Shadee Elmasry – Three Parables – NBF 396
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The speakers stress the importance of trusting one's heart and avoiding cultural norms like the holy spirit and "verbal" to avoid sickness and accidents. They also discuss the origin of the "has been a pleasure to watch" label and the "has been a pleasure to watch" label on TV screens. The transcript explores various topics such as marriage, political fitan, sharia, and sharia, providing insight into various aspects of the topic.
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I don't know what's going on here, but
it is warm out and it's like hot
almost.
I feel like we're in spring and I
don't know what to put the air condition
on.
Sunny, beautiful out in the great state of
New Jersey, really one of the best states.
I'm not going to go on for a
while, but really one of the best states.
We got everything in this state and we
have a Muslim community here that's been around
for a long time.
So now we got the next generation raising
their kids and they were all grew up
together and that's how it is with me.
And it's not the case in many other
states.
States in which people are, they always travel
around or they just go there for the
job.
Those states, they don't have this idea.
They don't have generation after generation.
Segment number one today, and of course, you
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So Rabia T saying, if she competes with
her husband who gets into the live first
and says, well, it looks like unless your
husband's gamer night, then you win today or
G spice.
But I know G spice is a woman.
Now, segment number one, we're going to cover
three parables that a lot gives us about
hypocrites.
Oh, I forgot my goofy on three parables
that a lot gives us about hypocrites.
Segment number two, I need to know, I'm
trying to guess what kind of move, what
is up Donald Trump's sleeve?
What move is he making here?
Like how does he win?
We know that Trump doesn't make a move
unless he wins both ways, right?
But he's making a very bold statement here.
I told Netanyahu, he wants the Gaza war
over by the time he enters office.
So is this just to get Michigan?
That's one option, right?
Well, he's got them, but he's probably maybe
his daughter's father-in-law is an Arab.
His daughter's father-in-law, she married a
Lebanese Christian, tons of Lebanese and Yemenis in
Michigan.
And that was his father, what would we
call it?
But the man who, his son-in-law's
dad, essentially that guy, that Lebanese dude is
helping him get involved in Michigan.
So here's what I'm thinking.
Trump said this, is it white?
A little bit more.
Trump said this to get his points in
Michigan.
And if he starts to notice that it's
not going to happen, which it's not going
to happen, I don't think.
Israel's not walking this back.
There's no way to scale this back.
But let's say it doesn't happen.
He could simply say, yes, I said with
conditions, meaning if you get the hostages and
that, oh, the conditions weren't reported, you know,
like that kind of thing.
So there's gotta be a way that he
could walk this back that he's already figured
out because having observed him for eight years
now going on to nine, almost eight years
now, pretty much, nine years since he campaigns
in the beginning, before he got in, obviously,
he's, it's either way, it's to his advantage.
I'll give you an example of winning both
ways.
When he went after Obama to get his
birth certificate out, this is like old news,
but it was his first foray into politics.
It's literally like silly tabloid stuff, where he
went into the birther conspiracy.
Now I'm thinking to myself, like, this is
really dumb because the moment Obama reveals his
birth certificate, Trump clearly loses, right?
Well, everyone who thought that sort of missed
out on something because the moment that Obama
did after like a year of Trump peddling
this nonsensical theory that Obama actually is an
American and he wasn't born in Ohio and
he has no proof.
Well, and he gained momentum and it became
one of those just lies that stick or
untruths or no basis that stuck to a
small group of fringe people, but became sizable
enough that it's an internet thing.
So Obama eventually did release them.
Well, how does Trump win?
He said, yeah, I was the only one
who was able to get him to release
them.
So I influenced the president.
So now you have Obama reacting to Trump.
That's a victory in itself, right?
I'm not saying, so there's, that's good.
Now you could put one.
There's gotta be some way that he wins
both ways and either he actually ends the
war or he really actually is just trying
to get Michigan votes and it's just shore
up the Michigan thing because it is a
massive swing state or later on he's going
to say, yeah, I said end it.
Make sure you can stick it up here.
Make sure it's over as long as you
get the hostages back or some other condition
like that.
It's gotta be something.
It's gotta be something up his sleeve.
Since we already talked about it, let's just
read the story and let's read it from
the times of Israel.
We'll read it from all the sources.
Former US president Donald Trump told Netanyahu that
he wants Israel to wrap up the war
in Gaza.
Wrap it up as if like, it's some
kind of a get together.
Wrap it up.
By the time he returns to office, if
he wins the election, two sources familiar with
the matter revealed to the times of Israel
this week.
I don't think that's anything other than a
coordinated leak, of course.
The message was first conveyed when the Republican
presidential nominee hosted Netanyahu in Florida at Mar
-a-Lago.
Trump has publicly confirmed having told Netanyahu he
wants Israel to win the war quickly.
So that's one of those double things where
he's basically making both sides happy with one
statement, in other words, end it, but he
also said the word win.
So that's one of the, you know, these
politicians, they always have to learn how to
speak out of both sides of their mouth.
The sources speaking to the times of Israel
said, the former US official stressed that Trump
wasn't specific in his appeal to Netanyahu and
could well back residual IDF activity in Gaza
so long as Jerusalem has officially ended the
war.
Netanyahu has long stressed that Israel will maintain
overriding security control of Gaza for the foreseeable
future after the war, and other Israeli officials
have spoken about the IDF maintaining a buffer
zone inside the Gaza Strip while regularly re
-entering areas throughout the enclave when it detects
Hamas trying to regroup.
But the prime minister indicated on Monday that
Israel is not yet in the wrap-up
stage, telling Likud MKs Netanyahu can't be in
the wrap-up stage because the moment he
gets in the wrap-up stage, he's going
to be probably, maybe, possibly arrested.
He's got issues, right?
He's got serious issues, legal issues.
I'm not familiar with the nature of the
legal issues, but I do know, I mean,
why don't you look that up?
What are Netanyahu's legal issues?
That's why he's got to keep the war
going.
No, not in international court, in Israel itself.
Yeah, he's got legal issues.
He's hated by a significant number of people.
Trump in recent weeks has indicated that he'd
give Israel freer reign to make decisions, slamming
Biden.
So when he needed, what's her name's money?
Can't remember, Marion whatever, the wife of the
casino mogul of Las Vegas, Jewish casino guy.
When he needed her money, he said that
statement.
I want to give him free reign.
Okay, now he needs the Michigan vote.
He's saying, I want people to end.
He's relying upon the fact that people have
short-term memories, and that when someone cites
you for being inconsistent or saying two opposite
things, that doesn't really go well.
I mean, that doesn't really stick with people.
That's what he's probably relying on.
Uga, turn Uga's mic on, please.
Speak into the mic.
I found out what he got in trouble
for.
Officially indicted for breach of trust, accepting bribes,
fraud, and fraud.
Indicted for all sorts of fraud, bribery, and
other things in Israel.
So that's why Netanyahu needs to keep the
war going.
Or Trump will maybe negotiate something, right, to
keep Netanyahu out of jail.
Trump himself warned the Republican National Convention in
July that those holding American hostages abroad will
pay a very big price if they're not
released before he assumes office.
Trump campaigned Netanyahu's office, did not respond.
Trump and Netanyahu have spoken several times, blah,
blah, blah.
There are internal political constraints to ending the
war quickly, said an Israeli official.
Means on the inside, we don't want to.
He declined to elaborate.
There's unanimity within Netanyahu's government against allowing the
Palestinian authority to play a role in the
governance of Gaza anymore.
A second Israeli official said this has contributed
to the war dragging on.
And a whole bunch of, and that's pretty
much it.
Let's see what else.
New York Post, I'm not reading that.
It's not a really useful source.
All right, let's try Al Mayadeen.
Never heard of this source.
You guys know about Al Mayadeen?
No, this is Al Mayadeen.
Can you look at the about page and
see if this is, I mean, they're probably
getting it from Associated Press anyway.
Okay.
Lebanese Arab nationalism and stuff.
Okay.
Two informed sources have, this is just the
same thing because once it hits AP, everyone
just takes it and rewrites it in their
own way or just copy, paste.
This is literally the copy paste from the
Israel Times.
So there's really only one said article on
this, but that is the piece of news
today.
And you just probably wonder and think that
most likely that he's relying on people's shorts
or memories, or he's relying on the fact
that when you quote somebody as having said
something, and then you say the opposite, that
doesn't really stick very well because it's complicated
to say.
But we'll see what it is.
We'll see.
Okay.
Segment numero dos.
What are the three parables that Allah tells
us about the Munafiqeen?
The first parable states that, He's like someone
who lit a flame.
The hypocrite is like someone who lit a
flame.
If we say it correctly, connect it, That
is, which is followed by a lamb.
Did you study Tajweed?
It's very, very good to study Tajweed.
If not, really one of the most important
things to study so that you can recite
the Quran properly.
So it's a method.
It's a method is something where, if I
don't know something, give me something close to
it.
Give me something near to it so I
can understand it.
And that's how people learn.
They learn by emthal.
And it's one of the seven content elements
of the Quran.
What are the other?
Al-amr, wal-nahi, wal-khabar.
Maybe khabar al-sabiq, wal-khabar al-mustaqbal.
Maybe that's four.
Well, number five is, Oh, we have to
say what's the reward and punishment, which is
wa'd and wa'id, and then al-amthal.
So al-amr, wal-nahi, wal-khabar, wal
-ikhbar, wal-wa'd, wal-wa'id, wal-amthal.
So the Quran tends to consist of, many
ulama say that you can divide it into
a number of things, but I think some
things are being left out here.
There's a lot of adhkar and ad'ia.
So commands and prohibitions, news of the future,
news of the past, analogs, parables, and analogies.
Then we have to say there are clearly
prayers and adhkar in the Quran.
And then what else did we say?
Promises and threats, right?
Promises and threats are also in the Quran.
So he then says, imagine
now a man lights a fire.
When the fire is lit up, meaning he
now can see around him.
So that's, so you could say, the fire
was lit or someone lit the fire.
That's basically, it's a grammatical point, that it's
a muta'di.
Allah Ta'ala went away with, he took
their light away.
This is revealed about the hypocrites.
An example of their hypocrisy is a man,
he lights a fire in the middle of
the night.
He got warm and he saw what's around
him.
So he got afraid of what, he avoided
what he fears.
While he sees now, and he sees, okay,
this, I should fear that, should not fear
that, etc.
I know where I am now.
All of a sudden, it's gone.
The fire is gone.
Now he's afraid.
Because he saw what he should fear.
Imagine you light a fire, you see a
wolf.
Then the fire goes away.
Wind comes, takes your fire away.
Now you're afraid.
You know there's a wolf, but you can't
see it.
So he says, likewise, the believer, he got
safe, sorry, the hypocrite, the moment he lit
the fire, and he could see around him
now.
So the hypocrite, by saying la ilaha illallah,
now we treat them as believers now.
We treat them, through marriage is allowed, they're
safe, etc.
They inherit, they're part of the Muslim family,
so they benefit from that.
That's the light that they received.
However, the putting out of their light is
what happens to them after death.
So they get the benefit of a small
moment, then they lose that benefit.
They get the benefit, the worldly benefit, of
being Muslims.
What is that worldly benefit?
It's that now we treat you now as
a Muslim.
We treat you now, and you're able to
marry into our families, inherit from us.
Imagine, you may say, well, what's the benefit
of being a Muslim in this day and
age?
Oh, look at a family that's very wealthy.
And in Islam, if you apostate, you lose
the inheritance.
If you apostate, we cut you off.
If you apostate, it's going to be a
humiliation in front of you and your family.
So for that reason, he doesn't apostate.
He doesn't apostate, so he can get those
benefits.
But as soon as he dies, he doesn't
get any benefit.
So that is the meaning that his light
goes away.
He benefited in this world with no faith,
just on the outward of things.
So yes, the Muslims may be suffering worldwide,
and they have no political power, but there
are plenty of localized benefits, family benefits, things
like that.
Plenty of benefits for somebody to stay Muslim,
even though they don't actually have belief.
So why does Allah allow this?
Many, many wisdoms.
A man may be a hypocrite.
We don't know him.
We may suspect him.
We may not like a lot of things
about him.
But his kids may turn out to be
believers.
So it's one of the reasons why Allah
has allowed it to happen.
Secondly, Allah has allowed people to do things.
Allah has allowed people to make choices between
good and evil.
And this is one of the evils that
people have chosen, to dress their evil with
good.
And the trials of life become extremely confusing
when evil mingles with good.
And that's exactly always what happens.
And we have examples of the Messenger, peace
be upon him, saying two people will fight
in this world, and they're both people of
paradise.
And that would be, for example, the enemy
fights a Muslim, kills the Muslim, then gets
jailed, or captured, I should say, and enters
Islam as a prisoner.
That's the meaning of a man enters paradise
in shackles.
What is the meaning of that saying, that
hadith?
There are, Allah laughs at those who enter
paradise in shackles.
Means that he was an enemy, got captured,
and as he's being taken to the Muslim
camp as a captive enemy, there he enters
Islam.
And hence, he was in his shackles, he
was actually being taken to where he's going
to enter Islam, right?
So, another example is just two people who
may not be fighting with a sword, but
are enemies in this world.
And they perceive matters differently, but Allah Ta
'ala forgives both of them.
Or one of them understands properly, one of
them doesn't understand properly.
They fight their whole life, but they perceive
things differently.
They have different mentalities.
And as a result of that, Allah forgives
the one who was wrong.
And even rewards him, because he did what
he thought he was doing correctly.
And we have examples of that of rebels.
If you read the books of fiqh, they
divide the rebel into two types.
One rebel, he has a reason why he's
rebelling.
He made Ijtihad, that rebelling is the right
thing to do here.
But then you have the Sultan and the
Khalifa's army, they have the right to fight
them.
So, both sides are forgiven and in paradise.
But both sides are, one is wrong but
forgiven, and the other is correct and rewarded.
And they both enter paradise.
So, there are a lot of situations in
this world where two people will be at
odds with each other, and both of them,
people of paradise.
Omar, why?
Omar, go see why he shut the light.
You shut the light for a reason?
You shut the light for a reason?
You shut the light, yeah.
Thank you.
Okay.
Let's take, what were we saying here?
They fight each other.
Another proof of this.
Does not Allah tell us that in paradise,
وَنَزَعْنَا مَا فِي صُدُورِهِمْ مِنْ غِلٍۢ Before you
enter paradise, you can't enter paradise while hating
each other.
So, therefore, the hatred will be removed from
their hearts.
And that's not a light thing.
You shouldn't die with hatred because Allah says,
وَنَزَعْنَا And نَزَعْ is شَدِيد.
نَزَعْ is painful.
وَنَزَعْنَا مَا فِي صُدُورِهِمْ مِنْ غِلٍۢ We yanked
out what is in their hearts of hatred.
How?
Things will happen that are extremely scary that
will cause these two people to unify on
the day of judgment, and the غِل of
their hearts comes out.
Or it comes out however Allah wants to
take it out.
But it's not a nice feeling.
النَزَعْ نَزَعْنَا مَا فِي صُدُورِهِمْ مِنْ غِلٍۢ So,
therefore, we're told that that's going to be
painful.
So, we should die with no غِل towards
another Muslim.
And the حبيب المشروع الحدّاد, one of his
teachings, extremely important.
Sleep every night with nothing in your heart
against another Muslim.
If that's your methodology, you're going to limit
certain things.
You're going to limit argumentation.
Debating.
You're going to limit your exposure.
Is it farḍ on you?
It's not farḍ on you.
You could say the truth once.
People like it.
They don't like it.
There are many things that I've said.
Many people don't like it.
No problem.
I am sad that that happened in the
Ummah, in our little community sometimes, or of
people of this time and place that we're
living in.
But everyone's got their right.
I have the right to speak of what
I've been taught is the truth and believe
is the truth on any issue.
And I'll stand by it.
But we shouldn't desire these feuds to continue
in the Ummah.
So, the position would be, this is it.
People don't like it.
That's unfortunate.
I'm not going to keep pushing it.
And I'm not going to stay silent either.
Something in between the two.
Right?
Neither, like, you get خلاص, beating a dead
horse.
There's no point in that.
And there's something wrong with you, if you're
one of those people who can't give up,
can't let go an issue.
Yet, simultaneously, don't need to be silenced.
This is our ḥaqq, to speak about these
things.
Right?
So, at a later date, we may bring
it up again.
And stand by our positions.
100%.
No backing down.
So, you don't want fitna.
So, you'll decrease a little bit, at that
moment.
But at the same time, we're not backing
down from anyone.
And we're going to continue to teach what
we teach.
On any issue, on any of the issues
that's been, that sparked anything.
So, if you were to completely remain silent,
that's not right either.
Or do you like a doormat?
You're just weak.
As soon as people don't like something, you're
going to just not talk anymore?
Then don't talk about anything.
And if you're one of those who's going
to drive a wedge, and just keep going
at it.
Those are the people who have social issues.
They have, there's something wrong with them.
In their behavior.
In their, they're like, they can't give something
up.
They have to keep going, and keep going,
and keep going.
And beating a dead horse.
It's not a good quality.
There should be a moment where you realize,
all right, there's no point in this anymore.
Right?
So, it's between the two.
And what are we looking for?
We're always looking for what the extremes are
in anything.
As long as you avoid those, you're in
the middle.
Ansar Ahmed, did you study in Mauritania?
No, I studied with Mauritanians.
But not in Mauritania.
So, we have two Mauritanians.
One Fiqh, and one language.
And then students of the Mauritanians.
And then Egyptians.
My main Fiqh teacher now is an Egyptian.
And my main teacher in, to revise and
complete the Hifz of Qur'an, is a
Syrian.
You always got to be studying.
Non-stop you're studying.
You should be studying too, by going to
Arkview.org.
And take, if you're a Maliki Sheikh, Murabit
Benavides, as your Maliki Fiqh teacher.
Take Sheikh Mahdi as your Arabic teacher.
Or your Shafi'i Fiqh teacher.
Take Sheikh Nuh as your Tajweed and Hanbali
Fiqh teacher.
So, Arkview.org is where you're going to
study that.
Here is another interpretation.
Qeelab.
Zihabu Noorihim.
The disappearance of their light is in the
grave.
That's, that's what was the first one was.
So, they have the light in this life.
What is the light?
The light of living in the Islamic family,
Muslim family, and Islamic community.
You benefit.
There's a lot of benefits.
And where is the loss of light?
In his grave.
In his grave.
He is being tortured in his grave.
Wa qeela fil qiyamah haythu yaqooloona lillatheena aamanun
dhuroona naqtabis min noorikum qeela rji'oon.
The second one is that it's not in
the grave.
It's in the afterlife.
And we say, no, that's not, that's, it's
both.
Because the grave, you have reward and punishment.
In your grave, you have reward.
And you have punishment.
Okay.
Empirical Miracles.
It's not Q&A, but I have to
take this one.
It's really important.
If the husband was unfaithful to his wife,
should the wife be informed?
I went over this, told the story before
that there was a guy who was going
to marry a sister.
She said, I'm going to convert, et cetera.
And it ended up that there was a
Muslim coworker that she was telling this to.
When the convert or about to convert and
marry a Muslim told her who the guy
is, she ended up knowing the guy.
She knew the guy.
And she knew the man was married with
many kids.
So then she went to the leader of
that community.
He's a man by the name of Dr.
Jimmy Jones.
Very, very wise man.
Dealt with the community, knows a lot.
The TV just shut off for some reason.
Okay, there you go.
Whoa, what's going on?
Are we on?
Oh, we froze.
No, we're good.
Our TV is acting up.
Okay, good.
So Dr. Jimmy Jones is a very wise
community leader.
He said, no, don't break up the family.
She said, what do I do then?
She said, approach the guy or write him
an anonymous note in his mailbox.
You know what's going on.
Stop it now.
Save your family.
So she did threaten him in that way.
I don't know if she did it anonymously
or directly.
And he stopped.
And she saw later on like married life
continued.
Divorce just doesn't affect the woman.
It also affects the kids.
That was his Ijtihad.
His Ijtihad meaning like that was his scholarly
or his judgment call.
And I felt that to be good and
Allah knows best.
So I don't say don't break up the
family.
Stop the zina.
Stop what he's doing.
It has also been said.
So another example of their light going out
is that they are exposed as hypocrites.
Okay, they are exposed and all of these
could be correct.
He didn't say Allah put out their light.
He said that the light was gone.
Light fire is light and heat.
So the light is what the metaphor is
saying goes away.
As for the heat of the hellfire is
still with them.
Their light is that they go to the
Muslims and to the guidance.
So when their light is on, that is
when they're with the Muslims and in their
company.
But then they go back always to the
enemies of Islam.
And they cohort with them.
And that's the extinguishing of their light.
He says another application of this was to
the Jews of Yathrib.
The three tribes of Yathrib that were Jewish
were the Bani Nadhir, Bani Qaynuqa, and Bani
Qurayza.
So these three tribes of Jews, they had
the holy book, right?
Of course, we say it's been altered, forgotten.
It's not accurate, but they had the holy
book and they believed in God.
And they believed in those prophets.
And they used to say to the pagans,
you're pagans.
When our prophet comes, we're going to wipe
you all out.
So even their desire for a prophet wasn't
for a good reason.
Because if it was good, they should say
when a prophet comes, we'll be unified.
Likewise, there are many Tawa'if of Islam
today.
And there's like gray lines.
Are these people from Ahlus Sunnah or not?
And they say, no, they're not.
And they say, yes, they are.
And they say, this is the only Sunnah,
blah, blah, blah.
All of this is going on.
The sincere heart should say when Imam Mahdi
comes, when Sayyidina Isa Ibn Marim comes back,
he will unify us all.
The dirty heart and the tribalistic heart, the
muta'asib says, ah, when Mahdi comes and
Sayyidina Isa comes, they're going to be exposed
as being misguided innovators.
And we're going to finish you off.
That's the difference.
So which one are you, the clean heart
or the dirty heart?
The dirty heart can be on the truth.
In other words, that his aqeedah is true,
but he's a dirty heart.
He'll be punished for that.
Someone could be on the truth.
And Shadiv, thank you for putting the tribal
names there so people could learn the three
Jewish tribes.
Someone could be on the truth, but he's
a bad person.
It happens all in every Mevheb there is
this.
And someone could be on an error.
And to say gently, a misguided error, as
opposed to just calling him an innovator.
He could be on a misguided error and
be a wonderful person.
Both exist.
Hopefully the truth leads to generally people being
good and their bad apples being exceptions.
That's what you hope.
And that's what really should be.
But it's very plausible that someone is on
the truth, but is a bad apple, is
a bad person.
I've seen it.
I've seen people in this traditional Ahlul Sunnah,
four Mevheb dawah, person's vile.
And he does work 24 hours a day
for the dawah.
But I wouldn't want to ever deal with
him.
He's vile.
All he does is talk ill of and
treats it like it's a corporate competition, right?
Like the Nike guys trying to tear down
the Reebok guys and the Adidas guys, something
like that.
Or treating it like he's in war with
kuffar.
It didn't sit right with me.
And eventually that person was removed.
Like events happened where they're no longer involved
in the dawah.
And I said like, SubhanAllah, that's exactly, you
know, that's what you get.
You weren't clean.
You're not a good person.
Yes, you're fighting for the right cause, but
I don't like the way you're acting.
You're nasty.
You never wish good for people.
You only look at their bad, their flaws.
There's something wrong with you.
You got to follow your gut when this
happens.
When you see people who are on the
truth, does not necessarily mean the truth has
purified them yet.
And when you go to any masjid, go
to anything, you got to know that the
people there, we're all patients.
All of us are patients to a different
degree.
Maybe one of us learned a few things
in the hospital.
So he can go say, I know I've
been around this hospital a long time.
You need a bandaid right there.
You need an IV.
And you know that because you've been in
the hospital for a long time.
That doesn't mean he's still not sick.
We're all in a big hospital and there
are different levels of sicknesses and triage.
Like the people, some people on life support.
I know he needs life support.
That I know.
Doesn't mean I'm not limping.
Doesn't mean I don't have infection.
Doesn't mean I'm not sick and I'm not
messed up in my own ways.
But I've been in this hospital long enough
to know this guy, he needs this machine
to be on 24 hours a day.
If this machine is off, he dies.
I know this guy, he needs his heart.
Boom, zapped.
I know this guy.
I know what to do.
He needs a tourniquet.
And then you need to get some, you
need to purify this.
Then bandage it up.
I know that.
Doesn't mean I don't have cancer.
And I know I have cancer.
And I go off and I get treatment
too.
Every periodically I go treat myself.
We have to view all of us are
like this.
Right?
Within this hospital, there are people who go
around saying, he doesn't know his medicine properly.
And I'm saying, listen, this guy needs a
bandage right here.
No, no, no.
Don't listen to him.
He's going to kill you.
We're arguing.
It's no point in arguing.
Let me just go to the next patient
and get away from that person.
There is no value in this constantly going
back and forth.
And that's why, SubhanAllah al-Azeem, you'd never
ever want to be with a group of
people that are haters.
That are constantly hating.
Even if you're hating the truth, I mean,
hating truthfully.
I mean, hating something false has a limit
too.
All day, you're going to go on and
on and on and on about the falsehood.
That's also not right either.
Got to trust your heart, trust your gut.
And ultimately, the truth, these judgment calls, the
Prophet told us, مَتْمَأَنَّتْ لَهُ النَّفْسِ الْخَيْرُ مَتْمَأَنَّتْ
لَهُ النَّفْسِ What your soul settles upon.
You're like, it settles in your heart.
وَالْإِثْمُ مَحَاكَ فِى الصَّدْرِ The Ithm is something
bad.
It just doesn't feel right.
Right?
We're not judging truth and theology by our
heart.
We're judging the behavior of people.
Let me tell you something else.
The truth can also become a fad.
The truth can become just like a thing
everybody's doing.
And Allah Ta'ala will purify such a
group.
And when it gets like that, I sort
of kind of get disinterested in it.
I'll do another side of the truth.
There are many sides to the truth, right?
When it gets like that, I'll just find
another set of good deeds to do it.
I'll do it on my own.
You also have to trust yourself when things
get like that.
When it just becomes another fad and the
sincerity is unknown at this point.
It's just like every foolish person, superficial person
wants in on it.
And I'm like, since when?
Right?
Why are you so in on this?
Because it's a social fad now.
You got 30, 40 people doing it.
Now another 30 suddenly all of a sudden
are into it.
And I'm like, you've never sacrificed one thing
for the deen.
You've been living in the haram your whole
life.
And all of a sudden you're gung-ho
about these things.
Why don't you just be gung-ho about
praying properly, showing up to salah, dressing properly,
all these other things.
But at the same time, you don't want
to discourage people.
Maybe that fad will eventually settle in them,
right?
You never know.
What does it get to be like a
fad?
There's a lot of externals in every group
when it grows.
It's like the sincere people are doing it.
Then they succeed and they get a lot
of people to do it, to be convinced
of it.
Now there's like a sort of a little
critical mass doing it.
And then now you have these people who
want the superficialities of it.
Yeah, fad is like a craze and stuff.
Like for us, it'd be, okay, I got
to get this.
I got to get this outfit.
I got to dress like this to the
event.
You don't have to dress any way to
the masjid.
If people are going to judge you, let
them judge you.
As long as you're covering your aura properly,
right?
I'm telling you that's why malamatiyah exists in
the ummah.
Now show up in clothes that doesn't even
look like...
Like there's a peer pressure to appear a
certain way.
No, I don't believe in any of that
stuff.
A peer pressure to...
Now it starts off of love of the
sunnah.
That's what it starts off of.
A grassroots love of the sunnah.
Three, four guys, they love a sunnah amongst
the community.
Then it moves on and then all of
a sudden now it's peer pressure.
Intention's not right.
It's not going to settle in your heart
if you do that.
Only do what you actually genuinely are doing
for the sake of the truth.
So now all of a sudden now we
have costume parties essentially.
We're all playing dress up.
What fakery is this?
Don't go for this fakery.
I think a lot of the aqidah stuff
is like that, right?
That's the only thing I can really...
That comes to mind.
This fad stuff.
It's unfortunate because of how important these topics
are.
But like everyone jumps on the bandwagon of
like, oh, refuting this group and this group.
And in the spiritual groups they get like
this too.
Oh, I went and I sat with so
-and-so.
I visited such and such a location.
I went to this place and that place.
And?
Right?
And what?
So what?
Go ahead.
Take care.
Oh, I spent three years in such and
such a place.
Haikam salam.
It doesn't mean you benefited.
There are people who live there.
What do you want me to do?
Wipe on you or something for barakah?
You have to keep an eye out on
this in religious circles.
It's a...
It's...
Trust your heart when it gets to the
application of these things.
And go to the place where you really
feel the sincerity amongst people.
No one's...
Everyone's just doing this for their benefit.
And there's no judgmentalism.
There's no competition.
Did you go here?
No, I never went there.
And I never even heard of the sheikh
you're talking about.
And look at their face.
They look at you.
Oh my gosh.
This, you're a nothing.
You are a nobody.
That is a patient.
That person in front of you is a
patient.
Maybe acting like a nurse or a doctor,
but it's a patient.
So what if you have no...
Haven't been somewhere?
This is only just to talk about...
To people who are in religious circles.
To purify these religious circles from fakery.
Hypocrisy.
I want to say hypocrisy.
I just say immaturity.
I would just say people get caught up
in fads.
They're not bad.
They just get caught up in it.
They just got immature about it.
It happens.
And maybe they're...
As we said, they're a patient on the
way to getting really good.
But on the way to getting really good,
there's some bad spots.
So I don't even pass a judgment on
those people.
I don't pass a judgment on the people
who pass a judgment.
I remember one time I went to a
conference.
Where a Shaykh went off on the people
who hate so much.
Right?
So I'm like, okay, but now aren't we
hating the people who hate?
Why don't we look with an eye of
compassion on the people who hate?
Right?
If hating on other Muslims is bad, then
why are we hating on the people who
hate?
Why don't we have compassion for them?
Maybe they got caught up.
Maybe they think what they're doing is so
right.
And it's so good.
And Wallahi, I see it in their faces.
I see a guy arguing with me nonsense.
And Wallahi, I see such sincerity in his
face.
There is a guy for 20 years.
He has been citing to me one hadith.
That's like all he knows.
Right?
He knows like five, six sayings.
And that's what he lives in Islam with.
Right?
He's got a toolbox of five things.
So when all you have is hammers, then
every problem he was a nail.
Right?
That's the only thing you could do.
I've seen this guy after 15 years and
he cited me the same hadith.
He gave the same little mini lecture that
he always gives to everybody.
Right?
And he's so wrong, by the way.
He's like maybe 50% right and 50
% wrong.
He's so sincere.
Right?
He is so sincere.
I never argue against him.
I just say, okay, whatever.
Right?
I say, okay.
And he's one of those who really you
can't debate him.
He's come so strong.
He's so emotionally attached to his opinion.
And I just leave him.
He's older than me.
He's got a white beard.
So I just change the subject.
And I enjoy his company when I'm stuck
with him at a wedding, at an event.
He's local.
I enjoy his company and we talk about
things.
And I love sitting with him because he
is khalas.
He's a sincere person which is on the
inside is on the outside.
And I pray Allah just forgives his mistakes.
He listened to two cassette tapes back in
the 90s and that's all he's upon.
Wallahi, that's all he's upon.
Those two cassette tapes.
And he lives his life like that.
What can you do?
Summary is don't forget yourself and don't lose
your common sense and trust your gut and
don't become somebody who gets lost in the
weeds and lost in the details.
Let's take a look at something else.
He says here Wa qala ata wa muhammad
ibn ka'b nazalat fil yahud We said
this.
Qala, oh this all of this was a
long tangent on the Yahud of Medina.
Why is Allah warning us about them?
And Allah tells us elsewhere explicitly they used
to make istiftah on the pagans.
They used to say we will conquer you
when we get our prophet.
Allah is telling us is this the right
way to use the truth?
Are you using the truth for tribal purposes?
You're using the truth for tribal purposes to
get old vendettas.
Is that the right way to use the
truth?
Is that a way to operate?
So why is Allah telling us this?
Because some people in Islam will do this.
Allah only tells us.
This is Abu Dharr al-Ghifari telling Muawiyah
ibn Abi Sufyan radiAllahu ta'ala anhum jami
'an Abu Dharr, Muawiyah and Abu Sufyan radiAllahu
ta'ala anhum jami'an All of them
are sahaba.
And they had a debate.
Abu Dharr and Muawiyah they had a debate.
And the evidence that Abu Dharr used was
what Allah said about the priests.
And the, Omar can you push that, pull
the light towards you?
The priests and the rabbis.
And the priests that used to take wealth
without haqq.
Without it being justified.
ladheena ya'kuluna amwala an-nasi bil-baltid
yakneezuna al-dhahaba wal-fidda Sayyidina Abu Dharr
said.
What was Muawiyah's response?
All right, Sayyidina Muawiyah said.
nazalat fil yahud wal nasara wahnu nahnu muslimoon
It came down, this verse is about Jews
and Christians.
And we're Muslims.
So therefore your evidence doesn't count against us.
It's not a proof.
Abu Dharr al-Ghifari replied back.
He said it was revealed to them to
teach us.
To avoid the same thing.
Avoid this hizbiyyah and only using the truth
to bludgeon.
You want to see why Shafi'i was
elevated?
Was it just because of his knowledge?
A lot of people have knowledge.
As Shafi'i, one of the things he
said is that I never entered a debate
with somebody except I wish the truth would
come off his tongue.
Because I know myself, I will submit to
it.
And we will be good.
But I don't know if I bring the
truth and he's on falsehood, if he'll be
stubborn about it.
Subhanallah.
Even wanting the good from his enemy.
Let's take an example of Imam al-Nawawi.
Imam al-Nawawi had very few possessions.
Amongst his possessions was his thobe and his
turban.
He had a very nice turban, a nice
cap and a nice turban.
One piece, like two pieces, but fixed.
So he was at the Nile River one
time making wudu.
So he put his turban on down on
the ground and he began making wudu.
At that moment, a man came, nabbed his
turban.
Back in the day, everyone wears turbans.
Even the thief wears a turban.
It was like a nice garment for them.
And he steals the turban.
Now he looks up.
He sees a man running from his turban.
He runs to him and he says, I
have gifted it to you.
And he runs after the man and says,
The man turns around and says, I've gifted
it to you.
Say, I accept.
So that you don't count as a thief
on the Day of Judgment.
And the man says, I accept.
And he ran off with the turban.
Because in fiqh, if I gifted it to
you and you know that, you're good.
But if you steal it and you don't
know I gifted it to you, you're a
thief in the sight of Allah.
And how do we know?
By saying, I accept.
By saying, now you know that you've accepted
a gift.
Man stealing from him, now he doesn't want
bad for him.
These people, such amazing examples.
That's why there's an athar.
Some attribute it back to the Prophet ﷺ.
Others say it's a weak hadith.
The ulama of my ummah, they're like the
prophets of the sons of Israel.
Meaning they fulfill that same purpose.
Like they show a great example of how
to practice the deen.
Does it mean that he is a prophet?
Of course, we know that.
But he fulfills that same function.
He shows them how to live according to
the revelation.
Summum bukmur umyum fahum la yurjiyum.
Blind, deaf, and dumb.
Here's a third, a second parable about the
hypocrites.
Aw ka sayyib.
Ka ashabi sayyib.
Wa hatha mafirun aakhir.
Another parable.
Darabahu Allah ta'ala almunafiqeen.
Bima'na aakhir.
In shi'ta mathil hum bil mustawqad.
Wa in shi'ta bi ahl al-sayyib.
And al-sayyib, uh, so basically there is
another example that you can give.
Bima'na yazidun wa sayyib al-matar.
Wa kullu ma nazala min al-ala ila
al-asfal.
Fahuwa sayyibun.
Man saba yasubu.
Right, so if you pour something, it's called
a sab.
Sababtu al-ma.
So ashabu al-sayyib are people under any
kind of precipitation that's coming down upon them.
Right, nazala min al-sama, aw ka sayyibin
min al-sama.
Ay nazala min al-sama, min al-sahab.
So people, imagine that, they're in a storm,
or they're in a heavy rainfall.
Qeela, hiya al-sama'u bi'ayniha, wa
al-sama'u kullu ma alaka fa adallak.
Uh, the word sama' has two meanings, a
specific and a general meaning.
The specific meaning of the sama' is the
sky, the clouds that you see in front
of you, above you.
And the general meaning is anything that covers
you.
So we can say the roof of this
room right now, the studio that we're in,
is our sama'.
It's anything that covers you.
Wa hiya min asma'i al-ajnaas yakoon
wahidan wa jama'an.
And it's one of those words that, uh,
it's the name of the jins, or the
category.
So it could be one, or it could
be plural.
Wa fihi ay fi al-sayyib, wa qeela
fi al-sama'i, ay fi al-sahabi.
Wa lithalika thakkaru wa qeela al-sama'u
thakkaru wa anathu.
So it could be masculine or feminine, al
-sama'.
Al-sama'u munfathirun bih, Allah says, describes,
tells us that here, al-sama' is masculine.
Al-sama'u munfathirun, not munfathiratun.
Wa idha al-sama'u infathirat, so al
-sama' tu thakkaru wa tu anathu.
It is masculine and it is feminine.
Mu'anath majazan, Umar is saying.
Shams wa al-qamar, yes, of course, mu
'anath majazan, yeah.
Jama'u dhulma, dhulumat wa ra't, aw qasayyibin
min al-sama'i fihi dhulumatun wa ra't.
So what are the darknesses and the thunder?
Wa barq and lightning.
All right, so let's see what this metaphor
is.
Wa huwa al-sawtu alladhi yusma'u min
al-sahab.
So dhulumat, darkness, ra't, thunder, barq, lightning.
Wa huwa al-naar allati takhruj minhu.
Qala aliyyu wa ibn abbasin wa aktharun mufassirin.
The companions Ali and Ibn Abbas and most
of the exegetes, the interpreters of the Quran
said, al-ra'du ismu malak yasuq al-sahab.
Ra'd is the name of an angel that
drives clouds.
Wa al-barq li ma'anu sawtin min
nur.
Barq is thunder.
Oh, sorry, lightning.
It's like a whip of light, al-barq.
Wa al-barq li ma'anu sawtin min
nur.
No, not sound, sawt.
Sawt with a sin, yeah, sawt.
Yasjuru bihi al-malak al-sahab.
He says here that lightning is the whip
that moves the clouds.
Wa qila tasbih al-malak.
And it is said it is the tasbih
of the angels.
I'm telling you something that was amazing.
It was a Laylat Jum'ah, a Thursday
night in Mecca al-Mukarramah.
And you know that Thursday, Laylat al-Jum
'ah in Mecca, that is one of the
most sacred times.
So I said, you know what, I'm going
to the Haram.
I'm going down, which means you have to
put on Ihram.
So I put on Ihram.
And one time I did Umrah so that
I can go down.
Because you know you can't go down on
the downstairs of the Haram unless you're in
Ihram.
The second time I said, Allah knows best,
I'm doing a jihad here.
I'm just going to wear my Ihram.
I'm not going to lie and say I'm
doing Umrah.
I am going to say I'm here on
Umrah, which is true.
The whole trip is Umrah.
But I have to take advantage of Laylat
al-Jum'ah.
In Mecca, I put on the Ihram, and
I went.
Nobody asked me anything.
So Alhamdulillah, I didn't even have to tell
a lie.
Of course, you know, there's a jihad on
that.
And if I was wrong about that, people
are wrong about that, and Allah forgive us.
But I think they're wrong.
I can't say that they're wrong to disallow
too many people, maybe, that they have their
own jihad for that.
So we're not going to blame anybody.
But I went.
And that last third of the night began
to rain.
Torrential downpours.
I'm telling you, this was one of the
most amazing nights.
All the entire last third of the night
was raining.
So most of the people cleared out.
Most of the people who may be affected
by the rain, they all left.
Only people remained are the people who don't
feel like they're going to get sick from
the rain.
And the clock tower attracts lightning, right?
Because of the metal there.
And it was lightning.
It was like a show.
And I felt almost like the clouds there
are almost like joining in the tasbih.
So here he's saying that one of them
said that the thunder and lightning is like
the tasbih of the angels.
Ar-ra'du notqul malak, wal-barqu dhahikuhu.
Wa qala mujahid ar-ra'du ismul malak.
Ra'd is the name of an angel.
Wa sawtuhu aydan ra'd.
The first one was sawt.
This is sawt.
So the things that they're saying, it's just
speculation of interpretations and speculations.
So, in
any event, that evening was so amazing.
Any of you who ever go to Umrah,
you cannot possibly miss two times.
Laylatul Jum'ah in Masjid Al-Haram, Dua
is Mustajab.
And when I say Laylatul Jum'ah, this
is what you do.
When Thursday comes around, stay put.
Go down for Zuhur, come back, rest, take
a nap.
Go down for Asr, come back, take another
nap, eat dinner, get totally rested and re
-nourished.
Right at the end of Asr, you go,
you get a nice coffee, or what we
end up getting addicted to there for the
week is Karak tea, right?
Karak chai, or whatever they call it, basically
more like sugar with chai.
But you get one of those, you get
your little handbag, and you go.
And you're staying there until Fajr.
Go there, stay till Fajr.
Whether you want to go out to Masjid
Aisha, put on your Ihram and go for
Umrah again, you can do that.
Madakiyah don't do that.
They don't do more than one Umrah in
a year, let alone in one trip.
But nonetheless, if you were to do that,
you could do that in other Madah, no
problem.
And then you make your Umrah, and you
stay in the Haram.
Go out, have a quick bite, come back,
start another Tawaf.
All night in Dua, all, believing 100%, this
Dua I'm saying right here is Mustajab.
Then you do different types of Ibadat.
Pray some Raka'as, do some Adhkar, recite
some Qur'an.
Maybe go out, buy some food, give some
Sadaqah to the people who are in need.
Go out, buy five hamburgers or something, or
whatever food that's being, or roasted chicken that's
always in Mecca, and give it out to
the Fuqara.
Hopefully your Dua will be answered when you
do that, right?
That is one of the best things to
do.
The best thing to do.
Yaj'aluna asabi'ahum fee adhanihim.
They put their hands in their ears, trying
to block out these sawa'iq.
So what is the metaphor now?
Tell us what the metaphor is.
Rui'an Salim ibn Abdullah ibn Umar.
Salim, son of Abdullah, son of Umar.
Narrates from his father.
So who's the speaker?
Abdullah ibn Umar.
An-na Rasulullah ﷺ kana idha sami'al
sawtul ra'di wal sawa'iq.
When the Prophet used to hear the sounds
of thunder, and he hears these claps.
What are they called?
Lightning claps?
What is it called?
Qala Allahumma la taqtunna bi ghadhabika wa la
tuhlikna bi adhabika wa aafina qabla dhaliq.
When he would hear the thunder claps, he
would say, O Allah, do not kill us
with your anger.
And do not destroy us with your punishment.
And forgive us before that.
Qawluhu hadhar al mawt.
Meaning the hypocrite puts his hands over his
ears afraid of death.
And Allah is all-encompassing of them.
That's what they say hadhar al mawt is
named for.
They say he's a person.
That he was such a vicious conqueror, they
nicknamed him mawt.
Yeah, nickname of a person, mawt.
Hadhar al mawt, mawt is here, he came.
Yeah, he came.
Hadhar al mawt.
Yeah, they say that that's one of the,
I have like three sentences in that.
On the origin of hadhar al mawt's name
in my PhD thesis.
It is, but I mean, I was like
22 when I wrote it.
My challenge, academic challenge was how fast can
I finish, right?
That was my academic challenge.
I really like, wasn't like excited about academics.
I was more excited about the challenge of
like, how can I finish?
So I finished high school in three years,
college in three years, master's in a year
and a half, PhD in three years, correction
six months.
So I got the PhD before my 27th
birthday.
That was my goal, right?
My goal, I wasn't really academically inclined.
I was like, this is like all theory.
This stuff is all theory, unless I'm going
to be a biologist or a doctor or
something like that.
But it was, my goal was to see
how much can I hack the system?
You know, not like illegally or not like
with cheating or anything, but so high school,
my, how do I challenge myself?
I'm like, I'm not really challenged.
My challenge was I went to the guidance
counselor.
She was such a nice woman.
And I said, I want to finish in
three years, right?
And she said, well, why?
Why don't you want to go to the
prom, senior?
I was like, I'm not into that stuff,
right?
And she said, well, what are you going
to do?
I said, I'm going to, I'm going to
Mecca University, Umul Qura University.
And at the time we had a friend
who was there.
And she said, what?
I said, yeah, I'm going to Mecca University.
She said, ah, that's amazing.
You know, she's being polite.
She probably thinks it's crazy.
But she was a very nice woman.
My town is all Italians, right?
It's just a nice Italian woman.
Yeah.
So she ends up helping me out.
And she said, well, what are you willing
to do?
I said, well, number one, I'm skipping lunch
from here on in.
So sophomore year, junior year, skipping lunch.
I'll take courses.
Summer between sophomore and junior, I take more
courses.
Okay.
And in exchange, put gym at the end.
So I'd go to gym every Friday.
Give me gym at the end of the
day.
She said, it's a deal, we'll do it.
And she did it.
So I took two or three courses in
the summertime.
Didn't take lunch.
That finished my, I completed the necessary courses
needed.
And was able to go finish high school
in three years.
Then at Rutgers, I did the same thing.
Choose a major real quick and never change.
Of course, I chose a nonsensical major.
Philosophy and religion.
Stuff you could listen to podcasts and learn
the same stuff.
I'm surprised my parents were so liberal with
me.
Shay Ajib, my dad said, all right, what's
the deal?
I said, the deal is I'll be a
professor out of college.
I got a PhD.
He said, all right, fine.
It's prestigious.
I'm sure, see, they didn't know any professors.
We did not know a single professor.
We were able to talk to anybody.
What's the life like, right?
And to be honest, I was like, I
did a little bit of bait and switch.
I said, I'll just tell him that.
And when time comes to have to be
a professor, I'll wiggle around it.
So I ended up, the deal was fine,
major, whatever, but you got to take a
PhD.
Said, all right, fine.
Now my bait and switch didn't work.
I coasted through college.
My friends got chemistry books this big, organic
chem, engineering, and then they're like actually learning
something.
And they're like, what are you reading?
Oh, Karl Marx.
I was like, oh, that Mexican guy?
I said, that's Che Guevara and he's not
Mexican, right?
I was like, you guys are ignorant, man.
You guys are the, and they're like, yeah,
we're ignorant, but we're going to get jobs
right out of college, right?
In any event, went on, did summer courses
every summer.
I did summer courses every summer and worked,
sometimes worked, and I worked menial jobs.
I wanted to feel what the blue collar
life is like.
Alhamdulillah, my friends, we didn't need the money.
So I worked, I worked frying chicken, pumping
gas.
I worked all the menial jobs.
I want to know what that street life
is like, right?
My friends will crack up, right?
When they know that I'm doing this stuff.
So then GW University, MA there, beautiful city.
Knocked that out also.
Classes, fall, spring, summer, right?
Classes.
Last, next semester, all I had to do
was take three classes and write my MA
thesis, which I did on Sayyid Muhammad Al
-Alawi Al-Maliki.
And I was able to spend the summer
with him there in Mecca.
So I ended up finishing that, then had
to wait a year.
No, no, I didn't wait a year, actually.
Right away, just wait a couple months.
February, land in England and start my PhD
there.
Three years there, come back.
So that half year, then three years after
that.
So three and a half years there, finished,
came back.
But they mailed me back that I need
to add a chapter.
So it's corrections.
They always give you corrections.
So that was the summer, came back, spent
the summer, didn't get here from them.
Then finally, end of the summer, I heard
from them.
They said, you need to add a chapter
to your thesis.
And then I went to Princeton Library, cranked
out another chapter, sent it to them, got
it back February, 2007.
So before my 27th birthday, I had the
PhD in my hand.
Here's the thing, because I didn't love it,
I wasn't into it.
I never went to the conferences.
I never went to any of these things.
I didn't like it.
I went to classes.
I went to duroos.
I studied with Mufti Barakatullah, Muwatta Imam Malik,
studied with Sheikh Babakar Bashu'aib, Riyad al
-Saliheen, studied with Sheikh Salik bin Sidna, Maliki
Fikr on the phone, studied with Sheikh Abdulrahman,
also Risalat ibn Abi Zaid, parts of it,
and the rest with Sheikh Salik bin Sidna.
Studied, oh, it was the, I attended dhikr
as much as I could with Sheikh Babakar
Bashu'aib, no, sorry, Babakar al-Sudani, Dala
'il al-Khayrat.
So, when it came time to hit the
job market, I didn't hit the ground running
because I didn't know anybody, and I don't,
I hate this.
So there's my bait and switch fails because
now I had to actually work as a
professor.
So then eventually just got some jobs, a
patched up bunch of job, teaching jobs in
Connecticut, had some connections, and even that did
well at that, well enough to get the
job at Yale, and eventually figured out that
this is like a glass ceiling.
They're never gonna bring, let a Muslim who
is openly Muslim rise up.
So I'm like, I'm done with this.
I did it.
I can say I fulfilled my word.
I'll be a professor.
I was a professor, right?
And I taught, not like a full professor,
just like contracts, just by contract, right?
There's no, the thing is so subjective.
Academia is so subjective, right?
If they don't like your face, if they
don't like your views, if they don't like
your anything, let's just go with the other
guy.
There's not like IT or engineering or something
that's more objective.
Then Alhamdulillah moved on and went straight into
Dawah and then never looked back, Alhamdulillah.
But that is essentially, and now you continue
studying.
COVID is a great ni'mah because all the
ulama now, they're very savvy with getting online.
And that's how I study multiple times a
week with the Shi'a and keep in
touch with them.
Let's continue on this.
Shayat al-Barqa yakhtafoo bsara wa ja'anoona
wasabiAAan fee azaanihim.
So what is the meaning now?
The thunder steals, what is the meaning of
thunder?
Steals their hearing.
Well, ayy alimun bihim, Allah knows.
Muhyitun bihim, Allah knows who are the hypocrites.
Someone asked, what are the hypocrites?
There are two types of hypocrites.
The first type of hypocrite is the person
that is a hypocrite in belief.
He actually does not believe in Islam at
all.
That's a munafiq.
He's Muslim for benefits, family benefits, other benefits.
The second is a hypocrite of his actions
and he's a believer, but it's a major
sin what he's doing.
Allah says, ya ayyuha alladhina aamanoo, O believers,
lima taqooloona ma la tafaroon.
Why do you do what you don't?
Why do you say what you don't do?
So he defined that hypocrisy as saying what
you don't do.
And excluded from that is saying what you
try to do and fail.
Keep that in mind.
Exiting out of the hypocrisy, not hypocrisy, is
oh, that is amazing.
Pictures that Omar's coming up with.
And just share it with the audience.
Let them see what you're doing here because
these are amazing thumbnails.
So saying what you try to do but
fail is not hypocrisy.
Saying what you have no intention of doing
and you do the opposite, that's hypocrisy.
And it's a major sin.
So hypocrite, we have to say munafiq of
actions or munafiq of beliefs.
This is the munafiq of belief and that
is they earn the lowest level of *
permanently forever.
They're not believers.
They have judgment.
They are worse than kafirs.
Kafir at least, he doesn't try to benefit
from us.
So allahumma hiyatum bil kafireen.
So Allah refers to them by what they're
categorized on the day of judgment and worse
than that.
On the inside, they're kafir.
Alimun bihim jami'un, jami'uhum yawman qiyamah.
Yajma'uhum fayu'adhibuhum.
He punishes them.
He gathers them all up.
Muhlikuhum, okay.
Al-ihata fil quran refers to punishment.
Ala illa an yuhata bikum.
Surah Yusuf, this is if you are destroyed,
okay.
Yakadul barqu ay yakrab yuqalu kada yaf'alu
idha qaruba walam yaf'al.
Yakadu is a word that means it came
close but it didn't do it.
Came close but it didn't happen.
Yakad, kada.
Kadul barqu, it's as if the thunder snatches,
or sorry, the, yeah, it snatches their eyesight.
Sorry, the lightning.
It's as if lightning snatches their eyesight.
Yakadul barqu yaqtafu abusarahum.
Wal khatfu huna istilab bisurah, nabbing something quickly.
Every time, kullama adha'alahum, mashaw feeh, wa
idha adlam alayhim, qamu.
All right.
Wakafu mutahayyireen.
Fallahu ta'ala shabbahuhum fee kufrihim wa nifaqihim
biqawmin kanu fee mafazatin fee laylatin mudhlimah.
Asabahum matrun fee ghurumatun.
Min sifatiha annassari layumkinuhu al mashu feeha.
So they're in a, such a dark storm,
you can't even walk in front of you.
You don't know what's in front of you.
Could be a hole, could be a rock.
You can't even walk.
Only when the lightning strikes, you can walk.
Okay, that is life in this world without
prophets.
Darkness.
Then revelation comes.
Now we can walk.
That is iman.
So their iman is likened to a thunderstorm.
Their heart is all darkness and there's only
moments that they have iman.
Moments that they have faith.
Asabahum ila adhanihim feeha.
The iman, they also fear it.
So they cover their ears.
Why?
Because they're afraid to be exposed.
It'll kill them.
It'll take away their secret.
Al matar, he says here, is al quran.
Okay.
The rain is the quran coming down.
Wadh zulumat ma fil qurani min dhikri al
kufri wal shirk.
Here's another interpretation of it.
The darkness is the description of the quran
of disbelief.
Wal ra'du ma khuwifu bihi minal wa'id.
The thunder are the threats.
Hu dhikru al naari wal barqu ma fihi
minal huda wal bayan wal wa'ad wadh
dhikru al jannah.
And the lightning is the promises.
Paradise and all these good things.
And these munafiqs, they cover their ears from
this.
Okay.
Because they fear that they would actually believe
it.
That they would actually end up being believed.
That's another example.
So we have two interpretations.
The first interpretation is that it's the darkness
of their heart and then every time, and
the iman in such hypocrites, it's like at
a moment.
Just it, that's a, you see, oh, a
flash of iman.
And that's it, it's gone again.
The other example is that it's the quran
and it's the promises and threats that they're
afraid.
All right, all right.
Let's stop here and let's take some Q
&A real quick before we wrap up for
the day.
And I forgot my iPad, so I'm gonna
read Q&A from my, from my phone.
Hats.
Is it, someone's asking, is it hypocrisy if
you forbid the evil and end up doing
it by a forced situation slash different?
No, it's not hypocrisy.
Hypocrisy is when you have no intent of
doing the, what you preach.
That's not hypocrisy.
Is narcissism like hypocrisy?
Narcissism may be something different from hypocrisy.
Hypocrisy, who knows, maybe there's a Venn diagram
overlap type of thing, but it's not impossible
for a believer to be a narcissist because
believers don't all have good qualities.
A believer by scripture and by reason can
have terrible qualities.
He's just not faking his religion.
He's open about his religion, his personal life
would be a mess elsewhere.
Does doubt invalidate wudu?
Doubt about what?
Having made wudu or having lost wudu?
In the Maliki Madhhab, both of them invalidate.
But in other Madhhabs, the doubt about making
wudu invalidates.
The doubt about losing wudu does not invalidate.
لأن اليقين لا يزول بالشك.
Should I do rapid fire?
Because there's a lot of questions.
Let's do rapid fire.
You do it.
There's a bunch of questions.
I have a question.
If a man or a woman chooses a
certain position in their favor in fiqh in
regards to marriage responsibility because they're influenced by
the West, are they sinful?
So I guess like liberalism makes you choose.
Repeat again.
Say it again.
The question is basically, so he's saying if
a man or a woman chooses a certain
position in their favor in fiqh in regards
to marriage responsibilities because they're influenced by the
West, are they sinful?
No, I mean, if you choose a valid
opinion that suits your life better and is
practical for your life, we can't say that
you're sinful for that.
We can only possibly say maybe your methodology
may slightly be needing improvement.
But if a person chooses a fiqh opinion
that is valid, because it suits his life
and it's more practical for the way that
he lives every single day, I can't say
that he's sinful.
He's choose something that is true.
It's just that that may or may not,
may be debatable as a method of doing
things, but that's it.
Debatable maximum as a good method or a
bad method.
But you are upon something that is one
of the four methods and that is truth.
What else do we want from people?
Explain to me, what else do you want
from people?
Right?
And it's what the ulema said is, kathratu
dhalika tashahi.
Too much of that now, you're eventually going
to fall into something wrong because you're giving
your nafs everything it wants, but where it's
wrong because it may lead to that.
In itself, it's not wrong.
I look at it like this, masajid, individuals,
regular people, if they're within one of the
four madhabs, what else do you want from
people?
Is it Allah gonna ask us in the
grave, did you stick to your faith?
Did you stick to your madhab properly?
So, and Allah knows best.
But it's not the way of the ulema.
The ulema only go to another madhab or
a lesser opinion within the madhab if there
is a mashakka, a hardship.
Not just an inconvenience.
Go ahead.
Someone's saying, what's the ruling on handing out
candy tonight?
Handing out candy tonight?
No, no, no.
I don't participate in it.
I just could tell you what I do.
I don't participate in any of it tonight.
I don't know what the neighborhood, funny, I
wonder what the neighborhood thinks.
I guess we leave the house, that's all.
We go to the masjid tonight, that's it.
Someone's saying that, he's talking about how some
people say crying in front of a woman
is like bleeding in front of a shark,
meaning that you should never open up to
your wife or she'll lose respect for you.
What's your opinion on this?
So like being emotional in front of your
wife is asking.
Listen, if you cry in front of your
wife and she loses respect for you, it
depends what you're crying about.
You crying because your mom died?
Or you're crying because of a weaker reason?
So we have to ask that question, yeah.
It could possibly be something that causes you
to lose your respect, right?
It could possibly be.
So you have to, it's not the crying,
it's the reason.
Does that make sense, Omar?
Yeah, I thought that much.
Yeah, this depends on the reason.
Crying because what?
Normal reason to cry, death in the family?
Nothing wrong with that.
Mm-hmm.
Is it permissible to drive without a license
if in order to go to the masjid?
Is it?
Is it?
It's like going to the masjid without a
license.
It's like driving there, you see.
No, your salah in the masjid is valid
if you drive to the masjid without a
license.
What kind of question is this?
They're asking about salah, like- Is it
permissible to drive without a license if in
order to go to the masjid?
Well, like I said, all these little civil
rules, what we have been told is that
if you break these civic laws, these basic
street laws, it's a minor sin, yeah.
Right?
And you actually could end up really harming
yourself if you have an accident with driving
without a license.
So that would be worse.
But it's not like your salah is going
to be invalid or something, no.
What is the difference between Zahiri Madhhab and
La Madhhabiyyah?
A Zahiri Madhhab is based upon Dawood Al
-Zahiri.
And he's a scholar who was a very
literalist in the law and did not accept
qiyas analogy.
As a result of that, they came with
some mudhiki rulings.
Some rulings that people always laugh at.
It's true.
And the Madhhab is dead, khalas.
You can't follow this Madhhab.
It does not have a living chain.
For those of us, the way we believe
in following fiqh is that the Madhhab has
to be absolute certainty that the imams made
those ijtihadat, right?
Absolute certainty.
How do we gain absolute certainty?
From a book?
No.
A book can have a scribe, can have
a mistake.
No, from a living chain.
It's absolute tawatur, right?
A living chain of hundreds upon thousands of
scholars from that school of thought who passed
on the school of thought from the previous
generation with a connected chain back to the
founder.
Because again, Madhhab, schools of thought, are based
upon judgment calls, on judgments and interpretations of
speculative texts.
Texts that could have multiple meanings.
So we only follow that which is with
absolute certainty that that imam made that ijtihadat.
So we need the living chain of transmission.
Okay, next.
Someone's asking, are bogeys impure?
No, all of what comes out of your
sinuses is tawhir.
It's not impure.
Being disgusted by something is different from being
tawhir.
And would Allah put najasa right above your,
you see kids, I noted this before, the
kids, it's actually good for their immune system.
Allah has given them runny noses all the
time and it's going straight in their mouth,
right?
And you see a kid playing, he's got
a runny nose, it's like he doesn't feel
it and he's actually, every few seconds, lick.
Takes a lick, right?
And it's sweet for him, you know that?
They like it.
And you're like, whoa, what?
This is because Allah Ta'ala, these are
not good.
What's coming out of your nose is not
good.
It's unhealthy, right?
I mean, it's not clean.
That's why the body's getting rid of it.
However, a little lick here and there strengthens
your immune system, right?
That's what a little lick here and there.
I can't live, sit next to the kid
24 hours a day wiping his nose.
Some kids are like this, nonstop, runny nose.
So every hour or something, go by.
Any of these kids that just use their
sleeve?
Okay, next question.
When is the next UK tour?
No, I don't know.
This year, inshallah, it's probably gonna be Guyana.
No guarantees, but it's likely to be Guyana,
inshallah Ta'ala.
If someone from the UK wanted to study
Arabic, where should they go?
You're in UK, Sharif, right?
What's the question?
If someone from the UK wanted to study
Arabic, where should they go?
You want to study Arabic?
From the UK, where should you go if
you want to study Arabic?
Maybe Misr.
Maybe Morocco.
Next question.
UK, you could study the whole curriculum probably
from your own neighborhood.
Birmingham.
In Birmingham.
Right?
In Birmingham, they say, yeah.
Okay, next one.
Shaykh, how do you treat Muslims who treat
any other Muslim that disagree with them on
little things, aka furu' as kuffar?
Yeah, that person's ignorant.
He's extremely ignorant.
If you elevate what is explicit and absolute,
the trunk of the tree, you elevate that
now to what is speculative and has possibilities
to interpretation, the branches of the tree.
Right?
We have to learn this.
That's what I mean by elevating our discourse
is very simple concepts.
Before you even ask what the opinion is,
ask if the whole question is absolute or
is it speculative?
Is it the trunk of the tree or
is it the branches of the tree?
Next question.
I'm a Muslim by faith and I wouldn't
be the only person without sin on the
Day of Judgment.
I thought all prophets don't sin.
Can you clarify this?
I don't know about this hadith, but Allah
knows best, so I would have to read
about it.
I can't tell you anything without knowledge.
I'm interviewing at med schools and making tons
of du'a.
How do I know if this is the
path for me?
I should continue to make the effort, apply
a second time if needed, or should I
move on to another path?
You continue to do istikhara.
Continue to do istikhara.
Of course, istikhara means that you have an
opinion.
I mean, you have a position.
You have taken a decision, and istikhara will
make the matter easier for you, inshallah, or
it will make it so difficult for you
that you can't do it.
That means Allah said you made the wrong
decision.
Next question.
Is a woman not wanting to have children
a valid grounds for a divorce?
Of course.
The whole purpose of marriage is, one of
the purposes of marriage, we can say, is
children.
So both of them.
How do we detach ourselves from the dunya?
How do you attach yourself from the dunya?
Look, think about death, go to visit graveyards.
Again, back to that question.
If a man or a woman don't want
to have children at all, so that is
a grounds for divorce because that is one
of the purposes of marriage.
Next.
How to not lose momentum in vikr and
du'a when the hardship ends?
How to not lose momentum in vikr and
du'a when the hardship ends?
Now you need to open a new door
of du'a.
Open a new door of du'a.
Open something else.
Think about other people, right?
Make du'a for other people.
Be grateful.
You now move to a different type of
ibadah.
I'm gonna help people now who had the
same hardship that I did.
I'm gonna help people, et cetera.
Okay, keep going.
Sheikh, which is the best option for kids
living in the USA?
Home school, Islamic school, or public school?
I can't say, but given a complete ideal
situation, it's gonna be between, it's gonna be
between the Islamic school and the home school
because the public school system right now, they're
teaching a lot of, they're LGBTs in the
curriculum, LGBTs in the air in these schools,
and it's getting wacky.
It's too wacky now.
Fine bone china, china made out of bone?
It's like a specific type of, you like
fine china dishes and stuff like that, right?
I don't know if that makes it, and
I just, what is it?
I don't know.
No, I think fine bone, is that a
type of?
China made out of bone and then you
eat on it.
Is that what it is?
Yeah, so if it's the bone of a
meita, would be najis, right?
So therefore, but then again, it's not sticking
on your food, right?
I don't know.
I don't know, to be honest with you.
Is sleep paralysis a sign of a person's
not, that a person doesn't have a good
connection with Allah and something to do with
his ibadah?
I don't know anything about sleep paralysis, to
tell you the truth.
I know some people would wanna go really
into it and say that it's a jinn,
but I can't really do that.
I thought certainty was not overruled by doubt,
or ruled by doubt, or is this Hanafi
only?
No, certainty is not overruled by doubt.
That's a qaeda.
However, the maliki have an exception because salah
is so important, you cannot have any doubt
about salah.
What is the ba'alwi wird?
Is it the same one as the one
on the Safinis?
Yes, those two awrads, that's how we start.
In your kalam video, you mentioned that there
can't be two gods which are aligned because
that would make them redundant.
Can you expand a little on why?
On why what?
Why there can't be two gods because that
would make them redundant.
Can't be two gods for two reasons, for
three reasons.
Number one, if they fought with each other,
then neither is all powerful, correct?
If they decided to split the creation, then
neither of them are needed.
If they decide to equally do everything together,
then they are both redundant.
And a wise, knowledgeable wisdom does not do
redundant things.
A wise god will not behave redundantly.
Is it wisdom if I say, Omar, turn
the lights on, fire up the stream?
It's already fired up.
So is it wisdom for Omar to make
a thumbnail after he's already made a thumbnail?
So it negates wisdom.
It negates, and clearly we see wisdom all
over creation.
So we have rationally deduced or induced that
the creator is wise.
He's full of knowledge.
Therefore, redundant behavior is not appropriate for him.
Make sense, Omar?
Yeah.
Do you have a recommendation for a word
to read on tarheeb and tarheeb?
I guess tarheeb is what they meant, and
tarheeb, for the fact that I met others
more too.
Tarheeb and tarheeb, which is, it's rewards and
punishments.
It's rewards and punishments.
So what is a good book in English
for reward and punishment?
I don't know, to be honest with you.
I don't know.
And then they continue, al-fadha'i al
-a'amal, especially salawat and the things happening
on yawm al-qiyamah.
The book al-fadha'i al-a'amal
is about good deeds.
What good deeds are there?
Uh, no, I don't know what, besides al
-fadha'i al-a'amal, what books are
there for that?
I asked this to Shaykh Iman.
He sent me some.
Okay, next.
Why do you think, who do you think
was the reviver of the deen for this
last century?
Well, the last people that they say are
the revivers of the deen, hmm.
Well, we definitely know that the centuries before
that you had Uthman ibn Fodio, Mujadid.
You had Shah Waliullah.
They say he was Mujadid.
That's a couple centuries back, yeah.
In the last century?
I don't know.
What do you think, Omar?
Huh?
No, this century now, but the previous.
Oh, you mean right now?
I would definitely just say, no, in our
circles, Habib Omar is definitely a Mujadid, because
he is, the people that he's reached and
the guidance he's given them.
SubhanAllah.
And it's funny because way back in the
day, you say Habib Omar, and nobody knows
who you're talking about.
But it just very slowly and consistently grew
and grew and grew, and many tribulations came
and he never succumbed to these political fitan
and things.
It's the same message, right?
It's the same message.
Keep going.
Yeah, there are many, many in the last
century that we can say out of Syria,
for sure.
Someone's asking, can you wish someone Merry Christmas
or Happy Diwali?
We don't do that.
It's from the, we don't do support in
any way, shape, and form beliefs that we
cannot accept in Islam.
So to congratulate somebody for it would essentially
be like saying, it's good what you're doing.
Likewise, we cannot celebrate and attend the celebrations
of such things.
Okay.
You know, it's funny.
I think it was my mom in the
morning.
She's like, oh, Diwali and Halloween at the
same time, double the Shayateen.
100% double.
No, not double because the Diwali brings far
more.
Halloween is like fake.
These people are like, you know, these Western
witches, they're fake.
They're weak in comparison to some of these
gurus and some of these, what are they
called?
What do they call their priests?
Like yogis or something?
They're savis, mambis.
I don't know what their priests are called.
Yeah.
But they're seriously into the jinn and the
Shayateen.
Next.
One more.
Let me get a good one.
Yankee fans out there commiserating.
Cannot believe what happened.
I don't know.
Ridiculous.
Fifth inning.
I like this one, I guess.
Is it permissible to give children?
Actually, no.
We already kind of touched upon this.
Trying to find a good one.
No spamming, by the way.
If you spam on her, you're gonna get
banned.
Is alchemy in principle?
Alchemy?
The process of transmutation.
We don't have that in the world today.
Changing the creation of Allah.
No, we don't have that in the world
today.
Okay, someone's asking, I asked Allah to punish
me if I'd done a particular sin again.
I did the sin and now I'm scared.
Does this mean I will now be punished?
Can I cancel this duha?
Cancel the duha.
Highlight it.
I'll try to.
There's nothing else I can do.
I asked Allah to punish me.
What?
O Jami, Ali, what's wrong with you?
I asked Allah to punish me if I'd
done a particular sin.
Firstly, I believe the invalid duha, but change
that.
You never know what could be.
Sa'at ijabah.
So inshallah, it will not count for you
based on pure ignorance.
But you should never make such a duha
again like that.
Go give some sadaqah to people.
Sadaqah to tootfi ughad of Allah.
I think this is a good question if
you want to take this last one.
Let's take this as the last one.
You said to focus on successful marriages.
What if those marriages are not actually successful,
but they just stuck with each other because
of families?
No, you're gonna talk to people about marriage
and give me advice because, you know, so
you talk to people.
A guy would talk to older guys.
Woman would talk to older women.
Give me tips.
And you see them miserable and say, nah,
I don't have anything good to say.
Then that's not the person who can advise
you.
Is marriage is something every day, every year,
every culture, every era, it has some particular
things to it that needs adjustment, that needs
us to learn, that needs something.
So where do we get this knowledge?
It's not gonna be in a book.
It's gonna be from people who are doing
it.
And the best source of knowledge for this
stuff, of course, there is the Sunnah and
the Sharia.
There's no doubt about that.
But in the particulars of our time and
place that were not in the books, it's
from people.
Talk to people.
Mentorship.
But you're obviously gonna look at you, see
somebody who isn't happy.
Obviously, they're not a good mentor.
Just like me, don't ask me about academia.
I'm not gonna say anything good.
I don't like it.
Is the work on the Muwatta of Imam
Malik by Shaykh Zakariya al-Kandahlawi a good
read?
I didn't read it, so I can't pass
a judgment.
Although all of I know about Shaykh Zakariya
al-Kandahlawi is good.
Sayyid Muhammad al-Alawi al-Maliki and his
father both had good things to say about
them.
And Habib Omar's father also, I believe that
he had some scholarly interactions, very positive, Shaykh
Zakariya al-Kandahlawi.
How long should we be consistent in our
dhikr until we increase it?
Your judgment.
Your judgment.
You have a baseline, and whatever you increase
after that is extra, rather than forcing yourself
to keep going up.
Speak privately about the punishment.
Send a message to info.sufinasaydah.org.
Speak private, send a private message there.
Ladies and gentlemen, we thank you all very
much.
By the way, sign up for the Chicago
Dar al-Salam winter intensive.
We're taking a whole bus.
We're taking a whole bus of Shabab.
And I'm speaking there on two days, for
two days, Saturday and Sunday.
So sign up, it'll be a great place
to see everybody.
Dar al-Salam in Chicago.
All right, Bashir Ali from Cape Town, I
don't know what's that in one of these
days, it's gonna be South Africa.
But I figured instead of crossing the entire
world this time around, I'll just go south
to Guyana.
Because last year was Australia.
Year before that was UK.
This year is gonna be, which is not
far.
This year will be, inshallah to Allah, it
will be Guyana.
So go up, you see that?
There it is, put the website.
Yeah, put it on and put it on.
And put the website too, masjidds.org slash
winter.
Everyone's going.
The course, what am I teaching even?
Is that what I'm teaching?
Even, oh, ever after, building a marriage that
lasts.
Wow, it's in the air, this marriage stuff.
It's crazy, I didn't even plan this, right?
Trip, the Cinco H lives in Chicago, so
I'll be seeing him there.
You know the Cinco H.
Hafiz Hussain.
Hafiz Hamza Hussain Al Hanafi Al Hyderabadi.
The Cinco H.
Say sage.
Shaykh, who's your favorite scholar in history?
Of course, you know that there's every, you
have to give me a list.
Let's like, they always ask this question.
If you're going to an island, which books
would you take?
All right.
Of course, one of those you can't finish,
so it will have to be, I will
have to say in Tafsir Al-Fakhr Al
-Razi.
Although the one I go to right away
is Al-Baghawi because it's brief, but not
too brief.
This is the whole Tafsir Al-Baghawi right
here.
And he covers everything.
He covers qiraat, he covers aqa'id, he
covers ahkam, he covers seer.
And then if it's, so in Tafsir Al
-Fakhr Al-Razi.
I didn't read that Tafsir.
And then I will say that for, by
the way, Fakhr Al-Razi does have some
things that he is unique in Ahlul Sunnah,
and the dominant Sunni position is not that.
He does have some of those things.
In fiqh, of course, our go-to in
fiqh, if you're on an island, you're not
gonna have many ahkam to worry about, but
in fiqh, of course, it's Hashayat Al-Dasuqi.
That's the go-to.
And then in Tasawwuf, and really, Kitab Al
-Shamil Likulli Shayt, is Ahya' Al-Umiddin, as
Suleiman Tariq has mentioned here.
No doubt about that.
In hadith, it's gonna be between Ibn Hajar
and Al-Nawawi, right?
In hadith, Ibn Hajar on Bukhari, Al-Nawawi
on Muslim.
And you could live in these books.
And then I would go, honestly, if you
really want, if you're on an island, honestly,
Seer A'lam An-Nubala, because of the
amount of stories in there about scholars.
Seer A'lam An-Nubala, no one usually
says that.
But if I'm on an island all alone,
you wanna read stories all the time, stories
of the scholars and stories of the Awliya.
And this summer, this Ramadan, inshallah ta'ala,
it's gonna be a series on the Awliya.
And we use Seer A'lam An-Nubala
for a lot of them.
And we use the books of Ibn Al
-Jawzi for a lot of them.
Florida, Yasmin, yeah, it is hot.
You don't know what day it is these
days in the weather.
It's changing so crazy.
One day it's cold, one day it's hot.
So you start wondering if the global warming
is taking an effect.
I gotta take this phone call.
Jazakumullah khairan, everybody.
Subhanakallah, bihamdik, nashhadu an la ilaha illa anta,
nastaghfiruk, wa natubu ilayk, wa al-asr, inna
al-insana, la fee khusr, illa allatheena, amin,
wa amin ash-salahatu, wa tawassu bil-haqq,
wa tawassu bil-sabr, wassalamu alaykum.
Allah.
Ya Allah, Hu Allah.
Kalb-e-shi'a, bayan Allah.