The World's Your Oyster | Meaning With MALM #30

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where is this i have to always go through you know on one hand this it's good to see that so many sessions have already been alright so today we'll be taking a look at the world's your oyster people the world your oyster right from the time when shakespeare said it up until our age today and let's take a look at some quranic guidance reflecting that so okay

what else i thought you know for a historic um story the strength in stories or stories of strength that we share i thought you know what i was going across um a character or some personalities in history and i thought you know what let's share this it's from the era of the mum looks people so what we'll do is we'll give a brief intro to the mum look set up but this won't be all about the mum looks i don't write his name there mamluk sultan from rags

to riches because i thought they'll be more of a a shock factor if i don't write it since he is before justin bieber you had rook nadine bieber's bieber's people biebers so who was this bieber's and what was so special about him he's considered really the the true um [Music] pioneer of the mamluk dynasty

not in the sense that he's the first he's not the first but arguably the fourth or the fifth but he's the true sultan who lays the foundations for the dynasty to come and really with this in mind today just focusing on understanding our our role in this world so what does that mean so that's what we'll be taking a look at now let's see who we've got online

i think that's what you want to write you ruin as as alam but it's snowing in yorkshire you know i totally can't underst can't understand the weather here it gets sunny then i'm thinking whoa it suddenly got warm and then today i'm thinking whoa it's cold and in some places it's snowing

honey we are all well sugar the kind of the the establishing or the of but but in a bold way

in saram as in when something is settled al-haq of the truth so whilst people are tuning in some easy all right clicking like clicking share it

is indeed people you've all heard of the justin biebers and the believers but today we will be taking a look at what a personality yeah what a personality much love to all my friends from darwin australia the land down under darwin

over the heron outfit mufti amazing this see this is uh i have to pay people for praising me like for massaging the ego yes right actually some water then we'll move to coffee ah why not

whilst people are tuning in clicking like clicking share what we'll do is uh let's take a look at some quotes and then we'll see some comments right so as always i thought what's befitting the world's your oyster people the world is your

you see whoever ceases it was there was a [Music] i'll come to it but first of all by mawlana jalaluddin i love the quotes that people attribute and you know sometimes somebody said to me that mostly some of these quotes may not be attributed accurately like this respond to every call that excites your spirit although i do feel this does sound like uh mawlana but even if some are not somebody said to me that some are not

i said well you know but does it make a difference the message is just as accurate but this does sound um like the message and reminding us to to respond to that i left this since it was quite relevant it was from last week's but i thought vah you know when it comes to seizing the world or the world is your oyster though

is [Laughter] that in these two portions my life has been distributed it's not your age yet um it's no longer your age to do these things so true honestly so true i love the matchstick thing this was actually the poem i wanted to share

um is one of those legends people one

that the path of life had found itself caught up between the intellect and between awareness he says see this is obviously in reference to the transcendental the transcendent

the divine that i passed through an ego annihilation or ego death for now right i i thought wow you know that was really powerful so why not why not i can see underneath there was uh it's like

oh right there was another there was a poem that uh was underneath i'd i must have put that there by mistake it says cafe well

but i think it's actually kofil kital that should be better that wa no swearing this that means to open in arabic means to open okay like to open the door they say nowadays people don't say as much because of the english

but it says that refrain from fighting he's saying this to his beloved his beloved to to her to her he says because it's to the feminine the the pronoun is to a feminine that kuffil

that open the the kind of manacles and the chains of your prisoners of war allah hey what he means here is by love of course it's it's all a metaphor he says uh he says and it suffices what these eyes of yours have done to to the people the devastation that they have

that they have done what a poem right so let me take a look what are you guys up to what's going on right right so siddia

the famous gramerian allah who has an incredibly popular commentary on the book of siva way nabil khan right owning your destiny today's talk is about owning your destiny well done the world is your oyster that's what we want to talk about that a person

has to seize what they have there was a poem that i um in a lifetime in a almost a different lifetime allahu akbar seems so long ago now that in my days in damascus i had uh these people make a i had a stamp with a poem on it

ah the follies of youth and it said on the it was a poem it said i had made it into a stamp a seal and i would stamp my books and everything with it it said that the attaining the attainment of objectives of goals is not by just wishing

it's not just by tamani but that the world in order to be taken must be seized wow so that's layman's extra musty please don't be so cute come

[Music] [Laughter] all right so nora shukran much love for the super chat any thoughts about the will smith incident at the oscars wow yes indeed the world has been taken by storm by this incident

right so i mean this so there's some speculation was this staged which although i don't um i'm not sure i um lean that way but i don't entirely rule it out um i think it's this some element of plausibility that it may have been staged considering that pfizer were from what i've read that pfizer who sponsored the oscars are on the verge of announcing a

treatment they're in their third phase for a treatment for alopecia so this has kind of got the whole world now talking about alopecia so i mean it's there's an element of plausibility although i'm not saying it is but it gives it some possibility that said let's go with it being real right now

personally my understanding is that look you've gotta you've gotta understand something i i don't think it's okay that will smith in front of the entire world smacks a man and then receives an award and a standing ovation

it you know that for making a joke that he just goes there and just smacks him across the face that is not acceptable and you see you've got to let's go with this being real you've got to to pause and take a step back this is how i see it you see this man chris rock is a comedian as is or was will smith it is his job to crack jokes now

the oscars year in year out they do a performance in which they roast celebrities that's part and parcel of the oscars they do every single oscar this is nothing you know this is just run-of-the-mill ordinary performances there's nothing this is not like oh it was a surprise so okay let's put that on just just acknowledge that secondly a person has to understand that look so if if you are very sensitive so if a person

is sensitive to jokes they shouldn't go to a comedy show because they're sensitive to those jokes so okay this this is not the same as a person walking down the road and somebody hurling abuse at them this is not like that so i did see a bunch of comments where people were like was saying oh this is defending the honor this is nothing like that nothing like that okay so this is not will smith was not walking down some street and he got jumped or his wife was getting

harassed or they were sitting at a show which has a which the part of which has a roasting segment in which they roast celebrities because these are public figures who actually thrive which is part and parcel of that celebrity lifestyle so okay so put that aside the other thing is as far as this joke went so chris rock said a joke about jada being gi jane because you know she's bold this was in all honesty a very mild joke

considering the jokes that have been said about jada since she herself publicly with will smith have gone on national tv and told the world that she sleeps with other men for her happiness because her husband will smith cannot give her that happiness so this just to put this in perspective

so jada has gone on national tv and explained that she needs her own pursuit of happiness which she's not getting from will so she sleeps with other men august and other people that she's you know been with and the only person who decides that is her and ever since the internet has roasted the hell out of jada and will smith so you know all things considered this was a very lame joke it was nothing compared

to how you just need to see the memes about will jada and her entanglement to to see this is nothing so him saying gi jane another point is will actually laughs at the joke so will laughs at it until he sees jada is not laughing at it so okay so that's another thing so they show him he's going good joke and then he's like oh okay this one like so look then the internet has brought up the

internet's this you guys gotta love the internet internet has brought up a sket uh a clip of will smith on stage cursing a person with alopecia so you just if you youtube now will smith making fun of a bold person it comes right up he was doing this exact same thing he was on stage cursing a man because of alopecia and boldness so right these people understand these things they they're comedians you know that's their lifestyle they make jokes

but to say that look it's okay to go and attack a comedian because the comedian is making a joke that is offensive this is really just part of a this kind of uber woke uh fanaticism because look just just pause for a moment put all of this aside

freedom of speech the primacy and the importance of the freedom of speech let me tell you look i saw several muslims celebrating as well and several muslims didn't it's this was just like the rest of the world i mean it's not like muslims were on one side but you see certain people saying this now let me give you a spin on this you see you say la illah

that all other gods are false that is highly offensive to people who believe in those the gods and many people including muslims we value faith above other things so above the honor of their wife would be to certain people the honor of their faith when you say that all those gods are fake and false

you offend many people who worship these other gods would it be okay now in india let's say and we can see the right-wing fascism that is increasing as we speak in india would it be okay for them to get burned down muslim houses because they say well this person is offending me by saying la illaha i find it offensive they say i find the quran offensive because it

it it claims the falsehood of all these other gods does that give people because they're offended does he give them the right to burn the quran now does it give them the right to to to attack muslims because because they're offended

their sense of honor for their religions you've offended them clearly you've offended them if you say these idols are useless you know the quran says that what are these statues you know these are malacca they can't speak they can't do anything so offensive to people that worship these tattoos does it give them the right to to start burning the so exactly so now you start to understand

why it's important to have freedom of speech to have uh to be able to say many muslims i don't believe this to be true in fact i believe it to be insulting to the prophet salallahu al-islam but unfortunately many muslims say the prophet married a child they say the prophet married a nine-year-old that is highly offensive to many people i mean it's offensive to me it's offensive to many muslims who don't believe that they say that's insulting but there are still many muslims who believe that unfortunately and actually go around

saying that that's okay to do if the you know provided the law of the land doesn't stop it that's highly offensive does would that give the right now for people to start attacking and burning these people and beating them up or shooting them or does it no like you see so we have to understand first and foremost that speech must be protected even when it hurts and offends you

it must be the quran when the prophet began teaching the quran to people he began on the very premise that i do have the right and the freedom to say this and i know it is offensive to the to all of you in makkah i know it's offensive so just you know when people go on this part of this militant woke brigadism i think they should really be careful and understanding the implications and

the ramifications of trying to rob society from free speech because believe me it won't be long before this monster turns back on you and they say well actually saying this about the prophet that this person did this this you know we find him offensive but maybe they won't okay maybe this won't happen in the uk maybe what doesn't happen in the us but it happens in other places maybe it happens in india maybe it happens in other parts of the world they turn on muslims so it is always important to defend freedom

of speech even if it's offensive and if a person as far as mocking and ridiculing jokes are concerned well you see this is i i sometimes it surprises me that how people struggle to to to understand this topic you see there is something known as set and setting or the context so for example a comedy show is a comedy show you know stand-up comedians they are comedians watching comedy sketches watching comedy central watching these

things are comedy shows of course they're going to have jokes that are offensive but if you're offended just don't watch them it's as simple as that so that's where i stand with all of these things i i do think i mean i do think there's a chance this was staged i think there is a chance this whole thing was staged but uh because that slap seemed a bit i don't know it just didn't seem and in which and it could be that pfizer have staged it for the uh upcoming treatment for alopecia but it could be that this was real in

which case i find it unacceptable that a man could get up a man who himself has roasted so many people and in all honesty he only did this because it was chris rock i mean if somebody else had cracked that joke who would have been bigger than will smith or if they if or as they saved the other rock there's no way will smith would have got up there and did that so it's you know it's just responded in a very erratic way yeah so that's my thoughts on it but i will say you know i did want to add to

that putting all of that aside it's interesting watching the it's interesting watching the um [Music] the kind of disintegration of a popular individual a celebrity a world renowned you know oscar-winning celebrity like will smith you know a man who in many ways has it all you know money fame

accomplishment assets family children you i mean love you tell me he has it all and there was a period where it felt like that will smith was um you know he was on his way to enlightenment i don't know if you remember he was doing a lot of these videos with uh what's his name jay shetty and on he on spiritual enlightenment and he was speaking about different some faiths and you're speaking about the bhagavad

gita and he was speaking about just spirituality and you're speaking and he was and he was dropping some gems and so he was seen to be on his way to enlightenment but it's amazing that this kind of down spiraling i and i do feel it is uh this is my take allahu alam i feel this is really jada and especially since you know this discussing on public on national tv that she that he isn't enough for her and that she

needs to go to other men i mean i feel after that it's just been a rapid decline for will smith but it's fascinating just from a safe distance spectators observing and seeing where somebody has the entire dunya has everything and one could ask for you know he's from wealth to health to you know good looks to wisdom to

legacy to i mean and still young and healthy and and yeah you know i guess we make dua we make dua for everyone you know we should always pray for everyone's betterment you know i mean it goes to show that money wealth accomplishments in and of themselves cannot do not guarantee inner peace that a person can have all of that and still be so broken

may allah make things easy for everyone who is struggling i mean right so yeah get rid of hell yeah that would have been number one you know sometimes i do think to myself that you know if i had to deal with such and such problem like once you look at some people's problems and you think you know if i had to deal with these problems you know by the end of the day they'd be resolved

most of these problems would be fixed [Laughter] but then we have our own problems that's how it is isn't it we can all deal with each other's problems so effectively khalid sayrafi but does he ha really have everything

he says he says if we have your love then the rest doesn't matter he says all that is this is an epic line of his though he says all that is above the dust is simply dust

right so um right so people what is going on well what oh i missed the super chat sorry riffy johnstone shook him much love for the super chat allah bless you

can a muslim of the i thought again can a muslim donate their body to be a cadaver for uh medical students who are studying to be surgeons right this you know these i've okay i didn't not this exact question but i've discussed previous previously on organ donations and

in many ways uh this is very similar because it's about donating your body for a greater cause or a greater good when it comes to organs i mean there's very specific that they're going to be helping someone specifically here it's more about helping the the greater cause of science and medicine yeah so i have got a very detailed uh i have got a very detailed

uh video on this so do watch that so it does cover a lot of this as well i do think that you know when it comes to donating the body or donating body parts organs it's it's a big taboo especially in muslim communities although from an islamic perspective um there would be a a difference of opinion so there will be some people who say no it's categorically haram and what they lean in on is a hadith

which states that to harm a dead body is as is as is to harm a living person so to break the bones of a dead body is like breaking the bones of someone whilst they're still alive now this fatwa is a very modern fatwa so not to be fooled just because they're quoting a hadith not to think this is the fatwa or a thousand years ago because a thousand years ago you couldn't donate body parts this is just in the very last

couple of decades that this has become an actuality or a few decades at most it's not um prior to that nobody ever spoke about these i mean in the in the few decades prior to that there was some speculation as a hypothesis but centuries ago people would obviously this was not this was just you know imagination wild imagination so that's that group of people on the other hand you will have other ulama uh including the great uh maliki um

islam from tunisia says it is permissible to um [Music] to donate the body or body parts and that's in the 60s i believe he gave that fat to our 60s and 70s so and he was the great sheikh of islam following and he was his successor and the grand mufti of not only tunisia and the malikis but also james a tuna in tunis so and their arguments were that it's

for the greater good and what is the point you see when when we're buried the body disintegrates regardless so in my previous clip i highlight that if we i feel right i feel that really beneath the veneer of this fairly discussion is a human fear okay and that's what it is it's more an emotional irrational

fear so you see many people [Music] they not many most people almost almost everyone can't envisage death okay we don't know what death is like so and it's difficult understanding consciousness or the rule without the ego

but it does exist and it's fascinating in fact the book of this month which we should be doing a book review on friday why i changed my mind um by michael pollan which is about psychedelics and it speaks about people that take that journey uh into ego death but how you see people who discover that consciousness does exist beyond the ego because they experience that so okay so when people picture death they still picture the ego so they think well

i'm lying in a grave so they think lying in a grave is like just lying there forever in this grave that's what they so they're picturing it um it's like an atheist once said that you know he said what frightens me is he said i don't believe there's anything after death i'm not afraid of anything because i don't think there's anything after death but i'm just afraid of doing that nothing forever you know just lying there doing nothing forever like that uh you see so people still think that they they picture

themselves still there so it's this envisaging that people are seeing that they're reacting to emotionally and it's terrifying to think somebody's cutting you up so this in my opinion is what is driving the

that camp of people who say no to uh organ donation okay i hope that helps right so uh azerati shukran much love for the super chat um um

all right so does islam dictate that we can think and not think or is it our god-given right to explore the depth of our consciousness i not so does islam dictate that we can think and not think or is it our god-given right to explore the depth of our consciousness i don't see them as a binary but okay so islam obviously allows you to think and it is your right to explore the depth of consciousness whether you'll arrive at that or not is

another question but yeah you can and a person should and i tell you that look one of the things that they uh in this book which we'll be covering um how i changed my mind or why i changed my mind by michael and they cover in in the book it covers uh the default mode network which is a set of structures within the brain that collaboratively produced this uh network if you like

that is responsible for arguably responsible for the ego okay because they found that these and it includes different structures so this part of the the frontal cortex there is part of the pcc the um um you you do get different posterior singular cortex there's part of um there are different regions that are interacting together to produce a phenomenon which is the

self-referential the autobiography itself and what they find is that that self is also like the autopilot in many parts of our lives so um if you think about it how much of our life is just switched on to autopilot so and in this book they use the um they use the example of a robot so they say that during our lives so much of it the robot becomes active

and it does all the things if i'm making coffee the robot becomes active um i'm sitting down i'm watching something it will become active i mean at some point it doesn't the the active you takes over the executive command network takes over where you're doing things but if we constantly keep doing things it's draining and taxing so the robot within us takes over in the brain and does things on autopilot so to speak now

that that makes sense and it's good but the problem with this is that it is what seems to be linked with or correlates with uh a higher sense of depression um so they found people that could mitigate or keep in um you know keep in mind the default mode network by remaining in the now either through meditation through mindfulness through other things it

it did it did diminish the ego slightly the sense of not not entirely but what it did also was it counters elements like depression and especially um deep depressive states not just the occasional depressive state but deep depressive states so that that is fascinating i have to say and on that note i was going to say that people should occasionally you know get into a habit of it

we should get into a habit of being mindful even if it's an occasional so when you're sitting down at some point just occasionally become aware of how are my arms resting on this chair how is my back how does it feel my legs resting what about the way my feet are on the floor the way what sounds can i hear right now what do i see what that does is it brings you into the now and develop a habit of whenever you can

even you know you could just begin this once a day maybe when you're driving at some point just suddenly becoming aware of you and a good way to do it is first of all by bringing it in to the body so you kind of zero in that where are my arms resting what are my hands holding on to how are my thighs rested against the chair how is and when you start doing this you start locking yourself into the now what sounds can i hear can i think of three different sounds i can hear right now you see

can i smell anything right now cannot you see by doing this occasionally maybe you do it when you wake up maybe you do when you're driving maybe you can do this just sitting there at the office or sitting at your home at your office or whatever it is that you're doing if you make a habit of this you will see the qualitative difference this is mindfulness by the way bringing yourself into the now and you may think well what's the benefit of that but it has profound benefits

because you you are it will show you will see it shining in your focus in how you become focused which will have a knock-on effect in life so obviously i mean mindfulness has much more to it as well just as meditation does but this is meditation these are elements of it so okay cool all right let's move on

what's this mufti um death and right right okay cool let's move on people so i wanted to go over a verse with us for today for quranic guidance

and that is from surah hadid okay so verse 20. now many people look at this verse and they take an understanding but i'd like to explore different positions of being able to when i speak of superpositions and how the quran can give you as many it can bring as many deeper meanings to you as you bring to it in terms of reflection

and contemplation and also where you are in life and what's happening in your life so whatever's going on with you you bring that perspective and then when you read the quran it speaks to you in a way that is all although it's generic but it's addressing you specifically so out of shaytan

now this beginning straight away what we're looking at is the world a a picture and an analogy a um an allegory a landscape is drawn of this dunya in this verse in suratul hadid verse 20. that know the life of this dunya

allah is explaining what it is what this world is and what is it fun and games this world is fun and games wazinaton between you self-glorification almost in a boastful way

and trying to excessively out do one another in your in your wealth in your legacy in your offspring and one way this doesn't just mean having more children although it could mean that as well but also takathor can also mean not just feed the fiata del alert but in the achievements of your alert

in in what they achieve you are competing and vying against one another this that is a snapshot of this dunya now somebody may say okay so one way to look at that is well that's horrible or not sorry that that's negative okay many people look at it like that but another way to look at this is that that is the dunya

you see that is it this is it this is exactly what god has made for you he's put you in this world and this is what the world is it's fun and games it's achieving it's obtaining its amassing wealth and legacy

and one way to see that is there's nothing wrong with that why would they be since that is the very essence of the dunya so you see this verse allah is beginning by beginning it by saying no with certainty

and then allah describes the dunya in its entirety this is what it is people you know it is but a game but it's your game now don't don't take it too seriously i guess but play away

you want wealth obtain wealth you want qualities obtain qualities attain them you want to compete compete there's nothing wrong with that since it is the very building blocks of this dunya that allah has created

then allah gives an analogy it is like a like a rain okay a very healthy rain height in arabic is different to mata matar is just rain is that rain which

yields harvest harvest and produce and it's fruitful rain you see because rain can be rain can be a curse as well in the sense it could ruin your day it could ruin it could be a nightmare some places it just doesn't stop raining it's not bringing about any fruit it's just raining nonstop that's just matar wraith in arabic

is that rain that brings about that is fruitful rain and allah gives the example of the dunya [Laughter] you see who says the dunya has to be negative who says it's something you have to run from it's a beautiful place enjoy it it is fruitful you see great

now people understood from kuffar to mean kuffar like disbelievers but the way uh ibn ashur explains from ibn massarud radhillahuan and other people kuffar actually in arabic means farmers it means those people who dig the ground and the plow the the kind of fields and they cover so kathar means sutter in arabic okay and kufar is disbelief but kafur is satur satoru shay to cover something so ajabal kufara

right so those people who who who were farmers see those who were the people because rain could come anywhere but to people of harvest to farmers to agriculturalists it's a blessing

they were pleased with it and that's ironic because in that sense the kuffar is then being used positively if we're looking at it through that lens some now notice then what happens so you've got nabata who the plantation you've got whatever is emerging the crops

it starts to kind of shake it's growing there's growth and then it turns and here it's mentioning a yellowy a yellowish color of the crop that it's ripening so and then

it becomes now hotam can be something that is cut into pieces it can be something that is then collapsed it can be something that is also seen as finished it depends it can mean many things it's it's in one way it's it's quite a word because it's speaking about the harvest but it could be speaking about it as stacked cut up it could be speaking about the debris that is left behind

but we're seeing this process and in the end there is a difficult suffering severe suffering and a pardoning all of these are from god mean allah

and a sense of being pleased and the life of this world is but an illusion [Laughter] it's not just an illusion but it's it's the playful stuff of illusion

and you see one way to understand this first is that a lie speaking about the akhirah that there is a suffering once a person dies there is a blissful state there is a sense of pleasure of it's not pleasure in the sensual sense of ridwan it's not shower or it means being in a state of happiness now the other one way of looking at this verse is it's actually it's speaking

about the same analogy you see after the harvest that once it it begins as as as just a crop a plant nabata who and then your hege it starts to grow and shake and you know then it turns ripens and then it is there is either a suffering people get bad crops people don't get enough it goes to waste

it's ruined a sometimes people catch a lucky break what is and a sense of happiness all of these things mean allah so one way to see this is that this could be speaking about the dunya

that what we achieve it brings about its satisfaction here or it brings about a state of suffering and it's not enough that just that to have the crop to have the harvest things can still go wrong

we spoke of the example we were speaking earlier on about will smith i mean you can still have almost everything and things are still so disintegrated and that's how allah seals the verse with reminding you again um in many ways

it is but an illusion a deception one could say but this is what it is not to mistake that not to think this is what the dunya is that is the content when you're here that is exactly what you partake in and there's nothing wrong in that and there was a verse very similar in suratul verse 32 um

that this world this entire life is not it's nothing but fun and games and what's yet to come after death is infinitely better for those who have mindfulness of god if only you could use your intellect about this so this verse as well it reminds us and i thought that look

so often we hear things like the dunya is this place of just wealth and it's like this and it's like this it's live it's like a game but it's seen as being negative and that's one way of seeing it but the other way is actually it's not negative because that is the game that is exactly what it is and we're all here to play we're all here to play you know

it's like if you're at a football match that's what they're there to do to play football that is the game this is exactly what this dunya is as allah says that it is uh it is about beauty and it is about amassing legacy and amassing wealth and competing and that that's what this that is the name of the game it is

but whilst you're doing it you don't lose sight of the trajectory and that is beyond this life so the trajectory is there but you're still here you don't lose sight but you partake and enjoy since that's what it is it's like

but you're mindful of what's to come after i want to share that with you guys so may allah make things easy huh and enlighten us all army so let's move on right so

somebody about us the verse not talking about well that's what i said i said that's how some people see it but you could see it the other way you see because i because one way of seeing is oh allah is speaking down about those things he's speaking down on them as in he's negatively pejoratively allies um reprimanding these things that's one way

to see it that's how many people see it the other way is no why since allah himself is saying this is what the dunya is this is exactly what who made it allah made it so one way to see it is actually this is the dunya that's what you're meant to do you're meant to partake but you remain mindful of the trajectory of what's to come after

all right so okay all right let me take a look let's move on people okay so let's introduce a story for today a story a story oh i didn't say a poem yeah i i you know i usually come across a poem and i print it off thinking i'll read it to you guys and i forget each time

so [Music] right okay here's one

wow this is by a poet called naksh which is like an imprint it means an imprint he says that it it gave um the artistry of life a new dimension of color and you're wondering what gave it and he's saying those crises and calamities that afflicted the heart

says right so you know in arabic you in urdu they don't differentiate between the calf and the cough but in arabic you do so it's calf and it's cough so it wouldn't be

so that's for the error obviously they don't use that word in that sense in arabic but i'm just saying that you know some people of passion and some people of ambition

they died in this mission of these hoping that they would be able to set carve a new path for the world meaning that they they had such noble aspirations that they wanted to set themselves apart from other people and and lay these out for for the world but they died attempting [Laughter]

that may they remain blessed with everything you know with all blessings really that the people of beauty and love may they always be blessed that life dear life tell me where did those moments go where did the moments in life evaporate to they're asking life that do tell me

[Music] those people who the sailor the satan nada is the is to sail the boatman the person who who obviously steers the boat in in urdu they call him and they use that as a play on words often because the word rhymes with na khuda no god but and they use it often to juxtapose it with the word god because people are dependent on the boltman to to take them to their destiny

and often there's a motif of this boatman betraying them the nahuda so he says by speaking to himself those people who this shipman this this this boat captain if you like was trying to drown those people that by the might of the storm those ships came back to surface

such is life really such is life people you have no idea where and you know you have no idea where what will happen but also what blessings are hidden behind calamities but the whole point of this this theme today of the world is your oyster being able to seize because it ties right in taking a look at this verse that we were looking at

that the world is your playground you see that this is the life of this world it is just fun and games so why not you know might as well make the best of it and in light of that i thought let's introduce us to a personality man personality so people before justin bieber's as i've mentioned there was the mamluk sultan

knuddin and he spells it in arabic as bibars as you can see in the top right hand corner so who is this person let's tell a bit of his story from rags to riches allah and the world is your oyster people so

let's start a bit with him and then we'll jump back to the scene and we'll come back to him so first of all rook he his origin most likely of turkic origin of from central asia some people say that he was uh circassian but either way whether he was of turkey most people say he was of some turkic group origin and he um

what we know about him is as a very young man very young um probably i mean at most early teens if that so he's incredibly young just you know entering his pro teenage years perhaps he gets kidnapped and he sold off to the um sorry he gets kidnapped by some of the the tatars who are the tatas which are a turkic

origin kind of people as well mongolian that region so we know at that time genghis khan and the whole movement has is taking place as well in the far east so some swathes of people have moved about and he gets kidnapped and there was this did used to happen back then and he gets first of all he's kept with these people the some of these mongols these tartars and he he spends a few years with them and he learns their language and culture and he learns some stuff about them

but what happens then he's sold off and he gets sold to a he gets sold to an aristocrat who by the name of alauddin somebody that had military expertise as you can the name bundok which is used as well for a rifle or a gun in order as well is used bunduk but bundok

this person alauddin he purchases this slave who's this young lad now and and he keeps him and he sees that he's very intelligent and as he's growing he's growing into this strong kind of young man very you know they say he was very tall and had this kind of charm about him as well he was a central asian or cassian as they say but they describe him generally as as being as having blue eyes and uh very tall having this kind of mystique about him as well strong so

so alauddin takes a liking to him and he thinks yeah you know i should train this guy up so he trains him up and he yeah he becomes very talented with military uh techniques now he catches the eye of the king at the time who is the aub uh the ayubid uh from the ayubid dynasty from the offspring of salahuddin ayubi okay his name is uh najmutin so najmutin al ayubi

so that guy sees him and he thinks you know what this and now a few years have passed by and he thinks this you know this person he seems to be quite strong seems to be very he's got very reasonably reasonably eloquent and he's um definitely somebody worth having as your private kind of um your guards the royal guards and so on so naja madina yubi buys him off the aristocrat and frees him but he frees him into a mum look so this

now we've got to just pause this story and explain what these mum looks were so the mum looks really begin around this kind of time they are they're slaves but what they would so they would call normally generally in arabic and or abhid is slave okay mamluk does mean slave as well but in this era it takes a specific term it has a designated meaning to it and a mamluk was somebody who was brought into slavery so he's not

from a slave ancestry um so his mom and dad weren't slaves but he was enslaved and then he is freed so they called them mamluks but these particular people they were made into this kind of royal gods they were like a a special uh branch of the military if you like like that so the mum looks generally um there's two types very popular there you have the um

you have the mamalik which were the maritime kind of mum looks which is to do with the sea it's actually to do with the river nile so the the king that had them what he started to do was he started to set up the kind of residence this place which was close to the nile so they became known as the sea or maritime mamluks and then later in generations there's another type of mamluks that are from the same thing but they're known as

they're from the citadel they're from these fortress towers that were built for them but just so you hear these names in history you know that there's a distinction the ones that come first the early generation are known as baharia the sea mamluks or the maritime mamluks and so these mum looks they are freed slaves and they often not often they're almost always highly skilled in fighting so the kings are interested in purchasing them and what happens so just to pause and give you a bit of backdrop and we won't go too much into

the side history but we can touch the touch upon that another time but uh just so you know that after salahuddin ayubi his he um gives he leaves behind a few few children and infighting starts between them okay so they start so salahuddin and yubi's kids have a lot of as they grow up they they split the kingdom and they start fighting amongst themselves by the time it reaches their kids the fighting is quite i mean it's it's very toxic okay so

that's the kind of era we're looking at so what they start to do is to to have an army they want people very loyal to them so what they're doing is they start buying a lot of these because they feel that these people will be more loyal to you and there's less of a threat and you can just buy them as an army you see otherwise you had to enlist soldiers but if you just buy fighters and then just have them as an encampment then you've kind of got this and they started and some of them started to buy like

hundreds and thousands of them so so this is the kind of trend that's going on in the royal aristocracy now we come back to this point so what's going on anyway so you've got najma then ub he's in charge the kingdom uh the ayubid kingdom if i just bring back the map as you can see this which becomes the mamluk kingdom afterwards it's where this kind of red is showing so it's egypt it's um the levant region or part of isham in

arabic we say which is going to include places like um um syria modern day syria jordan palestine uh maybe parts of lebanon that kind of that's all known as sham so it had that and it had egypt and arguably part of the hijas as well now what happens is

he passes away we'll we'll quickly gloss over some of these and we can cover that another time he has a son duran shah um who kind of takes over he becomes in charge um and then with something happens and then he he too passes away now there is a fascinating thing that we can pick up on another time his wife okay now this is interesting his wife

or the the tree of pearls as her name indicates she's an incredibly fascinating character because what she she emerges at this time after um after toransha she assumes control okay and she actually rises and becomes the caliph and this is one of the first times ever in islamic history that the woman is just she is

you've had many on many occasions you've had women who have been in power but for the woman to be the imam the caliph so often you'd had a woman who is a princess or a queen who is uh calling the shots and maybe the most powerful person in the empire at a certain time but there's always a man there as well but for once in history or at this particular time what you find is there is no man on the scene it is just her

and this causes some unrest okay so and we'll come back to her story because she there's a lot in her story that goes on uh on another day we'll we'll touch some parts so she rules for up to about the best part of a better part of three months she gets that much rule almost about 90 days um but the egyptian people are just going they you know they they're riveting they're going mad that wait a minute how is she how is a woman our leader

and so what happens is she has whilst she was stationed in egypt she has the favor of these mum looks these kind of military gods if you like these uh mam looks that are set up by the sea by the river nile mama like so what she thinks is okay um what i'm going to do i'm going to marry one of these generals the top chip one of these powerful generals so she finds uh a suitable

mamluk and his name is izodin abek and she says that look i'll marry you and i will kind of step down publicly and hand it over to you and it's very interesting because i mean it's pretty it's it looks like she's pretty much still in control very much because what she does is not only does she uh make him divorce his first wife uh she banishes the first wife and his

kids from that marriage woman scorned the wrath so she says to this person who's becoming caliph who's becoming this this king that right you have to uh give up all your family you can never see them and she chucks them out banishes them and your kids so it's just me and she's very much in control a very like an illustrious character we have to in depth take a look at her um at some point

so okay let's just pause that story come back to rook nadine bieber's he years have gone by he's a grown man he's a very powerful mum look he too comes over to egypt he can see what's going on he's part of the mamluk this whole brigade and he's very talented amongst them as well so okay so he's there and this is what's going on azadeen abek has taken control this is the first time a mamluk a slave has risen to this rank

to um i mean it has happened previously that the slaves have risen but here he has risen in this way that the queen if you like marries him into status and he becomes the king the sultan okay so as he takes over he's cool he's he's a warrior the the fighting men the mum looks there's certain wars they're hearing about the tartars the mongols they're hearing about all of these there's some skirmishes on the borders towards sham

so you can see in these maps so two words sent from central asia coming down there's a lot of that going on there's also some of the rebellions in um from sham to do with the ayubid because they are hubids remember they're not happy with what's going on because they've got other a hubid kind of cousins and people that were still there that are thinking you know what's this just because the widow of our whatever uh medina yubi has married this you know what on earth is going on so

and they're mocking as well and they're saying things like oh so you're following a woman and in fact one of them had said he sent a letter saying something like um are they no more men left in egypt he said let tell us if you haven't got any men left you know we'll send you a man you know we'll find a man and we'll send him to you if this you know you've put shadow in in charge so this is the kind of scene that is going on so amidst this we got to kind of skim through some of this part

uh is that dean a buck he dies okay and because there were a lot of wars going on and stuff and so he he dies now as he he does have a son uh nurudeen but he's he's very young he's just like a kid so fair enough doesn't care she uh you know puts him in charge um asks the mum looks that you know do you guys pledge your allegiance now here emerges an important another important personality that you've probably all heard of or many of you have heard of say for din okay some people say

kotos means like a wild dog or something in in in that language now he is a mum look as well all of the mum looks are of a similar origin these are probably turkic or central asian people who were taken into slavery and then freed and brought up with uh you know mind-boggling a military prowess okay so say 15 he sees that okay now a buck has passed away izodine a book

you know empty seat this one world is your oyster you know waste not one knot one not waste not so he wants to sit down but you see but that's the foolish way to do it you see the the foolish way to do it is to say shall i sit down this one greedy agreed no good so what you see people are much more

intelligent than that what they do is safety and people will know safeword in quotas why most of you that probably know him but i've heard his name already he is the muslim general that eventually thwarts or is responsible for at least the first major strike to thwart the mongol threat from the muslim world at the great battle of anger which everybody's probably heard of and we'll cover that in another time but this is him emerging he sees that and he thinks well

no well the root you see you're thinking the route to the throne is like this but actually it's like this man so he says that yeah you know the next caliph should be the sultan should be a buck's son who's probably like 11 years old or something he says he should be that let let him be so and safer dean is a huge commander amongst the mum look so the rest of the mom looks bieber's bieber's is the beavers is like yeah yeah everybody's like sure sure whatever you know you're saying

now seiferdeen does this on purpose because he knows the situation is getting pretty bad in the middle east with with the mongols the threat is pretty bad to make matters worse some some mum looks break off you see whilst this is happening some mum looks from the maritime from these c mum looks some of them think you know what what the hell is going on here okay a buck got in charge we were behind

him but now we've got this little little kid i ain't gonna back a little kid you know the world's going to pieces mongols are attacking over there and this is happening and that's happening and we've got an 11 year and keep in mind something you see the mum looks are not from an aristocracy you know in the past like you've got these people who it's the holy bloodline the mama looks don't have a bloodline they're slaves or former slaves so to them it's a meritocracy

they believe in might is right and skill so what the hell does a kid have so here there's a little rebellion some mom looks break away they say you know what this is a sinking ship let's jump ship let's go back to sham and join with some of the ayubids like we'll find some and let's make a force there or maybe we can take over and eventually come back or something so there's a person by the name of aktai he jumps ship and takes a bunch of mum

looks with him amongst them takes biebers bieber's jumps shape as well he says forget this who's who's backing a kid so they all move to sham like to damascus and uh halab and those places now right so as the months go by um there's some infighting between all of these mum looks and say for din kutos seems to have the upper hand he seems i mean he's obviously an incredibly talented and trained uh commander and he's going and he's attacking these

other you know the rebellion mum looks in charm and they're having these skirmishes and meanwhile the threat from the mongols is rising and there's some infighting and different things are going on amidst all of this right what happens is the rebellion leader aktai dies so people are left you know they kind of left stranded a bit so the mom looks in sham or thinking you know i don't know you know this safe with deen seems to be koto seems to be too

good he's rising and rising and he didn't put himself forward on purpose because he let the child be there because he knew that there was a threat simmering on the horizon which is the mongols and as time would draw near people want leadership so when he's winning these little battles and taking over people he's winning their hearts and minds people are thinking you know that guy we can trust him

he's an epic commander and this guy's i mean a military general that's safe with so he gains this reputation now during this time some of these rebel mum looks which includes verbs they write for right to say foreign so bieber's writes to him as well and he says look i'm sorry sorry mistake

you guys over there so the mongols over there so i've been fighting so he writes to safety bibas does amongst other people especially bieber's because he was known as well for his kind of military skills and he says look i'm sorry and you know at the time there was uncertainty and he says look um you know if you'd allow me to come back

i surrender myself to you if you know if you give me amnesty and so say for dinkutos because one thing about the mum looks is with them often it just wasn't they were very um what's the word like they were very just driven by this kind of uh this kind of warrior code or military military not warrior so much more like a military code that the way they saw it is like oh okay you

were just following orders okay fine they often it wasn't personal for them like they didn't bear these grudges like oh this guy and all his family and all they didn't see it like that so okay so koto says to him you know what come back so bieber's comes back now in the following weeks and months the mongol threat gets even worse and they've ransacked baghdad and they've taken over baghdad and they've killed the caliph and um what is it mustache him and they've you know the whole thing

it's it's gone to ruins and the mongols have taken over sham they've taken over syria they've taken over all these places it's they've and they and they they're continuing to proceed southwards and so they're taking over places like palestine they're taking over and they're looking to move to egypt because egypt had a reputation people had heard of egypt and you know they wanted that

and they seemed unstoppable unstoppable the mongols were a force that could not be reckoned with unstoppable and they're just sweeping through i mean they didn't just take over baghdad they made an example out of it they killed the way they tortured and killed the caliph there was no more caliph by the way so these are sultans who are kings but they usually the muslim world somewhere some person was claiming to be a kid not

that anybody followed him but still there was a claim an abbasid caliph they killed him and somebody you know when they were killing him um some people told him that oh he is from some royal blood like he's from the prophet so he said so what and they said well the myth has it that if any sacred holy blood is spilt on the ground then the curse then those people become cursed as in

we will end up getting cursed so he said uh okay so we got the caleb wrapped up in these rugs and made these horses trample over him just so his blood doesn't leak through so this is the kind of i'm giving you an idea of the the kind of the madness the insanity that had see that had kind of laid siege to the middle east and iraq was taken over by the by the mongols sham was taken over so

whilst this is happening this is the perfect time for safe for dean to take control because the little kid nobody wants the kid so he is now everybody pledges their allegiance to him they say you know we want him because he's already won our hearts and minds so he becomes now the sultan and takes control and okay so we'll have to fast forward a bit and we'll come back one of the days to the story of because she's this she's just

a personality because it's crazy because uh she then gets killed and there's all this uh people turn against her and there's these little politics and and she dies a horrific death as well and she actually dies a horrific death by people when they turned against her because because ultimately these men looks and these people didn't have loyalty you see so when they turned against her uh what they did is they brought back the first wife who she had alienated to punish her

and she punishes her by by having her beaten stripped naked and thrown out of a tower and then her body naked body just left the for four days a horrible tragic this is people prepare for history we have to cover that story another day but moving forward to uh saifuddin hotel safe with dean he prepares for the mongol onslaught so the mongols are marching forward they're coming down south

and the in the region of palestine and they reach this place known as anjalut which is really the the well of goliath that's what it is and so and the armies meet at this point seifutin kotos brings his mamluk armies and they put up an incredible fight there is something here that i feel often many historians especially many muslim historians leave out and we'll have to cover that another day this this there's a great assistance brought to say for teen kotos from

the the golden horde the i believe the golden horde the european hoard of the mongols themselves who had under bark who had embraced islam and it's actually barker khan who turns on the mongols and and really [Music] you know he delivers that decisive blow that leads to the kind of retreat and submission but people often just um give all the praise to uh seifuddin who unquestionably plays a very powerful role i mean seyfatin

quotes was an incredible warrior and he does bring the mom and the mamluk army were a fighting army they they were kind of mercenary um ex-slaves so they were incredibly powerful and talented but is it likely that they on their own would have been able to put a stop to the mongols that's something we'll have to cover another day i i personally think that that that's would have probably been very difficult if it wasn't for bar kehan who had embraced islam and turned against his own cousins

and brought his mongol army and in the end it was mongol versus mongol that that kind of led to the the the you know to halting the brakes and i mean slamming the brakes on the just incessant invasion of the entire middle east but okay we'll cover that another day what we have is this the the well or the spring of goliath victory is to the muslims clearly so whether it's with but i mean

it's definitely with barker khan but uh the mum looks celebrate massively so they they are thrilled absolutely that it's unbelievable for people that the mongols retreat because this was unheard of the mongols were like a a mean you know unstoppable machine that it's it's not even conceivable that they would retreat um and but they did and often like i mentioned it was because of the the infighting that turns again within within them as well because of the ones that have become muslim

under barker but here they retreat this is a huge success for the mum looks the mum looks secure sham which is that region um not iraq and those regions those those are still out of their reach but they secure sham and now seiferdin is retreating the news has got back to cairo everybody's celebrating people are over the moon they can't believe this success bieber's rook nadine bieber plays a powerful role in that battle of ayan jalut of the

um the well of goliath or the spring of goliath he he he he plays an incredibly heroic role alongside seifer dean cortez he's seen as his kind of right-hand man this is how powerful he is when they are securing sham the mom looks they stay there for a little while they secure it then they're heading back now as they're heading back certain regions are allocated to people rukh nadine bieber's

he feels that he's going to be given a region in charm like since he's the right hand man that you'll be given um you know you'll be given halab or one of these places but he isn't this goes to show you know when you have people that are close to you and they've done something you should always reward them handsomely because otherwise see greed

what is salim t say it is something uh the monstrosity of greed so what happens is bieber's is quite upset we should be playing a justin bieber's song in the background waltz phoebus is but he hides it but he is upset he's he's hurt here he's like diltor you know you broke my heart so what happens is when they're on route back to cairo and they're getting closer to cairo

bieber's approaches say for dinkutos and he goes with him to uh some say he goes hunting with him or he goes somewhere and he has some other people with him as well who are also now resentful towards seifentin and he tells them that basically i've had enough of him i'm going to sort him out bieber's is and he he goes to him he and he says uh and safety and was an incredible warrior you have to remember this obviously somebody who always had his sword on him always had people at an arm's length and

um so it wasn't easy just getting up close to say for din kutuz so but bieber's at the end of the day he said so he goes to him and he says uh he says yes he says cannot make a request he says i wanted to ask for a slave girl from the mongols a particular one

you know that one so there's obviously because when they beat the mongols they had this uh what they called back then they used to call the booty the war booty but you can understand in that booty there was as people would say booty in that booty so he had so they had all these slave girls so bieber says to him look he says he says yeah sultan can i please have that particular slave girl and you know please here

and so say for dean koto says he says yeah he says yeah go go for it man go for it so at this point when he says that uh rukh nudin bieber says oh shukran and as a protocol he says your hand please and so the sultan puts forward his hand you know that kiss the hand man so what they would do is as a protocol that kiss the hand so he holds his hand to kiss it grips it pulls it so the sultan

slips forward and as he slips he takes out his dagger straight in the heart oh my

and as he stabs him with the dagger in the heart the other people jump from behind and they start stabbing seifutin and so with that seifuddin kutuz the commander of anal jaalud the battle of ainuw dies a death they bury him there and they return to cairo when they return obviously the commanders that were left in control of like they had some ministers that were obviously mum looks and they had what would be the equivalent of a home

minister and stuff like this they are told that kotuz is dead he was killed so that minister asks who killed him first like who struck him with the with the fatal blow so bieber's says i did see military men

so what that wazir minister says he says then you deserve to take his place you see because to the mum looks there was no blood um [Music] there was no blood legacy they weren't related to one another they didn't believe in a bloodline they believed in merit and might they were men who had been raised on a military code that might is right so

when he saw that oh so you killed him so you're more deserving just very regimental yeah just regiment that's how they were so he says well in that case i nominate biebers to take his place and here rukhnu din biebers rises as the sultan

and he first of all chose himself the name the forceful which is a very kind of negative can have a negative undertone to it so people didn't like it actually so then he changes the name to zahir so he's often known as alvarez because he he chose that name azahir then the one that's apparent and he's above if you like so azahir biebers and he's known as bundook dari and you see it's interesting because he then goes on

to really captivate the hearts and minds of the egyptian people he starts investing in the city in cairo he starts he he sets up a project to uh to create certain masjids and madaris the madaris are built in his time named by his funding he refurbishes

the whole institute i mean it's a university today but back then it was a masjid and a center of learning he renovates that uh what he does is he also at the time he realizes that there was some um there was some skirmishes down south with the nubian kingdom the kingdom of cush so what he does is he actually squashes them and takes that and next is that to his kingdom so he's getting more wealth and he spends loads on people so

weeks months years start to pass by and he's captivated the hearts of the people on one occasion he um there was an issue with one of the governors in the haram because that part wasn't under their control at first so he sends certain gifts to makkah and medina because he wants to keep ev you know he wants to tick every box and one of the governors of makkah and medina

they object to him or something and they've refused there's some issue where they refuse entry or something to certain mum looks so what he does is he uses that as an excuse to to take over so he gets an army ready they go and they take over makkah and madinah and an exit to the mamluk dynasty and what they do is they they call themselves as in as in the one harmy as in the protector of the haramain not the server but the protector

and he invests some money and he create and you know the kiswah of the ka'ba he'll have a brand new kiswa made and put up and and another genius move he does to win the hearts of people is you see there was no more abbasid caliph so what he does is he finds um he finds an a relative he had come across

the uncle of the last caliph that was still alive so what he does is he invites him over to egypt and crowns him as the caliph okay and he says that you will now be seated the royal seat will not be in baghdad it will be in cairo of the caliphate and basically it's it's it's basically just a shell there's nothing the caliph is useless he's nobody he just says to him that look i'm going to crown use caliph but you basically have to then coronate me as

as the main man and which he does so it's just a display so he basically says that this is the caliph we pledge allegiance then the caliph says in a public sermon that i hand over the you know i hand over the office of all affairs to be handled by uh rukh nadine biebers who is the sultan so so you have it's like saying you have this he's just a the caliph is not even monumental he's just there's a symbol um and then he passes when then he has his son al-hakim billah who's a kid

young person but as the next caliph and he re-establishes this symbol to win the hearts and minds of people but also to consolidate cairo as a new capital of the muslim world because now cairo is where the caliph is you see even if the caliph is just a name and nobody has seen him or nobody knows who he is but still it is a mata and so what bieber's does during this time is he consolidates sham and he'll sometimes go to sham he stays there he comes back there was a

uh somewhat of an a threat from the mongols afterwards but it's it never reaches that potential and it disappears some people say that he himself travels undercover to mongol territory because as a kid when he was enslaved he by the mongols he learned their language so according to some people he traveled there and went right up to the great khans palace and outside there were certain um you know stalls and trademen and he buys something and he and in

exchange he exchanged this ring which is his ring and he says look i've got this ring but he pretends to just be like a nobody just a trader and this is according to one story and and he gives this ring to this person and and then or some people say it was like a symbol but i i read generally a ring and and then he comes back and usually the mongols wouldn't let people into their territories because if you didn't speak mongolian you you'd be caught out straight away and so when he comes back he then

allegedly writes a letter to the great khan saying look you better watch yourself and go to such and such stall outside your thing and you'll see my ring and um and if i can reach your palace then it's not too long before i reach you beavers was doing it you know back then so so he thwarts any potential threat and he establishes um security and stability this is

his this is the first de facto stable sultan king of the mamluks is biebers biebers or he's known as the king zahir malik now his rule lasts for ten years okay a decade now compare that with the decade before the decade before was all of those events that we quickly went over starting from najma dino a ayubi to him dying to you know his son

dying whatever having some instability in fighting with the cousins dying leaving his widow who then rules has people rebelling against her rebellion because she's a woman still holds it down for a few months chaos then decides to as a side move unprecedented marries a slave who a military slave who rises abec who then dies who and then his son is put in in charge that uh nurudeen right and then

you've got a rebellion between the the mum looks and then safety rises and he crushes the rebellion and then he becomes the the the sultan all of that is 10 years the subsequent succeeding 10 years are the bieber's years stability peace money opulence he he takes in the kingdom of kirsch the nubian nubian dynasty he has so much more they say that there was a year in which there was a famine

and in that year they say or a certain part of the year that bieber's opened up all his treasuries to feed the people of his surrounding in egypt that were around cairo and all those places that he would have um incessant non-stop food sent to them so you can see the things he's doing for the people at the same time he's become now the protector of the haramain he also renovates not only uh al-azhar and sets up masajithi he renovates

baital maktis jerusalem dome of the rock he also renovates ibrahim alaihi masjid he has money spent on haramain he's so he's really doing a lot and they and they mention about him that um he has a ceremony for his son's circumcision so not quite the ceremony you normally hear of i mean we've heard of the oscars and well here there's another kind of oscar not an oscar but another ceremony going on and um so

for this circumcision of his son he has this massive feast for the entire town and what he does is he says we're going to host with my son's circumcision i'll make it an open circumcision day and he says what we'll do is anyone that has a child that's not circumcised can bring his or her child and we will circumcise them as well so we'll have everybody circumcised and there'll be food and there'll be gifts for these young boys and we'll do so

they say something like i think over 400 boys were circumcised in one day so this is the kind of things that he's he's up to just to give you some but he he's risen from we're taking a look at just pause this for a moment and you go to his origin seized kidnapped sold into slavery and then finds himself you see seizing the world in front of him albeit

via the path of treachery but finds himself securely on a throne establishing stability in a kingdom that hasn't seen stability in years so this is his legacy now check this to seal this to throw in some something interesting what happens is when there's certain um uh issues that he's seen to ensham so sometimes he oscillates between cairo and damascus he's in damascus dealing

with some rebellions crushing them a warrior of a person people love him everything's going good and then one day there's a lunar eclipse and he say yeah what the hell is a lunar eclipse got to do with this hi friend plot twister plot twist so what happens is one day there's a lunar eclipse now the common people the masses the laity

the laymen the awamunas they have an urban myth that if there's a lunar eclipse then a great person of power dies [Laughter] so bieber's is aware of this so he thinks dumb so he gets superstitious he thinks yeah yeah what is this one man maybe you know i don't want to die

so he thinks you know this but this is this is what people believe and so he thinks you know what part of him is worried about worried for him that maybe he's going to die a part of him is worried for people as in not worried but concerned that people are expecting a great leader to die so what do we do so he comes up with a plot

he thinks yeah i've navigated through all these streets and and these twists and turns of life he's he's been through all of this of life so he thinks you know what i've got a plan somebody big should die huh why not oh why not so what he does is he finds pause for a moment remember

who is the the offspring so he's the son of najma dino ayubi borancha who dies duran shah had some some say it's it's his children or his grandson or so maybe he had a daughter and his son or some people say he was like a nephew or his cousin whoever but there's some young kid who is related to toronto therefore related to salahuddin because he's from that lineage and he's young

at most very early teens very young maybe like 13 14. so bieber's comes to learn about him so bieber's thinks yeah you know what i bet this guy i think this person's name is nasiruddin i believe this this young kid he says i bet he is trying to assassinate me and take over

so see this is the problem because they've been through so much betrayal in their lives and treachery and and they themselves have been the treacherous ones he's thinking yeah you know i bet this guy is trying to uh trying to do this to me right so now when so so what he does is he thinks he can't seem to get this this ocd thought out of his mind this lunar eclipse he's now heard of this uh this you know great grandson of

salahuddin like yubi that's here this this and he thinks hmm so he calls him he calls this young kid invites him he's really sweet to him he says yeah oh out of this one yeah he says you don't write you don't cool so he's being real sweet with him um and and he says to him that he says you know what he invites him to his palace and he tells him that look i'm to be honest i'm established in egypt more so and you know your

for ancestors and all these people they had a great legacy you know they took back the from the crusaders and i wanna instate you i want you to have some proper role like maybe you could be in charge of damascus or you know something like this i want you to have some and he's been really kind and he's having all this this food prepared for him and and he's and he's showing him so much love and respect and and the kid is this young person is like okay now the young person had no intention of assassinating him or anything like this

but bieber's has this ocd thought kind of planted in his head he can't get he can't eradicate it so he's thinking this guy must be a threat so he thinks you know what i gotta kill him these the relationship these relations of blood they can only be finished by spilling blood he's going by that rule so so he's you know he's kind of sweet talking this this kid and he's like yeah don't worry you know

come let me show you around he's introducing him to a few people and so he's kind of won over his his trust and his respect so this young person is thinking wow you know like uh you know he's thinking that this guy's really cool man i really like this rook no dean b burst it's a really cool guy so what happens is it's a meal they're getting ready for some meal and to rest so bieber's what he does is he says to him oh i've by the way we're gonna let's take some drinks so they would have like some kind of cool

version of a royalty cool drink he says let's take some lemonade here lemonade time yeah life throws lemons so he takes him into this chill room and he's got a cup there and what bieber's does is he puts poison in it poisons this chalice and and the kids there and he gives it to him he says yeah you gotta you gotta try this man you try this lemonade

you'll be coming back for more so whilst he's giving him the cup and the guys all chilled in this nice chilled out quarters says you know what he says listen i just gotta go i just gotta go check on something i'll be back he gets up and walks off b busters thinks this guy you know i'd leave him with with with the poisoned cup with the poison chalice as he walks out himself he sees one of the servants that had come to drop the you know that was walking sees one of the servants and he says to him he says listen he says

he says grab me a drink and meet me over there so okay now this kid in the room this uh nasser rodin he drinks the drink which has poison but obviously it's not instant it doesn't just kill you there and then so he's drinking it and and he's left a certain amount he's put it down that's one of the servants comes in and he asks him are you okay can i get you anything he says no i'm okay he sees the cup and it looks like it's finished but it's still got a certain amount in there and he says shall i take this and he says here take it

so he takes that and as this servant is walking away he just tops it up with a drink he goes to the thing tops it up and brings it to bieber's because bieber's that asks for a drink unbeknownst to him that this the little bit of juice that was in there was actually poisoned so he just adds more juice to it and brings it to uh dean bieber's who drinks it knocks it back

so what happens is bieber's is waiting for about something like 20 minutes and he thinks well half an hour that kid should be poisoned by now so he walks in there and he's poisoned and he's obviously after you know when it kicked in the kid has died so bieber's thinks to himself huh i've averted this superstition and i've also averted a threat because i bet he wanted to kill me and here is a great person who has now been killed so the superstition has come right little does he know that he himself is

poisoned and within the coming hour he himself curled up and he's he's he's shaking with the poison and dies on his bed in that room and they find him dead so not only do they find that young uh salahuddin ayubi's kind of great grandkid dead but they find rukra dean bieber's himself had accidentally poisoned himself as well [Laughter] from rags to riches

those who live by the sword die by the sword and you see that his journey though how he he finds himself kidnapped and the slave and learns the culture of these mongols and the language and then uh learns how to fight and impresses allah uddin who who this aristocrat who buys him and then eventually he's because of his military skill set he's shown off to the the king uh salahuddin

offspring najmutin who then purchases him and frees him as part of the mamluk brigade and moves him to egypt and he rises in those ranks of the mum looks and eventually not only is one of the key warriors in the fight of aino chalut that thwarts the mongol threat but then betrays seifuddin kuttos kills him rises to the throne but despite such treachery manages in the years to come to supplant his his hatred the hatred of him with

his love in the hearts of all of his civilians and subjects in egypt and spend so much money on them and re-establishes or not reassert but at least brings back symbolically a caliph abbasi caliph to win the hearts and minds of people sponsors the haramain and invests in them and rebuilds jerusalem and dome of the rock and masjid al-khalil and sets up a madrasa and renovates al-azhar and funds many projects and invests during famines and really secures a legacy becoming the

first major de facto stable ruler of the mamluk dynasty then eventually in his unbeknownst to him when the hour of death had come can't seem to shake off this suspicion this this paranoia and thereby has to kill especially in light of the superstition this great grandson of salahuddin ayubi only to kill himself in the act as well yes

but this is the dunya as allah says that that's what it is these distractions and games but this is what it is you see and it is like kareeth it is like this rain coming it is the farmers see this harvest and it grows and the fruits and and then it's just cut down

in the end from allah in the end either leading to a suffering as this person suffers in the end as you can see or it leads to a sense of bliss and happiness so many lessons wow but what a personality to learn about rukh nadine bibarz and how his life is intertwined

and interfused with the la with the likes of saifuddin with najmadina ayubi and many others and there are many scholars in his time as well like those like imam now we those like um who actually pledged their allegiance to him so i thought i'd share that with you and let's move on people what i'll do is

what's this going on right is there let me just see right people is there okay no trolling anybody trolling will be uh blocked

all right i'm just seeing who i don't know who's okay so i've blocked any person trolling i'm gonna be blocking you okay so people that's a story just a quick note following that and then i'm going to share the link and you're more than welcome to jump on um about superstitions you see it's important to understand there was a a profound quote i've read it said that about superstitions

superstitions the evidences or the the power to convince you is so weak yet its affliction is is i mean it's so powerful so formidable people who get afflicted by superstitions they have such a curse on them

right okay i'll share the the link i've shared the link in the comments uh let me check if there was a super chat that i missed arabian princess

okay well arabian princess i appreciate your superchat uh shukran for that um and what she's saying is this is the the will of the divine who has sent her i guess as in she means inspired her to but center to um to anyone and everyone who professes belief belief and faith in the son and that they'll have an eternal life and she establishes that for this world and the after world well okay we respect your faith

sure and i appreciate your the super chat much love right let's see [Music] mm-hmm right all right so let me go back i don't think i oh wait a minute my did the link not get i thought it did share it again all right if anybody does want to jump

on otherwise we can wrap this up as well quite it's going to be ramadan by the way you know i'm going to take a break i look forward to my break in ramadan so so i'm afraid but i will try to upload other things like um maybe the arabic classes and stuff speaking of arabic classes i was thinking of doing like an arabic grammar text i don't know i'm thinking about it

right so what is going on won't evil i be considered a superstition yeah i guess i mean to you see it depends if somebody believes in it um so the evil eye the islamic approach to it really um is that there's no such thing as the evil eye that's according to certain ulama because it doesn't really make any sense now there are some ulama that believe in an evil eye

and so therefore and i think the common people the majority of the common people probably believe in the evil eye and this really is just more so because this and this is nothing to do with i don't think their belief in it is to do with islam their belief in it is just a continuation of pre-existing beliefs so if you let's say you when you go back in time by about 200 years everybody in the world everywhere

believed in the evil eye so regardless of whether you're muslim atheist um you know you could have been anyone but they believed in the evil eye especially if you went back a few hundred years so you could be hindu you could be muslim you could be zoroastrian you could be jewish you could be christian you could be uh buddhist you could believe in no god you but you'd still believe in the evil eye why because they believed the evil eye they believed that was scientific because scientific meaning that the understanding of how the world worked so the mechanisms of the world

so people felt that vision was extra mission not intermission so people used to think if you go back a few hundred years people used to think the eyes emit visual rays and then whatever they cast the ray on is what creates our visual field later on they realized actually the eyes don't emit anything they there's an intermission they kind of interject or they allow the light in and obviously we reflect we can pick up what's being shown to us we don't emit anything so

when they believe that the eyes emit these rays it makes sense to think well it's like saying look if i breathe and i go now there's a breath coming out so it's easy to it makes sense that if i had let's say a disease now as a person breathes out that would come out with the breath so with the eyes there was no breath there was this invisible ray that was coming out and it was shooting these rays that we could see so if there was a malice in the soul

since the eyes are the windows to the soul then it would make sense that you are shooting out malice so that's the science behind it so it didn't me you didn't have to be muslim so i don't you see i i feel it's a it's a tough cell that the people believe in the evil eye because of islam they believe in it regardless of islam so they they believed in this anyway way before islam and even after islam people believed in this and other religions and

no religion because that's how they thought the world operated then people found evidences to support their claims so there's nothing in the quran that says anything like that but people found certain hadith to say that you know that this um that now some people may argue that these hadith are not valid other let's say people who say the hadith are valid now some peop some of them may say well okay

but this hadith doesn't mean in that way so this hadith of saying look that the i evil eye is true or sorry the evil eye has a certainty to it a truth meaning that you see be watchful of the envious eye because people can cause you harm but not in the literal sense not in the sense that they look at you and you develop cancer but in the sense that you see when a

person gets jealous they act out they have an enmity they have a hatred that people and people can sometimes uh it is true that people can influence behavior by you know when you have a sense of you're being watched and you you yourself behave differently and and also that you behave sometimes recklessly you see when a person gets a fast car or brand new you get all these people with these super cars and trying to show off who are they showing off to to the eye

to the watcher to the viewer to the spectator and it's reckless it brings out a reckless side in you which then causes you to to befall some harm because that's the path you're taking you you're bringing out a side of you that is that is a recipe for disaster so one could say in that sense yes you see the spectating eye

it creates that it alters a state of consciousness being watched does but so there's different ways to interpret and some people obviously the common one that people would interpret for that is envy and it's not that the envious eye causes harm by looking at you but that they may act out on it okay so this is uh an important part then other people feel that no the eye is evil eye exists and they blame the evil eye to be honest this you know

sure people can follow that you know if you want to follow that you can follow it because you can believe whatever you want you know this free will the person can say look i follow what these say and they said it in the past and sure but they were saying it scientifically so if you read ibrahimovic he's explaining in his book he's saying that the eye emits these little rays and it shoots out uh harmful rays which are like arrows and he describes them in elaborate detail he says that these tiny little arrows they come out of the eye and they go and they hit a person and and he's explaining his science of

why he thinks this works obviously today you know the science isn't that so if even you see this is the irony even they didn't believe it just on sheer um without a mechanism like they believed it based on mechanics of how the eye operates they don't believe it

just without any cause and effect so yeah so it's interesting i do feel that many people's lives are unfortunately ruined because of these kind of beliefs you see what a person believes is up to them my advice to people first that this is only to those people who want my advice you see many people if a person says look my life is fine i'm going to um you know do i believe in this and i i do that fine you know live it

but my advice to other people is look allah is sufficient that has that these little evil things coming and ruining people's lives no the only source of power is one god that is it that if you put your belief in these little dynamics supernatural belief because this is not unnatural this is a supernatural belief this is saying there's no cause and effect it's just miraculously doing it by looking at someone and causing death i'm called because this is what they say by the way they say you can cause death

by looking with the eye that's the definition see life and death and harm only comes from allah illness only comes these things if you feel that people can do these things by looking at you then unfortunately you will have to live that life and it comes back to this thing that you know we had this story of dean bieber's who tries to escape this superstition but he believes it and and thereby it leads to his own destruction and one could say that the superstition was then true that's the thing whoever believes in

superstitions they end up becoming true for them because the hadith says allah says i treat my servant i treat my person as he expects me to treat them so if you expect god to to treat you in a way that people can give you bad luck then you will be riddled with bad luck your whole life but if you believe that god doesn't allow these things to happen then you'll see that these things don't happen to you it's amazing the power of belief

yeah okay all right so right let me see it right i've got some people tuning in let me i've got it all right let me just uh gotta switch this on first oh let me find bluetooth settings people gotta get to here they are

all right um okay i had a feeling this was gonna happen okay wait there let me remove this device oh wait there right there wait there actually actually it could be that i'm aha it could just be that i'm connected to too many devices which does happen as well every now and then

i'll get it if it doesn't connect okay then let me just reset this okay remove this device how do you well let me see

okay right just scanning for it there is all right have we connected we have connected people are fraud there you go that's all it took all right who do we have here we have

muslim can you i can't see the webcam activate the webcam no is that moshe muslim writing seems so small let me tell you what let me add it this is muslim as in christian muslim is that what it's meant to say or am i is there a spelling mistake there oh yep i can see they're muslims for jesus okay right where who am i speaking to where are you joining us from well i'm first of all thank you for having me

and i am joining you from usa from new jersey what's your name my name is uh you can call me everybody calls me muslim how can we

what would you like to grace us with uh is what thoughts precious mind i tell you you i find you i've been on this channel once or twice this is the twice the third time maybe and i find you to be a very open-minded mufti you are not bogged down and that is good and i said me of you basically i'm from pakistan and i've been in the usa for now 22 years

wow okay i've been in dubai for quite some time then we as everybody heads towards the usa once they have settled in the bay so we said okay let's go ahead and settle in usa because two of my kids were born in the in united arab emirates but the problem was they had no rights you know so in spite of the fact that they were born there no rights no nationality nothing you said okay

let's head to a country where they give you nationality where they give you rights so we came down to the usa sure you said something beautiful over here which is allah is sufficient which is beautiful he is sufficient but the problem with the ummah is and with various scholars and muftis is that they do not

take allah to be sufficient okay take the blasphemy law now the blasphemy law actually says allah is not sufficient let's take things in our own hands [Music] though surah al-hajjar 1595 clearly say states sufficient am i unto thee against those who scoff if anybody is saying anything to the

prophet scoring the prophet don't take matters in your hand for sufficient am i unto thee against those who scoff what are you use on this i mean so i take it you've probably not watched much of my stuff but i've got talks on all of this on blasphemy and stuff like this i disagree with these blasphemy rules and laws as do many ottoman although they may unfortunately be in a minority but but there are several voices that have

uh always said that the the blasphemy laws were just simply um it was more a political angle with that political dynamic it was not something it was not a had from the lie it was just a punishment that people had come up with which they saw akin to treason of old so treason in the olden days and that's what they were uh they weren't and it wasn't something that muslims invented everybody in the world was had those kind of trees and laws

and muslims were no exception they they too had it they were just a community amidst many communities of the world that had him and yeah and that's what it was and then people find justification for it later on but i think it's more a very tribalistic phenomenon as opposed to it being a theological phenomenon so although it's justified later on by people seeking out religious validation but it is in essence just a tribe of people fearing

when somebody turns against the tribe um hence the early hanafi school said that it didn't apply to women so they made it clear because why because they write because the woman is not a threat to them so so they did not used to have the that had for the the female apostate so it clearly shows it wasn't a matter of belief because if it was a matter of belief then it should have been the same uh between everyone and if it was that important that life and death depends on it then it should have been in the quran to start off with

so none of these it's not in the quran it's not it's not really even in any you know they find just one or two uh hadith it's not something which is very clearly documented and secondly when they do find it it's not clear what are they talking about so what seems to appear is most people understand this to mean that it was a a treason it wasn't just a belief issue it was that this person because people lived in communities was now

a renegade who was going to leave that community and he knows how the town and the fortress is built and he knows how things are he's going to now go join an enemy community and then he will share the secrets of how this town is built and where do we keep all our storage and where do we have supplies and and basically he's a threat to the entire community now so this is and and considering that this was every part of the world had this it wasn't just um christians or muslims everyone so yeah so that's that's what it is

unfortunately it is uh it is there today in some parts of the world which it doesn't really make any sense it doesn't belong there it's in pakistan and it shouldn't really because pakistan is a hanafi country by hanafi fair in hanover there is no uh hud for this okay so for blasphemy there is no had they are not the fatwa in in pakistan which is judges the islamic side of pakistan is all based on the method of imam abu hanifah and the motherboard of hanifa

does not have capital punishment for blasphemy it says you can't kill someone for blasphemy so they this is a very recent thing that was once again introduced uh i believe by general zia in his time i believe it was introduced and it was you see and he's hardly a religious symbol so it's something that's introduced at a time when fanaticism was rising so yeah i mean i but that's my thoughts on it but taking another angle to this let's you see the thing is that

the one thing which is an unforgivable sin and that is sheikh now when the quran clearly states allah is stating sufficient am i unto thee against those who scoff which means if you take matters in your hand you are now committing shirk

okay okay right i mean obviously that that you know kind of uh corollary this logical following doesn't exactly follow in that but i see your sentiment i see why you're saying that i understand that sentiment sure do you mind me asking you a question i'm a bit confused and i just want to clear clarify sorry you know it says because i can't see you i can only see your logo it says muslims for jesus masihi muslim

is this i mean is this a christian branch or something let me just let me share with you my shahada then you might you would like to listen to my shahada okay this is my father sure i mean i don't okay what's the i don't understand what's the the

the arab hajj shahada is and you know so so yeah so um okay i mean out of curiosity [Laughter]

there must be a reason why you've decided to to kind of uh to put that the obviously nobody is denying in islam we call islam or or we call these names are the titles given to isa alaihissalam uh but before you putting it in there and then calling yourself masihi muslims and then muslims for jesus how is is there anything different between you and what i don't know regular muslims or is is there something different are you um

somewhat chris i mean i don't i don't understand i'm trying to understand the christian element well the thing is that uh there's a christian element there for of course in the sense that uh i belong to a family which is muslim and christians right uh okay okay right so basically there's uh so you're kind of converging in the middle yeah and the the thing is that what i've what i find very disturbing is that there's so much clash going on and especially in your family

not not not between my family between between muslim christians right oh right yeah i'll tell you between muslims and christians especially with this social media you have christians going against the muslims and the muslims going against christians and when you study the quran and when you study the bible there's so much similarity of course the biggest blunders the christians have done they have taken jesus to be god or equal to god that is the biggest blunder of christianity that said

the biggest blunder of islam is in spite of the fact that they do not say that muhammad sallam is equal to god or god but they take him to be greater than god i'm not saying they say that i'm saying they take him and this is the problem between the two religions these are two basic problems

and uh i mean i i'm fine right okay i i i think what you're sure i mean do you okay so just on that point and then coming to this i i think what you're trying to say is maybe people you're trying to speak about the clash or somewhat of a like a clash between quran and hadith is when you're saying people take the prophet to be god because otherwise uh generally i i don't think any muslim would acknowledge that claim that well

no one would no um please i'm not saying they they actually consider him to be god but they take him but you mean the the hadith they put it on par with the quran is that what you mean they put it on power and not only power but they some they even go beyond that and correct me if i'm wrong jello you're wrong

that wasn't difficult so no i see okay and coming to the other thing that you were saying do you really think uh do you really think there is a big clash between christians and muslims i don't feel that there is uh i i mean maybe because the us is different so the uk i think uh there isn't as much passion in christians as there is arguably in the us and or in some parts of the us but i don't feel that i mean this is my

this is my way of looking at i i don't not my way of looking at this is my perception sorry that there is a clash between muslims and christians rather i would see it as in this age there is a clash between atheism and theism um that's how i see it i don't see these in groups sure maybe in the 80s you had ahmadidat and the whole those christian missionaries and people were going around and uh arguing and saying this stuff and people were debating between muslims and christians

but now in 2022 i i don't feel that that is a much of a phenomenon well talking of uh ahmadidad i have met him personally in the way so i know the guy and he's he's been instrumental in my way of thinking actually i would say no i mean he was a great individual a great you know my love blesses afterlife i i just meant that you see he was in an age where there was this debate but i think now the age has moved on since his time

so you see since his time uh all religions got got it pretty hard from atheists you had the rise of militant atheism and i think alongside that you also had an awakening in consciousness since the last few decades and but then celebrity kind of militant atheism was probably at its peak one i'm assuming maybe you know at the beginning of the last decade um so but then it seems to have in the last few years maybe

you know taken a bit of a toll as well but i definitely don't see a conflict uh broadly speaking between an intra-faith conflict i don't not between christians and muslims generally i don't see it i'm not saying maybe it's you know it's there and you're more because you've got family members on both sides so you're probably more privy to that on a daily basis but i don't see it i don't see ever you know christians or churches so upset about muslims or muslims upset about churches not in this part of the world oh you're right i've been basically

talking of atheism uh in fact what is happening one of my concern is that the way people are coming out talking against islam and there's this ex-muslim movement going on which what is what is what it is generating is people who tend to follow it leave islam people have been leaving christianity the latest trend is that people are leaving islam what they end up doing

if my if i'm not mistaken 90 of the people who live they end up becoming atheists and i this is my but that's that's what they're trying to that's what they're trying to do when they leave they're leaving because they've become atheist so you you think so that's what's happening it's not they're leaving and becoming atheist um right okay so i mean i get it they could be a mixture of things i think people who leave islam i think a huge percentage of them leave because of

some key ish some key elements one is that they usually are subjected to some kind of emotional [Music] trauma which is stemming from some portion of muslims for some reason whatever that so for example a woman who is being treated very badly by her by a portion of society who are muslim but maybe are justifying the bad treatment of her by also using religion they may not be religious people so for

example exercising control on women and then just throwing in the fact that well you know god says this stuff like this extending abuse to people whilst giving it a religious veneer this probably has a huge this is probably a very powerful element another element is i think sometimes very poor explanations of certain um questions that need more uh rigorous um you know they

just need a lot more rigor to them when explaining them and they need more sophistication so sometimes people will ask scientific questions and the people they're asking just tell them to shut up or don't question about this or or they might say things like we don't care what science says so so people saying dumb stuff which they're not really meant to say that's an element as well as other things so you so these kind of things are usually the real reasons i think um people end up leaving islam so it's usually because they've had some

kind of abuse or some kind of you know difficulty trauma from certain people certain emotions certain parts of society they've had certain religious questions that have been shunned they've been told off they've been put down and then so i do feel as well an important element is people do have sincere questions a questioning towards god like they might want to ask why has god allowed this to happen or why does it say this in the quran or why does it these questions should always be treated with respect i feel that it doesn't

matter even if a person is questioning god you see what people need to understand is their questioning is stemming from a concern because they they feel they have a connection with god you see if god wasn't important to them this question wouldn't matter but it only matters because obviously god is important to them but because this question isn't being answered they give up on the whole enterprise so i think these are mainly so you're right they do become atheist as well because they feel these questions are not being answered um

yeah the thing is that i usually i do ask all the atheists i say look artificial intelligence artificial intelligence is the product of human intelligence could you tell me what the product of human intelligence who is the creator of human intelligence i mean naturally they're just going to come up with obviously evolution it's it's kind of information and all that stuff involved so but i mean yeah it is a question then the question is okay this is another question

then the question is can evolution produce artificial artificial intelligence no yeah yeah you know to to me the the much bigger pointer would be really even bigger than all of this would bigger than intelligence for me it would be consciousness but but that's a whole different discussion and it's going to be a very lengthy one i would say you know what with this masih muslim it's shukran for taking the time out coming sharing your thoughts and sentiments uh much appreciated i hope i hope things you know stay very

blissful between your both sides of your family the christian well they are very blissful people you know uh basically uh the reason is that i do share from the quran that look you mean you're you're keeping the peace you mean not only i'm keeping the peace in the family i'm trying to keep the peace all over and that's why i said let's go ahead and do a muslim because

believe it or not the aim is to get people together closer rather than saying okay on on religious grounds they are they're against each other they're going after each other's names spread love yeah spread love that's love right yeah i like it and you know why because the quran in surah 57 27 states god placed in the hearts of those who followed jesus compassion and mercy now once a person's heart is full of god's compassion and mercy they love each other

muslim well with that we'll have to wrap this up so okay people that was um from uh new jersey us uh sharing now there is we've got somebody's come on now saying uh called right somebody's come on called regular muslim yeah regular muslim you've got to put your webcam on can you put a webcam on

right so here come let's add regular muslim to the assalamu is there too much background noise i mean there is some noise but we can hear um yeah because i just jumped out to get some food i didn't think i would you would take me on right now so yeah we're here open arms we were waiting more importantly we were waiting for the food that's why i came uh you know reminded me of a

where are you where have you joined us from by the way i'm from australia i've come on your stream like a couple of times before regular regular muslim yeah okay awesome and what's your name again i'll mukti if you if it's okay with you i'll just uh oh oh you've got problems coming on today is having problems it's like we had we had musee here muslim coming on bachara's got problems we've got now regular muslim coming on so okay talk to us man what's preoccupying your precious

things so much you know like we could go on for hours but no there's this one thing about uh i was going through some verses in the quran like there's this theory about the birth of maryam uh so there's a there's some verses here this guy has pointed out a long time ago so i think you would know these verses off the top of your head anyway uh one one goes like that

oh okay so this is something that i wanted to know your opinion on like what do you think of the grammar and why the purpose behind you know uh what could the one the fija be referring to and what could the fee heat record i mean right so presumably it's speaking about the the kind of the private parts um

and obviously holistically speaking about her but it's not a literal this is just a symbolic um mentioning it's not literal it's not really a it's just a kind of metaphor for the spirit saying that um it's not literally being breathed into yeah yeah yeah that's okay i didn't think yeah obviously there was a little

yeah no but i wanted to know more on the why she was referred to us that why she was referred to his wife why her why her thing was referred to as piha or pg like in two different because this the life was what was the favorite part yeah yeah the means pronoun yeah it doesn't have to do with the spirit it has to do with maryam right yes yes to do with mariam okay so oh what sorry i'm trying to just understand the question you're asking why does it say

[Music] to the private parts and the heart is going to her okay yeah because it's saying the private parts so it's going back to them okay okay yeah yeah yeah i guess that makes sense

is it is it okay do we need to is the arabic grammar okay or should we correct oh yeah yeah i think i think so like that's the consistent answer that i've received so far as well yeah from two or three other people as well but yeah like this this sort of changes in grammar and like really interests me like there was this uh another couple of verses about uh the sharon like killing the suns and leaving the girls alive for bani island

[Music] and it just like caught my eye you know like why is why is god using why is allah using different verbs for the same word you're like [Laughter] no because

these mean the same thing so there's just different ways of being able to say the same thing um najina or means to save from uh you know from naja so naja on the second form is naja which means to somnaja means to be saved and nudja is to make it transitive so to save someone else anja the fourth form which is also to make a tr an intransitive transitive

so it's the same thing it's exactly the same thing if if you said angina or you said nadjayna it would mean i'd it'd be the same meaning okay yeah okay interesting that's something i'll need to jump into arabic grammar and everything because now when you explain it it seems so simple it is no it's very straightforward

[Laughter] for now people the arabic is okay until now reggie regular comes back with some more so yeah take it take a yardage i'll catch you man people that was right there regular muslim aka reggie we could say with some questions on arabic grammar which had to uh at this hour this godly hour he was thinking why is god using this word here and

using that word i don't know how people how the minds of people work but it is interesting um could it right you saved his life all right so we've got here molana i'm not going to give you a hard time man

[Laughter] no this is uh we've had we've gone from muslim to regular muslim to here we've got a how's it going you're good it's going good yeah yeah it's going good well i mean well ramadan is now here um and yeah so that i'm out of the you know they used you know especially and they used to be like how

many rakaas are you doing man yeah i never used to understand those politics they like take money for travie but as a huddy it's okay and everyone and everyone for four cards there is this price for eight accounts there is this price for 20. what's that damn i didn't know that came when i came uh when when i used to i used to come back from germany to the loom and they used to be like oh how many rakatsu did you do and i was like 20 and they were like you must have got bare money and i was

like no i didn't even get anything because in germany they don't give you a jack put that away yeah i think yeah i mean i do you know this aside of it i get it i don't think you know so i was going to say you know this masala of uh getting paid for tarawih yeah for getting paid generally for imam or something now

okay so the methods have some disagreement amongst themselves uh the earliest i think one of the earliest schools that argues for its permissibility is i believe the malikiah who say that you i mean all even the hanafis do allow as well they they do say that look obviously because an imam has to have a salary exactly they use that you know yes so people will say that um so so they use that these which is in buhari isn't it

the best that you can be rewarded for is the book of allah now but i think the i think the way they worked it a lot of the early is they were saying that the imam can be salaried but it's as though his primary role that he's taking money for is the other thing and the salah is just something he's doing so it's like a loophole in the wording so it's the same thing like practically it's the same thing like you're the imam like let's say you come

to the masjid your duty is to i don't know let's say lock the doors and take i don't know do something and make sure every the heating's on and do this and do that and maybe i don't know do organize something and clean and what they're gonna say is all of those things you're getting paid for the salary and the salah thing is it's just like a follow-up so just in the contract they put it i think they would do it like that as a loophole because they didn't want to say you could get paid for salah because they felt that the salah is something that you shouldn't be paid for

now i understand where they're coming from but the malikiah very early on and i've got a book here by um i i think is it it's one of the uh from granada i think it may be um i don't think it's even a jose but it's one of them but it's it's a uh in the book the whole thing is about this and it's based on an early fatwa within the mother as well that you can give an uchara for the actual salah like you can actually pay for the actual salah

and yeah so i mean okay that makes sense anyway a salary for an imam but taraweeh um i think it is it's it's a seasonal event obviously just in ramadan but there is a lot of hard work and it does it makes sense that if a person is doing it you know to pay them you will bring in um good quality if you're going to pay well the only problem is people i think you know they've got their own culture as well because then there's the other issue of they've got to finish so quickly [Laughter] you see so it's got to be done at naught 260 in like two seconds

have you not even that have you ever had have you ever no no no um to be honest i don't think uh to lead it no i don't think i could i don't think you know it is like um you know there is this myth amongst a lot of them they say that if you like they used to tell me that when i was a kid they used to be like if you forget any part of the quran because they're happy and you know the funny thing is the beginning they're like do you have do

your hands and i was nine when i started i finished when i was seven so i i did it i did finished it when you were 11. so 11 wow they were like okay now you've done it so if you forget even one part of the quran it says in surah taha that you're gonna become blind and i was like what they were like yeah because you forgot the quran how dare you forget the quran and i was like yep

that's what like you have to do you always have every day you have to learn your quran that you don't forget it otherwise when you get up but the judgment this is going to happen that is going to happen it's so weird yeah no it's you know yeah that that stuff isn't true and you're right there's a very common myth that people think that oh it's a punishment from not sorry it's not it's severely punishable by god that you forget the quran that's not true at all yes um because because these kind of things are what bring a bad taste to the whole you know to everything to the tradition because

memorizing the quran is a great you know it's it's almost an impossible feat that is done by whipple out of passion all the religions in the world we're absolutely by a massive number we're absolutely exclusive you know for any book in the history of mankind that so many people over the time have remembered this book by heart it's unbelievable it is a miracle true absolutely and so and to say to people what we should never do and i can't emphasize this enough is we need to move away from a culture of guilt

uh and to a culture of rejoicing and celebrating we need to move towards that so yeah like you encourage people to do things because it's good because it's rewarding because it's fun because it's you see you encourage these things but you don't kill drive them into thinking well oh my god now i'm going to be in trouble and now i'm going to carry this burden and it robs it off the joy you know i've realized one thing in my life it's like when you become especially if you you know become a scholar or whatever you might someone might call them themselves whatever when you're in this field like you and me

when you realize first of all if you're not attached first of all that and even if you are attached to an institution over time you realize when you become more free you realize what the actual purpose of religion is and it is not to guilt-free people like i i remember you i think you made a video as well about it like seeing someone like dr zakir naik who is so far and he was so different before him making a video about mass distribution which he earned so much

critique for extremely you know it was a matter i can't and i remember seeing the video and in the beginning it was so cute it was like you know i've been avoiding this question for the last i think five years he's like this question has been because of course i don't want to like um masturbation down exactly i don't want to downgrade you or anything but of course you know zakir naik is one of the most uh listened to people in the whole world you know from religious speakers across countries you know i mean he has a huge following huge yeah

hundreds of messages every single day he said in the beginning of the video about masturbation and he said i was avoiding he said it like honestly he said i was avoiding the whole topic and now i just feel as a scholar i have to i have to address this topic and at the end he did say that i feel it's my crew he of course quoted ibn hazman khabib he saw the video but for him to say that like for him to come out and reader i believe he must have said in his you know in his apartment or whatever and then he must have thought okay i know this is gonna come the whole world is gonna burn

the critique is gonna come but you know what i'm doing it for dean so let's just do it you know so he did it so uh it was it was like even like dr kagi you know i know there have been some you know about you you never denied him being a scholar of course you know no no no no no no of course these people he's a scholar of course you see my issue was you see here's my thing though you see my thing with the i i admire like you're saying look i admire it took uh an immense amount of courage

to come out and say that you know guys you know if you if anybody does indulge indulge oneself and have a have a little play here now and then god won't burn them in hell for it or punish them for it now you see it takes i admit it you know it took a lot of courage for them to say that and i admire that however you know that's the niceties but just being very real

you see the reality is that you see neither zakir naik no had any revelation uh yeah ibn hasem's book they had read it before you mean they knew they knew this opinion 100 at least 20 years ago from today they knew this and i'll tell you something else as well i'll tell you something else as well i bet you i don't know if for a whole of those 20 years but for for a substantial period of time they never believe these things to be

haram not in their heart of hearts but they told the line because they were too scared of controversy but the problem with this is you see you create the monster because you are feeding that same machine now you take somebody like yasir khadi as an example because zakir naik is he has a huge following he does but uh i i'm not so sure in the west how i mean it's huge but i'm not so sure uh i mean he is influential but i know that people do as well recognize that he isn't fully trained as an islam but he knows a lot

he knows a lot but you know there is this understanding but you take somebody like yasir now uh now shaykh assad he has clearly been tackling these issues for years on end telling people that this is a sin this is haram this is haram and it's not about shaykh it's about anyone that's doing this for years and they themselves don't believe it let's say or even if they you see the problem is you're making people suffer and then at some point you switch

but not everybody can switch so easily so you see if this is why it's important to to have a bit more transparency so so for example now let's say here is a better way of doing it yeah that whether it's or any of these people zakir naik sahib or any of these could have done you see all they had to do was when they were asked the question before they just had to say that look this is what these ulama say that this is haram blah blah blah yeah

and there are some who say they just give the different views but the problem is that giving diversity is obviously against the salafi manhattan because the problem is the salafi manhattan believes in only one truth one according to the quran and sunnah so they say the methods only one of them can be right the rest are wrong so they don't want to legitimize a diverse view so so what they were as have they just been transparent then they don't need to take the responsibility you see they could just say look i'm not saying it but look some ulama have said this and some ulama have said this

so and that would have just saved them now and it would have saved all these bachari from going because look let's be honest i mean this is the irony that because they they were dealing with people and everybody there was involved in it and most likely you know it's not about pinpointing them including them themselves because to say you're human and the person has not touched his own private parts as a human being is you know it's like yeah but it's like it's like okay there's a place and a time to live and but this is

taking the mick you know i i just want to go one thing just say one thing further i mean you lived in the mudrasa in pakistan you know in binori town and i've lived in the madrasa also that moves up i don't want to like be too open about it i don't know how you feel how you how how open you feel i can be about it but what this up if if those guys were allowed to masturbate you know how many children could have been safe for sexual abuse you know i mean seriously you know these to be fair i i think that you see obviously now i don't know who's going to carry out

the field research but i think look it's not about if they were allowed to masturbate they're all masturbating there's no question about that right so the question isn't that do these people masturbate or do human beings or even creatures it's no you see these questions are just silly because naturally everybody who's got a private part has ended up touching it it doesn't make you know there's no point it says that some of the sellers would say if it's filthy then cut it off and throw it away they used to say you know that's uh there's nothing i get it so the question isn't about whether they've done it the question is they've been made to feel very bad about doing

and guilty this is the the difference so they they kind of carry this guilt with them that we are very guilty horrible sinning people we're we're undeserving of because we're just filthy and we're guilty as to the child abuse issue obviously that is uh uh that's a very separate issue and that's obviously a very serious issue um obviously i wouldn't link that personally i don't see the link between that and issues of motivation i think that is just because those

societies and then those um institutions are sometimes created with such extreme segregation like the church you know yeah exactly any anything that um kind of imposes such a unnatural manner of extreme segregation that that environment will breed perversion but by default that's the you see this is the thing it's like pressure you see the more you compress it it will escape from one end or the other this this is how it works it doesn't it

doesn't that you can't just kill you can't remove and you wouldn't it would be a very unhealthy society if we didn't as human beings or as creatures didn't have lust yeah naturally people must have obviously otherwise there wouldn't be relationships otherwise babies wouldn't be born you know if if people it's a natural part of nature it's not but it's when people put it in place it in an unnatural setting with very unnaturally defined parameters and and are very strict about it and as an example i'll give an example that

when i was in the madras i remember that not not us because we were foreigners we had um you know we did rejoice in a lot of freedoms i won't lie but the national students they had their own section they would be i remember that they would often be made to shave their head and i remember the uh head nazim once explaining to all of us why they do that and they said that we shave their heads so they are embarrassed in society

and he said take you know when they go out in kosadama [Music] you know look like people are going to say look the boldly has come and so you won't be able to feel pride and and they said so thereby you would restrict the the radius of how far you go from the madras and you'd stay mostly within the the parameters of the madrasah or just go to a near tea shop or a shop and just come back but you would you'd feel embarrassed to go to the city center you'd feel embarrassed to go to so basically you see to be less integrated and with society

and you just remain within the confines of this madrasah uh walls so that's very unnatural to to create that it's unbelievable you know people don't know the world inside uh inside it's it's like a different world you live in the world i mean i you know i i do understand that look i do understand that because i myself studied in the madrasa and i i appreciate the opportunity they gave me to be on a platform where i could every day learn read engage obviously i brought my own

enthusiasm to the table but i am very grateful that there obviously was a platform to be able to do that because if i had to sit on my own and read these books i would never have done them you know i had to go to an institute that had me that gave me air conditioning to live in and it gave me food every day and it didn't charge me years on end they did this and i it's not you see i'm not trying to deny and i don't want it to that they that this you know there's a great servitude being done but there are certain issues that can be very cancerous

you see you could have a perfectly you could have an amazing human being with all his limbs and he's capable of amazing things but then they have cancer you see one little thing and it can it can kind of disease the whole it can it can either cause a death or completely debilitating state of the overall functioning human being who is wonderful with all his limbs so this is uh an analogy yeah i i give you a small example exactly i just didn't want to cut you off you know um the thing you said is so true like for

example i always say like at the end of the day my assateagues are the people who taught me islam and that mother assad i will be grateful for to them forever you know it doesn't matter if their mindset was too dogmatic or whatever but they did teach me islam at the end of the day they laid the foundation for the tools i have today just that you see what they need to do they need to seriously but this is the problem you see because there's so many this is so many problems because they need to understand that the day and age you're living in you need to understand that uh

you need to come out of a cult mentality you know there was there was there was this one guy there was this one guy just two jew like for the listeners also to just get the experience and it was like my second year or something and i was there and uh there was this guy from hafiz class you know who you know people who memorize the quran and stuff and i was in the other club because i already done the memorizing of the quran in the gym in germany so i was um part of the alimia class so you know to become an islamic scholar so only that people understand you know

because everyone is uh known like us so we this guy he basically was my teacher because he used to teach half his club you know you just just used to teach uh memory and because we we were from foreign countries we didn't have a home so we went out for one day when everyone else went out uh so we went out to london and just had an experience we came back just went for food football and we just came back

at monday he called us and he was like uh and he wasn't even our teacher i've never met him and i was like oh then he called us in front of the whole class in the morning and he was very strict and he said battle and i was like i say and then he spoke to me and he said i thought you were such a sufi and such a nice guy and i'm like what do you mean and he's like i thought you're such a good muslim and i was like um i tried to be you know i was so overwhelmed and he's like i saw you on green street you know that is the screen in london where a lot of

asian people live so he was like but you were wearing football clothes and i was like [Laughter] humble football kid we just played football he was like you are from the voters you change your clothes wherever you go and you don't have the stuff the most over here you are muslim over there you are kafir he said that in my face and i was i moved this up i was like 16 years old or something i was like

you know it's it's it's a shame man i you know i really do hope i don't know i mean i i just hope i i i was i was sorry i said i was disturbed about what he said i know we're all disturbed i i just i hope or okay i pray that maybe in i don't know maybe in the future people they can you see work with

that you see they they have to like people have to like insecurities and all these things have to be pushed aside because there's bigger challenges out there and and you know one of the the greatest things as well that is missing from unfortunately from not maybe not all but certain seminaries like religious modalities and stuff it is that that that kind of the true unders you know that sense of like serving this this is something there's so many things i mean this critical thinking has to be brought in but also this thing of serving i know in some places that the

jamaat were doing wonderful things but then they have other baggage which is an issue so but this thing of being able to serve people as opposed to being able wanting to rule over people is uh is another like that kind of humility of character um i don't know i think it's a long path i long right

so from germany um all right i'm just trying to see who we've got here we've got a few other people uh given my supervisor knows and is okay with it well much love for the super chat i've got no idea what you're talking about uh but sure man um let's see we've got here yeah we've got an uh ab

right abdullah if you got a webcam let me add abdullah okay i couldn't see that actually it was blocked so it just said so that's all i could read hello assalamu alaikum [Music] i don't know maybe he's in manzila bain al manzilatane he's in a purgatory state right now and then

i have a manzilla between the two munzel's purgatory which they call manzila being on manzila zayn i was just reading that i realized i'm just saying kkk i had another question for sorry it was a super chat okay shukran once again much love for the super chat i should just keep repeating so they keep sending super chats on all right ah much love yeah going out to i'm not gonna read out i'm not gonna say like that's gonna sound like i'm praising the kkk so with the quick question

um i my headphones at work but i signed a contract not to is my money haram well i my headphones i i listened to my headphones at work but i signed a contract not to so take long breaks or make sure that i finish my assigned work for the day [Laughter] you know this is imam abu hanifa wants when he was asked to give a fatwa for something and he said he said acha i'm paraphrasing he said yeah you get to enjoy the fruits but i bear

the responsibility for answering [Laughter] not everything has to be signed by god and attested to by god just you know uh just just get the work done work his work on just get it done and yeah that's what's important don't worry about it being signed off by god god not everything has to be rubber stamped by god you know don't seek to be micromanaged by religion just live naturally and people have rules they have

by you know like by rules and bylaws and these things don't mean anything sometimes this is very arbitrary like nobody goes through that door everybody use that door you know there's every place has its own rules uh you know don't use the the sink that's over there or um you can drink water but you can't drink fizzy drinks you know you could these these rules are not ruled by god this just whoever the ceo is whoever the the the company manager is or whoever they set up rules and sometimes they're annoying sometimes

they're useless some are obviously very important but you know you it's your you're gonna have to make that call man i don't know if you're listening to earphones whilst you're meant to be taking 999 emergency calls and somebody needs an ambulance but you're like yeah let them just finish this this this chorus yeah just one minute yeah one minute one and then [Laughter] then obviously this is a catastrophe of the highest imaginable proportion but you know i don't know maybe you're just doing something else like maybe you're a security guard and a certain but

actually a security guard as well depends or maybe you just have to sit in front of a pc somewhere and you just have to i don't know put your earphones in but it's your cool man you know what if you want a proper session how about you you could oh sorry you did pay a super chat i'm just about to say so sorry i take that back but yeah don't worry you'll figure it out man you'll figure it out uh yeah so who

um sorry you just said something uh somebody saying how to submit a request i'll share the link there's the link let me just bring on your word of write your word assalamu alaikum we haven't seen you in ages we were getting concerned i was about to i was going to have to give justin trudeau call and see what's uh

no no i've just been extremely busy just to it a lot going on you know [Laughter]

is on marshall it's been a we've we've missed you on um on a lot of these actually yes i almost catch you every week yeah i got so busy i just disappeared how have you been a little ham things have been good um yeah you know always things are always good when you think about it it's just a matter of perspective and somebody just has to shift their perspective a little and then feel you know so much to always be

so positive about i was thinking of this the other day because i was i was just writing my reflection journal and wow i was that's a good that's a very good people take take take take lesson from that people imam daily you do a reflection journal or is it everything everyone every other day i try to show sure i try to keep a reflection journal going all the time so it would probably be like every day every other day but i was just thinking about uh needs because yeah yeah so the other day i actually was looking at the i was remembering my days in college

and i was thinking about it and i was thinking about yeah giovanni are you still full you're a fountain of youth still you don't need to reminisce over these days but still you know so i was thinking of one of the classes where we talked about the maslow's hierarchy of need it was one of the years amazing yeah it was one of my economics classes where we discussed it so i was thinking in my reflection journal that day because i was thinking about the hierarchy of needs and i was thinking about the basic needs section right

oh yeah and if you actually think about it if you have your basic needs that's enough like everything yeah everything else is extra so like now i think about it a roof over your head food on food on the table and a couple pairs of clothing and you're good if you think about it you know people maslow you see it's it's amazing because in many ways what maslow's hierarchy of needs it's in many ways it's so common sense but

it's like why has nobody said this before so for those of you that don't know abraham maslow he was a psychologist and he was um i mean he was influenced by various schools and um including behaviorism but also freud now you see the thing is what he he he he raised a very important question he said that he loved psychology but he said that look everybody that's dealing with psychology is dealing with the sick

like freud is too busy dealing with you know this person who's got this kind of hysteria and this person who's got this uh psychic you know psychological illness and this person but what about normal people so he felt that like psychology ought to be not for just the sick it ought to be for everyone so he diverges from that kind of freudian and that psychoanalytic way and he comes up with this very i mean he comes up with many things but this this uh pyramidal structure this pyramid of how we rise through our needs and these are and he

begins with at the so he has these five levels and the bottom one is just very basic survival so food um you know drink clothing stuff like this yes so and then what he'll do is he'll he'll he'll move it to well okay once you've got your food and stuff like this and um and you need shelter of course and then once you've got that then a person needs some kind of uh love or belonging or they need um because they need that so whether it's going to be tribal whether it's going to be identity they need relationships or

whether the relationships will be for um whether they're going to be sexual or just general friendships you know people need this to survive the and these are all by the way lower order needs yet so you're going through that you're going through your food you're going through your clothing you're going through shelter security you're going through this sense of belonging with relationships with friendships and then you see uh this self-esteem and this is still lower order because he's saying once a person has that they need validation okay so now i've got

friends but i want my friends to like me i want people to validate it's like today we know i want people to like this post how many people have liked the facebook page how many people have liked the instagram post we this self-esteem people have this need for self-esteem now you think well okay but this this is this is you know it doesn't look very healthy sure but if channeled right it leads to the ultimate which was self-actualization and self-actualization is this way a person becomes wholesome complete in the real meaning so this is his kind of pyramid his

hierarchy of needs it's incredible it's fascinating maslow i think it's very common sense in a way but at the same time it's it's not so people ask sometimes why is it in the muslim you know i had somebody asked me uh last time why is it in the muslim world that people are not uh concerned with actualization self-actual you know why are they not on this consciousness and this this thing of compassion and this thing of even though you do see drips and drabs but and well obviously you know people are saying about ethics why are the ethics of the general

society corrupt because the basic needs haven't been met yet exactly so until those are met you can't think of the other things right even if you if you do it's not wholesome it's like maybe people think about them sometimes but you're too caught up in this so if you actually look in there's different versions now of yeah yeah they're all your imaginative needs now people have come up like you know later philosophy yeah yeah yeah they came up with their own version uh one of the versions actually talks about like higher morals and reaching the best

version of yourself but where they placed it was like close to the top which means until you don't have your basic needs yes not so even so even when exactly and even maslow when he's saying the top thing is self-actualization what he means by that is also all of this like you become and that can mean many things i guess but it means that you become this true the truest to becoming a true in son that you are like your morals like you're saying but also your contentment you know you're on this level of where

you're content where you have compassion where you have uh now a person could have compassion lower as well when you in relationships you could have compassion but this is for humanity it's not just for your friends you see people do have compassion and things going up like for their friends for their family for the children for their parents this is for everyone it's not just you know it's the highest the apex thing yeah but it's also because when until you haven't reached that point and you don't have that level of i guess security you don't really think about those things yeah you know like like imagine if somebody's

fighting and scrapping and living you know let's say like week to week or month to month right like salary wise and basic needs wise such a person doesn't have time to think about like solving the world's issues or the problem no and even if they do you see even if they occasionally have flashes of let's say the these upper things i'm sure they do occasionally have flashes of them but the problem is they're too submerged they're worried like you see when you've got a crisis going on when you're worried about how do i get food for my children or how do i do

this or security or you're worried about you know how am i gonna pay next month's mortgage or how am i gonna see it's you can yeah sure a person can have a thought in between about you know transcendental kind of but then life is pretty messed up so they're too busy they drag back down yeah exactly right so even if a person may have a good and this is another thing so you'll have brilliant minds but because they're still fighting for that basic needs part they're not able to reach and that's one of the that's one of so if you actually read

the early books on socialism what they call utopian socialism okay um this is when socialism was like in its you know early days i'm not saying i agree or disagree with socialism i'm just saying this as like a a political science student myself um if you read the early days of like utopian socialism you'll find there was this argument made that if we you know distribute and make sure everybody's basically they're mad that would give a chance for us to tap into those brilliant minds that we wouldn't be able to because

they're sort of like uh fighting for the basic needs you know it would give you that opportunity to you know tap into these brilliant minds because there are brilliant minds out there that you're not that doesn't make sense right and that was the argument and that's kind of one of the reasons why um early socialism was then titled utopian because it felt like it was unachievable right because it was like it's so hard to achieve that right like because people would feel a level difference like for example in a social society like especially the early

socialism which was you know proposed you would have people that are doctors getting paid the same as like for example someone you know else right when a doctor would have but then again the economy would work in a completely different way so you would have to like restructure that that's socialism no to as far as socialism in terms of social welfare and um things like that i i agree with it in terms of uh there should be social welfare there should be um like you said that that bottom this absolute sheer necessity they

should always this i do feel it's a state responsibility um for especially things like that for the disabled for the sick for the elderly for people who are um or some kind of just i guess in many ways how i'm pretty sure canada is like that i think it is but how the uk is uh although it's kind of moving more and more towards some parts of it towards privatization especially people are pushing the health care i i i definitely do feel health care should always should be um state funded

i mean private available but this the state should provide um basic healthcare always or necessary healthcare always like over here healthcare for the most part is covered and stuff like that yeah i mean just as it is in the uk i mean i this kind of stuff i definitely i think it's it's a must and to me this is common sense i don't even see that as politics i see that as just common sense yeah i was thinking about recently i was just thinking about like uh an approach right like how there's different approaches

to like religion or like philosophy and everything in general in life right like anything that we study yeah and i was i i like i was stepping out of the shoes that like kind of my shoes and stuff and i was just thinking about the prophetic approach compared to the approach we see today so i started so i started reading like notes on seed all that i've taken i started opening up books i was just thinking i was just reflecting right thinking about like the approach we have

uh you know compared to the approach the prophet shallallahu would have taken on certain things right and how the religion came down and i was just thinking it's quite interesting and i i've been doing the style experiment a lot with the people around me and i'm not sure if you want to do it with me right now i think it would be interesting okay okay sure i don't know what we're doing but okay and i guess the people online could probably take part in this it's just a small little experimental thing so like okay

i was reading these is this gonna be one of those games that ends up no no i like we're like well well your honor it began as a game like this he said we need to take part in we don't know how we reach there so yes okay so uh if we were to take the whole quran right so you have like the full quran how much of the quran would you say off of the knowledge that you have obviously how much of the quran would you say is like

which is like allah giving like do's and don'ts right so you could think about you learned so i would say everyone at home come up with like a number right so you have 30 judges and you have six thousand plus versus six yes six thousand two hundred and hundred but i already i already know the answer this is the problem though yeah i know you know no right oh are we talking about the people watching oh i thought you were asking me yeah yeah i mean you couldn't give an answer if you want i mean you could give the answer if you want what do you want me to okay so generally they they

say there's a difference from some have said 135 verses to some say 500 is the maximum generally given for akam [Music] so which out of 6200 is a tiny portion time it's very tiny but the reason why i wanted to do the thought experiment was how much time now if you take 100 percent how much time do you think is focused on that when you're sort of

when people sort of preach and they try to you know bring islam into the life of someone how much time do you think is spent on those right and and you could see already in your head where i'm going with this right exactly right like how much time is spent on that portion right and it's a lot it's the majority for most people right and the reason why i like doing that experiment is because it puts into perspective the approach right and how possibly there should be a

shift because the question then is what is the rest of the quran right the rest of the quran is like akida beliefs and then and i i remember i was saying this to one of my classes that um what are actions based off of so what would you say with this and what are our actions based off so what do you mean what sorry i almost just went into a self-induced dmt trip if if like what are basic actions what are they based off of what would you say like our

basic actions for what kind of like any action like if you're like any action like eating food what are they based off some some motivation i guess um they're based mostly off of our thoughts right i mean oh right okay sure so that's what i mean it can be based off okay and then those thoughts are based off of our beliefs right so like that's when i realized that if your beliefs aren't correct then your thoughts probably won't be correct then your actions won't be correct so it's all kind of connected right so that's why i feel like the

majority of the quran is focusing on those beliefs is to fix them and then everything else kind of falls in place does that make sense yeah of course of course yeah no no that makes no that makes a lot of sure i mean yeah i you see yeah i think um i i totally agree with you that there's a total it's a very small portion of the quran that is to do with rules and laws but and the reason why people maybe um made that the overarching theme

is possibly because of the context within which islam appeared and was um you know manifested that was a society that was for the most part quite lawless and the generations that followed it's very natural for the the you know the utmost urge to have law structure parameters order uh to bring chaos into a very as tight as possible

regime of structures and orders and rules so and they set about doing that for centuries and so this is why very early on if we're looking at i mean you could take imam alex fatawa the mudokana which is you know within 150 years of the prophet sallallahu alaihi and his madawana is already which is his father going to be about 35 000 rulings um you know you could take imam abu hanifa's uh within 140 years of the prophet let's say what the transmissions of his 100 thousand rulings

so these rulings are people are so they can't get enough of them because the the context in which they live uh lacks these parameters so and you fast forward and obviously we live in a very different world arguably with you know too many rules so you know today there's rules on how to park you how to park your car what hours you can park in when you can't park you better turn up at this time you better do this you better switch that i mean there's rules for everything

so you see rules are not the need of this age so this is why it's it's natural to understand why the scholars went that way in a day and age where they couldn't get enough rules i mean there was a hyper deficit of uh of rules in society and today there's you know there's a hyper abundance of rules so we need to obviously so a person restores the balance by going making sure that the real mess you know the ultimate the message of love compassion mercy all those things oh

because it's interesting you know when you think about it that look even like let's take a look at uh imam saab like even like speaking of the quran now salah so often is i mean on several occasions it's mentioned in the quran yeah like um even about zakat or song things like this

but never is it mentioned never are you burdened with any guilt or even meant or even threatened with punishment now people it's not mentioned in the quran is it now people may you know sometimes people use that one verse about what brought you to suffer we were not those people who prayed but it goes on it doesn't stop there

and we used to deny all these uh prophets and all these things so it doesn't so people using that one verse it's not you know just being objective it's not speaking about them because it straight after he speaks about feeding the poor so the quran never takes that approach of trying to get you into this but it's interesting that approach has become the dominant approach though so where people will try to bring you to let's say the worship of god but through fear through

kind of guilt through but in the quran it's not it's not coupled like that it doesn't i mean i was just thinking about this the other day actually you know you said you i was thinking about this and i was just thinking wow like i you know it i guess it's obvious but i i just never thought of it like i thought yeah that's so true like it i was thinking wow like actually the quran whenever it mentions these things it never mentions it in a with a a punishment with it it just mentions it hey do this it doesn't because i feel like that was

like i feel like when the beliefs are set in place then i feel like and the correct beliefs are set in place and you see the seriousness of it all then i feel like you will do those actions out of pure love as well right yeah and in line with that there's a question here on love by arabian princess so first of all shukran uh for the super chat arabian princess much appreciated all right so uh

um a non-christian um so so imam jawaza would you speak right so okay and i'd love to get you to jump your input as well so so first of all um you're very right uh arabian princess that look it's

that love is really the cornerstone and the bedrock of these fates and how many times in the quran do you find the verse allah loves allah loves so many times it comes and even when it comes to things that allah dislikes he doesn't even say in allah it says lord does not love you see so these things and in christianity it's clearly as well i mean

it's very a prominent salient feature and i think the more important question which really doesn't need to be asked but it's good that you ask it to highlight it that look can muslims love non-muslims can christians don't uh love not non-christians especially speaking about muslims it's not only can they love non-muslims they must love non-muslims i mean a person must love have a love for humanity and it is it is otherwise this is not they have not self-actualized

you see islam it did not come for the betterment of muslim mean allah is not muslim he is lord of the people you see this is not for people i i i it's a very it's a simple yet powerful question which has a reminder that i i can't emphasize enough it is it is a short of our insania to really self-actualize as true human beings

that we must love humanity and we must aspire to that maybe you know maybe we find in us shortcomings you know we're on a path maybe a person we all have prejudices we all have biases we're all tribalistic whether we like it or not and what our journey is is to somewhat remove these filters as we kind of trod along the path this is this is our journey in life so yeah so shukran once again to think about it

when allah i believe it's yes it is and he talks about how he made us different and then he gives a reason for that too you can see that's such a a beautiful uh you know reminder because that verse speaks about why allah has made you and it's not it's a people we created you from one uh from one source and you became many and and why just so that you may come to know one another and this

comes from this arafa which it comes from which does mean to know but is also the source the root as as you would know of the term which is also a goodness a kindness exactly you see so so yeah and to to further out to this then it automatically becomes a duty upon us to get to know one another and to know get to know it so and there's a reason for that because if you do not get to know one's culture and their beliefs even you if you disagree with all of it

if you don't get to know it then how will you give them the message sure but and i was going to actually say i was going to actually say that you see not putting duty aside it's amazing honestly it is so inc honest it's so uh so wholesome so kind of fulfilling to learn the stories of others i it's something i really have come to appreciate um especially at this stage of life

coming to learn about people's stories every single one of us we carry a story we and every single one of us wants our story to be heard it's true isn't it we we all want our story to be heard and it is amazing learning about you know that this person that what wow and there is this there's like an energy in it that obviously it it it captures the moment so this it is a foundational

block a building block really of of humanity that we all have a story and we all share it and to come to know one another it's it's yeah it's it's you know you can't um yeah right okay should we uh it's been it's four and a half hours god each time you know what after ramadan i'm gonna inshallah reduce these just to the two hours two and a half maybe because i

think the problem is you know i i enjoy speaking to people so much but then i i think the problem is then people ain't gonna listen to it because people would feel oh my god this is way too way too long so nevertheless it's it's we still have to do our session it's got delayed again yes yes

always take guys we're gonna it's a wrap let's wrap this up it's been as always epic you guys have been awesome honestly i have to thank you for really just spending these hours awake really just shook it and shook and let's wrap it up yeah those of you that uh usual those of you that want to reach

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uh yep hopefully that should um and in ramadan i will be taking a break oh guys take very good care of yourselves as always may allah bless your journey and let's wrap this up okay so