The Answers Are Within You | Meaning With MALM #31

firstly firstly let me just make sure i'm not speaking into nothing to nothing all right people let me just do an audio check this seems to be operational all right who do we have here people i hope the volume or the voice is coming through i'll just await a confirmation let me just bring up your chats here all right

[Music] welcome welcome bienvenidos welcome back wow it seems like it's been ages yeah it seems like i guess it has in many ways

[Music] so let me just see who we have here mama all right i have to practice the espanol as well people so who do we have who do we have norah allah and welcome as always do in it from florida people

lucy avraha alaikum see look at that going diverse from florida straight to wales i believe lucy in wales you do and you do what oh just as i'm saying you're doing it lucy's written got covered well you're doing it with the covet no messing allah grant you shifa uh swift and complete recovery i mean to be honest now i think the kovid that's going around now i think it's uh i'm pretty sure this is the the mild

stuff now you know it's it's diluted mutated transmutated and now this is the offspring of that one time kovid so i'm pretty sure it's not uh inshallah i hope it's not bad that that does you know that it begs the question as well uh that where has kovitt gone you know the the body's dropping every single day the body count rising well the lord works in mysterious ways shall we say that's that's enough to

answer answer that uh scorpio we've missed you all as well shukran for being here uh i hope you feel lucy all right salaam alaikum you're doing it you're doing it you just check at your service

aka for those who don't know sarmat a local legend aka piro i do in it all right so um a lobby praised people lady mubarak yep to all of you um

right late in mubarak very belated and very blessed eid mubarak to all of you guys yeah let's uh you know on that note a few thoughts on ramadan um today what i wanted to do was um because it's been ages i want to go over um some verses of the quran from surah and in light of this theme that the answers are within us within you they we carry the answers within us

and then i thought you know some reflections and greetings and then get on you know the live guests try to speak to whoever we can tonight try to dedicate most of the portion to that so okay let's uh let's take a look first of all what are some love from bangladesh mahir likewise right back at you there's a lot of love i've seen online coming from bangladesh may allah bless all the people there i mean i've also noticed this quite a rise

in the school of medina the maliki method in in bangladesh this is definitely interesting right

my g i hope you're buying the dip yeah you know crypto people i saw the people going oh my god cryptos crashing cryptos crashing um i don't i don't know if it's really crashing i don't think it's crashing it's obviously dipped but we are you know it is a bearish market and it's been anticipated in fact when i spoke to some people including sher sajad who is always ever so camera shy unfortunately but we have the most amazing conversations um you know

of it but um yeah we when we spoke also about crypto earlier this year i remember him also telling me that if you guys recall when there was a dip and i think it was uh late last year was it early was it into january or maybe it was december time i can't recall now but i remember him saying to me that right what's going to happen is he was just explaining his theory and he was saying that look things will slightly normalize but they will dip again and he actually said to me what now this is making it highly suspicious because

the predictions are so he said it will be towards the middle of the year so there you are you know in in may now and and he said to me that they will probably pick up really you're looking earliest end of the year or early next year and he was explaining his reasoning and when you think about it look the crypto market is in fact i saw meme yeah where it said uh early 2021 uh bitcoin at 30 grand and everybody's partying and then he said 2022 crypto at 30 grand

and this guy's like really depressed allah it's very difficult to bring contentment to the heart of insane you know an epic hadith you know this this hadith you can seriously write it in gold that lokanna libny adam were them in that that if the son of adam or here it just

means human beings it doesn't mean men specifically but it says that if the if if the child if the son of adam was to have a valley of gold whole you know the the only thing that would come out of his mouth is yeah late gosh i wish i only had another this is

the the the insatiable yeah the unquenchable thirst of bani adam it is what it is it is what it is but yeah so hmm what's this let's a su a supercha our sticker shukran riffy johnston may allah bless you keep you smiling sugar and chicken for the love what goes up must always come down

what a statement it can fit in many walks of life what goes up must always come down as in arabic you're doing it so all right salam people um

wouldn't the price of gold crash if there's an actual value of gold it depends i mean what do the reserves hold i don't know how much gold the reserves hold what does fort knox contain or yeah i think obviously the hadith is just a an allegory it's not literal but the value of something is always based on the good old law of supply and demand

people basic economics so you know as long as the demand exceeds the supply the price will always be going up so that's the direction um what's the what's this even investment in a relationship

so we have some broken you know the broken hearts are in our midst people may should make dua for these people the masaki no hope the people of love as in the words of mutinabi he says

he says you know if we attain your love then the rest is nothing we'll handle the rest yeah let's handle it man he says says everything you see above the dust is in reality simply dust because that's all it will ultimately be reduced to very profound poem by i mean that in poetry there's always wisdom

you can't go wrong if you're investing your time in poetry walker robinson it's been a long time mufti well shukran shukran for joining us a few people from pakistan here today sajad saying we've got a few achara well marhaban people

what a poem that's a poem we had uh who was it the we didn't have his name um at your service in in the plight of love that's a poem all about love all about love and love ah it's epic it's it's a very from the early islamic iran people ain't so sure some um who they attributed to these diverse opinions but the poem is amazing

some people attribute it to yazid but the poem itself is phenomenal phenomenal arabic allah even that's one of the final lines he said that i was i've i was certain that her eyes said that welcome

and well because the story that the the poet kind of sketches is that he turns up and she's um amongst her family but she kind of sneakingly welcomes him with the eyes but it's an epic he has so much so much hindi you know it's the one where he says because what he's saying at one point is he's

he must obviously be they must be separating or he must have come to complain or they must but she's but she starts crying it's the gentler the emotion man the emotion the emotion take over so she starts crying and he says um you know that he says that if only i had cried first you see that lo cobbler before she had started to cry that that if only i had

cried before then i would have you know had my hearts content he says but she cried before me and then her crying made me cry he says so i had to admit that the credit goes to the one who got there first

true people the one who gets there first and it is uh in that poem he also has ah you guys have reminded me about it says uh he's he's he's kind of illustrating a description and he's dividing that it's he's claiming that it's not fair the relationship so he says look at what she gets and look at what i get so

he says well i have to practice the spanish people so all of these qualities are for her he says she gets the judgment of luqman the wise in the quran well surah yusuf in you know the the beauty

the unimaginable beauty of yusuf alaihi salam she gets this form and the rhythm of the the kind of rhythmic melody of the islam and the chastity of maryam so all these prophetic archetypal qualities she gets and he says wali and i get kia he says wali

a what are these qualities for says i get the the sorrow of yakub of jacob i get the the loneliness of eunice i get the suffering of a youb and i get the hashrat and i get the the you know the kind of size and if only the of adam look at the division

wow what a poem huh water poem it's something a bit like uh like that in urdu once uh a part of it that i heard once where he says says what did we not do in your love we did we kind of had the patience of a

youb and and the crying of yaku but yeah that's poetry people poetry wow so where have we got to right all right so let's see what's preoccupying the thoughts of you precious people before we do that should we let's take a look at some verses of the quran from surah

let's see i've got the wife with me today watching she thinks you're different looking different we are different what can we do allah has created us all differently we should embrace that difference gracefully that's what we should do allah daniel

i caught you live i'm good gracias that's all right so let's let's take a look at some verses and then we'll share some thoughts on ramadan actually you know what let's share some thoughts on ramadan actually because i'd had a few i wanted to it's been a while i was hoping to do a live stream towards the end of ramadan but i just got too

distracted held up you know this ramadan i really did feel just something about the ambience being special yeah and and it was by you know it has nothing to do with me i wish that would just be me trying to rinse the to to blag it there's nothing no nothing to do with me

not my spirituality it's not you know from my side i would just consider myself slacking as always but i felt the you know there was something a connection something i hadn't felt in in several years honestly i had i must say for a good number of years now i hadn't felt this what i felt and it was

yeah there was just something about the ambience something special and that you know above beyond words it was um yeah and and i was surprised i'll be honest with you i was surprised how it um

the kind of emotion it evoked in me i was um yeah it was it's really something and and even with eid a special kind of barakah and it's not something which i feel was to it's around or restricted to me it's something i was feeling as in a part of but is out there enveloping everyone yeah you know may allah

bless everyone and really allow us to tune in intuitively to to these things you know people we speak sometimes about barakat and whatever however we want to understand them whether we want to understand them as a as a posit as positivity as a vibe as as an ambience as

as a kind of intuitive warmth that is there a a kind of almost like a cosmic compassion that engulfs you these things you know at times people

their consciousness together about something gives rise to a to a specialness about that time or place you know the ole mind the past would write about baraka zamani and baraka makaniya that there are places that are blessed and there are times that are blessed but and one way of looking at that is and i'll tell you who speaks about it as well from a psychology perspective is

dr rupert sheltrak speaks about it quite a bit um [Music] that people can give if if several people have a consciousness about something because that is the rule if they hone in the consciousness and kind of bring into it or lower it to an object of focus whatever that is like in this case whether it's a place you're at a holy place

or you're in what is a blessed or holy time and people bring their consciousness to it this changes the atmosphere and it can be felt and this you know it's interesting is studies have been done on this from a psychological perspective of how people in certain places that there is something about certain places and what is it that obviously this has been been the question that psychologists have looked at that what is it then and and you know this is one way of looking at it that it's actually

the people giving rise because of the arwa there is a connect but yeah so hmm so i thought i'd share that and and you know if the ramadan as in because we're just speaking on ramadan that if we feel we slacked if there's you know this there will be people there will be many people who we all i definitely slacked um but i'm saying there will be many people

that may feel bad they may feel um oh you know i didn't really do this or maybe i didn't keep fast or maybe i didn't you know don't drown yourself in guilt it's not a you see this faith is not about guilt that's a very christian way of looking at things this thing sure it's about acknowledging acknowledgement recognition awareness that

yeah you know i didn't do as i didn't give it my best i can definitely say that but it doesn't matter you you see that awareness is enough you see it's just these are lessons we take for the future the next time we'll do it next time you know it's the future is always bright if a person feels that i missed out on an opportunity well it's gone now the acknowledgement the awareness

and then with that you look forward to the next opportunity you think okay you know what next time well you know we'll kill it next time and so this that's and that's really how this faith is it is a caravan of hope it is not about um just carol it's definitely not about guilt and it's not about just being down about things oh my god i feel i missed out or i feel sure you know you recognize that and then you move to and you look forward

to um you know the next thing to to do better inshallah yeah you know i'll share something else with you guys this ramadan i came across a an orator is a preacher a mawlana yeah and check this i don't know if you guys heard of this is in urdu speaking i don't really listen to many urdu speeches okay not this is just just me i'm not saying they're bad or there's

anything um i have of course i've i've always heard many of his in the past and and i may have heard some from some scholars here in the but i don't really have that i don't know i just don't find it um i don't know you know i don't want to say i i find sometimes some parts of um the world are just so embroiled in sectarianism i mean they they don't

you know i just don't find it doesn't myself or my soul harmonizing with it and maybe that's my fault yeah but i just don't find it like that and i've heard as you can imagine so many in the past but i came across a uh maulana dr suleiman so you know allah bless him honestly i came across him just perchance i wasn't looking for him or anything there was actually a poem he had a poem and that's what came up and i didn't i thought oh this is an

interesting poem it's an epic poem actually he has he says uh he's speaking about somebody saying that uh to god that hamadi beowulf but it's not something something like it something like this that this that somebody saying to god that you know we're so ungrateful and and you know unfaithful to you and despite that you love us so much what would it be

like if we were to be faithful and he says and then the person gets this reply you know so i i saw this it was on a it was just like a short you know like a 30 second clip or something and i thought yeah i thought let me find it so i found it and then there's a speech with it i didn't realize it's maulana dr suleiman

so this was in ramadan it's probably like halfway through just gone beyond half way of ramadan and so now that i watched it youtube stopped bringing up you know the algorithm he started bringing up some talks of his for me and so i you know he accidentally played the talk and i just i just heard it like it was just playing and i started listening to it man i was so struck by this maulana speech honestly i really i don't think i've been that struck

they were just and then i you know as a because i i was like just wow like i became so like oh so moved by him and and then like another speech came on and so one of the days after that i was driving and you know how youtube just plays the next thing and the next thing and so it played a a speech of his short like something like five minutes six minutes eight minutes something like this and i'm just driving and and he played this thing and i just i thought oh well you know okay it's just playing and so let it play and so honestly

i i was so uh let me share an incident that he was saying in this and i'll give you an example why how it really moved me man it brought tears to my eyes i'm not gonna lie that i um so here here's the incident that the mawlana was saying this was one so he's speaking about some incident from pakistan some um karamat so so dr misbahisab is um he's his generally he's from the main

braille v sufi denomination and so a lot of his speeches are generally like they may have some folk kind of tradition and narratives in them so they'll speak about saints and they'll speak about stuff but it's not all of his speeches the ones that i've heard anyway they all seem to be just focused on the message of humanity love gratitude um you know just like sincerity and and he and it's

it's just they come up it's not that they come across they are so strikingly sincere so coming to this story anyway that i heard he he's speaking about some um some some uh wally of god some some very saintly figure who's in pakistan contemporary i believe or maybe just of the recent past so he's on a bus now this bus is going and the person says to the driver that stop the bus i need to praise allah so the driver ignores him and he says it a couple of times

and then he gets upset and he yells it he says stop the bus you know burst roku dramatically so the driver says look um i'll tell you what we'll put it to a vote so if the majority of the passengers say let's stop for salah we'll stop for salah so they put it to the vote and only you know only three four people say yeah we want to pray so the majority don't now this saintly figure whoever he is or this

pious person he gets into a state of jalal you know he's ah like he gets into a rage and then he says this bus this vehicle will stop and as he says it the bus stops so i'm thinking okay so this is uh you know like a normal karamat story the the like a miracle kind of story so this person gets off he does this wudu the driver can't seem to fix the the bus they're looking at it they can't

seem to get it to start this person praises or does his wudu you know with tranquility then he praises salah with tranquility then he boards the bus and as he boards the bus it starts again so i thought listening to this i was driving i thought okay so this is the usual kind of folk tradition kind of stories that we've heard loads in pakistan and in different parts of the world so he says now the bus arrives at its destination wherever raul bindiyo i can't remember where he said now and he says and so this person this

pious person is going to see his peer sab his shirt so he turns up and his shirt is in the courtyard of the mosque and as he comes in he says the sheriff gives him a slap across his face and so now i'm i'm i'm listening to the story and and he says and the sheikh said to him is this why god granted you this gift that you may

inconvenience his creation and he says that like he says in order he says you know you could have salah something you could have prayed afterwards or it was something if you really wanted to you could have prayed on the bus you know this i totally was not expecting this spin he said that on the bus there were people who were ill there were people going to see loved ones there was people trying to that were late to get somewhere there

were people that needed to attend a funeral there were people that how dare you income inconvenience these people at the price and the cost of your piety now wow i just was not expecting this twist to this story i mean honestly really um because the thing was that you see the real message has always been

serving humanity that's what it's always been and having compassion for humanity so i i was really struck by and i have to say i'm really grateful um because i think i would probably especially during ramadan i would listen to you know probably at least one or two uh you know brief clips of mawlana sabha every day or every other day and they've really added a very uh different flavor to that part of ramadan but i started to psychologize it like i you know that's the psychologist in me

i was thinking that why am i so struck by this you know maulana like i don't get it like what what so because in between some other youtube would bring up another maulana speech and i'd listen to it and nah i would just switch it off so i started to analyze and i couldn't help but analyze and think about what makes it so special and i think i narrowed out certain factors that one it was there seems to be one his tone is very soothing but so that's definitely a huge positive point more importantly

his message was not fire and brimstones it was not you know the scary scary gen not what i heard anyway they weren't it was all about love of god and gratitude and it made you just want to be a better person and then this you know the icing that i analyzed honestly was he would often the majority of the time in his talk he would smile and i thought that you know that's so rare now it's so common sense but it's so rare

finding people who smile so much especially within the islamic you know stratosphere should we say so yeah so anyway i thought i got carried away so i thought i ended up sharing that with you guys but yeah you know those of you that understand orders were more than welcome to um definitely check him out right let's um let me just take a look at some comments

welcome back anas shukran was amazing of unquestionably in his uh in his arena sure of course he was an amazing um amazing um figure see everything in his day and age sorry everything in the person's day and age like keep things always relevant ahmadi was

a great polemicist a great debater he was witty he was funny when he needed to be he was firm he had a photographic memory he and he provided muslims he completed a void that needed to be completed in his day and age and that said i don't believe today in our day and age

his thing is is is at the forefront of our concerns because his point was really all about getting back at christians because the christians in his day and age remember you're going back four decades almost the the the kind of um evangelic christians were very hardcore they were making claims against muslims nobody had stood up to them and he did and and i remember he because i worked in an institute many years ago that was um that he he had kind of laid the foundations for um idci islamic vision

so idci was really ahmedidat and so that gave me at the time this is going decades ago now but it gave me access to all his materials and i would just watch his videos all the time on lunch breaks on whatever and so i got through so much of his material and it was epic but it's like he says in one of his uh books i think it was was it the choice or i can't remember but he says in one of his books that 30 or 40 years ago one of the christians he got into a debate with them or somebody got into a debate with them and they said that you know your your scripture has discrepancies as in the

muslim said to them and the person handed them a bible and said show me one discrepancy and he says well after my years of service i believe i've answered that question and yeah and that is a servitude but in this day and age now i don't think our goal is to debate christians the time has moved on i still see sometimes some people saying oh let's debate christians i don't see what the point is why do you want to be christians in this day and age you know the they are your fellow uh

you know believers in scripture they are al-kitab we are in an age where really the question is of faith versus a lack of faith it's no longer about muslims versus christians and it shouldn't be like that that's my thoughts okay all right so cool um somebody said hamza zugar let me see you'd like to study malik um

all right um oh good to see you on here may allah keep you blessed and smiling i mean it's been ages all right i was going to yeah let's take a look at a few verses and then what i'll do is i'll share the uh link and then you're more than welcome to jump on whoever wants to jump on i was uh taking a look at suratul balad and i thought you know what let's share this

share some some thoughts on it so um just the first 10 verses and focusing more so on the latter that is you see allah is taking an oath swearing by this sacred region and that is as most people feel makkah in in this verse

and one of the reasons is because the sanctity that it provided and if you just go back to what i was saying that a place and its specialness and the consciousness that people bring to it adds to the ambience so people even in jahiliya time accept like they acknowledge this sanctity and sacredness of the haram of makkah and people were safe in it you know if somebody was after you you could take sanctuary in it

no person could be harmed in it a person could not um be chased around in it a person could not be attacked or assaulted or insulted in it now sometimes people are not saying they never violated those con conditions but generally that was the this this whole serenity and allah swears by what al bala and you are in a state of of

liberty and ease and permissibility like you have you are in this state in this bullet in this region in the haram this is addressing the prophet salallahu but then it moves on allah

you know the verse is beginning from the region from the soil there is a specialness i guess the sanctity to that how it gives life and then honing in on inside and the parent and the child what ma wallet what has been born and the child that's been born

one perspective is just the phenomenon itself of reproduction and but it's much more than that because allah does not say just the parent with by giving birth to the child gives birth to more than just the child

they give birth to a bond you see the the whole of something is greater than the sum of its parts the parent the child but there is a bond a mysterious bond between them because if you think about it we all you know we come into this world we are all somehow connected yet we come as in relation to one another we appear on

this stage of this arena of this dunya we are somebody's child somebody's parent somebody's sibling somebody's we are placed in relation to one another and with it there is a an overwhelming profound sensation of this bond

that can't be that has in itself a sanctity that can't be violated you know it's wow you've gone from the bullet with the consciousness the something that gives rise to this sacredness the the ease and liberty that is being felt in this soil to the parent and what and not just the child but the mysterious bond

that is born with them see it is much greater than just what we see in nature something so spectacular because if you are to reduce it into words what you see sure you could try to rationalize oh well it's just oh well somebody has you know given birth so but it's much the words they don't really describe the experience of the bond and especially to

in that time really in every time but in that time where this the the the kind of fraternity of relation was so important that we have created inside now this is interesting cupboard right what does cupboard mean now people have disagreed because cupboard in and of itself actually means something that is like a straightening something that is uh mustache and

it is just upright upstanding that is what covered this some people said well maybe it means you know it's from the verb mukabada to kind of struggle against something it's like you stand against something so it's a struggle and so some people translate this as oh insan has been created in a suffering in a state of toil in state of struggle in a street of sure and you know that's one way of looking at it but one way of looking at it is closer to its original meaning that in sun

in the fitra has been placed with this upstandingness that they if left will gradually spring back to the fitter of goodness that we have it within us that we may you know we people may be evil at times people may be horrible people may be malicious and malignant and

but if not corrupted beyond and polluted and contaminated beyond measure insan will return to his or her of goodness you know people left to their devices want to do good you have to believe that because it's just we get polluted by our maybe immediate experiences

you know does insane think that nobody or that no one will overpower him or her you know when this see it's interesting because from one perspective this verse can reflect the arrogance and stubbornness of inside that forgetting our humble origins on one hand it can reflect that

on another hand it can it can reflect the potential that god has placed within us that we can reach such heights that we may think no one can over can can over incapacitate us at this height but that is the potential that god has allowed within inside i mean just look at that even in a verse

you know this is the beauty of the quran even in a verse that is may appear somewhat reprimanding may appear as in it may have a dash of a reprimand almost like you know a yasabu is this what insane thinks but the same verse with a hint of reprimand in it reflects this horizon of potential that allah has bestowed in insane that

you know that this is where the incent could reach such heights that he could think man no one can incapacitate me at this height that i'm just doing it in life see this did we not give him and her two eyes it's amazing you know there was i was listening to a lecture it's

definitely recommended i think it was in cambridge it's on youtube by uh dr jordan peterson and he was it was all about perception and he was just speaking about the the challenges of a.i when it came to perception that how do you distinguish between things how do you and he says well in many ways people thought it was common sense they thought it was simple but he said like let's say you look at things in your field of vision and you can see differences so i can see well this screen it stops there and then you know

that starts over there and there's this item over here and there's a cup over there and there's a glass over there and i can see that where something starts and where something stops and and i could see it's a different thing but then light impacts the the demarcating factors but also he said let's say you zoomed into a picture you zoom into it at a point it just gets blurry so when you're zoomed in you can't tell even though there's different shades you can't tell with something what is

that something or where does it is that a separate thing to the same thing when it becomes really pixelated you have to zoom back out and realize oh okay that was the cup and that over there was the book and that was you see so it's with ai and perception that this problem really came to the forefront with technology that how do you expect computers to to recognize that so bringing it back

to did we not give in sun eyes to see with wales for expression washafatein and lips see not only was this created in a optimumly for expression it was

with you know mesmerizing aesthetics a sense of beauty this is that's the 10th verse this is the zeroing in or honing in on this last verse

and we guided him to these two now these kind of mounts or these regions or territories or some people said paths okay and what is it what are these nudge things these two lofty things or these risen rough and then nudged in arabic is like like the the highlands terrain

we guided them to the two and most of us irene here say that this is is for good and bad but the interesting thing here and i want us to to just notice this is both of them are described as these kind of lands that you have to get to and they both described equally you see good and bad it's not you know it's not in this sense that one is made

so much you know people may say well you know oh it was difficult it's difficult doing good things or helping people or it's difficult the other one is just as difficult just as difficult maybe it's a different type of difficulty maybe it you know it seems easy not to be not to show compassion not to show kindness not to show but it maybe it doesn't so for example it saves on your time maybe it saves on your wealth maybe it saves on your whatever it is

on whatever is the object here that could have been used to help or to even if it was just a smile even if it was just any form of compassion but the opposite even though you may think oh i saved something here it may be more taxing and weighing down with a darkness from within so that's i wanted to share these but there was something i i thought you know when i was reading this i thought it's amazing that there were certain

um there were certain ways to also see another understanding in some of these verses and that was just going back to verse 4 that we created in sun in this state where he can always come back the voice is within him and her that we have this within us so sometimes in life even if we're feeling um so frustrated so lost so we just have to still the noise around us to to to listen in

intuitively that yes so sorry i had missed this this verse when i was reading that you see insane says i have squandered so much wealth that does he think you know nobody no one has seen him and that god has

but this sorry i'd miss these two verses out uh coming back to them but another way to look at this as well is in life we may do something where maybe you know maybe we've wasted our time on a certain project maybe we've somebody started a business and they've you know it's it's a flop they've tried they've done this they've done that maybe somebody started a particular area of interest in life and it just didn't work out maybe somebody started a relationship

maybe somebody uh invested in something else you see you know i've spent so much in this in this pursuit i can't give it up let's say you know something has already hit failure but you can't give it up in life because there is this disturbing tenacity that what will people say or you know i did all of this

i have to prove myself i have to prove myself that i've so here it says merlin and all kind mal can also be from your skill set it can also be you know that is also your wealth your time is also from your wealth your health is also from your world a person could say i've squandered so much of what i have in this i need to prove it but you may know that it's wrong like as in i need to quit whatever that thing

is often all we need is some recognition and we can and that's enough in sun you know that's how insane is you know we want to be recognized sometimes for what we've done so one way of looking at these verses the other what we've we've already covered in yes do they think that god didn't see them that's if it was in a negative light but one way to look at it is in a positive light see if nobody saw you whilst you tried whilst you put your back into something

know that allah did see you you know the fact that you wanted somebody you just wanted to know that somebody did somebody see me that i did all of this effort allah saw you that's enough you know you so in a in a negative sense it could be where people are doing things wrong but even in a positive sense where people are trying and they breaking their backs and they just but they realize something's failing and they just don't have the courage to

to go back and they're almost thinking with their ship because maybe they feel that they need some recognition this verse could be understood in that sense as well you know it gives that it gives that information as well that you know allah has book it is you know so wow so this was something that i thought it i i was reading it and i thought let me share it with with you guys i hope it's of some help right guys i'm going to share the um

i'm going to share the link and that should let you guys join in uh um what's going on here okay right so i missed the super chat sorry imam i would like to know your perspective on mathematical patterns in the quran what you have to say about

that like how is that humanly possible mathematical pattern in the quran i think it truly is um it's amazing seeing these patterns it really feels just it adds to the the wonder of the quran and i i remember seeing a few and

where people will say things like how um verses that begin with certain how there is an equal number of day mentioned that is paralleled with an equal number of night in the quran how allah will mention this there's a huge there's a mathematical you know like a uh a rhythm to so many uh salient features within the quran that it just seems just incomprehensible

to have put that together with such design i mean if if somebody did you it would be whoa that is a genius in and of itself that's how uh amazing some of these seem and i remember going through some a while back and you could just go on to youtube in fact there was a video by um noman as well once where he was speaking the gnome video what did he call it um i think he called them ring patterns in certain surahs or ring surahs or something and what he meant by that was that certain verses certain surahs begin with

with let's say the first first verse is speaking about god's glory then the last verse speaks about god's glory second verse let's say speaks about believers the last verse speaks about disbelievers the third verse let's say speaks about the day then the third to last speaks about the night as an example i'm just saying so he he says the themes they kind of mirror each other and that's so spectacular he's going i can't recall which verses which surah he's going through now i heard a very long time ago but that i think it unless it was sort or was it but you can i'm sure you can find it on youtube

so these things are definitely just you know jaw-dropping and mesmerizing but i don't feel i think these things add wonder to our faith in god and to the quran i don't think these things are the proof for the existence of god because then you see the problem then because i've heard people say in the past that you know this is a proof that there is a god because otherwise

you know this couldn't this is in humanly impossible hmm i i just feel that the problem with such huge claims because when you say that then people you know they will start like they'll say well this book has this in it and it has this in it and i've heard all these things about you know certain other books so you know this kind of rhythmic um melody that is found in certain books and certain patterns and mathematical anomalies bring out and

so does it make every book that does something like that um proof for a particular god or so i just feel these claims are not um we shouldn't call them we shouldn't go about using them as this is the proof for the existence of god but we should allow ourselves ourselves to revel in these in and marvel in the wonder of the quran so it it basically it adds flavor it helps it kind of sprinkles wonder on our faith and

brings us to life that's what they should be used for not to say well let me argue against an atheist that did you know the letter off appears the most number of times in sura i mean the person would just go like and what so i don't think yeah that's my perspective yeah because also just adding to that there is um the concept of patanicity in psychology that you see human beings we see patterns especially if we put our mind to something

and just as we you know if you stare at clouds you will see faces in them and you'll see shapes and all of a sudden you can see things and that's a human [Music] a tendency to see patterns and project familiarity onto uh such um abstractions like the clouds and things like or even if you are looking for seeking patterns you can often find patterns so just keeping that in mind yeah

let me share the link people right so there's the link it's gone out all right oh i got a super chat let me just um all right i think what could be done to advance umma into philosophical thought i take it well thinker i don't know if i don't it's not the ummah's goal

to become philosophers um [Music] and quite um honestly understood that look humanity for the most part will not be philosophers and they won't even be unfortunately deep thinkers and i guess that's okay because

i guess we are who we are you know not everybody has to be a polemicist or a philosopher or a um i don't think people can as well i don't think people have the capacity you know there was a uh it was a great um [Music] it's a great book by what's his name i think his name is howard gardner and it's on the on multiple intelligences and he's on youtube as well he's got a bunch of uh different lectures he's got some ted talks and stuff and it's really fascinating because he's

speaking about multiple intelligences and that up until not so long ago we measured people's intelligence by two things really one was linguistic ability linguistic intelligence and one was mathematical stroke logical intelligence so how people fix solve problems whether it's going to be mathematical or through shapes and patterns and and that falls under under that and then linguistic words how they picked out words how they could do um

you know how so this was how you measured and he goes on to argue that actually there's many intelligences whether there's going to be eight i think in the book he may focus on eight but in in some of his talks he may say look there may be ten there may be more it doesn't matter it's not about numbering them out and he he'll highlight what they are some of them i mean these like they'll be things like um bodily kinesthetic intelligence so how you can do certain things with you you know with your body as in skills like how you uh may have certain craftsmanship that

is an intelligence to he says musical intelligence is a totally separate intelligence um it's really fascinating how he'd um he brings out several intelligences how a pedagogical intelligence is separate intelligence how you can teach something so they had studies on kids as young as uh three four year olds sorry yeah as young as that who when they try to explain to kids that are their age or younger than them

they go into so much more detail than if they're trying to explain to a grown up the same thing like let's say a child a four or five year old was doing something and now they're telling you how to do it if they were telling an adult they would just say yeah just do this and then do that like because they would understand that the adult but if they were explaining let's say a five-year-old was explaining to a three-year-old he would go into more detail because he or she would know that this child needs more explanation and the ability to teach this pedagogical intelligence is a different kind of intelligence not

everybody knows how to teach see people understand things they most people struggle in explaining them to other people um another good intelligence that he highlights is you have um intra you have interpersonal intelligence how good you are with other people skills how good you are in reading people how good you are in convincing people how good you are in and and people use that to manipulate people use that leaders all leaders need that um all kinds whatever kind of a leader

whatever kind of somebody who tries to guide people must have very good people skills this interpersonal skills in convincing people now you could use it for the wrong you know you could a salesman to con people he has good interpersonal skills he can convince someone and then he highlights intrapersonal skills within you yourself the ability to introspect look within is a form of intelligence then he speaks of existential intelligence people who can grasp um the great big questions

that can tackle them in life that can think about the ultimate purposes that most many people may not have that intelligence that they're no good at that but they may be good at something totally different you know they may be somebody um so this so there's a lot of these the these things yeah i i would argue although i think uh when i was going through his stuff he doesn't agree with uh um humor as being an intelligence but he i think considers it as part of the linguistic but i would feel that humor

is a separate intelligence that we all have it but not as good as necessarily each other and i feel that some people would have you know they would be more intelligent from a human humor perspective than other people and you see with kids you know some kids just have a very good sense of humor since the kids sense of sarcasm i see in leila she's now 10.

i see this sarcasm and and and some adults don't get sarcasm properly so all of these things are very important in life and we have to it's and then there's a good question should you invest in all of them or should you just hone in on the ones you're good at and i guess that's a debate there was a very good post i saw once on instagram i think it was where it said something that if you have trained your child how to handle business or open you know be

enterprising and uh see opportunity you know like be commercially minded and how to save money and how to it says if you know like great attributes from a worldly secular from from not secular from a commercial perspective said if you've taught your child all of these things like what business term means and how the stock market runs or how you know if you've taught your child things way ahead of normal children and many adults but you haven't taught them how to how to handle emotions or to handle

a heartbreak or how to read people he said that then you haven't taught them how to succeed in life because you know these things are the real things that will make or break people they could be really i mean not to belittle the other things it's really great you know giving your children a super head start in from with a business acumen but if you haven't taught them these very essentials then you know they're going to be in for a rough ride yeah may allah bless each and all i mean

let's um right there's another super chat there and then we've got some people who've joined in i'll share the share the link again uh this and that says what's he doing in china well i'm a man of the world reasoning philosophy just a minute my new part of our being what about this fact when we hear quran recitation or even just anything we hear about allah we get goosebumps why doesn't that happen spiritually in

any other thing sure i mean we it is to do with um a connection that we have and then something um that is i believe the term is numinous this kind of all striking factor that is in these things just as the the you know the starry heavens above by steering into them one can get goosebumps it is they they reflect

[Music] they shout and scream the the awe and majesty of the divine just as listening to the quran can do that for for some people i mean maybe it doesn't for other people but this is not to to judge this is not to say if it doesn't do that for people they they are bad people or anything [Music] these things are just our connection with something and you know may allah inspire us all because the verses we looked at today were hadayna

this is already within us this voice we just have to sometimes still everything to connect with it intuitively let me i've got some people connected if you can switch on your webcams i'll put on my uh should i connect

i put in right let's let me just whilst i'm doing this guys if you can um just switch on your webcam so i can see you and until then let me oh have i not got ah right okay i may need to

let me just connect this make sure is that not all right do i need to put this back in first and do it like that is that how it works see i forget yep i think so

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um oh deal where's the speakers yep that's all good let me just do a little test all right let's come through people i'm sharing the link if you want to join feel free i've just shared the link but do switch on your uh webcam so i can see you all right

reverend chicken was islamabad

what's going on and what's preoccupying your share your thoughts with uh us much the weather is very hot yeah there's so much going on in pakistan by the way i don't know which way you lean but um i i i saw that the gelser imran khan did

was was like super in angelum recently and yeah i don't know if you lean that way by the way so no no pressure if you don't that's that's okay yeah i would a random question i was curious and then we can switch off this uh i was really curious with the pakistan thing that you know imran khan's party they've given they've resigned haven't they i think like 130 seats or 120 something seats they've resigned so the question so i was curious that how does can parliament continue if

they've got so many seats empty don't they because how does it because doesn't it need all the seats to to vote or to operate does it not or this is probably my ignorance now but i thought that if that many seats because if one person let's say one mp was resigned or he passes away or she you know leaves the post they usually just do a by-election for one person but if you've got a hundred plus missing you can't just do by-elections 400 so you have to just do the whole elections i thought but yeah so what is what is that one

question because i don't know if you know the answer to that but uh actually like there is some sort of i think majority like there is a defined number say that if this number of seed people resigned from then we will have a full election so i don't think that it's that amount okay so we can still operate uh parliament can operate without so many okay sure that was just a random question i don't mean to drop politics on youtube you're like you're like this guy's just putting me into politics talk to us osama what's what's on your

mind man what what share some thoughts with us um i don't have anything in my mind basically what a mind yeah that's so anything that is so empty and so at peace so like if you're like if you're okay to tell about like your journey to become mufti yeah sure because i've got other videos on it anyway but um yeah i mean you know it's one of the it is

definitely look it's the hands down it is the best thing that ever you know happened in my life because it because it shaped the rest of my life in what it was you know what it was to bring what it was to do what i was to experience it just changed everything so it's amazing you know sometimes we take a step and we don't know where the path will go it's a bit like how rumi says that you just take a step and the path appears it's it's like that and and like the

verse we looked at today that allah we have this inner voice this inner intuition sometimes guiding us but yeah i i began my studies a long time ago i began i got really interested it must have been 1997 or something and i was a teenager i started studying arabic i i really i didn't have much going on in life at the time for me so so i really got interested and just managed to stay focused because this is another issue today

i feel that our attention is so divided that and i i can be a victim of that as well that i think it's so easy to grab our attention that we then get depleted you know we run out of um we get exhausted but in that day and age i didn't have many things grabbing my attention so i managed to really just lock in with arabic and then i i went off to damascus syria to study i must have studied there about a year and a half and and i really wanted to do hiv

and and even that was just an idea that somebody just planted in my heart i um i was reading some books with somebody uh a friend stroke ustad in damascus he was tunisian and we're reading asbab nazool and jalaladina suthi's book and and he just made a comment like he said you know this is all good but really he said um he said if a person hasn't even memorized he just said it you know it must have been early in the morning and he probably was you know he just said it never thought about he just said you know he said if a person hasn't even

memorized the quran then can they ever truly be like a scholar of islam he just made a comment like this like and you know it's like i thought you know what it hit me that i just felt to myself yeah man like i thought what because i really wanted to become so like somebody like to really learn about islam and become a scholar within islam i really wanted this and in my heart with

sincerity not with this is way before social media has existed there is no facebook there is no internet at this point really when when i'm i mean there is internet but nobody's really using it so this is going like 1998. i mean you wouldn't have the internet was invented but i had never heard of emailed i don't think the first time i ever came across an email i think it was 2000 year 2000 or something but the point is that so it precedes this time of celebrity dumb you know this kind of celebrities but i was very sincere i wanted to be a scholar so i could understand islam

so his words really hit me and i thought yeah man i really want to memorize the quran i need to memorize the quran this is what i thought you know i set off on that path then and that path led me eventually to islamabad i found myself in um [Music] i mean there was you know there was a reason why i ended up there i wanted to go to different places but you know allah wills you know alinsa

so the point is that i ended up in um i don't really remember much of islam about now but from what i remember then there was a place past something called ravel dam there was a place called chakshazad or something model village or model town and there was this area called nurseries they used to sell loads of plants and stuff so i don't know if what it's called now but there was a madrasa called muhammadiyya and it was um it was a branch of birkham shah saab's madrasah

and so i i did my history so it was you know it was a humble place but it had a great atmosphere um they had a great person i don't you know it was a day that there wasn't social media i did try to later on connect with them on social media but i don't think they're very active on social media and i didn't have many connections there but there was a person there then i don't know if he's still alive may allah bless himself and he was really sincere always smiling always you know one of these people and i did my his the and then i wanted to do uh an islam course but i had a condition

that i would only do an islam course in a madrasa where the teachers were really fluent in arabic and they taught in arabic and you know like i had this because i wanted to always make sure my arabic was good my arabic was already okay because i'd lived in damascus and for a year and a half and you know had that foundation so um i had family in karachi and um my uncle took me there and and so he used to run a um a tana he was a like a sub inspector or something and so the the tana that he was at in karachi

was in this area industrial area called site and it's the oldest police station in karachi i believe i believe it's from the time of the british or something but so next door to it was jamia binoria so he took me there and they had this you know amazing setup and they taught in arabic and so i thought yeah let's they had foreign students and they had loads of you know it was it was a different because i went from you know at that time beer khanam shah saab's place in islamabad was a very humble madrasa you know they they like we all they didn't have like let's say one dorms

had many people in that dorm sleeping that was the sleeping area you just had like a a sleeping bag kind of you know not a sleeping bag but like mr you know you just had your talai and you just kind of went to sleep there and they just had fans they didn't have air conditioning they didn't have it was a great place but it was very humble and jamming area compared to that was like huge it was like you know the separate bedrooms huge institutes thousands and thousands of students air conditioning it was like so many resources foreigners like it was just it was like an a huge upgrade from what i had got used to and

it was a great place we had so much fun honestly um i i really learned i i you see i was passionate to learn so you could have put me anywhere and i would have learned and so this was a great place i was there you know i got on there were people from the uk we foreigners had their own section we i did the islam course i um did a hadith there i did the musti course there yeah it was uh yeah it was a blessing from allah alive so many people have asked me afterwards they wanted to study and

yeah i i do advise sure go to these place one thing great i have to say about both madrasas i was in you know when i was in karachi i did also take an exam with a salafi madras as well jamie abubakar but i i did study in the library and stuff but i didn't study with any of the teachers so i can't comment on that i just took their exam you could just enroll and do the exam yourself and i passed but in the madras size i studied in in pakistan so one was in islamabad pierkalam shah saab's place which was of a brilliant denomination persuasion

and the other was in karachi side karachi so which is different to binori town i mean it's an it's like obviously they recognize each other but it's a different entity both of these madrasas were never sectarian you know even though they they belong to a denomination so champion arya is of the the obandi persuasion but you know in the madrasah they were never sectarian like i never maybe because most of our teaching was in the foreigner section so they taught in arabic and because the students were from all over malaysia

indonesia thailand africa uk america canada so they weren't never they never mentioned once you know things like bashing another group and saying you know those people are deviant so those people neither in you know peter place once did i hear them say uh you know full on full on this never i never heard it when i was the i was there for about a year i heard once um speak and he said you know like when he would address other groups he said you know

him again you know this is not how and he would address them like that you know like they were our brothers who have a different understanding to us and yeah really so this is something i feel once again i'm really you know in hindsight i'm really grateful that obviously i didn't know that when i got there it's just in my experience in hindsight i realized wow actually they never tried to poison us you know they never tried to poison me in both the madrassas i was always different and you know maybe they thought uh because i used to say to them i'm maliki so they used to think well tk nice you know let him do his thing so

sometimes i never used to join in in some of the stuff they used to do they never you know sometimes at that time let's say they did certain uh zika moduluses and i didn't want to join in i didn't have to they never condemned me they never felt that these guys are deviant these guys these that never um and even in binoria when i was uh you know i would question them on certain picky things and sometimes my my beard was a bit shorter than i mean it was a bit more on the sides but it was you know a bit shorter than this and it was like but they never really ever kind of went to oh

you know all these guys maybe one two people held that view but generally the mother was very um i saw a lot of love and i saw a lot of hope in both of these you see one of the brilli and one of the deer bandi that i could speak for personally uh even today that um i've seen in fact there was a video just uh shaykh farhan who's the son of [Music] away may allah bless his afterlife and that they released some video about what what jamie pinori is doing what it's launched great things you know very accommodating and so

i do feel that these are look there's no um everybody you know if you want to find faults we can find them everywhere you know there's uh there's an uh arabic poem of imam where he says if a person is loving there is no fault they see but if the i is hateful then faults just start to appear and this is the truth but so if we want to find faults we can find faults with everything but i see a lot of hope in

these places um i hope you know people can um see that and and i hope these places continue to blossom as well with that message of humanity and love and because it's important because otherwise you know there are some places that some people they use you know religion has been hijacked and in you know you're in islamabad i get messages from people in pakistan in in india as well that where people have become unfortunately fed up of religion it's a shame because

you know they've never really even you know never really even read the quran with meaning so it's difficult for a person to have been fed up with god you know a person has never people say bihari whatever but nobody's read these common muslims have never read this with their own eyes or understood it with their own comprehension it's just that people have used things and channeled them through a certain lens of sometimes hate or you know

they've hijacked the message and and this is what has scared and frightened people away from islam and you know one of the greatest messages of islam really is and i've got a video on this it was one of the first hadith that i ever learned and it was that yes [Music] it is i mean this is in you know it's in bukhari in these books that that that make ease for people in this theme you know don't make things difficult and don't scare people away later but

you know bring people in you know jesebi however they are let them come you know it does it doesn't matter because you know everybody is beloved to god in their own way and sometimes it's just we've lost the way but again we've kind of lost the way but it's it just takes that realization and i feel that sometimes this door is shut you know as they say in arabic been doing nas it's shut from people because just because some hearts have turned to

stone and they've forced these doors to be shut for people you know one is their own choice but they should be not say i love you you don't even do oh you don't even pray huh you know you don't even keep a beard huh you know you don't even oh my god she doesn't do hijab or she doesn't do this or she doesn't do you know it also it's not our job to judge you know this isn't a saying in arabic that is uh mansoob to the

you know if you want to if you want to call then call to god like be somebody who calls don't be a judge not judges don't be a be a da if you want to you know if you want to call if you know if you don't if you've got nothing good to say you don't have to say anything but yeah so these are just some thoughts cool man i hope it's been uh good sharing these thoughts with you osama you take care stay in touch and yeah if you are on insta uh send me a

message i'll look out for your message there i'm sure islamabad has changed no kapi yeah sometimes in the future sometime in the future i'll have to visit sometime it would be great to see uh at some point after so many years you take care and we'll speak soon thanks salam people that was osama ahmed from islamabad people whoa islamabad so let me

um all right let me all right share the link people uh [Music] what's this speaker's corn well i don't know what these comments are about um uh

who's the who's the problem am i the problem how am i the drama cha-cha this is like that i really want to watch abu vs the famous arabic speaking scholar i don't know why i absolutely admire there would be no verses i have the utmost respect and admiration for shaykh adnan ibrahim if that's what you mean

mostly becoming mufti was like forrest gump becoming a it sure was you know it was honestly i remember when i went off to study and people said to me that um this is only a phase they said you're just going to come back after a few months and i said you're going to come back after a few months they say you know just like this and

i guess in many ways i'm glad they said that because it really sparked a tenacity within me you know let anything happen i cannot give up i thought one thing that cannot happen is giving up and yeah really i i saw to it that there's no turning back so i think part of that tenacity was definitely inspired by maybe people

telling me hahaha you're not gonna be able to do this as a phase [Music] so i guess i owe it to those people yeah it's good to prove people wrong yeah you know sometimes you set your hearts on what you want and then allow your journey to prove them wrong it's not that my goal was just about proving people wrong my goal was i wanted to do it but because so many almost every single person i knew just said to me you're going to come back you know

miserable and looking like an idiot and and and i just you know those words kind of echoed and i felt that you know now that i've taken this leap of faith you know some mustache i must be steadfast so yeah i guess it gave me more commitment right we've got some people uh we've got a muslim yeah i can't see the camera oh is this for is this one of those for safety reasons

cello let's add music thank you for having me with our webcam thank you welcome i i thought you know what it may be for safety concerns that you've not wanted to uh bring your webcam so all right well how can we help you muslim where are you joining us from again uh we've had you before so yeah yes usa usa all right so what is going on yeah

talk to us what thoughts are preoccupying your precious mind well uh something that uh you were saying it triggered something and i wanted to indulge in the fitrath you were talking about now how does a person's fitrat nature develop when he's born it comes through the seed from his parents or it is by the education or by the upbringing gets

right so this is you've really gone into the aged old debate of nature versus nurture wow it's look this is an epic epic uh topic i would argue that um there is a certain amount of fitra that comes to us that the fitra that we're speaking of right now that you're asking it comes to us intuitively now it doesn't mean that through our environment we can't

uh hone in on it even more we can and the environment also may improve or or preclude it may kind of inhibit our intuitions but um yeah i would feel that it's definitely something we carry the part of it is i don't know part of it may be instinctual part of it i would say is intuitive i would rather than just instinct the instincts are part of the fitra as well so um you know just very basic instincts

but these uh the instinct to survive the instinct for food but the instinct of uh understanding at a low level um like a base to understanding harm and thereby having the the instinct for empathy empathy um i would feel these are all part of what come to us naturally um that this would be congenital it would be with birth so now i would feel that there is sure that there would be certain

modalities within the brain that um that kind of regulate that but is are do they regulate it or do they completely generate it is the question i would probably leaned now it's impossible to say conclusively because obviously how can we conclusively say so i would lean towards that those modalities in the brain regulated um so and i would feel that these instincts

or at least some parts of the i don't mean just i don't mean the instinct of hunger or fear those parts are just within the nervous system um within the brain but i mean rising above that so um recognition like this thing of compassion of empathy uh i would feel that the seeds it's definitely regular it's definitely there in the brain i know that but is it is that the source of it that's feeding into it or is it coming from consciousness um [Music]

which is the rule i would feel that maybe it's coming maybe a greater part of it lies in consciousness and the collective consciousness the collective conscious that maybe there is this this kind of connection that we have that we have with with all of life that we have with nature that we have with and that it is more than just the human body okay it is but it is something that that we clearly have access to we tap into and it's something we're born with but if

with time we can either block some of these things out or we can improve on them and allow greater access by kind of sharpening our faculties so people let's say people if they want to call it spirituality if they want to call it um a kind of a greater compassion that they uh tap into through things like mindfulness through whatever they do whatever people want to call it where is it coming from and is it just

certain regions that are now slightly more active in the brain or is it so is it just these kind of pathways that have just increased the neurogenesis of synaptic development or is it that they they have kind of tapped into consciousness and thereby these uh neural correlates that we're seeing within the brain are a reflection of that so obviously we don't have the conclusive answer i would lean more towards its um consciousness it is the raw

um that kind of brings this into into life i don't know i would lean that way but i'm sure hard uh you know very uh material materialists may lean the other way in saying it's just the brain but yeah basically uh you have really gone far far higher than what i expected i i i exceeded your expectation yes stylish style

i actually i just wanted to focus on let's say because you were talking about kids also and they're nurturing and all the other stuff now let's say you have a child who's born to you and you're nurturing him and you also adopt someone a kid or maybe he he don't even adopt him but let's say let's say you adopt him kidnap him

you you adopt him now between these two kids one who is actually a product of your seed and the other one who you have adopted now you now if you are nurturing them the same way what would be the difference between the two in the way they behave and the way they move around will there be any difference um see that's a good question because it's it's clear that look dna does play a certain amount of role it does

clearly that the faculties so even if what i was talking about let's say the let's say i was talking about not let's say i was talking about connecting with consciousness so even if i have this phone and this phone connects to the internet remotely i mean there's no you know plug it just remotely connects to the internet but then the phone itself has a capacity it has an operational ability a performance make up

so let's say this is the latest phone it has a greater uh you know memory capacity and operational it's kind of operating system is more up-to-date or it's not about being up to date it has more capabilities it can do so many more things it has a you know a much higher functioning camera now naturally it may outperform because of its capacity may outperform a different uh phone that i have that is not of the same capability even if they both tapped

into the same internet that is coming to both of them so similarly dna unquestionably it bequeaths it kind of allows the child to inherit a certain amount of modalities and and not just modalities of the things that we can function within the brain but also actual capacities we do inherit intelligence let's say we inherit certain amount of things that said most people will have good enough kind

of features some people will have better than others so some people may be gifted with a slightly higher intelligence but most people on the average will have good enough intelligence they will have good enough like they can get by they may not have the best of what is out there but they will have good enough now some people a margin may have certain disabilities learning difficulties and so on but most people can through the environment improve their abilities so there was a study i shared recently uh on my insta story and those who don't follow me on

instagram should follow me i usually um you know on my stories i'm usually very active i'm usually just sharing things to make people smile or laugh and but in between i'll share certain interesting point you know things i come across so i shared just yesterday or the day before a um a study done on two korean twins that were separated and i believe two girls and one was raised in identical twins so here the the dna is identical so identical twins always make fascinating studies in psychology

because the dna is exactly the same now one was raised in america and the other was raised in korea now the one in korea scored 16 points higher on her iq test in intelligence especially in linguistic and mathematical logical intelligence than her identical twin who was raised in america so one was 16 points higher that's quite significant okay so now that definitely didn't come down to

dna because they both had identical dna not even similar identical so it goes to show that you see in your environment you can out you can there is a flexibility so you know our dna it has many uh genes that will only activate in a certain environment so when you let's say you were never pushed to a certain limit then there are certain genes that your dna has not activated yet and maybe will never activate but if you do something then it will

start activating those genes so we've got many kind of sleeper cells if you like you know metaphorically that we will only activate if if it comes to it as a necessary clause so maybe you've just grown up and you've never needed and you've never been pushed and you've never been stressed and you've never been so you don't have those capabilities but if you had you would have developed them and then we also have some elasticity that the the brain can also it can get it can improve if you train it and not just the brain i don't mean by

the brain just material that can happen as well so even things like um for example certain psychedelics can improve can result in neurogenesis you grow new uh brain connections that you never had with before after a single dose even of certain like of psilocybin of mushrooms or dmt would result in that but i'm not just talking about the material i'm talking about emotional i'm talking about all of this growth so there was a fascinating study with um with mice where uh it's called the

maze bright mice study okay so it's really fascinating so what they did is they got a bunch of mice and they had a maze and they put them up any of these mice in this maze and they're all as lost as each other they don't know where to go so you know running into this dead end and running into that dead end and they're panicking and all sorts so what they do is they take a bunch of them and they train these mice how to get through this maze they train them they keep training them to keep training them until they become good at it so these this select group is now called the maze bright because they're bright

at it and the other are called the maze dull so the ones who haven't been trained so you put these mice in it now and now they just go straight they know how to get through the maze so okay so what's so special about that you know you trained them they got through with it okay but here comes the amazing part now these mice when they had children without any training their children were better at the maze than the counterparts not only that the up to nine generations nine nine generations people

the mice that were the offspring of the maze bright could still perform better than their counterparts without any training so that's like like what the hell is going on there you know what are they inheriting so because it's not information but they've it's this this kind of ability to deal with anxiety because when they scared or they confused they have this greater ability so the point what we can study here is look both

the mice in the beginning that were maze bright weren't maze bright in the beginning they were trained to become maze bright and with it they became it so if you are put in an environment where you raise the bar and you force yourself to adapt to improvise to overcome you rise to the challenge you struggle you improve you can do it despite the odds like you don't have to be a genius you just have to have the commitment to keep going but on the bright side once you

do it you can bequeath and pass that on to your offspring without having to had done it like you can pass on a certain amount free as in they inherit a certain intelligence with that so but so that just goes to show both work yeah now now you did mention training now let's say and as i said you you mentioned uh let's say we have a your son and then your adopted son and they are going through the same training okay

now and you also did talk of emotions and they're going through the same love you're giving them equal love you're treating them equally now the one you have adopted and the one who is actually from your genes will he have the same emotions towards you or will they be different and will they be trained and will their learning abilities of course that depends on the other stuff will their response be same will their emotions or their attachment

to you be the same or will that be different right now these things cannot be predicted okay you know each child brings their own unique personality unique personality any person who has more than one child can tell you behaviorism goes out the window i've got five yeah so any person who has more than one because if you have just one you can't tell because you can only just tell on one like you can just see that one child's personality and you'll think oh you know i see a bit of me in that child

or i see a bit of you in that child or i see a bit now you know how uh was it um was it john watson had said that look bring me any child and leave him with me and i'll turn him into anything right i'm not so sure those things work exactly like that if you have you you have five children you will see each one has a unique personality unique personality like they have they may even if they look similar they will have behaved sometimes completely different to each other

i feel that personality comes to them from the rule this is what i feel but and maybe they add to it throughout life but i feel that at a base level it's intrinsic it's it's kind of intuitively with them so when you say look would both children love you the same i doubt it uh maybe they they will both love you but identically i very much doubt uh just because i don't like i guess life will you know people will react differently

throughout life they will grow slightly differently remember you they will not just live in a box and even if they did live in a box all their lives they still may behave differently because of their personalities you're totally right i mean you just said like i have kids and every kid is different and i have five kids you know and they reacted as they said clay just said i've got five dudes all five fingers are and i usually say i've got a handful you know so all all all five fingers are not the same and

that's very much true with kids you have uh what i basically have seen and i've seen it i've seen a families who have more than one kid who have two three kids they're adopted kids and when these kids grow up in fact that ones who have been adopted ha ha you know responsible this this seem to be more give you know love giving and whereas your own kid is like he's not caring so what i'm trying to figure out is

that's a proper that's the classic bhagavan movie by amitabh bachchan i've not seen it but you could be right that's where you know he's adopted the his own children turn out to be good old beep and it's only his adopted child who is the true so can you so in that sense can an adopted kid be okay not biologically not genetically but yeah truly in emotions and the way he acts yeah and of course of course okay that's i mean be your kid as in you see look some people

you know are you talking about the fikri masala here about being your child islamically is that what you mean i mean basically not then when i don't want to get narrowed down what happens then when we look at in that respect then we start narrowing it down trying to justify this and that makes things problematic you know yeah because look people feel that oh some people think that oh you're not allowed to some people have this this it's it's really unfortunate some people have this understanding that islam

doesn't allow adoption i don't know how they've ended up with such a terrible misunderstanding of islam and of course it allows adoption and then they say well you know the quran says so here the question is about names so they say look most muslims i i feel don't have a problem with adoption um but they but then they have this problem they think oh islam because the verse of the quran said call them by their names oh this means you're not allowed to give the child your family name

like you have to make that child's name very clearly different and you have to you know the surname and you have to do this and that and i'm not saying look if the child obviously wanted to keep the surname that's fine but sometimes people adopt babies like you were mentioning and you see here can you keep can you give the child your surname so okay so you've got this group that say no because this verse of the quran says call them by their fathers so you can only ever call them by their fathers okay so that's that group okay that's the evidence

now another group of scholars they you see they see this as look of course you can that is you see this verse was speaking about something very specific it was addressing a society in which the lineage tied in to certain societal rules the world today for the most part does not live with those rules anymore we don't have lineal kind of structures in society today we don't at all in the overall majority of the globe it doesn't work like that and definitely doesn't work like that in these

countries so today that would be you know so so to give you an example back then and this is for people who maybe people most people haven't studied the shady i even you know when they speak about the sharia so you have something you have this concept of the asaba in sharia so the asaba are responsible for the the team and they usually involve things like the let's say the father the the uncle paternal uncles the grandparents and you have this this whole not the mother's side but the father's side the these people are

called the asaba now the asaba so for example imagine the the nephew went and injured someone now the uncle has to pay compensation money say well why the uncle you see like today like if your nephew went and did something you're not responsible financially you wouldn't we have to be going paying money and if he damages in today's society let's say he damages a car so you have to go and pay why because you're the uncle or you're the granddad so you have to and it's like why do i have to

you say well no you have to because you're the and the person himself doesn't pay you know the person who did it doesn't pay it's the his dad or his uncle's pay and his granddad pay and this so in this day and age this doesn't exist at all it doesn't this society because in that day and age the asaba kept them in into they kept them in order because they knew the society was like this so basically if he went and killed that person then you guys have had it so and not the mother side mother side weren't responsible at all so the

mother's maternal uncle had nothing to do with it so in this day and age in most of the world that system doesn't exist so that was just an example of where the lineage played a role so today people some people they will say well look of course if you've adopted a child and you're giving them the same surname it makes obviously more harmonious it makes it more easy and and in all honesty in most of the muslim or in many parts let me put it like that not most many parts of the muslim world surname doesn't mean anything nowadays like you could take pakistanis as an example

and and possibly indians i don't know if all indians necessarily but many pakistanis are absolutely horrendous when it comes like surnames mean nothing they mean nothing for most pakistani surnames it does not mean the slightest so you will have many people um that they will have so for example they will have their first name as muhammad which is by the way not their name it's just a barakah name which nobody calls them by but it will just be muhammad and let's say um i'll give an example so very good friend of mine many people may know him from my things

not to just drag him into it but shaban now his name would be muhammad shah now that's because that's the name that his parents have given him now his surname would be shaban well technically that's his first name that's not even his surname so let's say his brother now he's given the name muhammad something else like muhammad kamran now you've got so and all the brothers have got different surnames and all of the brothers are just called muhammad so when people write letters they say well you know they're going to write it to this surname or they if they come like

if somebody came like on several occasions they've come to their houses they will need to speak to muhammad say well everybody's muhammad here and so who which surname so now in this example a surname means nothing and another friend of mine his one of his his his in his family they've been giving surnames just like because they sound nice like let's say the name just sounds nice or the name so they just give a name that sounds nice and so one of them will be called something hussein and one will be called something ali because it just sounds nice it goes with it has a ring

to it and one of them is called khan and so surnames don't mean anything so this is an example where people by using misunderstanding a side effect like if they take that understanding which doesn't really apply you could just result in a child growing up feeling alienated and not really feeling part of the family so yeah i hope that shed some light but we got carried away yeah the thing is what what i'm seeing is something which is being preached at with by various chat on various channels is

which i find very disturbing is that your your adopted son can never be your son you you know it's like of course he cannot be your biological son but stating that he can never act like your son is is to me is a big problem because then you are teaching the kid that that the parents who took care of you all these years who bought you uh up they adopted you they can never be your parents don't treat them as your parents same your your adopted daughter cannot be your daughter which means even if you

call your uh her your daughter in your brain she is thinking oh he is this guy or this lady can't be my mother that's what the must be preached and same it yeah whatever you say sorry go ahead no no sorry uh sorry for interrupting uh yeah i mean what i would you see what i would propose and i've said this in the past is that look all muslims agree most muslims anyway evidently agree that if a child so i'm by the way i'm just putting the breaks i don't jump to any con

assumptions but there is a masala uh of a baby now the baby that is breastfed becomes part of the family now this obviously one it has a nurturing element but there was like a ritual it was ritualized okay so in some narrations people said well if a baby had been breastfed five times five sucklings right so hamsa radhat now this number doesn't mean anything like it's a ritual it becomes a ritual yeah so you have a kind of rite of passage to bring someone into a family

and to now make them your pure family so because five sucklings let's say a person a baby just had five kind of you know just kind of just suckle just took in five drops of milk from a mother from a woman a baby did in all honesty five drops of milk going in are not going to be really so nurturing i mean i'm sure they will have some tiny effect but they're not going to be because one let's say even if a person argued that oh well if a baby drank a a woman's milk for two years as the

poor ant says well obviously that there's going to be a huge nurturing effect and the mother gives more than just milk there's no doubt about that you know the it's it's it's a bond now but taking this rewire this hadith that most the fukuha except yeah most the scholars accept that if a baby was to just take hamsarada okay just five times now that's not really significantly in the big picture of things so defining from a nurturing ability from a nursing perspective sorry but it's more a rite of passage you can see that what this what the sharia has

was a rite of passage to bring someone into your actual family and to give them the concept of maharamia okay now they become your actual members of the family yeah now from here some people you see they found a hadith which the majority of the ulama did not accept to act on this hadith okay but but they found this hadith that okay because you have what about this problem with a grown-up because okay that's a baby two and under

toddler and under but what about a grown-up a grown-up man or a grown-up woman how did how do you establish this maharami and make them into a true family you adopt them let's say the teenagers or the how do you how do you do that some people found a hadith saying oh well they could drink the woman's milk still okay and they this hadith is is not accurate and we don't act on it and we don't accept it okay but that said some people did and the salafi are amongst them some of them i'm sure maybe many of the salafi and albani's fatwa is on

sheikh albani on youtube where he's saying you know he arguably even goes to the extent and this isn't to belittle the sheriff but i'm just saying it's on youtube where he's saying he's asked the question what if a person then drinks this milk as a grown up directly from the woman's breast and he says well he says i would say well it's still except as in it's still valid and it still counts now okay so you've got some people that one way of looking at it is okay as absurd as the issue is put that aside but one way of looking at is that they're trying to

grapple with a complex question of how do you bring a non-family member into the core family and legitimize it and how do you what's the right of passage this is what they're looking for and some people this small group found this hadith which bounces off a a foundation that everybody accepts with an infant so they are grappling for a rite of passage now what i've argued in the past is that the adoption process

you know the adoption process in our age it stands it is in the place it is this right of passage to bring someone in to the family so in this day and age when you undergo the entire process of adoption it's not a simple process a person has to go through you know they have to they have to be screened they have to be they have to go through an entire assessment an evaluation there's several interviews this kind of all this process that they have to go through that takes probably weeks or months i believe will probably take months and months

so this process in our day and age would be the right of passage for maharamiyah with that child because you only adopt children you don't adopt adults anyway so uh it would be that mahara okay so they would then be amaram if you've gone through that entire process with them it would stand as they are now your mahram so you can see this is as opposed to you've had some group trying to say trying to resort to an infancy must allow saying you will you could breastfeed and and that would obviously be you could see without a doubt the

absurdity in that but still some people went to that i mean look at that extent they went in grappling with an issue that they needed to overcome you could see the need must have been that strong to overcome it that they took such a an angle that you know people would be mortified to think that well wait a minute to to become to enter the family what you know suckling of a woman's breast i mean this is you know the concept is so bizarre that it's laughable so but so what you've got putting that

aside what we're looking at is okay that's what they said which was bizarre but what they were truly grappling with was a problem that they needed an answer to and they couldn't find it so they ended up going to something so bizarre because the problem was so huge and that is we have a need in society to allow certain people to become true members of the family like adoption so as the as the world has advanced then instead of saying that well the adoption process can be you know okay so it stands in the place of that

and is the right of passage so okay i hope that helps we've got a few people that have thank you so much i wouldn't take any more of your time so much time you take care stay blessed shukran people got carried away the explaining the ruling to see her muslim we've got a few people um that stream yard link cue to go chat with him okay people i need you to switch on your cameras for me to bring you on because i can't

i can't really see any cameras all right i can all of a sudden where are you joining us from uh new york city um i'm currently supposed to be studying for an exam that's why i look a little rough but i saw you came on my life i was

you don't look rough man you've got this whole vibe going on there man i like it all right dude talk to us and who's the surname oh you were just talking about surnames yeah chinese culture surnames do kind of matter you know even though there's so many they do yeah like a bajillion woos so does it really matter i don't know it's like no absolutely and is it if i recall correctly the surname is usually said first isn't it yeah first my chinese name starts all right

see i need to once i finish the spanish i need to go back to learning chinese man honestly i i i'm just so amazed with chinese the language obviously i just finished to be honest trying to do my salah in arabic as someone who doesn't speak arabic it's very difficult but um i think your video on the salad the maliki method was really helpful i kind of wish you did the whole thing just to show it so we can see it play it out in the whole way all play out as in the whole yeah watch it see what you watch yeah instead of just breaking okay you

know what let's we'll we'll do that we'll we'll get that why not let's let's do that we'll get that done so what what's your story ben you mean man we're all very curious man chinese i know people are like no it's actually a lot of um historically there's been a lot of famous chinese muslims i mean the probably one of the most famous uh chinese explorers was um zanghu but his original name or her surname was ma ma is just short for muhammad so anytime you see a chinese name with man you could all some somewhere in the lineage maybe

travelers they they took the surname of is that the is that the ma that is the same as i remember matt was like you could write it in four ways whether it's

one of the and it meant different things that it meant obviously mother or it meant like starting oh does it mean hemp as well wow it's like from ma from marijuana all yeah wow so they write muhammad like that that's okay it's not a super popular religion but definitely in the west it's a big deal eastern turkish stan or um china but i kind of discovered islam just from personal exploration has always been a very curious person never the smartest

person but always the most curious uh i enjoyed reading american literature like moby dick and then after reading that book in high school it really kind of uh pushed me even further to find out the truth so i remember reading the bible i had a lot of friends who were christian um i ran into zen buddha studies and taoism but i really liked islam because of some of the philosophers i enjoyed were islamic like my mom has ellie i know you and even arabi i know you have some opinions on them but i really like no i i appreciate honestly i do appreciate i think i feel more and more

um with age i'm appreciating more and more these that the the mystics i'm really appreciating that yeah i think yeah definitely so as as as time progresses and i think of my affection towards the mystics within islam has just like profoundly grown yeah yeah i think it's because i grew up not atheist but agnostic so i finally you know understood hazel when he met you know their levels of knowledge of truth so you have your senses then you have science then you have deductive logic and mathematics like goldberg's theorem kind of not disprove

mathematics but show that deductive logic is flawed and of course the highest level is intuition intuitive your fitra right your natural religion no i don't care if you think you're in a dream or in a matrix or an illusion god is always going to be true objectively so i really embraced that i found this out the last ramadan so that's when i almost embraced islam but i do have two issues with it that's what i really came on so as far as the mystical part the taoist and sufi part i 100 i agree writes very similar to japanese taoism but i can't get over this fact and i

watched all your videos i watch other mufti's like you know even movie maker muhammad but it seems like long story short that homosexuality is haram dating is haram even if it's monogamous relation i'm in a long-term relationship with my girlfriend do i think it's for i just don't naturally feel it you know like i i really i read the quran after i took some lsd i listened to the i really enjoyed it

intuitively i i agree i was like this is what this is what um the western philosophers like uh you know um yeah descartes and some others found upon themselves i don't think homosexuality is intuitively haram can you explain you know my my issue you know sure so i mean yes so what a first of all epic journey i i want to say that you know i think your journey is amazing you know may allah bless you bless this journey of yours and it's you know it's just i want to say firstly it's just wonderful honestly it's amazing to just

just see you here like it's just you bring and uh you know you bring a reflection of diversity of this of of this path so yeah man just shukran for joining us and with these questions what so so okay and a kind of gradual approach to them is that first of all islam in its essence is not

okay islam in its essence is not the the rules and the laws in its essence islam in its essence is faith iman okay now iman is about con that connection with god it is this path this journey to god that's what it is so the the most part of the prophet's lifetime the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam was as a prophet was in mecca you know where there were no rules where there were no laws the prophet did pray he did do these things but faith

was in its very organic form that it was about connecting with god people did pray people did speak the truth they did these very fundamental things this is what faith was and in its essence that's always what islam has been that's always the crux then what's happened is as islam moved migrated to a place to to to set up societies okay it set them up that society needed rules needed and especially what's important

to understand is their society as in the prophet's time that not the society sorry the landscape was a very law-less landscape a very uh a kind of you know a backdrop with very little rules more kind of chaos so bringing rules meant bringing some structure to the people which always improves life because it shows it kind of puts life on a on a progression it puts it on because you start having some because you go from no rules

no you know people are winging things to you're hoping people will agree to now having rules that if somebody does this this is the law this is this this is that so as i've mentioned as well look islam did not introduce the concept of marriages in fact the hadith states i believe it's a hadith of she says that the nikah is that injure that the arabs had four types of nikkas she says and and it says and she says that and what islam did was it uh prohibited the other three so

and and she says and and the one we have today is is the one left now this wasn't the hadith clearly shows that islam did not invent the nikah it did not introduce to people that you need to get married people were already getting married they were already doing these things but many people weren't as well so but the concept wasn't introduced by islam it was just it was condoned as in it was promoted by islam so islam said look okay marriages the problem here was that you see when you set up a society from scratch

it's very important to understand that there's certain things that are at the bedrock of especially when societies are so small like medina they weren't huge it wasn't like a cosmopolitan city this was a town humble town now one of the most important things you need in a society is the family unit i agree you need to emphasize this especially if you're setting up settlements like you're starting the settlement of medina the prophet was setting it up he had he had laid down what was the first constitution when he went there

saying that okay which is called the mithakal medina with the jews and the christians saying that look uh okay and now mitha medina is still you know it's imprint as in people it's in the books of hadith so in it the prophet said well with these laws with the jews and the christians you know if somebody is injured on your thing we will take the responsibility as well we join in with giving the compensation likewise if we're at fault you have to join in help us

like strengthening these bonds with the with the interfaith bonds so okay then one of the things the profit immediately moved to in medina was the family unit in trying to stabilize that and outline its important importance now the problem with this is look the family unit entails responsibility okay now in sun human beings by our very nature we hate we're very averse to responsibility we don't you know like if if i had a choice to just not be responsible for someone or be responsible for someone i'd definitely

not be responsible for them you know if it's just a pure simple choice like you had to tick the box and then it happened so you see we don't want to be responsible sure in the moment we might think we do you see like responsibilities can't be left to emotions because sure if i'm feeling happy and loving then i'll be responsible but the moment i'm not loving then what so the problem here was that you see islam never like if you look in the sharia the concept of marriage is not an obligation nowhere in islam does it say anika is

fought getting married is an obligation because islam didn't invent marriages marriages were already being done some will be in a corrupt way so islam just prohibited those and it just left marriages as long as the people consent to it it's a marriage and people know it the problem is so the if you look in any of the books of nicaragua they'll give you the hukam what is the ruling of nikah so they say the ruling is just it's recommended some people say it's sunnah to get married because the prophet got married but otherwise they say it's recommended some say it's permissible so the question is what if a person never marries throughout his life has he done

anything haram scholars say no it's not haram because it's not an obligation to get married the problem now is okay it's not an obligation to get married people just wanna chill they'd rather just like you know just hang about have a fling and they'll do something and then when it's over it's over and then they don't want to really because they don't want commitment because they don't want responsibilities naturally the men are more reversed to this than women as even today you know that's still the case you know locking men down is the issue often so so what islam did was

it didn't force marriage upon people because it had to be a choice but what it did was it started prohibiting other things so the family unit responsibility was the option that you chose then if you want to do it because people were just like saying well no i'd rather just have sex with her and then you know don't worry i'll of course i'm gonna care for you i'm gonna care for you but we haven't really committed to anything but yeah sure but now that the emotions are off you know well you could care for yourself i'm out of here so what islam did and the person had nothing to

say because they weren't in any relationship technically speaking so what islam did is it said well instead of saying this is obligatory and then you have to force a relationship on people which is built on makarama which is an emotion of caring and you can't force that on people i can't say to you you know what you have to care for someone no it has to come from within so what it did is they said okay just being like just going out there and doing this is haram and homosexuality too i've argued i've said previously that it seems in my video i've got a video discussing homosexuality and islam

and diverse history so in that i say as well that homosexuality was something that was uh prohibited as a byproduct as well so just as going out there doing this and that just having you know just exploiting because often the prob you see the problem was it was often sexual exploitation that was almost maybe it wasn't every single time but if you were to bet it'd probably be eight or nine out ten times there was exploitation just going on like by exploitation i mean not just at a high level of exploitation but even like when you look at relationships

you see often as we still see now like a guy may just give he may just sell a bunch of hopes and dreams just to kind of quickly just to get in bed now the moment he's done that he's out of the you know he'll it's just to it's just for the kill and then he's gone now what this does is it shatters the woman in these cases because she loses faith in the next man and in men as a whole like you know all men are just dogs then because all men just want to do this coming let's go back to that initial

laying the foundations for a society now you need a healthy family unit you need children you need stable homes so anything else that is going to destabilize this construct was prohibited as a by-product to boost the family life right this is how these rulings yeah because they can't actively coach for marriage so they forbid other kinds of relationships to pass because kind of make you yeah because exactly because exactly because if you look because it could have forced you to get married but then that's just

a wrong in itself because if you force someone to get married you see you're saying to them that look every single person has to be has to be forced to get married so no what it did is it left it to look if you get into that state of mind that you want to be with someone maybe some people are hermits some people don't want to be you know you get people who remain bachelors or bachelorettes all their lives and they just they're asexual they just don't have a need most people are not like that but you get people like that now if islam will say every single person is to get married then it's an injustice to them so what it did is as a byproduct

it precluded the other things to say well people who are actively seeking these things well this is the channel then you take this channel because this channel will at least it aims for okay it aims for a stable family unit maybe some people won't have families but then at least by the very least it hits the mark with having uh responsibilities and rights because people know you're in a relationship that people know so okay this is how it was so this now that said there was another issue which i spoke of as well previously where i said that look

you bring now you fast forward to our day and age and i've said that look let's um let's be honest a lot of the fake which is the rulings and it is it is not up to date with our day and age like a lot of the fake is not kind of in sync with the challenges that we're facing so if you pick up a fit like i've got so many fit books here yeah now if i pick up a fit book let's say it's eight volumes seven volumes ten volumes the first volume

will always just be worship okay from wudu to hajj okay fine the rest of it is all in transactions marriages divorces you know justices justice code it's all of this and maybe a few pages at the end might be about etiquettes and manners and that's just a few pages but all the volumes in between are about transactions about and they're all going to be saying things like well if i had a bag of wheat and i did this and i did that nobody i mean i'm not saying nobody most people

don't do that today not one of them not one of the books will be discussing things like contemporary issues none of them have a chapter on stuff like like even currency we don't even have cryptocurrency isn't even forget cryptocurrency even digital currency currency has not yet entered entered the mainstream facebooks so they're so out of sync now okay and then the problem is a lot of scholars are sometimes intimidated to kind of issue fatwas or rulings that are contemporary

or up to date on these things because then they don't want to face any backlash and so they just leave it and maybe you might get some odd scholar gives a fatwa or whatever but i have said in the past i've questioned i've raised this this this challenge not challenge but this question to people to scholars and i've done it on my monday nights in the past few years back i said that look when you look at the concept of a nika islamically i've said the concept of a nikka islamically was if you look at the fit books it just says okay that acceptance from both sides

that a commitment sorry from both sides to be in an exclusive relationship with each other so this commitment that they're in a relationship then there is the concept that people know about it so it's not in secrecy it is known about and then there's some tertiary secondary conditions that not everybody agrees on so so so for example you give a gift now people say well the nikah can happen without having given the mahabharata can be given later on and some people say you even if you don't ever give it then when you divorce at least give it then okay so fine let's see

yeah i wonder what my because i've been almost three years inshallah okay so this is what so this this is the thing that i've raised i've said that look you've got people now there is another element as well which is a ritual okay so let's hold on the ritual so i'm gonna put that there so i'm putting the ritual aside okay i've said that there are people who today will do a secret knicker okay so they will do for example they will go with let's say a guy and a girl in a front room in a car somewhere

they've got two witnesses who are a friend let's say their friend friends and say okay uh i do this in the car with you have you accepted it you've accepted it okay or maybe they get an imam saab to read it for them or they do it themselves say have you accepted this nikkah okay and then they the person says yeah i accepted this nikkah as well and then it has done now they don't tell anybody they keep this and in fact they tell each other not at the time of nikah but privately they tell each other oh you can't tell anybody about this okay it's just our secret later on later on and many of these secret knickers turned out mostly to become incredibly abusive

maybe not always but awfully because nobody because they become exploitative because what happens is uh they sell the girls some dreams don't worry we're going to get married we're going to do this we're just just loki nika only my two friends know now then what happens is you know they probably you know they're happy to be and let's say the woman is only prepared to be in a sexual relationship if it's a serious relationship she says i'm only going to be in a i only want you know i don't want to play games with people i just want you know i want something meaningful so the guy says yeah you push and so

now he does this and then he gets bored and then he's gone like that now she feels used okay so she says well this ain't fear and okay now this is a different discussion but the point is nobody knows they were in any case so she says yeah you know this guy was married to me and people say married to you he was he was your where nobody knows about she says yeah well the only two witnesses were his two friends friends go i don't know what she's talking about i've never seen this lady before in my life many ulama will say this marriage this nikkah is valid

most ulama will say this nikaya's valley i believe that nikka is because it's not right you see you can't this way you tell the other person to just this must be a secret must be this we use we're you're hushing people this is just wrong it's against the spirit of nikah but most ulama will say that's permissible and valid so i've said look in light of that here's the question we're in these societies where you have non-muslims where they they don't go and register a marriage in the uk many most couples i would

argue are not registered as married okay now but they are in relationships that are everybody knows it's on all their social media pages that i'm in a relationship with this person and all their photos are together all their family know that yes that's his girlfriend that's her boyfriend they don't call them husband and wife but they call them girlfriend boyfriend which translates in their society as they are in a committed relationship and they they have commitments to each other so they they accept that you know we're exclusive they accept that or

we're going to share the costs for certain things they accept and even to break it off they have to break it off they have to say well you know i'm breaking this off why did they have to say that because you know they could just because they know that there's a thing that okay that they have to kind of say okay well i'm calling this to an end i've said well how is that different to a nicara because the thing is in in that society that you see it is a structure by which their society their culture knows now they don't do often most couples will not do a registered marriage they just don't maybe they do it some point

down but they feel that you know so many of them feel we don't we don't believe in marriages or we don't believe that we have to register or whatever their reasons but they're in committed but they're in transparent relationships you see they're not cheating one another they're not tricking they're not i mean maybe some people are but generally people are not now the only difference yes so the only one thing is ritual okay i accept that there is this thing about a ritual that gives something an extra shield like when you read some words and let's say a person

reads a ceremony and they go into it's like a rite of passage and therefore they take it a bit more serious when it comes to quitting like they feel they they think oh damn like i'm married this person do i really want to throw it away exactly whereas in this society what they might do is exchange a ring or they might um maybe even as a as a kind of partner they might kind of even though they haven't done the full marriage but they okay they lack a bit of the ritual element but other than that like so and the ritual i'm not denying it doesn't have it has a lot of power to it obviously because it adds that extra sacredness to

the relationship but that said this is the question i've asked people that if you're going to say a secret nikah is valid and a secret nikkah really doesn't couldn't care less about the ritual you know it's not it's just the ritual just like quickly do you say okay kabul kabul do you accept to say except okay okay you know this is the and if people most of the scholars legitimize it and it results often in abuse maybe not always but i would say definitely 60 70 of the time it results in like just a tragedy

then how can this be looked down upon despicably because this in in this culture is not something they take lightly they it's a commitment that they take so that's what i've argued but i accept that the feck hasn't really caught up you know people they're still the thick books are still talking about bartering wheat and barley and stuff i think you explained it really well that i i mean i don't think it's hard on frost doesn't think sahabi doesn't think it's haram i think they just haven't caught up to what modern i think look if if you are in a relationship look you are here saying in front of the world

i am in a relationship with my girlfriend now you see religiously islamically that would that would be called that would be called a wife now i i get in legal terms a wife can carry a legal statutory position which is different to a religious ceremonial wife like a religious wife because you could be in islam somebody could be your wife but then for a legal status you have to go to a registrar you have to book you have to create a legal process that's yeah so that's a separate thing i'm not you know that's a whole process people do it some

people don't do it that's their choice religiously the understanding is that there if you look in the fit books it's just a commitment isn't it it's that you have a commitment with this transparency and both people hijab well kabul they accept and then as the malikia say other people okay the the other methods say they need to be witness is that malakia say nothing about witnesses they say there needs to be that this needs to be known that there needs to be an announcement so they say yeah learn and if you've announced it on social media you people say i'm in a relationship with so and so they tag her into it this the world knows nowadays our lives

are on social media you know you want to know someone you go to the social media page what is this person what is the instagram page what is their facebook page what is the this page if people are announcing that this is my partner they call them partners yeah this is my partner i'm with this person it's my partners my life partner how is that not i would say it does recognize it now the only thing a person could say well the ritual but if they you know if they recognize this and they recognize that god is is a witness to this how is that does that not fulfill this condition so the

only thing i see is that look the day and age hasn't the fil hasn't caught up with the day and age and this there is a long time before all the fit catches up because you know people are struggling the scholars are kind of caught up in all their quarrels and all the kind of sectarian stuff and people are afraid to give new rulings because they feel that they will become targeted and people but what they don't realize is look islam was all about creating ease like let me let me tell you something look speaking about marriages and relationships you know in the time of

you had in the time of and this by the way by boyfriend's girlfriends i'm not speaking about the secret boyfriend girlfriends so somebody here just said so his boyfriend girlfriend uh marriage actually i'm not speaking about that the secret like the one some uh people have like that's just like a secret thing then like nobody knows but you're just my girlfriend or you're just my boyfriend i don't mean that i mean relationship so if forget the term boyfriend girlfriend forget that term if you are to say i am in a relationship i am in a relationship with this person

that we are partners that this is we are in a relationship forget the term girlfriend boyfriend because kids use that term as well right so you know people in school might say oh you're my girlfriend i'm not talking about i'm talking about if you are saying you are in a relationship with someone and this is public knowledge then that would stand the makaam of anika if this was announced publicly and it was recognized by both parties that they are in a relationship that would that would take that's exactly the definition of an it's idea so now now check this out in the time of there was

what are known as the apostasy battles and the apostasy wars and these are really popular and so many people spoken about them the riddha was they called them in arabic rita now what's really popular several tribes apostated from islam several tribes like bani hanifa is the famous tribe all these tribes they apostated from islam now they fought with the muslims and you know and whatever happened then people you know there was battles but following let's say a year later or whatever it was set several people came back to the fold of islam so you as this tribe let's take this tribe as

an example bani hanifa they came back into the fold of islam after having left islam and after having lived as kuffar nobody asked them to renew their nikah i think you mentioned this before yes yeah nobody asked them in the time of the the prophet sallam when the prophet's daughter was separated from her husband the husband hadn't embraced islam at that point and you get the and i've got a video on this as well now he comes to see the prophet's daughter and then later on he does

embrace islam but he comes to see and she offers him sanctuary in madina and the prophet says look you have to respect it she's offered him sanctuary he at that point wasn't a muslim he becomes a muslim later on the prophet doesn't ask him to renew his nikah it's been years when he came to see her and talked to her in madina at that time where's the nika she was the same nikka from years ago before she you know when she left makkah this he was from makkah he was so it's been years he's even fought against the muslims he was in the battles against the muslims

now a few years later he misses his wife and he comes to medina and the prophet says you know we and she says i offer himself nobody harm him you know he's my guest he's my like my sanctity is his sanctity and the prophet says she has extended like offered him uh sanctity we have to honor everybody now he goes to see her you know where's the prophet never said hey wait a minute you're a cafe and so you know this you're a non-maharam and even when he embraces islam later on the prophet doesn't tell them to repeat

the indica so you see these things you see what's happened is we've missed you know it's like we can't see that you know in the same you can't see the wood for the trees you can't see the forest for the trees people have missed the spirit of what the relationship was actually about it wasn't it was about the actual what it wasn't about saying i do i do that this was just a little structure that was put there it was about the spirit the meaning people committing the meaning behind it that they the emotion that they have for each other it's about sanctifying that

and what's happened is in in in the way we've kind of got lost with all the that you know some people with the letter of the law to the extent that they'll legitimize something that even if the result is doesn't have the spirit anymore you know in fact it's antithetical to the spirit so yeah i i i mean i i hope i don't know if that's been making sense yeah i would go into it more but it looks like some other individuals so we appreciate you i mean i still have a lot of questions maybe this is what happens when you just read a couple books you know you're religious but there's always so much to know and uh i'm gonna keep thinking about it

it's tough great to hear that you're also you know somebody who walks that path as well i think i find so much value in the salah and just watching your videos on honestly i'm so glad you've you've said that and i'm going to uh we'll get a video as well made about the actual salah being done i think it's right you know you said it we i never ever thought about it but now that you say it's it's kind of i mean there's other videos on youtube but um i feel like out of all the the shakes the only thing that i've seen i feel like i like you the most um your new haircut by the way it looks good so yeah i don't want to waste any

more guys time salon send me a message by the way on instagram and we'll connect there okay sure thank you welcome elevator another golden age people people that was benjamin wu some very compelling contemporary questions of great value we have been going on for quite a while as well man i need to whoa we've gone over you know what let's take uh who have we got here we've got

sardar and then we'll wrap up and it's been let me just see uh were bani hanifa asked to make russell mufti no they they weren't asked anything they were just they became muslim and that's it they just announced their islam and they were accepted um that's all so yep let me just uh right was there

um was usually as uh was saying usually a secret nika's harm yet and there's a difference between look i'm not saying you see some people like in a relationship they may both schedule it so they may say look uh so this there's a difference between a secret knicker and between people just having a private life so some people may think look you know what oh um you know we're in this relationship we're doing this in the car but you know

um this is how we're playing it and you know we're keeping ourselves private we don't want people really involved obviously certain people know several people let's say they're not announcing it to the world they're not going as in shouting on facebook and everything but it's not that nobody knows people around them do know and they're not doing it in a very um dark kind of this seedy way and both people are on board with it that's fine that's just look if two people are consenting and they have an understanding of whatever sort it's absolutely fine that they've obviously

if they if they think look we're only doing any car with a bunch of people you know my family or we're doing it with these people or only these people will know or and we're happy and you know right now we're both doing whatever we're doing in life that's just low commitments for whatever kind of commitments let's say they say oh you know people are independent they don't need this they don't need that people have absolute liberty and freedom in how they want to do things that's not what i mean when i'm saying a secret nika a secret knicker is the type we usually both people are not on board one is manipulating the other

to say well you know you shh nobody nobody no no no you know this is like this this is like and both people are not on board usually let's say the woman wants to i mean it could be the other way as well it could be the man wants to i'm not saying i'm sure there may be some cases like that as well but often let's say the woman wants to be in a knicker and and the guy's not willing to because deep down he knows look now but he's thinking well this is the only way i can get to have sex with us so i'm just going to pretend like i'll just do a really it

doesn't really count nobody really knows in these situations it's very exploitative and it's harmful because it's not transparent and so you're kind of tricking the other person so that's why it's i would say that's haram so yeah so that's that's what i meant i didn't mean you know you get like i'll speak to people they'll be in relationships let's say living completely independent from each other there'll be you'll see people they'll in fact in this day and age that's actually this there's a rise in relationships like that because you'll get you'll get

more and more people without you know passing a judgment people are entitled to their own lives more and more people relationships are breaking down so people are divorcing and you'll get many cases where in fact there was even a documentary where uh it was a muslim woman documentary where these muslim women where people are saying look i don't want a person always around i don't want a man in my life i don't want this but i just want some companionship and so you'll get you'll get a lot of this so a low commitment relationship is not the same as trying to [Music] be very hush-hush and manipulate and i

guess it comes down to intentions and i guess it comes down to manipulating so if the other person is not happy with it then you shouldn't trick them you should either just be straight look this is how it is you know if if you want to be like this okay if you don't then this is all we can do or this is but don't trick them if you're telling them yeah no it's actually going to be like this we're just doing this blah blah blah just for a couple of weeks a couple of things and then in out and then the person's devastated or sometimes in some circles you get unfortunately you know guide some people and may make it easy for

them you get with convert women they'll end up getting passed around and in certain you know the stories are notorious that they'll marry them divorce them then marry them to the friend divorce them marry them this is like it's horrendous so that's what i was speaking about in those things what i would believe are haram okay so right guys

yeah so somebody said look i've never heard of secret um that's so there are unfortunately a lot of these um going around yeah so that's to be clear so i'm not saying because i know some people will probably come with these just one of these just declaring all of these things i'm not declaring i'm saying if there's a mutual understand you know this is saying

that you know if if the if the people involved are both happy and consenting then it's nobody's business that's the the saying that you know then what can the quasi what can the judge do so that's what i'm saying it comes down to that those things are fine and if both people want to keep you private and private in fact to be honest you see we were speaking there um we were speaking about the greater non-muslim culture with benjamin wu this is how non-muslims do it in the muslim culture they don't tend to do usually these kind of things like girlfriend boyfriend and announce it and

stuff like that they don't tend to have that culture i'm not saying people don't do it but it's not the culture so it's different you'll find different practices okay so it's not uh but in the greater culture like in the british culture american culture european culture it will be that's how they're just in relationships they don't tend to get married but the relationships are you know tantamount to or equate to what we would call a kind of marriage it's it's kind of um you know equatable if you like to that so yeah i hope that um

shed some light yeah okay let's get uh and then what we'll do is we'll wrap up people uh assalamu nice to meet you finally big fan listening to you for a long time where are you joining us from saad i'm in new york well now i'm now in new jersey although i don't like to admit it new york just sounds so much cooler doesn't it a thousand percent yes america has that man i think it's just

the names of certain places sound so cool i mean i i am from new york i grew up in brooklyn new york uh for 25 years so uh i still lead with that but uh we had a few kids so we moved to the suburbs yeah all right man that's the big apple i've got a few look at that few new yorkers all right doing it man you guys are doing it so all right talk to us man share what's preoccupying your thoughts yeah so uh just some contacts you know i grew up in new york but i'm originally

from pakistan you know raised very traditional sunni muslim uh and i feel like through my kind of late childhood and early teenage years didn't really have too much religious education if you will more than kind of going to the masjid and reading the quran in arabic and so after kind of you know having a very i would say western experience in new york for many years i kind of found my my my way back to more of an intellectual approach to religion um in my 20s late 20s i would say and really what that led me to is listening to you know folks that like your cell

phones are yusuf other people um in the west but also reading the quran in english and that's kind of how i fell upon you because we i have a friend of mine who i call my brother really and we always talk about stuff in the quran like you know or just topics that people that we know that church pakistani people here even think are facts and we just sometimes can't comprehend how they are you know walking around believing some of these things or why they just accept it without actually questioning it and so actually the first time we saw your video was

uh related to the the ghazali uh sorry the um the um the hadith uh videos uh about um about the um not a contention that not all the sahih hadees are oh and you know we watched hours of that and uh that kind of really opened my eyes because i read the quran in english just so i can understand myself and i know that when i tell imams here that they say well that's quite dangerous you should be careful and so on so i've literally had that where i've told some moms that i'm reading the quran in english i have some questions they're like well

like that's like you being a school boy doing a phd level course and so actually i do have a specific question for you today really regarding only one of your videos but really i think thematically my broader question to you today is about learning because as a kind of person who likes to study and think through things and use intuition but also logical reasoning um i'm very curious about how i find the truth and honestly maybe part of that comes from you part of that comes from you know the you know other people that i listen to and guiding me but i i really want to end up in the

quran and and then kind of also use my intuitive nature to understand and process that meaning and that's where i'm struggling because i'll give you an example where you said one thing somebody else said another thing and then like my entire family and people i know believe it totally other things right and so me coming from this concept of like hey i i thought judy vader's was x and then like you know somebody else comes and says well actually no it's totally not that um and and i don't want to get stuck in those stories i think those are just examples because like you always say the meaning is more important so the example is uh so i just want to make sure that's

clear my question overarching question um is about how do you recommend somebody like me or others on here are listening and learning and triangulating to the truth um and on their journey because i really don't like to just listen to one person and say oh yeah like that person's 100 right let's go with that one uh i like to research read and then make sure it makes sense to me before i say okay that's the truth like eating zabiha halal for example that's what i did when i when i came to my conclusion of what i decided so in this example your video on hither and musa uh i saw recently

i was driving to yosemite for hiking and i was watching it kind of listening to it on the way there uh okay wow so uh that was like a week ago with my friend my best friend so that's what we do we listen to islamic lectures on the way you know there's music and stuff too but part of it is uh lectures um and we were listening to this video we started debating because in your explanation we got hung up on this thing about this being a dream or not being a dream and you know i know that you don't want to miss the forest for the trees you don't want to miss the actual meaning of what is hither representing and i just watched an hour and a half of imran hussein talking about that which i thought he

also did he also did a beautiful job of trying to explain you know like what is the takeaway of this story okay i don't know what chef imran says about it what does he say about it his contention you know he doesn't get into the whole thing about like is he a prophet is he alive and all that he's like don't ask me this stuff i don't know right which i remember respect he did he did his framework is that look this is a traditional scholarship versus a a kind of a i don't know what he calls it uh let's just say next level scholarship framing meaning musa in the example is representing the traditional conventional scholarship where you study something you learn it maybe you memorize it and you pass it on to the

next person and then they they do the same thing and they pass on to the next person whereas hitler is representing someone who is thinking and applying kind of intuition and and logic uh to the reality so he's able to pierce through what's at the surface and understand the deeper meaning and therefore he has a better knowledge a higher understanding of things and that's kind of what i took away from the the you know the story about the boat you know like why did he make a hole musa asked asked him the question because sheikh mohammed was saying well that is your kind of predominantly your current day ulama you know they see a goat they say that's a goat right um

they say like oh uh you know uh ribeye is interest which i totally disagree with um for example and so whereas there's he's saying that hither islam is in he's got the ability to and the inside to interpret um and that is you know and maybe that's that's what i took away from it as kind of a theme of an hour and a half but um that was the gist of his lecture and then he goes into other things as well and so what i'm trying to but he doesn't he doesn't position it as a dream which for me was like very interesting because you do in your video maybe i missed something because you you you i think

you said it was most likely a dream not an actual event that happened whereas the dream or a dream or a vision but yeah like a dream made sense because because they seem to wake up right so in the story he's with the companion or the boy and then you know they're sleeping at some point at the stone and then they wake up and they continue and the boy forgets to tell you know that they're bishop exactly so doesn't that indicate logically that it wasn't a dream because what i said is you know when they get up yeah they don't actually get up they're

still in the dream oh that's because because the mystic because the mystical part only starts from that point the journey gets harder right no because they go on the journey and it mentions they both go to sleep right but it says like as he gets up uh it says that musa alayhi salaam then says because it mentions that they go to sleep but then musa says to the boy bring me the fish like let's eat right i saw the fish kind of flying away it took a path like it says i saw the fish fly off

right and from here the the the kind of um super rational kind of journey the path begins right things not to happen that don't have a clear cause and effect so and one moment they're over here next moment they're in a ship next moment they're out of town so what i had said that it it seems likely that this is still whilst they're asleep they haven't got up from the and because i guess in the hadith it mentions that look the the prophets they their dreams are revelation as well

it says okay in the says that dreams of prophets of revelation so in in this this is what i said it seems to make much more sense um it's even the movement because one moment they're here next moment they're on a ship how do they build the ship where do they get on the ship doesn't it's just next moment they're out of town and the walls falling down and they're fixing the wall and so it seems to but all the points that you're saying about uh providing answers and being um having the kind of the autonomous uh initiative

to interact with the environment and to arrive at they still stand i mean that's still happening whether it's happening in in a vision in a dream or in uh in reality or sorry in a wakeful state it's still the meaning still the same the other thing is that i i feel that um all these incidents that happen with musa in his journey in his kind of travel with hidar it um it represented it was symbolic for something that musa himself in his life had been through so i feel even like so for example the

murder yeah it was because he had accidentally killed someone and he was carrying i think yeah i remember that so this is where you think um you know she didn't go into that part and iran hussain about you know he if if he's positioning it and his interpretation of it is that it is it's real it's not a dream then the murder part you know just say like allah kind of thing like we don't know right like he did it because the the the kid was going to cause havoc on his parents in the future and then his his example and i guess this is where the quran is it is interpretable right some of these ayahs are not clear

and his example was well look today you may have no offense to anybody you may have somebody who is for example a homosexual or somebody else who's doing drugs and it becomes an addict and ruins an entire family and leads them astray maybe this kid that was killed was one of those you know was something like this maybe and it was gonna kind of create it negative people do say and people i've heard people say that that look um that the that um it's because of what the child would have done in the future right so many people give that interpretation obviously that does it gives an answer it does answer the question but then it

opens many other questions like well why doesn't god stop other evil people like hitler before or the or the god of them um god killed them off before and why would god kill him off before he's committed the crime do you think that do you think that aligns with the christian concept of original sin because they're you know there's like shake with man in san diego he he's uh doing dawah and one of the things he always uses as kind of a tactic to open with some of the christians that come up to him is like well why does the bible believe in original sin why is why do you believe an original symbol how can a baby be sinful he hasn't done anything right

and this story where there i don't know how old this kid is that was killed obviously it's not mentioned it doesn't mention you know right yeah that's the only one where i get hung up a little bit but again it doesn't take away from the overall messaging i think um it's just like because that was the um that was in my video as well i explained that that was one of the the very difficult things that i grappled with for a while to try to understand this verse uh sincerely i didn't want to just brush it off or just and i mentioned that in my talk i mean people who haven't watched it do check it out it's on says

musa that is quite old now i think couple of years at least two maybe two three years old but um and i and i speak about this on it this whole thing and i go into more detail but i hadn't heard about what um imran hussain's views you know somebody put a comment here that um i'll just mention that look i somebody mentioned that these uh things you know that have been leaked online about sheikh imran hussain or something and i saw some messages and some people and since you brought up sheikh imran hussain um i just felt and somebody had put a comment here just to say um about

that yeah yeah look up everybody has their own yeah i feel that look what i was going to say is i feel that these things are categorically and utterly unacceptable right like you know there is a thing look i i don't follow uh and i've not been up to date with much of sheikh hussein's stuff i know some things i've watched some videos you know sometimes if there's something some people are sending around like i might end up watching a bit of a clip i get it that he's also he's different he's controversial in a different sense he's obviously very traditional in his outlook you know it's not like people

might look at me and think well you know well look just look how he looks but he's controversial and he's very kind of apocalypse uh oriented and he thinks about end of days they're all about the end of days and it is a bit doom and gloom and um i think it was a clip i watched uh a brief clip i only watched and i know it caused controversy amongst people that it was saying saying something about a verse of the quran lisa and this it's it's it's a verse which is interpreted by many people differently in nahum and some people think he's talking about jesus is a

knowledge of the hour some people said i believe haslam was three people said he was talking about the the quran other prophet muhammad sallallahu and what is the who he or it going back to so people have mufasa and you can open any tafseer book they all disagree but let's say people some people say it's going back to jesus now i don't know i think that's what hussein was saying but then moon doesn't seem to how do you go with that he is a knowledge for the hour so in the hadith it said some people had read this as he is a sign or a flag

for the hour as in a milestone like the hour is drawn closer so some people said well that's for the second coming of jesus and they use that and that has its own discussion but the verse in the quran actually doesn't say alam it says now there was a clip of sheikh imran where he says that look he feels that somebody mistakenly wrote elm and this got popular and this is what we have today in the quran now naturally i can that that's upset people understandably that's you know because that's not how the quran has been transmitted it's been transmitted and to

be fair elm if you're to say inna because if you're going with the understanding the who is talking about the prophet muhammad that this is a source of knowledge so in arabic you can even in english but in arabic sometimes in english as well when you want to speak about someone or something that is so um reflective of something you just call them the whole thing as if you know he as in he is excellence you know it's like that like they they use that in arabic like so in

it's like you're saying this it's he is itself his knowledge itself a beacon of knowledge about um about about this world and how you know about its meaning and it coming to an end or the end of it but the end of it is more about reminding you about the finite mortality and stuff and that when you look at creation from the beginning till now we are really towards the end anyway so him saying this it obviously it infuriated people and this was a clip i can't i don't know how old it is but i saw it probably a little

while back and so now that is by all means you know if you want to refute him and do that and uh and i'm sure i think he's probably refuted me in the past so i don't really have any affiliation with him but this thing of trying to you know there's a thing called like satar in islam you know there's a thing that if a person you know sharing these kind of things to humiliate people it is not the way of islam it is not the way of the prophet sallallahu islam it is not it is only partaking in a kind of a very

egoistic and an egotistic lust in just in kind of you know reveling in the misery of people because it's it's such a this is this is such a concept you know this this thing like think about it you know you could a person could be having let's say a person is having a meaningful let's say a person is having a conversation with their own partner with their own wife with their own husband with their own anything people they they talk in certain ways

they do certain things now for any you take anything of anybody's and you put it on social media for the world to judge you know it's like you strip them naked and you put them the and this and it it becomes a source of obviously it's there to humiliate them this is such a cruel and haram act honestly i these things so my my because somebody had messaged it my thoughts were look and my advice to people coming across this stuff is do not partake in things like this okay do not be people are honestly this stuff will weigh down on your soul do not think that you

you know will partake in this and it will just be okay you will carry a darkness okay by all means refute people you know i mean i don't i'm saying don't refute them just do your thing if you disagree ignore them but if you want to refute them you know that that's your thing do it but don't go down this path that will really you think sure it's harming i'm sure it's harming him of course it is but you're harming your own soul and humanity by degrading yourself to such you know stooping so low so may allah seriously

guide the hearts and showers from our hearts and protect us seriously from having this kind of you know these kind of like diseases of the heart to think like yeah to kind of revel in people's things because i i saw some of the things it was just today actually and you know people talking about it people sent me some links and and on whatsapp people were kind of sharing stuff and we should definitely it's it's so sad when you see it and then other people come in for another non-muslim and they start they're saying like look at how you guys are treating each other um one of the things that i took away from

this uh ramadan is and it was just one football randomly at the one one juma is the imam you know sometimes only one thing gets you you know somehow uh you know he said just think about how gentle the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam was with everyone even his enemies think about how gentle he was and i don't think we understand the the gravity of that um i i did want to come back to my uh i know it's getting late is the first kind of overarching question which is like this is just an example of a situation where i found myself and i actually felt compelled to come on here and ask you directly instead of kind of inferring

go for it um how do you how do you recommend we i i'm just talking about myself i don't know if it benefits others hopefully it does approaching these kind of subjects says you know like super cough i try to read it every friday it's one of those things there's so much in there like you sometimes randomly learn something new and i i read it in english and i have tried different uh translations um what's your what would you recommend all right because uh i'm really trying to piece by piece learn um the the what's in the quran and obviously that means reading the quran but then we come across issues like this where different people are saying different things it's very confusing

that's my problem is that it doesn't feel like we have a unified kind of ulama level messaging on uh what i would say are kind of very important societal topics like lgbt movement and you know mortgages and there's so much right there's so much new you were just talking about a topic before that even if you mention it at home people are kind of they get nervous right whereas in high school i have cut i have like nieces and nephews who are confronting lgbt and and as as muslims we don't know how to even interact you know and so i'm just trying to figure out how to continue learning and

i don't know if you have any advice that's a good one man i mean it's such a um right so there's a few things that i can say just as pointers and first firstly about the the the non-unified approach i i don't think that neces i think that could you know that could be seen as a weakness but it could equally be a strength that people we as muslims have uh you know a a diversity we could see as a beautiful diversity you know we um so long as we learn to

it's okay to be different we we accept that you see i've got a video on um and i do advise everybody who hasn't seen it to watch it it's about diversity in islam and it's called um it's it's called um which is called uh which meat is halal or something if so if you type in meat halal and my name and it says uh diversity in islam something like halal meet a case study or something like this the title is but the whole that whole section segment is

on me explaining what meat is halal according to what method and these are the mainstream views of the method and i'm reading and i'm referencing and i'm showing all the reference and you you understand that every method is just so different so you go from some methods to where most things apart from the very obvious haram right to the other end which was the maliki method where almost nothing was haram apart from pig so it's and you have this diversity in between and these are mainstream methods and i'm showing the books and i'm reading from them and i'm explaining that look

so what really counts is your devotion that was the the takeaway from that that whatever you go with these meats and these things don't reach god the only thing that reaches god is your devotion so it's okay for me to think that look if i this person this person let's say he believes music is haram and i believe music isn't haram that's okay you know like it's fine like if he thinks oh my god if a person does this it's such a that's fine you know that's his thing it's okay see i'm on my path i don't need to make everybody walk on my path

i think i think sorry on this one like i think the problem i see is and that's what i was trying to imply is like people are disrespectful and they just alright tell you you are you're wrong has happened to me like why are you doing something like this and you're just wrong we are not allowed to be imposing the faith on anyone we are not allowed like people do this thinking they're allowed to do it they're not allowed to do it the islam says that look first of all a regular person who's not even trained in sharia can not be telling people you know this

thing doesn't apply it can only apply in things that you have on and you don't most people don't have ilm on because they don't even know the they don't even understand like most muslims can't even understand the quran because of the language barrier so that's not to say you can't guide see there's a difference between guidance and between instruction so guidance is like a person says um let's say you say to your friend who's feeling you're not feeling well oh you know i i've been eating all these vitamins and i feel you know i've it's actually

improved in my thing and you know i wasn't getting a lot of sleep and i did this and you know i started drinking some green tea and i started doing this that that's not medical advice even though it is kind of but it's it's just like guidance you know in a non uh resp it's it's not we're not really harboring any responsibility you're just saying it like you're not imposing you're not instructing your friend you better drink green tea and you better do this and you better you're just saying look oh i i was doing this you know it's worked wonders i've read it somewhere i read it online that's fine like that a person can say stuff islamically oh you know i pro i've been doing this actually you know i've been growing i

you know why do you grow up here i've been doing this the problem is where people start instructing you need to this is haram for you to do no you're only instructed to take care of yourself you need to about things you know like so people are not even they're not of islam they can't so a person could say well i heard an alim say well if you heard him say he said it to you now the other person is equally following an island now you can say well my islam said his islam is wrong well listen none of your business what he's doing

you know you're on your path you know the whole point is not about becoming god or trying to you know tell people off this is this is where we've got it all wrong you see the whole point is about becoming a better person that i you know it's like if if i listen to you i think wow you know i want to be a better person by just listening to you not about you handing me a a a stick which i can now beat people with metaphorically to say well you i'm a better person than you because you don't do this that's just arrogance

you know that's the opposite of what islam came for so th this is yeah so i agree that people that do that that's absolutely you know they're just on a power trip using islam for a power trip that basically even if they didn't have islam if they had something else they'd be using that it's like people who just want to control other people that's not why islam is about you know you know you welcome people it doesn't matter you know that people are at different stages they're walking at their own pace let people walk you walk at your pace you know person says you know what you if you you pray a hundred and a full

you know you wake up fast every other day you do it don't you don't want to listen to music don't listen to music don't worry about the other person the other person's on their own path they'll come to it at their own time they may arrive at a different interpretation they may arrive at even more strict interpretation than you they let them be you know they they're taking their time they're all you know not we're not all moving at your speed even you weren't moving at your speed a few years ago so let's you know remember the softness the gentle nature this is you know you know

the quran says you know if you were harsh-hearted stern all these believers would have left you would have left who the prophet they would have left the prophet if he was who do you think we are with nobody you know it's like so if the prophet was to have been harsh the believers would have left him the quran says prophet was rahmatan you know a person came across it don't worry about it this person can prophesy don't worry person says look i'm only gonna pledge i'm only gonna come to this fall pledge allegiance i'm only gonna pray

one salah the tribe come and say you know we're gonna embrace islam but don't we know you're in a a difficulty right now we're not giving you any military support but it said that we're not giving any money we know you need money we're not giving no money jai we know you need help right now we're not going to extend any military support what do you say but we'll we're interested in the faith prophet said

you know who this is it man we you know what it is we really the true message we've kind of left it it's like we've got so caught up in these i just want to you know i want to extend control i want to tell people off i want to tell off my kids i want to tell off my siblings i want to tell off my friends it makes me feel more virtuous you know oh you don't even pray oh you don't even do this or you don't wear hijab or you don't do this you this you this who we to judge you know it's a person may have a heart purer than gold and

we may be full of you know i spoke uh i mean we're just saying a moment ago people sharing all this kind of stuff involved in backbiting involved in in the worst kind of back we're trying to humiliate people because you disagree with them you know that's not a pure heart god you know i would rather somebody that didn't pray but had a pure heart than did something like that you know because because at the end of the day it's the hearts that connect with god it's not you know you're standing up and doing this and that and it doesn't benefit god you know allah doesn't need your thing

sure if you're going to do it then the quran says you know if you really if your salah was meaning something then you you'd move away from these from darkness and horribleness but if you haven't then you know that's a big question mark so yeah so i mean yeah yeah sorry i got distracted but with with all of that but yeah so look with learning it's so tricky because this i mean it's not tricky it is a bit challenging because the resources are limited and especially in english whereas if you were in arabic there's

more available online there's a lot more available there's a broader discussion going on in arabic um in english it's very restricted you know it's only what's available sometimes you get certain things but it's difficult because it's difficult because you will get academics who have put a lot more stuff out there but then some of them may not be muslim and sometimes you're not sure that you know are they are they pushing an agenda are they not so sure just research look it's difficult but you'll have to make do with the best of you know whatever you've got so

um i would say yeah research explore um you know if something doesn't sit right maybe you want to explore reframe the question google it um i know google is sometimes one of the worst things but you can you see there's a method there's a method which you see for learning i um it's it's how i actually learn things it's like a socratic method of for learning and so what i often do is i will usually when i want to learn something new i will learn about the who's who in that first of all and then once i've come across the who's

who in this field or in this science or in this at least the key kind of people then i will ask a question like what if a question comes to my mind like like whatever like so like because once i've learned about the who's who's i may learn the names of some theories or something and i might say well okay what's this theory so okay now it'll come up what this thing is and then i'll and as i'm learning that i may ask another question hmm so what's this okay and i'll go off on a tangent learning about this then i'll come back to this and ask more questions and and i just learned by questioning so i'll just question put a question in and

then i'll read about the question and then halfway i'll ask another question now and go off and get that and come back and then i'll go back and go back to this point and change modify the question and you see because as long as you you are being led by questions you are being led by curiosity and curiosity it comes it goes hand in hand often with passion so you see just it's it has a cyclical motion so this is like active learning and then once you've done that i often just try to summarize to myself

what i've learned and and if you can repeat it up to eight hours after having learnt it there's a great chance you'll remember it and if you can repeat it after 24 hours after having learned it to yourself then there's like a an above 50 chance that you will not forget this now after 24 hours of having learnt it and if almost let's say a week after having learnt it you can repeat it there is i think the study showed 80 90 chance that that is now stored in your in your memory you're not going to be forgetting that so um yeah so that's how i often kind of like

that that's very helpful one maybe stupid question but um i'll say it uh anyways uh who is the uluma in islam today because you know honestly like i ask you this question because there's certain people that present themselves you know i don't know if they're saying they're ulama or they're scholars or whatever it is very confusing and the the reason and the intention behind this question is about authenticity and credibility and uh i know i don't speak arabic but like i have access to people who are arabic speakers i don't know i just

there's ways to get there maybe but it's almost like even just studying these people some way would be helpful and i just sometimes don't know like i know the teachers the people that reference their teachers like you know shakha youssef and um zetuna he references his teacher for example uh is there is that documented somewhere is it obvious or is it that was it unfortunately isn't obvious but you see to me i would say ulima are people who have studied the islam sorry who have studied the the sciences of islam um systematically and

studied it to the broad sciences so all of them um to some good level of cross but at least beyond intermediate and at least some of islam to an advanced level so it would be a systematic kind of study of islam now whoever's done that to me you know they sure that that's an islam of islam as in they are a scholar of islam so that's how i would see it to me i'm not interested in sectarians some people just see sectarian like if you're not from their sect you're never really an

islam and some people even from their you know own sector just to select few scholars they're the only scholars in the world there are no other scholars yeah i mean to me i don't think this is the issue that are the who i'm sure you will find people you will find people in all languages you will find people you know online nowadays with online there's so much available this but it's just with the ill me you know with the new academic challenges the problem is that many scholars are just like they're a bit timid to to tackle them because they're afraid of a backlash and

so yeah so you know maybe some edge towards it some many don't and so that's the the issue so those kind of issues but really i don't think you know if we're gonna be honest that most issues if you're just looking about the faith i'm not really going to be so controversial the message of islam really is to you know it's to almost it's it's to discover and then strengthen your bond with god through appreciating

through appreciation and gratitude and that appreciation and gratitude is demonstrated primarily to god but really through creation because either yourself just appreciative and grateful but also then extending that with action to people doing a an act of kindness doing this this is really what it's about and along the way obviously there's the academic look i i love the academic side i love the enemy side i love all of this i've you know i've been about this always and but i i do understand that you know at the core of the faith that's not

necessarily the the that's not like the heart pumping of the faith that's more like the fascinating you know that's like the muscles right like it has an appeal by aesthetic i mean it has an appeal to certain people um me included but it's not really the core of what the faith was about and people can get by you know i i like i mentioned earlier today i was i've listened to a lot of um this uh dr mizbahi's talks and a lot of his talks are just kind of like folk tradition stories

and they're not academic or ill me in that sense at all but i've realized you know what actually in many ways it was like art you see like so you could look at a sophisticated painting and and some people they just see the simple stuff but the sophisticated mind can recognize sophistication in even a simple story you can recognize how it evokes emotion and how it kind of touches on archetypes and how it it's like this they're basically there is everything for everyone according to their capacity

and you just have to kind of like you know you just have to kind of reel it out but yeah yeah i appreciate what you're saying it is a struggle but hopefully it will get easier you know if you can i don't know if you can but maybe try to learn arabic as difficult i actually started uh downloading an app during this ramadan because i was getting so frustrated with the the limitation but um yeah i mean it's a journey you know that might take a while as an adult but uh definitely i think that's a long-term solution yeah

trust me i feel that it's it's much easier than we think it's much easier you know i'm telling you it is easier because the motivation is there yeah you know one of the most difficult things about learning a language is the motivation to learn it because you see you have a novelty notifi motivation for anything like let's say somebody says hey let's let's learn russian you know japanese it's just a novelty sounds you know oh this sounds cute let's learn it now but that cute appeal will easily dissipate because the moment hard work comes into it that isn't you

know you can't you couldn't care less with that it sounds cute or whether it sounds you see it's not a strong motivating factor so you have to be driven whereas learning arabic for faith purposes is the motivation is very strong because as you start learning you'll start realizing i can understand very short sword of verses and you see it the fruits become manifest so it will pull you right in and you you you'll be really proud of yourself like let's say okay like you're learning chinese or you're learning spanish now even as you

start learning look i can say this you know oh uh i can say you know estoyaki aora i'm here now you know this i'm talking with but so you learn how to say these small things or but but the mo okay so you're a little proud of yourself oh i learned how to say that but it doesn't you know it's not i like the rewarding you have to be very committed to keep learning it because after you've said it and what whereas it's different with if if you if you say well wow now i can actually understand this verse

the reward will be like ecstatic like well that's good that's a great suggestion i've been thinking about teaching my my daughter i mean not me but having her learn arabic too because i just felt like it would touch my vicariously through your children i mean she's gonna learn i might as well you know oh yeah how old is your daughter she's five so um a good time it's a good time to start that's where they learn right kids very fast yeah that stage they'll pick it up like a sponge if you if they can learn it no it's a great suggestion i i think that that would definitely be it feels like it should be met it should be like something all muslims do and i've been

lazy i think about it but i think maybe now's a good time to try it yeah yeah no that's great thank you well assad it's been epic talking to you man for for really sharing your thoughts getting us talking about these things and okay stay in touch if you are on instagram drop me a message and i'll look out for for your profile thank you so much and uh uh may allah bless you for everything you're doing all the hours you're putting in and uh

right so i was great talking wow we spoke about some diverse things wow a lot of things yeah yeah i think you know the core message look you know what i was saying the whole theme is the answers are often within us we know right from wrong sometimes even if we don't recognize the detail we know you know we know when something is is off and and by off i mean like

it has this darkness to it we know and yeah that is we carry this with us in the fitrah and we need to really learn we need to develop all of us me included we need to you know work on compassion it is something honestly it's just take a look you know i'll wrap this up with just this that you take a look at the hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam in his mosque and this person comes in and just takes a leak right there

i mean just really just unpack this hadith this incident just look at it i mean just let's take it apart somebody comes out and flashes his knob right there sitting there it doesn't even say sitting he just probably whether he because most remember just because the prophet salallahu taught us the prophet would uh crouch and and relieve himself and because it was less contaminating and it was you know there's less of a kind of flash you know

kind of like splashback and stuff like this but even in according to many of the methods even according to the maliki fair imam alex fatwa there's no there's nothing wrong in islam about a person standing up and urinating i know that hanafi mother disagrees and that's their view but the other methods like imam alex's mother is not that and um and and imam malik transmits from many you know people would do that they would stand up and urinate and the real issue was simply about hygiene and getting it you know if it splashed back and stuff like this so imam malik has that fatwa in his mother you can read it he says that there's you know there's nothing

it's really just about cleanliness it's not a halal haram issue like that so most likely the person just stood there and did it but even you know if he but he comes right in front of the prophet and he this is what the person is doing look it's just flashing himself no sense of decency that look how obscene that is just to to to do that be comfortable people just take your your appendage out right and then he doesn't stop there he doesn't stop there this is look this is the holy of the holies if you like this is

according to the maliki madhyab it is more virtuous than makkah where the prophet is buried in his mosque according to i know according to the other mothers makkah is better but according to imam malik and the maliki method when i'm maliki medina is more virtuous than the prophet's mosque it's the most virtuous place more virtuous than makkah and the kaaba that's the maliki method this person comes into here violates people's private space by just exposing himself doesn't stop there just

pollutes it by just urinating in a masjid with people sitting there the prophet sitting there look at look at how offensive that is understandably so would be so offended i mean that's that's imagine a person just walking into your house and i don't just even if they just turn to imagine somebody walked into your house for whatever reason let's say there were somebodies that came to give a delivery or anything just walks in and even if they turn into a corner and just

took a leak [Laughter] somebody comes up to your car just stands by let's say the tire even just takes a leak with you in the car like imagine or by the door can you imagine now now take it up crank it up to the level that this is a masjid and it's not just any masjid that is the most sacred masjid in islam or the second most according to most muslims

is amongst the most sacred land on earth this is where where it is person comes and does this look at the audacity you're talking imagine you're talking i can i walk in i'm looking at you talking and i just stand here and i just start urinating the disrespect that is blatant disrespect to the to the nth degree the sahaba infuriated understandably so enraged

where's our swords they want to go for i mean that's a bit much but you can understand this is what just in an act of rage or some people okay let's not let's i many of them probably wouldn't have had the swords with them in the masjid but ah in a rage the prophet stop stop stops all of them sit down

he's already urinating don't make it because don't make him don't interrupt his the guy is urinating you know if you somebody's urinating and you're trying to force them to stop it could arguably people say that it's not healthy for the bladder to to do that

you know this person is doing all of this and the prophet is concerned about him he's concerned that your heart it's going to harm him the guy you know he could harm him you know he's already begun damage is done now you know whether he urinates a bit more or you know he does i don't know 250 mil more or he does 200 mil less well he's already done most of it so just you know he might get some harm let him let him be

he finishes he gets up arrogantly oh nothing he's like blase what's the common sense thing imagine somebody came i said urinated first thing a person would do if they didn't completely blow into a rage and destroy the person it would be to say well you better clean that you better clean that now this is how understandably so understandably what does the prophet do what does the hadith say this is in the s

who brought the prophet brought he brought the new ban a bucket with water the prophet went and bought it himself he poured it over it himself cleaning the next this guy this insulin arrogant stubborn obscene disrespectful belligerent person who walked into the mosque and did this the prophet is cleaning after him urinating after him going to the toilet relieving himself

and then the prophet and this guy's standing there looking at it and just walking away and the prophet just says to him he says this is a masjid he says it says it's not befitting really for a place of worship to do things like this

the person is so shocked because he could see the people fire in the eyes of the people around and the prophets told him off and he doesn't even reprimand doesn't even rebuke that's like the person coming into your house doing you don't even say what the hell are you doing you don't you go and you clean it up after them you get disinfectant and you start cleaning and you smile honestly this i'm telling you this

this is why the message spread it didn't spread because you know people think it's spread because oh the prophet was a politician the prophet was a statesman the prophet set up you know he's he set up a stage he set up things like this this is why the message spread it spread because of that character that you know just let it be like oh it's cool it doesn't mean look it doesn't mean that the prophet never used to get hurt he did people's actions would offend him but there's a way that we respond people is getting late

emotional let's wrap this up you know what it's been awesome um allah bless you all if you want to reach out to me instagram i usually do try to reply to people uh you're more than welcome to go to patreon if you want a more detailed interaction um and if you want to be a part of the discord which i've got which is mindscape and also if you're interested in the one-to-one perspective sessions then that's all on patreon as well other than that people much love to you really i've gone on so i really you know you guys are putting in so much time just watching this i hope some of it

makes sense have an awesome day wherever you are much love stay blessed [Music] people