Shadee Elmasry – When Kids Fight – NBF 389
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The importance of fulfilling obligations and not being sad at the end of a day is emphasized in the conversation. Un fulfillment and not being sad at the end of a day are also emphasized. The Sharia is viewed as the basic living, the livelihood, and protection, and it is crucial for children to be judge. The success of raising children and the importance of socializing them is emphasized, along with the success of hiring companies and giving money to companies. The success of raising children and the importance of socializing them is also emphasized.
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Hey, Omar, whatever happened to our guy on
the ground there?
We haven't heard from him in a long
time, so I wonder, is he still available?
Has he been killed?
Who knows?
Allah knows best what happens to people.
He literally just disappeared.
A couple of people disappeared from, but he
literally disappeared, so we need to find out
where he is, and Omar, if you can
look this up, because Omar knows him.
We raised 104,000 British pounds, and we're
almost up to 105,000 British pounds, and
this is over a year now.
Maybe around a year now we've been doing
this.
All right, let's go to the full screen,
Omar.
I will be doing, inshallah, a book club.
It will be a talk on October 25th
at the Bassing Ridge Masjid.
I'm looking forward to going to ISBR.
You know, SPQR is the old Roman thingy,
but anyway, sometimes I call it SPQR, but
it's ISBR.
I'm looking forward to go to ISBR on
October 25th, Bassing Ridge Masjid.
I'm going to give a general talk.
Me and Naz are going to give a
general talk about this.
We'll have a discussion, and then on three
Tuesdays, we're going to read the whole book
and have a book club type of thing
going on.
We encourage people to do this with this
book, because it's really, really good.
The way he does it, it's easy to
read, because he starts with stories, pop culture
stories.
Probably there's even some anime in here, if
we know Naz, right?
He, like some other people, used to watch
these thousands of hours, but I'm very much
looking forward to meeting the Bassing Ridge community.
Their good friend of mine is now their
imam, alhamdulillah, and it's going to be a
very nice evening, bismillahirrahmanirrahim, or nice set of
evenings talking about the problem of evil and
how Naz transforms this problem.
The Quran really transforms evil into something that
we can accept, and evil, even, what is
evil?
We don't suffer evil.
Muslims do not suffer evil.
Why is that?
Because the definition of evil is pain that
does not lead to our fulfillment, growth, fruition,
etc., and benefit.
And no Muslim believes that pain is like
that.
Every pain that we suffer does lead.
It does lead to our future benefit.
So we tolerate pain, we don't like it,
we may whine and complain, but we're not
having an existential crisis because there's pain, right?
And pain in the world does not negate
a creator at all, because the creator can
create pain.
That's not an issue.
That doesn't negate the fact that there's a
creator.
The fact that complexity exists in the world
and variety and order is the indicator that
we have a single, living, willful, knowledgeable creator.
Pain now just needs an explanation.
So that's why we need revelation.
This is one of these things.
The problem is trying to explain pain solely
by the mind.
Can you tell us about the soul?
Solely by your mind?
You can't say anything about your soul.
Science and philosophy cannot tell us the nature
of the soul.
How did we get it?
What happens after death?
Where was humanity before life on this earth,
if anything?
What's the purpose of life?
Likewise, what's the purpose of pain?
So we don't know the purpose of life
without revelation.
You're not going to know the purpose and
the function of pain, which is like within
the subset of life.
Speaking of pain, I'd like to begin now
with a dua for Shaban al-Dalu.
If I pronounce his name properly, his is
the picture and there's a reason Allah chose
this young man for his picture in a
gruesome, gruesome attack by the perpetrators of our
modern Holocaust.
And that is definitely the Palestinian Holocaust, nothing
less than that.
And they're the perpetrators.
So never again meant on the receiving side,
not on the giving side for them.
They're now perpetrated one of the most gruesome
attacks that has ever been recorded on camera
to see a little hospital tent.
And then they're going to lie, tell lies
and claim that there were weapons there, right?
So that's what they're lying and claiming.
And that's how they're going to soothe their
conscience.
The German politician that we saw, I think
she was like a foreign minister, some American
congressman, of course, they're paid by AIPAC to
just talk and they're calming, they're soothing their
conscience by saying there were weapons there.
Hamas had weapons there, which is completely unsubstantiated.
And even if it was substantiated, that doesn't
justify what they did, which was firebombing a
tent hospital.
And ultimately you had people who couldn't walk,
couldn't run for their lives, literally being burned
alive.
And people say, what do the Palestinians do?
They can't fight back.
They have nothing to fight back with.
Their way to fight back is to show
the world what's happening.
So someone was showing, was video recording the
tent bombing when suddenly they saw someone in
a bed connected to an IV trying to
move.
And it was not a huge refugee camp.
So they could easily identify, and they did
identify, that his name was Shaban Adelu.
Resisting all evil is saying soothing their conscience.
They have no conscience anymore, that's true.
And this is why it's gone all over
the place.
This is the young man.
He is a medical student, I believe they
said he was.
Or he was also a Hafiz of Quran,
a very pious young man.
And he had regular hobbies like everyone else.
At some point in time, he played the
guitar.
He was 19 years old, just born basically.
Just starting his life out, and Allah gave
him something better, shahada.
Will not answer to one question.
That's in our shaheed al dunya, that we
could judge from the matters of the dunya,
and Allah Ta'ala will judge the akhira.
But provided that a believer, a person is
a believer, not a munafiq, and they die
this death, we are permitted to believe firmly
he's a shaheed.
Someone who memorizes the Quran, someone who prays,
and is a Muslim, we firmly believe that.
It's not something that we are shy away
from saying.
And Prophet ﷺ said, someone who dies in
a fire, counts as one of the martyrs.
The fire will not touch a believer twice.
That's the rule.
The fire does not touch a believer twice.
You get burnt in this life, you won't
be burnt in the next life.
Bismillah al rahman al raheem, alhamdulillah, wa salatu
wa salamu ala rasulullah, wa ala alihi wa
sahbihi, wa man wala nas'alullah al azeem,
nas'alullah al azeem, al kareem, al rahman
al raheem, an yarham hadha al shab, wa
jamee' shahada ahl ghaza, wa an yudikhilahum al
jannata bi ghayri hisaab, huwa wa jamee' ahl
ghaza, wa ahl filistin wa lubnaan, as'alullah
ta'ala an yuwasi' qabrahum, yuwasi' mudkhalahum, wa
yukhsilhum bil maa'i wal thalji wal barad,
wa yaruzukhum hayatan tayyibatan fi quburihim, wa yajma
'ahum bi ahlihim fi jannat al firdaus, wa
an yudikhilahum al janna bi ghayri hisaab, wa
laa munaqasha, wa an yaj'alahum shufaa'a
li ahlihim.
We ask Allah to make them intercessors for
their family that lived, so that none of
them, all of them enter Jannah without any
hisaab, not being taken into account for anything.
We ask Allah ta'ala to judge them
by the best of their deeds, and overlook
all of their mistakes, and ask Allah ta
'ala to make all this suffering a purification
for all their mistakes, and for all those
living, who may even have it harder than
those who have passed away, we ask Allah
to grant them sabr, and put in their
heart the knowledge that suffering is going to
be rewarded for them, will be rewarded for
them with Jannah, Jannat al Firdaus, in which
they'll be unified with their families, with their
parents, and will not taste one more moment
of hardship.
We ask Allah ta'ala to give them
a taste of Jannah that will make them
forget all of this hardship.
Wa sallallahu barak ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala
alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam.
So this is, let's read a little bit
about the bombing of Al-Aqsa, Al-Aqsa
Hospital.
Deer al-Balah, Ghazab, Amani Maldi, still can't
believe she and her family survived the bombing
that hit Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the
middle of the night, in the open space
where the attack on displaced people's tents took
place early on Monday.
The smell of smoke prevails, burned cans, food
scattered on the ground among charred blankets and
clothes.
And I told you that I'm on these
telegram chats where journalists are sharing like live
footage on the spot, and one of them,
you're not going to believe, there was like
a half body.
There was the top only of the body,
and they had to cover it because of
how gruesome it was.
People wandered back and forth.
Most of them used to live in tents,
and they're trying to find anything left behind
by the blaze that destroyed their flimsy homes.
Bodies on fire as they ran.
The attack tore through the makeshift camp set
up by displaced people in the hospital courtyards,
killing at least four people and injuring at
least 40.
It was 1.10 a.m. when a
massive explosion shook everything, said Maldi or Mehdi,
I don't know, a 37-year-old mother
of six, recalls as she sits in the
remains of her burned tent.
I looked out and saw flames devouring the
tents next to ours.
My husband and I carried the kids and
ran towards the emergency building.
At the entrance, I saw my five-year
-old son screaming and bleeding.
I took him to the doctors to discover
that he had shrapnel in his stomach, and
there she shows a picture of her baby
with red dots all over his stomach of
injuries and wounds.
She then says the doctors were able to
bandage him up but had to leave the
shrapnel where it had hit him, explaining to
Maldi that it would require delicate surgery to
remove, a surgery that is not possible given
the badly damaged medical sector.
Many Palestinians displaced multiple times end up at
schools and hospitals setting up tents again and
again using whatever materials they can find, clustering
close together due to a lack of space.
Israel's bombs spread fire through the crowd tents
within minutes as civil defense workers struggled to
put it out with what limited capabilities they
had.
Women and children, men as well, were running
away from the spreading fire, screaming.
Some of them were on fire as they
ran.
Their bodies were on fire while they were
running.
Some of them were able to put it
out and some of them were consumed by
the fire.
Where are we supposed to go?
The winter is coming.
Is there no one to stop this holocaust
against us?
Her tent was next to Jamalat Wadi's tent,
another woman, which was practically at the center
of the bombing.
She's 43 years old.
It was a miracle that we survived, me
and my seven daughters.
I woke them up screaming as our flaming
tent was falling on our heads.
My neighbor, her son and her husband were
burned to death.
A woman's son and husband burned to death.
No one could save them.
Like many others, she was forced to flee
numerous times, starting in Shuja'iyah, then Tarrafah,
then Nusayrat, then Khan Yunis, then Aqsa hospital.
Now we're on the streets again.
I'm not staying here after this.
Nowhere is safe.
Hospitals and schools are at the forefront of
Israeli targeting.
Meha al-Sarsak, she's 17 years old.
She lives in a tent adjacent to the
ones that burnt.
Get some of the pictures from aljazeera.com.
Just go to the home page and you'll
see the pictures there so people could see
what we're talking about.
And the first story that you'll see there,
click on that, yeah, click, go to the
story that says there, our neighbor is bombing,
yeah, and click those pictures.
Her family's tent was not affected, but she
witnessed the first moments of the explosion.
She says she's walking through carnage left behind
by the bombing, crying.
And she said as she was walking, she
witnessed a leg fell down from the ground,
fell down from above onto the ground.
After the hospital grounds were targeted, she stopped
sleeping at night, fear of an Israeli bombing.
She just said, I was awake, but I
feared happened for the seventh time.
In other words, for the seventh time, she
was sleeping somewhere and that place got bombed.
I screamed for my mother and my eight
siblings and we ran out towards the hospital
building.
I saw our neighbor, Umm Shaaban, which is
Alaa al-Dalu, the mother, I guess.
She's 37 years old, completely burned and her
body charred along with her son, Shaaban.
Alaa, which is Umm Shaaban, and her son
Shaaban, both of them completely burned and charred.
When they were moving the victims from there,
I saw a leg fall to the ground.
She cried.
They said the South is safe, but there
is no safety.
People were burned alive and we spent a
very terrifying night not knowing what would be
bombed next.
Every time the hospitals targeted, we're terrified, but
last night was the worst.
The fire ate the tents and the people's
bodies in moments.
All we could do is call out for
God's mercy.
Israel is now painted itself as the antagonist
in a new chapter of history.
That's how we can see things.
No matter what it succeeds to do in
terms of taking land, transforming, taking all of
Gaza, transform, whatever it is, it is now
the evil empire and it's the antagonist in
a new chapter of history.
That chapter cannot ever be closed until a
resolution occurs, as in any story, and that
resolution must entail justice and it must entail
the downfall of the antagonist and it must
entail the success and the triumph of the
protagonist, the victims here, the Palestinian people.
And if it's not going to be one
generation, it'll be the next generation.
It doesn't have to happen in one set
of 10 years or five years, but no
different than how the Nazis became the antagonist
of that chapter of history.
Going in and doing things, I think universally
we can agree, had to be stopped.
That chapter in history could not come to
an end unless the Nazis suffered and collapsed
and were brought to their knees and were
finished.
Nazism and Zionism essentially are a form of
racism and superiority, ethnic superiority.
There's no, what is the difference between the
two?
One group is telling us this is their
land because of their racial superiority and because
they are who they are and God gave
them the land, et cetera.
The other group was saying we're blonde hair
and blue eyes are superior race.
Do you see a difference?
One group said, do you get causing all
of our problems?
Let's remove you from the country with a
final solution.
And these guys are saying no different, except
they just haven't worded it as a final
solution.
Although that's what it is.
And that's what they're doing.
The chapter in history cannot end without a
resolution.
Like you don't just smoothen over all these,
this level of misdeeds at a global scale.
It doesn't smooth over.
It's never going to go over.
So New York Times today saying why we
should root for Israel to win and why
we want Israel to win.
You have already lost.
You may gain land.
You may succeed in advancing yourself as the
evil empire, but make no mistake, the world
is the audience and the world has determined
that you are the antagonist of this new
chapter in history.
A story cannot end without a resolution.
The human being just doesn't live like this.
You do an oppression and it just continues.
The only way it continues is if you
were to wipe away everybody altogether, the way
the Australians, the Canadians and the Americans did.
But at that time, there wasn't a global
audience.
So you could actually get away with it.
And by the time the world's figured out
what you're doing, there are no Native Americans
left except for a handful and you give
them a day.
You start putting them on coins.
You start giving them statues and you start
honoring them before public speeches because it's all
over now.
They're not bothering you anymore.
But this is not the case.
This is not the case because by making
as Elon Musk, when he was saying before
he went and got spanked by Netanyahu in
Israel and was made to go to detention,
which is a tour of Auschwitz with Ben
Shapiro, he was talking common sense.
And he was saying, let's just look at
this logically.
For every time you go after Hamas, if
you, for every one person you kill, you
create two people who hate you.
When the ratio is probably more like one
to a thousand is that Palestinians are not
one small group of people.
All the Arabs are watching.
Now the whole world is watching.
The whole world is watching this.
I go and I see British soccer guys
who all they've poked posts about is British
football.
They're like the most outspoken people on Twitter.
Like they can't stand what they're seeing.
I'm seeing Irish people, Korean people have no
business ethnically at least or religiously with Palestinians
or Muslims.
They're just as humans.
So unlike Australia, unlike what Americans did to
Native Americans and unlike what the Canadians did,
there's no going back from this.
Whereas the Canadian, those three countries, there were,
there was not a global audience to say,
hey, what about this?
How does this end?
So they were, and they were able, that's
number one.
Number two, they were able to completely erase
those people until they're only a handful of
insignificant minority that can't do anything.
You're not doing this in Palestine.
You're not eliminating all the Arabs.
You're not eliminating all the Muslims.
So where are you going with this war?
The hatred that exists in people for you
has multiplied beyond what they say, what is
the mathematical term they say, whatever it is.
It's, it's got, it's not going like this.
It's going like this.
You're not going to last on the earth
when a, when billions of people hate you.
They, you may have power over them now.
And why do I say it like this?
Because in our understanding of Sayyidina Yusuf was
we establish him.
What does it mean when Allah says he
establishes a people on the earth?
It means the people of the earth love
him and whatever institutions they run, they establish
them in that institution.
They give them positions.
They protect them.
Establishment on the earth has nothing to do
with money and buildings and armies.
It has to do with the hearts of
the people of the earth.
Eventually those, that money, those armies, those countries,
those buildings will be inherited by people who
hate you.
That's exactly the meaning of being established on
the earth.
So Elon Musk in that quote was probably
the most sensible thing.
He was saying, have you succeeded if all
you're doing is creating more people who hate
you?
And I think it was another Lebanese, another
influencer who is not beyond, and he's a
philosopher and he's an investor.
And he oftentimes has these, you know, you
can either love or hate his attitude, but
when it comes to the past 12 months,
he's been amazing.
Nassim Taleb, Nicholas Nassim Taleb.
He's Lebanese, although he calls himself Phoenician, whatever
the heck is the difference, right?
I guess it's a cooler term if he
likes that.
And he says, so what is the solution
here?
You kill a Hamas member, that Hamas member
has a family.
So now I'm hated by more people.
Okay, the solution, let's kill them.
Okay, but now all the Arabs are watching
you kill innocent people because even if someone
is from the mafia or from Hamas, their
wife and kids are not to blame in
common sense, maybe in the Jewish law, that's
one thing, but commonsensically says, no, they're not
to blame.
So now all the Arabs hate you.
Now what's the solution here?
I know, sorry, this wasn't Nassim Taleb.
This was the comedian, the Egyptian comedian, I
forget his name, Bassem Yusuf.
And he says, so what are you going
to do with them?
Kill all the Arabs then.
Well, then now all the liberals are watching
throughout the world.
Anyone with a heart, anyone with a soft
heart is watching all this.
What are you going to do with them?
I don't know where they're going with this.
No matter how much land they take and
who they kill, they have lost because they're
now the antagonists on the global stage.
And the story cannot, humanity, the human beings,
their hearts will not allow for this to
end until we see the downfall of the
antagonists.
That's the nature of all stories.
Movie makers can try to make movies that
are different, but that's not going to change
anything of the reality of human beings.
We have to see some closure, right?
We have to see some closure and, or
really victory, justice needs to be seen.
Somebody said, well, Arab leaders, they're inactive.
They're not just inactive and passive as I
commented on them, they're complicit.
So we have to ask the question, what
have we done as an Ummah that Allah
Ta'ala has elevated over us and given
absolute control to do whatever they want with
us?
Such a vicious and merciless and nasty cowardly
enemy.
Well, I'll tell you what, here's another way
to look at it.
If a Muslim dies, having never repented from
his sins, this person will be purified in
the next life.
In what?
In *.
And Allah Ta'ala has established angels called
Zabaniya that punish.
They punish.
They punish the believers.
Some ulama have said, and I haven't really
seen this, but I don't know what the
source is, but they say that those angels
have no eyes, no noses, and no ears.
Because if they saw or smelled or heard
the torture, the natural mercy that's in everything
would come out and they wouldn't do the
job.
And Allah knows best if that's true or
not.
I'm just telling you something I heard.
Point being, though, Allah has created creatures who
will punish believers so severely it's called *.
That's in the next life.
And it will be for a long time
and it will be far worse than anything
that exists in this life.
And Allah Ta'ala, when pain comes down
on believers, it comes through people and it's
for a wisdom.
It's for a reason.
You cannot enjoy paradise if sins are blocking
your sense, your soul.
Just like if I have a film over
my tongue, I can't taste food.
I need to be purified and cleansed so
I can enjoy the food.
Likewise, the human soul, when it's covered in
darkness and sins, it cannot enjoy paradise.
You put those sins there yourself.
You could have repented in this world.
You could have made pilgrimage or hajj or
just repented with your heart and change your
ways.
You didn't do that.
Terrible things happen in life.
Sicknesses, debt, loss of money, fights with people,
really bad experiences could have happened to you.
That would have purified you.
Moment of death is so scary for some
people.
That's their purification.
In the grave is another location to be
purified.
There's a long expanse of time in the
grave such that a person may enter with
a whole bunch of sins.
And by the time he's resurrected, he's purified
of those sins because of the suffering that
existed in the grave.
The world is called the Barzakh, which is
soul and no body.
Then you're resurrected again and you're given a
body and that experience may be so painful
and shocking to people that it's also a
source of purification.
So that's location number four.
Number five is the planes of the resurrection.
The very planes of the resurrection, your sins
take a physical form and they chase you
and they scare you and you get purified
with that fear and you're lost and you
don't know where you're going.
Resurrection is not like I'm resurrected online to
be judged.
No, it's a world.
It's a whole planet.
Which means the earth does not even look
like the earth anymore.
The earth that we will be resurrected from,
where we're buried or where we're standing right
now, will look so different you won't even
recognize it.
It will not have a single tree, valley,
hill, ocean, lake or stream.
It'll just be as if it's a straight
up desert.
And in the sky you will see your
sins chasing you and on the ground you
will see your sins chasing you, given a
physical form, anthropomorphized, given a physical form.
And that will be a type of purification
for some people and it's a precursor for
their torture.
And that may come to an end.
Then all of your sins at that point
maybe will have come to an end.
But some people have so many major sins
and they've never repented from it.
That's the key.
They've never repented.
So their sins, it's like gunk on the
soul.
Sickness didn't do enough.
Punishment in the grave didn't do enough.
Resurrection didn't do enough.
So now they must be purified in the
* fire.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala cares for the
purification of those who do the most important
deed, which is they believe in him.
After someone believes in Allah and his messenger,
they still may end up doing terrible, terrible
things.
Yet Allah cares enough about them just for
their belief, to purify them.
You are blocking your soul from enjoying paradise
and Allah wants you to enjoy paradise.
So he must remove it from you and
you keep running away from him.
So we even hold something far worse than
the Israelis.
The Zabaniyya will apply far worse punishment, except
the Zabaniyya themselves are not bad, they're angels.
But what they're doing to people who go
to Jahannam of the Muslims, of the believers
and the believers of all past nations included,
the levels of heaven are seven.
The top one is for people who are
believers.
Their core essence belief, they did the most
important thing, they submitted to God and his
prophet.
After that though, they live terrible lives.
So they can't enter paradise with that.
They won't enjoy it if they did.
Now they need to be purified.
So they get put into this level of
* called Jahannam.
It's the least of all punishment and it's
the worst punishment such that if a person
was to stick a finger in it, they
would not remember any pleasure in this life.
Hadith said the prophet said that a man
will be brought forth who has the most
pleasure in the entire creation.
Who is that person?
Allah knows best.
But Allah knows there is an individual, this
person was given the most greatest amount of
pleasure in this life.
He lived a long life, he had very
few problems and he had a lot of
pleasures.
Then Allah commands him and says, put just
the tip of your index finger in *.
And he does so and he pulls it
right out.
Then Allah asks him, what did you enjoy
in this life?
He said, I can't even remember anything of
this life.
I never enjoyed anything in my life.
This was the worst pain I've ever experienced.
I would have traded all of it just
not to have that one piece of pain.
And so it shouldn't surprise us that Allah
has elevated over us such an enemy as
Israel, as the Zionists, as the Americans who
are now sending troops by the way.
Open up the New York Times, Omar, will
you?
Paywall.
All right, I'll open up mine and we'll
get that.
The United States is now sending troops and
our congressmen and all of our pundits and
all of these, the British and every newspaper
run by Rupert Murdoch and all of these
terrible human beings.
The only difference is that these torturers of
ours, and I say ours not because we've
been tortured personally, anyone here or even the
viewers, but we are one ummah.
These torturers of ours, they themselves will go
to *.
Unlike the Zabaniya that are working for Allah
as angels of *.
But the result is the same.
So this is how we view our pain
here.
All of our suffering here.
The Prophet said, my ummah, this purification occurs
in this life before the next.
One of the gifts that Allah has given
his Prophet is to pour all of the
purification in this life so that when they
come on the day of judgment, no Muslim
goes to *.
And Jahannam will be for perhaps the believing
people of previous nations.
So the Prophet, his nation is from when
he came until the end of time.
Before that, they're the nations of other Prophets
based on the localities and which Prophet came
to them.
So you may have perhaps the believers from
the time of Moses, from Moses all the
way to Prophet Dawud Alayhis Salaam, from Prophet
Dawud to Prophet Isa bin Maryam Alayhis Salaam.
And really all of those are the ummah
of Moses.
But the gift that Allah has given our
ummah, we have to keep in mind Allah
cares for the scoreboard of the next life,
not of this life.
It doesn't affect Allah Ta'ala one bit,
the fact that the Zionists and their evangelical
friends in the U.S. who are fools
because according to the Talmud, Jesus is being
punished right now as we speak in a
vat of boiling feces.
And yet these are the people they chose
to side with.
And they've been brainwashed that you have to
love the nation state of Israel.
Nation state is something that didn't even exist
in the time of when these scriptures that
they're quoting.
But those people think that they're winning and
succeeding and they're enjoying and they're happy and
they're laughing and they're saying I'm going to
get a beach house in Gaza, I'm going
to get a beachfront property and they're laughing
and enjoying this stuff.
Allah does not care.
It's irrelevant.
You know what it's like?
I got a kid of mine studying for
the SAT.
Every Saturday I call him in and said
there's no plane outside with your friends, you
sit and study.
And he's studying and he doesn't like it
but he's got to study.
I'm making him study.
And those kids ride their bikes, pass by
and they make fun of him.
And they send text messages to him with
all their partying and all their happiness.
And you, what are you doing?
You're missing out.
And he feels like he's truly missing out.
But why do I inflict that upon him?
Because I know for sure I've lived and
I've seen and as every parent has, this
is what's going to benefit you.
Then you're going to go and get an
SAT and get a good score and have
a good life after that.
Whereas those kids, it's going to be the
opposite.
That's the case with all the cool kids
that you parents didn't let you play with
when you were young.
Fast forward 15 years and there was a
kid that was like that in our school.
This was the coolest cat in the grade.
Everyone wanted to hang around him.
I happened to look him up after 20
years just out of curiosity.
It's pretty sad what I saw but it
was like just like the movies.
Just like Back to the Future where the
bully ends up being like a driver or
something to the one he bullied.
He wasn't even a bully.
He was just a cool kid.
He was a nice guy.
But he was always having fun.
He was always doing something neat.
And he ended up, I don't want to
say the job that he has so that
no one gets offended, but it's definitely not
what he would have panned out for himself.
And his appearance has, I don't know what,
he's depressed or what.
But this is what happens.
Every parent does this to their child.
Likewise Allah purifies us.
And he could care, have no concern whatsoever
for this dunya and the victory scoreboard of
the victory chants and the mockery of the
kuffar over the mu'mineen and their imagination that
they've won anything.
Doesn't weigh with Allah Ta'ala even the
weight of the wing of a gnat.
And that's what the Prophet ﷺ said about
the entire dunya.
All of the laughter and happiness and think
that they've won of the pharaoh, of every
enemy that's existed, every bad person, Nimrod, all
of these people that inflicted pain upon Allah's
people on the earth from the time of
Adam all the way until the end of
time.
It is not something that weighs with Allah
even a gnat's wing.
And hence we may be boiling on the
inside and that is considered.
The Quran itself says, the battle of Badr,
the hearts of the believers were boiling from
being tortured, punished, expelled from their homes by
these arrogant pagan worshipping Meccans.
And then Allah gave them a gift.
It was the battle of Badr in which
they were mowed down all of them.
And some of them made to live so
they can go home and tell the story
and then die there like Abu Lahab.
And Allah says about that, وَيَشْفِي صُدُورَ قَوْمٍ
مُؤْمِنِينَ To soothe, assuage the hearts of a
believing people.
And that will happen to us.
If not us, future generations.
The victory of the ummah is guaranteed through
the signs of the end of time.
And that may not be, number one, it
may not be in our life.
We don't know whose lifetime that's going to
happen in.
And number two, it may not be the
only victory.
There's nothing that states that we have to
believe that that's the only victory.
No, there could be a victory before that
too.
That's not discounted in the signs of the
end of time.
It's not discounted that you're only going to
get one victory.
Is it likely?
It could be.
Is it probable?
Maybe, but it's not impossible that there would
be a victory before this victory.
It could be a victory and a loss
again and a victory again.
So that means we shouldn't stop working.
We shouldn't just sit around waiting.
But this is the point, is that Allah
Ta'ala out of His generosity will assuage
the hearts of the mu'minin.
It may be us that witness that and
we may not witness that.
And Allah knows best.
But if you ask me from all of
what you see in world history, nations that
do what Israel is now doing, they don't
last a long time afterwards.
Think about that.
Can someone give me an example of a
nation that's done what Israel has done?
The British, did they?
Yeah, they did terrible things, but they did
terrible things, but they've been reduced back to
their little crummy island.
And now they don't even have that in
their imagination.
The white supremacists there are just having this
imagination.
I guess maybe it's not an imagination, that
it's completely lost to them.
Their little white homeland doesn't exist anymore.
And that's your doing.
You gave out those visas.
It always makes me wonder about Radio Genoa,
which is probably an Israeli bot, and all
these other channels that whine and complain every
day at the number of Asian people in,
South Asian people in England.
I don't think there's came on boats.
There's no border that they're hopping over, right?
There's no border that they're coming through.
These people came on legit visas.
So blame your own politicians and vote them
out, if that's what you don't like.
So I had to say this, get this
off my chest because that's the analysis.
Today we're going to do a longer section
for a longer section for Q&A.
What else did I need to do?
I need, oh, kids fight.
We're going to talk about that.
But I needed to do something else.
It was said that people like myself and
other signatories to a certain document that we
put out there was A, using religion to
tell people how to vote and B, supporting
the Green Party, and neither of them is
true.
We can use religion to tell people what
type of person not to vote for, and
then you could calculate who fits the bill.
And that's one of the things we can
do.
We can say, don't vote for someone who
just oversaw genocide.
You can say that.
And number two, there are multiple third parties
out there.
What's the third one?
There's the Green Party, there's West, Cornell West,
there's another third party.
So the conclusion, the analysis that that means
Green Party doesn't stand because there are right
now multiple third parties.
It's not just one, not just two, right?
There are three.
So it doesn't, you can't make an interpretation.
There are libertarians, there's a Green Party, there's
a Constitution Party, there's Cornell West Party.
So you can't interpret that to mean the
Green Party.
So that's just a further clarification.
If the previous video that I made wasn't
clear enough, that we are not only not
endorsing a political party, can't endorse a political
party.
If you're someone like myself and you're working
in a religious nonprofit organization, you're going to
lose your nonprofit status if you do so.
So we go out of our way to
say that we can tell you what the
principles are of our religion, but we can't
tell you endorse any party or a politician
or a person.
All right, with that, there was a talk
the other day.
There was a nice evening.
Omar, were you there?
At Al-Falah, Masjid Al-Falah, where Miftah
Institute came and had a really, really nice
event.
They had a lot of speakers.
I was able to meet Sheikh Mohammed Al
-Masmari of Michigan.
Had a great time with him.
There was their Haseeb Noor was there.
I had seen him for a long time.
What's up with the TV?
Let's keep turning on and off.
Haseeb Noor was there, which was always fun
to sit and talk to.
And we had a lot of discussions.
And one of the subjects that Sheikh Yasser
Fahmy was with us to, which is always
a pleasure and a joy to keep his
company.
One of the things that I was supposed
to talk about was the justice of the
Prophet, peace be upon him.
And I got to it to talk about
how justice really has to begin in our
homes.
And when we talk about in our homes,
between husband and wife, we have to live
by the Sharia.
There are obligations on the husband.
What are the obligations on the husband?
The basic living, the basic livelihood and the
protection.
Those are two obligations that the husband cannot
escape.
He has to fulfill them.
If he's asked to fulfill them, he should
be upset at himself for not having fulfilled
them.
Now, what is not his obligation is, like
we would may say, a zina wa ziyadah,
ornamentation and that which is extra.
If he supplies it, good for him.
If he doesn't supply it, if he doesn't
provide those things, then there's a connection problem,
Omar, between the TV and the computer.
So if he provides those things, good.
If he takes his family on vacation, good
for him.
If he renovates the whole house, good for
him.
But if he doesn't, then he still fulfilled
his obligation.
She may be unhappy.
That's different.
Being unhappy is different from not fulfilling your
obligation.
When you don't fulfill your obligations, God is
against you.
If you just make someone unhappy, then that
person is going to be against, your wife
will be against you and that's not going
to be nice either, right?
So keep in mind, when we deal with
Allah, we don't only ask him for the
obligations.
Do we ever say, oh Allah, only give
me air, only give me water, only give
me enough red meat to survive, only give
me enough protein to survive.
If Allah treated you with the minimum, you
wouldn't be a happy person.
So likewise, it's not expected or it is
expected that you provide a little bit more
than the bare minimum and the bare necessities,
as Baloo would put it.
So there are obligations, there's limits to the
obligations, but that doesn't mean that it's in
any way reasonable to stop at the bare
bone necessities.
Likewise, what your wife owes you is very
little too.
She owes you physical intimacy and to obey
you when she leaves the house.
In other words, if your job is to
protect her, then it's your right to say,
don't go here, don't go here, don't go
here.
I can't protect you here, right?
So don't go there.
So he has that right in Islam.
If she was to say, okay, I'm not
going to leave the house unless I got
your green light from you and we talk
about it.
I'm not going to spend any of your
money except for the bare necessities and anytime
that you want to be intimate, I'll be
there for you.
Is that all you want her to do?
Because if that's all she does, you're not
going to be happy.
That means she doesn't have to smile.
She doesn't have to do anything in the
house.
She could just sleep all day, right?
And she's done her obligation.
So neither side want the bare necessity.
We don't want from Allah Ta'ala the
bare necessity.
So we need to understand there are limits,
but then there are commonsensical expectations and as
you want to be treated, you should treat
others.
You want to be treated from Allah Ta
'ala with extra, give extra to his creation.
And that's the best way to look at
things.
Secondly, between kids, I think justice is extremely,
extremely important between kids.
Between kids is a great opportunity to have
injustice or a great area where injustice occurs.
Probably the biggest injustice is that is between
girls and boys.
Like girls tend to be, there's so much
is demanded of them because they accept the
orders.
They don't fight back.
Boys may resist a lot more, so it's
harder to deal with.
Between kids, every parent is a judge.
And this is really important to make sure
you judge fairly.
Now when you judge to get you a
very, very, very basic structure of judgment and
how to be a judge.
The first sayyidul adillah, first we discussed the
evidences.
What is the chief evidence?
And by the way, all this is metaphoric
or allegoric justice in the sense that half
of this could never happen.
It could never happen that a parent will
be the actual judge and his child is
one of the plaintiff or the defendant.
That could never happen.
But within the households, you have to be
a judge.
And the first piece of evidence is the
admission.
And so when the child comes and makes
a claim, so and so took my book.
All right, so and so took your book.
I need you to understand something.
As much as I love you, I cannot
make a statement against your sibling just because
you told me.
I can only judge on what you can
prove.
And so you have to understand that telling,
when you tell, doesn't mean it's an accepted
truth.
I can only make a judgment based upon
what can be proven.
And I've told my kids this, and I
recommend you all do too, that what the
nature of a complaint and a judgment to
be passed by the parent.
So nobody should ever use, if you don't
believe me, you don't love me.
That's ridiculous.
Because it's about what you can prove happens.
Are there witnesses?
Again, this is a metaphoric justice because in
court, your siblings and your rivals cannot be
witnesses.
Grabbing to our beautiful light here.
What's going on with our power here?
Yeah, I didn't even notice it turned off
at all.
Maybe there's a cord or something back there
that got touched or something like that.
In any event, back to the subject.
You would never actually be calling witnesses from
among siblings, but this is metaphoric justice in
the house.
So without witnesses, there's not much I can
do for you.
But I can advise you.
You got it.
Good.
You got it.
Let's go green.
What we can do, however, is I can
advise you.
I don't know what happened with your book.
I don't know who took it.
I can't say so-and-so's denying.
So-and-so is making the allegation.
There's no evidence.
So I can advise you.
And here we have from the prophet, peace
be upon him, situations like that, where someone
does something.
There's no case.
The victim comes to the prophet, peace be
upon him.
There's no case.
But he's upset.
So he gives advice.
That's the difference in these families.
You either have proof or you don't.
Now, if there's an admission, then there has
to be justice.
And what's the justice?
If it's physical, then it's qisas.
Qisas, of course, what did he do?
He hit me with a towel.
Are you going to say now, all right,
you hit him with the towel?
Yes, you could, if it's not really serious,
if it's just childish stuff.
No harm in that.
That's a funny picture.
That's a good one, actually.
I like that.
Actually, it makes me happy.
Hey, show the audience what that picture is.
I don't know about you guys, but that
picture makes me happy.
Look how cute that picture is.
It gives you little fantasy vibes, doesn't it?
Like little Narnia.
So they have to establish justice in their
house between their children.
How else is justice established?
Justice is established through the distribution of chores.
That's a big unfairness that occurs between kids.
One kid is doing all the chores.
No, there needs to be systems.
Once you have more than two kids, pretty
much, even maybe with two kids, there has
to be a clear system of justice with
the chores.
There needs to be days.
Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday are you.
Thursday, Friday, Saturday is me.
Then Sunday, we alternate.
First and third, Sunday is you.
Second and fourth is me.
So any chore that happens or any privilege
that happens on that day, you get it
if it's your day.
So you get the privileges and you get
the chores.
So who sits up front?
Whoever's day it is.
Who has to clean up after a dinner?
Whoever's day it is.
Like that.
So there needs to be justice in distributing
the chores.
Now what about situations where a person, there's
a type of privilege or a trip.
How do we decide that?
So that also, you can decide that by
order.
So the oldest one will get the first
chance, the youngest one and so on.
Or by lottery.
The Prophet ﷺ used lottery, meaning just chance.
Put your names in a hat and we'll
just pick one out.
Put your names in a hat, we'll pick
one out and that person gets to go
first.
And then the next one, we flip-flop
back and forth.
So the first layer is the rules of
the Sharia.
The second layer is going to be learning
how justice is established.
How do we establish justice even just in
a home?
The greatest of justice is going to be
the Sharia.
Haram should not be allowed to or should
not be allowed in, should not be anywhere.
And the Salah has to come first in
a household.
And once you have those homes where there's
Sharia and there's justice, you will have a
small heaven in your home.
It will be a small paradise.
Then you give that, you just maximize that
now.
In anything you run, you operate with these
principles.
So that's just like basic fundamentals of how
to have established fairness and justice in a
house.
All right, let's wrap up with that and
let's go to your Q&A right now.
If you have put your Q&A up,
put the question again so I don't have
to scroll back up.
All right, go.
That's like, look like Legos.
I like the other one more, but it's
up to you.
I like this one more.
Yeah.
All right, your Q&A.
Please do something on Abdul Qadir al-Jailani.
We will do, inshallah.
I did actually do one, but I'll do
another one.
Sayyidina Imam Abdul Qadir al-Jailani.
Yeah, we need to continue that because we
used to have four days a week.
We now have three days a week.
Yeah, we could do it Thursdays.
Now, some people make fun of the saying,
Abdul Qadir al-Jailani's foot is on every
wali.
Sorry, is on the neck of every wali.
Where did that saying come from?
You hear it all the time, right?
His foot is on the neck of every
wali.
So this comes when there was a senior
man of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, meaning
an elder, and he was at the Rawdah.
Shaykh Ahmed al-Rifa'i.
I heard it once from Shaykh Ahmed al
-Rifa'i and heard it once from Sayyid
Ahmed al-Badawi.
So I don't know which one it is.
So that's why I don't want to quote.
So either one or the other.
It's either Ahmed al-Rifa'i or Ahmed
al-Badawi.
Ahmed al-Badawi is actually Moroccan, and he
ended up moving to Egypt.
And Ahmed al-Rifa'i is from Iraq.
In any event, they were older, and they
were at a massive gathering at the Rawdah
al-Sharifah in Madinah al-Murawarah in front
of the grave of the Prophet ﷺ.
I don't want to distract from the story,
but a karamah occurred.
I'm not going to say what the karamah
occurred.
A major karamah occurred to the Shaykh in
the presence of everyone there.
Amongst those who were there was a very
young Abd al-Qadir al-Jailani.
He was young.
Thereupon, the Shaykh, seeing that this karamah has
elevated him in the eyes of everybody, stood
at the door of Bab al-Salam, and
he said, I will not permit anyone to
exit unless they step over my head.
This was physically, he's physically humbling himself.
He's physically humbling himself by making sure everybody
steps over his head.
And at first, people refused, but he insisted.
He said, he's a alim and a Rabbani,
and he knows even the karamah from Allah
ﷻ, they could boost a person's nafs.
But he wouldn't have arrived at that station
unless he knew how to handle the nafs,
like a snake.
How do you handle a snake?
That's what the nafs is like.
So he then put his head, bowed his
head in such a low way that everyone
had to step over his neck to get
out of the masjid.
Abd al-Qadir al-Jailani saw this and
he took action.
What action did he take?
He put his neck above the Shaykh's neck,
so that in fact everyone was stepping over
his neck, not the elder Shaykh's neck, which
we said was either Sidi Ahmed al-Rifa
'i or Sidi Ahmed al-Badawi, can't remember
which one it was.
And when the Shaykh then finished, when everyone
had left, and he noticed that this is
what Abd al-Qadir al-Jailani did, that's
when he declared, like allegorically, majazan, hyperbole.
Your foot is on the neck of everybody.
And that you humbled yourself.
You tried to decrease from this by doing
that, by putting your neck over my neck.
That's how the story goes.
And that story, I believe, is told in
different reliable books.
I don't want to quote one, but it
is told in some books that are pretty
much relied upon.
That's where the saying comes that Abd al
-Qadir al-Jailani's foot is on the foot,
on the neck of everybody.
It's hyperbole and majaz that he's so humble,
every man of Allah must honor this person.
And is there anyone who's not going to
honor him?
Is there any person in Ahlus Sunnah that
doesn't honor Abd al-Qadir al-Jailani?
And when people do have a bad opinion
of Abd al-Qadir al-Jailani, it's because
of what some ghulats may have said about
him, or done, or behaved in a certain
way.
And as a result of that, people think
that he is some misguided or stray type
of Sufi.
But if you actually read a Zahabi's biography
of him, and you read anyone else's biography
of him, you recognize that he was somebody
that was far from any of those issues
that could incur inqar, could incur condemnation.
You won't find a single issue that Abd
al-Qadir al-Jailani does that would bring
about inqar.
And the only thing people would have an
issue is, when they read about the karamat
of Abd al-Qadir al-Jailani, sometimes they
have trouble believing them.
Because he had so many, and the bulk
of his karamat was being able to know
what people were thinking.
And hence, in the middle of his durus,
sometimes he would look at a student and
say a word that would be the answer
to that what that student was looking for.
And sometimes people would have doubts about him,
and he would humble them.
There's one story of Sayyidna Abd al-Qadir
al-Jailani, where a student came and he
said, I heard so much about Jailani, and
I had another class to go to.
But I said, let me go and attend
to Jailani.
And al-Jailani just was telling very basic
stories and very basic teachings.
And he said something to the effect of,
or he thought something in his mind to
the effect of, I should have went to
the other class.
Then he said, Shaykh Abd al-Qadir al
-Jailani began changing his lecture, and he began
speaking about exactly what I would have learned
in that other class.
SubhanAllah.
So, where can you read those?
Al-Dhahabi, plus the Ramadan series this year
will be about stories of the Awliya.
Al-Wilaya wa-l-Awliya, that's what the
Ramadan series will be about.
Al-Wilaya wa-l-Awliya, and there will
be a large section on the Karamat of
Abd al-Qadir al-Jailani.
The manhaj of Abd al-Qadir al-Jailani
was his sessions, his Dawah sessions.
Besides his youth, in which not only did
he study in Baghdad, but he also traveled
the earth as an ascetic.
He left the city and he lived a
simple life just doing dhikr day in and
day out.
So much dhikr did he do.
They say he did the dhikr of 25
years in four years.
They say that he did the ibadah that
would take a regular person 25 years to
do.
He did it in four years, and that's
how he became so purified.
Before this, when he was a young student,
he was in his Shaykh's gathering, and his
Shaykh used to always keep him close, but
tell him to do things.
He would say, go do this, go do
that.
And any time that he saw that he
was maybe getting comfortable or something, he would
say something to humble him.
So one day he was sitting and the
other students were sitting, and the other students
bossed him around the same way the Shaykh
bossed him around.
The Shaykh became so upset.
He said, I'm only doing this to him
because he's going to inherit this position.
Between you and him is a huge difference.
I could never do to him what I
do to you, or do to you what
I do to him.
Your nafs wouldn't take it.
I am only doing that to him because
he is going to inherit this position.
And he did in fact inherit the school,
the Hanbali school, and he became the rector
of that school.
And he married, and he had a big
family, but he had a room in the
school as well, and he spent most of
the time in the school, and he'd only
go to his family for needs.
He wouldn't spend most of the time at
home.
He spent most of the time in the
school.
And the school had a big courtyard, and
he would start giving speeches for everybody in
those courtyards, not just classes.
He would give talks in those courtyards.
And that courtyard began to fill up and
overflow until it reached the point that his
fame was such that any governor who took
a position, anyone, they had to come and
visit Abdul Qadir first.
They all came to him.
He never went to them.
Shortly before his death, Ibn Qudamah came and
took some knowledge from him.
I don't think from a Zahabi, it's that
Ibn Qudamah spent a long time with him.
No.
I think he spent a short time with
him.
But he was one of his last students.
There is a book out that the army
of Salah al-Din al-Ayubi, the way
that they were raised, the way that they
were trained, their Isnad goes back to two
people.
Haseeb Noor, Sheikh Haseeb Noor is the one
who told me about this.
Sheikh Haseeb Noor, if you don't know him,
he's from Medina.
He's originally from Virginia, lives in Medina, and
he's the Imam in San Diego now too.
Beautiful masjid there in a beautiful city.
He's the one who told me about the
army of Salah al-Din al-Ayubi, their
Isnad goes back to two people, Al-Ghazali
and Al-Jailani.
Al-Ghazali came first, and on the tail
of Al-Ghazali came Al-Jailani.
In both of their times, the crusaders had
taken Jerusalem, Al-Quds.
But through their students was formed, and their
students and grand students, if there's such a
word, formed the Tarbiyah of the soldiers that
became the army of Salah al-Din.
Noor al-Din first, then Salah al-Din.
And there's an entire book on this, I
didn't get it, I want to get it,
I want to be able to translate it,
or at least see if somebody can translate
parts of that to show that that was
their Tarbiyah.
Al-ilm, was suluk.
Knowledge, as they took from Al-Ghazali, and
al-suluk.
The Aqidah Salahiyah is essentially gleaned from Al
-Ghazali and those before him.
The Aqidah that Salah al-Din al-Ayubi
made everybody study.
And the Ibadah, the inspiration, the himmah, it
derived from the heart of Abdul Qadir al
-Jailani.
In other words, from his example, from his
teaching.
Let's go to the questions now.
Abdul Hadi says, purification in the grave and
the afterlife, is it only for major sins
or major and minor?
Major and minor.
What's the difference?
Minor sins can be purified without intention.
So if I committed a minor sin, such
as I looked at haram with my eye,
if I do a lot of it, it
can amount to a major sin.
Like a lot of small debt can become
a big debt.
But just one look like that is a
minor sin.
Or if I curse somebody, that's a minor
sin.
Like something happened and I cursed.
Not somebody, but because that could become a
major sin.
But I'm in my car, someone swerves and
I cursed.
It's a minor sin of the tongue.
Just my making will do.
Clean out my mouth, clean my eyes, I've
wiped away those sins, even without intending it.
So the minor sin, it gets purified without
intention.
The minor sin is one of those things
that people could eventually do so much without
even realizing it.
So intent is not needed in that.
And that's all the things, for example, that
the Quran and the Sunnah forbid in general.
In general, Allah says, lower the gaze.
In general, Allah tells us, don't be vulgar
with your mouth.
The Prophet, peace be upon him, was not
vulgar.
Quran says, say the good.
Things like that.
It's general.
So the sin in that case is a
minor sin.
Now, if I did a major sin, what
purifies a major sin is, there's a difference
between forgiveness and purification.
The forgiveness is earned easier than the purification.
The forgiveness would be, for example, that I
must, number one, intend forgiveness for that sin.
I have to specifically say, I seek forgiveness
from this sin.
And then I have to stop doing it,
I have to regret it, and I have
to try never to do it again.
That's the forgiveness.
Now the purification, now I'm going to need
to do good deeds.
I'm going to need to do a bad,
I'm going to need to do a lot
of good things instead of that.
So that's how you purify.
That's why we see Jum'ah to Jum
'ah is a Kafara.
Salah, like Adhan to Adhan is a Kafara.
Ramadan to Ramadan is a Kafara.
Umrah to Umrah is a Kafara.
Why?
Because it's not the forgiveness only that you're
earning, it's the purifying, the effect of the
sin.
You've darkened your heart.
So Allah may forgive you, but you still
have a dark heart.
You need to cleanse that.
That's why we do a lot of dhikr
and Ibad.
You want a picture?
Please come to Raleigh, North Carolina.
We have growing Sunni youth.
North Carolina is wonderful.
I heard a lot of beautiful things about
the landscape.
I feel bad for skipping the Palestine charity
videos.
There's nothing against you for that.
We're skipping the whole genocide.
We're sitting here on our couches for the
whole genocide.
Don't worry about the video.
Go donate to them then.
We all have to donate.
We all have to.
Where's GRT by the way?
It's pinned.
Go donate to GRT.
Can we get a picture of GRT?
Just stick it up on the logo.
Just stick it up in the corner.
Can I sing a national anthem?
It's not unlawful to sing a national anthem.
I hate nationalism though and the nation state
is the problem.
The nation state, because we absorbed all these
un-Islamic methods of doing things.
Who said that you should establish your nations
based on ethnic borders?
That's not allowed in Islam.
We have one way of ruling.
Now it may naturally happen but ultimately Muslims
have another way of operating and we have
to go to our Sharia for that.
We do believe in Khilafah even if it's
not Khilafah.
For example, Salahuddin was not the Khalifa himself.
Neither was Nizamuddin but they established the Sharia
and they didn't believe that you establish countries
based on ethnic grounds, racial grounds.
Not accepted.
Not accepted at all.
Go back to the Google search, Omar.
Yeah, see that one in the bottom left
corner?
It says global.
Yeah, put that up.
Yeah, it's them because that has a white
background and the word global relief trust is
much clearer and you don't have to stick
the gold column.
You could just stick that in the corner
there.
Do we need to worry about animal source
ingredients like gelatin, glycerin, rennet?
In general, the entire ummah avoids gelatin as
much as, yeah, we avoid gelatin.
Yes.
Lack of happiness is Talha Rizvi.
Lack of happiness is something missing within the
person regarding purpose, goals, relationship.
Not a spouse's job to make you happy.
Good enough that they try to be pleasant
to be around.
I'm going to say that you need to
have the will to be happy.
You need to have the will to be
happy.
You really do need that.
And then other people really, to be honest,
tell the truth.
Everything for a moment, you have to view
it as being for you, not against you.
It's for you.
It's not against you.
Once you view it that way, even the
painful situation, I can handle it.
I might not be happy at the moment,
but I believe it's for me.
Everything is increasing me.
And that's how a person should live.
Every single thing that occurs is going to
increase me in some way, shape, or form.
Like life is complex.
Life is vast.
In some way, shape, and form, everything that
happens is going to improve my situation, my
life and situation.
Yeah, I think that's a good, that's good.
But I think maybe, no, no, maybe a
little bit.
Go fast forward an inch or a little
bit, a second, maybe we'll change that.
But I was going to say the text
and the rectangle, if you make them kids
colors, maybe.
Can I do a birthday party?
I think that little birthday parties for kids
where there's not much extravagance is harmless.
There is an argument that if everyone around
them is doing it, you don't want them
to crave it.
And there's nothing specifically unlawful about it.
And it's not a Sunnah either.
It's not like you're rewarded for specifically doing
that, nor are you punished for it.
But I do think that extravagance, and waste
of time and money, and takalluf from people
is something that is mahzur minhu.
It should be stayed away from.
There are variations in the awrad that we
recite.
Yeah, there are different narrations, and whichever one
you get, you can recite.
Can I make du'a before saying the
final salam and answer is yes.
What's aqidah and what's fiqh?
Aqidah is study of everything that we believe.
Fiqh is the study of everything that we're
supposed to do.
That's the difference.
Tasawwuf is the study of the spiritual states,
removing envy, putting in love of Allah, things
like that.
Du'a for parents that you know of
except the two in the Quran.
Not off the top of my head, no.
Yeah, that's in the Quran.
The two in the Quran, they said.
No, I'm not familiar with anything specifically off
the top of my head.
Is it possible to visit here?
Yes, there's a small studio.
It's not so small, but it's filled with
guys.
So, therefore, guys can come and visit.
If a woman comes, she needs to have
her mahram with her, somebody with her, because
it would be awkward for her and for
the other guys.
If there's just one woman in a small
place, it would probably be awkward for her.
So, if a sister is going to come,
she's going to come with her husband or
her brother or her son or her dad,
whatever.
But people can pop in here.
We are in the Laqusina building.
And by the way, we will be streaming
the Laqusina gala.
It would be a great help for people
to participate, because by 2030, we will, inshallah,
have seven days a week.
When you see the dinner on Wednesday, it's
such a beautiful sight.
And now that the winter is coming around,
we're going to put tents in the back
and we have heaters inside the tents and
people could just sit in the tents and
the food will be distributed in the big
tent outside.
And we're going to need tarp, too, because
I don't want food getting on the ground.
We have a beautiful pavement in the back
there.
All right, rapid fire.
What are some of the things we should
do or have arranged if planning for after
death, like Will?
So, you're going to need to pay off
your debts.
Any passwords you need to have, they need
to go with whoever is managing your estate,
because that's a big headache.
For example, you have things that are accounts
that need to be closed.
You have money in certain accounts.
Now that's the thing these days, which is
making sure that our accounts are actually accessible.
There's technology for that.
How to do qada' for a period of
my life when I was negligent of the
prayers.
You overestimate.
Let's say, I say it's between three and
four years.
Definitely not four years, definitely not three years.
All right, so let's say four years, because
if you say four years, you're definitely, definitely
covered it.
So, for the next four years, you pray
every salah twice, or if you can't do
that, you pray one full day of salah
at the end of the day.
Should I keep making dua' for my marriage,
even though my husband is divorcing me, despite
continuous dua', sadaqa, isad, thawab, or should I
stop, but he is, he is still a
lot.
My heart can't give up the dua'.
Yeah, I would keep going, keep going.
Yes, he may divorce you, but there's still
three months of iddah in which he may
take back the divorce, recant his divorce.
Even after that, he may still propose to
you again and marry you again.
Of course, that would be with your approval.
Within the three months is without your approval.
He's recanting the divorce.
I heard praying jama'a, isha and faj,
as we stood all night praying.
Yes, if somebody prays in jama'a, it
is said to be, is it in the
masjid or even in the house?
That's a good question.
I never saw a tafseel between that.
Omar, did you hear that?
That hadith, whoever prays jama'a, faj and
isha in jama'a, it's as if he
prayed the whole night.
Does that include the jama'a in a
home, like him and his wife?
I have to look at the shuruhat on
that.
Usually, from what the ba'alawi is, is
that if there's an interpretation, the more generous
one is most appropriate for Allah.
And that's what they say.
But Allah, I don't have to look at
that.
What was the aqeedah of Abdul Qadir al
-Jilani?
Humbly an aqeedah, hated kalam.
Hated kalam and said to one of his
students, one student wanted to learn from him
kalam.
So, how do we interpret that since we
love Abdul Qadir al-Jilani so much?
Well, we interpret that as that he found
that in his time, there was no use
for it.
In our time, we find he wasn't living
so much with atheists, I guess.
And those arguments weren't very popular.
But we can't, we have to tell the
truth about what he held.
He did not like kalam.
That's his ijtihad.
Did he make a pronouncement that this is
a bid'ah and kufr?
I didn't see all of his comments on
it.
But I believe he saw that it has
no use.
That's why he hated it so much.
But where kalam does have a use, where
is its use?
Its use is in any time that a
Muslim has a doubt about Islam that has
to be repelled.
And it could simply be that he was
living in a time where people didn't have
the same amount of doubts, right, about Islam.
But there's a problem with that too.
He's living in Baghdad.
And we're always quoting Baghdad as the place
of all this cosmopolitan ideas.
His whole manhaj he hated this falsafa.
And kalam is, it is a falsafa insofar
as it's responding back to philosophers.
When a philosopher makes a chess move against
you, you have your answer is going to
sound philosophical back because that's how you neutralize
him.
Should I keep making?
Okay, we answered this one.
What is the hukum about thinking that the
light of Sayyidina Muhammad is from the light
of Allah?
Yes, it's all created light.
When we say the light of Allah, meaning
the light that Allah created.
When you say Allah is the light of
the heavens and the earth, as Ibn Abbas
said, it means he's the guide of the
heavens and the earth.
It is not that Allah is a physical
light.
Light, as we know it, is a material
substance.
It may be very subtle, but it is
a material substance.
And therefore Allah Ta'ala is not a
material substance.
So when they say Allah is the light
of the heavens and the earth, it means
Allah Ta'ala is the guide of the
heavens and the earth, as said Ibn Abbas.
But when we say the light of Allah
Ta'ala, we're talking about a light that
Allah created.
And Allah Ta'ala creates that light and
he bestows it upon his Ibad.
When they purify their heart, when they make
wudu, when they do a lot of Ibadah.
And is there anyone who has received more
of that light than the messengers?
Prophets, messengers, ulul azmi, Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
That's the order of prophets.
And beneath the prophets, as-Siddiqoon, which is
the awliya.
And beneath them, al-'ulamaa al-'amiloon.
And beneath them, as-Salihoon.
And beneath them, sa'ir al-mu'mineen, all
the other believers.
Because even a believer with sins, at least
he has the light of Tawheed in his
heart.
He has enough guidance to know not idols,
worship Allah rather than false gods.
So when we talk about light, it is
a created thing.
But for somebody to say, as was said
by a certain Egyptian Sheikh, محمد هو نور
الله الذاتي أو خلق من نور الله الذاتي
that is completely an incorrect Ibarah, an expression.
And that could even, Allah be interpreted as
Kufr.
Why?
وَجَعَلُ مِنْ عِبَادِهِ جُزْأَ Because Allah Ta'ala
is not divided up into his slaves and
take a piece of Allah and put it
inside of somebody.
No.
Because that's what it indicates, right?
And what does it mean, نور الله الذاتي?
Because the attribute of Noor is the attribute
of guidance.
It's not a physical light that we have
here amongst us or the physical light that
is bestowed upon a believer's face or bestowed
upon the believer's limbs on the Day of
Judgment.
And we see that that's how the believers
are known and recognized.
The light of the limbs of wudu, their
face, their hair, their arms and their feet
are glowing.
Glowing with what?
With Noor.
So that is the light that we negate
from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala because that
is a creation.
A couple more questions.
Is a husband responsible for emotional well-being
and safety of the wife or just financial
obligations?
Yes, you didn't marry a lump.
You married a person with a heart and
an emotion, an emotional state that you are
responsible for not hurting it.
I don't think he's not responsible if she
doesn't want to be happy and wants to
be down as some people do.
What's the proof of it?
The proof is they keep talking about negative
things.
He can't stop that.
He can't force her.
But he can't hurt her.
He can't make it worse.
He should try to make it.
Now, if we're going to talk about the
law, that's one thing.
But we're going to talk about common sense.
If your husband or wife does not care
about your emotional well-being, then who's going
to?
Your parents are already getting too old.
You're going to care about them soon.
Your kids, what do they know?
They're just kids.
And even afterwards, they move on with their
life.
You raise your kids so that they can
move on.
At a certain period of time, a husband
or a wife may be more attached to
their kids.
Usually the wife will be more attached to
her kids than her husband.
That could be the case because the kids
are so small.
They need so much care and attention.
But there's going to come a point when
they leave the nest.
Then who are you going to care about?
They're gone.
You raise your kids so they can leave
you.
I don't know if someone gets so attached
to their kids.
So attached to their kids.
It's one thing I care about them.
I love them.
But they cannot be the source.
They cannot be my power source.
Yes, they make me happy.
Yes, there's the idea of qurrat al-'ayn.
There is all that.
But we are raising them to leave us.
When you look and you see your kids
are functioning well outside the house, they're well
-adjusted outside the house.
They know how to deal with people.
That is the victory of the parents.
When a dad is to look at his
son hanging out with the other guys normally,
that's an achievement.
Because there are some parents who actually didn't
do this.
They never taught their kid how to socialize.
They never socialized their child.
That is a big oppression, I would say.
You really dropped the ball.
The person must socialize their kids to be
able to hang out, to interact.
Now if there's another level.
Now my son can handle a lot of
other things too in society.
That's all the victory of the dad and
the mom.
That's a victory for them.
That's success for them.
Then you go and he has a marriage.
He's a good husband or she's a good
wife.
They interact well as a couple.
They're happy.
Now they're having kids.
They know how to raise their kids.
All that is the success of the parents.
A parent's happiness with their kid is when
the kid is outside the house and successful.
That's how you get your happiness.
Keeping your kid next to you and so
close to you and attached to you, you
actually destroy the kid.
So kids move on.
So ultimately your life is going to be
with your wife and if you're a woman
with your husband.
You're going to stay with them.
They stay with you.
So if you don't care about their emotional
well-being, then they're not going to care
about yours.
Then what kind of marriage is it?
We only have 60 seconds for rapid fire.
Go ahead.
Any advice if you have a big amount
of prayers to make up?
Yes.
What is it?
Any advice for making up a big amount
of prayers?
Yeah, you have to do it.
One day of prayers a day.
Make five makeups a day.
Is it permissible to invest in a company
that makes dog toys and dog treats?
Yeah.
Okay.
Is it haram to work in defense companies
in the US or Canada?
What about your own defense company?
No.
I'm sure once you know that that money
is going to oppression, then you can't give
it anymore.
If it was, for example, the Argentinian military,
which I don't think that they're oppressing anybody
at this point in time.
No problem.
The idea of a military is not an
issue.
It's what they do.
So selling weapons to the Chilean military.
I don't know what they're doing right now,
but I don't think they're doing anything oppressive.
Shouldn't be a problem with that.
Is it permissible to charge extra on Friday
compared to other days of the week for
providing service?
Repeat the question, please.
So charging more on Friday compared to other
days of the week for a service?
You charge as much as you want.
Buying and selling on both parties are happy.
You want to charge more on Friday or
on weekends.
No problem with that.
How should one deal with self-hatred?
Self-hatred?
Get better at yourself.
Get better at being you and everything.
Get a skill.
Work on your appearance.
Work on your physical fitness.
Work on your social skills.
Then you won't hate yourself.
Work at it.
You may hate yourself for a reason.
And that may be a valid reason, by
the way.
So fix yourself.
Work at yourself.
Is it permissible to use foul language with
Zainis?
I believe so.
And the limit there is that you don't
accuse someone of the curses that relate to
Zina.
But I mean, I don't know about that.
We do have Sayyidina Abu Bakr al-Siddiq.
He did curse a man one time, right?
A pagan who insulted the Prophet.
So some of the ulama say, if you're
allowed to kill an enemy, you're allowed to
curse at him, right?
Think about that.
If you're allowed to kill someone, you're allowed
to curse at him.
But Allah knows best.
I'm going to say Allah knows best on
that one.
They meant like cursing like foul language, you
know?
Yeah, I'm just going to curse.
That's what I mean by that.
At one time, Abu Bakr actually cursed an
enemy, right?
With a curse, you wouldn't even be able
to repeat it here.
So dhikr purifies the place of sins.
Is that what you're saying?
Yes.
What is the position of the four schools?
Did the Prophet see Allah on the Mi
'raj?
I believe that the dominant opinion on that,
I can't say for all schools, but what
I know is that he saw a light
and he did not see Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
And you can find that in Sahih Muslim.
There's discussion on that on Sahih Muslim.
Was the permissibility of having images of non
-Muslim women now wearing hijab on marketing material
for products for women?
Sheikh Hatim al-Hajj said about that, it's
within the realm of decency.
Because I asked him one time, a guy
has a company and everyone in the company's
picture has to be put.
And of course, naturally, he hired American women
who don't wear hijab.
So he's asked, the guy asked me, I
asked Dr. Hatim al-Hajj and he said,
for that, we can't stop people from working,
people have to work, but you just operate
with the realm of decency.
What's the right way to work for Khilafah,
how to gather people?
Because if you don't work for it, it's
not going to come by chance.
I believe that the only thing we could
do is talk about it, make people believe
in it.
How can we avoid group tribalism?
Sometimes people have no issue calling someone's bad
behavior.
But when the person's from the same group,
they're okay with it.
So ignoring like, I guess, your friends and
close.
Yeah.
No, a believer is truthful.
And if you don't want to be harsh
with your friends, don't be harsh with strangers.
So you can still have the truth, uphold
the truth.
But you uphold the truth.
If you're going to be soft with one
and harsh with the other, the answer is
to be soft with both.
I don't want to wear a niqab that
my husband wants me to.
I feel like niqab strips my identity.
Oh, that's a big discussion you have to
have with your husband then.
Maybe that should have happened before marriage, that
kind of discussion, because that's a big deal.
Someone, one sheikh said a prophet is not
the best prophet.
Is this true?
Oh my goodness, he needs to be lashed,
if not killed.
No, I'm just exaggerating here.
Because some people would have said that.
But the Prophet ﷺ himself said, أنا سيد
ولدي آدم ولا فخر.
By the way, I was just exaggerating because
some people would have said that.
That's an insult to the Prophet and an
executable punishment, capital crime, someone who talks like
this.
But the Prophet, he's saying all prophets are
the same.
He doesn't want to, he's not lowering the
Prophet, he's saying all prophets are the same.
And we say that that's an incorrect statement.
The Prophet ﷺ said, أنا سيد ولدي آدم
ولا فخر.
Is there a du'a for barakah and
business?
استغفر Sheikh Shadi, please come to Toronto.
Yeah, we're due for Toronto, by the way.
Oh, when?
No, I don't know when, but maybe in
the winter we'll catch some snow.
Oh yeah, for that one intensive thing.
One more question.
If someone has a large debt, tens of
thousands of dollars, can he go for Hajj
or Umrah, or does he need to pay
off the debt first?
It's not required to be debt-free when
you go to Hajj and Umrah.
So the answer is yes, you can go.
Okay.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, so many questions.
Jazakumullahu khayran.
Subhanakallahumma wa bihamdik.
Nashhadu an la ilaha illa anta.
Nastaghfiruk wa natubu ilayk.
Inna al-insana la fee khusr.
Illa allatheena amanu wa aminu al-salihaat.
Wa tawasaw bil-haqq.
Wa tawasaw bil-sabr.
Wassalamu alaykum wa rahmatullah.