Shadee Elmasry – Why We Need Prophets – NBF 387

Shadee Elmasry
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The conversation covers the concept of quantum mechanics and its relation to Easter, as well as the importance of tenzhohoid and the physical aspect of the creator. The speakers emphasize the need for guidelines and guidelines to prevent evil behavior and seek a sense of goodity. They also touch on the importance of reading books and self-assessments to detect one's behavior, following the schedule, and reciting the holy names. The importance of peace in life's path is emphasized, along with avoiding offense towards Islam and reciting the holy names.
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Today, I would like to give you a

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brief introduction to the concept of quantum mechanics.

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Quantum mechanics is a concept of quantum mechanics.

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Quantum mechanics is a concept of quantum mechanics.

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Welcome everybody to the Safini Society, nothing but

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facts live stream on a really warm and

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pretty day out here in the great state

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of New Jersey.

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Yesterday, we went over the rational purposes or

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the rational basis for why a person would

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believe in a creator.

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And on top of that, they would believe

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in the transcendence of the creator.

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And I also mentioned that this exercise is

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nice.

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This knowledge is really, really strong.

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It satisfies your intellect.

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It's easy because you don't need any external

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information.

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All you need is a sound mind and

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eyes that work to observe the world.

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And the result of it is a few

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attributes of the creator.

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That's what you would know.

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But I also said that proofs of prophethood

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are far greater.

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When you go about proving prophethood, you actually

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prove the whole religion.

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However, there's a negative side to that, or

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I should say a hard side to that,

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which is you need a lot of information.

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And that's the difference between the two.

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So one, literally all you need is a

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mind and eyes that can see.

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And you come to this conclusion.

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Whereas proofs of prophethood require a lot more.

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Proofs of nabuwa, proofs of prophethood require knowledge

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of the texts to see, well, what did

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this prophet say, what does this holy book

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say, et cetera.

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So I want to cover that.

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But first, I added two more slides to

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this image, or a couple more.

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So why don't we move to that, Omar?

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So the nature of transcendence that the prophet,

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the creator that we believe in, reason tells

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us is he is transcendent beyond the nature

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and laws of what he created.

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Just as the person who invented the computer

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could not have done it on a computer,

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right?

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It's rationally inconceivable to have used, or for

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the thing that you created to have existed

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before it existed.

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So anything that the creator originated from nothingness,

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he is transcendent beyond it.

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That thing did not exist before him.

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And we said that the, next slide says

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there that these, the key term here is

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al-hawadith.

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The singular is hadith and the plural is

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hawadith.

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Things that have a beginning.

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And the essential nature, someone recently asked me

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that is it, how is God different from

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his creation when we hear and God hears?

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We exist and God exists.

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We see and God sees.

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We love and God loves.

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Well, the first one is that God's attributes

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exist pre-eternally by necessity.

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Our attributes and our existence has a beginning

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and is not by necessity.

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It's just, it's just possible.

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I may exist, may not exist.

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I may see, I may not see.

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I may love, I may not love.

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My love is also based upon the sustenance

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of the creator and the creator's existence.

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He is qayyum.

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He's self-sustaining.

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He, he does not need sustenance.

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And whereas we do need sustenance.

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So those are three differences.

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One, we're not necessary.

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Two, we have a beginning.

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Three, we are sustained.

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So when we, we affirm his hearing without

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an organ.

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This oneness of God entails absolute independence.

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That's like a necessary implication.

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It presupposes you're absolutely independent.

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Nobody could say, I did this all by

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myself, but I have to thank so-and

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-so and so-and-so and so-and

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-so.

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Well, you didn't do it by yourself then.

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So al-ghina al-mutlaq is presupposed by

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al-wahdaniyyah.

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Absolute independence is presupposed by oneness.

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Now let's go to the next term, tenziyyah.

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What we're doing here and what is so

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important and what is a rational necessity of

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the creator of the world is his tenziyyah

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beyond the attributes of the world, the attributes

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of that creation.

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And the essential attributes of created things is

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having a beginning.

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In other words, being subject to time and

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being composed of something.

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Even the spirits and the angels and the

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soul of a human being is composed of

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something.

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It could be very, very subtle.

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It could be taking up such a small

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amount of space, but it's still composed of

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something.

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It's not an imagination.

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That's why neoplatonism, that concept doesn't sit right.

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I'm not saying that it's a kufri belief,

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the neoplatonic idea that there is a world

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of But it's argued by the majority that

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something that is in a mere abstraction is

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just imagination.

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It can't exist unless it has a form.

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So for example, the tablet that has all

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the destiny of human beings, it's a physical

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thing.

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The arsh is a physical thing.

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The kursi is a physical thing.

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Angels are physical creatures.

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They may not be made up of our

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matter, our thick and opaque matter, but they

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are made of light.

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And light does take up some form of

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space.

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It is a form of matter.

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I want to also say something for those

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studying physics.

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When they're taught that the first law of

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physics is that energy is never created nor

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destroyed.

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Yes, and one of these laws, law of

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conservation of energy or whatever, matter is never

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created or destroyed.

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Our ulema talked about that.

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They said that that is the law in

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this world.

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In this world.

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That's the law in this world.

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But in terms of aqeedah, yes, of course,

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all of energy was created by Allah.

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So we have to make tenzih.

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Go to the next slide to show you

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why we have to make tenzih.

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Look I'm getting good.

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I got little stick figures.

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One guy says, hey, I worship one God.

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I'm not covering my aura, but I do

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worship one God.

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The other guy says, so do I.

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And here's my God.

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Got a little idol from Hawaii.

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I worship one idol.

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So are they both monotheists?

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The guy saying he's a monotheist, just like

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us, he worships one God.

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He has one idol.

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So is he a monotheist?

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Does he count as a monotheist?

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Why or why not?

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Let's go to the next slide.

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Tawheed is not just about worshiping one God.

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It also is necessary to understand him properly.

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Attributing divine qualities to created things is the

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greatest insult to God.

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I go and I do a whole bunch

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of work and some other guy plagiarizes it

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from me and says I did it.

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I go and I win myself five championships.

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Then someone takes my rings and puts them

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on and says, hey, look, I won.

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I won.

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So here we go.

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The Tenzih is equally important as a Tawheed.

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So much so, if you were to say

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I have two transcendent gods, that's unacceptable.

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And if you say I have one physical

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God, that's also unacceptable.

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That's what we call idolatry.

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We all know that, but maybe we never

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thought of it that way.

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Let's go to the next slide.

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Just the Creator made all matter, time, space.

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He cannot be bound by it.

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The inventor of a car could not have

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made the car from inside of a car.

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The inventor of a computer, the inventor of

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Microsoft Word could not have made it using

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Microsoft Word.

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It's a very irrationally necessary conclusion.

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So the Creator has, next slide, We must

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conclude the transcendent God has no beginning, no

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end, and he's essentially different from the creation.

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Okay, skip two slides down now.

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We as Muslims, when we talk to an

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atheist or talk to a non-believer, we

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can talk this language.

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But we're also Muslims here.

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We have, mashallah, a viewer from Hawaii, ppen12,

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mashallah.

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You know, Hawaiians are very religious people.

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If they ever entered Islam, they'd probably be

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some of the best Muslims, like the native

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Hawaiians.

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They're very religious people.

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But now that we're Muslim, I am going

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to say, hold on, I'm already accepting Allah

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and his messenger.

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So I want revealed confirmation of what you're

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saying.

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I don't know if your intellect, your ideas

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are sound or not.

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I'm already a Muslim.

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I want a revelation to confirm what you're

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saying.

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If it's true, revelation should confirm it, right

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or wrong?

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Of course.

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If it's true, the creator of, the revealer

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of the Quran and the creator of the

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intellect is one and the same.

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So let's go and look at this one

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now.

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Surah Al-Ikhlas is Surah Al-Tanzih.

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And it refers to the five Sifat Al

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-Salbiya.

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And you could probably assume that the ulama

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who constructed this theology or this way of

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organizing our ideas, they said, okay, let's actually

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organize our thoughts according to the revelation.

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So it fits like a beautiful puzzle.

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So, Qul Huwa Allahu Ahad, God is one.

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He is independent, Samad.

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He needs nothing.

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Why?

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You cannot be one and dependent at the

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same time.

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Then you're not one.

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Every time someone wins an Oscar and they

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say, here we go, this is my Oscar

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trophy.

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What does he sit there and do?

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I couldn't have done it without so-and

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-so, without so-and-so, without so-and

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-so, without so-and-so.

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All these guys winning a Grammy, I couldn't

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have done it without P.

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Diddy and all his abuse.

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These guys are crazy.

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I couldn't have done it without so-and

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-so, and so-and-so, and so-and

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-so.

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So really, in fact, this award is for

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all of us.

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It's not just for you.

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It's for everybody.

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So Al-Ghina Al-Mutlaq, absolute independence, is

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a presupposition of oneness.

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And God can have no end, no beginning,

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and not like creation.

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We went over this yesterday, right?

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I want to do another one.

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Now go to the next slide, because I'm

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bringing you now hadith.

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كان الله ولم يكن شيء غيره, صحيح البخاري.

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There was Allah and there was nothing else

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besides Him, meaning if there was no matter,

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no physical things, no anything, not even an

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atom, not even less than an atom, not

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even a particle, not even the quantum level

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existed.

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Therefore those things could not have existed before

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they came into existence.

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Common sense says that.

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Therefore the Creator is transcendent beyond them.

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He is not composed of them, nor is

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He dependent upon them.

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It's very clear, right Omar?

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Isn't this a great addition to the slides?

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Let's go to the next one.

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Let's go to the next most authoritative book

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of hadith.

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It's a dua.

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This is actually a dua of getting out

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of debt.

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But why would this wonderful theology exist for

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a dua of getting out of debt?

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Getting out of debt is one of the

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biggest things people pray for, and the more

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sound your aqeedah is, the more acceptable your

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dua is.

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We know that.

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The more sound your aqeedah is, the more

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accepted your dua is.

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أنت الأول فليس قبلك شيء, وأنت الآخر فليس

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بعدك شيء, وأنت الظاهر فليس فوقك شيء, وأنت

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الباطن فليس دونك شيء.

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صحيح مسلم.

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You are the first and there is nothing

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before you.

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You are the last and there is nothing

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after you.

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That's transcendence beyond time.

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This idea of time, we have to remove

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it from our minds when we think about

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the Creator.

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There is no before or after for Him.

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You are the manifest, وأنت الظاهر فليس فوقك

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شيء.

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There is nothing above you.

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You are hidden and there is nothing beneath

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you.

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وأنت الباطن فليس دونك شيء.

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صحيح مسلم.

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You are transcendent beyond place.

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That means you are transcendent, there is, do

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not think of a location for the Creator.

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Do not think of a location.

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Even though some of those who said location

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for Allah تعالى, what they meant by it

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is a non-physical location.

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I don't know what that is, but that's

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what they meant by it.

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And خلاص, as long as they said non

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-physical location, maximum I could say is, I

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don't know what that is, but whatever, it's

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irrelevant as long as you negated a physical

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location for the Creator.

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So in these two hadiths, we made a

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tenzih of the Creator being composed of matter

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and time and space.

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That's tenzih.

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So I brought that for those who would

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like to see the reason and revelation overlap,

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because it's something that your mind can think

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of, but it's also something that is confirmed

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in your books.

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Now the theologians who took this route, they

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also had to answer to many other narrations

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that would seem to indicate a location for

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the Creator.

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And we say that these narrations are the

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محكم.

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سورة الإخلاص, these types of transcendence, this tenzih

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عن الزمان والمكان is محكم.

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That's the established law in the theology.

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And then the ayat that would seem to

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implicate the opposite are the متشابه.

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That's the مفهوم of the ulema, such as

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many ulema before us.

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So there's the محكم, that's the rule, and

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the متشابه, the thing that seems to be

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going against the rule.

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So we interpret the متشابه in light of

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the محكم, which means we either leave the

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متشابه alone, and we just negate what contradicts

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the محكم.

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And that's what they call التفويد والتأويل.

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التفويد, to leave it alone.

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We just deny what contradicts the محكم.

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And تأويل is to interpret it using the

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Arabic language.

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We're not going to get into that because

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that's where all the جدال occurs, and we're

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not interested in the جدال, but I am

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interested in teaching this fundamental haqeedah and showing

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the overlap between reason and revelation.

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هدان الله جميعا.

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Next subject.

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All right, we can close that now, we

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covered that.

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Now we talk about, why do we need

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prophets?

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Well, you know how amazing, how amazing is

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the creation of this world?

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Omar, I'm going to ask you a question,

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and turn your mic on actually, because yesterday

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your mic actually wasn't on, believe it or

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not.

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Turn your mic on, and I'm going to

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quiz you here.

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Give me the objective, absolutely objective, simple, easy

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for anybody to understand proof of that the

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earth right now is in the absolutely perfect

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location.

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Any, even a small, one mile forward, we'd

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burn, and one mile back, probably less than

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that, we'd freeze.

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Proof for, can you repeat the question?

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What's the proof?

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An objective, simple, basic proof that doesn't need

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astronomy or anything, that the earth's location is

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perfectly set for human life to exist on

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it.

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If we were even half a mile forward,

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closer to the sun, or back, it would

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be, or I'm just saying half a mile,

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but a small distance.

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What's the proof?

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Objective, easy to grasp proof of that.

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Easy to grasp?

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I mean, I was going to say first,

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like you would have to distinguish, like is

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it aqli, is it a'adi, like what

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is that?

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This proof is…

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So this is from Mushahada essentially, right?

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It's a'adi proof, it's a demonstrable proof.

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So it's something we would use our senses

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for, and that would be like, in modern

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terminology, that would be the scientific…

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Yeah.

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So what would the proof be?

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What's the proof that someone says, hey, we

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can go, maybe we can go a thousand

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feet out and we'll still be okay, or

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a thousand feet in and we'll still be

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okay?

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How do we easily, easily show that that's

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actually false?

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We right now are at the absolute most

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perfect location.

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Any change, we'd all fry or freeze.

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Pick your poison.

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I mean, this would be a scientific discussion,

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right?

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I mean, I don't know exactly what they

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would say, like how they would theorize.

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Okay, let me give it to you.

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You tell me if you like this or

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not.

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The earth as is contains what is too

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hot and too cold for life.

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Ah, I see.

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As is, right?

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I didn't think of that, yeah.

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The Sahara desert…

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The extremes are okay.

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The extremes are already here.

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Makes sense.

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Just on the tilt of the world.

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So the Rub' al Khali, nothing can exist

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there.

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The Mojave desert, you'd fry.

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I like it, yeah.

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And the North Pole and the Antarctica already

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is too cold for life.

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So as is, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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has created a world where we can see

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that we're barely making it here.

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Like even on the earth itself, too hot,

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too cold exists for life.

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And we have to find our way to

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the middle.

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So the threshold is like we already have

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the extremes on both sides existing.

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It's not like everything is normal and then

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we can move a thousand and it will

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still be normal.

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Yeah.

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Like if the whole world was green and

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Mediterranean, then we would assume we can be

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far back.

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We wouldn't know, right?

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But being that we already have deserts and

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tundra, that's the proof.

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Right?

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Subhanallah.

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Even the spin of the earth, if it

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rotates on the axis in any way, shape,

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and form, we could all be desert or

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we could all be tundra.

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So that's an amazing sign of the perfect

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fine-tuning of life on earth.

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The physical creation of the human being is

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so fine-tuned, we call that like inaya

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has been given to it, divine attention, divine.

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Dr. Dallas says mic input has increased a

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lot.

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Yeah, it's mine, I think.

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Maybe.

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Mine is just like it, it sounds very

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weird.

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It has white noise, okay.

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So is it possible now if we admit

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as humans that the body is not the

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most important part of life?

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It's a very important part.

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But it's not the most important part of

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life.

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And what is the proof that the body

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is not the most important part of life?

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I use another objective measure, totally objective measure,

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to judge that the raw human being does

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not deem the body to be the most

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important aspect of life.

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We deem six other things.

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And where do I get all this information?

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I'm going to have to remember it now

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from my head.

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But it's from suicide rates.

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The study of suicide rates should tell us

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what the raw human being deems to be

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so important that if these things go away,

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I don't even want to live.

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And these six things are, number one, no

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purpose in life.

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So that's spirituality.

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Number two, nobody loves me.

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Emotional well-being.

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Number three, people...

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This is from Psychology Today.

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Number three reason why people commit suicide.

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Mental illness.

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I hear voices in my head.

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And it's not fully mental illness.

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It's like partial mental illness.

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Enough that you know how to buy a

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gun and put it to your head.

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Very sad reality, but mental illness.

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And we know Shaitan tries to drive people

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crazy.

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And we know it could not be devils

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at all.

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It could be actual just mental illness.

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Number four, the fourth reason was drugs and

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alcohol.

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Substance abuse that we just cannot stop.

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We just cannot stop.

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And people kill themselves.

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Number five, some people kill themselves.

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This is the fifth reason for suicide.

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Combined suicide and attempted suicide.

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Is that people have a philosophical reason to

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kill themselves.

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They have a reason to kill themselves.

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So they've reasoned it out.

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They're so, I guess, stuck in their heads.

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They've reasoned it out that it's better to

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be dead than alive.

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Number six is they've done something so bad,

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so wrong.

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And they can't seem to fix it.

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And gamblers fall into this all the time.

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Gamblers, when they lose off all their money

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or their family's money, they just go, there

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was a guy in Michigan who did this

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years ago.

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He wasted all his money on gambling.

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Lost his house.

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He gambled his house away.

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Went, shot up his wife and kids, then

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himself.

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Couldn't handle the shame.

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He was a physician in the community.

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So these six things are more important than

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the physical body itself.

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And look at how amazing.

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How much divine anaya, we can call that

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care and attention, has been given to the

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body.

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So much.

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Now, is it fathomable that the creator of

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this body and this amazing world has allowed

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life to exist and then ignored what is

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far more important?

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Your spirituality, your emotions, your family, your right

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and wrong, like substance abuse.

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What's the right and wrong here?

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All of these things, he's ignored all that.

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It's absurd or improbable.

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Pick one.

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It's either absurd or it's improbable.

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And that is the world's need for a

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messenger.

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At the spiritual level, how do I get

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rid of depression?

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How do I get rid of sadness?

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Sadness, you can view it as one of

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three things.

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Oh, I'll take some, sure.

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Let's view sadness as one of a couple

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possibilities.

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Number one, sadness is caused by a physical

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change.

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In that case, medicine should fix it.

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If we accept that premise, right?

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Then medicine should fix it.

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Or food should fix it.

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Or drugs should fix it.

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And that's what most people do.

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That's the fastest route is to blame your

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body for your grief and your sadness.

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But it's 99% of the time a

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failure.

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A lot of people go into drugs, they

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go into whatever, and then they end up

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not getting any results, right?

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So sadness is not caused by the physical

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aspect, 99.9% of the time.

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Number two, it could be caused by a

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financial aspect.

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Most people think it is.

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And then get shocked that they were wrong

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after they get rich.

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I remember there was a guy who is

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so fun.

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He's a sports play-by-play commentator for

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the New Jersey Devils.

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His name is Ken Danico.

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When I was growing up, Kenny Danico was

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just one of those players.

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He's on the Rotten Devils.

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They play in a little Brendan Byrne arena.

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Then they play in the Prudential Center.

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Nobody cares about them.

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They're like the little brother that nobody cares

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about.

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And the New York team's always defeating them,

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creaming them.

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Well, Kenny Danico was part of those teams.

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They're always getting beat up on.

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As a team.

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Not him personally.

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He was tough.

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Well, in the end, the Devils climbed the

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mountain.

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They became one of the best teams.

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They became the best team in the East

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for like a decade, right?

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Kenny Danico said he spent a decade of

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his life trying to win the Stanley Cup.

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And he could not believe the day came

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and they won the Stanley Cup.

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What happened to him next year?

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He fell into the deepest depression of his

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life.

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He realized, I would wake up in the

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morning, I won the Stanley Cup, but I

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feel so empty.

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So empty.

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So what did he end up doing?

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He would drink.

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He said, I don't get it.

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I won the cup.

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I got a ring.

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And I feel nothing.

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Yeah, because you worshiped bots.

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You devoted your whole life to nothing in

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imagination.

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The cup, what is it?

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It's a piece of metal.

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That's all it is.

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But in your mind, you think to be

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a champion is a big deal.

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It's actually not.

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It got you nothing in life.

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It's just an agreed upon assessment of a

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bunch of guys, about a thousand players in

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the NHL and the fans.

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So when you devote yourself to money and

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you think money is the source of the

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problem, keep in mind this rule of thumb.

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Money and success and fortune and all these

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things will only amplify who you are.

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It will not transform who you are.

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It will only amplify who you truly are.

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So if I have a drawing, I amplify

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that.

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The good comes out and the bad comes

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out far more obviously than it was before.

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So that's all that money does.

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People devote themselves to that.

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So ultimately we got to ask, is sadness

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and grief and depression, are they spiritual in

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nature?

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Or what is the spirit?

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So you can't answer these things with your

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mind.

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You need revelation.

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The whole point of this discussion is to

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show why we need revelation.

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We need to be loved.

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What's the best way to be loved?

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Remember I talked the other day about a

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guy, he said he's not going to settle

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down and have kids.

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He was like 38 years old or something,

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40 years old.

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He's at the turning point.

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Like it's either now or never.

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And he said never.

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I'm going to travel the world and meet

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people and have experiences.

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That is his avenue to being loved and

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to being worthy and to be relevant to

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people.

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And he considered to have a family to

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be a limiting factor.

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So what's the truth of the matter is

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that it's the exact opposite.

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Of course Shaitan is pushing all these things.

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It's the exact opposite.

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The fastest route to being loved is to

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have a spouse then never talk to a

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person of the opposite gender again.

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Like why would you?

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You don't need to.

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You're just going to confuse things.

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Only talk if there's a need.

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And be devoted as a husband and a

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father.

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That's one of the purposes of Starboard that

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we created an organization.

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We made this organization that's meant for marriage,

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mentorship, and eventually we'll get to parenting, etc.

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Family.

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Because this is one of the greatest sources

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of happiness.

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So not being loved is in fact the

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number one reason or number two reason for

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suicide.

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I'm not loved.

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Nobody loves me.

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So Shaitan has totally confused how people access

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love.

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He's totally confused it and he's fooled a

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whole world I would say.

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If not our civilization for sure and in

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the United States is fooled by this.

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All they want to do is access love

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through the physical.

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There are so many psyops.

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I 100% believe there are psyops to

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transform women into absolute worse than prostitutes.

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Prostitute you can at least say she's stuck.

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She has to do this to pay her

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bills.

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She has no other way.

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It doesn't justify it of course.

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But it explains it, right?

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There's a big difference between a justification and

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an explanation.

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The prostitute at least has an explanation.

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Even the Prophet ﷺ gave a hadith.

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A man gave charity.

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The Prophet ﷺ then said the next day

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one of you gives charity to a prostitute.

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Now later on the man said O Masjidullah

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I don't know what.

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I just give charity who I think is

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poor.

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He said On the first day you gave

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charity to a thief.

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Well on that day he didn't have to

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steal.

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Second day you gave charity to a rich

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man.

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You made him feel embarrassed because he doesn't

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give charity.

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So he started to give charity.

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And on the third day you gave charity

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and it turned out to be a prostitute.

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Well guess what?

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She didn't have to prostitute herself that day.

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She had food for the night.

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So even the Prophet ﷺ in this hadith

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he's showing us the prostitute at least has

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an explanation.

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It's haram with an explanation.

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But now women are turning to complete I'm

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not going to say the words.

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It's not right for an Islamic podcast to

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say these words but they're just complete.

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I don't know what you can say.

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Boasting about body counts in the double digits

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and in the hundreds and then putting themselves

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out there alright and just bragging about this.

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And then acting upon it too.

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They publish their videos with a whole bunch

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of strangers.

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And I'm seeing this one guy saying what

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happened to society?

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Of course he's blurring out the images but

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he's trying to prove that it's not just

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talk.

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It's action.

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They're doing it.

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What happened?

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Obviously it's not just them.

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It's the men too.

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They want this.

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This is what they approve of.

00:32:03 --> 00:32:04

Her dad may probably not even have a

00:32:04 --> 00:32:05

problem with this.

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You're free to do what you want.

00:32:06 --> 00:32:09

It's not just one side.

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So nobody thinks that we're just blaming one

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side.

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But to the point that that's how they're

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imagining that they're going to access emotional well

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-being.

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Which is what human beings are looking for.

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So revelation is what guides us to this.

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Otherwise we're just trial and error.

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I don't have a whole lifetime to trial

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and error.

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That's the point of revelation.

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It's a cheat code.

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I don't have a whole lifetime to figure

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stuff out.

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By the time I do, I'll be 50.

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And it's over.

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I can't experiment with my teen years.

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I can't experiment with my 20s.

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There's no time.

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You don't get that time back.

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So revelation comes and just tells you how

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it is.

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This is how you access happiness.

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To have a small community.

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To have a bunch of friends.

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Even too big of a community is no

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good.

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I'm not a fan of mega masjid.

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Of course we have to have one.

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Every city should have a jami'ah masjid.

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But the jami'ah masjid is not like

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a community.

00:33:05 --> 00:33:07

It's not a neighborhood.

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It's the whole jami'ah.

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Neighborhood masjid, when they're done right, they're the

00:33:12 --> 00:33:12

best.

00:33:13 --> 00:33:15

When you walk in, the place maxes out

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at 1,000 or 1,500 people on

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a Jummah or on Ramadan.

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But on an everyday basis, you walk in

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and you see 50 people that you know.

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Those are the best.

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I'm not going to go too much into

00:33:30 --> 00:33:30

this.

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I want to continue.

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Emotions.

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Mental health.

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Mental health is from shayateen mostly and also

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from the body.

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So we're saying it's both.

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But I guarantee you the shayateen are heavily

00:33:44 --> 00:33:44

involved.

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And therefore we need something to repel these

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demons.

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I'm not saying again all of it or

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even the majority.

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But I'm definitely telling you there is an

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overlap.

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That's what I believe in.

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There is some form of overlap between the

00:34:01 --> 00:34:01

two.

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And we need something to protect us from

00:34:03 --> 00:34:05

these devils and these demons who are trying

00:34:05 --> 00:34:06

to ruin our lives.

00:34:07 --> 00:34:08

And then we need someone to tell us

00:34:08 --> 00:34:13

what are the realities of law regarding intoxication,

00:34:14 --> 00:34:18

punishment, war, marriage, all these things.

00:34:18 --> 00:34:19

We need rules.

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These are the needs for prophethood.

00:34:22 --> 00:34:24

Now that's one section.

00:34:24 --> 00:34:25

I want to move on to the next

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segment.

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And the next segment is why can't we

00:34:27 --> 00:34:28

do it by ourselves?

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Why can't we as human beings just be

00:34:32 --> 00:34:33

a good person?

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Just do it yourself.

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I'll give you five reasons why you can't.

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Why that's a fallacy.

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Five reasons why just be a good person

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is a fallacy.

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Reason number one, define goodness.

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How do you define it?

00:34:47 --> 00:34:49

Anything that you say is purely subjective.

00:34:50 --> 00:34:51

It's your opinion.

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And if it's your opinion, you can't make

00:34:55 --> 00:34:55

law on it.

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And if you do, you're just imposing your

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law on me.

00:35:01 --> 00:35:04

Monarchy is the imposition of the subjective values

00:35:04 --> 00:35:06

of a minority on a majority.

00:35:07 --> 00:35:11

Democracy is the imposition of the subjective values

00:35:11 --> 00:35:12

of a majority on the minority.

00:35:12 --> 00:35:14

Democracy is the lesser of two evils.

00:35:15 --> 00:35:18

In the absence of a revealed law, democracy

00:35:18 --> 00:35:20

is the lesser of two evils.

00:35:20 --> 00:35:24

It's still the imposition of the majority's view

00:35:24 --> 00:35:25

on the minority.

00:35:25 --> 00:35:27

The only one who can give us an

00:35:27 --> 00:35:30

absolute answer to what to do with ourselves

00:35:30 --> 00:35:31

is our owner.

00:35:32 --> 00:35:34

Did you create your body or did you

00:35:34 --> 00:35:34

buy it?

00:35:34 --> 00:35:35

No, neither one.

00:35:35 --> 00:35:36

Therefore you don't own it.

00:35:36 --> 00:35:39

We say my body, it's an attribution only.

00:35:39 --> 00:35:40

It's not actual ownership.

00:35:41 --> 00:35:42

If it was actual ownership, I could pierce

00:35:42 --> 00:35:46

myself, eat whatever I want, be intimate with

00:35:46 --> 00:35:49

whoever I wanted, put tattoos wherever I wanted,

00:35:49 --> 00:35:52

dress however I wanted, undress however I wanted,

00:35:53 --> 00:35:53

if it's my body.

00:35:53 --> 00:35:54

I mean, it's my phone.

00:35:54 --> 00:35:55

I could take the case off.

00:35:55 --> 00:35:56

I could put the case on.

00:35:56 --> 00:35:58

I could throw it in the garbage if

00:35:58 --> 00:35:58

I want.

00:35:58 --> 00:35:59

It's my phone.

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But if it's not our body, then the

00:36:04 --> 00:36:05

one who owns it has the right to

00:36:05 --> 00:36:06

tell us what to do.

00:36:06 --> 00:36:07

So that's reason number one.

00:36:08 --> 00:36:10

Your definition of goodness will be subjective.

00:36:11 --> 00:36:12

Reason number two.

00:36:14 --> 00:36:15

Reason number two.

00:36:19 --> 00:36:20

A multiplicity of goodnesses.

00:36:20 --> 00:36:22

Here, Omar is bringing up my body, my

00:36:22 --> 00:36:23

choice.

00:36:23 --> 00:36:23

There you go.

00:36:24 --> 00:36:25

He's bringing it up.

00:36:25 --> 00:36:26

It's related to this.

00:36:26 --> 00:36:28

It's related to this because we don't own

00:36:28 --> 00:36:29

it.

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Funny thing is that this is a controversy.

00:36:32 --> 00:36:33

Look at this image here.

00:36:34 --> 00:36:36

This is a controversy that this woman doesn't

00:36:36 --> 00:36:37

want to shake hands.

00:36:37 --> 00:36:40

On the same week, there is a complete,

00:36:40 --> 00:36:43

I'm not going to say what, who's going

00:36:43 --> 00:36:47

viral saying that she just puts her name

00:36:47 --> 00:36:48

and number out and any guy who shows

00:36:48 --> 00:36:49

up, she's going to sleep with him and

00:36:49 --> 00:36:50

record it.

00:36:50 --> 00:36:52

Yeah, that's what I'm telling you.

00:36:52 --> 00:36:54

It's out there being viral right now.

00:36:54 --> 00:36:55

It's the same week.

00:36:56 --> 00:36:59

So that's essentially our society now.

00:37:00 --> 00:37:02

My body, my choice does not do, obviously,

00:37:02 --> 00:37:03

* and sleeping around.

00:37:03 --> 00:37:04

That's a given.

00:37:04 --> 00:37:06

It has to do with abortion, right?

00:37:06 --> 00:37:09

So how about this is far less of

00:37:09 --> 00:37:11

anything and yet this is controversial.

00:37:12 --> 00:37:13

Number two.

00:37:14 --> 00:37:18

If there's a multiplicity of goodnesses, you will

00:37:18 --> 00:37:18

have a clash.

00:37:19 --> 00:37:22

Hitler thought what he was doing was good.

00:37:23 --> 00:37:26

Obviously, his goodness imposed upon a whole bunch

00:37:26 --> 00:37:27

of other people.

00:37:28 --> 00:37:34

The communists stole everyone's property, stole, and then

00:37:34 --> 00:37:37

said we'll divide it up equally as we

00:37:37 --> 00:37:37

see fit.

00:37:38 --> 00:37:39

That's what they thought is good.

00:37:40 --> 00:37:42

So they imposed on my property.

00:37:43 --> 00:37:45

And you know that that's happened to anyone

00:37:45 --> 00:37:46

who's in the Arab countries.

00:37:46 --> 00:37:47

They became socialists.

00:37:48 --> 00:37:50

Even my mother told me that there were

00:37:50 --> 00:37:51

farms in the family.

00:37:52 --> 00:37:53

The government came in and took a whole

00:37:53 --> 00:37:54

chunk, just took it.

00:37:56 --> 00:37:59

New rules were dividing it up amongst the

00:37:59 --> 00:37:59

poor.

00:38:00 --> 00:38:01

And then the farmers were like, hold on,

00:38:01 --> 00:38:01

they don't know how to farm.

00:38:02 --> 00:38:03

We're going to go hungry.

00:38:03 --> 00:38:04

The country is going to go hungry.

00:38:04 --> 00:38:06

These other people don't know how to farm.

00:38:06 --> 00:38:07

You think it's just throw a seed and

00:38:07 --> 00:38:08

put water?

00:38:08 --> 00:38:11

So in any event, multiple goodnesses will lead

00:38:11 --> 00:38:12

to a clash.

00:38:12 --> 00:38:13

Multiple standards.

00:38:13 --> 00:38:15

You need one standard of goodness, otherwise you

00:38:15 --> 00:38:16

get a clash.

00:38:17 --> 00:38:17

Number three.

00:38:18 --> 00:38:19

What is number three?

00:38:19 --> 00:38:21

I'm trying to think from memory here because

00:38:21 --> 00:38:22

I don't have my notes with me.

00:38:28 --> 00:38:29

What is number three?

00:38:32 --> 00:38:34

Your good is subjective.

00:38:34 --> 00:38:35

Number one, it's subjective.

00:38:36 --> 00:38:36

It's not absolute.

00:38:37 --> 00:38:40

Number two, multiplicity of goodnesses lead to conflict.

00:38:40 --> 00:38:43

Number three, you can't impose it.

00:38:43 --> 00:38:46

Any imposition of a subjective goodness will lead

00:38:46 --> 00:38:49

to oppression of some sort.

00:38:50 --> 00:38:54

Number four, what was the...

00:38:54 --> 00:38:55

Hold on, we have to pause here for

00:38:55 --> 00:38:55

a second.

00:38:58 --> 00:39:04

What was number four?

00:39:05 --> 00:39:06

Oh, number four.

00:39:06 --> 00:39:08

We don't need just goodness.

00:39:08 --> 00:39:10

We need a reason to be good.

00:39:11 --> 00:39:12

That's so important.

00:39:13 --> 00:39:16

So I ask people, if you work at

00:39:16 --> 00:39:19

Amazon and there's a really nice package, you're

00:39:19 --> 00:39:23

supposed to package this product, but no one's

00:39:23 --> 00:39:27

looking, there's no cameras, why can't I put

00:39:27 --> 00:39:27

it in my pocket?

00:39:28 --> 00:39:30

It's going to cost Amazon $100 and maybe

00:39:30 --> 00:39:33

a disgruntled customer will never use them again.

00:39:34 --> 00:39:34

I don't think that's the case.

00:39:35 --> 00:39:36

Everyone uses Amazon.

00:39:36 --> 00:39:38

It's almost like the water company.

00:39:39 --> 00:39:41

It's like a public service almost.

00:39:42 --> 00:39:47

What would stop anybody from nabbing a valuable

00:39:47 --> 00:39:49

item from Amazon for $100?

00:39:49 --> 00:39:52

If I go to your house and I

00:39:52 --> 00:39:55

see a penny between the couch cushions and

00:39:55 --> 00:39:56

I put it in my pocket, you'll never

00:39:56 --> 00:39:56

notice.

00:39:57 --> 00:40:01

Amazon will never notice if I nabbed some

00:40:01 --> 00:40:03

earbuds and put it in my pocket.

00:40:03 --> 00:40:04

They'll never notice, right?

00:40:05 --> 00:40:07

The person will just think it's late and

00:40:07 --> 00:40:08

they'll just order another one.

00:40:08 --> 00:40:11

So not only do we need to know

00:40:11 --> 00:40:13

what's good, we need a reason to follow

00:40:13 --> 00:40:14

what's good.

00:40:14 --> 00:40:16

When the going gets tough and what's the

00:40:16 --> 00:40:17

answer to that?

00:40:17 --> 00:40:20

The only reason that a believer would follow

00:40:20 --> 00:40:23

what's good is because he knows he can

00:40:23 --> 00:40:24

earn a greater good.

00:40:25 --> 00:40:28

And the only reason he would avoid something

00:40:28 --> 00:40:31

bad is he knows that it would help

00:40:31 --> 00:40:33

him avoid or he would do something difficult

00:40:33 --> 00:40:35

is that it would help him avoid something

00:40:35 --> 00:40:36

of a greater difficulty.

00:40:37 --> 00:40:41

So what Revelation does is it offers, what

00:40:41 --> 00:40:44

Prophethood does is it offers us a rational

00:40:44 --> 00:40:48

reason, a personal reason to do this good.

00:40:48 --> 00:40:51

We believers forget, you know the atheists always

00:40:51 --> 00:40:52

say we're altruistic.

00:40:52 --> 00:40:53

We just do the good for the sake

00:40:53 --> 00:40:53

of the good.

00:40:53 --> 00:40:55

We don't need punishment or reward.

00:40:55 --> 00:40:57

Well, all you atheist philosophers turned out to

00:40:57 --> 00:40:58

be a bunch of rapists and sexual criminals.

00:40:59 --> 00:41:00

You know that there's a book on that

00:41:00 --> 00:41:02

called Philosophers Behaving Badly.

00:41:03 --> 00:41:05

So that's firstly nonsense, number one.

00:41:05 --> 00:41:08

Number two, I'm going to tell you right

00:41:08 --> 00:41:09

away I'm not an altruist.

00:41:09 --> 00:41:10

I'm a capitalist and I'm very selfish.

00:41:11 --> 00:41:12

The first person I think about is myself.

00:41:14 --> 00:41:15

Every single human being is like this.

00:41:15 --> 00:41:17

Plants are created like this.

00:41:17 --> 00:41:19

Animals are created like this.

00:41:19 --> 00:41:19

We're created like this.

00:41:20 --> 00:41:22

The only difference is if you put that

00:41:22 --> 00:41:24

feeling in the right place, in the hands

00:41:24 --> 00:41:29

of the right person, that person, prophecy, prophets,

00:41:30 --> 00:41:32

will take you to the point of transcending

00:41:32 --> 00:41:34

this kind of selfishness.

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But the path is telling us about an

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eternal pain and an eternal pleasure and showing

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us that there are greater pleasures.

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But ultimately every one of us, we're exactly

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the same as everybody else.

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We want to avoid pain and we want

00:41:52 --> 00:41:53

to maximize our pleasure.

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And that's why the Quran comes and addresses

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us and makes us believe or obligates upon

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us the belief in heaven and *.

00:42:02 --> 00:42:05

Because that's the psychology of humans.

00:42:06 --> 00:42:08

Guaranteed that's the psychology of humans.

00:42:08 --> 00:42:11

Go and blow up this building right now.

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Put a bomb on this building and let

00:42:13 --> 00:42:14

it go up into flames.

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I'm not worrying about anyone except me.

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When push comes to shove, that's what's going

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to happen.

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When you feel that your own life is

00:42:23 --> 00:42:26

at stake, you're going to worry about yourself

00:42:26 --> 00:42:27

first.

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Subhanallah.

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So here we go that human beings want

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to maximize their pleasure and decrease their pain.

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And the Quran tells us, I'll show you

00:42:38 --> 00:42:39

the way to that.

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That's what the Quran is saying.

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This book will show you the way to

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that.

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That way though is very righteous.

00:42:46 --> 00:42:49

And hence you become selfless, you prefer others

00:42:49 --> 00:42:53

over yourself because of that logic and that

00:42:53 --> 00:42:55

guidance from that book.

00:42:55 --> 00:42:59

So reason number four, reason number four is

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that human beings need a justification, a personal

00:43:05 --> 00:43:09

justification to avoid bad and do good.

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And that justification is a greater evil and

00:43:13 --> 00:43:13

a greater pleasure.

00:43:14 --> 00:43:19

Reason number five, everybody who does good relies

00:43:19 --> 00:43:22

upon things they have been given.

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Let's say someone did an absolute objective good

00:43:25 --> 00:43:26

and saved a mother and her child.

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Then they get an award.

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Hold on a second, you can't take credit

00:43:32 --> 00:43:32

for this.

00:43:34 --> 00:43:35

With whose eyes?

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Who gave you the eyes?

00:43:38 --> 00:43:39

Who gave you the desire?

00:43:39 --> 00:43:40

Who gave you the courage?

00:43:40 --> 00:43:42

Who gave you the hands?

00:43:42 --> 00:43:44

Who gave you the feet by which you

00:43:44 --> 00:43:45

did all these things?

00:43:46 --> 00:43:48

If you take credit for your goodness, you're

00:43:48 --> 00:43:49

plagiarizing.

00:43:50 --> 00:43:51

Well, who are you going to thank?

00:43:51 --> 00:43:53

You're not going to thank your mom for

00:43:53 --> 00:43:54

giving me hands and feet.

00:43:55 --> 00:43:55

She didn't do anything.

00:43:56 --> 00:44:00

She housed you, that's it, in her womb

00:44:00 --> 00:44:01

for nine months.

00:44:01 --> 00:44:03

Who are you going to give credit to

00:44:03 --> 00:44:07

for the desire to do good?

00:44:07 --> 00:44:09

When I see a mother and her baby

00:44:09 --> 00:44:13

drowning and I go save them, I move

00:44:13 --> 00:44:14

because of a desire inside me.

00:44:14 --> 00:44:15

Who gave me that desire?

00:44:16 --> 00:44:17

Who put in my mind and in my

00:44:17 --> 00:44:19

head that this is a good thing to

00:44:19 --> 00:44:19

do?

00:44:22 --> 00:44:23

Who gave me the legs?

00:44:23 --> 00:44:24

Who gave me the courage?

00:44:25 --> 00:44:27

Because I clearly see those waves are heavy.

00:44:27 --> 00:44:29

I can get swept up in those waves

00:44:29 --> 00:44:29

too.

00:44:31 --> 00:44:31

Right?

00:44:33 --> 00:44:34

So there's courage.

00:44:34 --> 00:44:37

I'm almost willing to sacrifice myself for a

00:44:37 --> 00:44:38

mother and a baby.

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Why?

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Because a mother and a baby is not

00:44:40 --> 00:44:40

like a regular guy.

00:44:41 --> 00:44:43

A mother and a baby evoke so much

00:44:43 --> 00:44:47

more sympathy and compassion in a person's heart.

00:44:47 --> 00:44:48

Where did that come from?

00:44:51 --> 00:44:52

If we're sitting out there and we're seeing

00:44:52 --> 00:44:55

a whole boat of sailors go down, it's

00:44:55 --> 00:44:56

going to be a totally different reaction.

00:44:56 --> 00:44:57

They know better.

00:44:57 --> 00:44:58

They know how to sail.

00:44:58 --> 00:45:00

They know what to do.

00:45:00 --> 00:45:01

I can't go and help them.

00:45:01 --> 00:45:02

But you see a little mother and a

00:45:02 --> 00:45:04

baby getting swept up in the water, some

00:45:04 --> 00:45:06

mercy moves inside of you.

00:45:06 --> 00:45:06

Who put it there?

00:45:07 --> 00:45:07

Who put the courage there?

00:45:08 --> 00:45:10

Who gave you everything to do this?

00:45:10 --> 00:45:12

If you now go and you put your

00:45:12 --> 00:45:14

chest out, you're a plagiarizer.

00:45:14 --> 00:45:15

You just cheated.

00:45:15 --> 00:45:19

You took someone else's work and you took

00:45:19 --> 00:45:22

the credit for it yourself.

00:45:22 --> 00:45:25

So the fifth reason is plagiarism.

00:45:25 --> 00:45:28

So number one reason, goodness is subjective.

00:45:29 --> 00:45:31

Our own definition of goodness is subjective.

00:45:31 --> 00:45:35

Number two, multiplicity of goodnesses will lead to

00:45:35 --> 00:45:37

a clash, to evil.

00:45:37 --> 00:45:41

Number three, if goodness is subjective, you can't

00:45:41 --> 00:45:42

impose it on anyone.

00:45:42 --> 00:45:46

Number four, we need a justification to act

00:45:46 --> 00:45:49

upon goodness that appeals to our own pleasure

00:45:49 --> 00:45:51

and pain.

00:45:51 --> 00:45:55

And number five, we can't plagiarize.

00:45:55 --> 00:45:58

If you go about being good on your

00:45:58 --> 00:46:00

own and giving yourself the credit, you are

00:46:00 --> 00:46:01

a plagiarizer.

00:46:02 --> 00:46:03

So who are you going to give credit

00:46:03 --> 00:46:06

to for all the feelings in your heart

00:46:06 --> 00:46:09

that want to do good, the courage to

00:46:09 --> 00:46:12

do good, the hands, feet, arms and legs

00:46:12 --> 00:46:15

and tongue by which you did good?

00:46:16 --> 00:46:17

Who gets that credit?

00:46:18 --> 00:46:22

And that is why the idea of just

00:46:22 --> 00:46:25

be a good person is an atheistic fallacy.

00:46:27 --> 00:46:28

Dead in the water.

00:46:28 --> 00:46:31

I mean, with regards to the atheists, right?

00:46:31 --> 00:46:35

I mean, isn't their entire aqeedah revolving around

00:46:35 --> 00:46:39

the fact that humans are an evolved species

00:46:39 --> 00:46:40

from cells.

00:46:40 --> 00:46:42

So basically, we don't have any intrinsic value,

00:46:42 --> 00:46:42

right?

00:46:42 --> 00:46:45

We're just like, what distinguishes us from other

00:46:45 --> 00:46:45

species?

00:46:46 --> 00:46:46

Thank you very much.

00:46:47 --> 00:46:47

Human rights.

00:46:48 --> 00:46:49

So what they're doing essentially is like when

00:46:49 --> 00:46:50

Nietzsche said that God is dead.

00:46:51 --> 00:46:51

You're my God.

00:46:54 --> 00:46:57

So they've rejected the idea of the metaphysical,

00:46:57 --> 00:46:59

but they're still taking the ahkan, the shariah

00:46:59 --> 00:46:59

ahkan.

00:47:00 --> 00:47:01

But they just don't realize it.

00:47:01 --> 00:47:03

I mean, they realize it, but like, and

00:47:03 --> 00:47:05

then you see now what's going on is

00:47:05 --> 00:47:08

there's a slow, but steady departure from that.

00:47:08 --> 00:47:09

And half of them are nihilists now.

00:47:10 --> 00:47:11

They're just accepting it.

00:47:12 --> 00:47:14

The whole atheist philosophy has to lead to

00:47:14 --> 00:47:17

nothing other than the most base level of

00:47:17 --> 00:47:18

pleasure seeking.

00:47:19 --> 00:47:20

And let me tell you why that's no

00:47:20 --> 00:47:21

good for humanity.

00:47:21 --> 00:47:25

Because it actually doesn't produce pleasure.

00:47:25 --> 00:47:26

That's the beauty of it.

00:47:26 --> 00:47:27

It ends up in pain.

00:47:29 --> 00:47:31

How many people in Las Vegas end up

00:47:31 --> 00:47:33

just numbing themselves with drugs when you're supposed

00:47:33 --> 00:47:34

to be the happiest people?

00:47:35 --> 00:47:36

Let's go objectively speaking.

00:47:38 --> 00:47:41

Where are the most therapists and psychiatrists and

00:47:41 --> 00:47:44

psychologists in the United States?

00:47:46 --> 00:47:47

Answer number one, Los Angeles.

00:47:48 --> 00:47:49

Answer number two, New York.

00:47:50 --> 00:47:51

These are the wealthiest.

00:47:52 --> 00:47:54

LA, you're supposed to all be beautiful people.

00:47:54 --> 00:47:55

New York, you're all rich people.

00:47:56 --> 00:47:57

Why are you all miserable, right?

00:47:57 --> 00:48:02

So even hedonism is actually a pathway to

00:48:02 --> 00:48:03

pain.

00:48:03 --> 00:48:04

It's not a pathway to happiness.

00:48:05 --> 00:48:06

You think it's a pathway to happiness.

00:48:06 --> 00:48:07

It's a mirage.

00:48:07 --> 00:48:08

It's drinking salt water.

00:48:09 --> 00:48:10

It just makes you more thirsty.

00:48:12 --> 00:48:12

All right.

00:48:12 --> 00:48:15

That is segment number three, complete.

00:48:15 --> 00:48:17

We did segment one, which was a review

00:48:17 --> 00:48:21

of the transcendence attributes, reason, and revelation.

00:48:21 --> 00:48:25

A hadith, segment number two, on why human

00:48:25 --> 00:48:29

beings need prophethood and a revelation from God.

00:48:30 --> 00:48:32

Reason number three, the fallacy of just be

00:48:32 --> 00:48:35

a good human, is also another reason why

00:48:35 --> 00:48:37

we need prophethood.

00:48:38 --> 00:48:42

And we gave five reasons why you can't

00:48:42 --> 00:48:43

just be a good person on your own.

00:48:43 --> 00:48:46

You actually need prophethood.

00:48:47 --> 00:48:49

And you need a revelation from the Creator.

00:48:51 --> 00:48:51

All right.

00:48:51 --> 00:48:53

Segment number four is going to be Q

00:48:53 --> 00:48:53

&A.

00:48:54 --> 00:48:55

We'll take Q&A for only about 20

00:48:55 --> 00:48:55

minutes.

00:48:55 --> 00:48:56

Then we got to run early today.

00:48:58 --> 00:48:59

It's Wednesday already?

00:48:59 --> 00:49:00

Subhanallah.

00:49:00 --> 00:49:02

Why is there so much drama?

00:49:03 --> 00:49:04

You know it's very hard for people to

00:49:04 --> 00:49:07

focus on the live stream on serious matters.

00:49:07 --> 00:49:10

Because yesterday and today were serious subjects, right?

00:49:11 --> 00:49:12

That were pretty long.

00:49:12 --> 00:49:13

You needed to follow along for a while.

00:49:16 --> 00:49:19

And people have a hard time focusing on

00:49:19 --> 00:49:25

this because there's all sorts of drama going

00:49:25 --> 00:49:25

on here.

00:49:27 --> 00:49:31

I want to posit a theory that I

00:49:31 --> 00:49:34

think is very strong and highly probable.

00:49:36 --> 00:49:41

Very well-educated Israeli bots are being operated.

00:49:43 --> 00:49:45

By bot, I don't mean an AI.

00:49:45 --> 00:49:49

I mean actual humans with fake accounts.

00:49:50 --> 00:49:54

They know Islam, Muslim trends and movements very,

00:49:54 --> 00:49:55

very well.

00:49:55 --> 00:49:57

Do not think that this is not the

00:49:57 --> 00:49:57

case.

00:49:58 --> 00:50:01

And they are behind so many mishakel.

00:50:01 --> 00:50:02

That's my theory.

00:50:03 --> 00:50:05

I think it's very, very, very probable.

00:50:05 --> 00:50:07

If not close to being a fact.

00:50:09 --> 00:50:10

I'm not surprised.

00:50:10 --> 00:50:12

I'm not surprised.

00:50:12 --> 00:50:15

We already know that those bot farms exist.

00:50:15 --> 00:50:18

And it's one guy maybe running 200 accounts

00:50:18 --> 00:50:18

all day.

00:50:18 --> 00:50:19

That's all he does.

00:50:20 --> 00:50:21

That's his full-time job.

00:50:21 --> 00:50:23

And it's a whole room full of people

00:50:23 --> 00:50:24

with screens everywhere.

00:50:25 --> 00:50:26

Yeah, phones and screens everywhere.

00:50:27 --> 00:50:30

Complete fitna-making machines.

00:50:31 --> 00:50:34

If you don't believe that these guys know

00:50:34 --> 00:50:36

the difference between a Barelvi and a Diyo

00:50:36 --> 00:50:37

and a Salafi and a Sufi and an

00:50:37 --> 00:50:38

Ashari and a Ridi.

00:50:40 --> 00:50:41

You're being naive.

00:50:42 --> 00:50:43

They know very well.

00:50:43 --> 00:50:45

And they are sowing so much of this

00:50:45 --> 00:50:47

discord in my speculation.

00:50:53 --> 00:50:56

Please visit the Lighthouse Project in North Carolina.

00:50:56 --> 00:50:58

Best organization in the region.

00:50:59 --> 00:51:00

Says Nuri.

00:51:09 --> 00:51:11

Omar has had to suspend people.

00:51:14 --> 00:51:16

My philosophy is I gotta let things go

00:51:16 --> 00:51:16

out.

00:51:17 --> 00:51:18

I keep it kind of like Kufa.

00:51:21 --> 00:51:22

There's a couple of rules you just can't

00:51:22 --> 00:51:22

break.

00:51:23 --> 00:51:25

But I'm pretty lean with banning people.

00:51:27 --> 00:51:29

Even Melody has to say disclaimer.

00:51:29 --> 00:51:31

MBF and its listeners do not advocate violence.

00:51:32 --> 00:51:33

Someone advocating violence?

00:51:33 --> 00:51:34

Wow.

00:51:34 --> 00:51:36

Thank you Melody for the disclaimer.

00:51:36 --> 00:51:38

I didn't realize people are going that crazy.

00:51:39 --> 00:51:40

And it could be against ZioBots.

00:51:41 --> 00:51:41

And it could not be.

00:51:41 --> 00:51:45

It could be Shaytan going to naive people.

00:51:47 --> 00:51:49

What's the difference at this point?

00:51:49 --> 00:51:50

I don't even know what the difference is.

00:51:50 --> 00:51:52

One's unseen and one's seen.

00:51:52 --> 00:51:52

That's it.

00:51:53 --> 00:51:54

That's the only...

00:51:54 --> 00:51:56

In fact, Shaytan, he's being Shaytan.

00:51:56 --> 00:51:57

He's just doing his thing.

00:51:58 --> 00:51:59

He's being what he's supposed to be.

00:51:59 --> 00:52:01

MBF has a right to defend itself.

00:52:01 --> 00:52:02

We do have a right.

00:52:03 --> 00:52:03

100%.

00:52:08 --> 00:52:11

All sorts of commentary that has nothing to

00:52:11 --> 00:52:12

do with the subject.

00:52:13 --> 00:52:14

Because I know these harder subjects...

00:52:14 --> 00:52:15

It's not even a hard subject.

00:52:15 --> 00:52:19

It does require some thought.

00:52:20 --> 00:52:20

All right.

00:52:20 --> 00:52:25

Questions on the subject or on anything really

00:52:25 --> 00:52:28

related to Dean.

00:52:28 --> 00:52:30

But not sectarian stuff.

00:52:30 --> 00:52:32

I'm not answering sectarian stuff anymore.

00:52:33 --> 00:52:36

What about the toupee in the Medi-Q

00:52:36 --> 00:52:36

school?

00:52:37 --> 00:52:39

I can speak to you about other Meth

00:52:39 --> 00:52:39

Hebs.

00:52:40 --> 00:52:43

I will ask about the other Meth Hebs

00:52:43 --> 00:52:45

in the four Meth Heb chat of Imams

00:52:45 --> 00:52:46

that we have.

00:52:46 --> 00:52:49

But in the Medi-Q school, it takes

00:52:49 --> 00:52:51

the opinion of Wasl al-Shaar.

00:52:53 --> 00:52:57

And it takes the opinion that if insofar

00:52:57 --> 00:53:01

as it is fooling somebody, insofar as you

00:53:01 --> 00:53:04

are misleading a potential suitor, then that is

00:53:04 --> 00:53:05

the prohibition.

00:53:06 --> 00:53:06

You see?

00:53:07 --> 00:53:08

That's the prohibition.

00:53:08 --> 00:53:12

And insofar as there is a type of

00:53:12 --> 00:53:21

ghish happening, then that's what's forbidden.

00:53:22 --> 00:53:25

But if it is within your confines of

00:53:25 --> 00:53:28

your family, and there is nothing that would...

00:53:29 --> 00:53:31

And people ask about the...

00:53:31 --> 00:53:31

What did they call it?

00:53:32 --> 00:53:32

I don't know.

00:53:32 --> 00:53:34

You glue it on to your hair.

00:53:34 --> 00:53:35

It's basically a hairpiece.

00:53:35 --> 00:53:36

You glue it on.

00:53:37 --> 00:53:39

And insofar as you're doing that amongst people

00:53:39 --> 00:53:46

who you're not fooling, then there is room

00:53:46 --> 00:53:47

for those things.

00:53:48 --> 00:53:50

Also, I want to say that the hair

00:53:50 --> 00:53:53

transplants have been asked a lot about.

00:53:53 --> 00:53:55

People want to look good.

00:53:55 --> 00:53:57

You should accept that.

00:53:57 --> 00:53:59

There's nothing un-Islamic about this.

00:54:00 --> 00:54:02

To replace what has been lost.

00:54:03 --> 00:54:07

Teeth, broken noses, broken teeth, lost hair.

00:54:07 --> 00:54:10

We're destroying the environment.

00:54:10 --> 00:54:12

And people are suffering.

00:54:13 --> 00:54:15

And that can be fixed.

00:54:16 --> 00:54:17

I can...

00:54:17 --> 00:54:18

One of my friends now runs one of

00:54:18 --> 00:54:19

these operations.

00:54:20 --> 00:54:22

And I can...

00:54:22 --> 00:54:25

Maybe I'll give you his information, and you

00:54:25 --> 00:54:27

can see if he can help you out.

00:54:27 --> 00:54:30

Because it is lawful in other madhhabs.

00:54:30 --> 00:54:32

Not lawful in the Madaki school, but in

00:54:32 --> 00:54:34

the other schools it is lawful.

00:54:34 --> 00:54:38

And if it's a hardship, to use another

00:54:38 --> 00:54:40

madhhab on something like that.

00:54:41 --> 00:54:43

I was exposed to a Hadith rejection background.

00:54:44 --> 00:54:45

Are few in reading books on Hadith.

00:54:46 --> 00:54:48

Preservation have helped me better understand the Deen.

00:54:48 --> 00:54:50

Alhamdulillah says Zohi Zeus.

00:54:52 --> 00:54:54

So Zeus now believes in Hadith.

00:54:55 --> 00:54:55

Good.

00:54:57 --> 00:54:58

Thoughts won out.

00:54:59 --> 00:55:02

If one standard of good is needed, then

00:55:02 --> 00:55:04

aren't multiple madhhabs a problem?

00:55:04 --> 00:55:06

Very good question.

00:55:07 --> 00:55:09

The madhhabs are not standards of goodness.

00:55:09 --> 00:55:11

They're how to implement the goodness.

00:55:11 --> 00:55:13

There's one standard of goodness.

00:55:13 --> 00:55:14

You have to pray five times a day.

00:55:14 --> 00:55:15

There's one standard of goodness.

00:55:15 --> 00:55:16

You have to fast.

00:55:16 --> 00:55:17

You can't do Zina.

00:55:18 --> 00:55:19

You have to get married, right?

00:55:19 --> 00:55:21

The standard of goodness is one and the

00:55:21 --> 00:55:21

same.

00:55:22 --> 00:55:24

They differed upon how to implement it.

00:55:25 --> 00:55:27

So what are the pillars of marriage?

00:55:27 --> 00:55:33

What are the pillars of Salah, Zakah, How

00:55:33 --> 00:55:34

do I give my Zakah?

00:55:34 --> 00:55:37

Can I give my Zakah to filter out

00:55:37 --> 00:55:38

as money?

00:55:39 --> 00:55:40

Or do I give it out as food?

00:55:41 --> 00:55:44

Those are the questions that madhhabs differ on.

00:55:45 --> 00:55:47

And when you have a tree, the trunk

00:55:47 --> 00:55:49

is one, but the branches must be flexible.

00:55:51 --> 00:55:53

By the way, Omar, can you look up

00:55:53 --> 00:55:56

the news on our friends in Tampa, how

00:55:56 --> 00:55:56

they're doing?

00:55:58 --> 00:56:00

Yeah, let's see how our friends, did it

00:56:00 --> 00:56:00

hit or not?

00:56:02 --> 00:56:04

I want to do a long Sujood and

00:56:04 --> 00:56:04

talk to Allah.

00:56:05 --> 00:56:07

If I don't keep my hands on rest,

00:56:08 --> 00:56:11

then it becomes difficult to stay longer in

00:56:11 --> 00:56:11

Sujood.

00:56:11 --> 00:56:13

What is the ruling on this?

00:56:14 --> 00:56:18

The ruling is, In Nawafil, you are allowed

00:56:18 --> 00:56:19

to lean on things.

00:56:21 --> 00:56:21

You know that?

00:56:22 --> 00:56:26

When you're praying a Nafilah, you may lean

00:56:26 --> 00:56:27

on something.

00:56:28 --> 00:56:30

And that's even the Mas'ala of Qabd

00:56:30 --> 00:56:32

and Sadr in the Maliki school.

00:56:33 --> 00:56:35

It has to do with that.

00:56:35 --> 00:56:38

That we accept Qabd in this madhhab.

00:56:39 --> 00:56:41

Clasping your hands, we accept it in the

00:56:41 --> 00:56:41

madhhab.

00:56:42 --> 00:56:43

Not we as if I have some say

00:56:43 --> 00:56:45

in it, but the Maliki school accepts this.

00:56:46 --> 00:56:47

Imam Malik accepted it.

00:56:48 --> 00:56:49

But where did he accept it is the

00:56:49 --> 00:56:49

question.

00:56:51 --> 00:56:53

Is it possible that we know the Hadith

00:56:53 --> 00:56:54

the Prophet ﷺ commanded us to know?

00:56:54 --> 00:56:56

To clasp one hand over the other?

00:56:56 --> 00:56:59

Yes, but in what circumstance according to Malik?

00:57:00 --> 00:57:00

In the Nawafil.

00:57:00 --> 00:57:03

In the long Nawafil where people's hands would

00:57:03 --> 00:57:04

get numb.

00:57:04 --> 00:57:06

And they were doing this because their hands

00:57:06 --> 00:57:06

got numb.

00:57:07 --> 00:57:09

So that's where he commanded them to clasp

00:57:09 --> 00:57:10

their hands.

00:57:10 --> 00:57:14

So it is a permissibility in Nawafil in

00:57:14 --> 00:57:15

the Maliki school.

00:57:16 --> 00:57:17

So it's not that we don't have Qabd.

00:57:17 --> 00:57:20

Secondly, Maliki do not have to prove Sadr.

00:57:21 --> 00:57:22

Sadr is the origin.

00:57:22 --> 00:57:24

That proof, the Hadith proves it.

00:57:25 --> 00:57:27

Where the Prophet ﷺ told us to put

00:57:27 --> 00:57:28

one hand over the other.

00:57:29 --> 00:57:30

Therefore what were they doing before that?

00:57:30 --> 00:57:31

They weren't doing that.

00:57:31 --> 00:57:33

So that is the established default.

00:57:34 --> 00:57:38

The legal argument now is establishing where does

00:57:38 --> 00:57:43

Qabd fall in the legislation obligation.

00:57:43 --> 00:57:44

Nobody says that.

00:57:45 --> 00:57:48

Sunnah Mu'akkadah, I don't think anyone says

00:57:48 --> 00:57:48

that.

00:57:50 --> 00:57:53

Mandub, which is less than Sunnah Mu'akkadah.

00:57:54 --> 00:57:57

That's where, like it's a Mandub.

00:57:57 --> 00:58:01

It's a lightly recommended way to pray.

00:58:02 --> 00:58:07

In all the prayers, obligatory and recommended.

00:58:08 --> 00:58:10

That's what the other three Madhabs say.

00:58:11 --> 00:58:13

And Malik says no, it's in Nawafil.

00:58:13 --> 00:58:15

And it's not Mandub, it's permitted.

00:58:16 --> 00:58:17

That's it.

00:58:17 --> 00:58:18

That's the whole Masalah.

00:58:18 --> 00:58:22

Not a single Madhab will deem your Salah

00:58:22 --> 00:58:22

invalid.

00:58:23 --> 00:58:26

Nor are you blameworthy for leaving a confirmed

00:58:26 --> 00:58:28

Sunnah if you were to pray with your

00:58:28 --> 00:58:28

arms down.

00:58:30 --> 00:58:31

No one would object to that.

00:58:32 --> 00:58:34

And if you're with a group of people,

00:58:35 --> 00:58:37

then they don't know what you're doing, praying

00:58:37 --> 00:58:39

with your arms down, then clasp your hands.

00:58:40 --> 00:58:42

We're not going to be so rigid to

00:58:42 --> 00:58:45

say, nope, do it this Maliki way.

00:58:46 --> 00:58:47

Wage war on the whole family.

00:58:48 --> 00:58:48

Wasting time.

00:58:49 --> 00:58:50

That's not what Islam is about.

00:58:51 --> 00:58:51

No.

00:58:54 --> 00:58:56

Mekaslam says in this day and age, do

00:58:56 --> 00:58:58

we get Shaitan coming in human form?

00:59:03 --> 00:59:04

Of course.

00:59:05 --> 00:59:06

And doesn't have to be in human form

00:59:06 --> 00:59:07

only.

00:59:07 --> 00:59:10

Could actually be a human who is Wiswas

00:59:10 --> 00:59:14

and has done so many evil deeds that

00:59:14 --> 00:59:15

Shaitan has direct access to him just like

00:59:15 --> 00:59:17

he has direct access to the jinn.

00:59:18 --> 00:59:27

That's the meaning of Shaitan of

00:59:27 --> 00:59:28

Ins.

00:59:28 --> 00:59:33

That means he is so far from Divine

00:59:33 --> 00:59:37

Mercy that Shaitan has direct access to whisper

00:59:37 --> 00:59:38

into his heart.

00:59:41 --> 00:59:43

He whispers.

00:59:44 --> 00:59:47

He gives direct messages without sound.

00:59:47 --> 00:59:51

Al-Wahi in this meaning, direct message without

00:59:51 --> 00:59:53

sound or effect.

00:59:55 --> 00:59:57

He accesses these people.

00:59:57 --> 00:59:58

That's why when they go and they do

00:59:58 --> 01:00:04

these horrific satanic rituals, killing a baby, desecrate

01:00:04 --> 01:00:07

the Bible, all these other things, it's to

01:00:07 --> 01:00:08

darken their hearts.

01:00:08 --> 01:00:10

Just like we do the opposite to brighten

01:00:10 --> 01:00:11

our hearts.

01:00:11 --> 01:00:12

We make Hajj.

01:00:12 --> 01:00:12

We fast.

01:00:12 --> 01:00:13

We give Sadaqah.

01:00:13 --> 01:00:14

We make Tawbah.

01:00:14 --> 01:00:15

We recite Quran.

01:00:15 --> 01:00:17

We pray in the Masjid to brighten up

01:00:17 --> 01:00:19

our hearts, to put light in our hearts.

01:00:19 --> 01:00:20

Once we put light in our hearts, the

01:00:20 --> 01:00:21

angels have easy access to our hearts.

01:00:22 --> 01:00:24

We have now the Wi-Fi capabilities.

01:00:25 --> 01:00:26

Strong.

01:00:26 --> 01:00:27

Bandwidth is strong.

01:00:28 --> 01:00:30

If we do less good deeds, our bandwidth

01:00:30 --> 01:00:32

shrinks and our download is very slow until

01:00:32 --> 01:00:33

we can't download anything at all.

01:00:34 --> 01:00:36

No good inspirations coming to us.

01:00:36 --> 01:00:38

The dark side is the exact same thing.

01:00:38 --> 01:00:40

You keep doing evil deeds after evil deed

01:00:40 --> 01:00:43

after evil deed after evil deed until your

01:00:43 --> 01:00:45

heart becomes so dark that Shaytan now has

01:00:45 --> 01:00:47

an access to direct communication with your heart.

01:00:47 --> 01:00:48

Whisperings.

01:01:00 --> 01:01:02

It's like a gradation.

01:01:03 --> 01:01:05

You have to have some level of self

01:01:05 --> 01:01:07

-examination.

01:01:07 --> 01:01:10

And I can self-assess myself that I'm

01:01:10 --> 01:01:11

having envy right now.

01:01:12 --> 01:01:13

And I gotta fix that.

01:01:13 --> 01:01:14

I gotta catch yourself.

01:01:14 --> 01:01:16

That's the value of reading books of Tasawwuf.

01:01:17 --> 01:01:18

Because it tells you, Oh, there is something

01:01:18 --> 01:01:19

called envy.

01:01:19 --> 01:01:20

There is something called lust.

01:01:21 --> 01:01:22

There is something called greed.

01:01:22 --> 01:01:24

And you have to try to detect it

01:01:24 --> 01:01:24

in your heart.

01:01:25 --> 01:01:26

And you have to do a lot of

01:01:26 --> 01:01:30

good deeds, ibadah, dhikr, sadaqah, so that Allah

01:01:30 --> 01:01:31

can put light in your heart.

01:01:31 --> 01:01:32

It's like a flashlight.

01:01:33 --> 01:01:34

That flashlight...

01:01:34 --> 01:01:36

Oh, we got spider cobweb over there.

01:01:36 --> 01:01:38

So you have light and a cobweb in

01:01:38 --> 01:01:39

the same room.

01:01:39 --> 01:01:41

Same thing in the heart of a Muslim.

01:01:41 --> 01:01:42

He's got good and he's got bad.

01:01:43 --> 01:01:44

With the good, he sees the bad.

01:01:45 --> 01:01:47

And with the good, he removes the bad.

01:01:48 --> 01:01:49

And that's why we have to be people

01:01:49 --> 01:01:50

of non...

01:01:50 --> 01:01:53

I teach Tasawwuf two classes.

01:01:54 --> 01:01:57

One Tuesday and one Thursday on Arkview Essentials.

01:01:58 --> 01:01:59

Sign up for that.

01:01:59 --> 01:02:02

And I teach Tasawwuf Sunday.

01:02:02 --> 01:02:03

Hikm Ibn Ata'illah Al-Iskandari.

01:02:06 --> 01:02:08

The millennium mother of five.

01:02:08 --> 01:02:09

Whoa, we live in clear water.

01:02:11 --> 01:02:11

Masha'Allah.

01:02:11 --> 01:02:14

One of the prettiest cities you'll ever go

01:02:14 --> 01:02:14

to.

01:02:14 --> 01:02:17

Clear water, which is next to Tampa or

01:02:17 --> 01:02:18

it's the greater Tampa area.

01:02:19 --> 01:02:22

And we evacuated to Jacksonville, which is basically

01:02:22 --> 01:02:23

Alabama.

01:02:23 --> 01:02:25

Jacksonville, Florida is on the panhandle.

01:02:25 --> 01:02:27

It's almost like being in the deep south.

01:02:27 --> 01:02:28

We evacuated.

01:02:29 --> 01:02:30

How are people doing this?

01:02:30 --> 01:02:31

Are they...

01:02:31 --> 01:02:33

Is FEMA paying them to stay in hotels?

01:02:34 --> 01:02:36

People can't afford to stay...

01:02:36 --> 01:02:38

I mean, I'm sure some people cannot afford

01:02:38 --> 01:02:40

to stay five days in a hotel.

01:02:40 --> 01:02:42

And then when they get back to their

01:02:42 --> 01:02:44

homes, it's going to be like insane.

01:02:45 --> 01:02:47

You know, like, is the home even still

01:02:47 --> 01:02:47

there?

01:02:48 --> 01:02:53

This is the biggest hurricane that Tampa's had

01:02:53 --> 01:02:55

in over like 75 years or something.

01:02:57 --> 01:02:57

Hmm?

01:02:58 --> 01:02:59

Is it Adhab?

01:03:00 --> 01:03:01

Oh, that's a good question.

01:03:01 --> 01:03:02

Is this hurricane type of hurricane Adhab?

01:03:04 --> 01:03:05

Nothing is directly one thing.

01:03:05 --> 01:03:07

It's all based on how you react to

01:03:07 --> 01:03:07

it.

01:03:08 --> 01:03:11

If it increases you in Iman, and obedience

01:03:11 --> 01:03:13

and good deeds, then it's an elevation of

01:03:13 --> 01:03:13

your rank.

01:03:14 --> 01:03:16

So for one person, the same thing.

01:03:16 --> 01:03:18

For one person, it's an elevation for his

01:03:18 --> 01:03:18

rank.

01:03:18 --> 01:03:21

Another person who just doesn't get better or

01:03:21 --> 01:03:24

worse, he just has patience, it's a purification.

01:03:24 --> 01:03:27

He's miserable and it's tough, but he's neither

01:03:27 --> 01:03:28

getting worse nor better.

01:03:28 --> 01:03:29

Purification.

01:03:29 --> 01:03:31

And another person who gets worse by it,

01:03:32 --> 01:03:33

that's punishment.

01:03:33 --> 01:03:35

That's when we say it's Adhab.

01:03:35 --> 01:03:36

If his deeds get worse.

01:03:38 --> 01:03:40

You know, these people, the thing happens, why

01:03:40 --> 01:03:41

did God do this?

01:03:41 --> 01:03:42

You haven't mentioned God your whole life.

01:03:43 --> 01:03:44

Why are you bringing up God now?

01:03:45 --> 01:03:46

They get worse because of the thing.

01:03:52 --> 01:03:53

All right, good idea by Omar.

01:03:53 --> 01:03:56

Rapid fire, 10 seconds and answer.

01:03:56 --> 01:03:56

How's that?

01:03:58 --> 01:04:00

Okay, Omar, can you read me the questions?

01:04:01 --> 01:04:03

All right, so first of all, there's a

01:04:03 --> 01:04:04

question that was on topic actually.

01:04:05 --> 01:04:06

So I'm going to go for the on

01:04:06 --> 01:04:07

topic ones.

01:04:07 --> 01:04:10

Someone was asking what is the most, I'm

01:04:10 --> 01:04:12

trying to read exactly, but he was basically

01:04:12 --> 01:04:14

asking what is the most shocking prophecy of

01:04:14 --> 01:04:14

the Prophet ﷺ?

01:04:15 --> 01:04:17

The most shocking prophecy of the Prophet ﷺ,

01:04:18 --> 01:04:20

which I believe will happen this generation.

01:04:22 --> 01:04:23

Public * will become lawful.

01:04:25 --> 01:04:26

Not everywhere, but some places.

01:04:27 --> 01:04:28

It's already happening.

01:04:28 --> 01:04:29

In Spain, I think.

01:04:29 --> 01:04:29

It's already happening.

01:04:30 --> 01:04:33

The Prophet ﷺ said, people will cohabit like

01:04:33 --> 01:04:35

donkeys in the streets.

01:04:36 --> 01:04:37

Amsterdam has already happened.

01:04:37 --> 01:04:39

And the best of the people will say,

01:04:39 --> 01:04:41

can you just do that behind a wall?

01:04:41 --> 01:04:42

That's going to be the best.

01:04:42 --> 01:04:43

That's going to be the conservative.

01:04:45 --> 01:04:46

Okay, keep going.

01:04:46 --> 01:04:47

We got a super chat.

01:04:47 --> 01:04:49

Someone said, I took your advice of increasing

01:04:49 --> 01:04:51

salawat, but I frequently miss Fajr.

01:04:51 --> 01:04:52

My family says I'm focused on the wrong

01:04:52 --> 01:04:53

thing.

01:04:53 --> 01:04:53

What should I do?

01:04:55 --> 01:04:56

Salat and Fajr is the most important thing

01:04:56 --> 01:04:57

for you to make.

01:04:58 --> 01:04:58

And there are techniques.

01:04:59 --> 01:05:02

Do istighfar in the daytime, but also sleep

01:05:02 --> 01:05:06

early and set multiple alarms and maybe ask

01:05:06 --> 01:05:07

your friend to help you.

01:05:07 --> 01:05:08

Sometimes it's as simple as sleeping early.

01:05:08 --> 01:05:10

Sleep after.

01:05:10 --> 01:05:11

Pray isha, not go.

01:05:12 --> 01:05:14

Someone's asking, Shaykh, how do we consolidate our

01:05:14 --> 01:05:16

humanity and human fallacy within the parameters of

01:05:16 --> 01:05:17

the sharia?

01:05:17 --> 01:05:19

He's saying, how do we protect ourselves from

01:05:19 --> 01:05:19

judging others?

01:05:20 --> 01:05:23

We judge, we are allowed to judge things

01:05:23 --> 01:05:24

people do.

01:05:24 --> 01:05:26

We are not allowed to judge why they're

01:05:26 --> 01:05:27

doing them.

01:05:29 --> 01:05:30

Basically the unseen, right?

01:05:30 --> 01:05:31

Yeah, exactly.

01:05:31 --> 01:05:33

We don't know what moved him to do

01:05:33 --> 01:05:33

that.

01:05:33 --> 01:05:36

I can't judge how bad he is.

01:05:36 --> 01:05:39

Maybe he grew up being encouraged to do

01:05:39 --> 01:05:40

that, right?

01:05:41 --> 01:05:44

Maybe he is completely jammed and there's only

01:05:44 --> 01:05:46

way for him is to do that, that

01:05:46 --> 01:05:47

he sees at least.

01:05:47 --> 01:05:49

So I don't judge why he did it.

01:05:50 --> 01:05:53

But I can judge the action itself, whether

01:05:53 --> 01:05:55

it's lawful or permitted or obligatory.

01:05:56 --> 01:05:56

Next.

01:05:56 --> 01:05:58

Someone's asking, do we need to memorize about

01:05:58 --> 01:05:59

each prophet of Islam and how can we

01:05:59 --> 01:06:01

determine that the figure was a prophet, that

01:06:01 --> 01:06:02

a figure was a prophet?

01:06:02 --> 01:06:04

We are only allowed to attribute prophethood to

01:06:04 --> 01:06:06

somebody whom the Quran or Hadith told us

01:06:06 --> 01:06:07

is a prophet.

01:06:08 --> 01:06:09

Hence we're not allowed to say how many

01:06:09 --> 01:06:12

prophets there were except the number the prophet

01:06:12 --> 01:06:13

gave which is an estimation.

01:06:14 --> 01:06:16

Because we may be including someone in prophethood

01:06:16 --> 01:06:18

or excluding someone from prophethood.

01:06:19 --> 01:06:21

So we can only establish prophethood for someone

01:06:21 --> 01:06:23

whom Allah and His Messenger have stated are

01:06:23 --> 01:06:23

prophets.

01:06:24 --> 01:06:25

Someone's saying, Allah changes all our evil deeds

01:06:25 --> 01:06:26

into good, right?

01:06:26 --> 01:06:29

Does this include those committed when one committed

01:06:29 --> 01:06:30

acts of kuffar and then returned?

01:06:30 --> 01:06:31

Or when someone was in kuffar, I guess

01:06:31 --> 01:06:32

he means.

01:06:33 --> 01:06:34

Yes.

01:06:34 --> 01:06:37

Next, when does Allah transform your bad deeds

01:06:37 --> 01:06:37

into good deeds?

01:06:38 --> 01:06:40

When you're repentant so much, you repent so

01:06:40 --> 01:06:43

much, then Allah Ta'ala eventually, the greatest

01:06:43 --> 01:06:46

form of purification is to transform your bad

01:06:46 --> 01:06:47

deeds into good deeds.

01:06:47 --> 01:06:48

And in the world, how do you know

01:06:48 --> 01:06:49

when that's happening?

01:06:49 --> 01:06:51

When you use those experiences to help others.

01:06:52 --> 01:06:53

You used to be a drinker, now you

01:06:53 --> 01:06:54

help people stop drinking.

01:06:55 --> 01:06:56

That is the transformation of your bad deeds

01:06:56 --> 01:06:57

into good deeds.

01:06:58 --> 01:07:01

The Hadith on reading 1000 ayat during tahajjud,

01:07:01 --> 01:07:02

is it necessary to read during the salah

01:07:02 --> 01:07:03

or can one just recite the Qur'an?

01:07:03 --> 01:07:05

If it's only during the salah, then can

01:07:05 --> 01:07:06

we see the Qur'an and recite it?

01:07:07 --> 01:07:08

I don't know that Hadith, so I can't

01:07:08 --> 01:07:08

tell you.

01:07:09 --> 01:07:10

Your mic is on right arm.

01:07:11 --> 01:07:12

The last part though, I think he asked,

01:07:13 --> 01:07:14

if it's only during the salah, can we

01:07:14 --> 01:07:15

see the Qur'an and recite basically during

01:07:15 --> 01:07:15

prayer?

01:07:16 --> 01:07:17

You're allowed to hold the Mus'haf and

01:07:17 --> 01:07:18

recite from it.

01:07:18 --> 01:07:20

And you can even hold the phone and

01:07:20 --> 01:07:22

recite from it in the extra prayers in

01:07:22 --> 01:07:23

the Maliki Madhab.

01:07:24 --> 01:07:24

Not in the Fard.

01:07:26 --> 01:07:29

Question, Surah An-Nisa, repentance is not accepted

01:07:29 --> 01:07:30

from those who knowingly persist in sin.

01:07:30 --> 01:07:32

Does it refer to shirk or all sins?

01:07:32 --> 01:07:33

I sin a lot but repent a lot

01:07:33 --> 01:07:33

too.

01:07:33 --> 01:07:35

Is that counted as mocking Allah's mercy?

01:07:36 --> 01:07:38

Persistence is negated by tawbah.

01:07:39 --> 01:07:41

If you fall into sins and you make

01:07:41 --> 01:07:42

tawbah, you're not persistent.

01:07:43 --> 01:07:45

Persistence is someone who does the sin.

01:07:45 --> 01:07:47

The thought to make tawbah comes to him,

01:07:47 --> 01:07:49

he says, nah, I'll just sin again.

01:07:51 --> 01:07:53

Once you make tawbah, you are not persistent.

01:07:53 --> 01:07:56

You are now categorized as penitent.

01:07:57 --> 01:07:58

And Allah loves you.

01:07:58 --> 01:07:59

Allah loves the penitent.

01:08:00 --> 01:08:00

Next.

01:08:01 --> 01:08:02

Someone's asking about the live stream schedule.

01:08:02 --> 01:08:04

So it's from 1.30 to around 3

01:08:04 --> 01:08:06

.30, I'd say, Tuesday to Thursday.

01:08:06 --> 01:08:08

If you wanna catch.

01:08:08 --> 01:08:09

And EST, so Eastern Standard Time.

01:08:10 --> 01:08:13

Next, someone's saying, how to reach the level

01:08:13 --> 01:08:14

when we're doing ibadah for the sake of

01:08:14 --> 01:08:15

Allah's love?

01:08:17 --> 01:08:21

You do ibadah for multiple reasons.

01:08:21 --> 01:08:23

To avoid His punishment, to seek the reward

01:08:23 --> 01:08:24

that He has in this life and the

01:08:24 --> 01:08:26

next, and solely for the love of Allah.

01:08:27 --> 01:08:28

All of us will be a mix of

01:08:28 --> 01:08:29

all of these things.

01:08:30 --> 01:08:32

When Allah ta'ala talks about hellfire, you

01:08:32 --> 01:08:34

worship Him out of fear of the punishments.

01:08:35 --> 01:08:36

There are punishments in this life too.

01:08:37 --> 01:08:38

When you think of reward and things you

01:08:38 --> 01:08:40

want, you worship Him so you can get

01:08:40 --> 01:08:41

those things.

01:08:41 --> 01:08:43

And when you think of what He's already

01:08:43 --> 01:08:47

given you, which we should always do, then

01:08:47 --> 01:08:49

you worship Him out of love and gratitude.

01:08:50 --> 01:08:52

Someone's asking, my spouse uses religion to try

01:08:52 --> 01:08:53

to get me to do or not do

01:08:53 --> 01:08:54

what he wants.

01:08:54 --> 01:08:55

I felt frozen, like I don't know what

01:08:55 --> 01:08:57

actually pleases Allah anymore.

01:08:57 --> 01:08:58

When is it time to leave?

01:08:58 --> 01:08:59

I guess the relationship.

01:08:59 --> 01:09:00

Too big of a question for me to

01:09:00 --> 01:09:01

answer here.

01:09:02 --> 01:09:03

And too personal.

01:09:03 --> 01:09:06

And too much liability to say leave or

01:09:06 --> 01:09:06

stay and get abused.

01:09:08 --> 01:09:10

What are your thoughts on the Euphrates River

01:09:10 --> 01:09:10

drying up?

01:09:10 --> 01:09:11

Scientists say it's going to dry up by

01:09:11 --> 01:09:12

2040.

01:09:12 --> 01:09:13

Should we be concerned?

01:09:13 --> 01:09:14

What are your thoughts?

01:09:14 --> 01:09:16

Well, it's one of the prophecies of the

01:09:16 --> 01:09:17

end of time and we're seeing it happen

01:09:17 --> 01:09:18

in front of us.

01:09:18 --> 01:09:20

We should follow it and see what happens.

01:09:21 --> 01:09:23

But there's no action for us to do

01:09:23 --> 01:09:26

except from now, tawbah, ibadah, dhikr, what we're

01:09:26 --> 01:09:27

trying to do now.

01:09:27 --> 01:09:29

Aziz, just keep doing it.

01:09:29 --> 01:09:31

My friend had a dream about Sultan Salahuddin

01:09:31 --> 01:09:33

and Sultan Abdul Hamid in a dark jungle.

01:09:33 --> 01:09:35

They told him to look down and when

01:09:35 --> 01:09:36

he did, he saw the Middle East map

01:09:36 --> 01:09:37

on fire.

01:09:37 --> 01:09:38

Salahuddin told him to act.

01:09:39 --> 01:09:40

So I guess he's asking for the meaning

01:09:40 --> 01:09:41

of this.

01:09:41 --> 01:09:42

It's what it is.

01:09:42 --> 01:09:43

Exactly what you saw, that's what it is.

01:09:43 --> 01:09:44

You have to take good actions.

01:09:44 --> 01:09:45

You have to do good deeds.

01:09:46 --> 01:09:47

You can't be passive.

01:09:48 --> 01:09:50

Are carnivores makruh in the Maliki method for

01:09:50 --> 01:09:50

consumption?

01:09:50 --> 01:09:52

I've heard that in Al-Muwatta, Imam Malik

01:09:52 --> 01:09:52

said it's haram.

01:09:53 --> 01:09:54

No, it's makruh.

01:09:59 --> 01:10:00

As-salamu alaykum.

01:10:01 --> 01:10:03

Where or who can I learn more about

01:10:03 --> 01:10:04

the Baalawi?

01:10:04 --> 01:10:05

Or where can I learn more about the

01:10:05 --> 01:10:06

Baalawi Tariqah?

01:10:07 --> 01:10:09

From the Baalawi Tariqah?

01:10:10 --> 01:10:11

Shaykh Yahya wrote us.

01:10:11 --> 01:10:14

Shaykh Abdul Karim Yahya.

01:10:14 --> 01:10:15

Shaykh Ibrahim Osiyafa.

01:10:16 --> 01:10:19

Mawasala.org M-U-W-A-S-A

01:10:19 --> 01:10:21

-L-A That's their website of the English

01:10:21 --> 01:10:22

speaking.

01:10:22 --> 01:10:23

Listen to as much.

01:10:23 --> 01:10:24

Watch as much.

01:10:24 --> 01:10:25

Do the adhkar that they say there.

01:10:25 --> 01:10:27

Take the lessons.

01:10:27 --> 01:10:27

Read the books.

01:10:28 --> 01:10:29

Recite the awrad.

01:10:29 --> 01:10:31

Our path is ilm and it's a dhikr.

01:10:33 --> 01:10:33

Next.

01:10:33 --> 01:10:35

Someone is falsely accusing me of major sin

01:10:35 --> 01:10:36

and praying against me.

01:10:36 --> 01:10:37

How do I protect myself?

01:10:39 --> 01:10:41

You protect yourself with the awrad.

01:10:41 --> 01:10:42

That's number one.

01:10:42 --> 01:10:43

From those hasad.

01:10:43 --> 01:10:44

And you protect yourself by reciting Hasb-i

01:10:44 --> 01:10:46

-Allah wa-na'm-al-wakeel at least a

01:10:46 --> 01:10:47

hundred times a day.

01:10:47 --> 01:10:48

And la hawla wa la quwwata illa billah

01:10:48 --> 01:10:50

at least a hundred times a day.

01:10:50 --> 01:10:52

And make istighfar because Allah Ta'ala doesn't

01:10:52 --> 01:10:54

punish someone who makes istighfar.

01:10:56 --> 01:10:57

Shaykh, is it true that no one should

01:10:57 --> 01:11:00

advise another if he does it himself?

01:11:00 --> 01:11:01

I guess the bad thing.

01:11:01 --> 01:11:01

No.

01:11:01 --> 01:11:04

If somebody is struggling with a sin himself

01:11:04 --> 01:11:06

and he's trying to overcome it, he may

01:11:06 --> 01:11:07

give advice to other people.

01:11:08 --> 01:11:11

But he should obviously be merciful because he

01:11:11 --> 01:11:12

himself is falling into it.

01:11:14 --> 01:11:16

Shaykh, can we do dhikr on Allah's names?

01:11:16 --> 01:11:18

People say it causes psychosis.

01:11:18 --> 01:11:19

No.

01:11:19 --> 01:11:21

When you recite the divine names of Allah

01:11:21 --> 01:11:24

you should not just recite one name hundreds

01:11:24 --> 01:11:25

of thousands of times.

01:11:25 --> 01:11:26

And that's what could lead to an imbalance.

01:11:27 --> 01:11:28

You recite all of them.

01:11:29 --> 01:11:30

And you could...

01:11:30 --> 01:11:32

And if it's Yaani Yasir, you're reciting Ya

01:11:32 --> 01:11:34

Latif, Ya Rahman, Ya Rahim, Ya Kareem.

01:11:34 --> 01:11:35

Those beautiful names.

01:11:35 --> 01:11:36

Ya Ghani, Ya Mughni.

01:11:37 --> 01:11:39

You can recite some of those a couple

01:11:39 --> 01:11:40

of times but not in the great numbers

01:11:40 --> 01:11:42

like 10,000, 12,000.

01:11:42 --> 01:11:46

That's where some people have said that it

01:11:46 --> 01:11:47

could harm a person.

01:11:48 --> 01:11:49

Would you also say, Shaykh, that the person

01:11:49 --> 01:11:51

should educate themselves on the names?

01:11:51 --> 01:11:53

So like reading maybe books on the Asma'

01:11:53 --> 01:11:53

al-Husna.

01:11:53 --> 01:11:56

So there's not like 100% 100%

01:11:56 --> 01:11:58

You should read and study as well the

01:11:58 --> 01:11:59

divine names.

01:12:00 --> 01:12:04

Someone's asking Maliki Fiqh Amal Madina Hadith Ijma'

01:12:04 --> 01:12:06

Qiyas Culture Correct order?

01:12:06 --> 01:12:06

Yes or no?

01:12:08 --> 01:12:12

Maliki Fiqh Quran Mutawatir Hadith Amal Ahlul Madina

01:12:12 --> 01:12:17

Is part of Mutawatir Hadith Sahih Hadith Ijma'

01:12:17 --> 01:12:21

Qiyas Urf Sadd al-Dhari'ah Blocking the

01:12:21 --> 01:12:21

means of harm.

01:12:23 --> 01:12:24

Okay.

01:12:25 --> 01:12:28

Someone is asking the This is good.

01:12:28 --> 01:12:29

We're getting a lot.

01:12:30 --> 01:12:31

I think most of the streams that we

01:12:31 --> 01:12:31

get.

01:12:31 --> 01:12:33

Yeah, we need to do this more often.

01:12:34 --> 01:12:35

Let's see.

01:12:36 --> 01:12:38

How do I keep believing in my du

01:12:38 --> 01:12:39

'as for my husband whom I love deeply

01:12:39 --> 01:12:41

even though he doesn't want to continue our

01:12:41 --> 01:12:41

marriage?

01:12:41 --> 01:12:42

My heart gets tired when I see no

01:12:42 --> 01:12:44

signs but I don't want to give up

01:12:44 --> 01:12:44

on my du'as.

01:12:46 --> 01:12:48

Your husband doesn't want to commit to continue

01:12:48 --> 01:12:49

the marriage but you do?

01:12:50 --> 01:12:52

You have nothing other than to make du

01:12:52 --> 01:12:54

'a and recite and this is an advice

01:12:54 --> 01:12:57

Mufti Azimuddin gave when you're trying to move

01:12:57 --> 01:12:59

the heart of another person and you can't

01:12:59 --> 01:13:02

get to them do isaal and thawab for

01:13:02 --> 01:13:03

them and in the Hanafi school you can

01:13:03 --> 01:13:04

do it for the living.

01:13:06 --> 01:13:08

Recite Surah Yasin and intend the reward to

01:13:08 --> 01:13:08

them.

01:13:08 --> 01:13:10

Recite Surah Ar-Rahman and intend the reward

01:13:10 --> 01:13:10

to them.

01:13:11 --> 01:13:11

And that's mujarrab.

01:13:12 --> 01:13:13

It's something people tried and they did and

01:13:13 --> 01:13:15

it did soften the heart of the people

01:13:15 --> 01:13:16

that they were trying to get to.

01:13:18 --> 01:13:18

Alright.

01:13:19 --> 01:13:22

Someone is asking My job is doing something

01:13:22 --> 01:13:24

for Halloween soon and I was wondering if

01:13:24 --> 01:13:25

it would be permissible for me to go

01:13:25 --> 01:13:28

for the sole purpose of earning money since

01:13:28 --> 01:13:29

they pay us for coming to bonding events.

01:13:31 --> 01:13:32

Makruh.

01:13:33 --> 01:13:35

I would say just discourage it and we

01:13:35 --> 01:13:36

shouldn't go to those things.

01:13:37 --> 01:13:40

Another dream so someone was building a large

01:13:40 --> 01:13:42

structure he was on a ladder walls were

01:13:42 --> 01:13:45

oddly sloped helper comes up additional weight causes

01:13:45 --> 01:13:48

structure to begin falling over it stops falling

01:13:48 --> 01:13:49

due to an anchor installed by another helper

01:13:49 --> 01:13:51

on the ground looks like a normal building

01:13:51 --> 01:13:53

skeleton afterward.

01:13:53 --> 01:13:54

I don't know.

01:13:54 --> 01:13:55

I don't know.

01:13:55 --> 01:13:56

It's a lot.

01:13:58 --> 01:14:01

Is it haram to celebrate Halloween?

01:14:03 --> 01:14:04

We should avoid it.

01:14:04 --> 01:14:07

Halloween is something that many ulama talked about

01:14:07 --> 01:14:08

it that we should avoid it.

01:14:09 --> 01:14:11

I heard that Imam Malik was Athari but

01:14:11 --> 01:14:12

I thought he was Ashari.

01:14:13 --> 01:14:15

There was none of that in the time

01:14:15 --> 01:14:16

of those Salaf.

01:14:17 --> 01:14:19

Those debates and those discussions had not really

01:14:19 --> 01:14:22

initiated but Malik's disciples are the best to

01:14:22 --> 01:14:23

answer that right or wrong.

01:14:24 --> 01:14:26

Malik's students are the best to decide what

01:14:26 --> 01:14:29

he would have believed and when the Kalam

01:14:29 --> 01:14:31

of the Mu'tazila came that's what he rejected.

01:14:31 --> 01:14:32

Malik rejected it.

01:14:34 --> 01:14:36

The Sunnis had not developed Kalam yet.

01:14:36 --> 01:14:40

Kalam being a response to these questions these

01:14:40 --> 01:14:43

attacks or perceived contradictions of things.

01:14:44 --> 01:14:50

But his students within a generation adopted the

01:14:50 --> 01:14:53

Madhab of Abul Hasan Al Ashari within a

01:14:53 --> 01:14:53

generation or two.

01:14:53 --> 01:14:55

So who would know best?

01:14:55 --> 01:14:57

Us or them.

01:14:58 --> 01:15:01

So that's why Maliki ended up as majority

01:15:01 --> 01:15:02

Ashari.

01:15:02 --> 01:15:04

And would you apply that to the other

01:15:04 --> 01:15:04

Imams as well?

01:15:05 --> 01:15:07

So like for example someone like Imam Al

01:15:07 --> 01:15:08

Maturidi for example.

01:15:08 --> 01:15:11

Imam Al Maturidi the Ahnaf deemed this to

01:15:11 --> 01:15:15

be what Abu Hanifa would have said regarding

01:15:15 --> 01:15:16

these issues.

01:15:16 --> 01:15:17

That Masail had not come up yet so

01:15:17 --> 01:15:20

therefore how could Malik be or not be?

01:15:21 --> 01:15:21

Right?

01:15:22 --> 01:15:23

And he's only a few like students right?

01:15:23 --> 01:15:23

Yeah.

01:15:24 --> 01:15:27

So that's how we look at it.

01:15:27 --> 01:15:28

That's how I look at it.

01:15:28 --> 01:15:30

I mean the whole the majority of the

01:15:30 --> 01:15:30

Madhab went that route.

01:15:30 --> 01:15:31

Why?

01:15:31 --> 01:15:33

Because the early ones went that route.

01:15:33 --> 01:15:34

Why did the early ones went that route?

01:15:35 --> 01:15:37

Because based on their knowledge of their Imam

01:15:37 --> 01:15:40

they their judgment was this is what he

01:15:40 --> 01:15:42

would have this is how he would have

01:15:42 --> 01:15:42

answered these questions.

01:15:43 --> 01:15:44

And Allah knows best at the end of

01:15:44 --> 01:15:44

the day.

01:15:46 --> 01:15:48

Sheikh, the hadith of excellence in religion is

01:15:48 --> 01:15:51

in leaving that which does not concern us.

01:15:51 --> 01:15:52

How do we determine what does concern us

01:15:52 --> 01:15:54

especially in this globalized time?

01:15:54 --> 01:15:56

It's very important to learn the Shariah because

01:15:56 --> 01:15:58

Allah Ta'ala obligates and He forbids.

01:15:58 --> 01:16:01

So where we're obligated and we're forbidden that's

01:16:01 --> 01:16:02

what concerns us.

01:16:02 --> 01:16:04

So study Fiqh essentially right?

01:16:04 --> 01:16:06

Study Fiqh so we can know what's my

01:16:06 --> 01:16:07

business and what's not my business.

01:16:10 --> 01:16:14

Question I want to ask about super chat

01:16:14 --> 01:16:16

we answered the super chat on the Ba

01:16:16 --> 01:16:16

'ada'i right?

01:16:17 --> 01:16:18

Yes we did.

01:16:19 --> 01:16:20

Next question.

01:16:20 --> 01:16:21

Three more minutes.

01:16:23 --> 01:16:25

Why is seeing and hearing included in your

01:16:25 --> 01:16:27

Shariah as a rationally established attribute?

01:16:27 --> 01:16:29

It is not necessary it shouldn't be classed

01:16:29 --> 01:16:30

as a scriptural attribute?

01:16:31 --> 01:16:31

No.

01:16:31 --> 01:16:35

Seeing, hearing and speaking are necessary implications of

01:16:35 --> 01:16:36

a complete life.

01:16:36 --> 01:16:40

Life is presupposed in will, knowledge and power.

01:16:41 --> 01:16:43

Something cannot have will, knowledge and power without

01:16:43 --> 01:16:43

life.

01:16:44 --> 01:16:46

Something's life is incomplete without hearing, seeing and

01:16:46 --> 01:16:47

speech.

01:16:49 --> 01:16:52

Plants, animals rocks even rocks according to the

01:16:52 --> 01:16:54

Prophet ﷺ they have a consciousness according to

01:16:54 --> 01:16:56

the Quran they have a consciousness but their

01:16:56 --> 01:16:57

life is incomplete.

01:16:58 --> 01:17:01

They don't hear, speak or move or hear,

01:17:01 --> 01:17:04

speak or see.

01:17:05 --> 01:17:08

Animals hear and see but they don't speak.

01:17:09 --> 01:17:11

They don't speak the type of speech.

01:17:11 --> 01:17:12

They're incomplete.

01:17:13 --> 01:17:16

Plants who knows what they do move and

01:17:16 --> 01:17:16

they grow.

01:17:17 --> 01:17:19

Humans hear, speak and see.

01:17:19 --> 01:17:21

So that tells us what is the completeness

01:17:21 --> 01:17:22

of life.

01:17:22 --> 01:17:25

So if you're gonna attribute life to the

01:17:25 --> 01:17:28

perfect being naturally he would have the perfect

01:17:28 --> 01:17:30

life and all the what necessitates a perfect

01:17:30 --> 01:17:32

life hearing, seeing and speech.

01:17:32 --> 01:17:36

So those three are presupposed in the completeness

01:17:36 --> 01:17:37

of life.

01:17:38 --> 01:17:40

So yeah, we got your super chat.

01:17:40 --> 01:17:42

But yeah, so for the future inshallah like

01:17:42 --> 01:17:45

super chats will be prioritized in a sense

01:17:45 --> 01:17:46

compared to others and stuff because it's easier

01:17:46 --> 01:17:48

to tell like the person is actually asking

01:17:48 --> 01:17:49

a serious question.

01:17:49 --> 01:17:51

Also if you're asking like some nonsense I'm

01:17:51 --> 01:17:52

not gonna read your question.

01:17:52 --> 01:17:53

I'll let you know right now.

01:17:53 --> 01:17:54

I might not ban you but that doesn't

01:17:54 --> 01:17:55

mean I'm gonna read your question.

01:17:57 --> 01:17:58

I'm lenient like I said with banning people.

01:17:59 --> 01:18:00

You gotta do something bad for me to

01:18:00 --> 01:18:01

ban you.

01:18:01 --> 01:18:04

Someone's saying can you give a very logical

01:18:04 --> 01:18:05

answer why we should wear niqab because I

01:18:05 --> 01:18:07

need to convince my sisters to wear it

01:18:07 --> 01:18:07

too.

01:18:07 --> 01:18:09

Niqab is differed upon in the different methods

01:18:09 --> 01:18:11

in the Shafi'i and Hanbali school if

01:18:11 --> 01:18:12

I'm not mistaken it's an obligation.

01:18:13 --> 01:18:15

In the Maliki school it's an obligation in

01:18:15 --> 01:18:18

front of when someone is you have a

01:18:18 --> 01:18:21

suspicion or you know that someone is looking

01:18:21 --> 01:18:23

at you with lust or in front of

01:18:23 --> 01:18:26

a kafir if the niqab will not be

01:18:26 --> 01:18:28

a greater hardship otherwise you have a choice

01:18:29 --> 01:18:31

to choose which one.

01:18:32 --> 01:18:35

The wearing niqab or not wearing niqab if

01:18:35 --> 01:18:36

there's a hardship.

01:18:37 --> 01:18:38

But in the Shafi'i and Hanbali school

01:18:38 --> 01:18:39

it's an obligation.

01:18:40 --> 01:18:41

In the Hanafi school I don't know what

01:18:41 --> 01:18:42

did the Ahnaf say.

01:18:42 --> 01:18:44

I thought that they didn't have it but

01:18:44 --> 01:18:46

I see that many yeah like some will

01:18:46 --> 01:18:48

say wajib I think.

01:18:51 --> 01:18:56

So someone is saying what is an authentic

01:18:56 --> 01:18:58

tariqa as opposed to inauthentic and what is

01:18:58 --> 01:18:59

its place in Ahl as-Sunnah?

01:18:59 --> 01:19:01

Are you deficient in following one?

01:19:01 --> 01:19:01

No.

01:19:01 --> 01:19:03

A person is not obligated at all to

01:19:03 --> 01:19:05

follow a tariqa a specific tariqa but we

01:19:05 --> 01:19:07

are all following the path to Allah which

01:19:07 --> 01:19:11

is fulfilling our obligations avoiding our prohibitions learning

01:19:11 --> 01:19:15

what is extra good deeds nawafil dhikr Allah

01:19:15 --> 01:19:18

tahajjud reciting Quran giving sadaqah helping people giving

01:19:18 --> 01:19:21

dawah and going above and beyond in those

01:19:21 --> 01:19:21

good deeds.

01:19:21 --> 01:19:23

We're all called asked to do that.

01:19:23 --> 01:19:26

And a path if someone is advertising or

01:19:26 --> 01:19:27

saying that they have a spiritual path you

01:19:27 --> 01:19:30

judge it by number one are they following

01:19:30 --> 01:19:32

the sharia and aqidah properly?

01:19:32 --> 01:19:36

Number two do the disciples are they exemplary?

01:19:36 --> 01:19:38

Are the disciples exemplary?

01:19:39 --> 01:19:42

Are they showing that they're actually advancing?

01:19:42 --> 01:19:43

Last question.

01:19:44 --> 01:19:46

G.H. Moni I don't see your question

01:19:46 --> 01:19:48

so I don't know what you're asking.

01:19:49 --> 01:19:49

Like I scrolled all the way up I

01:19:49 --> 01:19:50

don't see anything.

01:19:51 --> 01:19:53

Yeah just for the future if you want

01:19:53 --> 01:19:54

like if you want to repeat a question

01:19:54 --> 01:19:56

like don't say read my question like send

01:19:56 --> 01:19:57

the question again because it gets buried under

01:19:57 --> 01:19:58

all these different comments.

01:19:59 --> 01:20:00

What else do we have?

01:20:01 --> 01:20:02

Otherwise yeah I go in order.

01:20:05 --> 01:20:06

Really good idea.

01:20:06 --> 01:20:08

Omar here with the rapid fire.

01:20:09 --> 01:20:10

One final question.

01:20:13 --> 01:20:15

Trying to sift through what is the question

01:20:15 --> 01:20:15

what is it?

01:20:17 --> 01:20:21

So someone says if a person who has

01:20:21 --> 01:20:23

wronged me severely can I hold a grudge

01:20:23 --> 01:20:24

against him or make dawah against him?

01:20:25 --> 01:20:26

Like may Allah guide him and if not

01:20:26 --> 01:20:26

to punish him?

01:20:26 --> 01:20:29

No you should not make dawah for another

01:20:29 --> 01:20:30

person to be punished.

01:20:30 --> 01:20:32

You can make dawah for their oppression to

01:20:32 --> 01:20:32

stop.

01:20:33 --> 01:20:34

Oh Allah stop their oppression.

01:20:35 --> 01:20:36

That's what you may make dawah for or

01:20:36 --> 01:20:37

Allah guide them.

01:20:38 --> 01:20:39

And can you hold a grudge?

01:20:40 --> 01:20:41

Yes you may be upset about an injustice

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but it's not necessarily good for your heart

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so you can just forget about it.

01:20:47 --> 01:20:48

On Yawm al Qiyamah you can get your

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justice.

01:20:50 --> 01:20:53

But it's to hold a grudge you're hurting

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yourself.

01:20:53 --> 01:20:54

You're not hurting the other person.

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You're not making justice come any faster.

01:20:57 --> 01:20:58

Allah knows how much pain people are in.

01:20:59 --> 01:21:01

But remove it from your heart for your

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own sake.

01:21:02 --> 01:21:04

Not that I'm forgiving him and let's leave

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justice and let's have no sense of justice.

01:21:07 --> 01:21:07

No.

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For your own heart get it out of

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your system.

01:21:12 --> 01:21:14

And on the day of judgment or later

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in this life if there's an opportunity to

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get judgment justice then you can get justice.

01:21:21 --> 01:21:25

Online sessions many people asking I don't have

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anything like that right now.

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I don't have anything like that right now.

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Oh.

01:21:45 --> 01:21:46

Can you do it Omar?

01:21:46 --> 01:21:47

Because I have to run.

01:21:48 --> 01:21:49

Are you able to do it?

01:21:49 --> 01:21:49

Okay.

01:21:49 --> 01:21:51

Omar will do it while I hit the

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road.

01:21:51 --> 01:21:52

Just a second.

01:21:52 --> 01:21:52

Go ahead.

01:21:54 --> 01:21:56

So for those who are new here or

01:21:56 --> 01:21:58

haven't seen this before this is the time

01:21:58 --> 01:22:01

you know we have narrations where the Prophet's

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Dua was accepted during a time on Wednesday

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between Dhuhr and Asr.

01:22:05 --> 01:22:08

And so we recite this Hizb known as

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Hizb-Nasr and then after that we stop

01:22:10 --> 01:22:10

for some Dua.

01:22:10 --> 01:22:11

So this is the time we should make

01:22:11 --> 01:22:14

abundant Dua in hopes that it gets accepted

01:22:14 --> 01:22:15

because it's a blessed time.

01:22:25 --> 01:22:26

Okay.

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Okay.

01:26:40 --> 01:26:43

Inshallah two or three minutes for Dua.

01:26:44 --> 01:26:47

Whatever you're in need of any Dua's you'd

01:26:47 --> 01:26:48

like to make this is a time for

01:26:48 --> 01:26:49

Ijaabah.

01:26:49 --> 01:26:49

Inshallah.

01:28:32 --> 01:28:36

And peace be upon the messengers, and praise

01:28:36 --> 01:28:39

be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds.

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