Shadee Elmasry – Why Muslims Eat Halal – NBF 385
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The speakers discuss the history and cultural significance of animal bait and the importance of avoiding mistakes, healthy eating, breathing, and not being afraid of small mistakes. They emphasize the use of drugs and alcohol as means of wealth and the importance of avoiding mistakes. The speakers also touch on animal hunting and the use of anime in media and the excess of time being a waste of time. They emphasize the importance of healthy eating, breathing, and not being afraid of small mistakes. The speakers also emphasize the use of anime in media and the excess of time being a waste of time.
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Welcome everybody to the Safina Saadi Nothing But
Facts live stream on a Thursday here in
the great state of New Jersey in New
Brunswick, one mile down from the very famous
and well-known Bob Wood Hospital.
A lot of people call it Robert Wood
Johnson Medical Center, but we give it a
nickname.
Bob Wood it is to us.
And of course you guys know the Johnson
family.
They're basically built New Brunswick.
All of New Brunswick is based on their
business according to the history, which is Johnson
& Johnson.
Just like Atlanta is all based on Coca
-Cola, right?
Built Atlanta's Coca-Cola.
That's how life is.
California is based on Silicon Valley.
So here we got Johnson & Johnson.
So bandages.
And then we got good old Thomas Edison
up north a little bit, about 10-minute
drive.
And Hollywood was here, believe it or not.
Before there was anything called Hollywood, all the
movies that were made initially were made here
in New Jersey.
And then Thomas Edison being, you know, who
he is, he got very control freaky about
it.
And all the actors said, you know, forget
this guy.
I mean, because he controls the cameras.
He owns the cameras basically.
Can't make movies without him.
So they said, forget this guy.
And they all left.
And they all found a cheap, empty plot
of land way out there in California.
And the moment that they were able to
buy their own cameras, make their own movies,
they hit the road.
And that's where Hollywood began.
So if it wasn't, alhamdulillah, Thomas Edison bothered
them, they got out of here.
Otherwise, New Jersey would have been the most
corrupted state in the Union.
Today we're going to talk about halal meat.
Many non-Muslims ask the question, what is
this halal business?
What is this?
We see it everywhere.
Should we eat it?
Should we not eat it?
What is it?
That's what we're going to talk about today.
The first thing before we talk about halal
meat, halal means lawful.
You can go there essentially.
When we talk about this, there's a presumption.
The fact that before this, even discussing halal
meat is, why should we eat meat at
all?
That's what we should discuss.
There's no point in discussing rules unless you
know the source of those rules.
And you believe and recognize the sources.
Even when you try to understand another person's
religion, you need to understand, to accurately understand
it, you don't just look at the rulings
and say, oh, I think that's ridiculous.
You look at the ultimate foundation.
The ultimate foundation of our religion, we can
call it a cosmology, is that God created
us.
Because he created us, he has every single
right to tell us what to do.
That's essential.
Who has the right to tell anybody, do
this, don't do that?
I mean, I have the right to do
what I want with my phone.
Why do I have that right?
Because I own it.
I bought it.
I paid money for it.
I have a book here.
I have any right to do what I
want with this book.
It's not my book, actually.
I didn't write it.
But hypothetically, I did.
I could go into Microsoft Word, open it
up and change the content of the book
and republish a second edition.
Why?
Because it's mine.
I made the book.
Elon Musk can go in and change what
he wants with the Cybertruck.
No one's going to stop him, right?
If one of his engineers did that, he'd
get sued.
But if Elon Musk himself, I own the
company.
I made the truck.
So ownership, when you make something, or you
bought it, that's what gives you the right
to do what you want with that thing.
So that's ultimately our cosmology, is that God
made the skies, he made the earth, he
made the animals.
Hey, Omar, can you fire up all those
images?
Because we're going to need to slide.
I should have told you.
I'm sorry.
I didn't warn you.
I should have told you in advance.
But we're going to look at some verses
here.
Now, obviously, if you're a non-Muslim, you
don't even believe in the Quran in the
first place, right?
But at least you understand what we're doing
here, right?
At least you understand what we're talking about
and why Muslims do what they do.
So the first point you have to understand
is that God told us that animals were
created for human use, except that you also
have to respect the fact that they're God's
animals.
And we're going to get to the point
of firstly, the belief about them.
And secondly, God also has restricted you.
He didn't give you free reign over animals,
do what you want with them, torture them,
experiment on them, injure them.
So the first thing is, these are God's
creations.
He has the right to assign them to
whomever he wants.
And he sets the rules of use so
that you understand that the philosophy of legislation
goes back to God and his prophets.
And of course, right now, the Muslims and
the world, there is one prophet for the
world right now.
It's Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.
And his words are gathered to us for
us and checked, double checked to make sure
he said what he said.
We call those the Hadith.
And recently there is Johnny United.
I don't know who this person is, but
he's got a massive Twitter account.
And he was asking the other day about
Hadith, commenting on Hadith.
And do we accept them or not?
The answer is that we accept Hadith with
qualifications, as long as they reached us with
a sound transmission that can be relied upon.
So the Quran tells us animals were created
for you humans to benefit from, including eating.
Animals are made for us to ride, to
use their skins.
That's how we keep warm.
The animal is not equal to a human
in the purpose of its existence.
The purpose of the animal's existence is to
be a benefit to humans.
And the purpose of a human's existence is
to be God's representative on earth.
What does that mean?
It means that we fulfill his law and
we have free will and we choose to
fulfill his law rather than go against his
law.
And there will be people on the earth
that go against his law.
So when we follow him and believe in
God and prophets, we are therefore the representatives,
we become the representative of God on the
earth.
That's the first thing.
Very basic cosmology, why we exist, who has
the right to tell us right and wrong,
that's a little bit of, that's an important
foundation.
From here on, we accept and we submit
to the rules that God puts on us,
believing that there's wisdom.
Sometimes God tells us why something is the
way it is.
So that would mean that if that condition
is absent, then the rule is absent as
well.
So for example, intoxication, we're not allowed to
consume any plant, any food that would intoxicate
us.
So what happens if they produce a version
of that food that doesn't intoxicate?
Becomes halal, becomes lawful, right?
So a guy is intending to make wine.
I don't know how long it takes for
grape juice to turn into wine.
Hey, could you look that up for us?
Just out of curiosity.
And I was like, hey, is it wine
yet?
He says no.
A couple more months.
So it doesn't intoxicate?
No, it doesn't.
Oh, it only takes two to three weeks.
Man, me too.
Me too.
They always say a few weeks.
Wow.
Some of these things, the Chateau de whatever
wine, red wine, it's been since 1776 in
the basement.
What?
Anyway, so let's say it didn't ferment yet.
I can drink it.
It's not fermented, right?
It's still grape juice.
Probably tastes bad, but still grape juice.
Point being is the reason.
That's called a illa in Islam, a legal
cause.
Sometimes he doesn't tell us the legal cause.
And therefore we can maybe assess the wisdoms
from our anecdotal experience, right?
Like what is the legal cause?
There's no legal cause for fasting.
For example, when Muslims fast, you just obey
God and that's it.
You fast on this month at this time.
That's it.
Now you can take the wisdoms as you
wish.
Oh, it's you're cleaning out your system.
You're reducing stress on your stomach and your
GI tract.
Those are wisdoms.
Wisdom may happen, may not happen.
I'll tell you for most Muslims, they don't
relax their GI tract at all in Ramadan.
In the daytime only.
After that, you come to our masjid and
it's gonna be Cheetos.
Okay?
You feel like, I burnt all these calories
I can fill up again.
It's gonna be food, it's Cheetos, it's all
sorts of stuff.
Anyway, hey, let me know when we're ready
with the verses.
We're ready.
Okay, so look at this first verse here.
He created the heavens and the earth in
truth.
What does it mean in truth?
It means in benefit.
Benefit and wisdom.
It's not a game for God.
There's not a virtual game that God is
playing with us here.
He created the heavens and the truth and
the earth in truth.
Transcendent is he above those who they claim
as God.
He created you.
He's reminding you before he's about to tell
you what to do, right?
God is about to tell you what to
do for very important things.
How to use animals in the world.
But first, let's give you a reminder.
I created you.
He created you because he cares for you.
And the sign of that he cares for
you, you are so fragile.
You're a little zygote in your mother's womb
and he took care of you.
Who took care of you?
Who are the claimants?
Your mom, what did she do?
She's not out down there feeding you and
no, she did nothing except just don't do
dangerous things and drink and smoke while you're
pregnant.
That's it.
What did your dad do?
Nothing.
He fulfilled his desire and you came out
of that.
He did nothing.
So he's reminding us, do not be someone
who argues.
God created you from a drop of fluid
and then this man grows up and he
argues back against God.
Why are you arguing?
Don't you remember who you are?
Subhanallah.
Let's be humble a little bit.
Be humble before God humbles you.
And if he doesn't humble you in this
life, that's very bad news.
You're gonna be, have to face it for
your deeds in the next life.
At least if he humbles you in this
life, I'll go with half sins and some
repentance and maybe I'll be okay.
Anyway, animals, livestock, he created them too.
You derive warmth from them and other benefits
and you get food from them.
From the livestock you eat, you don't eat
the whole cow.
You don't eat the bones, right?
You don't eat the fur.
And it's also beauty for you.
When you bring them home to rest and
you take them out to pasture, it's a
beautiful thing.
That's why I tried to get a goat
for myself.
I wanted this center to be a little
farm area with chickens running around, roosters, you
know.
We have a live demonstration here.
Look at this beautiful, gorgeous fur that we
got here.
Look at this.
Is this not created for use, for human
use?
What a waste.
This thing dies and we just bury it?
Look at this gorgeous fur.
This is, this is not fake.
This is a real fur.
I love animals, right?
Love animals.
What should we get?
Should we get a kitten?
Who's going to take care of it?
If Edwin takes care of it, we'll pay
for it.
How's that?
Edwin is our tenant downstairs, our guy downstairs.
But it has to be an outdoor cat.
By the way, I'm going to get to
the treatment of animals.
Remind me to tell everybody.
Animals should not be trapped.
We're going to cover that in a second.
All right, next slide or next picture.
What does that say?
No, that's okay.
I'll open up from my phone.
Next slide.
He says here.
Oh, we're allowed to use them to carry
our loads.
You were allowed to use animals to carry
loads.
This is mercy for you.
If the animal doesn't carry your loads, what
are you going to do?
Next slide.
All right.
Now we get to the point of what
foods we're not allowed to eat.
The default setting is we can eat these
foods.
We can eat all these animals.
But there are a couple things we're not
allowed to eat.
And I find nothing in this revelation that
is forbidden except that which is dead.
That which is dead.
And the opposite of dead is slaughtered.
That's the opposite of mayta.
The word mayta is dead.
So what is it?
Died with his blood inside of him.
He didn't release the blood.
That's the key.
Releasing the blood.
Flowing blood.
We're not allowed to consume flowing blood.
So you want to be a vampire?
You're not in Islam.
We're not allowed to drink blood of any
kind.
It's not a food.
Blood is not a food for us.
No blood.
So that means the British, the German who
want to have cooked, fried pig's blood.
I'm sorry.
Have your last one.
And then you can enter Islam after that.
Because, well, even if you do it in
Islam, it's sinful.
You don't negate your Islam.
But you know that's the thing, right?
Fried, it's called black pudding.
They take the blood of the pig and
they fry it.
And they eat it.
And then they call us, they say you're
inhumane for eating meat.
We're backers because we eat meat.
Well, you guys eat blood.
Come on.
Anyway, everyone's got their weird habits and you
got them too.
All right.
So, can't eat that.
The flesh of the pig.
We're not allowed to eat the flesh of
the pig.
Did God give a legal cause for that?
The answer is no.
God did not give us a legal cause.
He didn't say because you can get whatever,
whatever disease that is allegedly comes from eating
pig, right?
That doesn't exist.
So, it could be.
You can think of any wisdom you want.
Some people say whoever eats pork, his concern
for his women, his jealousy over the women
of his family goes down.
Who knows if that's true or not?
Who knows, right?
The pig to us is not an evil
animal.
We just don't eat it.
Why did God create the pig?
As a cleaning source, a vacuum, a living
vacuum.
You put the garbage from the farm there.
If you had a dead chicken, throw it
in the pigsty, the pig will eat it.
When a pig dies itself, its own relatives
will just finish him off.
We'll eat him.
They eat carry on.
They eat everything, right?
Take that over because it's creating a bit
of a glare, believe it or not.
It's so bright that's actually reflecting light.
That's crazy, subhanAllah.
Yeah.
So, we're not allowed to eat the pig.
There is no legal cause that you can
author wisdoms as much as you want.
I'm sure that there are a lot of
people who ate pig all their lives and
they never got that disease.
There's a lot of people who ate pig
all their lives and they lived perfect healthy
life, perfect and healthy.
And they took care of the women of
their house.
So, we're not going to go there, but
we're just going to say God forbade it.
That's it.
Why?
Sometimes he tests us and he has the
right to do that.
All right.
What else are we not allowed to eat?
What if someone took an animal that we're
allowed to eat like a cow or a
goat or a sheep or a chicken or
a pigeon, but he slaughtered it in the
name of an idol?
He says, in the name of Vishnu, in
the name of, who's the Greek God?
Zeus.
I shall eat this chicken.
We're not allowed to eat that.
Okay.
But if you are dying, dying of hunger,
then you may eat whatever's in front of
you.
That's the mercy of the creator.
How much can you eat?
Only your full?
No, no.
Only what you need?
No, you can eat as much as you
want.
Why?
Because the assumption in the law is that
you don't have anything.
So, eat it all now because you're likely
not to have any later on.
So, we're traveling.
Let's say in the old days, you get
lost and you travel somewhere and then all
of a sudden I got nothing and I
come upon a dead deer.
I light a fire and I eat that
deer.
I eat as much of it as I
want.
Why?
Because the assumption is that I have nothing.
In the future, I'll be hungry too.
What is the point?
Only eat your fill.
First of all, that's impossible.
Once you open your desires, it's hard to
close it.
It can't legislate it either.
Eat only your fill.
Where is my fill?
I can't legislate this.
I can't make law on subjectivity like that.
So, eat only what I need.
Okay, fine.
Then I go and one day later, I'm
starving again.
There's no point.
So, when you are stuck and you're about
to die and you have absolutely no food,
and it's less than about to die too.
Because when someone's walking cross-country and starving,
it happened many times in the old world
before this world and maybe even today.
Where is the line between I'm starving and
I'm about to die?
Well, you don't know.
So, it's once you hit dire need, then
you may eat what you wish.
Yeah.
Open this gentleman's mic.
Yeah.
Are we able to apply this example in
a modern day situation?
Let's say, I remember I had a brother
at the Masjid saying, he was a college
student who had no halal restaurants near him
and he lived in an area where there
was no halal spots.
Yeah.
The farthest halal spot that was available to
get food was like 30 minutes away and
then he would miss class.
Wait, why does he need to eat meat?
To eat anything.
But is he about to die?
Why didn't he eat vegetarian food?
Why didn't he eat fish?
Why didn't he eat beans?
Why didn't he eat tuna?
Are there vegetarians in that town that have
survived?
Okay.
So, to seek the alternatives then.
What's that?
To seek the alternatives then.
Oh, yeah.
Well, what's his dire need?
There's no dire need.
Okay.
So, it has to be like a dire
need.
Yeah.
It has to be a dire need to
eat these unlawful foods.
All right.
Now, let's go to...
So, there are a lot of wisdoms for
eating pork.
Okay.
They say you can get...
What's it called?
What did I say?
Many wisdoms to not eat pork.
Okay.
You can get trichinosis, an infection of parasitic
roundworm.
But they say that if you cook it
well, then you're good to go.
And it could be fatal, they say, if
you get it.
You can get a lot of diseases.
You can get salmonella if you don't cook
your chicken.
So, in any event, that's what the rule
is.
Now, let's talk about how we're allowed to
use animals.
Just because we're allowed to use animals does
not mean we're allowed to abuse animals.
Let's read some commands of the Prophet, peace
be upon him, about this.
The Prophet, peace be upon him, said, There
is a reward for helping any living creature.
This is in Bukhari and Muslim.
So, therefore, animals are for us an object
of use, reward, and punishment.
Use, reward, and punishment.
It is a great sin for a man
to imprison animals that are under his power.
So, if I control these animals, it is
actually unlawful to trap them.
But to what degree?
So, a woman used to pray all day
and all night.
She would fast all day and she would
pray in the night.
Yet, the Prophet, peace be upon him, said,
She's in the fire because she trapped a
cat until the cat was starving.
She didn't allow the cat to go out
and eat from the earth.
So, there is a gradation here.
All trapping of animals is forbidden, but the
prohibition in Islam is in two parts.
The first part is you're prohibited from doing
it, but you won't be punished.
That's discouragement.
Discouragement.
And then, insofar as you are injuring the
animal, harming the animal, starving the animal, making
the animal depressed, it's unlawful.
I'll tell you who makes animals depressed.
All the New York City dog owners, Manhattan
dog owners.
Yeah.
In Islam, one of the reasons why Muslims
are not allowed to keep dogs as a
pet is that the dog is not made
to be trapped in a house.
He's made to roam free.
Don't now trap him in a house.
And it's discouraged in Maliki Fiqh.
People are not going to like this.
It's what it is.
It's discouraged in Maliki Fiqh to keep a
cat trapped in the house.
I literally just studied this with Sheikh Mahmoud
yesterday.
The discouragement of trapping a cat in the
house.
Why?
This is a creature Allah made to roam
free in the sky, and to eat from,
and to hunt, and do all these things.
Now, if you did trap it in the
house, but you took care of it, and
you helped it, and then maybe you, in
fact, increased its lifespan, I don't know if
it's going to be happy or not, right?
But it's just discouraged.
You won't be sinful.
You won't get sins with God.
So, trapping animals is unlawful for us.
The worst of the shepherd, said the Prophet,
is the ungentle one who causes the beast
to crush or bruise one another.
He jams them together, and they are hitting
each other.
When you look at how chickens are treated
in our country, in our world today, you
would literally stop eating chicken.
And I know people who have sworn off
buying chicken because of these documentaries.
They don't enforce it on their families.
That's the reason.
So, I asked him, like, a sort of
tough thing to do.
He said, yeah, I have two exceptions.
I don't enforce it on my family.
And if I'm at someone's house, and he
offers me chicken, I eat it because we're
not allowed to be rude.
And you're not allowed to enforce something that
God didn't enforce.
Did Allah tell us that you're not allowed
to eat such chickens?
No.
They're sinful for doing that, but it's still
lawful for us to eat it.
And on top of that, we're not allowed
to reject the food of a guest, of
a host.
A host comes and brings you lawful food.
You're not allowed to reject it.
It's rude to reject it.
It's rude to go into someone's home, as
many people do, and say, by the way,
I'm vegetarian, sugar-free, vegan, blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah.
What a headache is this, huh?
If it's a non-Muslim host, you have
to tell him well in advance of you
have, and you only tell him of the
religious rules.
Now, unless you have an allergy of sorts.
But to have all these specialty diets, and
now you're a burden?
No.
The adab of Islam is you're not allowed
to burden your host beyond what is obligatory
and necessary.
I'm going to get sick if I eat
peanuts, and I only eat halal meat.
That's it.
Why is that?
If I invite 20 people, and 20 people
give me different instructions, I'm going to stop
inviting anybody.
And the religion wants us to come together
for food.
In any event, we move on.
How should we treat the animals?
Omar, go to that.
Eat these animals, no problem.
Allow your animals, your cattle to graze.
There are signs for this for people who
think and have understanding.
That means, when you take a cow and
you just let him roam free, he is
far healthier.
He's breathing, moving.
But if you just trap him like what
they call Kobe beef in Japan, there's another
type of this where the animal literally does
not move.
Do you know that these animals get so
fat from eating so much and not moving
at all that sometimes their legs start to
suffer from how fat they get?
This practice is unlawful in Islam.
You know that?
It's unlawful.
Kobe beef, insofar as, I'm not an expert
on these beefs, but insofar as that cow
is not allowed to walk and graze and
move around, and you just force feeding the
guy, and you're feeding him weird stuff too.
They feed it weird stuff to make it
fat.
Omar's going to get us the information.
Kobe beef, how is it produced?
How do they do it?
It's a meat delicacy, of course.
The marbling on it is just the fat
is so much.
How did they do it?
Cattle brought to Japan from China.
I mean, they're making sumo wrestlers out of
their cows.
Okay.
They feed them things the cat is not
supposed to eat.
The cow is not supposed to eat.
I'm trying to read here.
Omar, if you find something, just blurt it
out.
What do they feed these poor things?
So, when Allah says in the Quran, what
graze your animals, what comes out of the
earth?
Just grass, weeds, any of these green things,
right?
All right.
The Wagyu burger, keep in mind, it is
valid for us to eat.
That shepherd, that farmer, I mean, he's sinful
for doing that.
Does the sin carry down when someone sells
it and eats it?
No.
The sin is for that.
It stops there.
Now, we shouldn't promote it.
We should discourage people from partaking in this
Kobe and Wagyu.
I know some of my friends are going
to be so upset.
Some of my friends say, Omar, how could
you say this?
You know, so-and-so does that.
He's your friend.
I was like, I know.
My friends commit sins.
What can I tell you?
I can't change the religion because of them.
That's what it is.
Anyway, let's, until Omar gets us some information
here, Wagyu, Matsusaka beef, Japanese, whatever, all these
types of methods are unlawful for a Muslim
to do.
All of that.
And that's why my friend swore off chicken.
Now, let's, while Omar is looking stuff up,
let's look at the next ruling.
Fear God with these mute animals, said the
Prophet, peace be upon him.
Ride them when they are fit to be
ridden and let them go free when they
need to rest.
Okay?
That means when it comes to riding your
animal, you're not allowed to put on it
a load that it cannot carry.
Okay?
You will not have secure faith until you
love one another and have mercy on those
who live on the earth, Bukhari, Muslim and
Abu Dawud.
A Muslim, his view of everything, even an
insect, this is a creature that God created
and Allah has a lifespan destined for this
creature and you don't have a right to
make a judgment on it and you don't
have a right to injure it or remove
it.
So, when I see a spider, in my
mind, that life form is so minimal in
relation to me, right?
But that's not the view.
But I'm also so minimal in relation to
the whole earth and the earth is so
minimal in relation to the universe, to the
galaxy.
So, if minimal is the standard, then nobody
should be spared, right?
Nobody should be spared.
The whole earth itself can be flicked away.
You know that in relative to, I don't
know, Andromeda, what they call it, the whole
sun can be flicked away.
The whole sun is literally like a little
speck.
So, that's not how we judge things.
We judge things.
Who made it?
Who created it?
Who owns it?
So, my personal thing is this.
When we see spiders or bees in the
house, if it's one, you cup it.
You put the piece of paper under the
cup and you take it outside.
But if you have an infestation, then you're
allowed to kill them.
And there are certain animals that should not
be spared because they're pests even as one,
which is mainly like the cockroach for sure,
100%.
The guy gets no mercy.
What are those?
Not the fly, the centipedes, right?
This is like the bugs of *.
And the mosquitoes.
Mosquitoes, you just cause problems, okay?
All right.
But a regular spider, a bee, those have
some nobility.
The Quran has chapters named after the spider
and the bee.
There's something like, why would I harm this
animal, this insect?
The spider, as long as it's not poisonous,
people got so scared of it, but you
can kill it.
But if you don't have to kill it,
let it go, right?
Let it go live its life in nature.
So, when you ride it, you can only
ride it to a limit.
There is no man who kills a sparrow
or anything beyond that without it's deserving it,
except God will ask him about it.
Why are we allowed to kill animals for
legitimate uses of their meat and their flesh,
their skin?
That means I'm allowed to hunt a raccoon
for the skin.
That's a benefit, okay?
It's a benefit.
That's from Imam Ahmad al-Nasa'i.
The grievous things are polytheism, disobeying your parents,
and killing breathing beings.
Why would you kill a dog for no
reason?
Why would you kill an animal for no
reason?
Haditha, that's Bukhari and Muslim.
May God curse anyone who maims an animal.
Bukhari.
In Islam, we have laws against branding animals
with hot irons.
When you see a cow that's branded like
that, who gave you the right to burn
another animal?
When you have a cow and they stapled
a piece of plastic to its ear, or
a sheep, who gave you the right to
do that?
Okay.
When you have a trap putting stuff around
the necks, who gave you the right to
do that?
In a way that's uncomfortable.
How about the way that you pull the
horse?
You have to be gentle with that.
The way that you pull the thingy on
the horse.
Whoever is kind to the creatures of Allah
is kind to himself.
When you're kind to the creatures of Allah,
how are you kind to yourself?
You soften your own heart.
And when you soften your heart, then Allah
treats you well.
Allah has mercy on you because you treated
God's creation.
And it's not the spider that reaches God,
it's the intent.
What is your purpose in doing so?
Do you know that Imam al-Ghazali passed
away and was seen in a vision by
his some of his friends or students?
They said, oh Imam, what did Allah do
with you?
Meaning, did God give you paradise because you
wrote this book or that book or the
other book?
Which book?
Because he's the one of the greatest theologians
in all of Islam and many people say
he's the greatest.
He said, no.
In fact, Allah had mercy on me over
a fly that was drinking from the ink
which I was using.
I could have dunked the fly with my
pen into the ink and continued writing or
pushed it away from the ink so I
can continue writing.
But I noticed that it's drinking from the
ink and I said, this insect has a
very short lifespan.
Let it drink what it wants to drink
and I'll wait.
And Allah told me, for this I have
forgiven all your sins.
In Islam, you only are freed from *
by God's mercy.
And you're eligible for paradise by God's mercy
alone.
Your rank in paradise is based on your
deeds.
Your rank is based on your deeds.
That's how we gather between Allah saying in
the Quran, enter paradise.
Enter paradise by what you did.
And the prophet peace be upon him said,
no one enters paradise except by God's mercy.
Even you are a messenger of Allah?
Yes, even me.
So the mercy of Allah is what frees
us from * and makes us eligible for
paradise and your deeds dictate the rank that
you receive in paradise.
So you can enter paradise and you can
go to * on animals and insects because
how you treat them is reflective of what
you think about their creator.
It has nothing to do with the animal
itself.
It has to do with who created that
animal.
But you got some insight.
Let me read this one last hadith and
then we'll go to the Kobe beef info.
Then we'll go to how to slaughter an
animal properly in Islam because we're allowed to
do that.
Like it or don't like it, we're allowed
to do that.
There is none amongst the Muslims who plants
a tree or sows a seed and then
a bird or a person or an animal
eats from it but is regarded as a
charitable gift for him.
Subhanallah.
When I plant a tree, do you know
how many thousands of insects live off of
that tree and birds and squirrels?
This is a hadith of Bukhari.
All right, Omar, let's see what you got.
Before that, I mean, this one thing about
the spiders.
I saw this very interesting video of this
man.
Yeah, it was apparently he's like the loneliest
man in the world or whatever.
Lonely, it's terrible.
And the guy, he was a very interesting
man.
They went and they visit him and when
these guys went into his room, he had
some spider webs.
And so the guys like they just like
shoot it away, broke it and he got
really mad at them.
He's like, what are you guys doing?
Do you not know like these spider webs?
I keep them there so that the mosquitoes
and the flies, they don't enter my room.
Subhanallah.
It's like all these little wisdoms that we
don't realize.
And like these people, he's using the spider
web as like protection.
Nature actually balances itself if you notice.
Like if we did not eat herbivores, the
trees, the leaves on the trees and the
grass on the earth would suffer tremendously if
we didn't eat herbivores.
That's already, there was a whole famous study
on this in one of the parks in
the United States where they had eliminated the
wolves.
They didn't want wolves there.
Who would want wolves there, right?
And when they did that, the deers severely
overpopulated the park, went rampant, ate everything green.
The trees are what pulls water up from
the ground.
So the streams and stuff all began to
run dry.
And guess what happened with the deers?
They began to die too.
The deer themselves began to die.
So here you go, introduce one predator into
the system.
And even the general population of deers themselves
improves, thrives.
Because too many deer harms the deers themselves.
So culling the population is important.
And the way that God created the world,
it's a perfect harmony as is, leave it
alone, don't touch it.
Zoos are forbidden in Islam.
Do you know that?
Forbidden.
I mean, going maybe is okay.
You're just watching.
But then again, you're promoting the whole business.
Zoos are forbidden.
Do you like a lion or a tiger?
You can see the sadness in his face.
They say, oh, well, they feed it meat.
Who says it wants to be fed meat?
It wants to hunt.
It needs to hunt.
So we already saw, what's his poor name,
poor guy, Tuscan or whatever, the whale, that
whale that, oh, what did they call that
whole thing?
That killer whale.
And that animal was depressed, man.
That free wheelie was the movie, but then
they made a whole documentary on these guys.
Someone in the chat, I'm sure is telling
us.
Let's see what the chat looks like.
What was that killer whale?
And they had it at one of these
sea shows, whatever.
It was so terrible and sad what they
did to this animal.
And they shut down the whole thing, which
I agree with, right?
I agree with.
You cannot take an orca.
What's the orca called?
They took an orca and the main character
was Tilikum.
There it is.
Tilikum died in 2017, was a captive male
orca.
He was taken away from his mother.
His mother was whaling.
They took Tilikum away from its mom.
And Tilikum, basically his whole life, he is
a basket case.
He's a whale that is a basket case.
You took him away from his mom, right?
And then Tilikum, he was their star, but
he would randomly attack people.
And then, I don't know what they did
with him, but I don't blame the guy.
You guys are criminals, all of you.
And I wondered, how do they make this
animal mate, right?
You know how they produce these animals in
captivity?
They don't let them mate together.
They actually extract the fluid from the male
and inject it into the female.
Who gave you the right to do this?
They're literally going and doing al-istamnat bil
-yad on the whale.
You know that?
That's disgusting.
What is wrong with you people?
Manually.
Maybe they use a machine, but who allowed
you to do this?
I'm not going to translate or say it
in English.
You know Arabic or not, you don't know
what we're talking about.
But I think maybe by context clues, you
know what we're talking about.
But that's how they put these together.
All of this is completely, it's abuse.
All right.
A little bit on Kobe beef.
Read for us.
Yeah, so Kobe beef is essentially a type
of Wagyu beef.
So it's very marbly and has a nice
flavor and tenderness.
And it's produced in Japan.
So on the topic of how the cows
are treated, I think there's a lot of
sugar coating going on here, honestly.
Even if you look at the videos, probably
just so they can market this beef as
something amazing.
But upon looking at the videos, you can
tell that the cows, they're not really allowed
to move around too much.
But they're claiming that they're kept in stress
-free environments, which I don't know how they
exactly test that.
Maybe it says that they do behavioral observation
and I guess heart rate and stuff, checking
cortisol levels to detect the stress of the
cow.
But I think there's a lot of sugar
coating going on here.
You could just tell from the videos that
these cows, they're kept in very small environments.
No, you have to be able to walk
around free.
Keeping dogs, keeping cats is part of this.
So we mentioned that already.
All right.
Let's talk about how we eat the animal.
The ultimate fundamental law is that you must
cut the neck, which is in the neck,
there are four things.
There are two veins this way, two arteries,
and there's an esophagus and a trachea, which
is your air pipe and your throat.
The throat for food, air pipe for air,
and you got two veins for blood.
You need to cut them across there and
get them all, preferably, and the different Islamic
schools of thought will tell you that three
or four, two, whatever.
But either way, the best is to cut
them all, because that is what makes the
killing, the slaughter, I should say, as painless
as possible.
That's what makes it.
The prophet, peace be upon him, said, when
you kill someone in battle, make it quick.
And he's your enemy.
So we're allowed to kill, we're not allowed
to torture.
When you slaughter an animal for food, then
make it quick.
Make it quick.
So cut all, but you're not allowed to
cut the spinal cord.
We don't behead the animal.
You actually want that communication to continue, but
you want the heart to pump out the
blood.
It'll still do that anyway, even if you
were to behead the animal, but you don't
behead the animal.
So what are the obligations?
So that's the obligation.
What is necessary to achieve that obligation is
also an obligation, and that is that the
knife be sharp, sharp enough that in one
swoop, you cut all of that.
That's the obligation.
There's a third obligation.
And the jurists, the Islamic schools of thought,
differ on the level of this obligation.
And if you forget about it, and if
you intentionally leave it off, we can discuss
that, is to say, Bismillah, or any mention
of the name of God.
Allah says, the name of Allah.
So let's just say hypothetically, Bismillah, no problem.
So there is a gradient on that obligation.
The gradient goes from an absolute obligation that
cannot be forgotten on every single animal.
The next level down in this gradation is
it's an obligation if you remember and are
capable of doing it.
Like what does it mean capable?
Well, I got like 3,000 chickens to
slaughter, and we're talking, give me this, give
me the knife, and I'll just say, Bismillah,
on all of them.
And so if that's the case, so that's
the next level, in case of hardship, or
I'm hunting.
I'm hunting.
I don't know which bird I'm going to
hunt.
So I say, Bismillah, and I just fire.
I didn't even know which bird.
Can't even see them all in the tree.
A whole bunch of pheasants in the tree.
Boom.
I shoot my gun and just say, Bismillah.
Or what happens if I forget?
A butcher at work, he's slaughtered so much,
it's possible that he forgets.
Fine.
The next level down is that to say,
Bismillah, is recommended in the first place.
Right?
Shafi'a opinion.
It's just recommended.
But what is not allowed is to intentionally
not do it.
That means I say, okay, say, Bismillah.
No.
All right.
At that point, the animal is no longer
halal for us to eat.
What is the point of saying, Bismillah, what
difference in the animal is there?
Well, as we said earlier, we follow God's
command.
The difference is that we're stubborn against following
God's command.
So we're not eating from you.
Now, someone's going to say, is there some
spiritual transfer?
We're not going to go into that speculative
mysticism.
Yes, some people do believe that vibrations and
all that, and that does apply in our
daily lives.
And you can definitely see it.
You just can't put your finger on it
and make a rule about it.
But you can definitely see when someone pious
is remembering Allah, and it's in a peaceful
environment, and they prepare food, it comes out
different from when you eat some fast food
junk with crazy music blaring and all sorts
of crazy people preparing your food.
I don't want to eat that food.
I don't care how halal it is.
I don't want to eat it.
I recommend you don't eat it.
Fast environment, who knows who's in the kitchen?
But it could be halal.
I can't tell you it's unlawful if it
was slaughtered properly.
So now we go to the recommended circle
of things.
There is a circle now of things that
are recommended regarding how we eat the food.
And what is that?
Number one, you are sinful if you sharpen
the knife in front of the animal.
That's a form of torture.
No, they're dumb animals.
They don't understand.
Yes, they understand.
They totally understand.
They're not that dumb.
They're not stones.
They're not plants.
Sharpen the knife away from the animal.
Number two, sinful to slaughter, I guess intentionally,
an animal in front of another animal.
Or hang a dead carcass in front of
another animal, provided you're able to avoid that.
Provided you're able to avoid that.
So those are two things that are very,
very important to do to take into consideration.
The prophet is telling us, could we have
ever known this ourselves?
Is it rationally comprehensible?
No.
We would have not known that goats recognize
knives.
We don't know that, right?
The prophet told us that.
You can guess, but now when the prophet
tells you, you have absolute certainty.
That's the value of revelation, affirming things that
we see in daily life.
Because I can guess about it.
I feel bad slaughtering in front of another
animal.
And to me, it looks sad.
The animal looks sad and is nervous, but
that's all speculation.
But now that the prophet has said it,
now it's certainty.
See the difference between speculation and certainty?
There are certain things that are rationally comprehensible,
like draining the blood.
We know that that's good for the animal,
for us when we eat it.
So you have to drain the blood.
And when you hunt an animal, that's, there's
an exception here.
I can't catch wild animals like deer and
slaughter them.
So I hunt them.
When I hunt them, I say, Bismillah, I
fire.
It has to be something that would cause
bleeding.
It doesn't have to be a razor sharp
edge to the bullet.
The bullets are rounded out, but that's okay.
It still pierces through.
That's the key.
It's not a bludgeon.
So for example, I can't set a trap
for a deer that deer walks and down
from the tree comes a huge stone and
crushes the animal.
I can't, that's mate at that point.
It's carry on.
We're not allowed to eat it.
So you hunt it.
So it bleeds out.
If you catch up with it, you slaughter
it.
If you don't catch up with it, you
eat it as is.
You can use dogs.
You know the difference between a target and
food.
If a dog catches a rabbit for you
and you notice the dog took a bite
of the rabbit, then at that point, it's
not a hunting dog.
It's a hungry dog.
So he's, that's his food now.
That's his food.
So we are allowed to use animals in
the past.
They used to use animals and we can
hunt and just say, Bismillah, right?
And then if we catch up with it,
we slaughter it.
What kind of animals are we, what else
are we allowed to eat in terms of
animals?
We're allowed to eat all wild animals and
there are differences of opinion on certain categories
of animals.
When it comes to carnivores, there is a
difference of opinion between prohibition and discouragement.
When it comes to horses, donkeys and mules,
riding beasts, there's a difference of opinion between
prohibition, discouragement, and permissibility.
When it comes to crayfish, and I think,
what else Omar?
Fish without scales?
Crayfish.
Shellfish.
Shellfish.
What about fish without scales?
Like a catfish.
Like a smooth fish.
You're allowed to eat that.
Yeah, that's true.
So, shellfish are between permitted and forbidden.
There's no discouragement.
It's either yes or no in Islamic jurisprudence,
in the schools of thought of Islam.
I'm just giving you the list of things
that are different upon.
Rodents are between, because they're dirty, they spread
disease, between discouraged and forbidden.
I don't think anyone permits the rodent, right?
The bats and rats and vermin, sorry, vermin,
which rodents are also vermin.
Let's now talk about the animals of the
sea.
What's unique about the animals of the sea?
They don't have to be slaughtered at all.
That's the beauty of animals of the sea.
They're not warm-blooded.
Now, first of all, of the sea has
some discussion.
What is of the sea?
The prophet, peace be upon him, said, it's
what is of the sea is pure, is
halal for you to eat, even when dead.
That means you find a fish floating atop
the sea, no problem, you can eat it.
Because it's not a warm-blooded creature that
trapped the blood, and that's just an analysis.
The ultimate word of the prophet, peace be,
if we were to discover a warm-blooded
animal in the sea, we still eat it,
right?
It's not about warm blood, that's just an
observation.
So, the key here is that the animal
is of the sea.
What is of the sea?
Now, the scholars, again, we have a school
of thought that differed.
Of the sea is anything that could survive
in water, in one opinion.
Anything that lives majority of life in water
is another opinion.
And any animal that exclusively lives in the
sea is another opinion.
Then within that, there are a gradation of
what we can eat in it, and the
first answer is everything.
The second answer is everything minus shellfish.
So, when that animal is caught, you kill
it in any way, shape, and form, doesn't
matter how you kill it, or you eat
it dead.
Let me tell you something about lobster that
many people think is, when you boil a
lobster alive, which I probably would say that
it's better to kill it first, just hit
it on the head.
There's a spot, and you take a sharp
object like a screwdriver and a rubber mallet,
and boom, and the lobster will be dead.
To me, that seems more humane.
Some people put the lobster alive in the
pot, and they put the fire on.
And of course, the lobsters are moving around
crazy.
But here's the thing.
They don't have nervous systems like ours that
feel pain the way we feel pain, according
to the speculation of some zoologists, I guess.
When you hear the lobster squealing, it's not
the lobster squealing.
It's the air coming out of its body.
Lobsters don't have voice boxes to make noises.
Nonetheless, I would say, that the best way
to do things is to kill it.
It removes any doubt of torture.
Removes any doubt of torture.
We have some Hanafis making additional statements that
the shrimp is only discouraged, and they have
their own rules on eating.
If you want to eat, you be a
Mariki.
If you want to buy and sell and
marry, be a Hanafi.
Just some general observations about what seems to
be easier in each school.
We don't say any one school of thought
is easier than the other.
That's a silly approach.
Easy relative to what?
Your whims and desires, right?
And we don't say that they're strict and
relaxed.
It's not the right language for the schools
of thought.
Because relative to what?
Now, what would actually...
Oh, sorry.
We didn't talk about another animal.
Insects.
The insects, there's some discussion on insects.
Insects, according to one school of thought, which
is the Shuafa, is halal when dead.
All insects, halal, even if dead.
Another has limited it to locusts and...
What's the other animal, Omer?
Locusts and...
There's two animals the Prophet ï·º mentioned.
So locusts, because the Prophet ï·º specifically mentioned
them.
Halal when dead.
And there's another animal that is also in
that.
But here's the other one.
The other school of thought says that all
insects are lawful to eat, but you have
to make the intention before killing them.
And you have to kill it in any
way, shape, and form.
But you just have to make the intention.
So again, there's a gradient to be discussed
on insects.
What about blood that's in the meat?
Notice that the Qur'an forbade flowing blood.
Therefore, if I were to order a steak,
and I like my steak to be medium
rare or rare, it's lawful for me, right?
Because the Qur'an said flowing blood, not
the blood that's in the tissue.
So I cut my piece of meat, and
oh, it's red.
That has nothing to do with religious law
now.
That has to do with your preference.
Do you want to eat it red like
that, or do you want to cook it?
So it is lawful for you to eat
that amount of blood that's there, because that
is not flowing blood.
That's impossible to get all of that blood
out.
I think we covered everything, right?
Let's talk about some common practices now.
Here is something that's disturbing, that is bothersome
to people.
But it has its reasons.
Today, when I have a thousand chickens that
need to be slaughtered within the next hour,
if I leave them as is, and I
send a couple guys, they will be running
around chasing chickens all day long.
So what do they do?
They hose down the area so that there's
some water on the ground.
Then in that area, there's some wires, I
guess, how they do it, and they turn
on a switch that sends a jolt of
electricity through the ground, and the chickens pass
out.
The person, the slaughterer, the worker is now
able to easily deal with the chickens and
put them upside down on the conveyor belt.
Then the conveyor belt turns on, and in
the best-case scenario, you have a human
being there slaughtering and saying God's name on
it, each one.
And the chicken is passed out, but still
alive.
That's how they have to do it, because
there are just so many animals, right?
And you need to feed the population.
So that's how they do it.
And there is a fatwa for this, unanimous
verdict from Al-Azhar's scholars.
Now, which board of this?
I don't know.
Is there a specific branch of Al-Azhar?
Because Al-Azhar is a university in Cairo,
of course, the most illustrious Islamic university.
Furthermore, the Muslim World League also have their
fatwa in 1986 that pre-slaughter stunning is
lawful when the weakest electric current renders a
non-human animal unconscious, but not dead.
Here is the problem in chicken factories.
There are so many chickens that they're dealing
with every day, that is anyone really checking
if the chicken died from the electricity or
is alive?
Or when it's machine cut, that the cutting
actually killed the chicken?
Because what if the chicken was taller or
shorter than the thing and the blade got
the chest, which happens, or the beak?
And then the chicken dies from bleeding out
or dies from the stunning.
That is where the machine methodology is problematic.
And if you were to confirm that it
happens, then all that batch is unlawful for
you to eat, unless someone is awake and
takes it off the conveyor belt, then you're
good to go.
You need a human to confirm for you
that each animal is actually being slaughtered.
You need a human to confirm that.
Otherwise, we're eating with doubt and we should
not eat with doubt.
Anytime prohibition and permissibility are at stake, we
go with prohibition, because that's the safer one.
And the rule is a Muslim is believed.
A regular guy comes to you and he
says, I'm a Muslim, I run the slaughterhouse.
Okay, we ask him all these questions.
He says, yeah, it's all done properly.
If there's no reason not to believe him,
like he did not come in drunk.
He's not some random person who no one
in the community knows.
Well, I think I just contradicted myself there
because I just said any Muslim, but there's
no reason to disbelieve him.
Then we accept his word.
But if a reason arises, such as an
epidemic of lying in the business, then we
don't believe you anymore.
We have to investigate.
And that's where the brothers Sheikh Hamza Maqbool,
may Allah reward him.
Abdullah Nana, may Allah reward him.
All these brothers who are investigating and putting
pressure on these slaughterhouses to do the right
thing.
That's the key.
What are the names of their orgs by
the way?
Yeah.
And they apply the Hanafi standard, which is
the strictest one.
I'm a proponent that somebody needs to apply
a Shafi'i standard, right?
HMS and SMS. I don't know what the
name of the organization is.
I think HMS is their organization, right?
I think that's what it is.
There's two organizations.
So I don't know who runs what.
I don't know who runs what.
But there is a standard that is less
than that.
And I think that to be fair, label
it H in a star, S in a
star.
Hanafi standard, Shafi'i standard.
You come up to Patterson, all Palestinians, you're
lucky if they just observe the Shafi'i
standard, right?
The Arabs have never had a problem with
food.
So for them to now observe rules regarding
food, it's a new thing.
You go to Arab world, everything's Halal.
Even the Christian vendor who sells meat is
selling Halal meat, right?
All right.
We didn't talk about that.
If a Jew or a Christian, and by
the way, I should note that's in the
past.
Today, who knows where the meat's coming from,
even in Mecca itself, right?
I should qualify that statement I made was
that our grandparents and our parents' era, all
the meat was Halal.
You never had to ask.
So that's why they're like, whoa, why do
we have to ask?
So anyway, we have to answer the question
of, can a Muslim eat the food of
a Jew or a Christian?
The answer is he can.
The only question regards the slaughtered meats.
As for the vegetables, you may even eat
the vegetable of a pagan.
You can eat the vegetable from a Hindu
restaurant.
I'm not saying I recommend that.
I don't know if they actually have dropping
some cow urine in there, by the way.
I'm not joking about that.
I know it's wonderful comedy material and disgust
material.
We like to be disgusted together.
That's like a thing.
But I'm not kidding you that it's a
blessing for them.
But the cow manure, cow urine in there.
Now you wouldn't eat that out of disgust,
by the way.
And it's not something that we eat.
But I will have to say that it's
Tahir.
I know that some people may think this
is like, why are you saying this?
I'm just telling you the rules.
Animals that we are allowed to eat, their
urine and defecation is not impure.
Vegetarians, herbivores, urinating all over the place.
The shepherd walks in their urine all day.
Does he have to go wash his sandals
before he prays or his thobe, his garment?
No.
You're walking and you're praying and there's goose
droppings everywhere, chicken droppings, bird droppings.
They are not ritually impure.
It doesn't mean we eat them.
It means if it gets on your clothes
or your skin, you're allowed to pray.
But we don't eat it out of disgust,
out of disease.
It's not a food that God created.
So the Jew and the Christian, if they
slaughter an animal, we're allowed to eat it.
Christians, I don't think slaughter.
Maybe out in Pennsylvania, the Amish and the
Mennonites, they have farms, so they have to
slaughter.
They're not allowed to use electricity.
So you go out there, Mennonite guy, with
a chin strap beard and some denim overalls
that his wife sewed for him.
You say, hey, what's happening?
Oh, what's his name going to be?
Ezekiel.
Hey, Ezekiel, can you slaughter an animal for
me?
I'll pay you 300 bucks.
Slaughter me a sheep.
He goes, he slaughters a sheep.
You can eat it.
This is a Christian guy who slaughters.
The key is slaughtering.
A Jewish guy, yeah, he can do that
too for you, likewise.
Hasidic Jew.
So when we talk about the prohibition of
other religions, we're only limited to the meat.
All right.
And we can eat the meat of a
Jew and Christian, and that's it.
That's it.
They don't have to be religious.
They just have to identify as Jews and
Christians.
What's the Hanafi rule on that?
Yeah.
Slaughtering?
Yeah, Mennonites do.
Because these Amish Mennonites are not allowed to
use machines in the first place.
So they slaughter.
They're not allowed to stun the thing dead.
They have to slaughter.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Of the slaughter.
Yeah.
All right.
Let's now talk about birds.
There are some discussion related to birds.
And there is again a gradient in Islamic
jurisprudence from the prohibition of birds with claws,
which are, maybe you can say, the meat
-eating birds.
I don't know if that's all animals with
claws, but there is.
This is based on a Hadith of the
Prophet, peace be upon him, that forbade animals
with canines and birds with claws.
So another of our scholars in Islamic law,
Imam Malik, he said the addition of birds
with claws was from the narrator, not from
the Prophet.
So the Prophet did not make that.
And on top of that, in Maliki law,
Maliki understanding of the law, is that prohibitions
of food is only in the Quran and
what the Prophet prohibits is out of disgust.
No one eats cougar.
No one eats lion.
Right.
But he means by that, it's discouraged.
So predators in Islam, it's between discouraged and
forbidden.
Predators.
Birds, it's between all of them are lawful,
every single bird, even the hawk, or even
the birds that eat carrion.
Those birds that eat carrion.
All birds are lawful on one end, or
only non-claw-possessing birds, and that claw
-possessing birds are unlawful.
So you see how there's jurisprudence in everything,
right?
There's jurisprudence in there.
Okay.
There's a question.
Was there any Prophet that was a vegetarian?
I don't have any recollection of that.
No.
As someone saying, don't chickens have claws?
I think the talon is different.
Talons we're talking about.
We're talking about they use that to capture
the animal, hunt it, and eat it.
Talon is a better translation, yeah.
Omar, is there anything else that we haven't
covered?
Or sorry, that didn't make any sense.
Is there anything that we haven't covered?
Pretty much everything, right?
We covered literally everything.
We covered…
Oh, very important.
Very important.
If you consume forbidden foods, your prayer is
not answered.
Who said so?
The Prophet, why did the Prophet connect that?
Number one, because you consume food every day,
right?
That means every single day you're disobeying God.
That's if you refuse to eat halal food,
as we have some people who have a
very bad trend out there.
That is, there is not an acceptable fatwa
by any means.
Just because a scholar said you can do
this does not mean it's correct.
And that fatwa would be, you can eat
anything that's not pork as long as you
say, Bismillah.
I'll tell you where that came from.
That came from an incident in the time
of the Prophet, peace be upon him, in
which people converted, a tribe, a whole tribe
converted to Islam.
On the next day, they slaughtered an animal
to celebrate and to invite their neighboring Muslim
tribe.
So they went to the Prophet, peace be
upon him, and they said, Oh Messenger of
Allah, they just became Muslim.
We don't know if they know the rule
that you have to say Bismillah over the
meat when you slaughter.
The Prophet said, you say Bismillah and eat
it.
Why is that?
They were already Muslims.
And that actually strengthens the claim that the
saying Bismillah is if you're able, or remember,
in this case, they didn't even know and
it was acceptable.
So it wasn't that they were not Muslim
and just say Bismillah and eat.
So that is a common misunderstanding that's out
there.
You eat whatever you want, just say it.
I'll tell you something else that's pretty sad.
Let's talk about the global economy.
It used to be any restaurant that you
step in from Morocco, up to Iraq, down
to Yemen, over to Afghanistan, into Jakarta was
halal.
Muslim countries in essence.
But the global market right now, flash freezing,
shipping this really fast.
There are restaurants in the heartlands of Islam
whose meat may not be halal.
So literally, you need to ask.
You literally need to ask.
Even if you go into an Islamic country.
Let's talk about something else.
There are assumptions regarding halal.
Halal, essentially, it's a fatwa.
It's a religious verdict.
We don't accept religious verdicts from non-believers.
Why?
They don't have to fear hellfire.
It's not a big deal for them.
We don't say, oh, he's honest or not
honest.
It doesn't make a difference to him.
I mean, I might be the most honest
guy in the world.
And if a guy tells, asks me something,
and I'm about to buy and sell something,
and he tells me, is Vishnu, God, and
Jupiter pleased with this?
It doesn't exist in the first place.
So say yes or no.
I'm going to make the sale.
I'm going to say yes, he is.
Okay.
Did some guru come and stamp his approval?
Yeah, whatever.
Take it.
I don't fear.
There is no consequence, no legal consequence, no
spiritual consequence.
So we do not take religious rulings from
non-Muslims.
When someone says here, this food is halal,
that is a religious ruling.
It's a judgment that he made.
So the moment that meat exits the possession
of Muslims and enters into the possession of
non-believers in such a manner that is
no longer identifiable, we can give an exception,
the wrap and stamp, such that it's ridiculous
to assume that a non-Muslim is going
to go buy that stamp and wrap fake
meat there, haram meat on there, and put
the halal stamp on it of that company.
That's sort of absurd, right?
But if it was just a bag of
meat, a bag of meat, and then I
go drop it to George the butcher in
Birmingham, he's not a Muslim, and I say,
hey listen, my friend Talha is going to
come pick this up.
Keep, take that.
What is it?
It's just a white bag of meat.
And now the meat is in George's possession
and that's it.
At this point, the guarantee is gone.
Guarantee.
What happens if he accidentally spilled that meat
or whatever and then replaced it?
Well, that's what he's going to do if
some accident happens.
Oh my gosh, I accidentally sold the guy's
meat.
All right, let me just go and give
him any other meat.
It's meat is meat.
In his mind, he didn't do anything wrong
because meat is meat.
He doesn't care what you think.
Or he has no reason to care.
He may actually care.
The fact that he may totally be honest
and he is committed to you is not
enough.
He must believe that there's an otherworldly punishment
if he doesn't do this.
So there could be a totally honest Christian
butcher and a totally dishonest Muslim butcher.
But those are the exceptions.
We're going to go with the norm.
So when the Muslim meat exits the hands
of a Muslim, it's now in dubious category
and we don't eat it unless it was
marked in such a way.
Let's go back to the question.
It's not only that you're eating every day
and you're disobeying God every single day.
Meat can be unlawful if the money that
bought it was unlawful.
In that case, all your food is unlawful.
So that means I trade in usury.
I'm in the cash advance business.
Cash advance, you need $60,000 to start
a restaurant.
All right, you're at 60,000.
You owe me now 80,000.
Cash advance business, basically the rib business.
All my money is unlawful, every single penny
of it.
You know that there is a Lebanese family
I heard.
I'm not picking on them for being Lebanese.
Of course, I'm just saying it happened to
be Lebanese.
In Ohio, they got strip clubs.
Get this.
They serve halal food there.
How crazy is that?
I mean, where's the psychology?
Shaitan really messed with people's heads.
The guys, they do not eat other than
halal food, but he runs a strip club.
There's a lot of ideas like that.
Let me tell you something.
Every single penny of your money is haram.
You can go and buy the most halal
food in the world.
It's haram.
So how is Allah Ta'ala, the Prophet,
peace be upon him, how do you expect
for your prayer to be answered when morning
to night, when you go to work, you
disobey God?
So every morning, you're disobeying God and how
you earn.
And the other guy, let's say his job
is halal.
He's a dentist, but he says to his
family, no, we eat.
Say bismillah and eat.
Go buy from shop right.
Go buy the meat from anywhere.
Tyson's chicken.
I don't care.
Say halal and eat.
Both of them, every single day, they're disobeying
Allah.
In the most important things, money and food.
Is there anything, tell me, is there anything
more important than money and food?
What is the purposes of wars other than
land, money, and food?
Even resources equals money.
That's why people go to war for this.
So these are the most important things in
life.
The guy who owns a liquor store, the
guy who sells lottery tickets.
Let's say some of these guys, they own
gas stations and they have a little market.
These markets, there are wholesale vendors.
They'll supply your whole market from the newspaper
to the Snickers.
Do you think that he's getting the Snickers
from Mars?
He's getting the M&Ms from Hershey's?
No, it's one vendor.
It'll fill your whole quickie mart with everything.
He knows what sells too.
These guys don't know what sells.
So he'll have maybe alcohol.
He'll have lottery tickets.
He'll have cigarettes.
Back in the old days, they would have
* magazines and they just take everything.
The supplier comes, checks on the product, swaps
it out when it's done before, and that's
it.
He gets paid.
So this guy now, a very big percentage
of his income is haram.
So there's a gradation there.
There's a gradient again, a spectrum.
Liquor store, whole thing's haram.
Strip club, whole thing's haram.
Cash advanced business, whole thing's haram.
Quickie mart, probably the cigarette is the number
one seller.
You know one guy told me, I only
sell to kuffar.
That's haram.
That's not us.
That is Jewish law.
Then why are you upset with the Jews
who treat their own people with one law
and another people with another law?
No.
So you have no problem harming someone, right?
Okay.
Let me ask you a question.
Would you give them dawah?
Would you tell him here, come to Islam?
Yes, I would.
So you want to benefit them.
That's the greatest benefit.
So you want, you believe in giving him
the greatest benefit.
Come and believe in God and his prophet.
You believe in him giving the greatest benefit,
but you don't believe in giving him the
smallest benefit.
It's forbidden for us in Islam to sell
vice, something as unlawful to sell to a
Muslim, unlawful to sell to a kafir.
There's some statements that are quotes that are
such bangers, like they're timeless.
For example, like don't judge a book by
its cover.
One of them is, you are what you
eat.
You are what you eat.
You can apply this to what you eat.
It affects you spiritually, all these different things.
It's one of those statements that just is
timeless.
Yeah, so true.
Those types of people, their wealth is unlawful.
Now what about a one-time forbidden thing
that happens to everybody, right?
I'm pretty much 99, 100% of the
time my wealth is halal, right?
100% of the time, but I accidentally
cut a deal that was unlawful.
We say like you're like a body of
water and some filth went into it.
So yeah, maybe one of your dua won't
be answered then, but you're not in the
same category as someone every single day is
disobeying God.
But you have to be careful.
You might need that dua someday.
Dua is a supplication.
It's a prayer.
So Allah Ta'ala, you're now asking him
for his mercy and his favor after disobeying
him day and night.
You eat and make money and buy things
day and night.
That's what we do all day.
That's literally our life.
We make money and we eat.
The guy whose money is haram, the roof
over his head and the PJs on his
back is haram, because all of his wealth
is haram.
Therefore, every single thing that he owns and
he possesses and he benefits from, he earned
it from disobeying Allah.
Don't raise your hands up to the sky
now.
You're insulting God.
I want you to think of your worst
enemy.
What do you think of your worst enemy?
Let's forget that.
Let's take Netanyahu and the Palestinian people.
Netanyahu comes down with a disease.
The only person with a cure is a
Palestinian in Gaza.
Is it fathomable?
Netanyahu is going to go to a Palestinian
in Gaza.
Hey, I have a disease.
You guys have the cure.
I need some of that wonderful olive oil
of yours.
Do you think that Palestinian is going to
answer him?
This is not Salahuddin's time where he's dominating
and he can afford to have mercy and
show magnanimity.
No, no, no.
This is now.
Don't confuse the two.
It's unfathomable, correct?
Unfathomable that any Muslim is going to say,
yes, Netanyahu, please come.
You would be a traitor to Muslims.
Likewise, when you disobey Allah day and night,
all day and all night, don't come and
knock on his door.
How do you think you're going to get
an answer?
Even if you did everything, you will not
get an answer until you stop doing what
you're doing and repent for your sins.
Prophet peace be upon him gave an example
of a list to demand that has every
sign of somebody you would imagine that Allah
will accept based on what we know from
Allah.
Dusty and disheveled.
I believe it also says in the Hadith.
Everyone rejects him.
Oh, you have sympathy for him.
He's traveling.
He puts his hands up to the sky
and he looks up to the sky and
he says, these are all the signs that
someone would be answered.
His prayer would be answered.
Who would not answer such a person?
However, the prophet said, all of his food
is haram, be it the food itself or
the money that earned it.
Everything he drinks is from the haram.
His clothes is from the haram.
What is haram clothes?
For a man, it's only silk, right?
But clearly this is a poor man begging
Allah.
So clearly he's not wearing silk.
His clothes was purchased from unlawfully earned wealth.
You disobey Allah all day and all night,
you're okay with that.
Now you want to ask him favors?
Yes, like you look at the Asbab of
this Dunya and what you're kind of muhtaj
to, you're really in need of.
There are not many things that you can't
go without.
Like for example, you might be able to
survive without shelter and things like that in
some way, shape or form.
But there are very few things that you
can't go without and one of them is
food.
You're directly being sustained by food and like
what, breathing.
What else is there really, right?
If you have like these two things, I
mean breathing is free.
That's free, right?
It's not like you're doing anything.
You don't have to pay for it.
It's just happening, right?
It's really just food and drinking.
Like what else is there?
Sleep is free.
Air is free.
Water is almost free, right?
You know that if I bring my own
cup and I ask a restaurant for water
in the United States, you must give it
to them.
They can charge you for the cup but
they must give you water.
It's a law.
Clothing is like a one-time, like you
just buy it one time.
Clothing one-time thing.
I can wear the same clothes.
The homeless, they wear the same outfit for
months.
It's something that's constantly occurring, right?
And like it just shows your state of
life.
It's a constant.
How you're living.
So like besides food, like I can't think
of anything else that you really, really need
and you can't go without it.
And as long as your food is lawful
in any of the four schools of thought
and you're attempting to make it lawful and
your wealth is lawful in any of the
four schools of thought you're earning, even regarding
the earning, if it's an accidental one time
I slipped up and I made some unlawful
money, that will be purged by accidents, by
your stove doesn't work.
It'll be purged by that.
If it's not purged by that, if there
are mistakes that you make, because some people
they have so many financial transactions, it's impossible
to not make mistakes and they fall into
something unlawful.
That's the purpose of Zakah and Sadaqah.
You purging your own unlawful wealth.
Okay.
We got some stuff going on.
What's happening here?
Let's open up for Q&A.
This is a whole different world in the
chat.
What's happening in the chat?
So I started with this guy.
He comes, he says, Sheikh, I have Shams
and Marif and I want to communicate with
Jinn.
I'm asking you, is communicating with Jinn haram
or kufr?
First of all, you take that book right
away.
If you're asking me and you put it
in the shredder.
And then he's saying, all I want to
do is communicate with them.
It can't be kufr, right?
Muslim Jinn.
I will do it.
I'm not asking for shirk.
I will never do dark sihr.
I will never worship them.
I am not trying.
We don't, first of all, we don't chase
after talking to Jinn.
It's a world of the unknown to us.
Is talking to a Jinn unlawful if it
were to so happen that I could hear
a Jinn?
The answer is no.
It's what you do with it that's unlawful.
As for seeking out Jinn, I think that
has a different ruling.
I can't say exactly what, but it doesn't
sit right for me that it's lawful or
even permitted.
I don't know that it's permitted to go
learn how to talk to a Jinn.
You opening a door for yourself that is
unknown and you're getting an advantage over your,
you may be getting an advantage over regular
people.
All right.
That is unlawful for us.
That's a type of unlawful advantage.
If you just worked harder than everybody else,
that's different.
But talking, let's hypothetically say a Jinn came
to me and talked to me.
That by itself is not the unlawful part.
The unlawful is what do I do with
it and am I trying to seek it?
Am I reading, spending my time reading magic
potions and spells just to talk to a
Jinn and different of God and learning Syriac
and that I believe and Allah knows best,
the seeking of it is a different ruling
than it happening by itself.
Is there a situation that it's lawful?
Yes.
Where magic had spread and injured the Muslims
as an epidemic, as in India, Morocco, it's
an epidemic.
The Shuyukh have a communal obligation to repel
such harm.
And sometimes that does involve them talking to
the good Jinn or extracting an evil Jinn
from a person.
You want to hear a Jinn story?
There is a person that once told me
that he has become adept at removing Jinn
from people.
There is such, we do believe in such
a thing called Jinn possession, but it's not
an obligatory Islamic belief.
Let me just put it out there for
you.
It's not obligatory or recommended to believe in
Jinn possession.
However, Imam Ahmed Ibn Hanbal said, we know
it exists.
We know it.
Imam Ahmed's son himself said, can a Jinn
enter a person and take over that person's
body?
He said, yes, we've seen it.
It's well known that it happens.
Talks with a different voice, has enormous amounts
of strength, et cetera.
In any event, if you don't want to
believe in it, no problem.
There is no blemish in a person's religion
if he doesn't believe that Jinn possess people.
You have to believe that Jinn exists.
You have to believe that Jinn whisper to
people.
You have to even believe that a Jinn
can touch a person, but you don't have
to believe in any circumstance that Jinn can
enter into people.
Anyway, there's a reason I'm telling you this
story because there's a benefit.
He extracted a Jinn from a kid and
the Jinn entered Islam.
And he said to him, let me tell
you Muslim something.
The number one tool that we use against
you is *.
Number one.
Number two, anime.
That's what he said.
Yeah.
He said that we use anime.
People are addicted to it.
And our goal is to make you a
Satan worshiper.
If we don't make that goal, it's to
make you an atheist.
If we don't hit that goal, it's to
make you gay.
Not my words.
Not my words.
But I'm just passing it on to think
that sometimes maybe anime is not so pure
for everybody.
It's not Mickey Mouse here.
Maybe there are some other agendas behind that.
And I personally didn't understand it because all
I understand anime to be is a style.
So it could be a good anime.
It could be a bad anime.
But the question is, what's the majority?
I think that's the fair approach.
What is the majority?
Is it good messages or bad messages?
Because as I understand it, it's just a
style.
Why can't someone make a Muslim anime cartoon
upholding Tawheed?
Or just neutral.
Just neutral.
A neutral story about a boy and his
dog or something like that.
A neutral story.
Is it possible?
I think it is.
I'm not an expert in this thing.
Wholesome One agrees with me.
He's the one who wants to talk to
Shai Al-Sin?
Okay.
To jinn I mean.
Listen, I wouldn't go there.
Wholesome One, stay wholesome.
Don't get involved in the jinn.
Anime is a gateway.
Hatiq Rahman says it's full of sexualization.
And I was informed now that there is
an entire field of * that is anime.
And he said that that's sort of more
crazy because humans, when a human being is
doing *, there's a limit to what the
human can do.
But this is cartoon *.
So do we have to give a ruling
on cartoon * now?
It's unlawful.
I'll tell you why unlawful.
The ruling in Islam is sexual pleasure in
any way, shape, and form is only allowed
from your spouse.
Back in the old days, there was Malakat
Yaminuk, which doesn't exist anymore, at least in
our world that we live in here.
Maybe in Mauritania it exists.
And in the future, who knows that that
institution of the world may come back and
the rules would apply.
But ultimately, cartoon, any kind of *, even
if they created a *, which was with
objects, it would be unlawful.
Sexual pleasure from looking, touching, thinking, what have
you, is only lawful for your spouse, through
your spouse.
That's it.
Wholesome One says anime is a cult and
obvious to the trained eye.
A friend of mine who's in med school
published an academic paper in a medical journal
proving that anime causes autism.
What?
There's a lot of overstimulation, I think.
And the idea of anime is you're being
sucked.
A lot of these people, if you look
at the ones who have gone into the
deep end of anime, they're so out of
touch with reality.
They're completely sucked into a virtual world of
characters that don't exist.
And they've made their entire life about these
people.
So first of all, I think the waste
of time is a whole other thing.
But see, I transmitted what that brother, what
that Sheikh told me.
He is a Sheikh.
And he says he's warning everyone against anime.
I'm just saying that I'm transmitting it because
I believe him.
But I don't have belief based on knowledge.
You know what I mean?
I believe the source.
I believe you.
My level of belief is low because I
don't have knowledge of it.
And it was a bit surprising to me
too, because all I know about anime is
that it's a style of making the cartoon.
But I also know that it's a waste
of time.
Waste of time at a certain point.
You know in our fiqh, yaseerul lahwi halal.
That's it.
A little bit of meaningless entertainment is halal.
Just to take, you know how in the
movies they say drink some of this, take
this alcohol, take the edge off.
That's what they always say, take the edge
off.
So when I sit at the end of
the day, and I watch a couple highlights
of something, and you watch some soccer or
football, a little bit, like five minutes, 10
minutes, we're saying.
We're not saying binging like this.
Even if you were to spread it a
little bit and watch a whole game, right?
That's a big waste of time.
Three hours to do nothing?
Okay.
On the treadmill?
Fine, at least you're exercising.
But yaseerul lahwi, a little bit of waste
of time is okay to, as they say,
take the edge off.
Relax yourself a little bit.
These guys are watching episodes.
The show is a thousand episodes.
And each show is, let's say it's 20
minutes.
A thousand divided by three.
Let's say it's 900 divided by three.
300 hours?
Ertugrul was barely halal because of how much
people watched it.
All night and barely woke up for Fajr.
Let's watch the conquest and watch how Muslims
conquer, and then let's miss Fajr.
So you got to keep in mind that,
subhanallah, just keep in mind the waste of
time is one thing.
We need Moin for an anime episode.
I think he knows a lot about this
stuff.
Yeah.
And this is actually, like, you don't realize
how much um, how many of the youth
are actually, like, obsessed with anime, I think.
It's actually, like, not addressed enough.
Well, from the waste of time is easy
to say, right?
The waste of time is easy to say.
The content of it, I trust my friend
who told me this.
I can't give you answers on knowledge.
But he says that it's, it never leads
to righteousness.
It always leads.
There was one guy, he said that his,
by the way, there are some Muslims who
love anime.
Okay.
There are, there was one guy who said
that, um, when he told him this, he
made his kids stop watching anime.
He said, he said, Wallahi, the kid's attitude
towards me improved over time.
And when he was watching his attitude towards
me, like he, he talked to me so
rudely, et cetera.
So don't clip that part that we just
said, uh, the comment on anime, because I'm
qualifying that by saying that I can't, I
can't imagine how it's not possible to produce
a good version of that.
And here's the question for you.
Does it become almost like, um, a good
thing to produce a good version of that?
Right.
To, to, to, it's like, imagine if there
were no Muslims on the internet, right.
And all that existed on the internet was
90% bad stuff, gambling, *, other waste
of time.
Someone say the internet's haram.
I think is similar to that, right?
It's not the internet.
That's haram.
It's what's on it.
That's haram.
It's the messages and the excess that is
unlawful.
So it becomes synonymous because that's the only
thing that's there.
It do you notice that there's no one
who casually watches that stuff.
You're either an addict or you're nothing.
I don't know anyone who casually watches it.
You either know it or you don't.
Yeah.
But people are, it's either they're binge.
Like I can casually watch soccer, football, or
basketball.
Nobody casually watches anime.
They're like all in.
Right.
So it's the excess is one thing.
The content is another thing.
Jasmine Rice agrees and says, I saw friends
hypnotized.
Are there defenders of anime?
You know, who's the defender of anime?
I'm not going to say his name.
I know a couple.
Is it halal to work in the tax
sector?
Ah, that's a good question.
That is, I have to ask my Shaykh
because that's a fatwa.
Because taxation has limits in Islam.
Taxation can only be either itemized for mass
benefit.
Like this town, there's no way for us
to divvy up road use.
Let's say we're going to pave the roads,
cost us $5 million.
There's 50,000 people in the town.
That's some expensive roads.
But 500,000, there's 50,000.
That's how much per person, 10K, right?
Sorry, 1K, 1,000 per person.
That's the easiest way to do it.
It's impossible to do it.
That's even impossible.
It's by property.
There are 5,000 properties.
Everyone will pay their equal share.
It's impossible to actually figure out who owes
what.
You have one person in the house, they
may use the roads every day.
Another house has four people in the house,
they may never reuse the roads, even half
as much as you do.
So it's fair enough for the government to
say, listen, that's how we're going to divvy
it up.
You have a house, you're pitching in.
That's it.
That's lawful as long as it's itemized.
It cannot be a general tax for the
government to take and just keep it there,
we'll use it later.
The other thing is you're allowed to tax
the people for the police and for the
army.
Safety on the inside, safety on the outside.
Can't have a general tax like this.
Can you have taxes for emergencies?
Probably through FITAWA.
AK says that there's a Pakistani version of
anime.
I'm sure there could be anything, right?
Yeah, this guy's saying anime life is so
much better than the real world that the
real world basically becomes miserable and dull by
comparison.
There's so much out there that you can
really find any of your dreams and desires
made into a show.
Can one eat at a restaurant that serves
alcohol but does not put alcohol in the
food?
I could say that if there is a
certainty that there's no alcohol in the food,
then your food would be halal.
As for going to such a place and
benefiting it, that could be questionable.
Why might a person continuously have dreams that
come true?
Simply could be, Allah knows best, that it's
a gift that Allah gave them to see
if he's going to be thankful or to
warn them, things like that.
To show them that he's near to them,
Allah knows best.
Can a woman eat dried placenta after childbirth
for the nutrients?
The answer is no.
We do not eat or benefit from other
humans.
We didn't cover that actually.
The one animal, the one creature, you're not
allowed to eat them ever, even if you're
going to die.
If we're on an island and we're about
to die and one of us died and
the fire is going right there, can I
cook him and eat him?
No, you die instead.
Can never do that.
Cannot take the human as a source of
benefit.
How do you advise friends or family who
don't have an issue with eating non-zabiha?
Many believe there are opinions that permit it.
That's a big problem.
I'm telling you it's a huge problem.
And I would have to advise you to
come up with unique methods of nicely not
doing this, such as buying the meat yourself
for your mom and dad.
If that's what we're doing.
What are the other methods?
Try to convince your parents or your family.
Here's a question about biting your nails.
Is it haram?
No, it's just a bad habit.
We're not saying it's haram.
Do two people eat them?
No, you shouldn't eat your skin.
Here's the problem.
The common Muslim, when he sees a sheikh
in a beard wearing a thawb and a
turban and the sheikh tells him, say bismillah
and eat.
At that point, the sin is on the
sheikh for such a fatwa.
That's one of the fatawa out there that
is very popular, but across all the four
madhhabs, it's not allowed.
It's not allowed.
It's a fatwa that is batin.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have to go.
What is the ruling on scrolling Twitter in
the bathroom if there is a chance of
Quran popping up?
It's actually one of the bad habits that
many people have got into to prolong their
stay in the bathroom.
The bathroom used to be that people used
to squat and your entire intestines were squeezed
and it's like squeezing a sponge.
You spent very little time in the bathroom
because that method of going to the bathroom,
it just empties you out right away.
There's no negotiation happening.
And on top of that, it was not
very comfortable position to sit in.
So you did that and left right away.
That's the preferred thing.
The bathroom is not a place to spend
time and unwind yourself, although it has been
for many people.
But if you were to come upon a
verse of Quran, let's say you're standing in
the bathroom brushing your teeth and you scroll
and see some Quran, you just keep scrolling
because it would be not respectful to engage
in any religious spiritual behavior in such a
place.
All right, a lot of other questions, so
many questions.
How to be grateful for true dreams?
Give shukr, help people.
Give salat, smile at people, be thankful in
that manner.
And pray extra rakat.
Pray extra rakat.
Pray nafilah.
Addiction to this is a problem.
I actually want to start a camp.
I want to do a summer camp that
entails literally nothing other than going out to
a beautiful campsite.
You get your phone for 15 minutes in
the day and 15 minutes in the night
to call your parents and then you hand
it back.
And then there's very few arranged things except
you guys got to cook your own food,
come up with your own games.
It's not a guided thing for teenagers.
You've got to guide yourself.
Like the old days, you went outside, you
found your friends, you came up with a
game.
Why do they have to be guided and
everything?
Just prayer times.
And then we help them buy the food
because we have to buy the supplies.
You grill it on your own.
And let them actually experience that again.
I want to do that for one full
week, seven full days.
You come Saturday, we go Saturday, we come
back the next Saturday evening and just hang
out.
Go hiking, go swimming, whatever.
Someone said Lord of the Flies.
Lord of the Flies, yeah.
Actually, there was a true version of Lord
of the Flies.
You know that?
But it was the opposite of what the
guy Lord of the Flies, he was a
guy who said he believed that humans were
vicious by nature and that very few people
were good by nature.
But here's six teenagers were discovered living on
a South Pacific island named Atta.
The man who found them was an Australian
adventurer named Peter Warner.
He was shocked to learn that they had
gone missing 15 months before he found them.
For a year and three months, they had
gone missing.
This was in 1966.
What did they do?
Well, they were only six, first of all.
The first thing that they said they did,
we selected a leader.
They were teenagers.
All of them look like they're from age
15 to 18.
The first thing they did, they selected a
leader.
The second thing they did, they divided up
the jobs.
The third thing they did, they agreed on
a daily schedule.
These are not some Ivy League kids these
are some regular old kids.
Amongst the things that they did to pass
the time was art.
By taking stone and etching away at stone
and making sculptures.
They created a gym.
They took sticks, a big stick, and they
wrapped it with fibers for weight.
So they had sessions for weight training.
They had sessions for art.
What would they do every night?
They would make a fire and they would
sing around it to keep their spirits up.
I wish that, I wonder if there are
interviews with them like later in life them
telling, but this Australian guy discovered them and
he took them home or he called for
them to to be taken back home.
Ladies and gentlemen, we're done for today's segment.
A lot of questions I couldn't get to.
I apologize for that.
But,