Mind Your Mindset! | Meaning with MALM #19

all right all right all right so first and foremost as always i've got to just do a sound check people make sure that i'm not just talking to myself as much as i may or may not like the sound of my own voice so let me um all right so ah people let me just check can you guys or can you not hear me loud and clear let's we've got some people already live all right i'll just wait for this to

just come up i'm going to bring up the meanwhile the other comments as well on right i've got okay it is all good alhamdulillah mustafa right so bismillah

whilst i'm starting up let me just allah you know every week i think to myself i'm gonna start off even earlier this week [Laughter] you know there's that poet munir nazi and his um you know his poem those of you that know it

that just it's like you know it's like my life is always running in catch-up there's like i don't know it's so many minutes behind real time so allah people whilst you guys you wonderful awesome amazing people are liking sharing uh you know the drill you know the drill let me just bring my keyboard here as well you never know when we need this and whilst you guys are doing that i'll give you a minute or two

um i'll bring up um what what today i wanted to go through uh with you guys let me just bring that up here whilst we're um all right where is it up where is it up okay today is the date

right that should be it i believe let's see right so that is it people that is it what we'll be taking a look at today allahu akbar mind your mindset that's what we want to take a look at some quranic guidance i thought you know what there's an interesting character i want to bring to your attention and

and through him we can through him we can also explore some other historical characters and the landscape so i always want to kind of connect as many of you as possible with the historical [Music] the heritage the legacy whatever you want to call it what they call in arabic the torath and that is primarily by key figures that appear time to time and they've always played a role and it's interesting just to learn about them anyway so

this was a figure for today i thought he's interesting and uh something you can take away why not man why not so so there's that right i'll just come to some of your comments bye as we do let me just see um azerati sugar and sugar and much love yeah much love always um

i was just listening to that poem today you've got hussain you are on time indeed um we've got straight away look at this bitcoin oh some questions about that the low you know the low you know what remind me and i will share a story about the low the low you see this is they don't say love they say low

so remind me people if you remind me i'll share a a separate story as always there's always so many of these interesting fascinating love stories love stories it has to this has to be appreciated appreciated man so khan khaniji remind me uh later on huh let me just see

right okay who else have we got um yolando yolanda mayo shukran much appreciated um maryam how's melbourne i've no idea but i'm sure it's fine somebody said saudi news mufti what remind me what is the saudi news and of course of course serendipity

the winter ishtal is on point it is winter man it is winter ah winter has come you know i just i'd been trying to it took me about two weeks to just shake off whatever it was that omicron or whatever and it was um i have to say i just couldn't get the strength it's probably i don't know if i'm even fully recovered maybe now about 90 actually so i have started the gym and things and yeah so all good but i realized it was

you know after i would easily get out of breath like i could just be doing anything that suddenly just it's not so fast-paced but you just change your pace and i was like what the hell oh why am i out of breath and yeah so i was like i was going to the gym and going oh who is the strength but alhamdulillah you know this is uh these are the sunan of hayat this is seriously the these are the canons of

of this journey really that life ups downs illness health it's you know it's uh and that's actually ties in very well with what we want to cover today that it's about your mindset as much as it is about the actual things see people think it's always or many people may fall into the trap of thinking it's always about the things you know this has happened that's happened i mean yes of course that is an undeniable

element of the equation but some of the most ingredient some of the most important ingredients are that your mindset and how you react so yeah all right let's shukren chicken looking fresh it is important you know important it has to be done man do you have a poem for us you know i do have a poem somewhere yeah you've reminded me let's let's go to a poem yard first of all a sip of that

coffee you know although it is said that it's in hell that they are fed hot water this is not that this is the the blissful one the blissful type people allah you know what i've got a poem for us

by the legend is one of those people that has you know i feel that he too has he's kind of conquered or holds the title of the genre not really a genre but more so a tool in poetry known as sahel

that and it's from the arabic is and this is when you say something with such simplicity and yet it's such a complex thing that you've combined and you know when you say it it's like the the listener could think oh yeah wow you know oh wow it appears as though anybody could have said it but they couldn't i mean i i think the the crown of that actually goes in recent times to john elia because he definitely

you know he says things with much more simplicity almost in some way uh speech like almost you know like us you know it's it's almost a speech-like thing wow see now that is like you take that line take that line let's do analysis man analysis there we go

for analysis it also can mean making something halal but when it's used in standard arabic it means analysis that the story is about to end you know it's like just the story is about to end story of life is about that darstan the saga greater than story actually is like the saga is about to end

and you're like so he's brought in your attention and then wham you are my final love story you know it's look how much he's compressed in that because in many ways it's almost like what like oh so i'm not your only love story you see what he's doing he's telling you that on

one hand he's trying to say well yes of course there's been many before you you know what kind of i don't know delusion are you in that there's been many before you so when a person is almost taken aback by that thought they immediately brought forward with but you're the final you seal the deal

look how much that that that that has kind of compressed and compactified into this just one stanza one you know bait they call it a bait this these two misra the two lines of any poem so this one bait look how much is compressed in that he's kind of telling you he's dying he's telling you that you are you know the saga is coming to an end that which which in which implies that there's been so much drama

that has happened to this tale he's telling you that you are the love of his life so this like wow but then he's telling you but you're not the only one there's been many stories before you so there's mixed emotions but then he's telling you that you are the final and with you the story ends

it's it's it's amazing you know when you look at these kind of things and this is in many ways that it is a difficult concept that when the listener hears it he thinks oh i could have said that [Laughter] this kind of delusional concept that i could have said that even even me

i could have done that but but you can't left your own devices do it then in kunsan but you can't so this is uh and in some ways i feel for ahmad faraz is like that as well many poets are like that this poem of his [Music]

allah that's the matlab you know the first line that opens a poem is called the matlab okay with an iron at the end it's what appears first the matlab okay and if we separate now or meaning now that we may separate perhaps in our dreams we shall reunite meaning if we part ways now

which seems to be on the horizon then our reunion will be in the land of dreams you know in this indian subcontinent there was there's a custom i don't know if people really do it now but it's something many of you that are slightly um [Music] that are not so young may recall this that what they do is as a bookmarker

in books they would often leave a petal a rose petal or sometimes they might leave a feather but often people so if you go to some masjid sometimes especially in let's say that part of the world or even here when we were growing up you may find even in some of the qurans the muslifs you open them and there's a rose petal in some of them and you may think just just a single petal and you may think oh what's this what it is is people would use them as bookmarkers

and it was a at the same time it would give an aroma it would kind of leave this scent but it would you know its touch delicate soft it wouldn't generally harm the paper and and in many ways as it kind of aged i don't know it it gave a certain flavor to you know you know it's been maybe years somebody was reading this once you know you with a bookmarker let's say you've got a

bookmark you can't it doesn't age and so although you may be reminded okay somebody was reading this were they reading it last week last decade last you know but this there's a kind of aging with that petal and and people do that there and he says the way flowers these petals end up meeting in a book this is how we may meet in the world of dreams

seek the gems and pearls of people amongst those who are ruined allah he says these treasures that you're seeking perhaps you'll find them

amongst the devalued amongst the the ruins the the the kind of debris you see even treasure when you think about it gold it will be found in the earth amongst the rocks covered in dirt as will all gems and often be found lonely you see that's the nature of gems they they are found in

in very humble surroundings and often alone you see and he's telling you you want to find genuine you want gems of people you want the gems of loyalty why don't you look where people have passed through peril through destruction through suffering

in he says you've got sorrow you've got problems i'll tell you problems you see you're going around with this problem of love low low he says you know the ram of this dunya and this is you know i'm always i'm forever mesmerized

with how the urdu poets had glamorized ram you know this they had glamorized let me see if i can um yeah that's better there was just some um the fun from the pc right they had glamorized melancholy and it's like something it's a great achievement to be in that sense of depression it's it's you know we can't fathom it

today and he says what to do is the room of this dunya mix it with the ram that you're going through because of this low story and he says don't you know alcohol and he's talking about as in alcoholic drinks he says the intoxication increases the buzz it is increased

you know when you mix drinks together he's like this is uh it's a it's something else says you're not my god and neither is our love one of the angel realm

why should we meet with all these barriers and you see hijab can mean barrier but it can also mean hijab the covering the parda and so he's you see it's a play on words that why should there be so much hijab between us when you know it's not like because there's a verse in the quran that allah says that he does not speak does not come communicate except illam you know except by a kind of hijab between in sun and and god what this means is revelation is speaking about revelation it's not speaking about generally having a

connect with god but it's a play on that that you see i'm not god neither is our love so platonic or not platonic sorry angelic see the realm of the the but is there is a hijab between us and so why in that case shall we pretend [Laughter] you see how much these poets play on things maybe the common person understands it to a superficial level and those who have greater knowledge understand it to a greater level what they're saying

is yeah this is a honestly it's a beautiful um snapshot of life that he says you see the things we are being persecuted over today meaning that expressing love expressing you know what you believe in we are being persecuted over it he says

perhaps tomorrow it will just be standard curriculum you see because the truth whenever it manifests as it's often been said it goes through three stages and the first is like vehement opposition by people and then there's like persecution and and then there's like um they'll they'll be conf conflict and debate and and then people will be like oh yeah it was common sense we should teach it to kids put it in the curriculum see

um now it is no longer that same you it is no longer the same me we've moved on in life

see now it's as though the mirage of two people is meeting see now see now that we separate perhaps it is only in the world of dreams we shall reunite allah honestly i i i implore you all to

always you know explore poetry on your own imam shafer he would often say that anybody that took a passion to poetry his heart became softer and in life it became softer as in embodied more love and compassion so yeah right where are we at people where are we at

i wish mufti could visit nyc i will inshallah you know what i um i was just speaking yesterday to a good friend of mine imam tokid i don't know if he'll end up watching this so if you do you do in it sure you do and so we at one time were studying together in pakistan karachi and obviously we've on and off been in touch but recently we're just speaking again and and he was just saying to me just yesterday about you know you need to come to the states and and i was just telling him that

you know as it had happened you know in 2019 so before the all this coved we were actually me and my friends we were kind of planning that look let's just a kind of set a nomadic tour of america let's take out maybe two three weeks and just go different places meet different people and you know it's such a huge place and and it'll be interesting it'll be fun and you know it's an excuse to kind of be there meet people go here go there and we were actually saying this and we

we were looking to to it was 2019 and we were thinking you know what maybe we'll do it for next year you know maybe mid next year late next year and and then the world just changed with kovid so but yeah it is definitely on the agenda why not you know just just for fun go meet um just just connect really i think that's that will be amazing so

i will be your tour guide yeah i know salon oh yeah the us yeah this is another thing i don't know um to be fair in the past i have been to america twice and it wasn't that difficult to get the i don't know now um the visa and stuff but or whatever they used to call it um but it was i had to say you know my experience with america was any position of authority was terrible to deal with and the people were amazing as in the people generally people i

generally came across were all very kind of like cheerful jolly and even if they i don't know if they were jolly but they're very friendly friendly very loud yeah and huge everything in america is huge it's like the land of the giants isn't it their food is huge they people are huge all the people are like six foot five at least and you know it's all this genetically modified food i'm telling you [Laughter] when we were in pakistan studying everybody that came from america was like they were like giants almost you know it

didn't matter what ethnicity they had so they could be you know you could think well these people let's say this ethnicity normally may be tall or this ethnicity so even not to kind of so let's say even there was some bangladeshi students that had come over and not saying that bangladeshis are necessarily uh not so tall but generally you might see the ones that were from the uk there were several but the americans they were all like ethnicity they were that's the kind of stuff we needed growing up whatever genetically modified food they were having we needed that

here in the uk yeah see look somebody's saying uh uh oh i wish i was oh i thought you said i'm six foot three i was going to say that's that that's exactly how [Laughter] well five six yeah well okay see you're the showing this is the truth [Laughter] yeah

so what's going on people you need to visit florida on your trip definitely uh i i do intend to when that does happen obviously it's it's a little while away but i want to you know i i feel that one of the things that you know it's like how freud said if youth could if age knew no sorry i said that wrong way around if age could if youth knew but it's like what he means is that you know and how i'm relating that to what i'm

about to say is that you see when you're younger you could really just go off you could if you wanted to i think it's so amazing honestly if i mean i did in my own way just go off and study but i'm saying that even for other people that don't want to go off for full studies and don't want to spend years i would definitely say that they should at least spend half a year at least one year traveling you know at least go to different places it's because it's it's like life isn't it you're going to

learn you're going to pick up life it's not you you could stay in the same place a thousand years and you can't learn the same you know the same kind of what life will teach you cultures practicing languages and i really miss that i i have to say i mean i do travel occasionally but because it's now traveling the problem is as you get older you see when you're younger the problem is you're thinking about money you're thinking well how do i get money to do this and how do i do this and how do i do that and and you see it's it's more of a you know there's more of a struggle to it i mean

there's a struggle throughout life but it kind of changes its algorithm and as you get older you know you may be a bit more stable you may have more money now but then you you've accommodated you've kind of acclimated and so now you want luxuries now you don't want to live it rough now when you travel you're like yeah five class five star yeah top class so you don't want to be living it rough anymore and and you and then at that level all culture is kind of just the same it's just one

you know global culture um but yeah let's let's take a look what some of you guys are saying so what is going on can you talk about dr hani action please marvelous quran please say something aziz sadek sure i have checked out doctor uh sorry how do you say doctor hani achan yeah dr hani i have checked out the channel anyway i know which one you're talking about and i definitely

know the shaykh you're speaking of i you know his picture comes straight to my mind um i've watched one or two of his lectures um i mean they they they're interesting uh he's definitely trying to you know bring fresh eyes to the quranic discourse and and that's amazing anybody that's trying to do that there's definitely an um element i would say reasonably strong uh element or

or reasonably salient element of uh rationale and you know rationality and reasoning it's definitely salient it's a salient feature of what he's trying to do i'm not sure it's always the dominant feature though because i i did watch one or two things and i wasn't really hmm i i um i wasn't it didn't really uh fall in sync with how i would see things and and other things i'm sure would so i watched i think and i may have misunderstood stuff here you see so once again because his lectures were so long i don't

watch them all and so i'm i am at fault so i could just be totally misunderstanding what he's saying here but there was something which he said i watched a clip about the about the miracles of moses and i found that um you know a bit not not really com i mean it's not really my cup of tea so he was saying something or i thought he was saying something like moses may have had an amputated hand and or he had a disabled kind of like like something like not a fully formed

hand or something and it was like maybe something disabled or or he had a cut off hand like he was amputated and so when he puts his you know what mum yeah janaki put your hand by your side and and raise it um you know like it comes out bright white without any harm he said that so what what i understood is he was saying that then god just made a new hand grow for him right there and this was his miracle and this miracle

i mean so i if if i understood that correctly i it's not really how i would um you know it doesn't seem it's not really in line with that reasoning thought and it's not really in line with the so i don't know where to to put this you see because it's not really taking that rational rational approach and it's not taking the so maybe it's just a fresh eyes you know he's looking at it fresh and he's saying well you know this is how i see this and that's fine you know it's his take and he's a shirt in his own right so there was that which i kind of found um

and there was uh i mean there were other things that he was saying which were absolutely fine and you know um [Music] and which way it's clear that he's using the voice of reasoning uh about the quran he's saying things i think about the pharaohs about i think he's saying something about pyramids and and that's all good and there was nothing um he if i understood him correctly he also doesn't incline towards a virgin birth of jesus and you know and that is the view of certain

odama so um so that's you know that's where he's following a a line of um kind of rational thinking with the verses and he's explaining that but i did find it a bit strange and i once again i'm this is a point that maybe i've misunderstood i think he is stating that the husband of mary is zakaria

and zakaria is mary's husband and zakaria is the father of jesus and john yahya is the older brother of jesus this is what i kind of i watched something and this is what i understood from what he was saying and so i if i've misunderstood that i apologize and you know i um but that's i'm pretty sure from what i went through this is the understanding i took away that he was saying that these verses show that zakaria marries mary and that jesus is his son and then

also john is jesus's brother and also the the older son or the younger i don't know which way he puts them but but i found that really kind of uh hmm i mean i don't agree with that input personally um if that is the view and if i'm mistaken then i apologize um you know but yeah so that's my thought so generally i welcome any and i always congratulate people trying to bring fresh eyes to uh

a you know to scripture and revelation that is talking to us even today and that is really one of the wonderful things that muslims can do is interact with with the talking quran and so i appreciate that i admire that kind of skill set that uh quality but i from some other things i didn't um i didn't find myself necessarily in agreement but you know what i would love to discuss these things with him i would love to i know he said he wasn't really interested in going on any podcasts or

anything because he has his own show so which is fine but if he did did want to um you know and he wanted to speak about them with somebody who's going to pres you know just inquire you know rationally and raise from a perspective of reason then i'm more than willing to do that so yeah i hope that helps uh mufti remember leila wants to visit california

layla does and uh um soda's probably zozo now zara she probably wants to as well um uh yeah sure absolutely uh that's what was said his opinion okay so i i guess i'm right um okay

um so sure i mean i don't want to make this you know kind of and i don't want to seem like i'm being negative towards i'm not i'm i'm welcoming his kind of line his inquisitive nature and um you know what i i guess i'd just like to understand and i'm sure many people would maybe this is how people feel when they hear things from me you know they think probably whoa what's he

that's true we don't really think how do people think when they hear views from us they probably you know just as equally kind of and yeah so let's take a look people it is time to write a book inshallah with time you know in many ways i am glad i haven't written anything because i feel that i've i've changed a lot and i keep changing my you know my it's not even sometimes it's even the nuances that have changed but still it's it means a lot to me so

in a way i'm kind of glad right let's take a look at today's what i'd like to do is take a look at some quranic guidance people bismillah before we do that you can see right there goodness is love in action what you see this is why the mindset people the mind and what better than look at this you see when i say it's all about the mind it's your road and yours alone others may walk it with you but no one can walk it for you and i want you to think about this

especially today because it is this is going to be very relevant to our theme to our discussion um on mind your mindset so audible regime bismillah people i want us to take a look at some ayat of the quran and the first one i want to open with is one that we have looked at before but i want us to see it with a different reflection okay so

right so this this verse that you've got here from surah nahal verse 30 right now notice this how it's saying that when the people are asked the people now they say piety people who are mindful when they are asked

see when you are asked what has your lord revealed look at the answer goodness why because the quran it will if you look at it if you read it it is bringing goodness to you but it comes back to people's mindset you see people sometimes have a doom and gloom mindset they have this oh my god you know everything's bad everything's ruined everything's like

but allah has revealed khairan you see it could have look at the answer the answer could have been mother anza they said it's a quran allah is revealed they could have said you know this that it's ayat allah has revealed revelations it's all correct look at it's all about the perspective how you look at something

for who people may say goodness and you see one way of reading this is connected see that goodness for the people who do goodness who do kindness

see one way to read it is connected you could stop so this could be a comma you could say that look little latina you could say those people who do good in this world they will have you know they will have a a reward you could connect they said allah what did he reveal he revealed goodness for those who are kind

for those who do kindness and then and what's to come is even better now look at how it's going is starting off with positivity they say to those people who are mindful of god they have mindfulness of god consciousness of god they say well what

is it what what's mother angela what has your god what does your lord reveal to you say goodness you start positive let everything about you be positive don't be even you know people when they're asked i speak to people often and you'll be like how are things people oh not bad oh okay you know can't complain ah you know i was being worse what is this negativity

why are you starting at such a low standard could be worse can't complain not bad why are you even using these words say things are good things are great you could say well hmm maybe there's problems but there'll always be problems things can still be great mother and salary the first thing they start off with as a reply goodness and then they follow lilladhina asanu you know what

for people who believe in kindness don't just believe in it they do it they perform kindness there's hasanah there is just goodness as a reward for them so they've gone from positive to good and it doesn't stop there do you know what you think this is good what's yet to come in the afterlife is amazing you see starts off positive jumps to good goes to fantastically great

this is this is this isn't me this is the ayah of the quran look at it m this is the mindset you control it you you know you can you see people

people can control in in unfortunate circumstances people can control people's body as in impose on them bodily restrictions they can't control your mind you see if you if it is free if it is positive if it it would always be positive you'll be the kind of person that will see heid everywhere you know you could be sitting in the in the worst of times say ah i can't remember somebody you

know i can't remember what tragic incident it was and somebody was talking to me i said ah well it's you know it's all fun and games it's it's a mindset so and it's important and i'm saying this why we're coming towards the end of a year we're coming towards the end of this year people and it's important that we start we finish and we start something new with goodness and i'm going to inshallah next week's

session focus on completely on new beginnings or i'll try to and bring in certain ayat and i'll speak a bit about in next week's session about the you know this this law of attraction and things and i'll speak a bit about that there but let's come to these ayat here so these are the the following two i want to look at so first from surah rahman verse 60

now this is a such a popular verse everybody's heard it is the reward of essen except essa now you see let me tell you another way of looking at this ayah

see one is that of course by doing essan by acting virtue performing virtue in embodying kindness yes you will be recompensed and you will have a reward you will have allah yeah that's absolutely one way of looking at it look at the other way is there a reward for goodness

accept the goodness itself is there a reward for it except it you do an act of kindness for someone and people say yes of course allah will reward me but is there a reward greater than the act of kindness that you get to do in and of itself

just think about it so you get to do an act of compassionate good for someone well just sir something beat that the fact that you get to do that that is honestly a beautiful way of looking at this verse

then which of the favors do you deny that you get to do this i mean you get to bring a smile to someone's face you you get to make that difference i mean what could be greater than that you want a reward bigger than that you know you you you want oh i want this i want some that is the greatest thing isn't it in and of itself that's such a and once again it's like oh so obvious but you know not at first apparent to the mind and this

ver or these two verses from suratul infitar i want to close with them that you see in this too now this we've got this the meaning the apparent meaning that or the the you know the motherboard in arabic is that which comes straight to mind that people of righteousness people of good they will be you see once again it says will be in pleasure that they will there's and

obviously people say jannah is naim in bounties in blessings in and you know people that are wicked or wrongdoing will be in damnation and and that's absolutely you know look reading it like that that look it's speaking about the afterlife sure but the quran has a dynamism to it you see this superposition nature of the quran that it can speak with many layers sure it's speaking about the akhirah but in many ways it's speaking about the

dunya too because if you look at it in people who do good they are in a state of bliss you see people the abrahar people that is people of virtue people of that do good for humanity that want to and it's because bir isn't about

you know it's not about bear pieties and about trying to just face the qibla or the kaaba it's about feeding the poor it's about helping the human connection the human concern virtue it's a social element they are in a blissful state just look at them

their lives it's not it does it it's not speaking about necessarily luxuries sure they may have luxuries they may not but they are in a blissful state they are happy people that cause harm people that you know wicked people that do cruel things they are living they are their life is a hell

you attract what you do it is coming back to you it is here you are living it it's not yes the akhira is is another discussion i mean that's yet to come but we're talking about it right here right now you see so these were three verses that we were looking at that when people ask those that are conscious god conscious that mother anzala is positivity

30 and it builds in positivity that people who do these people who are in a state of positivity and that's okay their state and they do asana that this compassion and this kindness its reward is itself that you get to do it and people that are of virtue that are of this that do these things they are in a blissful state

allah has decreed its search he has set these laws in the universe you see your heart if it has that goodness in it if it has that compassion and you it comes back to you this you find it everywhere you see it in everything so yeah this is an uh you know and a powerful reminder i want to share with you so shukran for paying attention now we'll move to some questions right hmm

mafia has made a fresh cup of honey that goes too much damn this kindness coming sabir and sugar i don't know what's going on with the array sabine no i don't know what i don't know what's going on sabine uh i'd advise not to troll because you just get blocked man and why be blocked huh why

think about it you'd rather be in a peaceful state than in a blockful state [Laughter] so what is going on you awesome people what is going on um look it do and you see people these are the look at all all of the amazing people having sleepless nights and awake at these uh what shall we say mashallah godly hours godly hours awesome

so what is going on mostly do you think there should be more covert restrictions i hope not man you know i you know it's a tricky one this whole uh because i get it i get the fact that but i do think that honestly people are creating they're furthering a divide you know now it's become between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated and they're saying well they're to blame and there to do this and this is creating it's harmful

somebody i've read a statistic today honestly it was actually scary for with my phone let me see if i can pull it up actually and um somebody had sent me i think it was a tweet so it said since omicron this was from i don't know who's right in the tweets sir marco robins i don't know who that is but anyway since omicron first detected 27th november seven deaths

average age 83. you can double check the stats but this i found shocking 27 september to now which isn't long people less than a month that's less than you know four weeks 239 deaths by suicide average age between 25 and 44.

perspective i was shocked honestly damn you know that that many suicides will lie yes make things easy because remember for each suicide the tragedy of what it leaves behind in each person connected to that loss the family members how every person feels a sense of failure as well because they feel dumb you know i could have you know maybe if i spoke to the person maybe you know if i knew they were going

through this it really shakes people because it breaks their their courage their determination in life and and this is less in you know in just over three weeks you got 200 plus it's that is honestly it's a tragedy and people need that human compassion and i'm all for you see i am vaccinated myself i haven't had the third booster yet but i and i'm fine with it but i don't agree with this divide that is being imposed and created this kind

of like pitting people against people and you know many people there are some strong let's say um almost confessional anti-vaxxers but i believe they are a small minority many people who are refusing to to get vaccinated i believe it's not because they are anti-vaxxers but it's because they are suspicious and don't of the government and don't trust them in this and now you see now that is i i believe that's a concern

that should be addressed it shouldn't just be kind of brushed under the carpet because you see you could say to me look i you know oh you know i hate this like oh you know i hate let's say i hate muslims i hate muslims i'm not listening oh no listen to muslims or i hate you or i hate and you're just on this kind of spree of just i'm not listening i'm not listening and then that doesn't matter because you see that kind of a person you can't speak to but somebody could say look i'm not a nutcase but i have legitimate concerns about

let's say somebody says i have concerns about some things that muslims i feel they may believe i'm legitimately concerned so in that situation it's worth having a discussion and saying well okay what are these points of concern somebody may say well i for example believe i don't know do they is it true there is a certain thing or there is certain verses that say this and they can be addressed so when people are legitimately distrustful of the government there is there are valid questions that and reason so for example the government

is saying one thing doing something else the government may be pushing something and maybe many members of parliaments have shares in that particular company they may be now these are all legitimate questions these are not like you know uh hyperbolized paranoia this is like something very legitimate it's like you know a conflict of interest or people are curious and so if people would just be transparent and say look these are the concerns here's a briefing we're going to be honest you know what are the genuine questions what are the top ten let's tackle them and i don't mean just about the research

on kovid i think a lot of people they all it's not about just the the research against you know the scientific research it's more about what why is this being imposed is this a kind of how come you you're celebrating christmas yourself doing these parties you clearly don't believe in the threat but you're telling us the threat is real you know this is the kind of concern that people have so if you're going to impose like if i say to you that you know if you get caught doing this you're going to get fined you know you open a gym i i remember i was gutted when the gyms were shut and you know some i remember reading some person

opened the gym and got fined like 10 000 pounds or 30 000 pounds and but then boris could be having christmas parties and they could be you know snorting cocaine and everybody's together and they've got wine and and the police won't even investigate it and so it's you see it's these kind of things that are hurting people i and so yeah so that's my thoughts on it it's not i just feel that the divide is wrong and i feel that people should be allowed to to legitimately not as a troll but legitimately express their concerns and

they should be answered um so there have been too many tools that is true you know i was watching a clip from joe rogan and he's got elon musk on there and elon musk is he's saying you know i i i he's saying he's saying that i tried for so long to tell people to to slow down with ai but they're not listening they're not listening you know i asked them please regulate it they

just fell on deaf ears nobody would listen to me and he said i eventually i've just given up i have to say my exact thoughts were what joe rogan said he said you know this just sounds like that part of a movie everything is about to go wrong [Laughter] that's so

mm-hmm all right is circumcision true [Laughter] ah it's as true as the missing foreskin it's true you see this is a it's a deep question sorry who was asking omar amar was asking a very deep philosophical question because see unbeknownst to many of you he's actually um he he's he's making apparent the layers

of the meaning of truth you see is circumcision true you think is religion true is the truth true is circumcision true [Laughter] ah gotta ah you gotta love it you gotta love it somebody said circumcision is a lie [Laughter] tell that to there you go see is

it true is it a lie this is it this is it people mahmoud abdullah much love much love for the super chat um absolute love um after you share your thoughts on pakistan troubles and imran khan has something else happened uh yeah if you're asking should people be circumcised if that's what you're asking um i have discussed that previously um then yeah i i i i do believe people men

humans with male genitalia should be trying to be politically correct and use the right terms uh what's what do they say cis cis male i don't know how they term it cis male cis biological born and can perpetually orienting as male him his with his organ should have it

sorry i should have zut [Music] imagine you wanted a pronoun for different body organs i mean how how would that work if there was well but i am ver i am pro um circumcision it is very healthy um just the data suggests that on its own let alone it's an islamic teaching from the abrahamic faiths but yeah

yeah so right let's let's focus let's focus people right so let's go to today's uh let's go to today's history i want to teach us a bit of history you know let's take a look

now why is so first of all let me bring this up those of you that are just tuning in people right okay that's it like share you know the drill right so bismillah a bit of history suleiman abdul malik a candle of light in a dimly dynasty people who was this caliph is definitely somebody worth learning

about and i thought maybe by telling a story of his we could also bump into several other people along the way right so um he's from the children of abdul malik ibn marwan so those of you that remember quick just intro into this and i wanted to really get to just an interesting story where he meets a scholar s

hypnotic exchange of um of profound words and this scholar is known as abu hazim and this discussion takes place in medina or makkah and but to get to that i want to put more to this canvas okay and introduce us along the way to other people so look out for names like um in fact let me see it because i did see so look out for names like uh um we'll have abdul malik

he'll be a uh a character in this you'll have marwan and think you know when i say these names maybe if you want jot them down research them if you're interested explore uh look out for that they'll be in this will have um abu hazim obviously the scholar raja ibn haiwa will be introduced to him who who was he aziz what a profound caliph what's his story even though but we'll we'll bump into these characters and the reason i'm

saying this is because they will be connected at other levels hajjaj ibn yusuf interesting people and you can connect them separately um and research them in your own time so okay people let's look at the landscape those of us that aren't familiar we know that after the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam there was the khilafah which is the

rashidun and then you've got hassan and then you've got muawiyah now with what happens is the umayyad dynasty starts but it kind of goes from muawiyah mainly it's just him starting with him within his own immediate family and then yazid which is a terrible um instance and we'll you know we've spoken about that in the past as well but then what happens is you have yazid's son but it doesn't he just kind of drops it and and people wonder what's

going to happen you know because uh yasid's son is kind of either he's completely disinterested or because when he becomes caliph he just doesn't even come out of his room for like months and then he comes out and he says you know what do you know what he says he says it's up for grabs it's literally what he says he says that people it's up for grabs and people are thinking whoa okay is it and so the close household of malawia yazid and all these people they for example the

cousins and so on that kind of immediate clan think look whoa before this gets out of hand let's grab it and other voices have risen elsewhere so abdullah zubaid has risen in um in makkah and we've had the tragedy of karbala has already happened and you've got these these other things are happening so marwan who is the cousin he's like a cousin to or a second cousin to yazid he people say what about him he's a senior figure you know he's quite old in age and

and there's this whole kind of uh clash and we can speak about this on another day but what happens by by fate it ends up that marwan ends up becoming the caliph more important than him is his son abdul malik he really cements the foundation for bani um he is this and we have to speak more about him on another day but he is this um incredibly

you know this formidable force that comes to the forefront and he's kind of like a connect between old school and the new and so he has old values but he's also very you know up into this whole new what's at stake here and and he really lays down these roots and so it becomes his now he he's there he has

a brother whose name is abdul aziz and and the way it's set out is after abdul malik it's meant to be abdul aziz that's supposed to be the caliph but abdul aziz dies before him so his brother's dead so he thinks you know what let's give it to my sons and lock it in so what he does is he tells people i'm going to give the caliphate to my and he's got a bunch of sons walid solemn yazid

and and a few others as well and all of these that i've named will end up becoming caliphs of this um maya dynasty within this this 100 years less of its span so what he says to waleed is that you are going to take control after me and he's very strict by the way and he tells him that look i don't want no you know this or that he says anybody that's not firm with you any kind of hints that just chop is his head off like you need to be

absolutely firm so okay waleed but then he tells him that after you it's going to be suleiman and he makes the more pledge to this whilst he's alive so it's going to be you then it's going to be the next son um you know the bro so the brother will leave the brother suleiman then it's going to be the other brother you know he's got this kind of like a brotherly sequence going on and he dies and waleed becomes the caliph and waleed is obviously uh you know his ruling is he's he's got a firm iron fist and it's during this time by the way

abdul malik had um one of the things he had laid the foundations for was uh the jerusalem the kubbato sahara dome of the rock and building a masjid al-aqsa as a masjid and so he had abdul malik had begun that however it's in waleed's lifetime that this really gets set up and waleed spends phenomenal amounts of money on it and rajya ibn haiwa he's a scholar now he's interesting um why and you'll see his name coming up

but he's a scholar who when islam or muslims entered jerusalem that region charm so the neighboring kind of towns and cities his family were christian and they uh obviously they you know there's no battle in jerusalem it's a peaceful handover to ahmedabad and many people later on embrace islam including rajiv nahiwa's family and raja grows up he studies with ulama of you know the sahaba he listens

to certain sahaba he's he's this great he's very interested in hadith he has you know he's he's a thicker generally people except from him in hadith he and during this time he earns his kind of right within the umayyad court so they have him as a minister almost as a kind of counsel so one of the projects they hand him was this this aksa and the sacra building that the dome of the rock and they build it with such splendor

that people are shocked and people almost go to it like a pilgrimage because they say that in its time there was nothing that could rival the splendor of the dome of the rock and what happens is there's so much uh gold that they spend on building the dome now when this project finishes and this is what why this scholar also becomes very important and close to bani umeja the the caliphs is nahewa is in charge of this masjid project so when they finish they have quite a bit of leftover gold

and waleed says to well it is the caliph he says to raja that what what's left over and he says and he tells him that there's so much left over and he says to him you keep it and you know you can distribute it to one two people that you like and rajesh says so that's not right you see you know people lie you know people had a cold didn't they they had these kind of values he said that look this money that was taken out this gold

it was set about for a you know for a sacred place of worship for a place you know house of god where people will come and contemplate god you know and yes we've built it but now if i take this money it's staying right and so this really hits hard with the caliph and he's very impressed with this so what he tells him is i tell you what he says whatever is left i want you that gold to melt it and add it to the dome of the dome of the rock

so there is this huge amount of gold that gets added to the dome of the rock in jerusalem the masjid and it was so spectacular that they say decades and generations later when in the time of the abbasids when abu dhaf there's been fighting going on and there's been fightings kind of poured into different towns and and masjid masjid al-aqsa and jerusalem have been impacted and i think they've been some i don't know whether it was a flood or there'd been something

some kind of weathering that had caused buildings to dilapidate and combat was also impacted that abu dhafra sadiq what he did is he just took some of that excess gold and he had that removed and with it they were able to with that money rebuild the entire structure that's how much gold was on it so just to give you an idea so rajiv nahiwa is really prominent he's this scholar this tabari he's mentioned in the hadith books so he's now become this kind of wise counsel to um

as the sorry the yeah the umayyad caliphs so everything's going fine waleed's in his heydays he's being really strong he's got people he's doing his business and you know the umayyads were very heavy-handed with people they were very clear my way or the highway and um you see this is something that really left a terrible taste in the mouths of people and it so what happens is waleed in his time he's expanding he's doing all these things along he sets

about he wants powerful people he wants powerful kind of people so along comes he finds hajjaj now here's a character that you guys can look out for this name and you can research him and we'll we'll also pick up on these characters in other stories and the whole point is you make a map mentally of these people and they get connected so hajjaj is this ruthless kind of front for bonnie umayyah who is just so cold that he you know he doesn't flinch to kill someone he's just

that i mean you could just picture he's like a real kind of uh like attila the hun but the muslim version and so is using him to do stuff like do this set out campaigns do all these things and one of the campaigns he sets out just to give you an idea is he sends his cousin or one of his kind of related i think he may have been a second cousin or something is muhammad ibn qasim to go in the conquest of sin which is in india so which is modern-day pakistan so today in pakistan muhammad bin qasim is a legendary figure

that was this relative of hajjaj who gets sent for this conquest so hajib's got things on lock during this time they come across another warrior absolute legend who is from a convert family once again and some people say so his name is i'm telling you these names just so they just in the background but as we go through different sessions you'll start connecting names and connecting dots

um some say he was a young boy sorry his father was a young boy in some say in the time of the prophet salallahu sallam or just after and so he would have definitely been born in the time of the prophet salallahu but maybe he didn't meet the prophet because he's just a little boy so abu safra is one of those people as a side now here's a footnote that's quite interesting is when in the apostasy wars um some of the people that

that rise and rebel um he they they they are obviously stopped and they are suppressed and you know it's kind of quashed but they get caught so these people they captured and amongst them is abu safra but he was just a little boy and a worker puts them in the house of this this person in ramallah's house the name is

put puts these people held captive in that home and you know it's an interesting side note you know people always say that um was this bloodthirsty you know people who try to criticize him and say he was so harsh and he was this is very interesting because wakadi transmits that obakar had these people captive they were captured because they were kind of they'd risen against uh as an insurgency and somebody had said to abu bakr that that's treason and they should be killed and omar was present

and omar in his famous statement says that he says to abu bakr like what he says please he says he says these are just these are from the believers he says they just got a little greedy over the money and you know that is a gem a fantastic gem of an inside the people say that you know all these wars were about shedding blood and doing this here's an insight i mean so this person abu safra who's a young boy there and

then they're not they're not killed but that's an i thought it's an interesting point that omar mentions that his son goes on to become who's not known as mahala become this great warrior and he rises in the ranks of the army and so he's around in waleed's time this caliph and he thinks you know what this guy can definitely i can do with him so he sets him onto the frontiers and he's the one who has all these amazing conquests where many are peaceful as well as in by peaceful i mean by truth they're not always war fighting but he he adds so much he expands the umayyad dynasty right into

the you know the russian steps all these places come from this amazing figure in islamic history and it's interesting as well because there's all these legends about him and there's a story that he's coming back one day from this from this this expedition and he meets this lady and she says to him that oh she says you know i kept an oath for you and he says for me she says i kept an oath that you're going to come back victorious and she said and i said to allah that if

he comes back victorious i will fast for 30 days and he will give me a free slave he will give me a slave and a thousand dinars act of kindness so mahalo just burst out laughing and he actually gave her but he said to her that you know go easy on these things for not many people that you'll meet in these ranks that will meet you with kindness he kind of but these are the

kind of figures in the background so okay now we're zeroing in we're kind of honing in so you've got this going on in the background what happens is walid this caliph ibn abdul malik he gets an idea one day he says you know after me it's meant to be my brother sulaiman it's meant to be this caleb but what if it isn't him

what if it's my son you know allah ah progeny what you know it's amazing when you think about it we share our dna and our blood with our siblings and we share it with our children but it's amazing how and in which direction the blood leans

because if you think about it that's also somebody who's who's kind of you know of you of the stuff you're off but it's all right but it's amazing that how and in which direction this this kind of goes so walid says to um he says that's how i'm gonna do it so suleiman remember his father has

decreed that he is next to be caleb walid says it's not going to happen and what he does is he he starts spreading the news that i want people to pledge their next allegiance as in we're gonna have a draft allegiance and i want you to pledge it to my sons so he sends it to key figures he sends it to hajjaj hajjaj pledges and he makes people under him pledge it he sends it to

now certain people they're reserved you see he sends it to mahalab who's remember a key general in his military he says no he says we already have an oath in our necks from your father that is after you it is solemn he sends this to raja ibn haiwa you know the scholar the terbei who's remember a minister for the umayyad kind of household he says no he says that this isn't right that we have an allegiance

um with you know with your father that it's after you with suleiman so here suleiman realizes right the lines are being drawn and he realizes who's on his side and who isn't so in the months that follow things start to intensify and waleed thinks you know what i've had enough of my brother and solemn is a bit of a nice guy you see

so waleed thinks i've had enough of him you know what he says you know in the famous old bollywood quote he says [Laughter] these relations of blood can only be settled by spilling blood this is so what he does is he thinks let's you know we got to deal with my brother sulaiman and this is not something that you know obviously suleiman is aware that you know things are treated and he starts getting invites solemn that look you need to come visit me i'm at this court

and turn up and suleiman's kind of avoiding him he's kind of like oh tell him that i'm out of town and i'm here and he keeps avoiding him and wha what do you know fortune huh allah ah and fate when suleiman eventually feels the pressure damn i think i'm gonna have to face my brother his brother falls ill and in that illness he passes away

you see this is an interesting and a very important point in islamic history why because sulaiman he once again goes on to to kind of kindle the lamp of hope for the muslim legacy and you'll see how so solemn as soon as his his brother passes away people around him start pledging allegiance to him because this was already decreed by his father raja

ibn pledges allegiance muhammad the great general pledges allegiance and people start to follow so suleiman he's very quick to kind of secure his ground and he starts you know getting all these and he says anybody who's not pledging allegiance i want them to be dismissed as in removed from that post of authority we're going to replace them and quite readily he manages to grasp the the thing and one of the people he does is he removes her judge see because he's had enough of a judge it's fascinating and anybody that was

pro-hajjaji has them removed and so he manages to secure this this kingdom but that's not it one of his first opening speeches let me see if i've got it here for you right this by the way is a map of his kind of dynasty that is under him during bonnie um these are some gold coins that you can see that were minted in his time what suleiman does by the way he goes on to set up a an entire city ramla and that minaret that you can see there was part

of the masjid that he created that still stands today in ramallah in palestine now you will see the rest of it obviously over time has kind of withered and dilapidated but so he builds this whole uh city as his part of his legacy let me just bring this back slightly and that is an uh an older photo of ramla and some of the and a picture on the left of some of the the the dilapidated buildings of his uh palace and royal court um that were built then some further coins you can see um above there so let me

take us to and i think this is really interesting because see this is his speech that you see he gives this as a royal decree and has it sent out he tells people that i want you to fix yourselves and he says that look he begins by actually religious stuff like reminding them

and now if you take a look at this i'll just zoom in for you uh this is an important point completely changing the style of bani kumaya he says any governor who the population are not happy with i will have removed look at that and he says

and whosoever any village or town tell me is the best of them i will have him as their superior look at that and he says and he says anybody who wants to go out on military campaigns i've restricted it to four months so you go back to your families

and check this out any person who who goes on a military campaign with with them the soldier his children at home will also have a portion in the reward when he comes back so whatever allotment so for example let's say um soldiers had i don't know they were going to get a certain amount of whatever is distributed in the end that portion an equal portion is allocated to his children as well so if he had two kids then he's taking home three allotments now look at that straight away now

you can see that and and look how he says uh and he says every sadaqa and zakat that is taken from a region will be distributed in that region from now on obviously that portion of and he'll take a look at that um and then he says so you can see now this is why this is important because scholars after him will mention this about him in fact ibn sireen one of the great tab

says about him you can see that look look at them speaking about him solemn was legen al-janib he was somebody very soft and kind-hearted he would not kind of he wasn't about spilling blood like the other banu omaya he was a person of love and compassion and deen and respect value for the quran was

somebody who loved justice and you have to check out what ibn koteiba said he said and this is important he says he began with with goodness and he ended with goodness why he says he began by restoring justice and stopping you know people bani umayya used to take money from people oppressively he said he had that restored and as you can see in that decree of his and you know when he ends it is him who puts in place after him um

and not his brother and he says to um abdul aziz at the end because um remember is related because we you've got abdul malik abdul malik had a brother abdel aziz who died before him and hence abdul malik put it into his own family that abdul aziz's son was umar so when sulaiman reaches the end of his of his lifetime he doesn't actually rule for long it's only about two and a half years but when he's on his deathbed who tells him

he asks rajata advise me what should i do he says to him look basically this is you're leaving this world it's you know do the right thing and he says what's that he says put omar in charge and he says he says my brothers will kill him and then rajiv nahiwah says to him you know what he says do it that you put omar but after umar you then put your brother yazid so people that way they will honor him

because they will think look well they're next anyway so that's what he does and with omar even abdul aziz coming in muslims see one of the most flourishing the most kind of prosperous times in islamic history that it's been deemed the fifth of the of the righteous is um and you know people say he's a great great grandson of um but that's through his mother's side that's why he doesn't have that lineage he goes through bani umayya through his father's side

so you can see suleiman why he is this important person he comes in a time where people are getting fed up where muslims dynasts are even though they're building these great you know splendid mosques but they're becoming more and more kings ruling with an iron fist taking money when they need it from people imposing heavy sanctions and taxes they're not like they've forgotten that element of compassion and responsibility and solemn comes and he comes with love compassion

he starts by reinstating goodness by distributing sadaqat in the regions by saying to people in fact in his time he says that all official leaders of a region should openly pray their prayers as in be with the local congregation because they had stopped this banu me ahead so he starts it and he starts his rule with this and he ends it by putting in place these that will once again remind and show that wow you know miracles can happen and that's a different part of history

so this person is such an amazing um you know it's it's an amazing personality to grasp and he's he constructs this city this is his city ramla he builds these masjids he wants it to be part of his legacy he mints coins he has things and whilst this is happening he has a love for scholars so on a particular day he is um he is going to makkah so he's on a pilgrimage when he's there he

asks people is there anybody here who has met the sahaba is there anybody alive that has met the sahaba here that happens to be here so they say yeah there's abu hazem and abu hazim people i've mentioned he's a terrible somebody that is kurashi in essence he's he's uh he's born not only muslim but around some of the great sahaba ibn umar some people say abu hurairah he

does rewire from them from the great from the great like he's a teacher of people like ibn shihab and imam malik he's their teacher imam malik transmits from him in the mata on several occasions so he is this great figure of hadith abu hazim great scholar and of madina so people say yeah but how's him so he says bring him here i guess you know in some ways he was

still he had that kingly thing about him so he says there's a scholar here and and i'm here and he's not here so so abu hazim is brought before him and he says to him he says ya bahazim he says he says

jaffa is even in urdu they use java it means like bewarfa like you know no loyalty bit harsh he says um right so um abu hazim says why so he says i've come here to makkah and you're here and you don't even come to give me salam

so abu hazim says he says that would be the case i would be disloyal if i knew you he says you've never we've never met you've never come you've never crossed parts with me i've never seen you before in my life how can i just turn up to someone who i've never even known or met what kind of disloyalty is that so suleiman says

point so he says you know what take a seat man take a seat he says you know what has him you appear as a wise man he says let me throw one to you he says why are we afraid of death allah why are we afraid of death

right so he says okay he says that that's fine let me see if i can bring it up here actually if i've got it here uh no so

um right so no that's not it okay let me just go see if i've got the i thought if i've got it yep there it is i thought i'd bring it before you he says to him that look why are we afraid of death i thought you know what is it that frightens us he says rahul

he says that that's because he says simple he says because you've really decorated your lives this worldly life and you've ruined your [Laughter] look at the how brazen and he says because you've not really concerned yourselves with what god wants from you you've been too busy trying to be a king and obviously this strikes you know this kind of brazen attitude you have to remember people don't speak like this to you know to kings and caliphs and he says to him he says you've spoken the truth

he says he says so how is it so so you know how do how does one turn to god and he says he says turning to god is like a person who returns home after returns to his family after having been on a journey it's as simple as that it was always home

look at how he's describing this he says he says that's how it is and then he says to him okay he says later he asks him now this is an interesting thing he says to him how do i know that if when i turn to god i am in his favor how do i know this he says by simply presenting yourself to his book and he

said how does a person do that he says haven't you read in him the verse that we're taking a look at previously this is the verse that recites to him he says when you read this verse you will know where you stand in the grace of god

and you know this shocked they say that sulaiman he he became so overwhelmed with emotions that tears came out and abu hazim got up and he just went and suleiman tried to send him money as a kind of like a thank you and he refused to accept it he said that you know he said that the thing is this and he asks him but you know as he's leaving he says look he says would you be so kind as to escort us as in come back to damascus with us come back to ramla be amongst my kind of ministers my counsel

and he says that if i do that he says in no time your luxuries are going to be so convincing to me that i too will be in need of counsel [Laughter] the teacher of imam malik so this was people a key figure who once again realigns for some part the history of islam

as we've known and i'll tell i'll finish on one point about him you know they say he was a handsome handsome jolly good fella handsome good looking guy and you know one time he was coming out of you know they used to have these hammams like these kind of turkish baths and he was coming out of a hammam as one does it reminds me i'm i need to i i long for the steam rooms right so he was coming out and he lo he's in the palace he has this you know this kind of

hammer he comes out and he sees in the mirror he sees himself in the mirror he says and you know you know he like it you know he looks at himself in the mirror and he says oh you blind me good looking fella you he gets really you know in a moment you know sometimes in a in a moment in a delusion of grandeur somebody might look at themselves normally they might look at themselves we might look in the mirror is that me again today but sometimes upon occasion

you know we might kind of look and think hmm yeah you know i don't mind if i say so you know delusions of grandeur they happen to the best of us you know what's uh says but the point is that he looks at himself and he's really kind

of wowed like i am a bloody good fella huh handsome fellaini and you know this was you see it's interesting that in those days he had actually been going through some grief because his son ayub had died and it really hit him so in these times it's in a moment of uh of almost you know of momentary oblivion he forgot his grief and he kind of was wowed and he

and he sees a one of his concubines walking past good old days of the caliphs he sees one of his and he says to her he says he looks in the mirror and he says to her he says he says what do you think this is not enough that i praise myself he says says you tell me man he says to her to you what do you think any any faults

everything when it's complete it only goes down so he asks her can you see any he says can you see any faults so she looks at him and she says up she says lesa lana fema she says lisa fema badalana mean ivan says there's nothing there is no you know from what we see there is no i ab

except the the blemish she says there are no blemishes there aren't there is no aid no fault accept the ib of mortality that you too will that you will not be that you're not something that is eternal she says she says sorry is a kind of like a risk something that you have something to enjoy something to those of you that listen to john elia he often

uses the word mata says this is this arabic word mata which appears in the quran as well something that you have that you can enjoy she says she says you know you would be the most outstanding amazing enjoyment of this dunya if only you would last if only you were immortal

but no insane or all insane and every insane must perish [Laughter] you know even the the concubines in that day and age

what wisdom such listening to such person could just be like yeah this is enough as a as a shaykh to guide me in this path such wisdom they say that you know when she said that to him it hit him um suddenly he had this you know sometimes a person says something and it's it strikes a tremor that they say he suddenly became like

he had this this awakening tremor of his mortality just suddenly that he thought his own frailty and from that night you know he'd come out of the steam room that kind of hammam and he was in the mirror just looking at himself and he said this from that night he fell ill

and in that illness he died allah you know the frailty of insane and also in many ways his mindset you see they say that we are as strong that you and we can endure as much as we can will

but when a person throws the towel in metaphorically that often with that metaphorical hope and vigor and strength that we have with its loss we also find at times the loss of life it's it's fascinating and this was a story i want to share with you really just so many stories in one and this personality solemn a man who had to really fight for his rule but with it he began it by

restoring justice to the masses and he ended it by by leaving behind a successor like ahmadineji's a person who was kind compassionate he showed a different side of bani omega handsome had wise concubines [Laughter] and for a moment was beguiled by his own youthful beauty allah may there be a lesson or many a lesson in that for us all people allah like that

take a look at some questions then i'll share the link and we can then wrap this up all right um just found this channel omar alhamdulillah i don't know what you're writing but it doesn't seem to show up here concubine and hurt those kind of concubines are not they're like just carrying or having these kind of uh i don't know these kind of

fountains of wisdom in the day and age when concubines were so wise like that so right please check i think i may have missed let me go back i mean mr super chat or two let me just check um shukran noora shukran much love for the super chat and thanks for clarifying that

let me see somebody zainab said once the super chat goes away nope uh i'm scrolling back to get the super chat i believe zainab has sent a super chat yep i can find it how do you see is it to be taken literally or as or as a more personal calamitous experience from person to person uh zainab that's an incredibly profound question

it's interesting because there's many ways of looking at it you see there is an understanding of this whole realm this whole dimension the world as we know it when it comes to an end there will be a different dimension they will reality will exist differently that this interval is simply a comma but not a full stop

so there is that way of looking at it and then this description that people have that the the sun will be brought down and there will be everything will be happening and people will be gathered and they will be risen and so there is this imagery that we find some of it in the quran about when people are you know when people are risen and they will they will say how long were we out whoa that you know wasn't it just a moment we were out was it half a day or you know this is what the quran quotes them saying the people will there will be this panic

this anxiety so that's one way and then you find certain narration saying that you know so you find certain narrations that saying well actually maybe it's experienced subjectively on on a personal basis because really in that realm there is no time so if there is no time then the moment you enter it you are in a timeless

reality and therefore it has already happened because there is no directionality of time so now you know that that's obviously that's very difficult to understand and there's one way of looking at it is well asking well the imagery is the imagery is the imagery uh literal or is it something that is symbolic and and one can look at it in both ways one can look at it as literal and say well you know this is literally how it

will be happening and many people have looked at it literally and said that this is how the afterlife it will be bodies like this and they will be running and they will be all these kind of things and some people have understood it as symbolic that because nothing in the afterlife has any similitude or any conceptualization in this world as the hadith says that you know um that no insane could even conceptualize any aspect of the afterlife so therefore you couldn't even imagine

so anything you have imagined is wrong so in that sense that these verses are speaking about an imagery and the imagery is most symbolic in and what it's resonating you it has a reality but you don't know what that reality how it looks like does it look like bodies it probably doesn't look like bodies as in any kind of understanding of a body it probably doesn't look like maybe use you know it's comp like it's like saying entities it's like saying existence but not like any kind of existence and

and that's difficult to then explain because people would think well how do you experience that and this is why some ulama have said well it's about consciousness ibn rust the great maliki muslim philosopher and scholar speaking about consciousness and many other people speaking about how it's about consciousness but the truth is we have no real grasp of what the akhira will [Music] manifest us what is it like it's difficult

yeah so anything that we are looking at is in any way some form of an approximation isn't a symbolic approximation is it a uh figurative approximation an allegorical approximation a metaphorical approximation these are all subject to people's you know how people want to take them really the main thing is that the quran is telling you that life does not end here and that you need to always endeavor on the path of goodness and that there will be a state of bliss

this is as much as the quran is explaining now when it's giving the imagery the rest is all of that you can take it literally you can take it symbolically you can take it however you take it the quran is the see the quran is saying allah is a light now people will say that's you know symbolic the quran is saying allah so for example the quran says that um the jannah that people will have one of the jannah's

its width will be if you measured from the earth to the skies now even ashore and all these people will say this you see yes people can take it literally they could say well today we could let's say we could measure in light years and we could say well there's this many light years in these kind of because he's not talking about jannah this is talking about samawat now if a person was to say well okay i want the exact measurement in this many light years is the width of a janna let's say or that's maybe they'll have an interpretation saying no these are not the seven samawat what uh even though that verse doesn't say

seven it just says samawat so the skies now is that the exact dimension of the width of jannah so many the facility will say no it's just symbolic and trying to tell you that it's of unimaginable that you can't comprehend it that is the purpose so yeah so this is how it is and really whatever helps a person you know be a better believer whatever helps them with their faith

alhamdulillah it's all good and these are not things to really police people over because this this is all something nobody can truly grasp i mean if you think about it even altered states of consciousness you know when people alter their states of consciousness either through meditation or through you know through training or by taking certain medicines certain plants right they experience dimensions and realities that they can't explain in words i mean they can't explain it in words

and that's think about it that's things that people have actually experienced how do you think they could explain things that are inexplicable it's to say to think the unthinkable it's like if i asked you to think of space you can always only think of space inside a greater space like even if i tell you to think of the entire universe let's say the universe is laid out flat generally as um astrophysicists understand that the universe is flat now let's say the universe i don't mean galaxies but the entire universe is more or less kind of flat so

now this universe now let's say you think of it however you think of it you're thinking of it as a space inside another space because the human mind cannot think of non-space it's hardwired to only conceptualize space so even if you consider space itself you have to consider it inside another space a meta space so yeah so these are profound questions and

i i would say that as allah says in the quran that read the books read the ayat sorry the verses with tatapur and tafakur in pondering and allow the mind to to wander with amazement you know not all who wonder are lost allah i hope that's of some help right now

i've just seen if i've missed another super chat right i've seen that the analyst kr heim of the long time no speak any advice for the broken heart is it worth pursuing someone who doesn't know if they want your heart or not hi hi hi people the analyst kr the analyst people this is asking the question

is [Laughter] this that is a a line of me where he says that he says that if we knew we would not have attached this heart to anyone

we would have taken this emotion laden heart less with this desire we would have taken it to the grave with us you know say there's a it's a fabricated hadith but it's a but it's a nice saying they say one can find god with those with the with the people or with with the broken hearts

so the analyst people hmm should we should there be a little love story there's a uh love story coming to mind you know you know what analyst for you are i'm gonna tell a story that what let me just check the comments here as well

i love story people ham jhanthe now as the analyst is saying that his heart has been broken people let me tell you a little love story man i love love story love story so

remember previously we've spoken about the tribes there is a famous woman historically in islamic uh in the islamic torath which is the the kind of literature and legacy of love known as layla but not late there's been many layers by the way and you know the famous that everybody knows is and that layla is layla of case and there's been other layla's as well by the way and we covered one before leila fifa and

barack obama rohan and that famous love story there is this one leila achillia and she what a story she has here check this out people yeah moment eco this is where seldom you know in these love stories you have these couples usually the guy is always more popular as in they're both popular so you have leila and majnun but really leila is obviously the the

counterpart of the story but the story often revolves around and she's like you know so it's like often it's like a 60 40 divide or a 70 30 or a 65 30 so this is how the stories are often very male uh centric as in the the lover it's usually about him and she's a huge part of the story but from these legacies leila is the one who she dominates the story

it's like 80 20. if that it's like 85 15 this is what we're looking at so leila who is from the tribe of bani hamir uh we've spoken about them before ahmed nasa ah they were a ruthless warrior tribe from hawazin from pace island and i've mentioned them they they come to the prophet in the final year of delegation as well and they were always known as these kind of uh you know people don't really want to mess with them and stuff they were these kind of you know you get some of these tribes like tamim who were these kind of rowdy uh fighting kind of people and

were like that as well and this is why from them later on you get bani hilal and you know and those of you want to google the settlements and how the later kings used the tribe of to kind of do all these attacks and um right so leila is from bono and her love story is with a guy called toba toba tim when the name itself is tawba tubu

and toba in one way just means kind of going around coming back you see taba to come back and that's this guy's kind of story revolving in love allah what happens is he's related to leila and some people say he's a kind of cousin uh even a first cousin in some ways but allahu alam but he grows up and he knows her but as people wander they come back and as he's really acquainted with her

he realizes that leila they call her elia because one of her grandparents she's she's grown into this you know it's mesmerizing hypnotic with hypnotic beauty this absolutely you know just wow beautiful kind of young woman so he comes back he's he's been on his wonders as people often did and he sees her and he's kind of like wow

yeah it's like yeah and he's somebody that had um you see there was a custom that the arabs used to have is when people would go off on sometimes these kind of voluntary military campaigns they would go off and join these kind of expeditions and come back and when this kind of platoon or the people of the tribe these kind of ex-soldiers so to speak were returning the whole village would kind of gather up outside to kind of welcome them and and this is what's happening on this one occasion and leila is out there which is and all the people like hey you know they have this kind of homecoming

kind of um do for people and he sees her and he's like wow and he's so he's besotted he can't get it out of the heart man and so he he can't seem to get over her so he reaches out to her and as on some occasion the flame be reciprocates allah and shines back with a brighter love so he connects with leila and

they both become kind of besotted with each other in love and as one falls in love in that day and age what they would often do is say poetry [Laughter] and the arabs had one of the worst customs back then that in human history that if you'd said any hazel about a girl that family would refuse to marry her to you so toba comes to propose for layla and some of his results have kind of been

circulated so the dad refuses says kallawa so he refuses stubborn and toba obviously you know he's thinking what the hell he tries a couple of times he gets really and they say that you know what we're going to make a point of this we're going to marry her off and they marry her off to someone else

are these cruel heartless people huh so they marry her off to someone else in the you know in in the tribe toppa is heartbroken and he becomes a look and i've explained so luke previously is one of these people who disavows themselves from any tribal allegiance and they just kind of wander on their own and he's a very brave person as i mentioned before you know he's one of these people he's a poet as well he says some poems and he's a look and look often these kind of they become these robin hood people they at times kind of rob the rich and

distribute to the poor and and the nature of people that did that were often very brave kind of courageous people anyway so he does this and time to time he comes back to meet leila and everybody leila is so besotted even though she's married to this new husband his name is abu atla but because their love is so well known this new husband he kind of just ignores the fact that leila meets him so leila goes and meets him and she'll meet him often so he would come to the village or the settlement where they were and leila

would just go off in the evenings and she would go and meet him and now it's not exactly clear what they got up to and some people say there was no it was always just platonic but the point is that they would often just go and they would meet and and often it's the you know in love as we could see uh aashik who who sent the snapchat uh sorry the the the

yep no i was just trying to find it again um who sent the the the question sometimes it's just the presence and the bond with people it doesn't have to i mean the sexual part is an important part obviously but it's not always about that see a person can have just lustful sex if that's what it's about but it's not meaningful it's not you know it's just about lust and that instinct

love and its emotion is more it's more about a kind of harmony of the soul it's therapeutic it's um graceful it's meaningful it's blissful it's very different it's a different sentiment altogether than just about the sex and it doesn't mean they can't overlap they can of course but they are not necessarily the same thing so people in the tribe get very offended that what's you know leila

you know she's going hanging out you know he comes and sees and and the husband isn't even doing anything so people of the tribe they reporter they report this mata to the local kind of you have a kind of like a governor and he says you know what kill him i am the law you know there's this uh there was this it wasn't a meme there was a clip of what is it's a few years ago from um it was in pakistan that this

person he this police officer is stopping this vehicle and he says to him that he says obviously he wants to share the love and he says to the driver he says he says you've come this way this is a no entry so the driver in the clip he looks and he says he says he says he says he says you know he says there's no i couldn't see any sign for no entry he says he says

he says we are the sign so this governor he says we are the law so he says yeah just kill him kill toba next time he comes so they lay out a trap to kill toba nattober doesn't know and he's on his way meeting over here meeting and he's on his way and dashing you know cologne shalom ready you know tip top and so leila thinks damn and what

they've done is they've got certain people with bows and arrows hidden that when he comes to this point just you know and they're obviously hiding so he doesn't know he's not expecting it so leila comes out to the place where these people were hiding or she let's say there's a place where she's meant to meet him close to but she comes close by that she's not at that spot but she's at a distance and she just stands and she removes all her hijab and she stands there she's a very brave woman by the way this layla is one of the

you know if you're looking for a a a female archetype of islamic history you really need to this is somebody i encourage you to read up on she's very courageous obviously her whole tribe were a bit like that there were these kind of you know strong minded people and she was like that and and there's many stories about her by the way she was born in the time of uh i believe she was very just a toddler then but she she has stories where she will go to people like moabia when he's the caliph

and she's one of these very proud like you know strong women you don't mess with them and so she comes and she tears off her hijab and stands there and you know toba is coming and he sees that and he realizes this ain't right like something's not right and he realizes that this this this and he turns and he and he's out of the and he says in his poem as well he says kuntu is to layla he says he says

he says whenever i used to come to see leila she would wear it's like because she would come out in the night to meet him she would wear this kind of burka to cover and obviously she sneak out and meet him says he says but today when i saw her uncovered in in the open it freaked me out that something ain't right he unsettled me and this actually saves his life he goes off and um and then

she has issues with obviously a husband eventually he divorces her somebody else marries her see this is it you know in that day and age obviously maybe she could have just gone off with him but because he had adopted this nomadic lifestyle and it wasn't easy just boycotting your whole tribe back then even if you were strong where do you go where do you live how do you live as a family unit it was difficult and so she gets married to a second husband and she lives a very long life and you know during her um she comes

to learn that toba as he's kind of just really heartbroken as our character was heartbroken he roams different cities and he joins battles you know because you get sometimes these people who have this fury in them and they want to channel that rage they don't know and you know like sometimes you go to the gym or some people they're going to sports they're going to fighting because they have this rage in them that they want to channel it through a channel they don't want to just explode on people and

and in the past they used to do that as well in their own way what they would do is they would go and sign up to an expedition and just go and fight and they had this so this is what topper did and in one of the expeditions he's killed and he dies um whilst layla is relatively young and as in she hasn't you know she she may have been i don't know maybe in a late 20s or something and and he dies and so

it really breaks her heart to learn this and she she says these eulogies for him that are epic and deemed some of the most amazing poetry uh she says um will one of the days will bring them up but there's one way she begins that she says yeah like this you know like when water is gushing forth like that unleash and she says all

this kind of amazing poetry dedicated to him and she she forever you know even though she does get she obviously marries and people say she has children as well but she's forever devoted her heart family love is for the first love she's always dedicated to him and she praises many people and she has this huge reputation she's not like she's widely known leila

she was incredibly beautiful as well and not just see where you have beauty but you have confidence and you know they'll you'll have people that carry themselves and courage on top of that and wisdom and poetry eloquence i mean that's like a miracle and that personified was this layla and i mentioned she would approach caliphs she approached maurya and she said these poems about him and and he was really impressed with her and he gave her these he gave her a gift she went to hajj you know hajjaj used to be so almost besotted with her he used

to be so and we spoke about hajj uh mentioned him earlier they say she said some poems praising him she said something like a she says all these long poems that you know whenever hajjaj goes to a place he brings it back to life and this and that obviously she was a poetess they say hajjaj would nev you know use this grumpy miserable kind of moon he's like a hitler kind of guy i mentioned he was like that attila the hun but they say the only person he would

light up for was leila if she came to visit him they say he would get up and he would be so like around her like a puppy and she would she would just go there occasionally and she would just kind of just check in and she would sometimes say a poem and they they used to obviously give her all these gifts and sometimes she would say some concerns about the tribe and stuff and she was very outspoken and and now you've got prestigious people speaking about her and this is what um you know hajjaj he was put in place as i mentioned earlier by abdul malik

was besotted almost with her that this news reached abdul malik and you have to remember now years have passed by you see because by this time abdul malik rules for a substantial time as well so years later she's old she once comes to the royal court where abdul malik is and he says oh you're that layla ain't you and she says yes and he's obviously heard loads about her come on all everybody knows about her and uh hajjaj all these people are besotted with her but she's an old woman now

and he looks at her and he says he says he says what is it that toba saw about you that he fell in love with you [Laughter] so she says the same thing muslims saw in you and made you their caliph

and he's kind of shocked by the what the hell he's kind of a bit offended but at the same time her courage and then some people say you know she kind of covered it by saying when he said like what do you mean by that she said courage obviously you can't see courage but courage and but this is this person leila and i love story and it doesn't end here people this is what we're gonna seal it with check this out you know toba had said a poem about her during his lifetime

he was a poet as well not as good as her by the way he said about her in a poem he said so says if layla came and gave me salam even if i was under the soil and rocks

even if he says he says that i would have returned such a salaam saddam meanwhile

so that i would have given her such a salam that he's saying that if she came to me and basically even if i was dead and she gave me salam i would have returned such a salam of of like such a positive like passionate salaam and she would have seen the salaam coming out of the grave this is his thing to her he says that

now keeping that in mind she's an old lady as it happens yes it comes you know there's an occasion where her family that extended family all traveling and she happens to be traveling and they're going far out and they go through some of persia that land and while she's going she's told this is where toba died and he's buried there so she insists i'm going to go visit his grave and the family tell her what the hell is wrong with you have you still not got over him

and she insists and you know she's a strong woman they can't stop and they're like what if i just go so the family kind of are holding back and she goes she's on this horse and she's going up to the the kind of camel uh sorry up to the kind of tombstone and they've got horses camels and she's going up to this tombstone and she stands there and i mean she's on horseback and there's this tomb october tibet

she greets him and then in almost in in a moment of confusion she says didn't you say lo anna you say that you would return and then she says it again she says

expecting almost a reply and then she says ya toba won't you return my salam now when this is happening by the grave the tombstone there's these bushes and things that obviously it's out there in the wild it's not well kept spectators said that there was an owl that had kind of nested the and it's behind the kind of tombstone there's these bushes so as she's standing on the horse saying this the owl is

kind of alarmed and it flies out it spreads its wings flutters so as she's standing there she just hears a fluttering and something rising from the grave she's shocked and obviously scared me unbelief and she jumps back like on the horse and the horse leaps and she falls off the horse breaking her neck and leading to her demise she dies right there

and the family that had held back that they see this they come to her and she's already dead and they bury her next to toba the irony that who they stopped from being with throughout their lifetime they were only reunited

that is a such a powerful story of love honestly however you want to take it this woman who was strong she was powerful she kept that love in her heart throughout her life and in the end you know unbeknownst to her as she approached his tombstone as allah says no soul knows where its death has been written that she was to be laid to rest right next to him decades and decades later allah may allah

may allah make easy the struggle for people in this path of love so that was dedicated to our super chat that came asking about his love story and should he should is it worth pursuing when is love not worth pursuing that's what you should ask people i think we've had some amazing stories today we've covered i think we've kind of gone on way too long and i should be wrapping this up uh faisal shukranyar much love for the super chat

um muftisaab what's the best way to deal and cope when someone slanders you unjustly and tries to demean your reputation just for revenge from chicago thank you for everything you do allah bless you and allah bless you i dearly appreciate honestly the love um your contribution um yeah and and your sentiment yeah so i i would say that look

the best way is not to bring yourself down to their level okay i would say if you know the optimum way is to kill them with kindness to kill it with kindness because it's the least expected it really makes a person honestly i think seldom have people felt small in their own eyes as they have when they've realized or when they've received kindness from

someone they found but at times i get that that can be difficult and if that's difficult to do then in that case i would say ignore don't take the bait honestly you see people yes if it's something i mean you see this is obviously vague and they can be many things if there's something that sure you know you can adjust like you can apprehend somebody slandering you to certain people and maybe you want to set the record straight in front of them then by all

means i don't know exactly the details of what this entails and uh if there is something to apprehend and to to be able to amend and sure you know to to adjust and to add detail to that will put people at ease then sure by all means do that but don't buy into this this kind of cycle of hate this toxicity this venom you know it only breeds more venom and hatred let people you know if somebody wants to be that just

evil let them be and you know if you just go about in your blissful state it will burn them [Laughter] it will burn them honestly you know as the poet says he said that this hate that people have it's like fire that it will consume itself if it has nothing else to consume [Laughter] this is so don't let it get to you hell

when people when they want to cause trouble is it ignore them that's the best and most productive way obviously you you know people engage i get that and sometimes it's it can't be helped and but they're not you know they will take a toll on you as well so that's my advice and my do as may allah make it easy for you whatever you're going through uh faisal you know may allah grant you ease and really you know um just bring to futile

you know and to misery the attempts of of miserable people i mean right so um i ask isn't asking god for a joke i'll tell you what you know how how long have we gone on because um shall we a little okay let's share the link and let's

but i need to you know the thing is when i get talking i get carried away i need one of those kind of signs that don't talk to me because i get i i'm incapable of stopping myself from talking with people um let me share the link and bring on some people right okay there it is it's in the comment section i see saracen a mufti since some christian holidays like christmas valentine's halloween have become more secular and commercialized partaking them yep i've got sugar and

much love for the super chat i've got a uh detailed um i've got an article actually on facebook called tinsel in a tangle or something i wrote it a few years ago so i don't know if i'll be embarrassed of it now but but i'm sure the sentiment in it generally is still pretty much the same that look there is a difference of opinion on these matters okay so there are some ulama who feel that anything associated with any religion and identity runs so deep that it is in direct conflict

and clash with our faith so to have it in any way means it is tantamount and equates to compromising your islam and iman that is the high standard that they set for their iman and and they obviously coming from a place of deep honor and love for the for their iman and and i admire that value i admire their deep love for it and there are many people and they may they may even be the majority whether i don't know how we're going to count numbers but many people well this

is commonly found if you search online this belief and they will find things that say that look the prophet you know said don't do anything like the mushrikeen and so on and so forth and there's that view and if you follow that view fine you know if that's you and that helps you and that makes you a better person and that brings you bliss then and you're welcome to it but don't impose it on somebody who believes something different so there's another view that feels that no that says that

when things have become secularized even if they hold religious origins but because they have become secularized to a considerable extent even whatever that extent is whether it's a third or it's a half or it's whatever extent they've become secularized they then no longer have a prohibition as long as your intention isn't the obvious lead to worship so this group of these several ulama and i list them in that i list many and obviously not an exhaustive list and this is the fatwa of jamil azhar this is

the fatwa of many of the contemporary ulama this is the fatwa of sheikh ali al-jifri this is the fatwa of uh you'll get loads and many people that have said this you'll get many ulama that have said this today or the you know the grand mufti uh i i list them in that article so just as i mean not exhaustive but just as some examples so to them they will say well look when you look at the evidence the prophet sallallahu salaam allowed certain practices that were not islamic that were pagan but just because they

had lost some of their values like for example which is practiced today was actually a pagan practice the rajabiya which we don't practice now but in early islam the muslims did practice it but it was a pagan practice the uh the atera uh the and the um there was another practice as well so uh even some have looked at even things like safa and marwah i know many people may think safan marwa was with from ibrahim al-islam but other people feel it wasn't it was a pagan practice that had lost its value

and this is why in the quran when they asked about safa al-marwa allah does not mention ibrahim he just says that look whosoever does it today with a good value for nala sheikh so other so this group of olimar feel that look today things like christmas things like halloween things like especially halloween but even christmas or valentine's day or these things they some have more religious values than others at their core and many religious people may also partake in them but if you obviously are not you don't

become a christian but and you're not seeing it as a christian thing you're just you're just living in a country where people you know they see as a festive season and you partake so you say you know somebody says merry christmas you say merry christmas to you too you know you're just saying it as an exchange of jewelry so many ulama said that is permissible so now there are two like i said whatever you follow is fine if you follow this then don't condemn those people you know people who don't want to do it don't say to them what's wrong with you do it you know you should be celebrating it you should be doing this no let them be you know it's

each to their own and those who don't want to do it they shouldn't impose on others you see it's your faith it's for you to practice it's not about imposed they're following a different fatwa that's fine you know this is this is what the true challenge of islam is your connection with allah what you want is what you should be staying away from it's not about what should that person down the road be staying away from it's your your own

you worship allah as though you can see him if not then he sees you not that he sees this person down the road he sees you so it's a very personal journey so i hope that helps live and let live people yeah uh right i've said i have sent the link out i'll share the link but i will need people to you know what if you're coming on do you have to activate obviously the mic but also the camera and i will bring you on inshallah i've shared the link again in case it went in case it got lost in the chat i've put

it back in the chat uh there it is yep ah right okay um what if you can't kill them with kindness because they are your family in and you're sick of the constant manipulative treatment and just want peace so you're strict on your part oh yes of course of course i'm not you see you have to judge each situation as it deserves to be judged you see you must be firm

but fair and that's the thing you see you there is a time where you kill with kindness but there is a time where you clarify your boundaries that look you make it clear that i don't appreciate that and and it's often by how we handle a situation because you see for example those same people that do this don't do this to other people why not and it's because other people

engage and interact differently and they don't allow these kind of things that if somebody you know if somebody's taking the mick imagine they did it as a as a joke or you weren't sure and you thought it's a joke and just kind of and then if a person just kind of tries to get carried away you just look you know just we're not on that kind of level and or you just make it clear that don't just be very careful i don't appreciate this so yeah and then i think people clearly understand and if they don't then you need to separate and be very

i think that's important cool um right let me put on my earphones i have shared the link people um if you are connecting to uh activate your cameras oh i think we've kind of gone on anyway i might be wrapping today up i can see we've got imam jawed peoples i think i haven't got the ipod the airport sorry the airport pro what this one man i have to say

as a quick review i am super impressed by these earpod pro honestly these are the 2021 ones i've never been into apple earphones just because really i just like over ears i i i prefer always over ears and i've been a bit of a connoisseur when it comes to earphones and i've you know had been through so many different ones tried them sennheiser sony um beats bno um

i mean bowers and wilkin so many i've been through and tried them an apple i've just never thought the other reason is i think because i i don't know i think maybe the inside shape of my ears is a bit i don't know a bit handicapped and disabled so these things always just seem to fall out so i could just never you know whenever i put them in they would just fall out and so i was like but i was so impressed with these i have to say the noise cancellation on them is wow i mean it holds its weight

to something like this over here i mean this is h9 this is h9 third-gen bnl you know i mean that's huge in its i mean they're like one of the best i think anyway for wireless but this will rival that and it's it and it goes in the it doesn't even go and the spatial i have to say honestly i've been so impressed with the spatial um sound dynamics um

so i i do a lot of my viewing on an ipad i don't know why i'm totally i guess i'm weird like that i don't i don't end up watching much on a tv i watch it on my i have an ipad pro and i just i just love it i don't know why i and so the other day when i was watching something you're going to think this is gupp it isn't gap i was watching something and i forgot that i had earphones in and i thought that it was playing it aloud and i thought oh you know i better put

the volume down and and i thought to myself wait a minute you know why am i not wearing earphones i better put my earphones on and so i thought and then i thought whoa whoa these i had them in i was honestly just i was mesmerized and the other interesting thing they have is if you're watching it on an ipad or if you're especially on an ipad you can see what happens is as you turn the it has that so the sound like if the ipad's here the sound will come from here now if i turn there it comes from behind me and if i look back it comes back it's it's crazy i

so yeah that's my little i want apple need to give me royalties for for giving this review but more importantly let's go to imam jawad all right so uh somebody said is it second gen i don't know if it's sec it's the one from 2021 it's the airpod pro uh i don't think i think there was uh there was some kind of offer or something i think they were about 180 or something like this right okay let's bring your words people imam jawad

imam [Laughter] he's sitting in the cold night with the heat of his faith to keep him keep him warm [Music]

as soon as imam jawad comes on we know there's going to be some some enlightenment that's going to take place you know you imbibe you ooze and imbibe love ya i [Laughter]

uh you've slightly look at that there was that much love that the the the kiss froze you froze for a little while now you're back now no you're back you're back it was just that much love you put into it that the internet couldn't handle it i think it is i think there's an extra tab open or something so it's causing lag [Laughter] incognito no no no no no no no no no obviously you you you we use incognito for research

for research for when people have to research questions that they don't want uh to be spammed with adverts foreign um recently i was just reflecting on you know tests you know we're tested or you know trials coming to our life or like even you know there's the problem of evil for

the last couple of days my mind has been on this you know because one of my students they actually asked me this question they said you know why does allah subhanallah allow evil or you know things like this and then you know it is a very profound question and i feel it's one at the vanguard and at the forefront of uh modern new atheism it's you know the this and the the kind of uh atheist humanism it's at the vanguard of that and and it's it's a

genuine question as well i get that but yeah gigi please yes so i you know i i was just reflecting on that for like the last couple of days just thinking about you know how would how would someone sort of respond to that and sort of you know and i was i found this very nice sort of breakdown shows like for example allah for example tells us that you know he would test us right and allah tells that in multiple places in the quran like for example uh surah and son right um

and then it's it it comes in other parts as well then there's major tests there's small tests right like there's like a i i found this uh sort of uh thing where they sort of break it down right like hardship like hardships can be an atonement for sins as well right it can be punishment punishment for believers punishment for non-believers right there's like the quran lays out this if you read the quran it sort of lays out this whole thing of why it could exist and you start to realize you know it's not as you know black or white as we like to make it

sometimes you know we like to make it so you can give me the direct answer the one-way answer but sometimes you know yeah like it's complicated things don't have simple answers but that doesn't mean it's not that there aren't answers in seeking you see sometimes often there is a fallacy in saying in seeking a symmetry of simplicity in an answer if there is simplicity in a question so for example somebody could say well it's a simple enough question isn't it and that may be true see many questions

can be simple but they are inc the answers can be incredibly profound or mind-boggling or dilapidating in the sense that it breaks things down you know somebody like a simple thing is a simple question is divide a number by zero that is a very simple question that even a child could understand the question that you you're just saying divide by zero but mathematics breaks down it's incalculable to divide something by zero now you see the answer is much more bizarre than one would anticipate so

it is a fallacy at times to say well just because the question so for example gravity you know why is the gravity now this may seem a very simple question and the greatest minds throughout time have tried to give and i mean newton didn't bother i mean he didn't try to explain why he just gave an explanation for the the operation of it einstein did explain but then even einstein's theory has now been kind of uh questioned further that you know this this fabric of space-time

it doesn't fully explain gravity and it doesn't really because there's other problems and then so it's one of these things that it's a simple question why is there this but what you know but why not it's like somebody speaking of physics uh just uh as an interesting another question that why can't we move backwards in time and you think well this is a it's a simple enough question and you may think well that's obvious but it's not because why because if einstein's theory of space-time is space and time as a fabric

we move in four directions or in in space you know i mean whether it's coming up down left right but we can move in space but then we ought to be able to move in direction in time if they are intertwined space and time but why is the direction of time only mono-directional with the arrow of time as you know so these questions when people say why is they evil then why is this suffering if there's a god it's a simple enough question it is a simple enough question but simplicity is at times the highest form of sophistication but sorry imam yes yeah yeah so i was just saying how

the quran has different outlooks on it right it could be actually like you you could see something as hardship but it's not actually it's actually there to build you know your character overall it could be for example in this from the life of musa we can see it could allah could take away one thing and replace it with another like the example of the child that actually kills so there's so many you know it's it's so multi-fold from the outlook of the quran that you know it just amazes you how

we don't fully understand things and sometimes and sometimes that that ability to just experience life and just live it holding on to that rope of allah subhana wa and just fully entrusting allah subhanahu wa ta'ala it can be like the best thing to do you and you see what what you're saying is that the quran it gives these archetypes it gives these frames of reference it gives

these um safety kind of barriers or nets to people who find themselves in calamities and you see now i've said i've used the term uh imam that there is the quran has something called superpositions to it the verses its verses and what i mean i borrowed this from quantum physics where they say that a a a particle is at a quantum level in multiple places at any given time

and it's not just in one place and this is it's by its very nature it's inherent this indeterminate kind of it has this aspect so what i've said is that the quran similarly has this as part of its nature that you see if you are let's say you are reading a certain verse now you may be in a time of because there's verses in the quran that will say things that will say that look if you do something wrong it's your own doing and there are other verses that will say

oh everything comes from god good and bad there's some verses say no you know say yeah comes from you know it's what you your own hands about it's what you guys have done it's your doing and you get some that say well no everything is determined by allah and then you get some say no you're responsible for your actions now what so what is it so in the past what ulama did was they tried to set a default and say this is the default one and then the others are circumstantial what i'm saying is that they are superpositional

that it depends where you are in life and what you are facing that you may have for example a person may have done something wrong and they are remorseful and it's it's echoing that to them that you see it was by your doing but turned to allah he forgives you see but you may find yourself in certain circumstances that are out of your control somebody's afflicted with a calamity somebody has a fatal illness somebody has a terminal disease somebody's you know they've had a terrible accident and they've become uh disabled or

they've somebody has died or something you know right now we've covered and people have died so what what about in this situation in this situation you see the superposition it's telling you look everything is from allah this is the because in that person's story this makes sense it gives they can keep the journey going it's important that you keep moving and isn't it so this yeah yeah so it's and and an example of things not being in your control sometimes you know uh certain things are not in our control

like for example in the life of adam alayhi salaam the the the whispers of shaytan were not in his control however he did not make that as a way to get out of not accepting his mistakes you know uh like for example um you know uh elise or shaytan he says like you know in one place he said that's how you made me like this you know he's or he's or he's so much in his arrogance where he's saying you know he's not accepting his own fault you know that's the difference right that other islam despite despite their

being was right for what was along with despite they're being whispers of shaytan he's he's accepting he's accepting his mistake right he's saying that yes i made that mistake i accept my mistake and i ask for forgiveness for it right and that's why he was forgiven right so sometimes in life there will be factors on the outside which are out of your control it's just when you make that mistake or or let's just say in this context no mistake at all right you're just trying to understand what's going on around me just focus on what's in your control right and hold on to allah because you have to keep

moving you have to keep that because you don't know you see the story you mentioned the story of musa alaihissalam the child in the moses basket when you call it now iconically you know moses basket the child that's set afloat in the river could never have anticipated its you know what's to come but even along the way see even so when great things happen and he's in this royal palace and

moses has is educated in a time when people are educated he's royalty he does all these things but then things turn against him and he's got people plotting and he doesn't you know he's have to he has to kind of abandon his every what he's known and he has to set up and he could not anticipate with accuracy how will the story unfold he doesn't know let's say he's in chapter five he doesn't know what's going to happen in chapter eight and this is the whole story of life and these stories in the quran when they're being given to us is to remind

us that look okay this is difficult but you don't know yet what's going to happen in that chapter you know you don't know what's yet to come i mean it may and and this is what gives people the strength to keep going so you know one one ayah which really changed my perspective was uh you know one that we hear a lot it's um you know the one in surat al-baqarah which you know people recite even when someone passes away right they read the portion of it

[Music] the reason why this changed my mindset was because i was reading a lot of um you know uh sufis of syria of this ayah right and so they would say that when you lose something or when something is taken away from you in your life the reason why you know there needs to be some level of or some level of you know it's okay it's it's that mindset of inalienation [Music]

and that question of you know sometimes in your heart that shuck comes or some level question why you know why did that get taken away it's just and it's natural it's just to have that people don't need to feel bad but it's it's just to remind yourself that everything even yourself everything will go back a lie you know today we've covered that story of suleiman abdul malik and when he looks in the mirror and thinks how handsome he and and the jury of the the you know the girl says to him

the most epic thing there is yes you are that handsome and you're amazing and but if only you had immortality but it's a shame all humans will perish you know honestly there's a line of john ilia where he says he says you know it's that he says that you know look how he's saying to the to a girl that look how beautiful you are

like just amazingly and he says look how like he's saying like a person of heart aya but he says but what a shame that we too will eventually die yeah it's it is i mean it's it's it's very sombering but but in a way it's on the flip side it reminds us that well till that point to live it you know with that smile because we're not dead yet we might as well just smile it out you know if it's in this context that i

understood you know there's the story of the three laughing monks they just used to go around and so so their story is this alice tell us tell us so there there were three monks uh you know sometimes you go into the stores and you see there's a laughing monk yeah yeah yeah you know sometimes people actually confuse them with um you know the loving buddha yes but that's actually that that story actually comes from the laughing monks so many people don't know this so the people confuse the two many people don't actually uh realize it sometimes you'll see there's a set of three monks left okay

for sale this was there there used to be three monks and they used to go around city to city and all they used to do was laugh and so people were fascinated by this because people used to ask them questions but they never used to respond they just used to walk around and laugh many people were attracted to this for obvious reasons because so much of positivity it's so infectious honestly and people used to feel this uh you know people used to feel this um affection happiness around them and so

one day what actually happened was they went to a city and one of the monks actually died and so everybody that heard about this right everybody that heard about this they they they were intrigued they said now now surely now the other two months will not be laughing except so everyone went in this intrigue of you know what's going to be you know disrespected this will be a sight to see for the first time we'll see the other two monks you know maybe crying and then they went and they saw the two

monks they were laughing and they were laughing even louder even louder and so for the first time people really requested they said please please we have a question why are you laughing right why are you laughing your friend has left you and you guys used to go everywhere together all three exactly so they said that we need a we are laughing because we made a deal with he said that he would die first so we're laughing because he was right he died first and

he won the bet so what okay what so what better thing can we do is what better thing can we do than to just laugh it out because he was right so you know in context of what you're saying to just live it and to live in that moment it's that even sometimes your miseries and your pains you just have to laugh it through knowing there is something divine about laughter it is a divine gift to just remember and to know that yes every one day everything shall return to god

right yeah there is something honestly i feel so divine about the gift of laughter it's been said that if aliens were to perceive humans whilst laughing and joking they would think that the laughter is the real communication and because people when they laugh with each other excessively hysterically they will say something like they'll say something ah and then you squeeze out another two three words and ha ha and then and most of it is the hahahahaha

and a small amount is the words and but there is a life in that loft and it's so healthy for us and i i really feel that you know if there's one thing that i i if if i could say to people to do to and it would better their lives almost effective immediately would be to just laugh and it's crazy because when you say that to people it sounds stupid because they'll think what the hell and and it's a shame that this dunya had become so stone-hearted

that it gave that description to a madman that only a madman would laugh incessantly that is you know from the the tragic treachery of honestly this this this cold-hearted dunya that it gave such a gift it attributed it to the insane that we can only envisage someone to somebody to laugh so much surely they must not have cognitive faculties because we can't fathom it yeah

and that's um there was uh once a poem it was something like it was an english poem but it was something like you know dance through your pain uh let it run you insane yeah and to to just to just go through it you know you sometimes you see things are not in our control it's just i see sarasota did the prophet laugh yes of course the prophet laughed sallallahu alaihi wasallam but look the prophet had

an next to impossible mission ahead of him he had a lot of seriousness going on but despite that and in spite of that and in the face of that we find ahadith where it will say and when he laughed you could see his jaws the inside of his jaws that's how laugh how loud upon occasion that he would love but most of the prophet's life was confronting this very serious mission and sure you know if you are embarking on such a noble mission then without a doubt that is much greater

than laughter i'm not going to say you know it's abandon that mission and just sit around laughing but most of us lost souls such noble uh things so at in the very least at least we can cling to this divine gift of laughter we are the lost souls [Laughter] but the prophet was never against laughter don't kind of and you know these hadith that people show about in a catholic these are all weak hadith all we can fabricate they're no sahih

and the quran says look now you know allah who brings about laughter who gave you this ability to express this gift and he also gave you the ability to express the emotion of tears because tears can move mountains when the time is right you know everything has its macabre but i i just find sometimes people have um you know they've just like they've not slightly they've distanced laughter as something which is almost irreligious or sometimes

some people they're superstitious they say oh if you laugh something bad's gonna happen there's a balance you know i'm i'm working on this um uh uh i'm working on this uh it's basically like reflective poems for myself right and so one of them actually one of one of them actually relates to this because uh it's called uh lost traveler so if you if you're okay can i share

that in one minute sure sure so the way it goes is uh oh traveler of lands where is it you find yourself lost with nothing in your hands traveled through the sands followed every single one of your desires and demands yet you find yourself in a state of trance the illusions of this world are like hot coal even if offered rejected by your hands it was amazing short snaps in reality leaving you like an empty glass the pain of a hundred slaps

leaving you with a hundred cracks it is now that you truly understand the reality of this land right it's it's that idea that we it's that idea that we you know we're just trying to find our way and you know it's that idea that you know we can easily follow our wounds and desires or we can give them up but at the end we all have within us this archetype of the traveler and that we are even if it's on occasion that we may think of it only

but we all feel within us this archetype this this us this this version of us that is a traveler that is still trying to find a destination true isn't it and and what i've realized through reflection is that at the end it comes back to the iowa church version in exactly our only destination will be when we finally have that meeting with our lord that is when we will find the true peace you know that's why the seventh stage of

love within the south is final right it's there this is death it's yeah annihilation it's annihilation it's it's annihilation completely right it's because it's amazing that when you think about it look that we spoke earlier on about love and in the worldly love a person when they fall in love they mirror the other person there is some mirroring and people may you you may find people when they are in love with someone they may all of a sudden adopt the likes of

that person as in the things they like and stop the dislikes of that person this person listens to this music they may start listening to it this person goes here they may start going the there is some quasi fana taking place of an of an identity a person is shedding some of their identity to kind of have some merger of a joint identity but this is just somewhat of a tiny taste the true annihilation of the ego allah is in as you as you mentioned in that absolute

ego death yeah wow it's your words are profound imam jawad it's always a pleasure having you on honestly thank you thank you come to spread some love and mail as always may allah guide you much needed allah guide us all and allow us to follow the path of rasulallah toronto canada all right so people that was imam jawad uh i do have to wrap this up but you know what we have had someone waiting safe yeah yeah uh so just we'll

try and keep it brief us allah actually i didn't think you would let me in because i noticed that wasn't going on for so long no we have been going out you've kind of frozen by the way i don't know let me try and add you again right there no it's not right there let me add you again uh let's see nope it's coming up just as a i mean i can see yours your screen is clear but it's not coming up it's coming up as a black screen there on the screen so although i can see that you have activated your camera but i don't think people can see it try to stop the camera and reactivate it

maybe it will sure yeah maybe no no why is that it seems to be just going see like when you stop it i can see the s that comes up uh when you activate it why does that look strange that is very strange look at that are you a ghost regardless yeah i don't want to keep you waiting for yourself no problem i just have a couple of questions i have dmd on instagram but i believe you wasn't able to see my my dm so my first question is i

i've come across one of your videos and i believe you've said that it is permissible to wish non-muslims on their ayad like merry christmas or for chinese new year or whatever so a friend of mine who is a shafiri and he has a phd in if i'm not mistaken he's a very close friend of mine and of course we disagree on everything because his views are a bit too extreme for me so he has quoted that the malikia and to be specific say that [Music]

so i wanted to ask about uh is there any other view from the past malikis that uh besides yourself because you automatically yourself from the past that says it is permissible to wish non-muslims well on their ayad you see i'm not quite your question is uh it's a very good question it's it does okay in some let's try to tackle it a bit obviously i have we're limited on time but i'll try to tackle it a bit now the question is that look some when

you look into historical data you find many scholars uh you quoted possibly qarafi you know saying that if we see someone going to illinois or something and so we will deem them to be from the kuffar even if they are not cafes but that's how we're going to deem them because they're going to churches um similarly people quote imam abu hanifa that's saying you know if a person gifted an egg to a person on the new year or whatever it was the persian nations then we will consider mcafee and things like this

now the question is that you see at a simple level it is um it's fine that yeah actually the s thing might work better because this is just a black screen yes so the um you see at a simple level this this is a very simple question one may say that look it's simple people have said it before where are the other people saying the opposite before i know you've got a lot of people today saying it so like i mentioned i've got an article on facebook where i show the differences many of the uluma velazar sheikh

abdullah bin bayo is also maliki you'll get many people even in morocco and you get people on both sides you get people who say no you get people say yes so i quoted sheikh ali jeffrey who's chef you know you mentioned your chef a friend so you'll get people who will say it's absolutely permissible you get people say it's not permissible but that's today why can't you find this in the past now that's because they're asking they're expecting a very simple answer from what is a complex equation and the complexity is that the phenomenology has changed but they're not taking that into the

equation see like i'm asking you see the concept of identity has changed in the last since modernity it is now identities viewed differently throughout all humans today it was not viewed in this way previously now you can't you see if you divorce that factor you don't factor it in you've missed a huge part of the equation you're looking at you're basically trying 2d with something that is 3d because what you're saying is that well look today um identity

has become reshaped identity today um it's how it integralizes it's how it kind of manifests itself to people is very different so in the past um your marker of your community may have been done by your faith faith in the past was in many ways the equivalent to i don't know in some ways like a visa system a passport system it could have as well like so for example you could have access to certain lands uh in a certain way reflective on of your faith just as today you want to go to a

certain country they ask you why do you want to come here depending on your passport they may allow you they may ask you are you coming in for tourism are you coming in for work what do you want they don't give everybody a visa if somebody just wants to come to the uk for tourism they many countries won't get a visa it doesn't matter if they want to come forward in the past you see you entered into a zimmer state you know you want to come into muslim lands you have to well what faith are you there will be certain taxes on you there will be certain things muslims same thing in non-muslim countries you weren't safe or as safe you may be a second class citizen you may have to wear certain colors in certain countries certain parts of the

world you may have to wear a certain like a symbol to show that you are part of a certain faith you weren't allowed to dress in certain ways because it may resemble the other people you see this their faith or the exhibitionist aspect of faith was tied into many greater socio-political factors you can't divorce like historically when looking historically you can't divorce that just because today it's divorced so today religious has there's been a complete inversion of faith

so religion has become incredibly private in many parts of the world it is a private affair personally as it began as islam began privately it didn't begin as politics but today in many parts of the world it's reverted to that and the hadith said as islam began it will turn back to in the end so it has become in many parts of the world private fear and the socio-political factors of identity are now markers manifested or instantiated by other realities like passports visas your flag your allegiance your nationality your sexuality your

uh you know so many things have become uh identitarian markers faith is not really one of them in many parts of the world especially the developed world faith is not one in the developed world in in the in other parts of the world it may still be an important integral factor of identity politics but it isn't in in you know definitely not in europe or in um in the modern world now it may be used negatively so people may discriminate against you based on your identity of faith so they see you as a

muslim and don't give you a job but otherwise it's not you see there it also ties into racial politics and and obviously it's coming back in but that's in a a negative not in a contributory way so it's kind of by absence playing a part so generally here in this part of the world today let's say let's say you're not a muslim let's say you're regular i don't know jack john whoever you are whether you celebrate christmas or not doesn't mean anything you're not going to get a you know a well done from boris johnson

you're not going to get a it doesn't it doesn't mean anything you're not going to be more protected because you know this person celebrated christmas by the way he's a first-class citizen you know this doesn't mean anything you you whether you choose to celebrate christmas or don't celebrate christmas whether you say you're a christian if you're john or jack or dave or whoever nobody cares for the most part so the question is today you see you're looking at a world that where the lens is entirely different so when you go back in time you can't take this lens because the world was different so when

you're asking me about an 8th century medieval scholar who lived in a time where religion was a key and one may say even a primary marker of identity and socio-political realities you cannot detract that you cannot say well oh why weren't they so relaxed about you wearing a cross back then you know because or why you know of course if they saw you going into a church they they were they didn't really there were huge issues i mean speaks about india

and it's part of our actually this book of the month we're reading ibra now ibn when he describes india in his time under the muhammad s muslim dynasties and sultans he explains how the hindus for example even though they don't harm muslims he says they do not interact with us they do not engage us at all he said they never if we need help like they they he said they do they will never offer us food they will never they just keep themselves separate from us he said like muslims they unders obviously they know who we are they can

tell by our identity once again but he said they do not interact with us at all you see he said although they don't harm us either but they don't display any acts of compassion towards us either then can you see a world like that that world right now doesn't exist like this i'm not saying in some parts of the world but in the developed world it doesn't you see you just because or it shouldn't you know here today if you're a muslim technically people will not openly you know it shouldn't really be or let's put it by their law let's not inverse it let's if you're a christian here today it doesn't mean anything or if you're an

atheist here let's say dave down the road is an atheist people don't isolate him so this question back then in qarafi's world when he lived in egypt where there were coptic christians who sometimes had issues with muslims and sometimes muslims had issues with them sure if he saw a person that constantly went in and out of the church who would he assign them to to the muslim group or to the copt group of course it assigned them to the cop it's like saying you know if you lived in ibrahim's time and you were in india and ibn matuta came across you and you

only hung out in the hindu circles and you did not come to the muslim circles who would he think you are obviously he's going to think you're a hindu because he's going to associate you by you know simplistic discriminatory kind of elements so this is a fallacy to today look at the world and say well why didn't know we say this then why didn't even abdullah say this why didn't even say because their world was different i'm pretty sure if they lived in a world like ours many of them would have vocalized it that's a very very deep uh insight and

explanation mufti and just to go back to your last sentence you said if they lived in our world they would be more open-minded and they would see it view it it's not about oh yeah it's not about them being open-minded because you see i feel they were open-minded for their context okay because they lived in a world where people were like that so if they were in our world i feel many of them would see this differently because they would see like from our world perspective i'm sure many there would be a difference there would be some that won't and many that would there be both two camps just as there is today

just as there is today and uh i'm living in malaysia so malaysia is a is a muslim majority country obviously but they do celebrate all all ayad here because there is like about 33 percent of the population is chinese buddhist there is about 19 percent who are hindus so they celebrate everything here everything is a public holiday which is amazing christmas is the taiposam is deepavali chinese new year and of course the uh

you see today the world is a different place and really we find the teachings from the sunnah of the prophet sallam teaching about honoring human beings and showing respect for them in their differences now obviously when they're not clashing with you obviously when it's not conflictual then they should just be harmed it's like the prophet saws i'm standing up the jewish funeral is going by yes it's a jewish funeral it's not a muslim funeral it's a jewish possession procession stands up out of honor out of respect out of that showing that kind of

community love that spirit that look he said it's a it was a life you know she was jewish here this is the jewish practice they're doing it in a jewish way they're taking their burial but still we show respect and yeah and i think people often forget that even the first covenant of medina we are one ummah and and and fine you know if people don't want to i'm not saying people need to be celebrating things or need to be going around saying merry christmas merry christmas because you don't need to say anything you can just stay at home and just chill

but if a person wants to they there are ulama that say that and if a person doesn't want to there's a mother say that you know both have the evidences both have their reasons both have their factors and whatever a person you know it makes them a better human being you know if this makes you a better human being do it but just don't it's your thing don't impose it on someone else that's all yeah absolutely thank you very

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not next midweek let's do this on sunday so next week we won't do it midweek we'll do it on sunday and we'll speak about new beginnings in [Music] showing an incident or a story that ties very closely a cousin of the prophet that not many people know about it's not you know you probably haven't heard about him i i doubt many of you would have heard of him but he was somebody

very close to the prophet in childhood and we're going to learn about how it turns to betrayal but how things in life can also turn to new beginnings at any point in life uh we'll take that from the seerah of the prophet salallahu and we'll speak a bit about this you know how people say about what you put out comes to you this kind of vibe this energy this law of attraction uh the universe which is ultimately these are just the commandments of god that if you put love out if you see positivity in people if you look with the eye of goodness you'll see that everywhere so um

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