Own Your Story | Meaning With MALM #28

assalamu alaikum people of right of right i take it we is live so let me just i'll let you guys uh i'll let you guys uh just tune in click like click share hopefully you can hear me whilst you're doing that i'm just going to bring up today's file

all right where we at here we are now just for today's date now yeah salam right you guys can just click like click share just spread the love people spread the love whilst i just tracked down [Music] where is uh there is of rise so

all right all right bismillah so what i want to take a look at today just quickly run through this then i'll just take a look at who's with us online i want to focus on lock it into the theme of own your story people own your story and i thought you know let's introduce um a personality i briefly spoke on in the past and is connected to some of the stories we've done recently it's one of the most powerful females

in islamic in early islamic history so once the dynasties start within islam she is probably one of the most powerful women to have ever uh come onto the islamic landscape her name is so we'll speak a bit about her and also the companion abu bakr uh of of who's of that

i will speak a bit about um introduce this legendary personality um as well so right allah just grab my coffee so ah right whoa must be getting exhausted today so who have we got with us online of right shane wilson spread the love alright that's what we're talking about people clear

right sam easy all fry let's have a great day i mean i mean of course scorpio i hope the book reading is going well for this month the book reading for this month is a book by michael pollan um and it's wow and it's on psychedelics it's called how i changed my mind definitely an interesting read i'm only i'm still in the early stages of the book

but uh so far very fascinating very interesting so those of you that want to catch up with that on your own time definitely it's worth doing aida [Music] all

right so i'll take a look um we've got thinker says salaam morning hope you're all well and happy as always um in the future i'll keep that in mind um

as always right so my favorite scholar i like it yes scorpio saying the book is amazing it is there's some excellent youtube um videos and ted talks that can um accommodate the book if you like or at least the theme those of you that are not reading the book can definitely check out the ted talk how i changed my mind

all right we've got shadman right right from houston allahu akbar from down under people of australia so what is going on um look at this i'm hello from the island of mauritius

the book will do it the book will do it you should create a discord i have a discord it's called mindscape it's for the patreons or there's a separate one for the book club called the book lounge but for my one is um it's called mindscape it's for patreon uh you can feel free to check out the patreon there are different tiers but they all have access to the discord and yeah people chat on it share things discuss things we do also uh for certain tiers we do have a

monthly meet up on there as well right what's going on all right assalamu alaikum arrive from germany all right this is of course we spoke previously and we've now connected on instagram as well it's a pleasure to have you here so what is going on people huh what is going on somebody mentioned about the russia ukraine thing i mean i've spoken about that previously i don't know what's

really changed it is crazy i can't see an end game in sight from the russian perspective what does putin see like what's the end game i don't know i think you see he hm you see in my i don't know the way i i i i see it is that he may have had a plan that went something like i'm not happy with ukraine you know

annoying me and trying to trigger me with this nato speak i want to teach them a lesson i want to teach nato a lesson as well to kind of stay in your lane meanwhile i want to secure the crimea because it's water had been cut off from ukraine ukraine was doing a lot of that as well um also uh i want to secure the black sea with more ports that kind of that have that that are secured from the ukrainian side um

yeah and and maybe he thought as well i've you know i'm not happy with the pro right uh kind of nazi-esque regi or i don't know if it's the regime but at least the the kind of right leaning um some what of a nazi sentiment carrying uh parliamentarians so maybe he thought look i'm gonna get all of these and just blow these out of the sky with with a few tactical shots yeah and i think along

the way also he may have thought look i'm going to liberate his version or create a separate eastern front that is now independent and thereby they will be a persistent struggle for the you know for the foreseeable future with ukraine so it becomes an unstable region yeah and i would have thought really a lot of that he did within the first in a few days so he kind of got that done uh sorry not all of that but like he he he declared independence for

the eastern two fronts he secured the ports he kind of um thereby having greater access and control over the black sea hopefully being able to release the water supplies scared off nato destabilize the region i think he would have really done all of that and but then i just don't you know he went in for kiev and maybe he had a plan that i can make a sweep clean get in the replace the government with a pro-russian government come out but that's gone to pieces so

yeah it's just a bit of uh it's just a mess right now so i don't know what his plan is right now because i honestly can't see how how how do they recover from this kind of a global um global loss because being precluded from all of the international markets bar energy so with the exception of energy being prevented cut off all you know russian banks banks being

frozen in terms of most international uh trading being cut off from swift uh all these major outlets being frozen in your country google paypal youtube um [Music] i know these things a person may think well what do these things do but they're so huge especially the transactional perspective and the currency just dropping at least having halved almost within just days if not he's probably dropped more now the russian ruble so how does a person recover i i honestly don't know

but then i i at the same time it's the world has got to see for the first time so blatantly the hypocrisy and double standards of the west the the kind of racist undertones being brought vividly to the forefront um you know no filter just sheer i don't know transparency of of their their inner shadows just

being so discriminatory anti-muslim anti uh middle eastern anti-african everything just coming right out in this and somehow just drawing arbitrary lines of ukraine symbolizing somehow the great fight for freedom which let's face it and i i have to say and this is where i feel that you know kind of conf a mixed state of emotion because you see people like trump who very openly when this happened

said that i have always had a problem with ukraine he said ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries on earth and he said i've been saying that since i was he was in power and people all of a sudden i get it most people don't know what ukraine is about because ukraine's not such a you know it's not one of those countries that people are usually speaking about so people don't know but the powers that be do know this you know the countries know that this is a very corrupt country when they're saying

european and they're trying to gauge it by let's say some kind of first world standard it's not like anything like the other kind of even by its template it's nothing like the other countries it's it's a country riddled and drowning and submerged in corruption well before all this russian thing so you know and now it's openly like the treatment in ukraine against africans that are trapped there the way they're being kicked off trains the way they're being treated just

flagrant racism it just goes to show how messed up the whole situation is and the problems and it also reflects what putin was saying which some people were sidelining that and that's not to say necessarily putin is some kind of an angel or a messiah he clearly is uh you know a dictator clearly there's no question about that but what he was saying about the nazi kind of okay he's maybe you know there's an aggrandizement of what he's saying but still you see now echoes of truth

because the is this far right leaning um parliamentarian swift within ukraine there are these people that are you know very kind of um [Music] just racist and fascist kind of um i'm not saying all of them but there is there are these there is a clear strong presence of the element and these things are just being all brushed and it's like it's a country that's just always been there for humanity and and that's not to belittle their struggle see this is why it just goes to show how

super complicated everything's become because you're like well you know there are no good guys there are no bad guys i mean it's just everybody's bad but everybody's people have their own version of good and it's just a mess it's a you know this kind of just mishmash of everybody with an agenda that's trying to color it with their coat so yeah but right now where has it left the world russian oil supplies are kind of really shaking the world now with what do they do

and it's madness you know may allah make things easy i hope putin kind of i don't know comes to some because he has to kind of step back and just yeah open up some meaningful way for negotiations and biden is just clearly senile i mean i'm serious i don't know how biden is biden is the guy makes so many ridiculous

mistakes in his speeches and i don't feel i don't know i could be wrong i don't think the i think these are like because the guy's borderline senile i don't think it's because they just slip off the tongues and things i think he's kind of he's just too old i don't think people should be if you're if you're near a certain age you shouldn't really be leading a country that's i don't know my thoughts because i think the amount of stress leading a country has like would you take a 70 year old and make him a pilot i mean i don't know but

would you put like a 70 something year old too and when they're steering an entire country i because it makes you think i wonder what his agenda is and he's making all these crazy claims as well and and he said in a speech you can't win the hearts of the iranian people it's like everybody must be thinking even iran must be thinking what's this guy talking about you want to say the ukrainian people but yeah

so yeah but i mean i hope look you know what it is it's just it's like always it's the innocent who suffer it's like can you imagine just poor just the common people that are caught up in this ukrainian russian like the common russian people like imagine how they're suffering like bloody the internet payments international payments transactions imagine you're somebody used to sell things and it's not like you have a say in all of these it's not like you can do anything about it putin's not going to

listen to you so you're kind of getting it from all ends so yeah it is uh these things may allah may come easy for people i mean so to be a leader you need to pass an aptitude test i would say you know to be a leader ideally what should happen is you should go through a whole there should be like a you know like a course that you have to undertake like a fitness aptitude kind of uh course but something not more

along the way or incorporated enthused in that should be things like exploring all leaders should have should have must have taken certain necessary doses of psilocybin magic mushrooms maybe mdma they should have done a certain amount of things like this and they need to maybe definitely to be a world leader i would say you they must have taken dmt and ideally maybe at least one dose of five meow dmt

because once a person has experienced death in this world or as close to it as you can get and you've experienced the other realms you only return with love and compassion and then we see them rule the world we will ladies and gentlemen be living in a totally different world honestly war would be a thing of the past people ain't interested in war when they walk that path can you imagine that if it was a mandatory condition like let's say it was something like a six-month course that i mean it's not a

whole course but during this six month they have to be licensed and vetted and part of the process was they had to go through all of these things they had to um i mean oh my god we would they would be the kingdom of god on earth seriously we we would have it would be a different world but yeah so yeah this is it mound for president it wouldn't work you see because if people did this politics would just go out honestly you know i mean corrupt

politics would be out the window people would be they would want to actually spread love they would actually want to save humanity they'd want to eradicate poverty they'd want to eradicate starvation and hunger but yeah so alright now tmt4 presidents it's a thought not that they're going to listen to me but i would say it's a must i would say that if a person was to become a world leader definitely yeah

a world league because that's too many people are at stake if you can't even do that then you shouldn't if they you know they don't truly because then they're just you know they haven't faced their shadow have they and they need to face it so i feel that when a person has at least done that at a world state level then they qualify to you know you can trust them with the hearts and minds of people prior to that hmm i don't know

what is their agenda you see all right imagine proposing that yeah i would propose that i would make it a mandatory thing if it were up to me that for leaders i'm not saying full com but all leaders i would say that there would be a mandatory i'm telling you we would have an amazing world we would be living in a world that would look so radically different from the world you and i are acquainted with

um yeah so what is going on people uh asia pasha orthodox i don't know what orthodox church right somebody's saying about coming on i will share the link to come on live later on so once we covered right okay what's this

um what what are these comments muslims the house of sound akwa right listen you need to stop spamming i'm going to stop right now i'll delete some of these comments you will be blocked okay so people any of the mods about anybody spamming you just put them into timeout tell matic jews okay there you go block

user okay so there you go that's right so no uh we don't need any we don't support or agree with any anti-semitism or any of that you don't need to be you know to be secure with yourself you don't need to hate on other people okay you don't to hate on the jews you don't need to hate on the christians or you don't hate on anyone okay just get a grip of yourself all right so

uh gibril all right i've got no idea what you're saying jibril recited quran right you need to you need to seriously pull yourself together right now right so let's sha allah begin

all right so i want to take a look at this theme of to own your own story what a beautiful statement or quote not every moment i shape my destiny with a chisel i am the carpenter of my own soul it's very reminiscent of i'm the captain of my soul the master of my fate the captain of my soul

it's uh very reminiscent of that i thought you know in line with this theme there's this amazing quote by charles dicken that whether i shall turn out to be the hero of my own life or whether that station will be held by anybody else these pages must show allah that is so profound honestly that you know our lives

and the reason and what i mean by this theme is each and every one of us has a story right we each and every one of us has our very own story and in some ways it's kind of getting ahead of us

and it's maybe shaping us there's a a kind of loop feedback this kind of bi-directionality that it's we feed into it it feeds into us but to own it to take control take it by the reins and it could be done at any stage of life even if it were the very last moments of life a person to take control and and in that sense this quotation that

you're seeing that you know whether i shall turn out to be the hero of my own life or whether that station will be held by anybody else these pages must show and what you know we can kind of picture almost our story being written out i love what um joe rogan once said where he said that he said imagine your life is like a movie it's or you've got a documentary documentary crew following you around and it's at the stage where things are

all messed up and you're that guy at that stage you're at that person and everything's fallen to pieces and and the movie's just kind of begun that we see a common kind of theme and then you'll rise to success again rising from the ashes i think that's phenomenal so empowering and i thought with that theme in mind about

owning taking control of your own story because really a time will come where we all will think that damn if only you know if only ah there's a an arabic poem that let's to be raj that i'm not to like i cannot bring back anything that is gone not by just saying oh if only but only you know

like saying words of lamentation that oh if i could if i did what if i did if only i did these words don't you know laughter later lo anni in arabic these kind of words it doesn't bring anything back and this poem by sagar the legend he says

which means a moment or an hour or a moment it can't mean a clock or a watch as well in arabic so and he says says you know if a few moments from life were to return

what what a life it would be what a scene it would be to watch out there are right so i'm just trying to right there's a super chat i'll bring that up there's a poem i've got here somewhere and then we'll kind of move on into the lesson let's bring this up thinker shukran much love for the super

chat mufti will you give d woods and invite him to mine trap i'm not so sure right yet because i mean i've got a lot of people already lined up for mine trap and i'm already so much behind in my own list of people that i've got lined up so and then there's ramadan and i don't usually i don't know sometimes i've done a one-off minecraft in ramadan but usually i don't do many live streams in ramadan so this there's too much of a a kind of waiting list and i don't really

see at this stage what the point would be because mindtrap is all about engaging in thought provoking dialogue that pushes the parameters of the of the kind of conceptual frontiers i don't see what how that it's not about kind of really about just getting into christian muslim polemics that's not what mind trap is about so i mean i don't know what we would

possibly have to discuss he's a muslim i mean he's a christian and sure you know he has issues with muslims and a certain um let's say certain takes of islam i mean i don't see why people engage in issues if if they you know if they don't like them and so um and i'm not so sure i mean i don't know i haven't watched him carefully but i'm not so sure he um certain i i don't assume this is an assumption

that he has an issue with islam as a whole i assume he has an issue with certain representations of islam like the salafi islam as opposed to all the other which is the majority of muslims in the world which is like you know probably what like close to at least three quarters of all muslim throughout the world are not salafi so i don't assume he has an issue with the general islam i don't know but once again it's not really my primary concern

yeah where can i join mindtrap mindtrap is not something you a person joins um you can minetrap is is i mean have you never seen any of my mine traps they're on youtube i've got over i think is about 65 episodes or something but so they're discussions with a guest so you'd have to a person would have to get in touch with they're usually people who are

interesting people with some expertise on a particular field and we're discussing topics usually that are relevant to them and the discourse at hand and that's what we do okay but you can if there's something that you know that's your that's interesting that you that is your area your your expertise your space reach out to me message me and yeah we can get that moving forward

right okay so let's move forward people i wanted to today in light of that theme right with this in in in the back drop um this about owning your story taking you know taking the reins and redirecting zeroing in on your own trajectory right in light of that i want to take a look at some verses

that actually address that address choices but especially choices of gratitude and of arrogance or stubbornness or ingratitude kuffar in that sense and misery and by contrast success so a verse comes to mind that i wanted to share with you guys and it's from surah nahal verse 112

allah gives an example a parable of a settlement a people cannot that this settlement was safe secure tranquil implicit innate can mean to disbelieve but when kufar is used to do with um blessings

and juxtaposed with gratitude then this kuffar usually means to be ungrateful it doesn't mean to disbelieve in a faithful sense so the the noun for it in arabic is kufran and not kufa so kufar is usually the opposite of iman and qufran is the opposite of sugar as in so as it mentions

allowed them to taste made them taste and here is the metaphor a garment of misery of anxiety of suffering of hunger but by their own doing allah simply allowed them enabled them if that was what they wanted to do

so often people will think that look but these people if they want to act out if they want to be tyrants if people want tyranny oppression they want to do wrongdoing they want to then allah often allows them and with it

why a garment because the way it envelops you it wraps around you this is how the suffering wraps around them be my canoe yes now by their own doing and remember that this suffering it could be a suffering right here it could be that people they by by choosing a path of tyranny by choosing a path of cruelty of abuse they

it could be begin right there at a mental level continue to suffer that it wraps around them allah mentions libera that they maybe they meet maybe the hunger is that they are met with failures in life that they lose prosperity that they are actually hungry maybe it's a hunger for happiness that they never truly managed to manage to obtain or be satiated with

maybe it's a hunger for love for compassion for emotions that they become deprived from that that this hunger it doesn't have to be restricted just to to the hunger of that many kinds of things that they may remain starved from throughout this life as a consequence be my canonies now as a consequence of their own doing of the path of tyranny and abuse

that maybe they chose just a powerful reminder that this and it will tie in today as well with when we go into the strength in stories segment but that this what that this is by their own doing

it enveloped them but they had a time where they were living in great prosperity so tranquil and in bliss they had that amina safe and secure but they chose to be ungrateful

it's a very powerful reminder and i thought sometimes it's good to to see these verses to remind us as well that hmm you know things can be sometimes difficult but so what there's still so much to be grateful for and and absolutely and following with that an amazing verse that really shows not only not only reflects this verse that we just read but just

clearly just magnificently shows the mercy of allah that you see from surah nisa verse 147 that allah see now this honestly is one of the most powerful verses in the quran um what would allah get by punishing you

if only like if you are grateful if you have this faith and this faith it does what if you are grateful with what not that if you are grateful just in the sense that you are doing oh i'm grateful but that you too you kind of bring that into your heart you show it to people humans people suffering you give forward in shakartam you see sugar is is not just

like praising allah that's where you act it out and you act it how god doesn't need anything from you but allah says in a hadith that oh where were you when i was starving and the person says but you're allah how what was that doesn't even make any sense allah says well such and such was starving if only

if you'd fed that person you would have found me where were you when such and such was sick if you'd visited them you would have found me the this is iman yes of course it's about iman but also it's having that narrative that script within you

see allah himself is now look how it's used allah himself is grateful look at the word wow even though what it means is that he is responsive ever so always responding to gratitude but it's used in a way to show you that look allah himself is grateful using that word although what it actually means is that allah responds to your gratitude always and alimah and why alima ending it with

alimah because every little thing of gratitude it is known because often a lot of things will sincerely be done if a person just does them and people won't be around you know you might just be doing something online and you might help someone or maybe you see somebody and you talk to them and this isn't always about like i know often it's about an easy way somebody actually gives something but it doesn't have to be monetary or even

products or items sometimes it's just asking someone how they're doing sometimes it's just extending courtesy some form of positive positive regard you're kind of giving that sometimes it's just listening to someone that in itself you know humans they're like so they're like starving and so thirsty for someone to just hear their plight hear the things and sometimes it's just that it's extending

in an ear and a heart that's all it is so it doesn't always mean that somebody has to be in a monetary sense or a but giving is much greater than that than actual kind of monetary or itemized giving so yeah so allah ends it because every little thing a lie still because a person could think

147. i thought that was a an amazing um ayah and it also ties in with today's uh one of the stories so i thought yeah it's a brilliant thing to kind of share right let's uh we'll move on i'll take a look at some of the comments um and then we'll move on let me see fields yeah it's true so uh who's that below it said feels like gratefulness uh

um is is the key to every it often is isn't it when we think about it you know people and one thing to understand that look everything will be okay just sometimes we don't know how things will be okay we don't know but we can only just deal with what we have at hand and yeah in our in our way we show gratitude it always begins with that because it will kind of tame

it will it will control not only the inner turmoil but it will have you on the right kind of frequency and on that frequency you will receive as well it's it's it sounds i know i don't know whether how it sounds but it seems to definitely work so you know like today people were saying about i saw this thing about look oh my god fuel prices are going up and people are panicking and um i saw on a few what's up groups

and actually there was i you know i saw some people panicking and it is look it can be a bit distressing when we think about these things but what we have to do is whenever something like this happens just pause and you just just breathe

everything is going to be okay it does not you may say well how but what i've got this i've got that and you got like 50 questions going off in in your mind and this thought and that thought and and before you know it that thoughts already kind of playing out and this thoughts playing you've got to just and you just you're only concerned with the step in front of you you're just taking that step it doesn't matter you will allah will things will work out

they always have they always will there's no need to to kind of become so kind of panicked because look anything that happens in life there's only two things about it either you can do something about it directly or you can't if you can then stop panicking and do something about it or you can't in which case there's no point panicking anyway because you can't do anything about

[Laughter] it you know it's it it is what it is so it's always important to remember in these things that husband allah that you know don't worry as a lie is sufficient and and allah has got things that it's okay you a person just

they just breathe yeah all right so um let's see rizwan khan keep you blessed right yeah it's important i'm saying this because look people it's natural to find anxiety to kind of get into a stir to start panicking

and if you do there's always techniques as well a person should you know if you can do a few minutes of mindfulness every day a few three minutes if you can just three minutes you can go on youtube find a three minute kind of just mindfulness clip to just bring your mind to just zero in it is a huge you know it's something to just tether you if you can do more things in a day there's so many more methods to kind of

um i've got a clip on youtube as well about certain um even with salah i've got one on salah about how to incorporate certain things in salah just as a just like a breathing technique just to kind of to to be more in the now during salah but otherwise if a person's feeling anxiety and they're feeling stressed out they they need to you see it all begins our world is like a projection of what's inside here and a person that in here is chaos they

think the world is chaos and when it gets still they feel the world is still [Laughter] so it all kind of begins in there so yeah i would say that and there's a good technique as well there's there's a few techniques i've shared some on youtube in the past you know i will do some more clips as well um i had just been a bit distracted but i was thinking actually this week and i should start doing more of those clips i

want to start again so i will but there are some good interesting techniques that you know for if people suffer from stuff like uh becoming anxious anxiety or they they they can't seem to calm down um there's there's quite there are a few that i have shared and once uh an interesting one is the kind of self-embrace method that's actually an interesting one and i always i found that always fascinating from when when i learned about it a while back because i thought it's interesting that even in the surah

of about being kind of this this kind of being kind of embraced and um and that this this technique because a person what they can do is they just take their right hand and they just place it under to the side and they're left on top and they just hold and you just embrace and you just breathe in and you just hold and you breathe out and you do that just slowly for between 30 30 to 60 seconds

and you notice the whole like how as simple as that it's a very simple technique like that how it just radically reduces instantly anxiety on the spot and obviously there's a lot of uh explanations in why that may be happening when a person embraces self embraces or they could somebody could embrace them as well but this is like a self-embraced method there are other methods as well that are used popularly as well in in kind of trauma therapy one is usually like this and sometimes they they do it like that and sometimes the other hand on the on

the gut but often just like that as well but these things are you and you can find a lot as well if people can research them nowadays you can find loads on youtube as well but cool guys moving on before i forget the poem i had for today all right i thought you know i read this poem this week and i thought you know what let's share this a lot this is by jigar morada sahib alright so who was a legend in urdu poetry he was a student of da da da lui one of our favorites and is one of our i have to say

favorites as well means in a way it means liver it means dear like somebody so dear and loved by you that they are your that they are your life like that so as though they are your dear life but that's his kind of tag name his nickname um they call it

so he says it seems to become it seems to have become unaware or disinterested in depression and melancholy began is to be like disinterested unaware indifferent to mere

he says hmm so it's as though every piece of happiness in my life is diminishing see that turn that people treat depression and melancholy as as like utter traumatic negatives but they're treating them as a prize that he's saying that my nature my temperament these days

it seems to be less interested in melancholy and depression like it's hmm it's not so consumed by depression [Laughter] that

isn't like he's addressing the person of beauty that isn't it just this speaking of both worlds and this is the point he's trying to bring the attention to that the gathering is the same that we're in the same gathering it's the same company but the effect on the hearts not it had seems to be diminishing

that it is the same witness the same uh barman the the person who pours the drinks as in it is the same people look the same person the same drink the same he's trying to say things are still there i'm still having my drink this the saki which is the person the bar man he's the same every vo the candle is the same like

the candle is the same the light however seems to be diminishing allah has he says that life is the same but such are now our circumstances it is as though life

is diminishing from life foreign

i read that this week i was i saw it i was doing something and i thought you know what i've gotta gotta share that with you guys so what is going on talking of effect on the heart reminds me of surah 57 27 god placed in the hearts follow jesus compassion and mercy true i mean if one can truly say that the message of jesus has been

kind of crystallized if in simple words it would be in sacrifice and love that seems to be the the kind of words that symbolize um jesus christ so yeah right moving on to today's story you know what let's begin with uh a story of let me bring this up

hey rosa this is a story of of tragedy ruins glamour glory love and betrayal

allah wow let me introduce you to a personality of the past a girl who finds her life thrown into peril and then rises to unfathomable strength and power and then has to grapple with her own demons and leaves bequeaths behind a a a legacy

i guess and a story for those who come after allah her origins seem to be somewhat clouded in mystery some people feel that she was she may have been of persian origin others feel she may have been a barber from northwestern you know north west africa

others feel maybe from from yemen nevertheless she is somebody who is in the early era of islam so and this ties in with the story we were looking at last week when we looked at we covered the end of the the umayyad dynasty and the rise of ban labas and we looked at personalities like abu jafar al-mansoor and we looked at

marwan ibn muhammad or marwan al-himar and we spoke a bit about him and we looked at others as well last week but you will see some some kind of overlap and connect with this story so she's a young girl incredibly pretty and charming very confident talented has you know the gift of the guard she

according to different versions of the stories in whether she comes from northwest africa or south arabia or the middle east but she finds herself at a young age just as a teenager getting kidnapped and as you can imagine her world closes before her she is kidnapped and sold off into slavery it is the era we're looking at is just past the kind of 100s uh it's gone into maybe it's

you know it's maybe it's something like the early 120s or maybe it's 1 30 but it's that kind of era the time where it is still the era of the tabe and bonnie omaya has been kind of shaken and and they have come to their demise and we covered that in the previous session and bernal abbas have taken over so they've taken over and they're in control and you had people like abu labasa safar we've spoken about him who's in charge on coming back to her she is

going through one of the worst tragedies that could befall anyone she's kidnapped sold off into the markets finds herself a slave being sold into some remote foreign land now because of her kind of enchanting beauty and apparent skills of language and expression because she seemed to be she seemed to have the gift of the garb and very articulate so the person who

who kind of ends up with her thinks that i you know maybe this you know she seems to be very precious as a let's say you know i i'm sure i could get a lot of money for a slave like this and in this time the abbasids have already taken over they've taken over and um you know they've kind of established themselves and you've had abul and um as he's and then as some years pass he dies and you've got

uh we've spoken about jafar al mansour and we covered that in the previous session he's in control so around this time the person who owns hairozan he brings her to baghdad and abu jafar al-mansoor yeah he brings her to baghdad and takes her and asks to kind of bring it to the palace says look i've got something that you know maybe this may interest the caliph you know something phenomenal

gift special special gift you know so so the people say well you know she did she was they say she was incredibly beautiful they say she was somebody that had a you know just these features about her and uh a very kind of um things that they describe about is that she had a way that was that you know sometimes some people have they can have a pride in their own kind of fashion so this is how she seemed like somebody who

seems to do her own thing like she would do her hair in her own kind of style do her not necessarily so kind of almost stands out but not that she's doing it she's just being herself an originality to her and they say that she was um brown skinned and very kind of had this kind of glow to her and very articulate and um had this kind of mystique about her so anyway they bring her to the palace and say so the the owner says look you know i know i could offer it to the caliph maybe i'll get something so he takes her there abu jafar al mansour kind of sees her and thinks well

hmm you know life of kings huh the kind of the kind of work they have to do they have to decide shall we admit this slave girl or not so anyway he says he says why not why not so so he kind of yeah takes the he presses the like button like thumbs up or thumbs down he goes yeah you know lucky you caught me on a good mood so he kind of goes thumbs up and thumbs up so he's admitted into the royal palace the

person gets a handsome payout he's gone what's fascinating is in the royal palace because she seems to be somebody that doesn't need other people's validation and a lot of authors write this about her that she seems to do her own thing like like i mentioned they may seem small these things like you know you do your own kind of hairstyle you do she had her own style of walking her own kind of a style to the dress the way she carried herself now these things may seem small but in a world

where in a day and age where people don't really carry that much originality these things stand out so here she is she's in the royal palace and she's with the rest of the the kind of slaves and she does stuff and here she catches the attention of the prince man the prince she catches the attention of the prince al-mahdi who is abuja from mansur's son so he has a bunch of sons but she catches

his attention but this is a mahdi of his own the rightly guided so his heart gets rightly guided to her hair so no sooner does he see her that he is smitten sweated low oh yeah yeah low he becomes infatuated by it and you gotta remember that you know for princes and for kings and people of they used to always people kind of you know never having to win over someone i guess

because people are always dying to throw themselves at these people but seems to have this kind of self i don't know this kind of uh this high level of self-worth that she doesn't do that she obviously catches his attention uh right so she catches his attention but it's you know she's not like throwing herself at him so you've so it's like a cha hard to get so so now there's this kind of

you know push and pull going on in the royal palace mahdi and the more you have to strive to get something the more besotted and passionate you become about it mahdi before he knows it is head over heels madly in love with her son and time goes by some time goes by that he that he he asks abu jafar al-mansoor if he can just have her can this one just be mine man this one

this one you're too good you know so abu mansoor is like cool with it so he frees her she's a slave he gives her freedom she's a freed slave and he marries her like this is already like a what on earth is this guy doing he marries her and when he marries her he's already married to he's got like another wife or two already but he marries and he's like so this becomes a known thing he's so besotted by her and

people can notice this in the royal courtyard as well before you know it what happens is his time has come and like every insane kullun so a time comes where he he passes and the next in line is is who it is going to be is almaty so al-mahdi becomes king he becomes caliph

and he's got a few wives remember he's not just there's a bunch of them including the the daughter of safa that was his his wife as well which i'd introduced safar before so that's like his you know it's like his kind of uncle so so he's got other people who are from the abbasid household they are actual arab abbasid women but re-rosanne is so dear to him that he makes her what would be the equivalent of the first lady the main queen so the kind of head queen

of the palace is always just one and the others are like the caliph's wives so he makes hair his queen no sooner does she become queen that she starts to kind of she starts to wield command in the royal palace and you have to remember that the mahdi that the caliph who's mati he has to go out on expeditions he has to for example go off to that city and he won't come back till six months and go off to this city and he won't be back till two months and go off on a military

expedition and is very outspoken she's in the palace when he's gone she's uh you know she's wielding command she's telling people she's telling the wuzara i need this done you better get this done you better get that and because how close she was to the mahdi to the caliph people were just obeying her commands and before you know it she's got this pattern in place that now people first they're doing it because she's you know if they don't listen to her they're worried they're going to get in trouble but now she's assumed that authority

so she's kind of got the control okay so um so she'll tell people i want this done i want that done can you get this can you get that so amidst all of this what she does is she also ensures she has some kid they've already had some kids she is the mother of the famous haruna rasheed who the kali from the thousand and one nights haruna rasheed has an older brother called musa al hadi or he's just known as alhadi often

she ensures that her her children because remember the caliph has children from other wives as well and some of them predate her being the queen so she ensures that the her children their names so haruna rasheed and older than him is musa al hadi these two are next as ears to the throne so she kind of has this in line and and one day she says to um mahdi when he's kind of doing something

look we should make this official that these two like people should know that they're going to be calif and i want you know it shouldn't just be like a putative but people should kind of really some kind of formal recognition to it so you can imagine this is really infuriating the other wives as well because they've got kids who want their kids to be next in line and mahdi as well starts at some point to get a bit irritated by her control she's like

this one too much control freak man it's like there's control but she's like she might as well be the caliph she's running the show more than he is and so they say that on some occasions they say that maddy started to kind of get a bit you know like he started to feel a bit claustrophobic as well because you gotta remember now it's been years the love has obviously worn off he's like oh yeah

it's like some people say that maybe he even was considering to you know relegate her to a lower kind of ranking or something but i guess it's fate and life vicissitudes of life

in kunta or don't love it or loathe it it is destiny even if you get it wrong destiny will still get it right [Laughter] or fate will still get it right and and what happened some people say that he was about to reign in the control of uh jerusalem

and maybe even relegate her and and bring forward a different wife as the queen but he dies so mahdi has a a reasonably early death and some people have raised some question marks around his death and they've even speculated did he have something to do with it and why and that's because what's yet to come

so this is the kind of intro you're seeing the rise of kheiruzan now hairozan is in before you fully fledged in all her splendor because the husband is now dead and when the husband is dead the caliph is who now it is al hadi and hadi is putarji he's the son and unlike the husband the mother will always have a much greater grip on the son so maybe on the husband

you know she had some control but on the sun she's got full she's got it on lock she first thing she does is she makes sure everybody gives their baya to hadi and any people that were any kind of potential dissidents she had them crushed very brutal then when hardy's in control because now you have to remember she's the mother she's not the wife she's like the

the queen mother if you like so she was very clear that hardy would sometimes come to do something and she would say that wait a minute just be quiet for a moment and she would dictate the terms and had he found this very offensive obviously as you can imagine he's he's a grown man a young man but he's still he's is he's the is the caliph but this is his mom and you have to remember she's been a dominant personality since ever since even with her husband she was a dominant kind of personality but i suppose the husband still was the

husband and now this is the son so that's his mom and obviously hardy the son had his his kind of imperial duties he did stuff he would have to go as the caylee if he'd have to get things sorted he'd have to kind of do all of that but what happens on a few occasions hairozone overrules him and oversteps so he on an occasion even says to her that look um the he says that women shouldn't interfere

in the affairs of men she goes oh women man she says you sit back down you know you this one a child you know baby maybe she says to him she of she clearly has zero regard for for any kind of you know prohibitions because at the end of the day she was in control way before him and you have to remember that all these senior guards

the senior ministers have been subservient to her for years because right from when she first married mahdi and mahdi became caliph she would from that time years ago be dictating that do this do this do this and when the caliph would be away she would be telling them people have grown old to that they are accustomed to it so and this unheardies to them is this young new caliph but he's like

you know peop old habits die hard so and he doesn't want to as well be you know it's difficult because he as well doesn't know what do i do because i can't exactly just you know say mother i can't exactly do that so so this kind of what happens is a bit of a tit-for-tat kind of scenario starts there's some you can feel some tension occasionally that's that's rising and um and kairozan clearly has her her way so at some point

clearly disregards the caliph and instructs something whilst he's away she says it doesn't matter i'm telling you you do it this way he finds out he's had enough so hardy is so fed up with her that he comes to her and he gets into this altercation and doesn't know what to do so some people say somebody gave him an idea some people say he thought of himself he thought you know what yeah there's only one way he thought to get to give a send-off to

my old mother and that is you know i might as well lay her to rest now you've done enough work you might as well uh you know enough every soul has to taste death you might as well taste it as well [Laughter] so what he does is he has this special dish made for her and he puts poison in it

see how the hearts turn allah what happens is he feeds her this this has this special dessert dish created when he gives to the dish she thinks sudden certain

compassion for your mother sudden compassion where this goodness coming from so she goes it looks like something's up so she feeds it to her dog bachara dog dies [Laughter] the dog's dead so dog dies sh she turns up to to see a son son looks at her and says ah he says did you have the food she says yeah it was really tasty

so and he makes a comment like well hmm clearly not tasty enough huh and he makes this kind of comment that she she as well knows that hmm okay so it's got onto this so the gloves are off it's like that like this now huh so what happens is she she now tells haruna rasheed the other son who's a few years younger than hadi she tells him that look you know can you believe he tried to poison me

now obviously you have to remember people are all confused the brothers loyalties as well because he's obviously he can see that the mother does have this kind of overstepping personality but you know on the same hand he's thinking what the hell did he poison our mom but then he's thinking did somebody else put the poison in there did you know i don't like what's going on so hardy can see that haruna rasheed and the mom are

seen quite close these days and he thinks to himself you know what i can't hmm he thinks haruna rasheed is you know he is my brother he's my brother but don't you think high power power they say power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely so he thinks you know after me after the elder brother it's meant to be the other brother haruna rasheed who's

next in line he thinks that what if i change it to make it my son so he has he has children they all have children um he has children his son i i think his name was jafar he thinks what if i change it because i'm right now in charge if i change it and put my son in charge next as the ear as opposed to my brother now now he hasn't changed it yet but this news because he discusses it with someone because he thinks do you think i could pull it

off now as they say the walls have ears so this news starts to travel people say haruna rasheed hears of it as well and hears about it she realizes look the dad as in her son hadi he clearly doesn't like her hair his son is definitely gonna hate her because he's a step removed this is her own son try to poison her

so what do you think about the grandson so he's definitely gonna have zero regard and he's gonna strip her of all her powers as hadi has been trying so hardy at one point as well he has this palace made somewhere and he tries to relocate the mother hair he says look why don't you go there and have an easy life and chill and she's thinking

it's okay man i'm gonna own my own story don't worry about it so this is going on what happens whilst all of this is taking place alhadi falls ill so he gets some kind of a fever and he has to and he has to he's bedridden for a good few days and that's common like to get some kind of a fever and so but in his in in his weakness because he's bedridden

seizes the opportunity dare i say and according to many historians what she does is she gets she bribes or gets on her side several of the concubines that are hardies the the caleb's concubines but she gets them on board and that night she says that as he as you give him medicine tonight and you kind of lull him to sleep and he falls asleep i want you to smother him

till death and that's exactly what they do and describes it in his writing as she tells them to to sit on his face i mean it's a bit of an imaginative imagination right there that ibn is he's writing away with but they smothered till death and he's found dead in his bed in the morning and that leads on to the rise

of haruna rasheed as the next caliph and within a few years has her natural death i mean she's lives and a relatively long life but she she has a natural death and dies naturally this story what it leaves in its trail is a figure a woman who comes out of nowhere in islamic history in a time where caliphs were powerful still

you see this is early islamic history this is not like after that after the 200s the caliph start to just be people by name this is still early islam and when the taba in are alive when imam abu hanifa is live when imam malik is alive this is that kind of time caliphs are still powerful she rises out of the blue as a slave rises in the ranks in the palace influences people with her sense of fashion has women folk copying her hairstyles

captivates the heart of the prince not only is freed and makes her marry her but makes him select her as the main as the queen to the caliph and nominate her children as the ear she then goes on to dominate whilst the caliph reigns and after his death eclipses the caliphate of her son alhadi to the extent that when her dominion is

jeopardized and questioned she kills her own blood to keep control of the power she once heard allah what a figure wow such honestly just a just unbelievable

so many you know all striking power striking kind of ingredients brought together in a single element in jerusalem and they say about her by the way she she was she was very learned she was a student of imam mozar she would learn from imam azer she learned from sofiana thori these are contemporaries of people like imam abu hanifa this is who she was she was actually very intelligent wasn't just someone that was uh

very articulate she in in it's narrated that on one occasion her husband was going to marry again so he already had other wives but then he had her then there was the love story he and for a while he was derailed from

right so she was at one stage he was going to murray again and she says to him it's not halal for you to take another wife and he says allah says now and then he says i've got three i think he had three he says i could take a fourth so she says that i'll she says no she says bring a scholar and i'll prove it to you so he actually brings sofiana thori and she speaks to sophiana thori now i don't know whether it was her

personality that weighed in on sofiana thori or sofiana thori just happened to side with her but in that sitting he sides with her and he tells the caliph the caliph reads that verse to him sufyan authority that allah says threes or fours and then sufyan authority says to him but finish the ayah complete it and then he completes it because the rest of the verse says foreign but if you fear that you won't do

justice for then just one and sufyan authority says to the caliph mahdi that you won't be able to do justice so just the one so it's it's interesting that how she has um such influence and i'll tell you those of you that remember from last week we spoke of marwan now there's an incident in

when she is in the palace one day and she's in full control things are in full swing that somebody comes to her and says there's a woman at the door like at the royal court and she wishes to speak to you and they say who is she and they say well she seems to be in very disheveled kind of attire and clothing like absolutely disheveled but she seems like she's incredibly beautiful and she seems incredibly eloquent so she seems to be someone who maybe

is of a some stature but apparently she looks like as though she's some homeless woman but she's very eloquent so jerusalem says call her written so she comes in and they described that she is this really pretty beautiful lady standing there that she speaks to them and she says that i've come to you asking you uh for some help and they say well what's your story and she says that i am musna her name is musna they say who's that who are you

she says i'm the wife of marwan ibn muhammad and those of you that remember that story that i i mentioned about abu muslim and that whole battle and the abbasid taking over and she says that you know we were in great opulence and great prosperity and and then tragedy by fellas and i'm now in this disheveled state and i stand here before you at your

mercy so when she says this there is there is a there's other people present and there's this lady zainab who is the niece of ibrahim imam which we also spoke of last time who appoints abu muslim and he's in the prison and he dies in the prison he's the one of the founding fathers of the abbasid movement so zainab speaks up and she says to her

well may allah ruin you further and everybody looks at her like oh what's wrong with you and she says that don't you remember that i came to you many years ago she got several not many but several years back i came to you in your palace asking you to release the corpse of my uncle ibrahim al-imam and you had me removed from your palace do you not remember that and mozana says

she says she says that we are today as in herself we are today where we are because of how we behaved she says don't bring the same consequences upon jerusalem like you came to me and i wronged you and i'm meeting my consequence today

don't be in the same position where you do that to yourself and they say kheruzan said that she's right and she called her in and she said that don't worry and she kind of sent her with some of the slave girl and said that look take take care of her so they say later that day some people say it was the husband mahdi was still alive at that point he came home or he comes to the palace and he sees kheruzan like kind of

in a very you know in deep thought and he asks someone hey what's up with her and what happened today and they say well musna came and they say he says who's musna and they say you know the wife of marwan al-himar and he says okay and he says what happened and they tell him the story that she came and she said these things that you know she said i was uh she says i you know was uh was in this prosperity and i i was in

this palace before and we were in it and so on and so forth and look at me today and and all of these things and i'm at your mercy and she was very eloquent and she was incredibly um you know remorseful so he says okay and he says and what did they do they and so the the slaves tell him that well took her in so he says okay and he says where she's staying and they say she's staying in this with this servant in this quarter whatever so he has that servant brought and he asks him he says he says how is she

and the servant says she's fine you know he says did she say anything have you heard her muttering speaking he says she's just mainly in that room he says i approach he says i was listening outside and i heard her reciting a verse of the quran and he says what verse says i heard her reciting

that she was reciting that allah gives the example of a settlement whose are safe in prosperity and bliss and their risk comes to them from every corner yes they were ungrateful and then allah allowed them to face their consequences they say this hit mahdi so much

that he he called musna and he said to her that you know he said if it wasn't for the fact that i don't want your people to ever have a say in this affair as in this kingship of ours he said i would have married you today just for that he says but i what i do will tell you he says is that you will forever can stay in the palace

amongst us as a member of our family like you can live here amongst he says my sisters my wives my women he says you will you know as long as you live you can live here and she did muslim remained in the till she died these you know just so you know you learn about these incidents and these characters they come to life just the the kind of tragedies their encounters the

successes the glory the the love the betrayal the islamic element to it it all just really springs alive in front of you this is why i i love sharing these stories with you guys because it's something which you know it's it's it's important it really brings it's more than just a story it connects to a heritage and this is why i really encourage you

all to learn i hope that's been of some uh benefit will move on inshaallah all right so somebody said is that mother of haruna rasheed there is that is all right a woman of of quite some mystery um

all right what's this question see that's an interesting personality not the questioner but the name is the he is the third abdul rahman of the uh of this of the spanish bani omega the most powerful muslim ruler and the most powerful ruler in his time in the world he declared

he declared the cortoba caliphate a global caliphate as in what that means is and he said i'm the number one guy in the world and people whether they accepted it or not but he was the most powerful in his time maybe someday we can speak about him the third mufti are men and women able to love their spouses unconditionally

interesting question can people love unconditionally i don't i think love is always predicated on some kind of uh um [Music] conditional response i feel that so they may be um

maybe that somebody is besotted and therefore the at that stage they feel it's unconditional but that's because at that stage it may be one way but i feel if there's an engagement so there's a two-way kind of relationship there will always be some conditions you know i'll be even if they unpronounced undeclared and in the kind of unconscious substrate

so they may not even be expressed or so for example let's just say at a very simple level somebody just being rude and being absurdly rude um somebody being just you know vindictive and being cruel being vicious being betrayed you know betrayal or just like if even let's just take the first one we began with just being rude if if you let's say a person loved someone

and they were just very rude to them like i mean just rude that they just don't refuse to show any respect or dignified how long do you think that would go on i don't think you'd go on very long i think i don't think most people would tolerate i don't think any normal people would tolerate disrespect for any um [Music] any substantial period so that's a very simple uh

you know predicate just respect it's not so now you can imagine all these other undeclared conditions that are but these things are usually always going to be there because if if there is um if there is a relationship they will all it's always going to be a dynamism and a kind of bio a kind of feedback loop so where a person is let's say directing love and the other person is the recipient of love it will be

acting on them and they will be reacting with love or kindness or etiquette or politeness or respect or dignity or these things will naturally be happening that's how human interaction works it's not but if a person didn't for example like somebody loves you and you just outright rude and insulting to them and you're i can't imagine the other person putting up with it so or i can't imagine them

uh willfully putting up with it let's put it like that yeah a super chat mr superchat how did reason lead you to choose islam over atheism ibn tashfin shukran much love for the superchat how did reason lead you to choose islam over atheism well you see well there's many um right sorry i was just reading another right so naughty naughty and a few of the comments yeah so

well there's a bunch of things to really say about that um [Music] see well atheism is a bit of a uh i don't know i think it's a bit of a hard sell in the sense depends on where depends on how it's being sold and who it's being sold to so okay to me now because this question is being directed to me so i can only answer from my perspective um the world

is incredibly profound existence or being with a capital b is incredibly profound and the the kind of the path to the transcendent for me is is clearly directed by consciousness so consciousness is

i mean it's you know it's just a wrecking ball for conceptually for atheism like atheism the concept of the being known divine transcendent being is for me very weak in light of consciousness that is the most powerful argument it beats the teleological beats the cosmological beats the ontological it

beats for me consciousness is the most profound kind of marker which points to the transcendent so okay so that said then next there is the concept of the intelligibility of being with a capital b this intelligibility of being itself that being that it that anything

is intelligible this this is like whoa it cannot to me that juxtaposed with the random coherence of everything you know it obliterates every single time it it wins you know hands down every single time so it does like i can't you see if okay so the random coherence

of mata and and therefore by extension coherence of meaning so meaning is is simply just randomized um synchronization it's not it's nothing like meaning is nothing it is just arbitrary randomized cohesion of whatever it is that is meaning that that that could never be meaning meaning is much more powerful

than that and the fact that meaning with a capital m this this is like how can how can that be arbitrary randomized cohesion of of phenomenon translate to coherent you know meaning with such power

that we begin to fathom the cosmos those two can't translate so yeah i mean i get it that people can say that like i get it that people can act as if they don't believe in a god or they can pretend to act as if they don't believe in a god i believe everybody believes kind of in a god so they may not call it god

they may kind of defer it to a value of some kind but whatever it is the what's at the apex of this hierarchical structure whatever it is so but they all believe in it that and it is greater than them and it is not arbitrary you see so it's impossible honestly i i feel that

yeah take life itself you take life does it have a sanctity would you say yes why does it have a sanctity why say well it's precious why is it precious so well

why like what makes life precious you say well you know because we're incredibly unique says who say we're unique from our perspective our perspective is arbitrary are we unique from the tardigrades perspective tardigrades have survived you know much more substantially than we have they can even survive in space so what i mean what makes human just taking life itself

especially human life what why is it special there's nothing special about it if it's just arbitrary i think there's an there would be somewhat of a consensus amongst people that they cannot deny the sanctity of human life but why can't they deny and just to give it some utilitarian value is not the truth to say well because human beings can do things like make schools or make countries and so what what does

that mean it doesn't mean anything you know who says human beings are precious so we say well that's exactly my point defeats the point it's arbitrary arbitrary it doesn't mean anything so but then that defies the reality in which we live the reality in which we live we seem to intuitively know that no that is wrong because human life is valuable but why is it valuable you say but we just seem to know it

because you see now this is it now you start to go deeper within and there are values that transcend those values you can't even if you can't prove them even if you can't entirely rationalize them but you will accurately rationalize them you know them to be true whatever that means and it's not a empiricist's claim it's not it seems to be an intuitive claim but it is for a hierarchical

value that is above just randomization or above these things and it's inexplicable in and of itself you can't explain it you see it's so these so everyone everybody fundamentally [Music] obeys the sacred but they just disagree between themselves on what that sacred is on i don't mean on all of them they would

all agree pretty much on human life but between them what else can they parameterize with that sacred they disagree so but that doesn't you know there's the elephant in the room though why is anything sacred so yeah i hope that helps sajad's true love never dies that's the one

i like it i like it man i'll give you the link you need to look i don't know what share the links yep sure everybody will know what your uh must be right what is going on i support taking what are we even talking about here i don't know what people are talking about right guys so uh what are we that was a good question though i do agree i

i do feel that um celebrity atheism is the sun is setting on celebrity atheism and there is a a kind of spiritual renaissance that is underway it's been underway for a little while now but definitely maybe the last one [Music] you know at least over a decade one to two decades when people could say maybe it

started three decades ago but definitely you know very it seems to have been rising in the last decade this kind of spiritual and by spiritual i mean especially to do with consciousness and this is because consciousness is the rule and this is our it is what is going to seriously guide people back to god it always was it's interesting in many ways when allah says and he breathed the

into adam allah says we breathe our his rooh into adam people obviously it's figure figure of speech but it will always go back to god in lillahi that we to him and on to him so it will always guide people back to god the path of consciousness it's just that people sometimes you know organized and institutionalized religion has been a problem

um it's been a problem for you know many parts of the world and this is why people don't want to be associated with it because it's just because of a lot of the tyranny that and because you have to understand power like the story of jerusalem for example we're speaking of these caliphs these are examples of of power at the hands of muslim caliphs as an example and you would have much worse

examples at the hand of several popes and kings and especially in christendom and europe so wherever there is power and there is religion he always makes a toxic mix because really the realm of god should not be associated with politics now

no no no right so if nobody said al qaeda was not authorized either so atheria means so what that well basically it depends how people are looking at it so what you have is there is a discussion that do we anthropomorphized god even okay even like not i don't mean this disrespectfully but do we let's say in a dignified sense

anthropomorphized god or should we use the question that in a dignified i don't mean in a disrespectful sense should we pitch a god or liken god unto us as in consider in the christian sense how god made man onto his own image so we there is this understanding that god is like a man this is hence you see the famous

you know sistine chapel and the famous drawings that god made man onto his own image the christian teaching now this is then inherited by many uh not many by some muslims they inherited this belief so but they like many things they inherited it but then they kind of owned it by fashioning it their own way so they then said that look we're not going to so they owned it but they put several disclaimers on it like they said look we're not so god

we're going to own the concept but we're not going to be as brazen about it so we're not going to say well god has a body like ours we're not going to say his limbs are like our limbs in fact we'll just say we have no idea what god's parts his body parts or his limbs look like then they went to the extent to say well we're not going to say he has limbs we'll just name the limbs so we won't say he has limbs we'll just say he has hands he has a foot he has a leg he has but we won't use the

word limbs so so this is what the discussion kind of folds out as and then you have the parallel muslim theologians who who are the majority of the muslims people may use the name ashadis they may use the name matsuridis but mainly this who are the who went on to become the majority of the muslims who said that we don't say any of that if we don't say god has body parts we don't say god has hands and a foot and in fingers and things like this we don't say this

and wherever so then the question has come but what about where these wordings have appeared in certain texts like let's say there's a verse of the quran that says the hand of god is over your hands um or if it says something like uh god is saying oh like i have you in my eye like i i see you with my eyes or something it doesn't say but what it says to moses you are in our eyes mentions that i created this creation is with my own two hands

oh wait god says he will wrap up the heavens in his hands what does this mean then so this is the debate really in a nutshell this is what it is so the latter group who said that no god does not you know we don't anthropomorphize and we don't even half quasi-anthropomorphize as in we don't affirm we don't say these things like god has a foot and a hand and we don't do that these things in the quran are expressions like language like in english we say to catch a bus we don't literally catch it

this is an expression so in arabic when when you say things like life and death are in the hands of god you're not trying to say god has a hand you're just trying to say god has control over life and death so that group went that way which which most ulama in islam kind of went that way that pretty much you know that that's how and that seems to make a sense that seems to make sense really to most people the first group which were mainly the hamballis that's why this was traditionally known as hambuli

or today known as salafi akhida or people call it wahabi akhida as well so this this akita that god has literally traditionally it's called humbly though so this this humbly akida is people that say no we will say that god has a foot and he has a hand and he has these things but we will just say we don't know what those we don't know what the hand looks like so this is the kind of distinction that you're getting okay yeah so i mean these things are really um

yeah that's that argument in a nutshell really the majority of the muslims have really always been with the latter group they don't really say things like god has these things um you know it's up to people to be honest most people most muslims would not really believe that god has the most muslim that i've ever met won't really believe that god they won't say things like yeah god has a foot and god has this and god has that but if somebody wants to believe it like it is the salafi it is the the belief um

i don't they find let's say the word wahhabi derogatory they don't usually call it wahabi the other people might call it that but they will call it uh either they it's called humbly akida but they might call it uh so this is the new name given to us fine you know if people want to believe that it's up to them you know if a person says look i want to personally i would say all of this is the mainstream of muslims they are still this is all still within sunni islam you do have other muslims as well so i

mentioned this is the large batch let's say that don't say that god has eyes and you know he doesn't have these they don't say things like that they just say god is all seeing and all this and that's it we don't go you know they don't speak like that but then there is another uh batch as well which were more like the philosopher muslims uh people like ibn rust and uh the great maliki legend and other people and they

um they're very similar as well to this to the main part except they will um go a step further in highlighting look none of this saying this stuff doesn't make sense because it causes problems in other things you can't say you know what's the point of all of these like why are you making so they kind of just argue it a bit more um because really what is the point of this of this argument like what is the point because people will say well the point is let's say the first group the atharis they will say that the point is that these things are mentioned in the quran so because they mentioned in the quran

like god says his hand like the day like he crea crea he created with his own hands so because allah has used the word hands therefore we have to believe in them fine you know if a person wants to believe like that that's fine it doesn't look it's not nobody should be trying to control people over what they want to believe the that bulk the rest of the muslims usually will say well that was a figure of speech it's like saying you know it doesn't mean that god's trying to say he has two hands he's just saying he created everything with his hands that's a

figure of speech and that's fine you know because everybody agrees that there are verses of the quran that none of them take literally so for example the verse of god's hand is above their hand on the bay to redwan nobody takes that literally the verse that i quoted before that god says we breathed

we breathed our into adam nobody says god has a rooh um the verse that jesus says to god that you know you see you know what is in myself my nufs but i don't know what is in your nerves nobody believes god has enoughs even though that's in the quran so there are definitely things in the quran that people nobody takes literally like they accept them as a figure of speech and then they disagree on the rest but i would say look all of this is within

sunni islam all of it i i feel that the people you see the problem is some people these people might say all of these are not sunni chug them out some might say check them out of islam some might say cho okay leave them in islam chuck them out of sunni islam make them deviants but that's actually the mainstream of muslims and then the mainstream of muslims might say well okay the philosophers chucked them out or they might say check them out islam or they and they will say well these people the atharis chuck them out of islam because they say god has body parts or they might say well okay or chuck them out sunnis and everybody's just chucking

each other out of islam and it's appalling it's embarrassing so in all honesty all of this is really sunni islam okay whether they agree with each other or not it's all sunny islam so if somebody wants to believe that they can believe it if somebody wants to believe that they can believe it you know it's up to them if somebody wants to believe what people like said or ibrahim said or other people they can believe it now these are all sunni kind of representatives so yeah and as to um

say the issue is you see what people are doing is they're trying to claim like they want to claim people to their gang like i've got more people in my gang from the past so they will say look if nobody said he does say in his resale he has a statement that is you know has been problematized by people because it's in his resale and that's like a text that's over a thousand years old so in the he writes that allah is a focal arch that allah is above his throne

and he mentions this so this has been used by the athari group let's say cohort to say well he's in our group because he used this word that allah is above like sitting above his throne literally like as in so because he's used these words he must be in our group and they then claim him because they'll say look oh he's one of us now but to be honest he definitely wasn't humbly but he does say that in his reseller text

the other thing is he in his other books like in his german he says other things which are against athari so he will say things like he condemns anybody who says things like in the um so that in his german there's things about people who say god has certain other things or does such and such and there's the hadith of i think god laughs or something like this and he's highly condemning all of these and saying um and he's quoting from imam malik um so he in his journey he doesn't seem

to be at all and in his resala he does seem to be utterly so it's now there's a bit of well okay so where was he now people explain so some people so the atharis might say oh well you know in his german yeah he's saying that but maybe he means something else when he's dissing that over there and these people will say that when he said that he was just provoking the the you see in his time you had the who were ruling tunisia and central north africa who were the big and and they say he was writing

this to provoke them so everybody's got a kind of theory on it it doesn't matter he himself has long passed away so i hope that helps right all right i miss a super chat uh move the in the u right cannot i don't know if i can oh here it is i found it i found one second okay there it is i see so much love for the super chat yeah

mufti in the european religious war protestant and catholics butchered each other and in the ottoman persian wars sunni and shia villages were raised effects felt to this day in the middle east is the root cause religion um good question no the root cause is not religion i would say the root cause is probably tribalism and many of the political things it's not religion because you see you you take it down several notches like you take it okay i tell you what let's take it to a primate level chimpanzees okay so when we reviewed the book those

of you who've watched our book review on the bonobo and the atheist if you haven't watched it do watch it's an excellent book lounge review we did so it's it's amazing now you see how chimpanzees live in the tribes and how the primates fight each other they're very territorial now there's no religion with primates they will butcher each other you know except bonobos bonobos seem to be a really odd the bonobo you know monkey seems to be an odd example um

it seems to be all more about love and sex and stuff like that and just huge orgies always they you know you put bonobos together they just within minutes they're all getting on like a house they first of all just kind of eye each other up and then they just have this huge orgy and then they just they're just fine uh but any other primates nothing like that nothing like and you see bonobos are matriarchal uh which is very fascinating so whereas most primates are always patriarchal

so chimpanzees bonobos look just like chimpanzees by the way but they're a bit slimmer so they look like your standard kind of chimpanzee monkey but they are a bit more nerdier so they look like they have like narrower longer faces skinnier bodies they're not as chimpanzees are actually quite chiseled and muscled up when you see them they're not as chiseled so they're kind of just a bit skinny and um and they they are totally different kind of species they're not they related but they're genetically different to chimpanzees so they're very fascinating and there's

been a lot of studies done on them especially by dr franz de waal and you should read some of his books and watch some of his stuff on youtube fascinating but yeah so now chimpanzees normal chimpanzees or gorillas or things like this that you see they will you know you cannot put these tribes together they they cannot if they just encounter each other they it's war it's not like uh you know or maybe as a one-off they might let someone off but usually their first reaction is one of hostility you know when you look at

europeans discovering north america or you see europeans going to australia or you see foreigners coming to a new territory and the first act is often one of war and hostility that on many levels is simply the primate kingdom playing out it's very predictable like if we were aliens and we had to predict human behavior like let's say we're aliens so we're looking at earth and we don't know so we know that this let's say group of humans cohort is about to

venture its way to this territory so we have to predict for our homework what do you think they're going to do so for our research so for the sorry for the suggestion and for the background research we're given primate behavior to investigate because humans from aliens perspective we're very similar to we are just primates i mean we're a different kind of primates but we're still kind of primates to them so if aliens looked at us they would see us as the third chimpanzee um except we seem to wear clothes and we seem to be a bit more talented than chimpanzees so

if you looked at that so it's in some ways it's like saying you're looking at cats and lions and you know so you're kind of seeing that there's they're different but there's all wolves and pitbulls and you know they're different but they it's the same kind of family so if they just studied primate behavior and they saw okay when chimpanzees come across new chimpanzees or when they cross territories or when the when the tribe encounters a new tribe and when they go looking for resources and when they with that information they would make a very fairly accurate you know

prognosis of what is about to happen and they would be pretty much spot on so you know we you know it the apple doesn't really fall far from the tree we're not actually that different um and i think that's the you know the the thumb this is the asvala safely you know this is insane between his bestial and angel self you know the angelic the better self um but we more often than not are more bestial

we're just more animals than we are pure reason and kind of higher consciousness so yeah most often we would get you know the aliens would get it right if they would say yeah you know i think there's going to be devastation you know it's like the verse of the quran that you're going to place in here yes yes you're going to place someone who they're just going to spread blood and do mischief you know on the earth because that it's very predictable

yeah right okay guys i take it right i actually did want to um use the opportunity and share with you guys as well um about a companion i was and that is let me bring this up

sometimes he is confused by people as abu bakr and it's not abu bakr it's about so you can see i in the middle in the yellow there's a the name is written in arabic this kind of ta which is which is making that sound abu bakr ah okay so so it's like there's an a h at the end of a bakara uh a thakafi meaning he from the tribe of sakif or of ta'if and in the eighth year of history the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam went to thought if had become hostile

and and the prophet uh sallallahu alaihi salam and the muslims go there and this this um this tension and they lay siege and later on this this is a truce and but during that time um the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam does announce that look we are not here you know we we are not the aggressors we are not we haven't come here for because there's been the the whole piece of makkah truce of makkah has happened you know they've people lay down the arms the prophet did not there was not like the companion said today there's going to be bloodshed the

prophet condemned him said it's going to be an act of compassion today and then after that is sake the tribe of which which were a very powerful military tribe um they were based in thai if and thaif is this mountainous beautiful region that you can see in the top picture there that's obviously if you zoom in there you can see the cars still going on those roads but uh and that's actually some remnants of an old fortress in um in tive but sative was a very well fortified mountainous region and

when the prophet's there he does announce that look it's not like we would rather have a very peaceful solution to this so this is where the story of abu bakr begins okay he is a young man in the lifetime of the prophet sallallahu alaihi islam he lives in taif his actual name is nufaiya and asakafi from the tribe of and some people may recognize the name when we say sakafi like hajjaj yusuf al-fakhafi the very famous

we'll have to cover him some days what a what a story ah but also the one who avenges uh hussein radhiallaw and and then uh makes other claims as well and some people say makes kind of first of all makes claims for the mahdi and then some people say he claims himself he was the mahdi and so on but he is also from bani takif and they're very well known tribe in islam and so so coming back to uh his name

is nufaiya and he was a slave and he was in his this there's a disagreement about who his uh what his nasa is who his father is and people have said different things but his mother is sumiya the mother of zayad ibn abi who we have spoken of previously who is the alleged half-brother of muawiyah so those of you that remember we'd covered previously that's a yadiva and we'll cover him in the future maybe in a in a in a segment

that he was an a courageous kind of incredible general and commander of the armies and um he fights alongside ali uh ibn abi taliban and then eventually ma'awiya kind of wins him over and says to him because he knows that he always what he had there was this rumor that he was the son of abu sufyan as in a half brother to mahawya from the father but we had never nobody had acknowledged it before but then maui kind of sees the the benefits in acknowledging it because

he's an incredible general incredible like a just an absolute courageous warrior and so rather than catching him and killing him like why not have him on your side so muawiyah says that you know he has somebody testify that have you is this true that he's the son of abu sufyan and then gives him his name he says that you know surname so they call him zayadev but the ibn abi the mother is samaya the same mother of abu bakr and the fathers were just different she was a i think she was a slave and a freed

slave as well so yeah so he grows up in taif obviously sees difficulties in his time as a slave and and then he finds himself as a young man he finds that taif that the muslims have laid siege so while staff are kind of building up resistance and initially they're kind of refusing to negotiate or even have a truce or anything and they're not sure what they what's going to happen he himself thinks i don't want to be a part of this

i mean he'd just seen misery from these tiffy people and you have to remember they were a harsh people going back many years before over a decade previously the story or almost a decade previously the story when the prophet went there for that one they you know pelted him with stones and and really hurt the prophet sallallahu alaihi and the prophet wasn't doing he was just giving dawah but this was the nature of the people they were very kind of a harsh people so what kind of things i don't want anything to do with this so what he does is he he get he goes to the um had a lot of thoughts

kind of fortresses and he finds this kind of pulley and i tried to just get a random picture of one just to give you an idea there is like what is used in welds and things to kind of uh pull something up whether it's a bucket or other things and he finds this pulley and uses the rope to lower himself down whilst the muslims are standing so they're watching this young guy lowering himself down and he comes running concerning to the prophet sallallahu alaihi um the the prophet welcomes him

and he really and the prophet always had this immense love for him um his name was nafee and this is why the pulley in arabic is called bakara so bakar on its own without the tatian is referring to a camel but bakra means this kind of pulley and this is why they call him abu bakr because they swatched him kind of come down on this pulley and he runs over to the muslims and he comes to the prophet and he tells the prophet he says he sells it he says i'm a slave i'm a slave and you see because you know the slaves they the problem was they were locked

into these laws that you know these they were trapped and the prophet salallahu he said you are free he said you are talika you are the free person by god and taliyah and by his messenger and this is why our bakra sometimes has that name the one who god you know the free man of god it's a wow and so he's with the prophet and then there's

these negotiations start and stuff and um and they say to the prophet they say we want him back he's a and the pro and and they say we want him no fear and he's a slave and the prophet says it's not gonna happen he says he's a free man he's he's means like a free man and he said but that's

that's a non-negotiable that's not gonna happen and and then they they accept the terms and they kind of come to some other obviously he wasn't the major point of you know he was just a slave but they had they had this point for us that no we want him back and the prophet made it clear that that's not gonna happen and and he's somebody that who then you see he shadows the prophet sallallahu salaam around and there's a um there's a very popular hadith i think i may have put it up on the picture the one of the pictures yep

there that you can see just next to in the middle just beneath the arabic or the yellow of there's a famous hadith that the prophet sallallahu alaihi is is is in prayer and people are in prayer and abu bakr comes running and you have to remember he's still a young man he comes running and he sees that the they've already gone into sujud allah check this they've already gone into sajul so

the so he goes straight into sujood so he hasn't joined the line so let's say the line is the south is let's say it's it's it's over oh it's over here and he's still further back he just goes into roku not straight over there and just joins the prayer and and then he either moves up or stays the allahu islam but at the end of the prayer the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam says that he says that if the salah is being established samsung

that femshu eleha that you know walk to it you can take that as a mantra in life you know when you go into anything walk into a room you walk into alaikum

is this kind of dignity sakina that you have this kind of serene composure serenity that the prophet said and in this hadith he and and in that same hadith the prophet said um and

whatever kind of misses you whatever you've kind of missed then catch up then make up for and there's several there's there's there's narrations that uh man whosoever reaches reach salah um and then there's uh there's a few variations of that there is a narration something like that um and and in fact what will will when i finish this just if if i remember

i'll just mention the differences on that as well what do the scholars say about them so okay but coming back to this so abu bakr ah the prophet sallam uh after salah he says to him that zada kallahu herself now this is the popular narration and i'll come to that point but this look at the hadith how it begins the prophet was trying to tell him look he was trying to tell him look don't do that don't run like this and don't like be dignified it doesn't matter what you

miss catch up but don't kind of be all like don't lose your composure and he begins by you see now this goes to show see because today we are taught through psychology and for people who handle people you're taught these things even in education as a practitioner or as anything you're taught today that okay begin with something positive then correct realign what you have to realign but in this hadith you see zadakallahu hersen you know it's already given like i see

you know may allah increase you in eagerness that may allah give you even more eagerness well that's out you know but don't but this you know don't this this this don't do this though that's an amazing hadith and and i'll i'll come back to this hadith as well i did bring up some notes to show you guys some some fascinating points about just the voweling on it but about abu bakr he himself he continues well after the prophet sallallahu sallam he um he

lives many decades after the prophet goes on to die i believe 51 hijri or something in the time of ma'awiya during his time his brother zayad nabi becomes the governor of basra and they say that abu bakr was always someone very you know very strict with his own with piety and especially matters of abuse that he took them always very seriously and maybe that had something to do with his past went because he was a slave and maybe as a slave he witnessed a lot of abuse

and so people you know our past shapes us especially childhood and they say as a later in life there was an occasion where his brother is a yadim nabi who was in charge of basra and he's this incredible total different upbringings obviously just the mother was the same but they so yeah he was somebody totally different and he had like this great warrior and later on he becomes this governor because of politics and in the time of ma'awiya so they are not be on this occasion he's

building a masjid in basra and he's it's with great splendor and he comes across there's this person who's managed to uh procure some very precious wood and it's very rare and the nabi wants to buy of him and he wants to buy for the masjid now look the cause is noble he wants to buy for the masjid so he asks this person that look would you sell us this this wood it'd be a great piece for you know the mehrab in the masjid they'll be just wonderful they'll be epic

so the guy says he says look you know obviously i respect everything but it's my own thing i don't want it for the i want it for me you know go get your own and they say look it's too much of a mission for us to get it this was like some foreign uh particular rare wood that he had very special wood and the guy refuses to sell it so yeah confiscates it he confiscates it but he pays him handsomely like he has some people go and he says just take it he says first we ask nicely

but he does he sends him money he sends him adequate money he says that you know this is worth what this much we'll give you the money we'll give you money we're not stealing it but we're we're what we wanted but still you know it's not abu bakr refused to pray in that masjid in basra you know from the moment he came to learn of that incident they say he refused to set foot in that masjid and he's the brother of the year and the year then him even had this out and he said to zaya that i will i refuse to come in your that masjid

until you don't remove that wood and although initially he didn't but because this became a thing eventually the yard removed had that wood stripped and returned because it was it just became a thing then i was like look this is wrong this is abuse you know and and it's amazing that these you see it's always the the the sentiments that people what they're standing up for and this is what defines true elements of virtue

so this was the personality of abu bakr there was a um there's an interesting point i'll highlight as well actually he is also the narrator of the hadith imran the hadith that which is in bukhari and amongst the books that that people will never be successful who's who have placed their leader who have placed as a leader as their leader a woman so this is how it translates but yeah so people

those people will never attain success who have made a woman their leader now this hadith and that's a whole will you know what i'll just briefly explain that as well so in just just a moment i'll come back to it but he's the transmitter of that hadith and so what does that hadith mean we'll we'll just come back to that but i thought i'll just wrap up on abu bakr ah he also from the hadith i was just thinking popular there is another popular incident with him that had become a matter of dispute actually

um not disputes some people have tried to raise it as an argument and uh it's it's it's worth uh learning about to understand how times were back then so there's an incident in the time of um and this also sheds light on the laws about things like zina and how they treated them that there was this incident where abu bakr ah saw maureen who is another companion

with a woman and and he felt that it was not morira's wife so he testified now you see maybe some of these things once again tie back to his own childhood and as a slave and why these principles were so important to him because you have to remember that even uh his mother sumaiya was a lot of people hold kind of accusations at her and stuff like this

including these half brothers the yad because who was the father and stuff like this and this is obviously from pre-islam but maybe these things are why as he grew up they shaped the kind of the the significance and the weight of these values so there is an incident where he reports this in the time of uh omar he's not the only one some other people reported that is with was with this other woman and that for whatever the context

uh i'm not sure that but there's something that happens and this gets reported and then abu bakr had also witnessed it so he comes forward to highlight this now the problem is that they didn't meet the full criteria because there has to be four witnesses and if there ain't this is then treated as though this is a false accusation and a false accusation isn't just dropped the people are punished now you see in many ways this goes to show the argument you know when people said oh that this

adultery thing was kind of designed to it was almost designed in a way that was impossible to be witnessed because four people witnessing actual penetration i mean how does that even happen so this is a case in the lifetime you can see of the companions and abu bakr is there but i believe only three people so these other people come forward then abu bakr comes forward as well so that makes three but nobody else comes forward but there needs to be four so this testimony is not only dropped

they are then punished is then whipped and does um the other people that look did you guys make this testimony up because you know i'm just asking is part of the policy that they are asked that look is this and the other two i think maybe it's because they think then they won't get hit or anything so they say yes you know yeah yeah we don't know we're not really witnesses and

um but abu bakr remains steadfast he said no look i actually did see that that's why i came forward um and he's actually punished i mean they are punished as well but it just goes to show how harsh it was to even make a claim against someone so when people make these kind of statements and and some people had then said well oh does this mean that abu bakr ah because the verse of the quran says people who accuse women chaste women and if they can't bring four witnesses then they are lashed

and you cannot accept the shahada their testimony unless and unless they do toba so some people had said oh does this mean or you can't accept abu bakr's reward of hadith and that's absurd because that's obviously not anything to do with the testimony or of that nature and to be fair it's a very unfair allegation against abu bakr because even in the narrations he has an opportunity to say that look no i was just saying this to kind of cause

trouble was you know i was acting out of uh i was out of line and he doesn't he remains steadfast on he says look this is what i saw and this is why i came forward and like i said maybe it's because of all the kind of abuse he he as a child he witnessed against other people and against women especially women when it came to honor and adultery and even his own mother and how people so maybe these were the things that always made him so kind of hold these things so dear that he had to always stand up and highlight these things and and at that on that occasion he had to

even suffer as a consequence um but no this is nothing to do with a reward of hadith and stuff because hadith is simply you telling about your life it's like me saying um you know i when i was 20 years old i this happened to me you know or i was with such and such person and we did this or he said this so he only transmits those hadith that he claims that he was there and the prophet salallahu was saying these things and everybody's accepted they've never been an issue this has not been an issue

but some people had tried to raise oh does this problematize the fact that he was in trouble for that testimony because all the witnesses went there but that goes to show there is a difference between getting caught up in something whilst being on the right side like you could let's say like you could like a whistleblower you whistle blow but you don't get the support it's like you know i'm not not saying it's like this but giving an example of whistleblowers what's very relevant is in the news like julian

assange it's like people are not supporting them i mean people some people are but the governments and people are trying to really turn against them and do all of this stuff they are on the right side but they're suffering they kind of face the consequences get prosecuted even though they're whistleblowers so suffering consequences doesn't always mean that you necessarily and even being then put on the wrong side of the law doesn't always mean you were on the wrong side it just means the law sometimes is set up in a certain way that if certain things ain't met you can

find yourself facing the brunt of it and that's a different discussion but this was this companion abu bakr radhillah an amazing person who begins his story at the fortress of lowers himself with the pulley and he runs to the prophet and then becomes this amazing companion and lives on for many decades dies in the caliphate of ma'awiya radhiallahu and leaves a legacy really and many of these hadith are from him and so that we that i mentioned and also

to uh just show you a little insight on his hadith now check this on arabic and with the vowel with the voweling makes a difference so let me just bring this up so this is a hadith and that's we'll come back to the other hadith but this is that you can see now may allah increase you uh in in eagerness that may you know but how do you read the second part

is it or is it and each one gives a different meaning okay so voila out don't go back to it okay don't go back to it if you read it as well most people seem to read it as well that the prophet was saying don't go back to doing this

some people said well you don't it means don't repeat which could mean a similar meaning or some people said you don't and don't repeat your prayer some people argue that the prophet was trying to say that and the third one which i feel was actually the more accurate definition here and don't run this i feel was the more accurate definition the majority of the scholars seem to still go with and don't repeat what i do seems to make more sense

certain scholars have gone with this albany also in his kind of definition goes with this as well other because it seems to make sense really in the context the prophet is saying look you know allah increase you in eagerness but don't run you know like alaikum like maintain your composure and dignity yeah so okay uh that's i thought i'd introduce that a brief note on the mass and i'll those two points first of all on salah

if you if you catch the prayer and the imam has gone into ruku okay so there are several hadith as was in this incident with abu bakr radhiallahuan that there are certain narrations that either imam if you reach the imam or whether some say that

look whatever you catch pray and whatever you miss you've missed make up for okay so the must allah is if you if you come to pray and the imam is in roku what should you do well you just say your allahu akbar and you can as as you just say allahu akbar you can go straight into raku as long as you've said the allahu akbar as as you're going into allahu akbar and you've gone in you're going into ruku as long as the imam has been in ruku even for just a brief moment it overlaps that is fine that roku has been caught okay that is

the majority view you don't if you can say another allahu akbar or you can say you know a zika that's fine even if you don't you just had you've said one allahu akbar standing which is the the kabira to begin the prayers so you you must say that that obviously to begin the prayer you can't begin the prayer begin the prayer just standing so as long as you've just said allahu akbar and you've gone in if you can say the second allah fine if you can't you've just gone into ruku you've caught the imam even for a moment that has been caught okay that is the view of the majority of the

scholars uh that is the four methods imam abu hanifa imam malik that is that is the majority of the they base it on this hadith there's a few variants that if you catch the imam in that's what you do some people have disagreed by the way so um some people based on arguably that the fatiha is obligatory on the on the moon the person who prays behind the imam so if he's missed it he must

make it up that has been transmitted by i i believe it's been transmitted uh by abu hurairah um it's it's also been transmitted as the view of uh some of the shafa'ir it's been transmitted as the view of ibn josema uh it's been transmitted as imam bukhari's view this is what he kind of heads is here's this book this just

and in that he seems to argue for this it also seems to be what shokani argues for in his nail i believe but so some people had said that look even if you catch the imam doing gurukul um you've missed you have to still make it up but that's not the majority the majority beginning with the companions whether it's going to be um [Music] many companions the four methods the other imam sufyana thori other they've all pretty much

argued that if you catch the roku you've caught even for a moment you've caught the salah okay so that's how it is that gives you at least some guidance on that matter uh what was the second point um oh the hadith length a people who place the leader as a woman will never be successful this is transmitted by it is in bukhari but it's in some other books as well but what does this mean

does this mean that it is haram to have a leader as a woman oh sorry a woman as a leader some people have taken this hadith and understood that from it that they've taken this hadith so first of all let's understand why this hadith was said this hadith was said at the time when the kisrah the persian sassanid king had died and the woman became in charge i believe her name was boran they put her in charge and somebody told the prophet that she is now in charge

and allegedly the prophet said this keeping in mind that the sassanid empire was at war uh at least especially at that time with the mid arabs who were the kind of cultural capital the the manager and they killed the last you know um what is it they killed there was this huge and we've covered that in the story previously so keeping that in mind and and the manadera the hera was their capital they are the one who who in

where you were most of many of the major poets were with arabic today as we know it comes from as well so this is with with the allegiance of the arabs was anti-sassanid anti-persian this is why even in the quran it says about holy batter rom which was the the the byzantium the byzantines they have been defeated but they will again be successful and on that day you may think the believers will be happy why because the believers were more aligned with the christians than they were with

assassinate persians at the time so when this female is in place as the kind of queen this statement is allegedly said by the prophet this is once again we say allegedly because there isn't one hundred percent certainty that the prophet said this but let's go with the hypothesis that this was said by the prophet now the next question is that is this statement is this statement a descriptive

or is it religiously prescriptive okay so is it this so is it descriptive from a psychosocial environmental fac perspective or is it prescriptive so is the prophet sallam describing this is he describing or is he inscribing making this a law within islam is he teaching islam or is the prophet allah

describing a phenomenon this is where people disagreed so for example because you have to remember as as imam qarafi says that the prophet salallahu when he's engaging people he he is in different states of mind in some states he's engaging them as the imam of the muslims in some states he's engaging them as as as a judge he may be ruling over two people in some states of mind he's engaging them as a

uh as a person amongst them like as as an arab who lives in hijaz amongst them like saying hey like when they say would you want to eat he says no i don't i don't eat this and they say oh he said haram the president no no no it's not haram it's just i i don't like it our people never used to eat it that's the famous hadith or when the prophet says to barira marry marieth and she says oh is this religious like is this a priest to prescribe something is to mandate it to make it obligatory is this like are you prescribing something

and the person said no no no this is just a suggestion then she says oh in that case no i won't marry him or it's like in the time of buddha when the prophet says why don't we set up camp here and the person says this revelation or is this an opinion and the prophet said no it's just an opinion and then he says well in that case i think the person says to the prophet what about over there because we're closer to the well and we've got a vantage point to attack and the brother says you're right let's set it up over there or in the instant when the prophet sees them cross-pollinating

the the wheat that they used to do and the prophet says hmm that's strange why do you do that so they didn't do it and the following harvest was terrible and they came complaining to the prophet they said that and the prophet why are you complaining to me and he said well you said why are you doing that that's strange and he said i just said that's strange i never said it's from islam the

you guys he said you're more knowledgeable about your worldly affairs i just said i find it strange that you guys cross pollinate i never said this is from god that don't do this i was just speaking as a person i wasn't speaking as the prophet of god so when the prophet is engaging in different things there's different states of mind that are that are active so now when let's take this hadith so we're going with this statement has been said is the prophet saying that oh these people who have placed a woman as

their leader will never be successful a description based on the social economic factors of the people because like the prophet is a very like he's a weird like today we are aware of what's going on with russia and ukraine when we don't have to be there but we all know what's going on the prophet knew about them attacking the mundials the mundu the mana there are fighting back some of the battles we've mentioned with they were defeated by the bakari benawa tribe and by other tribes that attacked them and we've done all of

these segments the prophet is aware of these things the bis you know the byzantines attacking them and how they're struggling how the assassinate legacy of over a thousand years is crumbling the prophet is aware of this just as today we are aware of kind of global factors now to crown it all off not only have all of the kings become so weak and these are people who are very boastful very so on you know they wouldn't even allow they had such and such person in charge and he used to claim to be like a god and people did this and some people

challenged him and and now it comes down to when the king has died they've placed a woman like i know there's no way that's gonna work like these people are definitely gonna flop like that kingdom is gonna crumble it's no way it's like it's if a person was to say you know like imagine all of a sudden there's all these candidates to to get in charge and they put this really old man who is you know almost senile one could say almost we're speaking about biden here but somebody

places somebody in charge and you say well this is definitely gonna this country's going to the dogs now there's no way that they're going to you know you put a man like that in charge an old man you know any country that's being run by an old man that old is gonna be ruined so is this statement coming as a description given the kind of socio-political affairs of the enviro of the environment that the prophet says knowing what's going on and all the turmoil they're in that you know a people who now place a

woman in charge those men are never going to accept that woman that's like because it's it's the sassanid empire and that too it's crumbling and there's all this infighting and now you put a woman in charge in that in the climate they're never going to succeed was this descriptive or was it prescriptive was the prophet saying this is now a fiat ruling in islam that it is haram for a woman to rule a people because if she does they will never attain success

so there's these two ways of looking at what is going on some people took it to say that the prophet was prescribing here that he was giving a ruling within islam and trying to say that now any henceforth any woman that or let's make it clear that because the persian woman is let's make it clear given this instance that any nation that any civilization that takes a woman as a leader is doomed by the fate of god and that is by divine decree

some people have taken it to mean that however many other people would understand the other ruling which makes makes sense because after the prophet sallallahu sallam his own wife was was in charge of the very famous battle which is controversial the marika the german the battle of jamal of the camel she is in charge she leads the whole campaign going up to barcelona so people had put aisha in charge and people like zubair were in that army were in that group let's say

but they had placed in charge of it obviously they would have had a much better understanding of the dean that they were so close to the prophet and if they felt that putting the woman as a leader would have been something so wrong in islam that they surely you know that's not how they would go about things so that's how people these people this interpretation would see it the other way would see that no this is uh you know this is haram always this is doomed in islam and they may even

interpret they may say that was kind of leading but technically maybe there was a man that was the leader but she was just a prominent person so they may give that that kind of an interpretation so this is how people take away from a ruling but it goes to show that here is a ruling and how it's not simple to say something because you just a statement first of all ascertaining whether okay you got ascertaining whether it was actually said or whether it was paraphrased or whether it was is another

discussion but even going with the hypothesis this is the hadith this was said there's still many ways to look at it simply as a description just as today if there was um certain things going and and you said you know what if i said you know any person any person riding a motorbike in this day and age or any person riding a bike in this day and age is never gonna make it if i made a statement like that which now what would you understand from my statement what am i trying to say and what is the

context so surely when i if i say something you know any person riding a bike in this day and age anchor is definitely not going to make it or why am i saying that first the context secondly do i mean not make it in anything do i mean because there's been certain road traffic accidents and people are kind of knocking over cyclists and people are doing all these kind of things and so that's a very

that's a very uh more profound way of looking and reading uh texts okay people with that let's wrap that up i don't know what's happening to my throat i think i should wrap it up you know what i'll share the link maybe if somebody wants to jump on i'm just seeing the time i think i've got carried away speaking today that's my throat indicating that you've been you've got carried away

the obligation fears the main okay let me just take that off miss musty mr super chat i'll take a look for that i'll share the link and otherwise i'll wrap this up mm-hmm all right i see sarah son shukran i've covered your super chat dd should come for the super chat it's a path to god to discover that you are him

that you are sorry something blocking the screen here that you are him that you are god no i don't think that's the path that's no that's not the case so shut up yeah love you mufti you don't know how much you help you much love may allah keep you blessed um right let's see i mean allah creating man from dust is a metaphorical way of highlighting how weak the human body is she's capable of great things

i don't think dust symbolizes weakness i think it more symbolizes uh humble origins because the human mind has truly has capabilities of you know astronomical majesty if you think about it and i think we can kind of get lost in that so it's always a reminder of our humble origins cool there was was there another superchat ibn tashfeen we got to do a

a segment on ibnatashvin someday uh yusuf natasha in salah lip service to god what's the purpose i've covered that in much detail before i've got a bunch of videos on it no it's not lip service it's excellent to have rituals it's excellent to to kind of have something anchor points and to have routine it it really um births discipline yeah so it's it's so much in that i've done a bunch of videos on it now so do check them inshaallah but shukran much

love for the super chat um are you afraid of nihilism or death i think everybody has it's it's human not even human i think creature to have a fear of death um that said

i think the path of consciousness can bring a person to [Music] definitely a much calmer perception towards death and a much less fearful in fact people who we spoke earlier on psychedelics people who explore things like that even come back with a much less fear of death this is why certain places in the world now use this as palliative care they want to because i feel it's a crime not to use these things in palliative care because they

because people they they they have you know this is what the the evidence shows that they experience they have a very mystical experience which reduces the fear of death because not in an it's not in an it doesn't reduce it in a die you know like in a death-wish way like when you say don't have a fear of death it doesn't mean they become die hard like i don't give a damn come shoot me that can it's not that kind of they don't have a fear of death what happens is they become embracing

and they they warm to it and they kind of it's strange because if you you know people have experienced these things they say when you experience that kind of ego death they will write in fact you can watch interviews of people that have experienced these things many of them will say that it was very familiar that when they experience it they seem to recognize it yeah i know it doesn't make much sense right now but this is what a lot of people you know it's like people that on dmt they would all often say that it was

they they recognize it from before they will say that they knew the place how how is that how does that even work how does everybody always seem to mostly seem to know the place from before so and how did most people seem to know death from before it doesn't but yeah i don't i i think but the fear is innate and natural right let's move on to uh i've shared the link we've got a guest i need to all right let me see if i can

quickly switch on my earphones i need to one second need to fire up my device have it connected all right let's see connecting connected that quickly there's the settings let me just go into the settings check that the audio is collected nope it isn't connected on here where is the headset

all right it's now connected we've got abdul rahman aha yeah are you foreign you're good i'm good i'm good i'm good how are you keeping and home delay it's like 10

10 to 5 in germany so yeah this is this is it awake at these godly hours yeah you know you know when i when i when i always when people ask me especially my relatives they're like why why are you so active at night and stuff and it's not good to be that sonically funny and i'm like you've been telling me stories of some old bizarre nice people and pisces people who've been awake the whole night and the hype of that so when i say i'm awake you know why is it bad but yeah

because you're awake streaming netflix don't worry it happens to the best of us one day right now i just gotta stream all these others and just catch up with um uh again your your life's pretty much allah was really really nice and uh especially you know you said uh i asked about you know what the prophet said and what he said in you know mobile life and

stuff because a lot of people confuse that verse they literally chew in the mosque and everyone in general people at the the uh the imams and the mosque they teach you that everything the prophet said out of his tongue is from god you know so it's like a way so one sense it is pre-planned but people think everything he says is deen and that's where the problem with hadith comes as well which you hide sometimes because that's a that's a very good

point and and karafi for people who want to read that you can read qarafi having this discussion because it's really uh that because this you see using that verse from najib saying that the prophet does not utter from his whims it is but revelation revealed unto him now sure that that that's absolutely but that is speaking about them calling his revelation

nonsense like the the kuffar of quraysh are saying that he's making this up and allah is responding by saying that this is not you know this is not him making this up this is being revealed on to him so this is very different to people saying like so for example let's say the prophet is now shopping he's buying food or he's sitting at home uh or he's saying can you pass me this can you do this or he's just having a conversation uh how are you what's going on just day-to-day things

these things are not revelation these things are just normal life the prophet sallam is living his life and and it really comes becomes clear in those examples where those companions ask him that because that's the best that they make it very clear because it's like the woman saying buried us the prophet saying marry marieth because marieth used to follow her around in the streets and he was obsessed with her and people used to say that you know what hey look at him which is interesting because you had a man following around a woman who is

not married to and everybody would say check him out check him out and they would all see it and this was going on in medina and even the prophet saw it and it was a well-known thing because he was obsessed and madly in love with her and so the prophet even said because he came and he asked the prophet please you know if you ask her and the prophet said look what just marry marieth and she says oh is this revelation and the prophet says no it's just a yeah it's no he says i'm just saying it because you know it's just a suggestion and she says no in that case certainly not i definitely won't i mean she says and the prophet actually

says uh not in that same thing but he says to the people when they say that isn't it so mad look how madly he is in love with her chases around look there he's going right now and the prophet says isn't it mad that his hash like how his obsession like how the energy that he brings in loving her is equally met with the energy she brings for hating him and the brother says isn't that like isn't it like crazy how they bringing opposite energies of the same strength yeah the

key thing is the same issue if you think about it it's the same issue with with sunnah right which you have brought up as well in the last three years i guess a lot of times i've heard you like which you said like a lot of people can't differentiate between the sunnah of the prophet which he did as a added as a habit or which he did for time and place and which religion and the funny thing is people criticized you or me generally always because i bring that up and i say there are two kinds of sunnah if you take it but then the funny thing is you know

yourself the salafi of the topi with the hat is the same they don't a lot of them don't wear hats and then a lot of them they don't yet they don't recognize the hearts especially they wear turbans and they say the same thing about turban but when we say turban entropy and maybe some other things then they of course take it like uh that that's too much now you know so i think the you know the issue is cher that it's uh and by the way we gotta i gotta get you on to a mind trap okay so i'm and we are going to do that so we

are on whatsapp now so that's uh we'll sort that over so you see the thing is that i think people find it really at what point do they draw the line exactly with devotion like i'm devoted to something i really want to do it at what point do i draw the line in saying look it's okay i'm doing i i don't have to make you do it you know like if you see it differently okay it doesn't change my devotion like if a person wants to wear a heart let's say

now first of all the prophet salallahu didn't used to wear a heart because hearts were not the customs of the arabs um they did wear turbans though so now okay but the prophet never exclusively wore turban the arabs as a whole war turban so including quraish including the mushrikeen everybody water but it's just all arabs wore turbans so here there was a question that okay technically the prophet often kept his hair covered often now did he do this because

everybody did it in arabia mostly i mean most people sorry most people did it it was a custom or did he do it because islam said now the prophet never any never taught us anyway that we need to cover our heads okay so that's fine this is why the maliki method does not say that covering your head is sunnah anything imam malik and this this is the maliki method but okay what if we decide to cover our head out of love for the prophet because he covered it so this is now a different issue so this is saying look okay i recognize this is not something

it's not in the quran it's not something that islam brought introduced but because the prophet always did it so let's say for example and i love the prophet so much so what if i did something a bit similar it's like how people would say today like you'd see non-muslims and other people like celebrities people love celebrities you know they love michael jackson so they might kill they're here like michael jackson they might say i'm going to do this so people say well look we love the prophet so much so i'm going to do something extra that he used to do so let's say he like dates i'm going to take which is of course beautiful it's something commendable

of course and exactly but that then not knowing where to draw the line in that devotion because that devotion is a personal thing exactly yeah it's not islam has not even asked you to do it but you if you do it the near the fact that you have this much love for the prophet that is highly commendable and that nia is something which we celebrate that intention and we say that you know allah blesses you blesses that intention but the action in and of itself is not an islamic action so just as the prophet for example

uh he you know lived in arabia so if a person says well i'm going to live in arabia because the prophet lived in arabia now islam has not asked them to go move to arabia but if they did it that's them that's not an islamic act that might be their personal devotion as a person they're doing it islam has not asked them but sure their intention is a different thing but it doesn't make the act islamic and i think this differentiating here is where a lot of these people find it difficult it becomes too clouded like they think well because it's being

celebrated the intention therefore the act has become islamic and and i think unfortunately as well this mis this is a misplaced love it is a love but it's a misplaced love there was this this discussion okay i do but i do admit i think it was too much for the people to handle what i said but there was a discussion and we were discussing exactly that topic and uh and you know they said that yeah but it's still a sign of a muslim if you walk like this and if you have a juba and these you know you can ima i'm sure you can you have you've been in that

position where you just look at those people who are discussing with you and you're like this is so much stupidity these arguments how which one shall i tackle first and i just burst it out and i said yeah but you do know that whatever you you know the signs you're describing abu jahl abu jahl were the same wore the same things clothes yeah the clothes of the of the clothes of the prophet were just the clothes of his time he never like so it wasn't that the prophet yeah so for example when let's say strangers or people came from persia and these places they couldn't tell who the prophet was

he wasn't distinguished in the sense that he wasn't somebody that wore a particular clothing like you could tell or that person is like the the vip he wasn't he was just more what everybody wore what arabs wore and so there's nothing islamic about that about being an arab but obviously the love is in its own place but then we and i think this is more difficult for us you know like this is sometimes to differentiate because they yeah and i think sometimes some groups you know

maybe with the whatever like i said it's a misplaced love and they've they've kind of pushed it so hard like uh people like sometimes the tabli ki jamaat yeah they've kind of pushed things like this so hard in saying that everything is a sunnah sitting on the floor is a sunnah you know not using a spoon is a sunnah because the prophet never used to spoon you know using it like they've just they've just turned everything and that problem like for example especially when you live in a country like germany like of course in uh in england it's a bit different if you don't mind me saying because i've lived

there for like five years or seven years um but in england it's it's still like the indo-pak have dominated the muslim scene over there so that's when you see birmingham or you see like blackburn or leicester or some parts of london they have like ahnaf have dominated everything so sometimes the the thinking over there is very okay regions park mosque is different but except of that you know a lot of east london and stuff but like in our communities here for example germany or italy netherlands because arabs there are a lot of arabs there are a lot of

turkish people so you see i've grown up with every single mother that's so hard for me every time i used to come back from battle or loom and i didn't know of course so i had to get prepared you know in every mother and i remember we moved this up where this small incident like that's the thing that happened so many times there was arab and he uh like in in pakistan or like afghanistan or like uh uh from bangladesh and stuff they don't put the quran even in the mosque they don't put it on

the carpet they put it on the shelf even chilling on the floor they won't put it on the floor like on the on the carpet on the moss carpet we not on the floor you know so they won't even that they won't arabs don't they just do like for example they read the quran and there is a sajdah part which comes they do a sujood and then for once on the floor yeah and there was this guy i'm not saying i'm not saying all arab but i have seen that in several arab countries that i've been to then there was a fight because there was one guy he could that's a fight and there

was a fight when he said shame on yourself how can you put the quran on the floor and he's like there is nothing wrong when putting on the cup and he's like ah allah and you you're doing this to the quran you don't have any respect and of course arabs are hot blooded and he was like how dare you saying i don't have respect for the quran you know there was sometimes this is done with what happens is you get this reactionary uh sometimes okay so there's two different things here one is just like somebody like a pure innocence like somebody's in a masjid it's not a dirty

place it's a very clean place nobody walks in with shoes on even in the arab world people don't go in with shoes and they're very clean carpet and they're sitting themselves on the floor and they then think look they're holding a must-have and then because they're about to pray they just you know there's no nothing nearby they just put it on the floor next to them on the prayer and they just pray now obviously in the disney world we generally wouldn't do that because people would see that as like oh no this is very disrespectful but but okay to them that's fine this is a nice clean place this is a prayer mat i'm putting it on there but then i've also seen in my time

i've seen people maybe to make a point of there's nothing wrong with putting the quran down doing that on purpose i remember many years back there used to be that were people used to that way in the city centers and used to have some of the very kind of like passionate you know back then the selfies that were like we're doing that one very passionate and stuff so and i i remember in birmingham i remember that outside the library the old library they used to have these steps and people used to do that were they and so back then i was just a teenager and i was really impressed by these people because obviously all these people had embraced islam and they were

many of them were converts as well so i do excuse them that you know that i'm sure they they have probably had only been muslim maybe a year or something but they you know they had the whole garb the whole gear the proper the saudi scarves and preaching they knew the arabic word they knew much more than me about islam back then i was just a teenager they would say you know abu hanifa did this and you know al-bukhari and i don't know any of this i was like i don't no idea what you're talking about but i remember that they like while speaking they would read from the quran and stuff and we to be honest i've never even read the quran in english at that point as a kid and these people know these verses and they can

quote it and i was so kind of wowed and and then they would just get the quran just put it on the floor by the steps of the thing and they would just carry on and and i remember actually as a kid i mean as a teenager i actually went to them and said that i remember saying to them that look i mean i must have been about maybe about 17 or something so i said to them that oh look you know brother you know can you like i tried to pick it up and they said to me what you're doing and i said that you know this you know did you this is on the floor and they said you what about it and and i said that you know oh they can't put the quran on the floor it's like why not well what's wrong

it's a book like obviously i'm not disrespecting putting on the floor like in and i remember they would do that consistently it wasn't like just a and i don't know whether that was but this sometimes there's this kind of almost a bravado to say well you know to say here that maybe you cultural people are kind of too wrong with your culture so we're going to go the other way to prove a point uh and and of course i do take into consideration that this is only you know this is a small sample i can't say this is representative of all selfies that do that or anything but these were some people that i saw

and yeah but yeah the thing in the masjid i can imagine that time if people come to you and then you have to you know calm down first both of them and stuff and and uh so it is it is a very fun and games huh then one guy came and he said uh everyone and he he got criticized because he used to pray his sunnah at home so people were like you know he's wahabi because yeah i mean you have madness the other

way you know you have this thing that in the other way where people and then they will also make you do nothing and you've got to do you know if you don't do a certain amount of enough el pray then you're not uh you know like people go the other way as well like with their strictness and uh imposing i suppose especially here i mean maybe not so much in germany but they they'll have this this cultural stuff like a person like this salah 17 and if you don't do all these then you're a wahabi basically if you're not praying all of these and they he

said to them listen and sunnah i can pray at home it's okay the prophet used to do it and then they said oh my god he's a wahhabi wahabi and then you know to calm the people down he's like is coming at uh you know referring to me he's like a jummah he's going to do so after the khutbah will go to him and we'll clear this matter and everyone was like okay okay okay so it's like i'll show you i'm not a happy that they were there and after juba they came to me made a circle and they're like yeah we have a question i'm like what's up and he's like yeah i used to pray i pray my son at home and stuff and i told them and they said surprising me and i looked at everyone and i'm like no no it is sunnah and then he said see after the mosque and then

people were like imam sabi baby uh oh uh well i might just take one more and then wrap this up today but yeah but shukran horizon we gotta catch up take it stay blessed much love people that was

people if you did i did share the link but you have to put on your camera activate your camera and mic and i can see if i can bring you on otherwise i can start wrapping this up i'll share the link um it was more a cultural thing what's that um all right uh night time i got it are you talking about

rather anyway okay so i've shared the link i don't know what that link is i was sharing my link somebody sharing a different link so i can see right but i need the cameras activated and yep cameras mics if you want to come on right so all right and i need you right if i can see let me see can i see someone nope i can't see

hello right now i can't see right okay so guys it's been good oh i thought i saw someone coming on there is guys if you want to come on you gotta come on i've gotta see who you are i gotta yep i gotta see you bring up your mic let me see i am thinking of logging off enough time's been okay i can see someone wait there let me see if we can make this work do a quick

one assalamu alaikum where where are you joining us from mr b um from san francisco california alright san francisco california yes no right so wha what's what's your what is it what does the m stand for mb what's the oh it's called uh it's like there's a turkish world called byram so

it's similar all right is that your name yes it is what's on preoccupying your precious thoughts well first of all i would like to say uh thank you for what you're doing and uh my heart is pounding because i can't believe i'm i'm um i'm talking to you it's another pleasure thank you so much um you you actually you you turn my world um 360 degrees or 180 because uh i was at this point in my

life where um things didn't make much sense and i felt lost and for some reason youtube recommended you um wow at the beginning at the beginning i couldn't i couldn't believe what i was hearing yeah and uh i think i listened to you for a while and i stopped i'm like no this cannot be and i came back and a lot of things made sense and you put me on on a new trajectory in my life and i'm very grateful for that so uh my question for uh this stream is so it seems like uh you know you know faith we are guided by

by fear by love by hope and i feel like in my life i had i had experienced many of those stages and i wanted to ask you how do you manage to balance those three guiding feelings in your faith that's the first question and the second question is do you have any practical advice or practices you would recommend to manage [Music] add or adhd that would help us uh yeah in a real world thank you sure no no much love i dearly appreciate

your kind words [Music] wow so yeah um so just coming to those so first of all i mean the uh the the add uh just just going because i think i i take it you're taking professional help anyway in in that are you taking professional help no i'm not i'm just personally asking you have you ever um do you do yourself experience that or do you

have any practical advice someone can use hmm i think it's on these things it depends on what kind of to what level of uh um i don't know whether it's disruption or or how difficult is it making things um because a lot of people especially if they're slightly older i don't know how your age but maybe they've not been kind of diagnosed or statemented as a kid they've not been kind of so now they're just discovering that i think i have add i think you know i struggle because some people who have it they will

often just have like a constant um like kind of uh scatter brain constantly but simultaneously some people can seem to zero in at the same time and focus on something that they get so locked into it and some people can't at all they they just constantly uh like they need if something isn't kind of so gripping it's just gone the attention is like somewhere else and somewhere else and to a great extent okay i think to con to a to a reasonable extent sorry

this is also normal for for most people i think to a to s to a reasonable extent we are all gripped by something gripping and then the mind wonders especially in an age where we constantly have 10 second kind of i don't know video clips and 10 second snapchats and whatever they are just 30 second insta clips and so where we are constantly being fed and engaged with you know tools that are so psychologically sophisticated to grip our attention the not so engaging becomes more

difficult to engage us because we're kind of so um you know kind of almost drugged up on these things in this day and age that so this is why it's more difficult to read a book because for example it's not as it's it's not it's not as you know it's not as entertaining as watching something because we can just easily watch we can easily and so i think we all to some extent suffer obviously some more than others and then it doesn't mean that everybody who suffers from this has add or adhd whether it's hyperactive or not but i

would say that look for for that kind of stuff definitely do if it's getting if it's disruptive uh speak to a professional um because it you know these kind of things it could be that maybe it's just nothing it could be that you know people can can kind of guide you at least with a professional constructive long-term kind of vision but coming to your other question you see on emotions it is true that look we are guided with a lot of emotions especially with religion this fear this uh love compassion

um okay i get hope uh there's yeah so people would say look uh you know you can people would say look try to balance it out try to have you know there's always the way i see things is that yes islam provides you know it gives you all of these it kind of taps into all of these emotions because the emotions exist it needs to tap into them and different people work differently so i would say that

it's not a you see to me it's not that um it's not the same fit for everyone some people may say the same fit fits all it's just one size fits all for me i my kind of way is that it would be it's it needs to be tailored to your temperament and personality so if you are a person that

you see you are reckless you are completely you know careless and you are just you can't even be destructive and you can be then maybe honing and zeroing in more on this thing of this caution this fear this thing of these things need to speak to you because you you know you're leaving a trail of you know debris and ruin in your wake like there's a lot of harm that you are maybe doing to

yourself maybe you're doing it to other people this needs to kind of shout out more at you it needs to kind of you need to kind of prompt that up but if you are someone that know your personality it needs this element of love it needs this side of hope of inspiration of the positivity and i would say a lot of people actually especially today this is what they are in need of um maybe not everyone but i would argue a lot so these are the things that you need to really zero in on

these are the things that matter that love the compassion the hope the inspiration the positivity because you see some people like let's say you are someone your temperament does not work well with the fear side of things if you could it could be devastating so you so you get some people who start to take religion seriously like let's say some might have been muslim some might be new muslim but they start to take religion seriously all of a sudden

and they have a very kind of ocd personality and then they zero in on this fear and so what happens is they get really obsessive and their life becomes like they get really things become highly disruptive so there's actually a category now you'll find it in i believe the dsm as well for um kind of psychological is called religious ocd it's like a separate ocd so what happens these people become debilitated like they think oh my god i come in to say oh no oh my god i never

did this properly you know i'm gonna get i'm gonna get punished now i'm gonna get punished i put it i better do it again i better do it again otherwise otherwise i'm going to burn in hell i'm going to burn in hell and and they they leave this very in fact i work with some some you know some clients who i do my one-to-one prospective sessions through patreon with some who are unfortunately they've suffered that and you see how their lives have been turned upside down i mean they almost they're kind of combating it and coming out of it now but but their lives had been turned upside down it was because they

you see once it creeps in and it locks because it's this thing like like let's say i say well okay if you don't pray you're gonna burn in hell okay okay but i'm praying but okay uh my prayer i don't think i think i missed a part so okay this prayer is invalid therefore i'm still gonna burn in hell okay so i need to redo the prayer uh i did the uh oh i'm gonna burn in hell you know if i do this i'm gonna see everything becomes that they they can't even they they can't escape the grip it kind of really locks in on them and it suffocates them

and their whole religion the whole thing their life is unfortunately um somebody just said um i believe the term is uh scrupulosity sure scrupulosity but this thing in general you'll see that their whole lives become a like a misery like they are so you know these poor people they're trying to they're actually doing good things but they're just so overwhelmed by this anxiety of like like oh my god you know if i just have

to make it out of this world uh you know so i don't and that to me is not at all what islam came for to make your life like that and that is not by the way how the prophet lived and i get it that the that these people are actually trying to do a lot of good things but they but it's it's kind of they're doing but it's it's kind of caught them the wrong way though it's like it's it's made them very miserable people i had a person say to me honestly this is he said to me that an and in the most sincerest of

ways he that he resented and that he'd ever embraced islam because this is what it like his life before was was fine like now it turned into this this un never ending series this chain of just anxiousness of god is gonna punish like this isn't right that isn't right that isn't oh my god and he wasn't like that before so this is why i do always encourage especially in this part of the world

uh where people live where they already have enough rules in life i do feel that and in our age that the message generally for a lot especially a lot of people i encounter it should be always about love it should always be about hope it should always be about positivity that we already have enough rules and usually these people coming already have that i engage with usually already have a reasonable uh grasp of ethics so it's not you know they're not out there doing cruel things and doing that kind of stuff so yeah that's my take on it man but may allah make it

easy well thank you so much thank you so much to you i'm not gonna hold you anymore thank you so much thanks for doing this i really appreciate what you do and you're a legend um thank you so much oh man thank you man i love you too much shukran people right mb right there from san francisco much appreciated honestly these kind words of yours make my day sometimes

you know it's amazing how we live in the minds and hearts of others it is amazing honestly i guess it's something we will never truly ever get to appreciate [Laughter] guys with that let's wrap this up it's been um very it's been good it's been amazing i love you know we've covered those verses from gratitude ungratefulness right through to the story of uh um we've got and and the kind of the ups and downs and the tragic

uh the tragedy and glory of her life right to learning about the companion abu bakr radhillah and speaking about sunnah and hadith and the different mind states uh of the prophet sallam as explained by karafi and then the guests quite exhausted huh so let's wrap this up people if you've not already clicked like and subscribe do that click the notification bell it's always good i do share videos daily so i put out about two clips it keeps you up to date if you want to uh participate in

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