Yaser Birjas – TaSeel #49 Q&A
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The representatives from the Muslim community of North Texas thanked community members for their work and offer support, while also acknowledging the importance of their duty to their community and neighbors. They discuss donations to Islamic causes and the possibility of finding out who makes a donation. The speakers emphasize the importance of investigating and using the OYGAR community to support the Muslim brothers and sisters, avoiding fraudulent activities, and making clear arrangements in contracts to avoid ambiguity. They also emphasize the legality of preorder orders and the importance of avoiding fraud. The conversation ends with a discussion of financing and the need for legality in the future.
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Quick two announcements. First of all, after Sate
Al Ma'rib, we've been visited by
our state representative,
Theresa Meza,
and she, alhamdulillah, by me, she actually brought
us the state of Texas resolution,
something to our community to be proud of
from the state of Texas,
where,
whereas the Muslim community of North Texas demonstrated
tremendous compassion and resilience in the face of
unprecedented challenges brought on by the global COVID
19 pandemic.
And, they spoke, alhamdulillah, about the coalition that
the Muslim community did about 20 local relief
organizations,
that they help providing meals for,
frontline
workers in Dallas VA Medical Center,
different hospitals and other places as well too.
And, specifically, alhamdulillahirabbahimin,
they recognize you guys as a community
by saying whereas the coalition
that took part in this effort was led
by, and they mentioned the imam's name, Avvaly
Ranch Islamic Center, and also brother Marwan Marouf
from,
for mass in Richardson.
So, and you as a community marshal have
been recognized
by the state of Texas for the great,
work that you do for your local community,
alhamdulillahabbalahami.
And this is something to be proud of,
inshaAllah,
and I want to thank you all for
helping us reach that level for the Llahidu
Barakah Wa Ta'ala. Without your dedication,
without your support,
without your involvement, we would never be in
this position.
But, alhamdulillah, that also gives us privilege
and leverage as well too. I want us
to continue with the good deed, insha Allahu
Ta'ala, that our being Muslims, we're not just
here visitors to Jemaah.
We're cities of this country,
We are citizens of this community and this
society,
and we need to make sure that we
serve our community the best way possible, insha
Allahu Ta'ala. Not because we're trying to score
points with anybody.
It's because this is our duty first of
all to Allah to
our communities and to our neighbors
insha'Allah. Hopefully, Allah will open their hearts
to guard us insha Allah. Our duty is
to give them the opportunity to see goodness
and insha Allah with your support and with
your effort, that will be possible inshaAllah.
So, zakamullahakher
for this effort, alhamdulillah, that was recognized by
the state of Texas. Zakamullahakher,
all of you.
The second thing, Insha'Allah, is on this Friday,
after Sathil Maghrib.
I know a lot of us are concerned
about what's happening in the Muslim Ummah
all around the world and particularly with the
situation of Gaza and Rafah. May
make it easy for them
We ask Allah We
ask Allah to restore their life back into
peace and tranquility, give them victory against their
enemies,
but still we don't want to be distracted
from other,
other yani,
matters important for us in the Ummah. One
of them is our brothers and sisters in
China, the the Uyghur community
who, of course, has been unfortunately under,
oppression and suppression for generations,
not for a year or 2 or 5
or 10,
for generations. A lot of people don't probably
know
the exact extent of the oppression they go
through and difficulty and the hardship they go
through, so alhamdulillah, we have an opportunity to
learn more about this, Bani Allah, this Friday
after tomorrow at the Sat Al Maghrib.
Please join us, bring your family,
come and listen from the representative of the
community who are visiting us here InshaAllah
who will be explaining to us the situation
for our Muslim brothers and sisters, the OYGAR
community. So, please come and join, inshallah, this
Friday
after Sata'uma'ra. Mark your calendars
and come here and learn more about it
inshaAllah
and see how you can support and help
B'nai lahi aza'udal.
Sure.
Assalamu alaykum.
Assalamu alaykum.
And, we've had over a 100 students actually
take at least one quiz. We've had, of
course, a lot more just consistent, but just
wanted to recognize that and thank everyone who's
taking the quizzes and, you know, use it
use this as an opportunity.
This week, hamdulillah, we had over 40 attempts,
and 19 were perfect scores, and,
maybe we're making them too easy, maybe. But,
the perfect scores are
Abdullah Sadreddin
Zahra Ahmed Neeb Neshid, Sadia Razvi, Hiba Fatima,
Wendullah Sadreddin,
Also, I wanna remind you guys for the
guys, we have the the barbie,
not the barbecue, but the the the burger,
it was postponed? Because of the weather. Because
of the weather? That's good for me, man.
After Hajj Insha'Allah.
I still wanna be a judge, Ajamal.
Insha'Allah.
We have tea after. We have tea after?
Masha'Allah. We have tea after this session, Insha'Allah.
So 15 minutes for q and a binilah
and then you guys are free to enjoy
that tea, Insha'Allah.
Does taking from impermissible
wealth apply to donations to Islamic causes?
This question I believe is referring to, if
you know that someone's wealth is haram, someone's
wealth is coming from a source of oppression
or haram,
you're not allowed of course to buy from
them and trade with them. Does that include
also islamic organization like islamic centers? If you
know someone's wealth is riba,
someone's wealth is haram,
does it mean you should not take from
them? If you know for sure 100% that
their source of wealth is haram, 100% haram,
then don't take
their donation.
But if you don't, don't investigate.
Alright? You don't have to say, can I
see your, you know,
your LLC? I want to see what you're
trading, what you're doing.
You have to investigate. You assume that alhamdulillah
when they give donation they're giving it inshallah
from a good source but nila ahaswajal.
The same question here is about this matter.
How far does our responsibility go to determine
whether the other person's wealth is merchandise, halal
or haram?
Again, the assumption is a person's wealth is
halal until you have a proof
to suggest otherwise.
You have to go way and beyond.
Maybe the question is asking about restaurants.
If a restaurant has a label that says
halal,
for example,
how far should I go and ask them?
Shall I go to the fridge and see
the box and check the label and call
the company and ask them how did they
slaughter that? Is it eyewitness? Is it Muslim
slaughter?
How far should you go with that? You
don't have to go this far.
As long as you have this certification
and it says halal, hamdulillah. You wanna go
away and beyond? It's on you.
But you cannot impose the same principle on
other people as well too. That should be
on you and you can't impose.
What about visiting people, in their houses and
they presented the food? So what do you
do in this case?
What do you do at Jema'?
Say Bismillah and eat. Unless you know for
sure
this food is not halal for you so
don't eat it.
So in this case, you just say bismillah
and eat that. Especially for those who always
wanna take for example the beha, right? You
can't investigate
people's house and ask them where where did
you guys get the meat from. You shouldn't
be asking the question.
But if you know for sure that they
don't buy the the beeh and you're not
comfortable with their opinion,
then don't eat the meat, eat the fish
or or end up just go vegetarian that
day, Yani, if you want to. What about
the masjid? Because when you have potluck, you
have all these dishes. Right? So what do
I do in this situation? Can I eat
from everything?
If you're that careful and so conservative about
the the thing, just eat the biryani.
Don't eat the makluga. Okay? Because
there's a difference between between the Arab and
the this in regard to this manner.
Right?
Now, but again, you don't have to investigate
and go on beyond.
The assumption is halal unless you have an
absolute proof that it's actually considered halal. Now,
A very serious question, an ethical thing, what's
the fiqh on buying Chinese products?
Because the problem is not there that they
are Chinese, it's actually the problem is the
environment
and treatment of workers, best to avoid companies
like these things and so on. For example,
when they say that, what they call them,
sweat workshops and and factories and so on,
where people are working on not poor condition,
bondage condition.
When you see videos coming out from these
factories where workers, Masakin, they sleep under the
machine
just because they just run out of energy.
They can't even go home
because they've been overworking all these hours. So
they stay there and they sleep under the
machine and they wake up, continue to work.
That's definitely
an unethical
situation. Now, Islamically speaking,
are you allowed to buy these products?
If they're halal products in the sense of
the the the merchandise itself, the question the
answer is yes. It's halal to buy the
product, but now it becomes a matter of
piety of the heart.
That I don't feel comfortable with this because
I don't really see that this is actually
is good, what they're doing to the to
the workers, so I should avoid that. That's
your option and that's good if you want
to do that. And Allah reward you for
it. Similarly,
even eating the vihar, even the animals conserve
the beha because unfortunately many people who eat
the beha have no idea how these the
beha animals been treated.
Many of them, there's this horrible treatment.
So, yeah, it's maybe it's halal but they
manna be tayib unfortunately
because of that.
So does it is it is it okay
to eat it? Yeah. It's okay to eat
it from terms of halal haram but from
the ethical aspect of it, you should have
you should maybe ask yourself
how much, you know, you need to avoid
these matters. So, it's a matter of the
piety of the heart.
Is it haram to sell blood?
Organs like kidney and so on? The answer
is yes, you're not allowed to actually sell
blood like blood donations, for example, when you
go to blood drives.
You don't If you're gonna go there to
get the money that they give you at
the end of any,
the procedure basically,
then no, you shouldn't be doing it. But
if you'd like to go just to donate
your blood because you do that regularly
and then whatever they give you take it,
that's fine.
But the intention is not you're doing it
to take the money.
You're doing it because you like to help
and donate but they just give a gift
afterwards. If you wanna take it, you can
take it.
While buying from Ebay or Craigslist, how can
we make sure that if the person has
the ownership in a halal way?
Usually, the vetting process is not on you.
It's on the the the platform itself. They
need to make sure these people, they're not,
you know,
using stolen products or anything like that, supposedly,
obviously. Craigslist may be different, but Ebay, it's
more organized.
So, therefore, it's supposed to be on them.
If you suspect
the hadith that we've talked about today says
what the jama'ah? What if that can Nasr
al Took? Check your heart.
If you see that this, it's too good
to be true,
like something is $500
it's been sold for $50.
It's like,
it just doesn't make any sense.
It sounds like a good bargain but what's
the reason for that? If your heart is
not settled with it then just avoid that.
How about selling the scorpions for their venom?
For pharmaceutical industry
or buying it for feeding the pets.
Man, we're getting complicated over the month. See,
in the past, no one cared about insects,
right? A flyer passes by, just kill it
and move on. Now, there's business out of
everything, Allah understand.
Remember,
the the hukm on the insects, the oleiman,
they said because
there is no benefit from it.
But that's their time. Today, we have pets,
we have this, we have,
you know, any medicinal benefit from these insects
and so on. So if there's a benefit
that is considered of a value,
then you can do that.
Do the contract deal with instant gratification making
something invalid?
I wonder if we mean by that by
day trade.
If that's what they mean by that, like,
once once you see things go down you
start buying, when they go up you start
selling in an instant, in 2 hours, in
1 hour, half an hour for example, if
that's the case.
Not necessarily.
You have to be specific about what you're
asking about.
What's the meaning of Mudaraba?
Al Mudaraba is,
they call it the silent,
what do you call it? Silent partnership.
When someone someone has the cash, the other
has the skill.
So I'll give you $10,000.
I know you're a good business person, you
take the 10,000, you go to the marketplace,
you trade things.
By the end of the season, by the
end of the month, by the end of
the whatever market opens and closes,
then whatever profit we have, we split 5050
or we split 6040 for example.
But if we lose, you lost you lost
the money, you lost your effort.
That's called Mudaraba and it's okay to practice
this.
If a medical practice has patients
not paying overdue balances, can this business relationship
be terminated?
Is it appropriate to send them balance reminders?
I mean, of course you're gonna keep sending
them balance reminders, but you're not gonna charge
them interest, that's number 1,
and late fees are concerned interest, by the
way, but are you allowed to cut, you
know, relationship with them? I mean, there's no
obligation to continue if you don't want to.
When a customer comes, and wishes to make
a purchase but is clearly intoxicated,
but the purchase is something that is a
norm and not extravagant or expensive, are we
still able to make this transaction?
I mean, if he's conscious of the transaction,
he knows what he's buying and what you're
given, what you're
taking, then like we said being buzzed is
okay, but being wasted completely,
just send him home.
Order Uber for him probably, maybe, make a
charity act inshallah.
In the in the sales environment, we often
upsell for higher commissions, most of the times
creating a need for the product that the
customer does not want or yet doesn't know
they need. Is that allowed?
You see,
this is basically,
Yani,
there's a sense of deceiving
deceiving over here
and that deceit
is does not depends on the circumstance,
could invalidate the contract.
Like what? If someone knows his car is
broken,
right? And someone comes to you and they
wanna buy the car and you say everything
is perfect.
Now, that's a lie.
So, in this case, the contract will be
invalid if the the deceit was discovered.
If the person says, how's the car? Well,
it works for me.
Now, did he say anything wrong?
He didn't say anything wrong. You bought it.
And then later on, it broke down.
Is that considered is that deceit or that
hiding that that that damage considered invalid in
the contract? The answer is no.
Why? Because he didn't tell you it's it's
perfect. He said, it works for me.
Right? And he probably maybe gave you the
option to check it with somebody and you
check it yourself but he didn't do that
so it's on you right
now. But it's always good to
make clear that the transaction we're doing has
no deceit in it as in Hayith Haban
ibn Munqid, he he was a man who
was easy and easy to to deceive. He's
a very simple person. So he told the
prophet
They always cheat me. They always really take
advantage of me in the marketplace.
What do I do? So the prophet told
him
If you sell, if you trade with people,
he says make sure that you say to
them there is no deceit,
like no cheating
and they say no deceit.
It becomes binding. What does that mean?
If they cheated you, whether with the merchandise,
with the product, with the quality or even
with the price,
you will have Islamically
an ethical now responsibility on that person to,
return that trade or cancel that trade if
you ask for it.
Let's say you bought from somebody, somebody says,
look, the car is good, right? So, yeah,
it's good. Then you're not hiding anything, right?
Because I'm not hiding anything.
And now, if something happens to it because
look,
it's broken, it's leaking, it's this and that,
that gives you the power of canceling the
trade and take your money back.
Okay. Now, there are so many questions relevant
to our discussion right now.
Pre orders are allowed because they know what
the product is and they know what it
is and how many pages and what's the
item. In the past,
people didn't know exactly what they're getting. There
wasn't really
like a systematic way of
printing copies or making the same product in
the same way, even when it comes to
furniture. Back then, if you're gonna do furniture,
no 2 pieces equal, in the same sizes
and and the same thing.
But, now, everything is computerized,
so you know exactly what you're getting in
terms of size, in terms of pieces, in
terms of everything.
So,
it
means question and ask your heart. Does the
state of the heart impact the feeling of
agitation with Ithim or perhaps even comfort with
Ithim?
We didn't cover this yet in the class.
It's gonna be inshallah next time and shall
we come back. There's a lot of discussion
in there,
especially that
As long as it's agitating you
then you need to avoid that as a
part of the heart, but if there's a
proof and evidence
that that should remove that
because of the sharari matter in it then
it's okay. Like
what? People when they travel sometimes they feel
kinda like a little bit uncomfortable with shortening
their salah or combining their salah when they
are on the road because I don't know,
man. I just don't feel comfortable. I didn't
have any hardship. Look, the is clear. The
is clear in the Quran. So therefore,
for the traveler, if they need
a if they need that it's okay. Shortening
is of course. That's given. So if you
don't feel comfortable with it
that agitation
is now is null
because there's a proof to say it's okay
to do that.
Because there are many many now fiqhik questions
about contracts, about things.
Imam Shaybeh said that transaction is not legally
binding if it was with a child, couldn't
that mean it's valid?
Well, actually it's supposed to be saying, you
know, it's invalid according to the shafi'i school.
And some ulama, they say it's not binary,
what does that mean? Aqdun fasid but not
batl.
Difference between fasid and batl.
Bottle means it's completely invalid.
Facet, it means it's pending.
Pending meaning what? It's it's not going through
because one of the elements
are not,
Yani right.
When you correct
the contract by getting the permission
from the from the guardian when it comes
to the children's sale and trade, then it
will be goes through and becomes binding. Insha'Allah.
Now,
Okay. So, now, there are a lot of
questions on financing, Ajamal. Oh, my God. Even
percentages, 25 percent partnership with 27
We're not gonna go through this. No, we're
not.
Like I said in the class, it's not
really about the fiqh
part of it, our discussion was not really
about the fiqh matter, it was about waduh
jamaat,
the ethical aspect of it. That in our
deen alhamdulillah it's not just about buying and
selling, it's also about having barakah in what
you do.