Yahya Ibrahim – Islamic Q & A – Grill The Imam 23-12-21

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The upcoming evening gathering for Islam's annual dinner is a message of peace and blessings, with Jesus being a sign to the creator and the use of the mother in Jesus's name. The speakers discuss the importance of the use of the word Islam in various context, including religion, media, and media. They also touch on the cultural significance of Christmas, with one speaker explaining that it is a general Christmas party and not a religious or formal thing. The conversation ends with a brief advertisement for a book on mobile devices.

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			Salatu was Salam ala Rasulillah Salam Allahu alayhi wa early he was so happy women were that Allah
has suddenly we're settling was it we're barely kind of empty coveralls who can maybe meet you
early. He was actually he will send him to Sleeman Kathira Allahumma Salli ala Nabina. Muhammad in
color William was Oliver said to Moses vertic LSA Edna didn't want to begin Mohamed Karim Allahumma
salli wa sallim wa barik ala Nabina Muhammad in film La La La I mean, whom are resulting in men that
were cold and harsh weather then Allah is Sabirah Allahumma vertical in females often a lot cleaner
either now, emetic, a hammer II mean, always in forever. We begin with the praise of Allah we send
		
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			our prayers, salutations of peace upon our interview, Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, we
testify with firmness and conviction that none is worthy of worship of Allah and I want to be a
something a lot of us in the missus worshipping slave and final messenger. I continue to remind
myself in you as I do each and every week when we gather together on Wednesday at noon, London time,
to be of those who are hunches of ALLAH SubhanA to add to increase insha Allah in our love for
Allah, our fear of Allah and our hope in His mercy, that He gives us relief in this life and gives
us forgiveness and emancipation from our sins in the next Allah mean, we pray that Allah Subhana
		
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			Allah favors us with being of those who follow our NABI Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, may he
be celebrated evermore with the praise of Allah subhanho wa Taala I ask Allah subhana wa Taala to
grant us knowledge that is beneficial and practiced by us to give us a body that is resilient
against the test in the trials of this world, and that we are from those who maintain our faith
until we are gathered together in the best of company with our Navy Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam internet and Fidel's Allahumma. I mean, it's a pleasure once again, to join with you your
brother. Yeah, hey, Brahim, coming to live from Perth, Western Australia from my home here to yours.
		
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			I pray that Allah Subhana Allah to Allah was gathered us in our different places and time zones and
continents, that gathers our hearts together upon his faith, and the love and adherence and a
practice of the sooner. That is the lifestyle of the Haoran Allahumma Amin. I hope insha Allah as we
spend this hour together, Islam q&a, which is facilitated through the wonderful vehicle of Islam
channel, I pray that Allah Subhana Allah allows the questions that you may put forward over the next
hour to be not just a benefit for yourself but a benefit to a broader greater audience. sha Allah,
Allahu Allah, I mean, while you call each of our live number and get your answers for some of those
		
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			questions, and if of benefit to others, I thought it's timely for us to speak about the Orthodox
beliefs that Muslims have about Jesus or ISA Ali is set up. And Jesus hallelujah Salaam is one of
the most important prophets and messengers that have been declared for us, I think shooting for us
as examples by Allah in the Quran. In fact, Jesus Peace and blessings upon him is one of the central
figures of the Quran. There is a chapter in the Quran Chapter 19 That describes his mother, and
titled with his mother's name, Medea Mary, peace and blessings be upon her. There's the third
chapter of the Quran, which chronicles the family of Jesus, the grandparents of Jesus alley and Ron
		
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			the tribe of amaranth. And Imran, the family of Jesus, peace and blessings be upon him, which
extends all the way back in lineage to the great great ancestral father EMRAM, who was the the
lineage and of the ancestries that linked Musa and power and all of them through the children of
Israel eel, back to Ibrahim alayhis salam. So therefore, you know, Jesus is a very important figure
for us as Muslims. And I wanted to structure today, our Wednesday evening that we have all your
questions and inshallah next week, if you have time, in our regular Wednesday meeting, to speak and
to celebrate Jesus, peace and blessings be upon him. Now I have written extensively about the life
		
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			and times of Jesus from an Islamic perspective. One of the pieces that I wrote that might be a value
to you is why Muslims love Jesus or Muslims love Jesus, peace and blessings be upon him, and might
be something that would be of great benefit to share with some of your colleagues who may not know
our faith.
		
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			Practice as Muslims, and what our love for Isa Jesus peace and blessings be upon him entails. And
Jesus in Islam is a very important and powerful and central figure. Mashallah. So I wanted to speak
from the very beginning Jesus Allah is Salam was destined to be a child who was created by Allah to
be a sign unto mankind a sign of God's power to create of God, God allowing a supernatural
occurrence to occur. It is one way for you as Muslims to conquer that ideological and intellectual
blockade and fear that things can be out of the ordinary. And for you and I as Muslims to believe
that Jesus, peace and blessings be upon him, was brought into form created in the womb of his
		
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			mother, we've out a male's intervention without there being an addition of the males fluid into her
without there being marriage in matrimony, that he was created just simply as the word of God be.
And he became that's very important, powerful place to start, that Jesus peace and blessings be upon
him begin his life, even before he's utters a single word even before he's born into the world, as a
sign of Allah to mankind. And this is what the angel Jibreel Gabriel says to his NERT when he comes
to her informing her as he comes in the format that she will bear a child who will enter into this
world called let Anya kulula Zola and she says, How can I be given a child how can I carry a
		
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			child well, let me sis Neva shove. No man has known me carnally when I'm a Kubota yet i No one's
even used or said this about me. Annika Daddy, come Okay, who are you, Hey, you, your Lord has
declared that this will pass and happen Wehlener gyla, who a utterly nurse and this is so that Jesus
will be a sign unto mankind, and therefore easily is Salam. We're in the lady moon, Lala Melissa in
two different pronunciations. That he is a surety of the knowledge he is a signal of the Day of
Judgment, arrival, Jesus Peace and blessings was not born for his time, but he was born for era that
he lived in. And as Muslims, we believe that he has an eventual return back to this worldly life
		
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			that we call home. May Allah Subhana Allah, Allah grant us all faith into the matters of the unseen.
And therefore it's important to have this disclaimed Muslims, we believe things that are not
necessarily straightforward and linear. We believe that ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada is the omnipotent, the
old powerful, the old creating the one in control, who is able to introduce into the natural order
that which is beyond it, and supernatural to it as He wills when he direct will in NEMA, either or
either Shay, and yeah, cool. And yeah, for level code for your Kuhn, that any matter that is in the
will, and in the determination of God that it is to occur, that he says to it become, I mean, it has
		
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			become, therefore the creation of Allah subhana wa Tada of Jesus is a magnificent sign. We believe
as Muslims in the Immaculate Conception, we believe in a number of miracles of Jesus, and one of the
most important ones is that he was sent as a way of a law showing to the people of Israel, Benny
Assad in the children of Israel, why the messenger ship and prophethood would transfer from, from
their line of lineage now to the line of lineage of its marrying Ishmael. For many, many years. When
you look through the biblical narrative, you will see that the fever of the children of Israel were
those who received Prophet and Messenger one after another, and in groups, they would be saying,
		
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			Moses and Aaron Yet Yet Jesus and John the Baptist together, they would be sent together because the
children of Israel were an important people of God, but they also required a great deal of support.
And when that support was no longer accepted reciprocated by them, it was important for Allah to
show a breeze in one game and time and again. Why now prophethood would come out of this line of
lineage and into the line of Isma
		
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			We have a caller on the line after the caller will continue with that discussion in shot caller How
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			consumers
		
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			Ratangarh Allahu Allah, I'm not gonna just
		
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			jump to the questions. You know, sometimes people want
		
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			interrupt both of them
		
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			also
		
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			we move on to
		
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			the present tense, it was useful in both areas. We went devices and explanations for that.
		
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			Just a couple of brothers, Allah hematic big thank you for always blessing us with your calls and we
appreciate you taking the time just like Allah said.
		
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			Our dear brother, he introduces to us the name Yeah, he Alia said we were speaking about by the way,
it's a beautiful name Masha Alba. It's one that I've been favored and blessed with Soumya yah, yah,
yah, yah. Zachary Ali is a lamb one of the final prophets and messengers of Allah, he looked about
and he saw that there was nobody to carry on the prophet hood after him if he was to die without a
child. And in that moment, you would be invoking Allah time in a game to be blessed with a child,
who could then carry on Yeti three way every human Eliyahu who can carry on and carry on the mission
after me, and that which I have carried on from the children of Jacob, and Subhanallah he wanted
		
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			this child who would live long beyond him and therefore Allah gave him the name Yeah. lemenager
under whom in blue Samia. We did not give any child that name before him. It wasn't a name directed
by Allah except for Yeah. Meaning the one of long life, ironically, of course. And of course, as we
understand the Quran, that there are layers of meaning. Yeah, lived a short life in the dunya
because he was murdered and martyred by the people of Israel by vinyasa eel for wanting him to give
a verdict and to make halaal what was made have an incestuous relationship. And when he refused, he
said, This is prohibited in the law of God. His death sentence was ordered. And of course the
		
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			prophets I send them tells us that yeah, Salam is Shaheed a martyr, the son of a Shaheed Lucia he,
after they murdered the son, they went and murdered his father, which that seals the fate of vinyasa
eel, that they are no longer worthy of prophethood and messenger ship, could lemma Jaya Hora Xulon
30 contact them who were very clear to learn in the second chapter of the Quran, Allah describes
these times, that whenever a messenger would come to them, some would be lie him out order his death
time and again this would occur. So Jesus it is said, who has no father has no brother has no other
people in his realm in his vicinity, who are going to carry on this bloodline to prophethood when he
		
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			is now in the same predicament, Allah saves them to return him another time and the lineage change
to Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam ancestry of his Marine. How is this a part of brother
Rockford question? It's a very important part in that Allah Subhana Allah describes the blessing
that is given to Yahia was Salam o Allah He and He on the day he was born. And on the day he dies,
he was killed and on the day he will be resurrected life. The same sentence is used for Jesus on the
SLM now it's in the first person Jesus as a young child speaks to his people he says what Salah more
I lay Yeah, peace be upon me on this day that I was born whale Mahmoud on the day I will die once
		
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			were your bathrobe height yeah and on the day of my returns erection to Allah subhana wa to Allah
and therefore some of the automat they have said that yeah hey Ali is Salam was the one who peace
was declared upon him by Allah while Jesus asked Allah for peace to be brought to him. In our
scripture we believe that a Saudi is set up is a prophet and a messenger while zakat while yeah it
is Salam is just a prophet of Allah. And therefore, he said exceeds him in that rank will law who
		
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			to either an IV Yahia and Jesus on a celebrity cousin, the mother of Yahia. Her name was Elizabeth
and her his father is Zachary Ali is Salam. Now, Elizabeth is the daughter is this sister, older
sister Mata Yamane has set up and they've daughters in that family money, Imani is set up had an
older sister named Elizabeth she gives birth to young and money and gives birth to Jesus. Of course,
Elizabeth giving birth to this child as an answer to the door of Zakaria is also a miraculous
occurrence that is equal to the miracle of Jesus being brought, and therefore the two miracles are
standing side by side, that Zakariya as an old man, his wife is a very old woman who had never given
		
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			shot getting ever given birth. In her final years of life. She carries a child miraculously, that
people always knew was the daughter of Zechariah, their great prophet, so they knew it was a
miraculous occurrence. Divine intervention that Allah answered is God and gave her this on. Yeah, in
the same way. It says if Allah is saying, the Christian that I have for ya, Isa and add them are one
of the same nature all of them is that when my will is commended, it will be done. Allah tells us
and sort of earlier Imran in a message in the method ERISA in the law, he the example of parable
that God strikes Jesus for all of you to understand, as is determined by God can method is similar
		
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			to the creation of Adam. In fact, Adam ism agree a greater one has a home in Toronto, rather, Adam
had no father had no mother, he was created from the elements of this earth from the dust of the
earth. Adam was created without a father and mother, his wife was created from a father without a
mother. Isa was created from a mother without a father and the rest of us it requires both of the
genetic input for us to be as Allah has ordered for us to become. And therefore Jesus it is set up
becomes an important symbol within us as Muslims when money Amalia salaam Rick record, conceals the
fact that there is no Western Cape she will have to carry this child, she excuses from her family
		
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			and depart to bathe, or Bethlehem. As the signs of pregnancy. Were showing morning sickness, a
little bit of increase in her in her in her physicality, people are going to uncover something's not
right. And she wants to be able to be in a place to maintain or worship of Allah. It was such a
difficult moment in her life, that she means due to Allah saying, Pilate yell a tiny bit to let her
that we're good to Nessie and men Sia, I wish that I had died before all of this had happened. A lot
of people misunderstand this. She's not actually saying I wish I was dead. What she is saying is I
lived a life of being connected to God being so close to Allah, I had all the luxuries provided me.
		
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			I wish that I died on a state of faith where my faith was untested. Now I'm about to be tested in
faith. I don't know if I'm going to pass the test well, and if I'm going to be of those who returned
to Allah, in a good condition, what if I don't do well by this child? What if I don't represent the
truth as it should be? What if I fail this test? So in her drop, she's saying I had die before this
day, meaning upon the goodness that I was always upon, and therefore there is hope for her to adjust
to a greater degree. Money. Amani has Salah is an incredible, incredible Islam on her own. And
therefore whenever she's mentioned in the Quran, she is not mentioned as money. I'm the mother of
		
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			Jesus. She's mentioned as money. I'm the daughter of Iran, because by herself she's significant.
There's no chapter in the Quran titled Jesus, but there is the 19th Chapter of the home titled We
have another caller on the line is Imani from caller
		
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			all right in sha Allah we we've lost the caller we have a couple of minutes before our first break
in chunks. And I thought it's important to kind of close this section. So money Amalia salaam she
arrived having just about to give birth, and as she's giving birth, she is alone by herself.
		
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			first experience, and it's in that moment that Allah Subhana Allah sends His angels to server and
miraculous occurrences happen Allah orders Hosey la ke big enough LA to serve fatale Titas bouteille
Eiki root of a geneia de to call from that tree that you can eat with Cooley or Sharabi work alright
now, even when you are connected with Allah, even when Allah has given you a great miracle such as
the birth of Jesus, you still need to shake your own. And that's a powerful lesson for us to take to
work hard in all perspectives and in all considerations. I hope you'll continue with me after our
break in sha Allah, your brother your hair, Brahim was Salam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh back
		
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			in two minutes in sha Allah
		
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			Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh Alhamdulillah Welcome back does that como la fere for
sticking along with us? It's your brother yeah hyper I am coming to you once again with Islamic q&a
Just like Mullah hair. Always we begin with the peace in celebration of Allah subhanho wa Taala we
prayed the loss of power to honor instills faithfulness in our life connects us to the lives and the
message of the Prophet and the prophets before him sallallahu alayhi wa sallam we've, we've been
speaking about Italia Salaam in sha Allah, as a way of acknowledging the importance of our al Qaeda,
our belief, the word out p that means to tie something tight to be fastened onto something and the
		
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			truth that we believe about Jesus is meant to be a lifeline in any of the circumstances that we face
in life and there's so many lifeless sins that we can take from the personal example of Jesus peace
and blessings be upon him. And of course, the methods and prophets who came before him and the one
who came immediately after him in authentic hadith. The prophet Isaiah Lim says Kamara with Imam and
party, laser Baney webinar, Maruyama NaVi, there is no profit, there is no messenger that was sent
to humanity, in between the time of Jesus being elevated and rescued by ALLAH SubhanA, Allah to
Allah, destined to return, and me being sent out to you or mankind. And that's a really important
		
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			framework. I want you to kind of consider that since the time of Adam peace be upon him. The world
has never had a moment in its time, where there was a prophet and messenger who was walking upon it.
As Muslims, we believe that there were 124,000 people, you know, men of God walked the earth,
teaching people and connecting them to the supremacy to the Maker and Creator of old, although there
are only 25 that are mentioned in our Scripture as Muslims and a little bit more in the biblical
term. They their story not be known to us by the Valencian ethics that they came with is retained in
the message of the Quran, and the teachings of our Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and
		
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			therefore, there was this dark period within humanity. There was this moment of darkness from when
Jesus was lifted from when no longer with their prophets, messengers sent amongst many Assad in
until in this backwater that was Arabia at that time, a place that was not considered a
civilization, nothing had come of it. It wasn't a place that has been invaded and conquered by
others before it was out in the desert. They were people of trade, people of Valor, people of
courage, but they were people who were unique unto themselves as a symmetric pool. Now, there were
many venues last year, we traveled, knowing the prophecy, knowing that the Elijah knowing that the
		
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			by one, knowing that the messenger, the final messenger who would be an emancipator of mankind, one
who is a comforter and one who was a mercy as a lot describes, I want to be in the middle and one
that I'll send back a loudmouth and lean and mean, you were sent for no other purpose than to be a
Democrat.
		
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			stration of Mercy unto mankind the mercy of God, through His final scripture and lessons of life
that are sent to us in the example unique example. And
		
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			valid example of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So between Jesus there are no one
really was cleaned up prophethood who stood out as being a man marked by God and sent with
scripture, and the next one to come with the words of God, you know, declaring right from wrong,
separating truth from facts, from misinformation, establishing justice, fighting to defend the truth
of that is a reality. Carl Jung who is one of the most influential philosophers in our era, there's
two camps in psychology and psychoanalysis. There's, you know, the Freudian and the Carl Jung, Carl
Jung, he says that Western civilization was built on an archetypical representation of Jesus as
		
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			being the best of example. And therefore, you know, the laws and everything in the common law, some
kind of comes from that kind of spirit. But of course, Carl Jung also understands that the great
failing in that is that Jesus did not leave a complete life. He never married, never had children.
He didn't experience the loss and the suffering that all of us experienced with old age and, you
know, all of these kinds of things. He didn't have to fight war and defend things in a conventional
sense that other human beings do. And of course, the Italia salaam, knew in his time that he was
destined for that the one destined for it is the one he gave Bushra of. He gave good news, good
		
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			tidings to his people. Obi Shiro couldn't be raw, soothing, yet Tim embodies me who I am and the one
who will be praised by God and elevated, who is praising of God, the praising one of God, he will be
sent as the final messenger after me, we have a caller on the line and we will continue with our
discussion in sha Allah Santa Monica on color, how can I help?
		
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			My brother, my name is only
		
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			basic
		
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			reading
		
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			passages from
		
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			the mobile phone
		
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			do you have
		
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			compassion?
		
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			Or ambition or Katrina?
		
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			Alright, just
		
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			that's a it's a very interesting question that you kind of frame it about the mobile phones. So I
guess maybe I'll step back a moment. And I'll step back and I will say that the four are opinions of
the four schools of thought. Imam Abu Hanifa Imam Al Imam Malik Imam Shafi Imam acmin. In all four
schools, the main date that a person should make will do before holding handle in the Quran and
reciting it. Now, of course, the need is built on their analysis of particular texts that are
ambiguous, there's no clear text, there's no statement where the prophet says to a person, don't
touch the Quran unless you have will do. That would have been a great burden at his time, but they
		
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			understand it as a secondary kind of evidence where Allah says in the Quran lay on a su Illa, Harun
no one should touch it except those who have been purified. The second difference that they make is
that we can't pray unless we make do and what it really is prayer. Prayer is reciting the Quran, the
prophets I said, Lim said Mendham Yakata if you have fellas Allah Tala, the one who doesn't recite
the whole Solothurn Fattah their Prayer is not valid. So therefore putting those two things
together, they said that the reason the prayer wouldn't be valid is because you haven't recited the
Quran and therefore to recite the Quran by necessity you should make will do now another group of
		
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			scholars came in valid inferences as well and authentic interpretation where they said something so
significant as not reciting the Quran or handling the Quran, unless you're in blue would have
definitely been spoiled by the prophets I sent him he taught us how to cleanse ourselves from you
know, using from relieving ourselves Surely, he would have at some point mandated this clearly. And
therefore the absence of that, in their opinion, is also evidence that this isn't something that
should be a prohibition but it should be disliked. So it is disliked for a person not to read the
Quran. And it is disliked for a person to read the Quran without will do or to handle the Quran
		
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			without will be honest
		
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			Under the hole that comes there, de facto. And it seems to be one that has good corroborating
evidence in it, considering the verse dadgummit, Soho Illa motohiro None should touch the Quran
except those who are pure tour. It's not actually out the Quran, it's actually about a low helmet
food, which is a sacred screw that is maintained by the angels that only the angels can approach it
when ordered by Allah, that seems to be the opinion of all of them who has seen as being the correct
opinion of that verse. Now, when we come to mobile devices, even the four men have an Imam, Abu
Hanifa, Malik, anchovy their schools of thought, they say that this is a device that does not have
		
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			the same sacredness as the text of the Quran is the most, you know, the most happiest pact for us,
it's something that we value, and who they fight fake Millia man when the believer to him from Earth
management, he placed his space in between it any cry, and he said, how that column Warabi this
contains the words and orders of my Lord. So we as Muslims, we are very endearing and hold great
value to our relics and our sacred artifacts like the most have, it's put on the top shelf, don't
have anything piled on top of it, we don't extend our feet towards it, and we shouldn't we shouldn't
handle it. Unless we have purified ourselves as a way of magnifying the dignity that Allah has
		
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			placed within it. Allah tells us in general, when you have them sha Allah, the One who shows value
to the sacred sites of Allah that have been made important to different for you as Muslims. Now
having done Hulu, it is to the piety that exists in their heart and because of their love, and and
hope in Allah Subhana Allah to Allah so hopefully that kind of gives you an explanation you can
recite from it without Lu it is better to recite with will do whether whether from your mobile phone
or device or or from the most hot it is permissible Allah who I love to handle the Quran but highly
detested, I do recommend that you make will do insha Allah before before you do so we have another
		
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			caller on the line is Santa Monica.
		
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			Santa Monica Kohler.
		
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			Yes, my brother, how can I help?
		
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			Two questions. One is,
		
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			of course, questioners, that if we are
		
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			invited by Christian Brothers, or neighbors or Christian,
		
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			are we
		
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			okay to attend? Or wisdom? Merry Christmas, knowing that of course, what our position is
		
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			on we are not endorsing it, but
		
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			we have to feel guilty or we can say Merry Christmas, etc. So in short, you know, what is opposition
living in a country?
		
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			Just a call, okay for your call brother has been let's take a question at a time in chat law. So we
don't lose the viewers and you don't lose me along the way. So with regards to being invited to eat
at someone's home, during a time of festivity, or for reasons that are for them important of a
cultural nature, I want you I want to use that word. There are two different Christmas that people
practice, right? There's a cultural manifestation of Christmas, and whether people are Buddhists,
Hindu, Muslim, Christian, it is meant to be an end of year celebration and end of your season, that
it's not necessarily a religious function. And that's for the vast majority of people. It's very
		
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			much
		
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			a commercialized cultural event. The second is a religious practice there is you know, a mass that
is held on the night and people will eat particular type of foods that they make just for that
occasion that has religious significance and symbol and
		
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			symbolism to them. But what I would say to you, my dear brother, if you can separate between the
two, and what you were invited for is a cultural event. It's an end of your work being it's
something that people are doing as a cultural event. There's no religious symbolism there. There's
no benediction over the food. There's no you're eating the body of Christ or drinking the blood of
Christ as they will say in other instances of religious worship. There's no deification and there's
no religious sacrum attachment in that function. Then I went
		
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			would see it as an just a general cultural function. You could call it whatever you call it, it
doesn't have a religious semblance and I do not believe that there would be anything wrong to attend
that wala who to Allah Allah, however to be invited to something that has a religious motivation
that has a religious intonation is something that for us is considered sacrilegious because it
encroaches upon other people's faith. Just like for us as Muslims, you would find it detestable if
somebody walked into the masjid and mimic the prayer of Muslim without being invited or without
having, you know, a reverence for it, we'd be like, Why is this person doing this? It would, it
		
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			would raise more questions than not, says Muslims, things that are sacred for other people. There is
a generous, a general prohibition from the Prophet Muhammad. So I sent him where he said, do not
resemble yourself in the way other people have resolved themselves. He's not speaking about don't
wear a striped shirt or don't wear you know, a watch with a leather strap. What he's saying is don't
on the clothing that is unique for other people's habit. So it would be wrong for me to take off my
coffee, and put on a yarmulke or a skullcap that would be something that would be inappropriate,
even if it's might, you know, fulfilling the same purpose. It is considered a sacrament and
		
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			something as sacred for other cultures, we are prohibited from observing them and eating them
ourselves, such as also invitations for food, for going to a christening, for attending a mass or
for even, you know, attending those types of rituals, we do not take part in them in that so we do
not cause insult to others. And because our faith asks us to remain distinct, so that there is no
confusion between us and them in that regard. With regard to greetings. In Islam, there is a general
permissibility for being any greeting that are considered obscene or vulgar, or that that invite to
the worship of other than Allah, or that is done in a way to counteract the beliefs that we have as
		
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			Muslims. So it is an off the cuff remark, you know that once again, there are two types of Merry
Christmas, there's a Merry Christmas, where it's you, somebody's saying it to you in the shop, they
don't mean anything about Christianity for it, it's not a celebration of the birth of of what they
consider to be the Son of God, it's just something people say, then the natural response would be
happy holidays, Season's Greetings, I hope you have a good holiday season and say something that's
appropriate, something that's comfortable, it doesn't invite you to greement or be at odds with one
in that regard. Certainly, you would not begin that greeting to people in a religious tone, you
		
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			know, if you have, you know, you know, you know, if you're invited to a function, and they just
tone, then you do understand that there's a difference between that and being told Merry Christmas
at the checkout in a supermarket. I hope that kind of clarifies that Allah Huhtala.
		
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			next quarter, and last quarter, we have another caller on the line Soleimani. And one minute.
		
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			Yes, my brother.
		
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			Just had a question, but the
		
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			job roll call finance.
		
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			I just wanted to ask, is it permissible for us as a Muslim, to be working in the qualified,
obviously, you deal with the customer
		
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			company, we provide the money for the query, etc. So just wondering,
		
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			like the rule, don't mention the company's name, just like a lot. So in general, what you're asking
about, I'm just gonna paraphrase it just very generally, because we have just a minute left for this
call for for our show. If you're doing a job, the nature of the job itself is Hello, which is making
calls, receiving calls, you know, doing those kind of things, that is a job that has a halau
function in and of itself. So the core of the business is something that you want to make sure it's
something that is permissible for you. I don't then want to go to the secondary aspect of it and,
and confuse the two together. So what I would say to you is, this is something that you're able to
		
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			do, then Bismillah beginning but find something that's more suitable that doesn't upset you in a way
or give you a little bit of anxiety. Then choose something that's that's wholesome for yourself in
chama, I just I couldn't love him. Allah Subhan Allah reward you and I look forward
		
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			seeing you again next week in sha Allah, your brother Yeah, Brahim Subhana Allah Moby shadow and
that led to something was salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.