Shadee Elmasry – The Ends of Times NBF 406
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Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, alhamdulillah, wassalatu wassalamu
ala rasulillah, wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa
man wala.
Welcome everybody to the Safina Sa'idi Nothing
But Facts live stream coming to you from
the great state of New Jersey in the
third story of the Allah Kusina Soup Kitchen.
Make dua for the soup kitchen that Allah
always keeps it running and gives us success
in it.
And it's now winter in New Jersey, I
feel that we actually turned a corner because
we were getting, it was getting weird when
the weather was so nice in the 70s
and it's supposed to be the fall.
But now finally we're getting into the 30s
in the weather and you sort of get
used to the four seasons here in this
state.
So we're back to that I think.
Today we have a guest from Michigan, Sheikh
Abdul Kareem Yahya is with us.
And we're going to talk about his work
at Dar al-Rahma.
We're also going to talk about Isharat al
-Sa'a, Alamat al-Sa'a, what is
a Muslim supposed to do with that?
Is he supposed to wait or sit around
waiting for them?
What is the functional element?
Because remember Hadith Jibreel talked about Islam, Iman,
Ihsan, but then Tell me about the things
that will come ahead of it.
The Amir is the one who's ahead, right?
So the Amarat al-Sa'a, that which
comes ahead of the Sa'a and in
specific, We're going to read a little bit
about the Sufyani.
Sheikh Asrar Rashid, he has a section on
the Sufyani in his book, on the signs
of the last, navigating the end of time.
I know many people are upset with Sheikh
Asrar Rashid's opinion, negative opinion about the rebels.
Well, I think we should have him on
to talk.
We're here, nothing but facts.
We want to hear what people have to
say.
If they have information we don't have, let's
hear it.
Let's ask what the source of it is,
etc, etc.
So is Sheikh Abdul Kareem here, Omar?
He's in.
All right, well, you let me know when
we're ready to go.
In the meantime, let's divvy up this Dubai
chocolate.
Have you guys ever heard of this?
Have you heard of Dubai chocolate?
Because apparently everybody knows about it except me.
It's basically kunafa, pistachio-flavored kunafa in a
chocolate bar.
It's new to me, this Dubai chocolate thing.
And, you know, some of them are better
than others.
But, Yasin, I'm going to give you the
honors of dividing this up into four.
This little piece of Dubai chocolate probably costs
like 15 bucks.
I mean, the costs are out of control.
Let's start reading while we wait for...
Here's a knife and a plate over there.
You've got a plate over there, a knife
here.
Is there napkins here?
Let's start reading while we wait for Sheikh
Abdul Kareem.
There appears in Syria a despotic ruler.
Now be mindful, we're not pointing to any
one person on this.
We're just sharing this knowledge and this information.
Then we're going to ask Sheikh Abdul Kareem
his commentary on how the habayb interact.
What is the correct mu'amala with signs
of the end of time.
In Syria there will be a despotic ruler,
and his tyranny lasts no longer than a
year.
All right, Sheikh Abdul Kareem is with us.
Masha'Allah.
Give me my piece.
Give me my share of the spoils of
war.
Wa alaikum salam, rahmatullahi, barakatuh.
Oh, no problem, masha'Allah.
No, you're good.
You know Yassin from Toronto?
Which is the other Yassin?
Oh, you know Yassin Kanaboy, Sheikh Abdul Kareem.
Alhamdulillah, masha'Allah.
Welcome to the Safina Sa'idi Nothing But
Facts live stream.
Now you're on the screen now.
Thanks for joining and thanks for coming on.
Ameen, thank you.
Let me start with the local work that
you're doing.
Tell us about Darul Rahma.
Tell us about your next coming up event.
Allahu Akbar.
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.
Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen.
Wa salallahu wa salam ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa
alihi wa sahbihi wa ta'bina lahum bi
ahsani ila yamidin wa alayna ma'ahum wa
fihim bi rahmatika ya rabbil raheem.
So jazakallahu khairan, first of all, for welcoming
me.
Our pleasure.
And actually, I'm very interested in what you're
reading.
Yes.
And I hate to interrupt it with this
update, but if you'd like, I can, or
I don't mind going later.
We could flow into it as you'd like.
Update.
You want to go to the Sufyani first
and then...
Yeah, I'd like to hear that.
And I also don't like to interrupt the
hadith with something I have to say.
No problem at all.
So let's read this hadith about a Sufyani.
We said earlier he is a tyrannical ruler
in Syria.
We also give a little footnote.
We're not pointing to any current events.
We're just telling you what the Messenger ﷺ
said.
Keep in mind the Prophet ﷺ said things
for a reason.
There is a reason the Prophet ﷺ is
warning us and telling us that there will
be a Sufyani.
Why?
So we could look out for this.
And he says, It happens at a time
when the Arabian Peninsula has no king or
emir because of a war that breaks out
in the Euphrates area because of wealth, gold
that is discovered beneath it.
In that area.
The Hajj pilgrimage will be carried out without
a leader on that day.
And this leads to bloodshed and people seeking
guidance and seeking the Mahdi.
In this tumultuous period, the following signs occur.
As Nu'aym ibn Hamad narrated in his
book Al-Fitn, and there are always some
critiques on the book Al-Fitn, but it
is utilized in this matter.
He says, The Prophet ﷺ said, Sufyani will
kill anyone who disobeys him.
He will cut them up with saws and
cook them in pots.
Meaning that is how vicious he is.
The despots who precede the appearance of Al
-Mahdi will kill people merely for saying Allah,
Allah.
Al-Hakim related in his Mustadrak, that Muhammad
ibn al-Hanafiya reported from his father, who
was of course Sayyidina Ali ibn Abi Talib,
that when he was asked about the appearance
of Imam al-Mahdi, he responded, He shall
appear at a time when a man saying
Allah, Allah will be killed.
Today if you talk about jihad, you will
be killed.
Soon it is going to be like less
than that, and less than that, and less
than that.
Until if you even utter the word Allah,
any other authority besides the despot and the
tyrant, you can be killed.
Al-Sufyani will appear from a region known
as Wadi al-Yabis, situated in modern day
Jordan.
His paternal family will be from Bani Kalb,
which is the same tribe as Bashar al
-Assad, and the Nusayris, says Shaykh Asr al
-Rashid.
He will conquer Damascus, the rest of Syria,
and make incursions into Iraq, pillaging and raiding.
Eventually Sufyani will send an army to pillage
the blessed city of Medina, as Yazid did
in the days of al-Hara.
If you know that after the killing of
Sayyidina al-Imam al-Husayn, Mecca and Medina,
they had an uprising.
They could not accept this.
So Yazid ordered that these uprisings, these protests,
you can call them maybe, be put down,
and he committed atrocities in Mecca and Medina.
Then the army will leave for Mecca, but
when they reach the valley of Bayda near
Medina, they will be swallowed by quicksand.
This is one of the prominent portents of
the appearance of al-Mahdi.
And bay'ah will be given to him
right after this event.
Keep in mind, there is a reason the
Prophet said these ahadith, or said these things
to us, so that we could look for
them, so that we could wait for them.
Not so that we could be inactive, but
so that we could know them.
Let's continue.
It's a short, only one more page.
Imam Muslim, Sahih Muslim, narrates on the authority
of Aisha radiallahu ta'ala anha, who said,
the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, an army
will invade the Kaaba, intend to invade the
Kaaba.
When they reach Bayda, it's with a daal
I believe here, not a daad.
Bayda is in Yemen, Bayda.
The ground will sink and swallow both the
front and the rear, meaning the entire army,
a sinkhole.
I always wondered, maybe perhaps, I don't know
if there's oil there, but if you're sucking
out things from the earth so much, you
end up with gaps.
But I don't know if my theory is
accurate.
I asked, O Messenger of Allah, how can
it swallow all of them from the first
to the last?
There will be traitors amongst them and those
who are not part of them.
He said, ﷺ, it will swallow them up
first and last, but they will be resurrected
according to their intentions.
Further to the fate of traitors, merchants, and
those people who are not in the armies,
but they may have business with the armies,
the Messenger ﷺ said, when trading and roads
are cut off, fitna will increase.
It is naive of people to wish to
live to see such times, because there are
times of trial and hardship, and a person
without strong iman may despair during such fitna.
It is also naive of people to supplicate
to Allah to put them in the army
of the Mahdi, because as will be discussed,
a third of the army of the Mahdi
will abandon him during the battle of the
Malhama, and they will be disgraced.
The greater wisdom is for a person to
be content with whatever time Allah puts us
in, and to live up to the obligations
and avoid the prohibitions, and worship Allah as
best as you can, and seek protection from
such fitna.
Let's now turn to our guest, Shaykh Abdul
Kareem Yahya.
Please tell us about al-Sufyani.
Maybe you can tell us more details that
were here, and tell us how does a
Muslim react to these signs of the end
of time?
Oh, it's on mute.
I think you're on mute.
So first of all, I will give a
little bit of a disclaimer that among my
peers and among my shuyukh, there are those
that are much more able to comment on
details, eschatological details.
That was actually something that I deliberately did
not focus on during my studies for a
reason that I will cite.
However, I will say there are some principles
that our shuyukh taught us regarding these events
and end of times signs in general.
And some of them, as you cited with
the Hadith of Gabriel, are very, very fundamental
in the religion.
So actually, that's a good place to start.
So alhamdulillah, you all on Safina Society, Dr.
Shadis just cited it.
Those who perhaps do not regularly attend are
familiar with the Gabriel Hadith.
And that the angel Gabriel, alayhi salam, asked
the Prophet Muhammad, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, a
number of questions.
He asked about al-Islam, and the Prophet,
salallahu alayhi wa sallam, answered with the pillars
of al-Islam.
He asked about al-iman, and the Prophet,
salallahu alayhi wa sallam, answered with the pillars
of iman.
He asked about ihsan, and the Prophet, salallahu
alayhi wa sallam, answered with his definition, that
you worship Allah as if you see Him.
If you do not see Him, He nonetheless
sees you.
And then he asked about the final hour,
and the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, replied,
the question knows no more than the questioner
about it.
And there's discussion beneath that answer, which we
won't, it's beyond our scope.
Then he asked about its signs, al-amratiha.
So then he gave signs.
And from the Gabriel Hadith, our ulama understand
that what he asked encompasses the religion.
And specifically, they will define or categorize his
questions as questions about the arkan, or the
pillars of the religion.
And then they'll say, or they'll understand and
extrapolate from the hadith, that the pillars of
the religion, or arkan of the religion, are
al-Islam, al-iman, and al-ihsan.
Or you could say, the dimensions of the
religion.
A contemporary scholar who's passed, Allah yuhammahu, Habib
Abu Bakr, he was of the view that
actually amrata sa'ah are a fourth pillar.
The pillar of the religion, he understood from
that hadith.
And you could say it's a ba'ath.
That is a discussion that he put forth.
That it's actually of pillar importance, of fundamental
importance in the religion, that the believers know
the signs of the end of times.
And thus, Gabriel asked about those in this
fundamental hadith that really summarizes the religion.
So us observing the signs of the end
of times, and knowing the signs of the
end of times, the least we could say
it's a fundamental importance of religion.
I think you could really make an argument
whether it's a pillar or not.
And my own more direct shuyukh do not
categorize it that way, though that is a
ba'ath of Habib Abu Bakr, rahimahullah, who
we hold great love for and respect for,
Allah yuhammahu, in the last few years.
It's a fundamental importance.
Another point that everyone should understand, without doubt,
we are in the latter days.
Subhanallah.
Because the Prophet Muhammad, salallahu alayhi wasalamah, is
from the signs of the latter days.
Subhanallah.
They ask you of that final hour, when
will it come?
Why would they ask you that?
You are from its signs.
We can understand that from that verse in
Surah An-Naziat.
So he is from the signs of the
end of times.
Anything after the Prophet Muhammad, salallahu alayhi wasalamah,
is latter days.
And then also with the signs of the
end of times, there are major and minor
signs.
Many of the minor signs have been here
for hundreds of years.
And the ulama have been saying that for
hundreds of years.
Like this is a sign of the end
of times.
The minor signs, many, many of them have
been here.
Then there are major signs.
And major signs you are getting into things
like Isa, the Dajjal, Khuruj al-Mahdi, Gog
and Magog, Yajuj wal-Mahjuj, and so on.
Those are major signs.
The hour is very, very near at that
point.
As for the minor signs, they are here.
So then with respect to, and this leads
to why I didn't give it as much
focus and detail as perhaps some of my
peers did and even some of my shuyukh.
Now a principle that our shuyukh taught us
and kind of got on our case about.
Because preoccupation with, for example, the Khuruj of
the Mahdi or the coming, the Nuzul of
Isa alayhis salam.
That is something that has happened again for
quite a long time.
And there are those that predicted the Mahdi,
those that predicted Isa, even unfortunately those that
have made claims of being the Mahdi and
so on.
And without any disrespect to the kesh, to
the unveilings that the righteous receive.
And those many times are like dreams, somewhat
allegorical.
We can say that the preoccupation with it
is reprehensible.
And am I still on?
Yeah, we're still going.
Sometimes the camera overheats.
We'll fix it right now.
So the preoccupation with it, for an aspirant,
for a spiritual traveler, with visions, with major
signs of the end of times, with such
and such, whether you said this is going
to happen at this time.
That's reprehensible because the goal of one's aspiration
in drawing nearer to Allah is nothing other
than Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Himself.
The goal is not a vision, even of
the Prophet Muhammad salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
That's not, the himmah of the salik is
above that.
The himmah of the aspirant is Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala Himself.
So to make the goal anything other than
that, like a vision or a clairvoyance, like
a keshf of this is going to happen
on this date.
And that does happen.
You know, with some of the righteous whose
company we kept, keshf was so common that
like it was just adi.
I mean, it was like a text message.
You'd be riding in the car and ask
them a question and they'll answer the question.
It's not, it happens.
But it's not an objective in and of
itself.
So actually they got on our case because
some of our brothers were talking about the
Mahdi and this and that about the Mahdi
or Isa and this and that about Isa.
And essentially they said, you know, you're supposed
to be talking to the people about the
pillars of the religion and the fundamentals of
the religion.
You're supposed to be talking to people about
and Zakah and, you know, and so on.
And as for his appearance, the Mahdi does
not need talk.
The Mahdi requires istikamah, uprightness.
And if we're upright and the Mahdi were
to appear today, great.
Allahu Akbar.
And if we're not upright and he were
to appear, we may be as stated in
what you've read of those who opposed him
with the adab of Allah.
For that reason, I didn't give it a
whole lot of focus.
And beyond, for example, the Hadith that you
read, I can't comment on the Sufyani.
All I could say is, many, many of
the signs, like there, without citing the specific
Hadith, right?
Without citing the specific Hadith, you know, some
of the Hadith in Kitab al-Fitn, events
that have happened in about the last 10
years.
We sat with some of our shuyukh and
they were essentially like, why are people even
arguing about this chain?
We're looking at this right in front of
us.
Subhanallah, subhanallah.
And Allah's Messenger informed us of the gravity
of events in the latter days.
And when we see many of these signs
unfolding, many, many of these signs, it's just
undeniably unfolding in front of us.
It should behoove us to recognize the gravity
of the time in which we live.
And particularly those of us in North America,
some of the things that have been predicted,
we see indications of those, and I won't
say that they're to the full throttle of
those, that the Prophet ﷺ listed various fitn,
in a Hadith Abu Dawud narrates it, and
he begins with fitna ad-duhayma, in great
or the great dark fitna.
What's that?
Ad-duhayma, right, ad-duhayma.
And he said that it wouldn't leave any
Muslim except that it smacked them in the
face.
Latamatu latma, right?
And then he said, yusbihu rajul mu'minan wa
yumsi kafiran, that in that fitna, a person
would be a believer in the morning and
a disbeliever in the night.
Hatta yaseera an-naas fustatayn, until people were
formed into two camps.
Fustat iman la nifaqa fi, a camp of
pure faith and there's no hypocrisy in it.
Fustat nifaq la imana fi, and a fustat,
and he didn't say kufr, sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, he said nifaq.
A camp of hypocrisy, and nifaq, like a
technical definition of nifaq is, it appears to
be Islam, and inwardly it's disbelief.
Subhanallah.
Right?
A fustat of hypocrisy in which there's no
faith, and he said when they reach that
point, wait for the dajjal min yawmihi awradihi.
Subhanallah.
So in our situation, we do have an
issue of apostasy.
I mean us, right?
North American, especially university-trained, young and middle
-aged people, and younger, we're seeing substantial apostasy
with the adab of Allah Ta'ala.
And then, personally speaking, I see a lot
of things, man.
It's brown-skinned people with names like Amr
and Bekir, and Safiya, I'm trying to find
a name that's not a mother of believer.
Laila, you know.
But frankly speaking, as someone who's embraced Islam,
and especially someone who grew up around a
lot of atheist, agnostic, very liberal people.
I grew up in Berkeley, California.
The values and some of the behavior that's
condoned, and I'll say explicitly, like the embracing
of the homosexual agenda, I fear that that's
headed towards a fustat of nifaq.
So these are grave times, and grave times
warrant hardcore adherence to Allah subhana wa ta
'ala.
If the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
as these latter days come, and these fitn
come, there's going to be camps of pure
faith and camps of pure hypocrisy, it behooves
a believer when they see indications of those
camps forming, that they try their, make an
ijtihad and a jihad in their level best,
that them and their spouse, and their children,
and their household, and their loved ones, and
as many people as they can help to
be in the camp of Iman, exist in
that camp, and as many people as can
be invited away from apostasy and nifaq, without
obviously ever accusing someone of that, those are,
you know, unless they make that statement themselves
of apostasy, invite them back to Allah, and
we should take a stand.
We should take a stand in this time.
That's what I have to say, and rear
our children, rear our children for that, Insha
'Allah, that's what I have to say.
Rear our children for the appearance of the
likes of the Sufyani.
And based on what you said, I have
a couple of comments, I mean the first
thing that came to mind is when you
mentioned university, and this fustat of nifaq, this
camp of pure hypocrisy, with no Iman in
it, the fact that it said hypocrisy means
they're still saying they're Muslims, and we're witnessing
a type of identitarian Islam, where the Islam
is treated as if it's something of an
ethnicity, and I recently had a little kerfuffle
with some people who said that we don't
need to be talking about theological issues because
of the genocide, we should all be united
on the genocide.
I responded to one of these brothers, and
I said, Islam, if you commit an act
of kufr, if you say a word of
kufr, you would go to * eternally, correct?
He said, yeah.
He said, if someone shot you and killed
you, Sheikh Abdul Kareem is still with us,
right?
Yeah.
Okay.
If someone shot you and killed you, you
go to Jannah.
You lost your dunya-y world, but you
go to Jannah, correct?
He said, yes.
I said, so tell me, by Allah, which
one is actually more dangerous?
The faulty aqeedah that could put you out
of Islam, or actually be a bullet?
What's actually worse, add to a Muslim?
He said, no, I understand your point now.
The identitarian Muslim type views Islam as an
ethnicity and a group with a political agenda
in the world, and maybe to do some
good deeds in the world, but ultimately it's
all of the world, no mention of akhira
involved, and hence one of the hallmarks is
they only care about Islam and Muslims in
a political sense, the rights of Islam and
Muslims, the advancement of Islam.
But, wait, what does Allah and His Messenger
want from us?
What is He threatening?
What are we being threatened with on the
Day of Judgment, so we can avoid it,
or promise so we can attain it, is
really not a big deal for these types
of people.
So, as the Prophet said, a camp of
hypocrisy with no Iman in it, we need
to start to look at what is that,
and that's one of the examples, this identitarian
version, and it comes out of the educated
types in the universities, more so than the
uneducated, it could come from anybody, but more
so, it's being led by the educated types
in the universities.
So, Sheikh Abdulkarim, what do you think of
this concept of this identitarian Islam that is
an American innovation?
I haven't seen it anywhere else, to be
honest with you.
Bismillah.
First of all, I agree that there are
those that say I'm Muslim, and they mean
ethnically or culturally.
They don't mean necessarily I have a covenant
with Allah and His Messenger, and I'm bound
by certain elements of the Sharia.
I'm bound by certain beliefs, I'm bound by
certain practices, I'm bound by certain character.
In that, my people came from certain regions
of the world, and Islam, you know, we're
ethnically Muslim or culturally Muslim.
I would add that I've encountered one South
African who actually had apostated or wasn't taught
enough that, you know, he was in the
category of outside of Islam when we first
met him, and Alhamdulillah, he came into belief,
but he called himself a cultural Muslim.
That Islam is my culture, the people I
come from.
So we might say that it's, you know,
maybe it's peculiar to the United States, or
maybe it's peculiar to Muslims that have lived
under Western imperialism and been educated in that
system.
And honestly, especially as an African American convert,
it really concerns me.
It concerns me, obviously, theologically it's of concern,
and fundamentally in the religion and in terms
of value, of akhlaq, it's of concern, but
also like some of our brothers in Detroit,
you know, they recognized it, and frankly, engaging
the population that was infected with some of
these ideas for me was like an existential
crisis.
Like I had to distance myself from them
because I didn't want to say someone was
an apostate or a munafiq wrongfully, like I
was in danger.
Such a violent response to them.
And I would find myself saying, I'm not
denying that these people are Muslim, but I
don't understand their connection to the religion because
it's not what's been taught is the religion,
and as someone who embraced the religion, I
understand the religion as a covenant with Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala that demands certain things
on me.
So some of our brothers, a good brother,
I don't know if he wants me to
reference him, I'm not going to reference him,
but I'll just say this, he's a fresh
brother.
If they don't know what I'm talking about,
he said, they say Muslim, but they don't
mean us.
Subhanallah.
You know, so like, and this goes, maybe
this will later on, we'll revisit this, but
a Muslim in a non-Muslim society, a
non-Muslim country, let's say, the real aim
of that should be to further, to elevate
the word of Allah and further the cause
of, al-Islam means surrender to Allah.
So dawah is going to be one of
the most important things.
But if I'm an ethnicity and a culture,
and I'm enamored with, I'm captivated by this
disbelieving civilization that has colonized me and is
now educating me and my children, then the
acceptance of that society might be the aim
rather than furthering the cause of Islam.
So that's a failure.
That's a failure in terms of dawah if
that's the Islam we're teaching.
And for that reason, we marginalize and alienate
converts.
Right?
Unless somehow that convert helps people with their
fantasy of becoming part of the West.
Yeah.
And that, I'm opening up a whole bunch
of can of worms, but like you end
up, that's why you end up with last
samurai sheikh.
You'll find an Anglo-American sheikh, khalas, we
get to act like Muslims and then also
be part of whiteness.
Up until the woke culture took over and
now being white is no longer a thing.
Right.
Yeah, that's interesting.
And then actually you pivot us to another
point that, you know, if someone says, well,
genocide is more important than belief.
Right?
Yeah.
I grew up around, like not just, not
actually, the people I grew up around, liberal
was an insult.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
Those are good people.
They must be good people.
No, not because they were conservative.
Ah, okay.
Progressive, you're okay.
I grew up around people that were radical
and revolutionary.
I see.
Like extreme left.
Right?
And so like that type of thinking and
attitude, like a leftist activist attitude, those are
the people that I grew up around.
My mother, she embraces them though.
Allah preserve her and make her be firm
and her heart firm in mind.
Amen.
She embraces them.
She's 70, she's 90, 94 now.
Mashallah.
Allah give her health.
But the point is, the point is that,
like that attitude of my political struggle is
more important than faith.
That attitude, that's a symptom and a manifestation
of Western thought being in the heart of
that person.
100%.
Like that's an extreme westernness.
100%.
You're not an opponent to that civilization that
has imperialized you.
You've actually internalized their values to the extent
that you only know how to resist them
through their own constructs.
100%.
So your resistance is not an Islamic resistance.
You're a Western resistance to a Western imperialism.
Because, right, that's that.
That's settler colonialism.
Right?
But if you can only resist them with
their own vocabulary, you're defeated, homie.
You're right.
You know what I mean?
Little Hafidh Sahib, who speaks for Gaza, is
doing a * of a lot more than
you.
Subhanallah.
I want to mention another convert imam who
was at one of these events.
And a lot of the young people, they
don't know what's what.
So they invited a convert imam to a
Gaza talk.
They also invited the local professor of Middle
East studies to that same talk.
And the imam had to go off because
he's one of those types he can't hold
back.
And he went off.
And he said, all of what you're saying
is pro-Gaza, anti-Islam.
Because you are fighting for Gaza.
But for the wrong reason.
You're literally fighting for it through a Western
paradigm.
And they had a big, you know, it
was a big deal.
It was a big fight.
I later got complaints, whatever.
They always complained.
I called him up.
I said, hey, what's going on?
What happened at that school?
He said, it's the weirdest thing.
I'm the only convert in the room.
I'm the only actual American in the room.
Yet all of them have Western minds.
Their minds are completely Western thought.
No one is approaching the matter through the
lens of the existence of God and his
prophet.
No one's...
One of the ways that you could tell
an identitarian type of Muslim that is, we're
not going to say, as you said, we're
not going to say he's from the camp
of Nifaq.
But let me say, you make a case
for yourself.
When you sit with somebody and you begin
to mention the Akhira, and whenever you're in
a conversation with somebody and you find a
resistance to bring up an awkwardness, to bring
up the meeting with Allah on the Day
of Judgment, that person has a big problem.
That is a red flag.
That's not a red flag.
That's more, that's like two red flags.
If you can't bring up Akhira, and if
you cannot bring up, for example, Fiqh of
Ibadat, because these types could really care less
about Ibadat.
But really the Akhira is the hallmark.
And Dhikrul Akhira is the number, one of
the greatest things to shine your Iman, shine
your heart, and revive your Iman.
It's to talk about the Akhira.
And when you see somebody, he has a
hesitation, they're like, they don't want to talk
about this, they want to change the subject,
there is a problem with that heart.
There must be.
Right?
And that's one of the hallmarks, we would
say, of a person who's leaning closer to
at least their sickness of the heart, if
not Nifaq itself.
It's the inability to talk about the Akhira.
And that's a summary of the idea that
the political aspect of the Ummah trumps the
theological aspect of the Ummah.
And they will be shocked when we say
it, but yes, it is true.
The matters of Akhira, of belief in Allah
and His Messenger, are to us, eternity, more
important than political events that occur on the
earth.
That's just a fact.
That is simply just a fact.
Look at open Surah Al-Baqarah, what does
Allah begin with?
The categories of what is a believer, he
believes in the Ghayb.
The number one attribute that Allah talks about
in the Quran.
And then the Kafir, two ayahs only.
And the Munafiq, 13 ayahs.
No mention of social justice in the first
part.
Why?
Because you can't have social justice if you
don't know your Creator.
That's why.
Social justice will come after you know your
Creator.
Let's now continue on this subject and I
want to ask you another question.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam mentioned two things.
He mentioned that there will be at a
time when a Muslim wakes up a believer
and sleeps a Kafir.
And there were commentary on that saying that
just wake up and sleep, meaning casually.
Like as if no big deal.
Take on a belief of Kufr.
Like no big deal, just casually taking it
on.
His day didn't change.
Yet also the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam tells
us, I don't fear shirk for you.
Paganism.
But wouldn't that therefore indicate that the Kufr
of such a person in such a fitna
of such a Muslim will not be taking
on another god.
It will be in the other pillars of
Iman.
Nabuwwah is a pillar of Iman.
Belief in Akhirah is a pillar of Iman
that no Muslim can go without.
Belief that the Quran is the word of
Allah uncreated and unchanged is a pillar of
Iman.
So would you then put the two together
and say that the misguidance, the deviation away
from Iman of the end times or of
the Ummah will not be in taking on
another god or being atheists.
But it will be in the other pillars
of Iman.
That's an interesting point.
I would have to reflect.
I would have to reflect.
So I'm going to leave that in the
Allahu Alam category.
But I want to pivot to another element
of the Kufr we're facing.
So I think that's interesting.
And if he refuted shirk but affirmed people
leaving the religion, the combination of those would
appear that it wouldn't be by multiple gods
at least.
But another thing we can also say is
Ridda can be through rejection of fundamental
beliefs or embracing things that contradict those fundamental
tenets.
But Ridda can also be in actions.
And one of the things with this
homosexual agenda, and honestly, I don't usually use
the vocabulary LGBT.
I'm just not even going to play the
game.
It's the homosexual agenda.
Muslims that do not view those actions as
prohibited, some of the actions of those people
like Liwat, right?
Liwat, homosexual *, and may Allah ennoble you
and forgive me for being graphic.
That is ma'loom.
It's tahreem.
It's prohibition is ma'loom min ad-deen
bid-daroora.
Undeniably from the religion.
So someone that does not view it as
prohibited, that is an act of apostasy from
someone who is not excused.
SubhanAllah.
Right?
So we have things that are behavior that
are from the maqam of Islam when Muslims
reject the undeniable knowns from that.
So you could say, there's Ridda that's not
even in any of the tenets of faith
at this point.
Ridda that's in Islam.
It's in Arkan of Islam.
Like they denied Salah or they denied Zakah
or so on.
Or denies an undeniable prohibition like Jinnah or
Liwat or shorbil khamar.
It's mansus alayh.
Imam Nawawi mentions this in his books that
it's ma'loom min ad-deen bid-daroora.
It's undeniably known from the religion.
So we have, you know, another aspect of
the point you're making is we might have
people leaving the religion not because of beliefs
that they have but because of behaviors that
they embrace that they shouldn't.
And also, you know, it was appearing like
that was one of the bigger threats here.
Like I don't know who all this reaches
but like we reference it a lot just
because we started noticing.
We had an incident with some activists and
actually I'm going to say this.
I'm going to say it.
Dr. Shadi keeps it real.
We were the bunch of national thought leaders
and activists and shakers.
And remember that case in Colorado?
The Baker.
The Baker.
They were arguing and I detected from this
my brother, he's arguing with one of the
elderly ma'ams.
It was as though his sentiments were a
little bit conciliatory towards those individuals that wanted
a baker to put two grooms on two
men on a bridal cake.
But they were going back and forth and
I jumped in the back and forth and
I did this on purpose because in my
community you could still say this.
African-American community you could still say this.
I said, well in any case, alhamdulilah, those
sissies lost.
Ooh, the sissies jumped on my case.
Some of the brothers jumped on my case.
And that's not even the worst word you
could have used.
No, and I said I don't have a
nice word for that.
Right, where I come from that's about the
nicest word I could use of my elders.
And I said, well what do you say
about the hadith of the prophet, la'an
Allah and muhannithin min ar-rijal.
Subhanallah.
If you can believe Google Translate, muhannith translates
as sissies.
But the point is these are people that
are thought leaders.
I understood from their arguments, some of them
and some of them I talked to personally
and he has to apologize and everything like
that.
But that their sentiments are a lot of
Muslims, even educated Muslims they feel very sympathetic
to those people.
And even to hear them criticize is upsetting
to them.
Right?
And then some will even go as far
as to see their behavior a type of
right.
Like you've got Muslims not very far out
Muslims, worker Muslims activist Muslims.
I mean covering, praying people, congratulating people in
homosexual marriages for example.
People that coordinate like very important projects in
the Midwest where I live putting a rainbow
filter on their Facebook back in the day
when they got the legal authorization for them
to do what they call marriage.
Sometimes over the crescent too.
I fear that that's headed towards that camp.
Again, if it comes to the point of
embracing certain behaviors that undeniably the Prophet prohibited
that's like a in violating the Islam that's
a type of that takes us even out
of pillars of faith.
So to review that for all of our
viewers and this is something that we say
many times because I went through a whole
men hedge of training and we never once
actually had more than a conversation on takfir.
But we get put back into this setting
and it's like that's the number one thing
that needs to be done almost, right?
Because the actual fundamentals of what it means
to be a Muslim not even a Sunni
not even correct just not even a Sunni
just a Muslim are being now attacked or
questioned and you're being sort of gas lit
because when you react to it they say
you're the one causing the fitnah but if
you if a person were to reject something
known in religion by necessity that's the criterion
that would make you a zindiq meaning that
you are saying you're a Muslim but you're
actually not you wouldn't even be allowed in
Mecca you would not be buried in a
Muslim graveyard your marriage would have to be
dissolved on the spot it would dissolve on
the spot no one needs to do anything
it dissolves on the spot these are huge
forget this is of the dunya forget what
is your position with Allah on yawm al
qiyamah you would not be resurrected with Muslims
at this point because you are negating what
is known in religion by necessity and I
gotta be honest with you in our course
of study this was not a subject to
be harped upon way back in from 1995
all the way until let's say 2005 that
bulk period, that 10 year period that most
people do their education in I remember maybe
talking about I actually had to go back
and look at certain books because it wasn't
a study for us today it's the first
thing I teach people and I harp on
it over and over you can't go against
this stuff it's not that the opinion is
invalid you don't have a right to have
an opinion on this let's take another one
of them that's very popular amongst the feel
good types and this trickles down to many
people too this trickles outside of academia too
which is basically that God will just judge
everyone based on if you're good the prophecy
nubuwwah does not have to be believed in
it doesn't matter what faith you are it
matters how good you are so that again
has taken the ultimate truth and shifted it
down towards humans so the muamala with the
khalq is what's important not the way you
treat the creator and that's another one of
these things that has spread which is basically
you're basically saying that prophethood isn't really that
important and nubuwwah is not that important so
that's another one now I want to go
to the science do you have that?
do you have that in your community?
which is that?
this relativistic idea that it's really about your
character and not about your beliefs I mean
one encounters it one encounters it but I
wouldn't say I would say in southeast Michigan
or maybe some of the people we love
and interact with at times I think that
challenge I think we have that challenge by
our proximity with non-muslims which will result
which will result which will result in excuse
me, which will result in like a natural
kind of wallah, like an allegiance to them
and maybe a little bit of an inclination
of the heart so then people try to
reconcile you know can I say these people
are going to go to the fire and
then also those that maybe encounter better treatment
from unbelievers than they do from muslims anytime
they will try to reconcile it this way
and say then belief isn't important, character is
most important and and you know I think
that's a challenge that we'll always have to
work with because of where we are I
wouldn't say that it's a strong challenge in
my immediate sphere but it is something that
we always have to work with and I
think keep emphasizing fundamentals and also be very
wise and tactful in how we teach you
know like if we're like condemn people to
hellfire make statements that would seem and we
can't do that right?
that would be an imprecision if we did
that but make statements that would appear to
condemn people's loved ones and neighbors and co
-workers to hellfire without the nuance that ultimately
everyone's fate is with Allah and that we
don't know and we're slaves and once they've
died that's between them and Allah and we
don't know what their beliefs were in their
last moments and ultimately people's fate is up
to Allah you know and just a lot
of Iman work a lot of Iman work
because really Iman and Yaqeen are what is
going to get people through and help them
reconcile and being in proximity to disbelief is
not easy not easy especially on someone who's
you know beliefs and character are forming like
a child while they're being educated in that
environment and I have to honestly say in
our circles here the people who attend the
dhikr nights that we do we have four
small ones we have a small one every
Thursday and we have a big public one
well they're all public but Friday night a
full hour one the people who attend to
the remembrance of Allah their heart softens and
the truth enters very easily into the heart
it's almost like the soil is soft so
if I put a seed in there or
if they hear something of the truth it
seems to settle very much very easily I
can't emphasize the importance of constant remembrance remembrance
of Allah and dhikr as a part of
study of Aqidah because you will simply your
heart will not accept certain things if your
heart is hard and dhikr is such an
important part of the education or the experience
the whole package next question I have a
tangent on that yeah sure go ahead also
it connects to the signs of the end
of times well that when I came to
came back to North America in 2012 from
Tadim from an environment of a lot of
learning and a lot of worship and a
lot of righteous people and a lot of
like I mean it wasn't a matter of
how many gatherings of prayer, Quran knowledge or
dhikr we had in a week it was
how many we had in a day a
daily basis was a given it was how
many in a day to an environment where
there aren't as many majalis I would notice
that if like three days or so went
and I didn't have a majlis I would
start to feel like a darkness and sadness
sipping subhanallah and there's so much darkness that
surrounds us in the world as it is
now that one really has to fend off
that darkness and dhikr but especially gathering for
worship and our majalis and I'm sure your
majalis are like this typically will try to
combine at least one prayer ideally if we
can place it between two prayers so that
people have a little bit of the reward
of rabat so people are getting together they're
praying, they're making dua, they're doing dhikr of
Allah, they're reciting Quran they're giving tadkir reminders
about Allah and his messenger and the akhira
and Allah's command and the sunnah of the
Prophet ﷺ they're just indispensable and in those
signs of the end of times you referenced
a sign and the Prophet ﷺ also referenced
in hadith of Muslim the hour will not
come and there's someone who says Allah, Allah
you know so if we're worried about the
final hour and we're worried about the fitn
of the final hour you know one of
the best ways to ward that off is
the dhikr of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
so we highly highly advise our brothers and
sisters mashallah your brothers and sisters numerous gatherings
of dhikr in a week at least and
maybe people can't travel and congregate with other
people gather the family members and one of
the benefits of the dhikrs you do is
a lot of us don't know how to
do it so if you sit with them
and dhikr with them that'll teach them how
to sit with their family and dhikr with
their family if they're in a place or
an occupation or a schedule where they can't
gather with others the household members should gather
in the dhikr dhikr of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala a lot of us we drive
our kids around all day the car is
one of the easiest most efficient ways to
do dhikr so alright here take this book
open this page this page this page and
we all recite it all the way there
and all the way back or whatever even
5 minutes even 10 minutes a short wirt
then they start to memorize the aurat honestly
it's a great feeling when someone says to
you I know it I don't need the
book anymore it's a great warm feeling they've
done it so many times doesn't need the
book but parents should use the car when
they drive with their kids to do adhkar
and it softens the heart and you'll find
your kids are far more polite because bad
akhlaq will hurt they will know they'll sense
it it's not good alright let's talk about
signs for a second again because when we
said that the number one sign before Imam
al Mahdi is the tyranny out of Syria
reaches such a level that this man will
try to conquer Mecca al Mukarrama and as
the Prophet says here and this is a
hadith that is from al Hakim but his
isnad is sahih ala shart al sheikhain Bukhari
and Muslim qala al dhahabi fil talqis ala
shart al Bukhari wa Muslim dhahabi confirms that
too so he says here hatta idha sara
bi bayda'in min al ardi khusifa bihim
an entire army collapses in the earth wouldn't
this be world wide news so when Allah
tells us a sign the question I want
to ask you doesn't it imply that it's
almost impossible to avoid as long as you're
alive and you're aware and you're moving around
you would have heard this news an entire
army got into the earth so is the
nature of a sign is that it's so
huge mutawatir cannot be denied and it will
spread so far because it's an unusual event
for an entire army to be swallowed into
the earth it would appear that there's no
benefit in the informing us of it except
that it would appear it would appear and
so when it appeared the believers would see
it for what it was and know what
it was but but but that's the thing
about disbelief and hawa that even if it
appears there'll be those that deny it like
the writing on the face of the dajjal
there'll be those that don't see it but
it will appear to the believers I would
say at least for believers it'll be a
sign and may Allah protect us may Allah
protect us I was talking to somebody who
has these theories about the end of time
and that a lot of the theories according
to them or a lot of the signs
already happened but you just didn't know about
it so I said that would actually negate
the definition of a sign because when you're
trying to get to a main highway in
the United States or an airport or a
hospital these major landmarks the signs are high,
big and numerous to the point that you
cannot drive past an airport without knowing you're
driving past an airport the signs are so
big and so numerous even within one eyesight
you'll see one sign here and one sign
there so the idea that they are called
alamat cannot be something hidden it could not
have been something that already happened that five
people knew about on the back pages of
the newspapers it would actually be something so
obvious you can't deny it as obvious as
the sun and the moon Subhanallah let's talk
about the nature of Imam al-Mahdi I
want to share with you something about the
nature of Imam al-Mahdi and then we'll
move to Dar al-Rahma I asked Sheikh
al-Maghiri a good question I want to
hear if what the Habib have said about
this and I know you mentioned already you
didn't delve too much but I'm sure they
commented on this I said what is the
nature of our belief and our position regarding
Imam al-Mahdi for those who are not
aware Imam al-Mahdi is a prophesied individual
that will come from the lineage of the
Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasallam his name is as
the Prophet's name is and he will guide
the Ummah back to Rushd to guidance and
he will unify the Ummah and even if
you have to crawl to him on ice
go to him and follow him so he
paused a little bit but then he said
that the Mahdi the summary of what he
said it's not a doctrinal position like Prophethood
and in fact the reason that a person
will be blameworthy for not following the Mahdi
is not the same as being blameworthy for
not following a Prophet so it's not that
the Mahdi-ism is a category that must
be affirmed and believed in but rather it's
the action because his guidance will be so
clear cut that going against him will be
going against Islam and it's more the fact
of what he does more than the individual
whereas Prophethood it's the opposite for Prophethood you
must affirm that individual is a Prophet whereas
for the Mahdi it's more about his actions
and as a result of that he said
that all of us should seek to be
Mahdi and you can only do that by
learning the Sharia because he's going to come
with the same Sharia that's in our books
already and that he will come with it
so accurately and properly that going against that
will be going against Islam what do you
think of that concept?
First of all I don't want to say
I'm speaking on behalf of the Habaib in
this question, I want to speak from one
seeker of knowledge to another that that in
my own research what I have arrived at
and I would like I was actually skimming
through notes is that the Nuzul of Isa
or you could say the Khuruj of the
Mahdi the Dhuhr the appearance the Mahdi appearing
the Dajjal manifesting and Isa descending they're narrated
with a body of Hadith that is Mutawatir
right and what's in my memory from my
notes is Shaukani cited that there's just so
many Hadith about it and you all mashallah
I'm sure on the podcast you discuss Hadith
knowledge at times Mutawatir may be a given
report is Mutawatir or there's Tawatur Ma'nawi
right the meaning is affirmed that Tawatur and
Tawatur is an undeniable amount of reports right
of something that is empirically verifiable is witnessed
not based on on ideology and so on
right and the other Shurut of Tawatur so
that those Hadith reach the point of Tawatur
Ma'nawi so are we saying that it's
a tenet of faith no but we are
saying that then it's Qata'i there's unequivocal
evidence for it it's not something in any
way fringe in the religion and the reason
actually the notes I was looking for it
was more specific to Isa Alayhi Salam that
we did the research but then we just
talked about those points because you know the
Ahmadiyyas denied things about Isa's return and unfortunately
this actually happened to be a Latin American
community I visited some Ahmadiyyas drifted through and
left some of their propaganda or you know
I don't know what to say their promotion
of their agenda their paperwork or what do
you say pamphlets and then also though in
the African American Muslim community the Ahmadiyya did
Dawah in a lot of areas so you'll
encounter elders that will be very uncomfortable about
the discussion of Isa's return but it should
be understood that it's Bit Tawatur the evidence
for it that's unequivocal as evidence that Isa
is going to return Mahdi is going to
appear the Dajjal is going to appear all
of those things are Bit Tawatur Bit Tawatur
Ma'nawi there's just so many Hadith Sahih
Hadith and numerous Hadith and so many of
them that really you can't deny that point
now as for those that believe in him
and oppose him I would like to add
a nuance that we have learned from our
Shuyukh is that actually there will be Fuqaha
that oppose him Subhanallah there will be Fuqaha
that oppose him there will be Fuqaha that
oppose him and one of the things that
we were taught about that is the importance
of not being rigid and understanding the breath
of the Shariah and not being sectarian about
a given Jihad that you're following because another
point with him is that what our Shuyukh
have taught us and you find this mentioned
by the righteous is that at that point
there will not be four Madahib right and
am I denying the Madahib absolutely not but
the principle is that when the rightful Islamic
magistrate makes a decree that lifts the difference
of opinion in that question and even now
if a Qadi judges a case that's done
right if he has jurisdiction there that lifts
the Khilafah in that question right so if
he has an Ijtihad it has to be
followed if the Imam of all Muslims has
an Ijtihad that differs from the Ijtihad for
example I'm a student trained in the Jafari
school and I want to cling to my
Ijtihad that could be the cause of my
opposing the truth and then it also the
Turuk will unite in one meaning so that's
a very special time Allah grant us to
and one other point about that is it
comes in some of the Athar associated with
the Mahdi the phrase Mahid right those who
like prepare the path for him so you
know one of the things that we've understood
in the Dawa is that it's preparing the
Ummah for that state that they can unite
behind an Imam and may Allah serve the
Dawa of the Prophet Muhammad and his heirs
and the righteous so there are two points
that you mentioned here on the first point
that it's these three major signs that means
it's obligatory to believe in it right you
can't you can't deny it and without saying
I'm not suggesting that it's we'd say that
it's Maggi Jews it would be a Bida
'i belief to say all signs of the
ends of time are just stories or not
necessary to believe this you would become like
that's a Bida'i belief at that point
yeah that would appear to that would appear
to be a Bida'i seeking refuge and
love from Allah and the second point that
you mentioned this is why it's so important
to mention did I ever send you that
tree that picture of the tree where it's
very important to mention there's the Madhahib are
part of Islam but what part there is
a trunk of a tree and then a
tree branches out and Allah has actually described
Islam and truth and the Prophet described believers
as trees trees are used as allegories in
the Quran and the Sunnah the trunk of
the tree is what no two Muslims can
differ about you don't have a right to
form an opinion then you have branches and
from within our circles who study and I
don't think this is a problem but it
does have to be mentioned from time to
time you have to understand what the Madhahib
are they are lofty and noble and valid
opinions of the great noble scholars who passed
who are to us we wouldn't be able
to have a discussion with them their knowledge
puts them at a level called absolute they
can make judgments on the Sharia we can't
make those judgments yet simultaneously we have to
understand the epistemological position of this the four
schools of thought are these major branches in
different directions that are valid for us to
worship Allah with but we have to understand
that differing from them doesn't necessarily put you
outside of Islam and that's why all four
of them must be deemed valid I told
I said the other day in a podcast
if if a person came to me and
said here is a million dollars I need
you to destroy the humble Aqidah and only
give victory to the Sharia Aqidah or the
Maliki Madhab and I need you to totally
finish these Hanafi opinions I would say keep
your million dollars you asked me to do
something forbidden right because these are valid opinions
that Allah put so you're bringing a point
here that I don't think many people have
heard before which is this idea that the
if you mistake the two mistaking a Dhanni
opinion for the Qata'i Islam is a
form of misguidance at the end of time
too it's a form of misguidance it's a
it's a character flaw that seekers of knowledge
and the Mutafakkiha will fall into and some
of the righteous there's and you may have
the book the book by Habib Ahmad bin
Hassan Al-Attas Tadkir An-Nas like he
to describe as one of our Shuyukh articulated
it some seekers of knowledge believe that the
only valid position is what my Shuyukh understood
from this book like if I were to
make an example of in the Shafi'i
school the only valid position if I were
to say and that would be misguidance and
it would be something that Habib Ahmad bin
Hassan Al-Attas refuted like according to my
teacher Sheikh Omar Hussain Khateeb he made war
on that type of inclination like if someone
who studied in Hadhrama were to say the
only valid position is what our Hadhrami ulema
understood from the Tuhfah of Sheikh Ibn Hajar
al-Haytami right and we're just clinging to
that as if it's you know a Qata
'i Qata'i Nas an unequivocal text of
the Quran that's an error and that will
lead to a type of rigidness and a
poor character that results Habib Ahmad bin Hassan
Al-Attas he said sometimes you all say
that this outward position is the right position
but I see a different position is right
in the inward position he also said something
and I want people to understand this in
the context of what we're talking about and
I'll say that Habib Ahmad bin Hassan Al
-Attas memorized Al-Minhaj so he was by
no means a lightweight in Fiqh but he
he said that I do not do Taqlid
of Al-Shafi'i in the performance of
the five days in the Iqama of the
Salawat Al-Khams right Allah explicitly stated that
the Prophet ﷺ explicitly stated that that's Qata
'i it's unequivocal undeniable in the Quran by
consensus of everyone I do Taqlid of Al
-Shafi'i in that Al-Basmala is a
Rukn or is an Ayah of Fatiha which
is a Rukn in Furoo of Salat itself
I do Taqlid of Al-Shafi'i in
Iqama of Salat you're following upon his messenger
and I've heard similar opinions attributed to Shaykh
Uthman in Furoo though I will say that
that was kind of in discussion amongst from
him there's no Fiqh needed for certain things
there's no Fiqh needed to know that we
have to pray five times a day Fiqh
is the judgments of the jurists in cases
the evidence for which is Dhani Fiqh by
it's definition is Dhani it's judgments on cases
the evidence for which is Dhani, otherwise you
don't need it like everybody understands it, I
mean people need education in those basics but
we all agree on those basics but if
someone starts to cling to that as if
it's an Asal that could result in them
rejecting the truth and especially among the Mutafaqihah
you'll find that and we shouldn't have any
aversion to someone following any valid Ijtihad and
for people to understand how real this type
of Ghuloo can be and Alhamdulillah maybe it's
not prominent Ghuloo but just to tell you
I was reading a book on Imam As
-Suyuti one of his epistles on the nature
of the end times and he mentioned a
type of Ghuloo that appeared which stated that
Sayyidina Isa bin Maryam himself will return to
the earth and he will follow the Hanafi
Madhhab and of course this was completely shattered
in the book and this is not something
just to poke at the Ahnaf but I'm
just saying that this kind of Ghuloo if
the Shuyukh are warning us from it we
gotta take heed and keep it on our
mind that there is Ghuloo in Zanniyat speculative
Ijtihadat within the four Madhhabs that we have
to avoid because Imam Al-Mahdi will come
and he will rule and we will all
follow him there will not be opinions when
there's a Mujtahid Mutlaq amongst us and he
rules too he's not just in a library
he rules Subhanallah let's now turn to were
you saying something?
I mean especially our children and our descendants
hearts firm on the truth Inshallah let's now
turn to Dar Al-Rahma for the viewers
here if you are in Michigan pay attention
now there are 200 some and there are
50 on Instagram let's listen to the viewers
pay attention to hear on what's happening in
Michigan Alhamdulillah Jazakallahu Khairan May Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala accept from beautiful brothers and sisters
and we were actually just working on a
talk to update the community on what we're
doing and I want to start with this
point from Habib Ali Al-Jifri and I
would encourage everyone Safina Society anyone who's doing
any work for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
that we aspire to this principle and Habib
Ali Al-Jifri taught us Al-Haq Yan
Tashir Al-Batil Yan Tashir Bil Mal Truth
spreads by sacrifice and falsehood spreads through money
and understand that the sacrifice that might be
made may be a monetary sacrifice but Alhamdulillah
they're very beautiful and sincere in my estimation
brothers and sisters that we're working with here
in Detroit, Michigan from various elements of the
metro and even some that have moved from
out of state to found Darur Rahma and
develop our campus further for the sake of
teaching knowledge that is with a chain of
transmission, learning and teaching sacred knowledge that's a
solid chain to the Prophet ﷺ purifying our
souls and refining our character and inviting to
Allah and we are based on the west
side of Detroit I'm an African-American convert
as are many of the founding brothers and
sisters also some Anglo-American converts and also
some of the young brothers and sisters that
are children of those who immigrated here from
various places in the world that just you
know we purchased a couple of buildings here
in a very rough area notoriously rough area
of Detroit where there's a lot of vacancy
and anyone who knows about Detroit there's a
lot of vacancy the population went from 2
million down to 700,000 approximately now so
there's a lot of vacancy two of our
buildings that we're working on right now were
abandoned seven houses on the block behind us
were abandoned and wanting to put a a
ribat right or you could say a mahad
a fortress of learning, teaching and inviting to
Allah and an institute of that decidedly in
an African-American community because of the strength
of the spread of Islam here and also
the opportunity that exists in this place and
Alhamdulillah these properties were purchased and then an
Islamic endowment a waqf was done so they
belong to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that
was in 2018, actually on March 13th which
is the the date 313 and you know
313 is the number of the battle of
companions of the battle of Badr the number
of those who crossed the river with Talut
and also they mention it's in a qol
of the number of Rusul and it's also
the area code of Detroit and we got
the properties on 313 and then immediately they
were endowed by by our sheikh and then
the brothers and sisters got to work and
Alhamdulillah the project that we're working on right
now will finish the last of our buildings
that were previously abandoned, they will be developed
and all of the footprint of our campus
which has expanded quite a bit to include
the majority of our city block that we're
on, that will be developed and then also
we have like an urban development urban revitalization
project where houses that were previously abandoned and
vacant and some of them they might be
squatting those have been developed Alhamdulillah and most
of them are income properties for the institution
Alhamdulillah for that and just trying to it's
my belief that if Islam really becomes mature
here we'll have institutions and we'll have seminaries
and there will be seminary teachers and seminary
graduates that are from the people that embraced
Islam here or their offspring and we've seen
that, we saw that in Southeast Asia for
example in Indonesia where our chains of transmission
the chains of transmission from our shuyukh and
ulama that we take from they spread to
Southeast Asia and you have these immense schools
run by people that are ethnically Indonesian they
call them Al-Kia'i and you know
seminaries where the people are ethnically Indonesian appear
Indonesian, maybe he may understand Arabic but he
can't speak Arabic and the medium of education
between Arabic and the local language that's really
a maturity and settled this for us now
I'm in a place so it's imperative that
we establish institutions and those institutions are rooted
in people that are very geographically and ethnically
and culturally and linguistically acclimated in this land
and that's our aspiration and our hope Alhamdulillah
Omar let's bring that flyer over yeah read
us the event information Omar yeah let's take
a look at that flyer information it says
here this is a Dar Rahma gala on
Saturday the 7th of December so it's this
Saturday, can I ask can people possibly view
it online or is it only in person
for now it's in person but who knows
they may see a link come out that
night good, it's an in person event but
we'll be taking video and stuff too so
those that are that are elsewhere video will
appear Allah knows how shortly after the beginning
of the program it will appear, will it
be the next day or you know will
the guys decide to go live, we'll see
and this is to raise funds for the
building yeah and literally so we are four
storefronts, the two that we're occupying now previously
were a church Alhamdulillah they've been improved a
lot but they still need some love one
has always been empty and one was literally
a marijuana grow room and we purchased it
from the owner and evicted the marijuana growers
ajeeb the marijuana growers were Arabic brothers no
way one of them's name was Fado sometimes
especially in the early morning when the air
was still you'd smell it and you'll see
a video go up that shows their grow
rooms but that's going to be the Masallah
and the area like the building was rough
like when we got it they would always,
there's a dollar store in a corner that
used to be open, they would rob that
and then run down the alley and run
to the neighbor's backyard they would take a
sledgehammer and just knock the back doors of
all of these buildings open and steal we
had one incident like that when we first
I think maybe after we gave our earnest
money or maybe after yeah it might have
been before we closed or immediately after we
closed we had one break in so like
literally there were times where brothers had to
spend the night here and exercise their second
amendment if you know what I mean and
then now Masallah it's stabilized there's not a
lot of theft anymore women and children we
don't worry about them walking back and forth
between the houses on the campus and the
buildings at night and Alhamdulillah we were able
to eliminate at least one marijuana grow operation
and just a whole lot of other negative
activity and inshallah we ask Allah to make
it really a house of mercy and a
beacon for the spread of Islam in a
place where you know a lot of people
might overlook that type of place but Islam
spreads very fast in places like this that's
wonderful and usually on this live stream I
always encourage everyone to put in a buck
two bucks for a cause is there a
link for people to donate online there are
let me find them I have some ok
here it is we already put it up
it's tararahmar.org that's for the gala but
there it says get tickets and it says
donate there's one button that says donate and
therefore people could put in a buck, two
bucks and that's what we recommend three, four,
five bucks and every live stream did not,
the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam say so
this is birr and the prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam used to always raise funds when
it was needed for good causes for battle
and for other major causes such as when
there was a man who was very disheveled
and the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
stand up and pray in the middle of
juma why?
so people could see how poor he was
and when on Eid the prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam went with Sayyidina Bilal and said
give sadaqa because there were needy people and
people were taking the gold the women were
taking their gold bracelets off so two, three,
four dollars is what we're asking the tararahmar
could walk away with a thousand dollars just
from this stream so I dropped some other
links that might be more easy and familiar
channels like Zelf Hats Omar you put that
up?
and also then there's no fee for that
through the website there's a little bit of
a processing that the company that helps us
takes but through Zelf it'll be free cash
app is free what is this Zelf he's
putting it up right now you guys use
cash app?
I used it once but I use Zelf
all the time also we need a visit
from you, we should invite you we're muqassir
a little bit in the with our brothers
inshallah more so than just donations and donations
are an immense help and sacrifice please visit
inshallah, yourself, your students periodically we'll have students
of yours visit, we met some of them
down in Texas on our last trip how
wonderful we have a lot of work to
do definitely, it'll be great to have our
students me and the students will take a
van ride up there at some point could
we also not to digress from this point
to the point of work and efforts like
this and related to the signs of the
times we're in so when these current conflicts
began in the east myself and some fellow
students actually met some of our shuyukh and
were like should we drop everything and come
to you should it be the end of
times, should I want to get out of
the non-muslim world and be with you
if these are happening and in my heart
was no, our stand is here and I
was thankful that Allah that the shuyukh confirmed
that thinking and essentially said no you keep
doing the work where you are building institutions
inviting to Allah, teaching the shariah of the
Prophet Muhammad everyone work for this cause where
they are and that Allah will choose people
from all over the world and all peoples
to do that work so we're very I
reference Gaza and Palestine I believe daily, at
least if I'm on my game in Fajr
I'll mention it in the Qunoot Fajr in
almost every talk but I believe that my
work for Gaza is an inviting to Allah
here and you know if American people embrace
Islam some of those that either casually or
actively were in favor of supporting the war
machine and the military the arms support that
goes to Gaza some of those people that
were in that category, if they embrace Islam
now they are in the category of allegiance
to our brothers and sisters in Gaza and
also if we understand trials before the ummah
because of our sins if we're trying to
cause righteousness especially in a place that's fueling
the genocide that will have, it may not
be the immediate impact that people want to
see but inshallah it will be part of
the impact and the change for good for
them and others in the ummah I totally
agree and also where you do your work
it has to be based on a principle
not an event, as principles never change and
events are always changing and if we were
saying let's drop everything and go to Gaza
ok so we spend a year there now
it's in Syria so drop everything and go
to Syria ok next tribulation may be in
who knows where Iraq, so drop it if
you do that then you become like the
example Sheikh Nooh said about somebody who doesn't
stick to one thing, you can dig 50
feet in 50 different holes and all you
did is get yourself tired and you never
got water or you can stick to one
hole and dig 50 feet you're definitely going
to hit water if you go that deep
and that's the perspective we have to have
so the place where we do our work
the way in which we do our work
has to be based on a principle as
opposed to an event which can come and
go or change and not change whereas the
principle never changes sometimes people ask what are
you doing I said this is what I'm
doing I'm here based on a principle not
based on events that come and go otherwise
you won't be important you won't make an
impact if you keep jumping around based on
events so the final thing I wanted to
say is that the tazaur, the visitation is
so important between Muslims because it does reflect
and it melts a little bit of taasub
if you were to go and visit a
community and see that there are certain things
that are exactly the same and there are
certain things this community does differently and you
go to the next community and say okay
these are the same and these are different
and these are the same and these are
different so when you go to different jamaat
of ahlul sunnah you get to see what
is the trunk versus what is the branches
and you also get to be able to
point people to benefit so you can tell
people you won't benefit you may not benefit
with me here on this subject, you'll benefit
with so and so because on the furwa
they do things that will suit you more
than we do so that's one of the
benefits of tazaur it helps us separate between
the what is the core of Islam and
what is opinion and what is judgment calls
you're making judgment calls, we're making judgment calls
we're all making judgment calls and we all
may have different temperaments and you see all
this is valid and accepted and good and
that gives us a breadth of vision mashallah
we kept you for a long time jazakallahu
khairan and we will pray that the gala
goes well and is successful and thank you
so much for coming on jazakallahu khairan for
coming on I should do it more often
visit you and I should visit you physically
the brothers road tripped out in Ramadan but
I wasn't part of that khuruj we'll pay
you all a visit and we extend the
invitation, it's an open invitation hopefully when I'm
here, but if I'm not here the brothers
will take care of you jazakallahu khairan thank
you so much jazakallahu khairan salam alaykum alright
folks there you have it that's your sadaqa
for the day 2-3 bucks probably would
have went to your starbucks coffee now that
you boycotted it now you could give this
sadaqa I really want to say for Q
&A but I have other obligations unfortunately I
mean I could stream for hours I could
literally bring these books bring the Q&As,
bring different guests I could probably do a
9 hour live stream, you know that I
could do it I love it and I
love talking to people and I love bringing
guests on, reading different books I want to
bring on Mohammad Jalal I want to bring
on Sheikh Asrar Rashid they're of two different
viewpoints on the events of Syria this is
a matter of opinion these are a matter
of different perspective on what the facts are
a lot of people said how could you
be against Syria he was the only one
opening the pipeline of transport of weapons I
said okay number one the victory against this
enemy will never occur at the hand of
a profligate murderer killer Alawite so his absence
is probably better than his presence whatever you
think his presence is okay the other point
of critique I received about that is that
this pipeline thing is overrated that was one
Hassan Al Hassan is a journalist you could
read up on him and he had an
article at some point detailing how overrated this
idea that the routes, number two Hezbollah just
announced a ceasefire so what difference does it
make if he opens the routes or not,
they just opened a ceasefire or announced a
ceasefire so what difference does it make whether
the routes are open or not number three
response to that the routes were open the
genocide still happened nothing changed right, are you
going to you can't measure whether it was
less or more some argue the absence of
a unified Syria and the presence of some
of these Al Qaeda descended groups is going
to be worse and I said it could
be, yes it could be Trump could be
worse than Biden that doesn't mean Biden shouldn't
have been punished the Democrats had to have
been punished we know that for sure a
guy like Assad should not be left for
a moment no matter what you imagine he's
doing so he doesn't deserve any argument for
him that's my opinion at this point in
time other opinions they said that I think
those are the main opinions but ultimately I
think they're also dismissing this is the last
thing we'll say and we'll wrap up they're
also dismissing the fact or the idea that
the Syrian people want their they want to
breathe, they want their freedoms they want their
freedom from tyranny, we're not going to say
freedom like using western terminology here but basic
freedom every human wants they want to be
free to do what they want to do
they want to be free from his tyranny
don't dismiss that that's the case we're seeing
elderly people, young people celebrating happy for the
first time they're able to go back to
Halab to be with their family so we're
not gonna dismiss that aspect either right so
in any event those are the opinions going
about and really we have to remember they
are political opinions analysis based on some very
few facts that we all have and on
top of that I have to say this
too really doesn't make a difference if all
the English speaking Twitteratis came to one opinion
and were unified on the opinion you think
that's gonna move the IDF the Netanyahu needle
from his genocide?
nothing is gonna move these people except use
of force not words in any event that's
why I think don't overrate this idea of
we were unified now we're divided don't overrate
your opinion I don't think it's as important
as you imagine it to be I gotta
go Subhanak Allahumma wa bihamdik nashhadu an la
ilaha illa anta nastaghfiru wa natubu ilayk wa
al-asr inna al-insana lafee khusr illa
allatheena amanu wa aminu salihat wa
tawassu bil haq wa tawassu bil
sabr
Allah Allah Allah