe and do righteous
deeds forgiveness and a great reward in the
afterlife what's the aspect of the question here?
alright answer that for the person Abdullah says
men with kids got 80k job offer double
current job but new job doesn't have Friday
off like current job it's at a Catholic
University and he can pray Jummah there on
the campus yes do that no problem you
get a lunch hour everyone gets lunch you
don't have to say can I go pray
Jummah I need a lunch hour and you
tell them what do I get a lunch
hour once one hour a day alright so
how about this Thursday I only take a
15 minute lunch hour and Friday I take
an hour and 45 minutes there's a lot
of ways to do it I don't think
they can stop you from praying Jummah there
are laws on this stuff and anyway you're
going at lunch hour anyway so yes you
should take it go for what benefits yourself
and make the Jummah happen you can make
it happen there's no way they're going to
deny you Jummah it's not even allowed for
them this is a unique country you go
to France they'll laugh at you so America
is a unique country in this respect should
we think while making a dua which is
consistent from two years that maybe this would
be my test to check if I submit
to the will of Allah no it's just
a test of patience and a test of
persistence and you have to have you must
follow what the Prophet said pray believing with
absolute certainty that Allah will answer you that's
what we're commanded to do that's what we
are commanded to do we are commanded to
supplicate believing absolutely that Allah is going to
give us if we make dua and we
have a doubt in our minds he's not
going to give it to me you haven't
fulfilled the rights of dua you haven't fulfilled
the God's rights and you haven't fulfilled Allah's
rights and you have you are right now
having you're having a bad opinion of Allah
and you're sinful for that you know that
and the punishment of that sin your dua
won't be answered you have a bad opinion
of Allah right so do not have a
bad opinion of Allah do exactly as the
Prophet said make dua with absolute certainty he's
going to answer this dua if it's a
wrong dua Allah will turn your heart lot
of good questions here today so Muhammad Wani
I don't understand surah 5 ayah 9 has
no mention of apartheid in it at all
I think you got the surahs wrong Zahra
al-Gawhari says my daughter is 7 years
old big fan of the stream well done
young lady 7 year olds like the stream
that means I guess the English is easy
enough for them to understand would like to
have an explanation on why she wasn't allowed
to go to to the Halloween school disco
7 year old girl wants to go to
Halloween I have to tell you young lady
that Halloween is one of those holidays that
originated from another religion and it originated as
the night before All Saints Day in the
Catholic faith it used to be a Catholic
holiday just like Christmas and Easter and they
used to celebrate the saints who they call
saints then for somehow I don't know how
the night before became associated with the graves
and the spirits and then eventually it became
warped into ghosts, demons and nakedness so that's
why Muslims don't celebrate Halloween it
is devilish and demonic it's not dressing up
like cops and robbers like the old days
when I was growing up that's what it
was you dress up as Spiderman you dress
up as a cop you dress up as
yeah you dress up as an athlete right
okay the brother says he didn't mean Ayah
9 he meant Ayah 19 so let's read
this Oh people of the book Our messenger
has come to clear you for a while
to clarify to you to correct your understanding
after a long gap between messengers so that
you do not say we never got a
warning you have a warning and you have
someone to give you the good news about
what is the correct beliefs and about paradise
maybe you're talking about Ayah 21 Oh people
says Moses my people go into the holy
land Allah has written it for you yeah
what about that that has to do with
Moses in his time that was abrogated and
abolished later on afterwards that's a historical moment
a command at that time so Mr. Muhammadwani
kindly enter into the chat and explain to
me again what is the angle of the
question here yes Allah commanded Moses and his
army that land that doesn't mean the deed
lasts forever from God you can nullify it
Salim Ocasio can you give insight on what
it might mean for a person who seems
to have all their Dua answered with regard
to trivial things but to enter Hajj for
a year plus is not answered could it
be a sign that Ijab will come why
don't I put it like this it takes
four years to get a high school diploma
and four years to get a bachelor's degree
and two years to get a master's and
seven years to get a PhD and four
years to get a medical degree and four
years to do your residency all this time
to get to do work now you get
to live as a doctor and work your
tail off that's the reward that you get
to do more work of course to reap
the wealth of that money but doctors these
days are getting scammed anyway by insurances point
being is Sabr Sabr Sabr to not have
a why do I say this am I
selling you a false dream no am I
selling you a pipe dream no we're following
the prophet that's it someone here no we're
following commandments do not stop you receive the
reward of your dua provided that you don't
stop make dua while certain that you will
get an answer do not stop you see
that stubborn streak that some people have we
should grow it in ourselves by remembering the
divine command some people naturally have it some
people their environment made them persistent and stubborn
their life experience some people know we learn
it by following revelation Allah's messenger told me
not to stop and he commanded me to
have certainty that I'm going to get my
answer but the timing is with Allah not
with me that's where I'm going to pause
the timing is with Allah also that our
Lord may edit our dua a little bit
you ask for a blue Mercedes you get
a black one you ask for a a
house in one city you get a better
city or you get a city next to
it Allah knows why that happened okay but
you in your heart will feel you will
feel that my dua has been answered and
you will admit it and you will be
thankful that's the sign that your dua was
repaid all I can tell you let's just
follow what the prophet said that's the guarantee
he said don't stop and he said have
certainty that the dua is answered that's the
way to go only way to go okay
what are some of the best practices while
in Medina best practice in Medina is to
not spend too much time doing pretty much
anything other than being in the masjid being
in masjid an-nabwi don't spend too much
time on anything else anything else you can
get it outside of masjid an-nabwi sorry
outside of Medina for malikis do they do
umrah again if they exit the miqat and
re-enter again the answer is no in
maliki madhhab we do not encourage in the
madhhab multiple umrahs per trip we don't even
encourage multiple umrahs per year so that the
ta'deem of umrah could stay high if you
just keep always doing it it may drop
and it's not the way the sahaba did
things Sulaiman Tariq Sulaiman Tariq says what's your
opinion on Karen Armstrong she is one of
the friendliest people towards muslims I wish that
you know to extend her the invitation to
enter islam she is more on the what's
called the perennialist side of things the perennialist
side of things which is basically she is
non committal on what is true and what
is false and she never speaks ill of
the prophet and I hope that at the
end of her life now she's very old
now may Allah grant her guidance in a
time where everyone ganged up on muslims she
didn't in a time after 9-11 that
she could have profited a lot she could
have made a lot of money being an
enemy to muslims and saying look at these
people they have jihad and they're all this
and that and the other as if the
western nations don't have militaries but she didn't
do that so may Allah guide her here
is Mohammed Wani's question the person was saying
that even the Quran is saying the land
belongs to Jews I was struggling to counter
argument that was my point so yeah so
I answered it so God is talking to
Moses years and centuries ago and all of
that was nullified later on in the time
of Solomon right after Solomon it was nullified
in their own book the seven promises and
the three oaths of Solomon so their entire
all of their gifts from God including the
land was nullified with their rejection of Jesus
now you have no right to anything everything
that God had guaranteed you God had given
you the moment you rejected Jesus that was
the final straw all of your rejection of
past prophets was bad but this puts it
over the top that was the final straw
that the oath between us is broken the
covenant was broken so yes that was in
the past same answer as the other person
who said about verses about you have to
look at all of the verses all the
verses maybe the better word is greed since
we're not referring here to sexual desires yeah
greed is good as a word how should
the relationship with a family member be what
if they flip flop in belief says Flossie
B we're not allowed to have relationship a
relationship with an open Murtad that means somebody
who officially is telling you I'm out of
Islam that's an apostate and a Murtad we
have no relationship with them no relations okay
Jamie Adams says our mullets halal we talked
about the hair that what is what is
discouraged is shaving part one side and leaving
the other in a way that's uneven that
is not symmetrical uneven but fades in the
Hanafi school to skin is the issue not
to go to the skin but a light
fade like they could be very light on
one end and the medic you met have
holds that what's unlocked what is discouraged all
of its discouraged none of its unlawful it's
discouraged is that which the head is completely
like uneven right completely shaved on one side
and long on the other but where it's
even and it's clean and crisp and symmetrical
that inshallah to Allah is not Gaza according
to the Gaza came when the prophet saw
a woman shaved half the head and left
the other half so it was an uneven
haircut the prophet said shave it all or
leave it all meaning that make the haircut
even make the hair even so that is
that's the answer to that question you get
a mullet and a mustache and a pickup
truck at that point maybe you're going into
something discouraged for other reasons I forgot to
do Sajid what do I do which said
so for missing something or for adding something
if it's for adding something you could do
the whole thing now if it's for missing
um if it's a cell that you miss
something then for us if you time passed
and you didn't do the cell and you
because you forgot not because you intentionally did
it then there's nothing to do I'm an
Sajid you're asking a question that's one of
those questions that you teach you once a
year now you're going to make me double
check myself you have on you you have
it on you open it up open
it up open
up force it's also
in national way to men we'll
look it up find the answer for you
it's easy to find in the original three
books hats go here's
a question thoughts on the protocols of the
elders of Zion now I don't know if
what's what's original in it and what's authentic
and what's not I couldn't tell you thoughts
on the pull it up is allowed for
a woman to not show her face to
her future husband in a meeting even though
she feels positive about the proposal that's really
up to the husband if he's accepting that
or not go to the chapter here he's
it's up to him really if he wants
to marry someone he doesn't know what she
looks like he may do that if he
doesn't he may do that too joining the
feet in the Maliki opinion it's the shoulders
not the feet I feel pride and Riya
I fear pride and Riya so when I
feel I did good I say I'm not
having Riya I just see the purpose what
would be the best to stay away from
pride and Riya you have to fight it
in yourself by thinking of how good other
people's deeds are you feel like I feel
like I'm showing off because I did a
good deed well the solution is to look
at all of the things that other people
did that is far better than yours or
all the people that all the things that
you did that are sinful okay that are
sinful sujood in the first place to
do sujood you
forgot to do sujood you owe it for
something missing okay
so the answer is if it's a short
amount of time between you and forgetting the
the sujood before the salam because you forgot
something you forgot one of the eight sunnahs
in salam you didn't do sujood you forgot
accidentally if the time between remembering and the
prayer is short you just do it if
the time is long then you don't do
it you don't have to do anything and
he said it's only if if it's a
sujood for one or two sunnahs that you
missed if you missed and here's the thing
I think is more theoretical is because he
says here if you missed three or more
sunnahs and then you forgot the sujood then
the whole salat is invalid but tell me
in practice a guy forgot three or more
sunnahs and forgot sujood how would he is
this person's all over the place how would
he know that he missed three or more
right unless he's really keeping track but that's
the answer to the question thank you very
much so again the answer to the question
is if I forgot one of the eight
sunnahs in salat then I forgot to do
sujood then if the time is near you
do sujood if a long time has passed
you don't do anything forgive me this is
an inappropriate question says irtada sharif or irtada
arif a local sheikh said that some of
the habaib had a dream that the shackles
of dajjal had broken recently but I wouldn't
be surprised wouldn't be surprised should we give
money to professional beggars no no panhandlers it's
not good for people to panhandle their harms
to society the professional beggar you're harming society
we have them on the road to the
street corner of the masjid on the way
they're bothering everybody this is not just a
poor person asking you once these are professional
this is what they do if they don't
come here they go to another masjid another
masjid so we don't indulge in that muslim
or non we don't indulge that is the
dss intensive worth it if I'm not going
to get married right now says muayeneh duqra
well think about this you don't prepare for
something as big as marriage the week before
you get married or even the year you
get married you should have some ideas in
your head well in advance what should I
read after completing shifa of qadi ayat hmm
I really don't know what would be like
the book after that more seerah books there
are a lot of seerah books that are
not famous out there so just don't let's
assume there's only like three four seerah books
read more seerah books spiritual and worldly advice
for making a lot of money well very
simply the very basics are make a lot
of istighfar sleep early wake up early get
a mentor sell something be in sales you
have to be in the right ocean you
can work a hundred percent efficiently and perfectly
and you're so skilled but if you're fishing
in a pond you're not going to eat
well if you're fishing in a big bigger
lake if you're fishing in a river you
may be the best at what you do
but if you're fishing in a small river
you're not going to do so you're not
going to eat so much but if you're
out in the ocean you go out what
do they go quarter mile out or something
half a mile out and fish there you're
going to eat a lot so it all
depends on what field you're in so a
guy who works really well as an English
teacher he will not have it's a small
pond right but you take the same work
ethic the same genius and you put a
maybe in Silicon Valley or you put him
in neurology and he puts the same exact
effort same exact hours or you put him
in real estate it's going to be a
different story so you have to pick the
right pond can you discuss the importance of
self-purification I had a person messaging me
the other day saying listen there's a lot
of Quran teachers who are not great in
their behavior what's the reason he said well
I think the reason is that as an
Islamic society we've taken on a bad concept
that spiritual purification is stuff for goofy people
and hence we don't read those books we
don't honor those people and we don't engage
in that and the idea of you need
to fight your nafs is not a normal
concept anymore that's when you which one do
you want this one you know how to
close the stream we'll close the stream right
we're going to close out right now we
got to go anyway spiritual purification when you
study for five years did you how much
of that time were you spent fighting your
nafs now there's no concept where I'm going
to take a semester off hey what are
you doing I'm fighting my nafs there's no
concept like that but it's every day it's
a discussion daily it's something that has to
be done every single day you need to
expose yourself to the books like al-risalat
al-kushairiyah or the books of many many
books on spiritual purification fighting your ego whoa
I'm going to just adjust it see what
happens I don't know the mic is good
adjustments good all right so you got to
fight your nafs and the idea of this
idea had been downgraded and it became you
know like not really a subject that's the
problem so you take a student of knowledge
and you just focus on learning a whole
bunch of things that are wonderful things but
the vessel may not be clean and that's
why you got to fight you have to
fight your nafs fighting your nafs will take
you will push so-called overton window really
far in the direction of simplicity and humility
such that indulgence is within the halal like
the overton window that tasawwuf and the Sufis
push the overton window to the point that
all you really need in life is a
rug a mushaf a misbaha an alarm clock
a cup of water that's it right and
it'll take you to that level and you
get a couple dates a day maybe a
piece of a dinner once a week or
something like they'll push it that far and
but they'll focus on a lot of tasawwuf
a lot of such that you feel the
sweetness of Iman in your heart and you
genuinely all I need is a ability to
be alone with my Lord and I'm happy
I'm satisfied the overton window gets pushed that
far so when that guy when that same
guy comes home and he's got his family
there and they've made him a plate of
dinner and they put the remote control next
to him and they're sitting there watching something
on TV and eating dinner that's the height
of his indulgence like he almost feels semi
guilty doing that right that's wonderful because if
that's what you consider indulgence that person should
be trustworthy in other things if that's his
indulgence I'm going to eat a full plate
of food and then I'm going to eat
ice cream after that and we're going to
watch this movie and just laugh and talk
and that's indulgence for him so if that's
what you consider indulgence right then the middle
will be if you if that's your extreme
you're far from sense but the truth of
spirituality is not just decreasing your desires you
have to actually connect to a power outlet
so that the sweetness of Iman can come
to you and most people don't really know
this or believe this but those power outlets
are other people when you interact with them
it's as if you connected into a power
outlet that's just how it is right what's
the explanation of it from the Quran who
is better someone who's was dead or we
gave him life and gave him light and
he walks with that light into the people
so when you interact with the right people
with people who have that their extension cord
is connected to the previous generation connected to
the previous gesture all the way back to
the prophet and you interact with such people
a person it's as if the light of
that first generation has trickled all the way
down to our generation and by interacting with
that person I got some of that and
all you need is a seed then you
go and you take care of that seed
right Imam Malik what's another proof of this
Imam Malik when he said when I felt
my heart being rusty what would I do
what would Imam Malik do he said I
used to go to Muhammad Ibn Al-Munkadir
and a gaze at him would suffice me
a number of days so that is the
proof it's not just decrease your desire if
you take someone and you decrease his desire
it's going to get worse but if you
take somebody and you combine decrease the desires
live simply get used to that but the
simple life will yield you a lot of
spiritual sweetness in your heart where do I
get that spiritual sweetness from it's from people
what Malik said is no different than what
happens today you can take that seed and
you can grow it or you can fail
to grow it and go get more seeds
go get more right I can fish on
my own someone teaches me to fish okay
now I'm fishing because he taught me how
to fish I had a teacher he taught
me how to fish but if I fail
I'll go to my teacher's house and I'll
eat and I'll try to fish again so
sometimes people need more interaction with their shuyukh
than others Imam Malik said every few days
I think one narration of his says 40
days like a month and a half or
so I would go sit with Muhammad Ibn
Al-Munkadir for a little bit come back
how did the people have Iman it's because
they it's who they sat with what makes
the Sahaba superior to everybody else they sat
with the prophets I send them no doubt
about that and what makes the second generation
superior to everybody else they sat with the
Sahaba so their link is less than everybody
else and the third joint they have two
links to the prophets I send them and
us all the way down here we have
a lot of links back to the prophets
I send them what are we on now
like 35 is considered a short senate 35
links back maybe 29 that's so that's where
if if we find that people of Deen
they have a lot of knowledge but they
have misbehaviors it's possibly and Allah knows best
that the the element of fighting your nafs
and enjoying spirituality and the sweetness of the
man the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
whoever tasted the sweetness of Iman it may
not be there of course we're supposed to
have a good opinion of people and we're
not supposed to be judgmental but it may
not be there hence they get bored and
your soul is empty so I want more
but you're you're trying to feed your soul
through the wrong source you're drinking salt water
you're drinking sand so now we start going
to desires when spirituality runs out people start
turning to desires right and once you turn
to desires in this society the desires morph
they start morphing and they become weirder and
weirder and weirder desires right and that's because
we're trying to fill a void in our
hearts that is meant to be filled by
the light of revelation meaning Ibadah, Dhikr, Quran,
Noorullah subhanahu wa'ta'ala, when Malaika come down
and they surround us and we it's as
if we're feeling Sakina by that we feel
Sakina I'm good right now that's from all
the Malaika around us and if we don't
have that then we start to now need
to stimulate ourselves in another way let me
scroll then this let me eat if you
stopped us scrolling and eating you're good these
days but now we're going into one in
the morning now it's 2 in the morning
now let's open the fridge again now let's
have ice cream now the scrolling has now
entered into the haram and now you start
feeling bad and if you stop at that
you hurt yourself but at least you don't
have a victim now what happens if that
is left unchecked for decades it's left unchecked
you don't even repent anymore you just like
accept it that person's soul will morph you
see how pirates of the Caribbean those guys
they morphed you guys remember that movie they
morphed and now like shells are coming out
they're like look like devilish sea creatures right
they morph so the soul starts to morph
and desire more perverse things and more perverse
things all in the effort to fill a
void and that void should be filled with
spirituality so as I said again this may
be the reason for people's misbehavior we can't
say it is and that way we'd be
passing a judgment on them so Allah knows
best but that's what we're saying ladies and
gentlemen so many good questions here but we
got a run jazakum Allah khairan subhanak Allahumma
wa bihamdika nashhadu an la ilaha illa anta
an astaghfiruk wa natubu ilayk wa al-asr
inna al-insana lafiyya khusr illa allatheena amanu
wa amilu as-salihaat wa tawassu bil-haqq
wa tawassu bil-sabr wassalamu alaykum wa rahmatullah
ya Allah ya Allah ya Allah ya
Allah ya Allah ya Allah ya Allah ya
Allah ya Allah