Monday Nights with Mufti #185 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth

all right what's going down let me just bring up the the youtube chats as well right just do a quick audio check make sure all the sound is within proportionality yes

who's your vote going to for president it's going to me so let me check my facebook me facebook man [Laughter]

so what is going down we've got quite a bit to cover today quite a few questions quite a few um you know some new interesting kind of thought processes going on i want to share that with you guys um it's to do with ibrahim and yeah i just really been thinking doing a bit of research bouncing off some research with a few people and just whoa just kind of all junoon well as they say in arabic so i thought why why not let's share it who else should i share it with i could sit here and just talk to the wall

[Laughter] why not talk with the awesome social media audience that is there so i thought i'd share my craziness right with you guys and other than that yeah i want to discuss this thing about um this thing of you know hmm what what i call a uh a kind of the stage of i don't know cognitive puberty it's like a mental maturation mental

maturity stage and i feel that um it ties into this sometimes uh a kind of depressive bitterness with certain people i thought jello i'll share a few words on that how to be happy basically ah why not why not you know uh which then ties into what i'd like to discuss at the end as well uh about none other than uh our beloved our beloved people [Music]

our beloved so i want to speak a bit about that later on um as you guys probably know there's been um gangutely's back at it basically i'll come back to this but it's to do with uh my discussion on isaac butterfield's joke and then the basically [Laughter]

like hell have i but still i thought yep i gotta discuss that and uh and all these these haters who come immediately out of the woodworks uh so why not why not people why not so but other than that i'll be taking your questions as well yeah let me start off with a cold drink you know [Laughter]

you know i had done toba from drinking as the poet says it's just that i took a look at the stormy clouds and and my my intention my good intention said ah what the hell [Laughter] it happens it happens people this stuff happens so what are we taking a look at did i bring up any let me see um yeah but regards to mom maybe i don't know what that is just goes crazy out of character i go out of character

yeah i tell people look i tell people this is uh this is a craziness why not our sanity is overrated in this world so what was there was there any uh no i don't think i'd brought up any let's get straight into oh those of you that haven't uh caught up with the latest mind trap bring that up for you guys and that was with ustad ismail shafi we discussed it was quite an interesting discussion i mean it was different it's not so much uh like the the other kind of it was more to do with

uh sometimes uh to do with the tabliki jamaat the phenomenon of the tabliki jamaat the rift that's been caused community perspectives um we spoke on teen doesn't have to be teenagers but young people in their problems are different of perspectives on that we spoke about palestine and the the thing you know any potential treaties or solutions and to to palestine so yeah and let me just begin people in fact let's begin with some shairi as always huh

poetry why not people whilst the rest of you are tuning in clicking like clicking share [Music] allah allah love for you people the legend [Music] hi

[Music] thanks for your advice now we'll be on our way [Music] [Music]

[Music] [Music] you know john ilia who i feel was a saint of our recent times somebody who many people won't be able to perhaps fathom perhaps at times he appears an atheist [Laughter] but uh the depth of understanding that he had

you see this is it people you know something people misjudge these poets you know they um we're so quick to cast judgment on them you know people will look at ghalib they will look at me at times they will look at all these you know mom and khan moment they will look at dog look at and they will say you know these people corrupt alcohol

women you know questioning sometimes the the god and what you know the works or religion questioning religion and people judge them sorry was this was i going somewhere with this i'm talking i'm joking no you see people you know what it is it's our perspective you know it's it's interesting i was listening to this uh person give an explanation of and khalib has a famous

poem where he says that um is a place of ruin but it's it was used often from the arabic term but it was used often like that as a place to drink out where people they were just left and they drank alcohol and um it was like the kind of bar but like a ghetto bar

bar and pub to be set up in the shade of the masjid so yeah you know yeah people could cliff okay you know so people are like look at this coffee or cafe you know kafir cafe cafe you know this casting judgment on him but you know what if you looked at it the other way that you see everybody's so easy to say um

everybody's so easy to cast judgment to say well you know this look oh my god he wants to corrupt the masjid but the way this person was explaining it that if you look at it from the other perspective what he's saying is that okay i drink but you know from there i want to go to the house of god like is god not my god as well that should i not you know can they not be a house of god close to me you know is is god exclusive just for

the mullah or do i not have is he not my god as well you know so it's so beautiful when you look at it from the other perspective you're looking at it from this oh my god he wants this close to the masjid he's looking at it from the perspective okay i'm going to be here but i want to go to the masjid as well like not for the sake of the the the clergy but i want to go to worship god as well see everything comes down to how you look at things your perspective but it's just there's a a line that meer has where he

says that from this drinking place mecca meer has now arrived at the [Laughter]

an impropriety where you do something out of place you do something wrong that's wrong for the the the situation you're in or the the kind of atmosphere the environment an impo improbable impropriety ah wait let me have a sip so mir says that masjid may have been that he's come from there to here that be careful that we don't want to kind of act wrongfully

nobody as it not him but other people and him as well we shouldn't act wrongfully that this masjid is the gathering of those who are lost [Laughter] meaning the religious crowd are a toxic crowd that's what he's trying to say but yeah let's uh on that joyful note let's now come to some of your questions right now what's going on with the whole presidency yeah i

don't know it's crazy donald trump hmm you know i i feel in some weird way that he's probably going to get reelected anyway but yeah i mean i don't it's a shame but it just goes to show the day and age we live in yeah let me just bring the comments um all right what do you think about chef whoa all these questions guys stop

spamming with the questions right so yeah i don't know what uh what will come of the elections but i unfortunately feel and fear that it will be um it will be donald trump right so khalib nur says is something morally good because god commands it or does god command it because it is morally good i think what you meant to say was or is it oh no sorry you did say it right you said it right it's something morally

good because god commands it or does god command it because it is morally good oh euthyphro's the dilemma of euthyphro huh this takes us back to socrates and plato plato writing about socrates that euthyphro was at the steps of the court law courts law courts right so

and he was taking his own dad to court why for impiety [Laughter] you know as these neo mullahs this kind of neo mullah piety he was taking his own dad to court for not being a muttaq enough for not having taqwa this is i'm not making this up this is actually euthyphro the the dilemma so here he encounters socrates and they have this discussion which gives rise to this

dilemma that is this philosophical question that does god command something does god uh it's also in theology this is referred to as the divine commandment theory you think this is just mufti sitting here talking about khalip and john ilia i'm talking about theology people philosophical theology right so the divine commandment theory is that does god command x because it is good or does x

become good only because god commands it so the asha's they go to the fact that there is no there are no morals in this world objectively they only exist because god commands them you know this is really quite dumb and absurd really if i say dumb people get upset you know upset you know this one this our these people that you know these people temperamental

and then they're gonna say oh look the the jolly the the jewelry suddenly the girl with a small d all i so right so the thing is that people will get upset but it's absurd it is absurd to say that there's no there are no rights and wrongs like we

don't understand what's right and wrong we only know it because god has said it you know look that's absurd now the maturity and you know with uh and and really imam abu hanifa as well but the hanafiya do a disservice to the imam you know wallahi

it hurts to see the legend of an imam abu hanifah and the followers he ended up with their betrayal of his was much was no less than what judas did to jesus honestly they really betrayed him [Laughter] so this is you see they really betrayed him they ditch his opinions in almost 50 percent of the madhub

they they try to make him conform to latter-day institutionalizations they reject his free thinking they kind of turn a blind eye to his critical uh insights his critical thought-provoking analysis or his um critical thinking they dumb it down but yeah it's an ultimate betrayal ultimate but yeah this is why i was never really fond of the hanafi's to be honest i love imam abu hanifa he was a legend a legend of a man honestly he

may allah have mercy on him his insight far exceeded his day and age by a millennia you know but by millennia sorry that but you he was so ahead of his day and age but yeah he unfortunately his madhab was nothing short of islamic rabbis but yeah so anyway coming back to but he

had noticed this so he had taught that right and wrong is in this world we as humans have a morality that we can kind of pick up on but uh and that's what i would say i would argue in line with what imam abu hanifah was saying as well that look human beings allah has created us with a fitrah which the quran teaches that that that is that he had created us with this kind of

with this instinct okay now he has where we have a base instinct like language i associate it with the language instinct so we have a very base rule um kind of um this this compass which we build upon based on our social um atmosphere environment and then i also feel what adds to it uh as a hyperstructure is so this is here but what adds to it at a 3d level is social

collective consciousness so i feel that the like in the hadith that there is a collective of consciousness have a kind of um that the souls i refer to as consciousness it is connected at some level it may be a very low level but that gives there's a sense of feedback like there's a as a feel you know like a zeitgeist that this kind of like uh the zeitgeist kind of feeling of the age that we know that certain things to be right and wrong without having been taught them so yeah

that's my impressions of that let's move on people is the fitra corruptable that this you see islam invented secularism hmm right so yeah i guess the fitra is corruptable anything is but i don't know if corruptable is the right word but what we mean by that is that what you are

what you build upon it you can kind of stretch it and take it in directions that are maybe and then sometimes some people are warped as well you do get twisted people psychopaths serial killers stuff like that so yeah mufti abu leith what do you think about sheikh saleh al falzan what is your view on him the man hajj right okay the fitra is bestowed upon us by allah therefore one can conclude that morality is decreed by allah

you see if you mean does allah decree morality in the sense that allah created the whole cosmos and therefore anything that happens ultimately is a doing of god then by that understanding of course you know it's ultimately but allah sets forces in nature at play he creates within us this understanding of instincts it's like saying our language is given to you by god our language is given to you by god so

now i would feel that there was a it is a divine um gift from god that we as humans have language language with a capital l [Laughter] capital l [Laughter] right so so i feel that language with a capital l is a divine gift but it's absurd to say that god has given you your language that english is now given to you by allah that's just dumb so it's the same thing with morality with fitra it is something it is an instinct which

language is an instinct so in this understanding that i'm saying that language is an instinct as many psychologists do say as well right so what is going on is it shirk to leave islam and is it ever possible to come back to islam of course islam welcomes everyone um islam isn't the property or the monopoly

of any individual sect or denomination god is not the property or monopoly of any faith right a lie is above faith allah is above institutions he's above the clergy he's above these mullahs and priests and you see the is god that you are speaking about and islam always has its arms wide open for anyone who wishes to come this way you know so

but people feel that you know this dean is somehow the dad's dean [Laughter] you know they do they genuinely feel that this is i'll speak a little later on somebody sent me a link of this since this uh uh baba fareed gangutili had made the whatever the this tweet um sent me a link to asim qureshi and i know i've spoken about him in the past and i will speak in the later on in the masala segment but yeah but this thing of oh making this comment that he feels

so sad that these books of islam behind me on these shelves are so close to me come on you come and read them oh i forgot you don't know how to read arabic to you these extreme this is the thing and they they feel you know what it is not just him but people in general they feel that islam is their dad's deen that they somehow have some monopoly over it this is islam is as much as as much

mine as it is yours as it is anybody else's doesn't there is no authoritative clergy in islam and yes like it or hate it unlike many of these people i am qualified in islam that really burns people though i clearly outrank them they can call me whatever they want they can call me uh you know lost corrupt whatever i never claim to be pious but i clearly

they pull out the id i outrank them so speaking of hierarchy stay in your lane man this one not your lane this one for the big boys you know those who have actually studied islam [Laughter] i love it i love it you know something i have to say it is the greatest thing greatest blessing of my life has been that allah enabled me to study this deen and then

empowered me to navigate through it independently and granted upon me allah the ability to have the status of a mufti that i tell you it because these people had have i been at the mercy of these kind of people they would have crippled my they would have crippled me they would have chucked me out of this theme like they would thousands hundreds and thousands of others they would have made me hate islam they would have made me hate allah and his messenger

allah threw me a rope long before these fools could make their way honestly it is a great joy i must say in this world this has been one of the greatest joys that i continuously experience [Laughter] could the people of this life just be the souls of another existence who entered hell look check this out people the the question could the people of this life just be the souls of another existence who entered hell

so god granted them another chance to enter heaven would that explain where god gathered our souls from the covenant you know this is the the same thing that we suddenly we get thrusted into such deep philosophical questions that's

definitely interesting you know there are many there are theories within the wider islamic discourse what you're speaking of is reincarnation but not reincarnation as the other religions have it but what you're saying is that it's the same soul but it's coming back in a different body but it's the same kind of personality but it may not remember um it's being given another chance could there in the greater islamic discourse so you have the

mainstream discourse uh the asha era the maturity the uh the general kind of discourse you have but in the wider discourse like if you go towards the more out there the fringe kind of discourse but within islam i mean within islam there have been actually people who have argued that there is that this is possible within islam and they've actually said that the quran argues it it's really surprising if you read this stuff they argue they give references like where verses of the quran where allah says

that he um where allah says and you gave us two deaths and there's another one where he brought you to where he brought you to life granted you death brought you to life crunch your death these things men are mentioned uh repeatedly they have um what other verses do they have they have quite a few verses actually which i remember a while back reading them and i was quite intrigued when i read them i thought that is interesting that their argument although that isn't the mainstream

understanding of islam but their arguments through these verses do seem to you know it's not that the verses they i could see that they could mean that but obviously the main generally speaking people don't understand that from it another verse that they use is the covenant one that when allah took the um the oath from you that this was a previous um dwelling that a person

um had just trying to think of certain verses then but uh i'll i'll look back into it and i'll quote it on some occasion or what i'll try to do is maybe i can um i can if i find anybody a bit more educated on that discourse it would be great to have a mind trap with them right somebody said bruce dick [ __ ]

what kind of uh okay all right somebody said mufti never talks about average i talk about our ibn roost on many occasions i've spoken about him about my understanding of the afterlife i've spoken about narush on the concept of consciousness being the ruler i've spoken about ibn rush as being the legend that he was on many occasions i've quoted him in ferc i've quoted his opinions i've quoted i don't know what you're saying that i don't you just not been watching my monday nights with mufti i guess

yes somebody said they also quote the verse they quote that as well they quote yes that's one of the verses they quote they quote others as well about you gave us two deaths and uh there's there's quite a few verses actually you know when they do quote them you one can think um okay i see what you're saying about these verses it's not that belief to be honest with you the belief isn't kufar i don't think it's kufar it's just

um you know very unorthodox that's all but it's not because they're not in my understanding obviously i've got to examine closer what they believe they're not saying anything that crucially anti-the beliefs of islam what they're simply saying is the could it dwell in more than one body that's the question they're not denying the rule they're saying the rule is real that is accountable to allah but could it have more than one dwelling that's the question and they say that well when we look at these verses and they list so many they

say that well it does seem to they don't say so this they say does state that you have more than one dwelling on earth now those verses okay to be fair do kind of suggest that although the mainstream muslims would interpret those verses not on their apparent so they would give it a different meaning in saying uh you know like so for example

that uh when allah did we you know we know did we fall short when we created you the first time so they're gonna say well the first time meant uh when god created your spirits uh and even mainstream muslims don't know where that is like they'll just then make up they'll just say well there was a world called the world of spirits so if they're asked that where is this world like they wouldn't know either they'll just be like you know but maybe there was some world before so they seem to argue so it's not everybody uses the same verses of the quran

they just have a different take on it yeah right okay but it is different from things like uh hindu reincarnation or buddhist reincarnation i think with buddhist uh reincarnate reincarnation it's completely detached like there is never a connection between the soul and the and the only way you can escape this and attain nirvana is through uh meditation and all this kind of stuff and in hinduism although it's attached but you have up to seven

uh cycles or the samsara and and it's to do with karma in hinduism so if you were a bad person you were then reincarnated in a suffering lifestyle but these people these kind of uh muslims that held these views on the soul having more than one dwelling uh this kind of reincarnation kind of it wasn't like it had nothing to do with karma and stuff like that and it wasn't that everybody had it it wasn't a must either they were just saying that it's the plausibility of it well i think they were believing it's not plausible it is does happen

but it probably happens with only some and not it's not a must that's what i understood i'll have to revisit the material um all right let's move on right okay i think i missed a super chat you're doing it rock black can you scroll up please let me scroll up uh uh right there is rock black message deleted

and it got deleted let me check here it might actually say on this script right there one moment i have more than one way of checking there you go let me just go through here all right just checking if i can see the all right those of you that have started following you're doing it you're doing akeem um say the

okay something i did explain that mufti your thoughts on maulana maududi and his works hamza khalid i'll just get to that the most authentic book on sierra ashiko islam um right i'll just come to that let me just check beloved right i got that one rock black is circumcision based on quran and hadith what is your advice on raising a daughter i am now a father ma rock black ma brook may allah bless you may he bless your daughter may bless your family amen i want to say on that note as well

whilst we why were under lucian's more progressive okay i'll come to that question okay so we've caught up with the super chats guys much love there was i wanted to uh give a shout out i had a message from altaf karim you're doing it you're doing it much love um and he his son zane who is uh suffering from some disabilities may allah bless him may allah keep him forever happy and keep their family happy i mean anybody who's struggling or suffering or facing any such challenges

in this world may allah make things easy for them i mean but much love to all of you right so right now the questions were um right about first of all islam authentic books on syria unfortunately there are no authentic books on seerah which is a shame really which is a huge tragedy honestly it is one of the tragedies of islam that the muslims didn't really

compile an authentic seerah of the prophet now we do have obviously a an understanding of the life of the prophet but i would advise you that read whatever you want um i mean i take it you want in english something to read i think that martin i think martin ling's book is is pretty good i think from what i've heard about it um there have been one or two others as well that were recommended all right they've slipped my mind now but i have mentioned them on some of the mind traps now what i was going to say is that when

you read these things to do with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam keep in mind people let me tell you something if you come across anything that is suspect and especially if it sounds like a cultural thing that would facilitate things for certain people know that it is that it is an addition that has been placed there to facilitate some things for the clergy i'm serious when i say this when you see

certain people trying to say oh the prophet behaved in a certain way towards jewish people or towards christians this is not from the general seerah because you will have a general seerah you will have the quran you will have these things the life of the prophet now you can kind of piece together a picture but if you find anomalies like people trying to say that he married a little child this does not fit in with the with the character of the prophet sallam all that day and age oh don't listen you know this is nonsense as well that oh in that day and age it was okay it wasn't where were these other

children then that they were marrying who who else had married a child so this do not buy into this pallava when they say things like oh and the prophet forcefully took slave girls this is just because people wanted to do this later on and they facilitated certain hadith they allowed them they allowed this tradition sometimes they just kind of got stuck with it sometimes they they wanted it because it was politically in their favor and there were other occasions where they maybe weren't in its like you know maybe they wouldn't have

advocated for it but because they sec there was so much there was so much politics involved in that book like bukhari now because people put bukhari above the quran in the real world even though they won't say we do but in real in practice they do so bukhari is either above the quran or is it is on a level with the quran to to these especially to these wahhabis right now to these people they sometimes they may not be interested in that particular hadith but they're stuck because they have to promote the book they get stuck so now they say well so then they just

justify the action so there's a a ridiculous hadith in there that the prophet tries to wrongfully touch a woman now they will just go so what well that is them and their sectarianism be weary of it so when you see these kind of little stories to use your common sense that's what i would say okay um yeah and it's true they fabricated so many hadith to facilitate things to empower certain kings to to do stuff like and they used to do this all the time i'm not saying all haditha fabricate

they're not but you can tell usually you know if a trained eye can see now somebody may say well mufti if a trained eye can see nobody else who's trained i would say that's not true they are trained but then they are conditioned to not pick up on these things you see they're trained but then their critical faculties are dumbed down because of sectarianism they're not allowed to question so somebody had asked me a moment ago

uh what do you think of salih al-fawzan sheikh saleh fausan now obviously he's a sheikh you know i'm not denying that he's a he's not a shaykh but he's a you know he's a raving mad wahabi you know at the end of the day these people are bad news like okay i'm not saying he is a horrible person he may be a nice person but the teachings that they push are teachings of hatred or teachings of division the teachings of um you know even towards the prophet like the side of the this picture they painted the prophet and push it it's one of killing people one of just to facilitate

their things you know so this is it because muhammad ibn abdul wahab and the great grandfather [Laughter] you know not he's not the actual grandfather but the you know the great great he's the he's the one the founder of the movement because he began his movement on bloodshed and they they praise him you know they they highly praise but i'll come back to this in my masala segment but yeah let's go to some of the questions the super chat the question on circumcision circumcision is introduced through ibrahim al-islam

and it's not in the quran and it is not um it's not clearly in the sunnah it is in the sunnah there as in the arabs practice it and it is mentioned as part of the fitra now what does that mean as part of the fitrah so um it would be understood that this is seen as a natural thing to be fit me as a person i do advocate for circumcision obviously this is for males

definitely not for females but i do advocate for circumcision um just the health reasons on on those grounds and the fact that okay it is an identity uh aspect or it's become an identity aspect of muslims so i would advocate for it on that ground if we're just to speak on the basis of the quran then there's nothing in the quran that speaks of circumcision or anything like this now this we know that abraham it begins with ibrahim now i feel that the um you see it's definitely inherited ironically

this is now going to come as a bit of a shock it's inherited from the pharaohs this practice was actually the oldest human civilization to practice uh circumcision were the pharaohs it's not uh it's an egyptian ancient a practice which is documented with the ancient egyptians in the hieroglyphics so it's known that they did and they did it because they thought it was um a cure for something but it wasn't actually linked to what they thought but it became a practice that they had now it's only when ibrahim al-islam comes back from

egypt that he then practices circumcision and so this is where it begins so it's definitely inspired by the uh the kind of pharaoh kingdoms and the legacy of the pharaohs and the egyptian heritage but it becomes then with ibrahim al-islam part of the the millah ibrahim so people from him forward also practice that so you would have had the judaic tradition you would have um jesus would have been circumcised and

you would have had from the ishmaelites from ismail the prophet muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam and the arabs for the most part were circumcised they used to also practice circumcision so i i do advocate for it based on its health reasons based on the fact that it is has a connection with this whole this kind of heritage and it is today an identity thing for muslims yeah but it's not something that is so clearly expressed in the quran no sorry it's not in the quran at all but not clearly expressed in the sunnah

it is mentioned but more so as an act of fitra as in seen as a natural thing to do but but people do today see like in urdu they will say musalmani they call it musalmani like to become a muslim it's like that foreskin is the piece of kuffar [Laughter] musa this so this this thing of making somebody into a muslim in urdu in pakistan or india they they this is what it is circumcision so

um and another word for interestingly enough as well in our language we they use a sunnat quite widespread they say sunatkarna and this is another one in urdu that is used as well so that's fascinating right um this uh super chat here mufti have you read the way of the superior man i have i think as an audiobook is that the if if i recall correctly yes i have

right missed no i forgot your why were the andalucians more progressive than others well i think the andalusians they lived in a a very multicultural atmosphere plus because they were cut off from the rest of the politics they had their own politics don't get me wrong but they were cut off from the the far east and the middle east so it allowed them to kind of because they were part of the european continent

so a lot of them for example spoke latin a lot of the it's interesting actually in um in sheikh al-hushani's um right in there he's while he's um i've he's speaking about a particular family of in kurtoba cordova and he's whilst praising them he says

that oh yes there are a family of you know these great scholars and dedicated to fair and all this and then he says that you know and he says the siblings are all scholars and judges and the father was and blah blah blah but then he mentions an interesting point he says oh it and it's it's he says it's quite fascinating that they only spoke arabic like they didn't speak latin and things like this it's interesting you see like because you wouldn't know that now until you read these things you realize that so the fact that he found the ajib he says that this is like an

like an ajib thing that wow that it's like saying you know people if you said here oh my god like they struggle with english but they're born and raised in england you'd find it so in that way he's doing ta'ajub from this that wow you know and the fact that they only speak arabic it's quite you know it's it's interesting um and and i found that like wow that's an amazing insight that he's kind of collected for us

you're doing it with the super chat much love salam mufti on the latest rogan podcast with graham hancock they present evidence that show psychedelics played a big role in ancient greece and christianity do you feel that they had any role in islam i've spoken about this on many occasions i feel that we as um muslims for the most part have really missed out on this and it's unfortunate because it's not necessarily something we need to miss out on but what's happened is the clergy have kind of you see in islam

islam in some ways has a very the way institutionalized islam the way it's been kind of once it became institutionalized within a couple of centuries after the prophet maybe definitely by about 400 years after the prophet it really became a religion of legalisms of and what is halal and haram and this is what people became obsessed with and the jurists are that's what they are you know they are like these people the that you will you know the kind of like

the pharisees and the these kind of rabbis that are just obsessed with little uh do's and don'ts lists and they moved away from that thing of consciousness and experiences but what did happen is that then gave rise to a these people who were known as the kind of proto-sufis the early sufis these people and they i feel definitely i definitely feel that they experience psychedelics and they would have um people like ibn audubi i'm i

definitely feel that even ought to be uh experienced psychedelics as would have many of the you know people like junaid and these other great um you know sadly people who walk this path and this is before the subwoofer becomes really initiated before sufism becomes a thing so what happens is later on you start getting these orders within sufism becomes a thing it becomes and then it just becomes the very monster that it was trying to

fight because sufism is no different today it is just institutionalized cults that just are all about the kind of the you know the particular saint that they follow and it's all about him and it's all about this kind of cultish behavior and do's and don'ts and um it's not about consciousness anymore you know even though there are some you know they'll say do this thicker every day say ya thief hundred times a day say this ever you know but that's the thing you see if you have to be told what to do

then it's you know to ask the very problem now this is this is not that journey yes hmm it's like it's like trying to compel people to be critical think like trying to what you're doing is dogmatizing critical thought as an example it defeats the purpose the whole purpose of this experiential um

transcendence was not this um institutionalization that's what they so hence these great people like bulesha that you get or rumi jalaluddin rumi or these people uh hafiz and all these they are free of this kind of sufism this uh what you have today like these naks and chishtis and kadharis and these orders shazilis and these orders are just just institutions and that is the problem that man is born free

yet everywhere he is in chains we need to rid ourselves of these chains people this this is not just shackle ourselves with more just because they carry a label liberty oh you're gullible have this you want liberty oh that's another chain you want freedom that's spirituality that's another chain that's not how these these things work but yeah

mufti is it true that a father owns everything belonging to his son according to some hadith right now okay so there is the hadith these things are not clear-cut laws in islam like that that's not the case in that particular way okay so for example let's say let's say a child inherited something specifically let's say a grandfather or an uncle or somebody gave something to a particular child

just be quifty as part of the inhere part of their will to a child that does not mean it belongs to the father the father would just be responsible to to watch over until the child becomes an adult so these things are not to be taken as like muth-luck unrestricted laws they're not they are what is known as the urfulada okay so customarily speaking yes a child the parent really has the greater ownership that's that kind of makes sense like let's say if you're

you buy your six-year-old something now they're gonna have it at home but ultimately you know it is your yes you've bought it for them it's your kind of thing because where does a child get an income from so this is how it generally works but it's not necessarily like that it doesn't mean that they can it's like let's say there was let's say there was a method where a child was gaining a certain amount of income uh the parents should not be abusing that but obviously as their parents if they needed and they were taking care of the child and they needed that what i would say is these things these

are matters that need to be returned to the convention and custom of a time they are not let's cut you know laid out in stone um alright what's salaam mufti your thoughts on why did jacob say right okay let's speak a bit on this whole um i did want to mention this whole thing about ibrahim

now this may tie in with what some of you are with what some of you are asking now i've been really looking into all of this uh this whole thing of ibrahim alaihissalam it's really been quite fascinating i'm just seeing if there were any this is ongoing research but i'm really kind of inclined this way that you see i feel

that ibrahim alaihissalam because i've been thinking this whole thing ibrahim alaihissalam going to the the palace of the pharaohs and um this whole thing what is this all about and i feel that in some way this was like a meetings of two great worlds okay because in that day and age the pharaohs were this long continuous

incredibly rich legacy of human civilization they had been going on for thousands of years you know this was what they and they obviously claimed to have been going on for much longer but with with these philosophies and buildings and they were really seen as something they had rulers that had you know pharaohs who had ruled a huge part of the world they had a history of all of these so now or a substantial area that's what i mean so abraham ibrahim

i feel right now i have to pause this here his what there's a question mark you see ibrahim alaihissalam goes in and he meets the pharaoh now the question here is how does ibrahim alaihissalam get to meet a pharaoh you know a wandra who comes in from the the canaanite deserts and he comes across and he gets face time with a pharaoh so this is in the bible in genesis that he goes and he meets the pharaoh and then not only that obviously the pharaoh

marries his wife but then the pharaoh uh gives him a gift he gives him gifts and you know he's like very generous with him with abraham now the question is that even the regular egyptians could not get face time with the pharaoh if you're an egyptian and you said i want to go meet the pharaoh they'll be like [Laughter]

so the question how does a wanderer that's coming through a desert get facetime the pharaoh and you know this thing oh he was so intrigued to marry sarai this is why ah come on does that really add up this guy pharaoh who has a kingdom can has countless women women are not a problem like he can have any woman he wants he's all of a sudden so obsessed with some stranger woman that he's never met like really like this does this add up to the critical mind now to answer that question

we need to go back to the origin of abraham now i've been thinking you see in the bible it mentions that abraham his family were from the ur of keldes okay the chaldean these people they they were from like the but it mentions that their origins were from the east now i've said this before a while back on my mind i'm sorry on my monday nights but i've been looking into it a lot more recently i feel that ibrahim alaihissalam

was from the indus valley civilization as in his peer his ancestors or his parents would have been from there whether he may have also been there as a young person right now the indus valley civilization are some of the oldest civilizations known to man okay they they found certain things that they've when they've dated go back to potentially eight or maybe even 9 000 years ago those civilizations may have been some of the most

advanced civilizations they had some form of accounting they had a script which still hasn't been deciphered they ruled without kings they that which is amazing they did apparently had no standing army that which goes to show a civilization along the indus river the sarasvati river the great uh river of of india in the past which dries up about 1900 years and 1900 bc so after that and it had thousands of

settlements around the river including the great settlements of mahanjodaro and harappa and uh you know you've got rakigiri and all these different uh great settlements but it had loads of smaller settlements as well now these people disperse and i would feel that it may have been that ibrahim may have been from a priestly background it's very likely this is speculation but i'm inclined towards it because in the bible

it mentions that his wife who he marries is a priestess now why am i saying this well you see it's interesting that even the examples that are given in the quran of when ibrahim alaihissalam questions his people he questions them about the celestial bodies the sun the moon a certain star and it disappearing now is not you know how can these things be deities and it makes sense that

you see the indus valley civilization it's much later it's around after as the civilization is dissipating that statues are introduced they weren't otherwise previously they have no uh statues of gods and things like this now one thing that the priestly class would know is astronomy and their version of astrology like all these stars it's something that the indians have been so deeply into

now who else was so obsessed with this kind of astrological astronomy it was the egyptians now it would make sense if abraham was from a priestly background and he had great knowledge of the stars because it mentions one sarai was already a priestess when they go to egypt this is what gives him face time with the pharaoh because the pharaohs are obsessed with with the whole astronomical

layout and their pyramids are built in line with that they ever and you see and i'll just actually i did have some quotes actually if i have some here it's interesting by the way that aristotle who's before jesus when he writes of the jewish people who are the descendants of abraham he says that the origin was with the indian people and there was uh megasthanis who was sent to india 300 years bc before christ who says who writes of the that this

is where he he claims that the jewish origins the jewish being going back to isaac and abraham come from and this is 300 years before jesus they write this the magi people trace their books to ibrahim they have a certain tradition called kesh this they claim comes to them from ibrahim and it was the jesuit missionaries who when they went to india initially noticed this the name of brahma and sarai his consort in hinduism correlating with the english names

abraham and sarai or first abraham in the bible is called abram and then he the lord asks him to change his name to abraham or which and sarai to sarah so and i'm not saying that abraham was the god brahma but what i'm saying is those names would have then inspired people to have similar kind of names so

right so this and also what's interesting is volte the great philosopher he wrote how abraham was had descended from a brahmin priestly class um so these were some of these interesting notes how people had said even the uh of of counties of the chaldean people they said some people had speculated the cal dean or what they said uh the chaodian was called dev and it was from some hindu

um origin as in the people of these because er was on the road to india by the way so through persia if you're going to india that would have been the road so anyway the the reason i mentioned this is because you see what if hajjar who is then given to abraham as a gift you see many people had said hajjar was a slave because maybe to the outsiders who didn't know her this is what they assumed her to be

but what if she was actually a priestess as some people had claimed she was an equally ranking priestess of the egyptian order that was given to ibrahim because he was of this background somebody who had great knowledge of the stars because when they go to makkah you see where they build the kaaba now this is where i'm trying to um you know this is interesting what is one of the greatest stars that appears on the horizon in the south is canopus

now canopus is who the according to the egyptian legacy it is what the the pyramids were also built in uh they they sorry they're not built in line with canopus but they are also uh they have some association because cannabis is interpreted to be the greatest pharaoh in i mean part of their heritage is osiris who have spoken about previously uh maybe usaid in the quran osiris is who they feel is the star canopus as in he's gone up and that's him so canopus in the southern hemisphere is

considered to be osiris now that's like which is the second most brightest star in the southern hemisphere is osiris okay now canopus let me just bring this here that you can see there in the southern hemisphere this star if i just bring this up right is what in arabic is called sahil and it is the

the star that the kaaba the wall of the kaaba is aligned to on the horizon when it's built so it's interesting that this star by the way is what in the in the ancient indian literature was the southern pole star so in ancient hindu kind of the priestly astronomy and astrological astronomy they spoke of two polar stars two pole stars you've got the north pole star which today's polaris but before it was subban and others now and they spoke of a south pole star a

southern pole star they called them druva but the south pole star what was it about 2 000 i believe just slightly over 2 000 years ago it would have been augustia and agustia is canopus it is sohail it is osiris it is this exactly this same star which was seen as one of the most powerful stars on the southern horizon now i i don't feel that these things are all entirely coincidental i feel that the knowledge of these things are connected as in it doesn't mean that those stars have to

be um you know like they don't bring things like good luck or bad luck or anything like this but they are seen as obviously to people of faith they would be seen as something representing the divine you understand so when the kaaba is built a partic it is angled towards sohail because on the horizon sahil appears after sunset you would see it in that direction right you would see this on the southern horizon it would be the brightest star on that horizon and so this equally in those cultures bears some

significance and i feel that ibrahim alaihissalam knowing this kind of stuff is what allowed him to connect with those pharaohs and have that face time with them for them to treat him well it kind of makes a lot of sense as opposed to him just wandering as a kind of bedouin in the desert and then getting facetime and then i feel the story is the same but there's just more nuances to it like harjit wasn't just some slave girl she may have been a priestess of of their order ibrahim al-islam wasn't just some person

just like this who just had you know wisdom of one god but he was actually somebody who was incredibly learned about things like astrology and the stars and the celestial bodies and and he knew this kind of stuff he was much more learned than people think he was and he may have been much more involved with different civilizations so this became a great meeting a grand meeting of west meets east and hence allah says that in the ibrahim that he was a nation in and of

himself that he kind of brings these civilizations to almost a point of amalgamation in some ways and you see even this this thing of after he then has this great meeting he is then he then circumcises takes on some of their customs of like circumcision and stuff like this but this is some food for thought if anybody is does out there watches this that is researching this uh do kind of hit me up insha'allah and let's um let's kind of share thoughts on it sorry about going on but it's just it

really i've been fascinated by it and this uh what i was sharing with you i don't know if you guys can see this there but you'll see this isn't a description from i believe it's an ancient book um you've got uh by al-farisi one of the early astronomers when muslims were still speaking about the kaaba before the medieval time when they started to speak about mathematically how to know where the cabba is initially they spoke about it to do with nature how do you find the direction you find the direction through the winds

and you find it through the stars this is before they got very oh you need the astrologe when you need this and you need that at this time so if you read this extract as well i don't know if it's in this um yeah so you can see here that look it mentions that the first of the winds is the sabha this is the muslim author al-farisi writing that which is easterly of the kaaba and he mentions facing the wall between the black stone and the and the southern corner and it blows from between in the summer time sunrise and the rising point of canopus

of sahel which is also osiris in the uh egyptian for uh pharonic kind of legacy and it's augustia in the hindu uh legacy so the second is the journey which should be the januzari yeah which is southerly and it blows from the rising and he goes on uh point of canopus to the winterly sunset because this so i i just found this incredibly fascinating this was uh part of uh i believe it was king's essay in in the journal that he speaks

of religious studies where he's speaking about the direction of the qibla and how early muslims used to find the qibla later muslims used to use things like geometrical stuff but the early muslims that are academic speak about things like using the wind and stars because winds come from particular directions now people may argue that that's not as accurate but still it's very fascinating and it's food for thought people all right let's move on i don't know if i was just boring you guys you guys are thinking mufti's losing the plot nothing new there people i've lost it

long time ago but yeah so all right all right what is going on alright all right very interesting hypothesis but i feel that yeah this uh it's if people want to explore it do explore it take it further let me know i'm still researching it i'm reading uploads on it i've been really fascinated by you know this what is called um

it's called they call it like um astral archaeology and it's really fascinating that how you see how do we know certain things in history happen one is through archaeology but another way is that you see when you want to date something you can archaeologically whether it's going to be through carbon dating other kind of genetic dating or stuff like this and what another way is this astro arc archaeological means where you get people describing certain celestial movements and mathematically you back date when those movements happened and something that and i've been reading a lot into this something that the ancient

uh indians had so they had these texts called surya siddhanta and these uh these other uh these kind of texts and there's some lectures on it and they speak of like this south polar star that the south pole star the augustia which is sohail which is canopus but and you see speaking of that when it's in a particular point we can back date and see when that was uh through mathematics and through astronomical mathematics and it's incredibly fascinating because they have it's so precise so you know you the way you have zodiac signs so you've got the general uh cosmos

split into these 12 points the indians they had that but they also had a lunar division called nakshatras so they basically divide they divided them into 27 points and it's interesting when they describe this you can now go back and see when the moon would be at that point with that celestial um kind of organization another interesting thing you can tell so for example the north star today those of you that are into i've been quite getting into astronomy quite a bit i've been getting uh my daughter leila into it as well so it's actually yesterday we were just

out there uh just looking for at certain constellations so we've been really getting into this and we saw uh cassiopeia and it was for the first time she spotted it so we were like oh look there it is and we're trying to find andromeda from this so we've been getting into this recently and i would advise you to it is actually quite very fascinating but my point is that if you at the po the north star today is polaris here so you can from the big dipper you can point out to the you've got the the little or the small dipper and you can see from the little dipper polaris will be there that is the north star

but if you go back a few thousand years it was not polaris it was thuban and if you go back a few more thousand years it was a different so when historically let's say they're speaking of the north star to be thu burn you can astro archaeologically see the date is so many thousand years bc that you can back date it to at that time when this when they're speaking about these events so if they say this event happened this star was here and and that star only was like that at that particular point it gives you some indication of when this timeline was

it's all very fascinating i have to say and there is a the big dipper with the big d [Laughter] peoples let's move on so what is going on people what is going on right now let's take some questions we'll take some questions and then i'll

what is the purpose of astronomy of the astronomy is to understand the celestial bodies the the stars the constellations the you know 88 constellations today generally speaking but then you have the asterisms which are smaller groups of constellations um it is very fascinating if you get into it you know honestly you think you can't but once you start looking at it you think wow [Laughter] it really is i've been really getting into it for uh you know recently and it's quite um

and it's good to i think get your kids into it because to kind of show them certain asterisms let them like layla can now straight away she straight away detects mars like she could see mars is so used to where it is its point in the horizon which part so it will generally be from where we are it will be like um um around southeast that kind of direction she sees that straight away what is it jupiter saturn usually she can detect things like the big dipper obviously everybody can detect that but

pegasus we're learning about pegasus recently i was hoping to be able to see it but it's too cloudy so things like this if you get your kids into it i think it's it's quite fun actually you you'll start enjoying it you'll be like wow and then every look every single person especially in the northern hemisphere that has existed has been looking at these stars that's amazing isn't it but you know you think about it that that if they're in a way looking down and it's like like what we're sharing this the spectacle is with all of humanity that has resided in this

hemisphere amazing it somebody had asked about um ibn rust uh ibna rust traveled you see you can't see you know this we spoke of canopus sahil uh osiris right hindu thing you can't see a canopus from the northern hemisphere it's in the southern hemisphere now what's interesting i know in the indian tradition they write of when you could see it and then it went south which is interesting when they back date and they can tell well oh these traditions must be at least that many thousand years old because you're right canopus was in the

northern tradit hemisphere and kind of went down but anyway ibn rust had to travel all the way to beneath the equator so he went to i think marrakesh or somewhere he had to go into africa and south just to see he was so curious on seeing sohail on seeing canopus the star because he'd obviously read so much about it but he you can't see it in spain but yeah all right let's move on people have you heard of kamal salabi

ashraf azat and claiming events of the old testament from arabia dr ashraf azad is in egyptologist i will check them out shukran for uh letting me know i will definitely i'm interested in this stuff right mufti what's the origin of the term ali sunnah jamaa that's fascinating because

right that's fascinating because um nobody really knows here are people saying your salvation depends on being in atlas and nobody really knows where this term came from [Laughter] i find that amazing honestly that's so amazing that nobody has an idea where this term comes from but yet this is how we will be saved um now obviously he wasn't there in early islam so in the time of imam malik it wasn't

really there people never used to i mean the term sunnah was there but this belief that there is a group called sunnah we are the main it wasn't there so yeah some people argue it comes with it may have that or it definitely comes with the ashadis the asha'aris are the ones who are really sunnah i mean they definitely are as well but i mean they are the ones who uh introduce this term we will call ourselves atlas the wahhabis today that you have the selfies they they weren't called initially they weren't

the the kind of forerunners of ah many people didn't they used to call themselves they never used to call themselves a sunnah they would call themselves hambali we are humbly not either so humbly in akida was a separate school some of them did used to claim we are then the sunnah later on and some were a bit you know um you would get people like is um other people who were you know that they were kind of more open like they weren't like we're all kind of we're different but we're all alison i accept that that this is going

to be if you mean what is the sunni today as opposed to shia it would be all of these are going to fall under that but you know then the so but really speaking it would be the uh those who are of that but this is all institutional institutionalization really the belief of islam is simple they believe in allah you know

this is it really you know these beliefs that is islam these are the things what people put on is all part of the institutionalization process that is so funny that was hilarious that uh you see barbara hari is the salafi great book kitab sunnah by barbari and this whole and it turns out that the person who wrote it what is it

[Laughter] [Laughter] even yasir khadi recently i think he came out and i didn't watch his clip but he he had some clip on the akita of barbari the book and kitab sunnah by barbara i think he also owned up to it it's not real uh it's not authentic but the person who really broke this was bro was bro [ __ ] he kind of broke this news if you like um so you know all fodder little he kind of came out with it first saying

look um i found it very fascinating so i did look into it and i thought i couldn't stop laughing i thought i thought these bachara salafis are going to be heartbroken because this is the book that this is this is the book to salvation and it was written by some guy that in his day and age officially not only was he somebody used to fabricate hadith he like known like he's in the books of hadith as when people will speak on like zahabi and all they will say he was known as the the joel of basra

and this is the first this is the book that is up there that's like you know the number one like next to the quran they would say this is the book and you can just imagine that guy in his grave just going like oh it's hilarious it's hilarious but yeah machadi got done over

ah it's my super chat mufti let's see what was the super chat kapil you're doing it much love for the super chat let me just go through i think i may have missed some have you watched the secrets of babylon youtube video about ibrahim it's about the babylon deities and sheds light on ibrahim's origin no i haven't actually i will watch that or if send me a link to it if you can uh if you're on insta or however you normally

some of you maybe send them on facebook to me or whatever so yep go for it thoughts on ancient sumeria and the anunnaki yeah the ancient civilizations i yes of course i mean i think these things are just you know so wow overwhelming i love that kind of stuff really reading about it and learning about it arami nazim and it's going to tie into what i have to say about this you know when i was uh want to speak about this um cognitive development

stage in life this depressive bitterness avoiding that and stuff like unhappiness uh with the uh archaminid and the sassanid empires having largely been following almost monotheistic zoroastrian creed with them being such a vast empire how have no hints of them being mentioned even intertextually within the quran mention sabians and jews and christians but how can one arguably how can arguably one of the most influential faiths at the time be virtually non-existent in our texts that

is a a very good question rami one may say that rami question [Laughter] right so that is an incredible question that how is it you know you've had the akka archimedes you've had the uh i mean okay one could argue that you know there's the interruption the

seleucid kind of thing but you've had the sassanids um there is this zoroastrian faith how is it being marginalized or just made non-existent very fascinating why i feel in some ways

you see certain messages of the quran are there to because when the quran is being revealed it is primarily for the first community the first recipient community and the quran being revealed is a make or break deal okay for that community as in they are a make or break deal with islam because if they make it islam makes it if they all fail islam will fail it's like the prophet saying at the battle of badr that ya life this if if this community today perishes

islam will forever disappear like this is it this is the final frontier there's nothing beyond us so now you see for for that community the way human beings and they the way human beings prosper in society for certain messages to uh to advance and to prosper it is done through a competitive nature now one may argue you know

is that whether that's unfortunate or not but nature itself only thrives in an atmosphere of competition that's just the way things are it is what it is now islam couldn't be any different because it was within an environment that is trapped by the laws of nature so what that means is that islam was to have an identity but it would

have to have a fa they would have to be barriers of an otherness because to have a concept of the self one must distinguish the self from the other this is like how you know in basic lacanian psychology and other things this whole thing of when the child for example develops the concept of me because the child initially feels that the mother and the me are just one but then sees that there's a separation now in a similar way in in anything for there to be a cell a sense of self you must distinguish

a sense this concept of the other has to be delineated so you couldn't just and like the nature of it you couldn't just say there is no other there would have to be the other and you couldn't make you would have to pick off some sides that you would want to draw a closeness to

and as far as faith went even though arguably there is a connection between zoroastrians and ibrahim alaihissalam i feel that there is i personally feel that there is and hence the prophet did say you see this is the interesting thing the prophet did give that that kind of lifeline that lifeboat he put it there by saying oh by the way the majus the zoroastrians treat them like the people of the book they are that but the quranic discourse aligned the muslims with the people of the book which were mainly

the christians of the byzantine north and the arabian south because islam for it it had it was kind of throwing a lifeline to some allies potentially because for islam to take off it had to be embraced by that civilization which was seen as at that time the the cradle of human civilization i mean this is where every anything that was happening was happening in that middle eastern part of the world and the zoroastrians were kind of dying to death

so it was kind of dying out it wasn't as um now even though they did have a faith aspect to them but you see their faith wasn't as um like the way christianity was to the byzantines things like ahura mazda and the beliefs of uh of ahura mazda and the whole zarathust were not seen in the same way with the assassinate empire like they weren't about converting all their people and putting this they did kind of have this faith themselves but it seemed like

more as a cultural aristocracy as opposed to a religion by all the people so they weren't first if you were christian for example whereas the byzantines would have had a problem hence all the arabs who were affiliates with the byzantines like the rasanids were christian whereas the arabs like the lachmids who were affiliates and protectorates by the sassanids were not zoroastrian many of them were christian ironically so the lifeline that islam or not the lifeline but the the rope to ally that it throws

is to the christians plus it sees them as closer and so it sees it as more realistic as opposed to throwing it to the sassanids because one the empire doesn't seem to see religion in that same way two even if there were some links they don't claim to recognize those links so i feel it was more strategic because the first community were a make or break deal but the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam as he sees you see supplying that kind of lifeboat at the same time and saying

by the way make sure to treat these people like the people of the book like don't be misled by in thinking that they are not and i find that incredibly amazing subhanallah even though many muslims the clergy unfortunately failed to or refused to is a better word recognized that later on they felt that no we're not going to treat them in that way but really these were the words of the prophet sallallahu alaihi

this guy is a joke man not gonna lie any big rooms oh your big um not gonna lie man this look alive man so right if you go back to any time mufti is 25 hell yeah why not it's only my mind that matures with age

let's have some uh you know what let's take some facebook questions as well right so mufti laith is the voice of reason for a maliki little ibn rush jio jio mehdi town right our modern religion is just a continuation of astrology mufti no i would i see i feel that all religions in essence were the same kind of like what i mean is from time immemorial they had that there was

a recognition of the transcendent but this then manifests at different times in different ways so with some people it was a kind of animism some people they kind of took to certain things and maybe associated it with celestial bodies and it's like this thing i was saying about like hinduism like you look at the the tradition how rich it is in astrology yet it's so it's so abysmally sad to see what they've done with superstitions you know this is bad luck that is bad

luck if this happens at this time it's a curse if that happens at this you know oh my god this person is cursed and when he was born now he can't marry her because they were born at this time and it's you know they they took what i feel was a wonderful mathematical art of you know astronomy and then they just draped it all in in superstition and and this is why i said what ibrahim ali salaam says when he looks at the stars and he says oh but this you know it it loses you know it

it loses that that that radiance see and he says that that that can't be my lord and i think that muslims just they recognize these verses in the quran but they just didn't see the depth like i feel that they it's not that they didn't see that but they just trivialized like they said oh yeah he's just saying oh the sun ain't my god yeah yeah he's just saying the stars ain't my god that's like it's like they just took it at a dirt level but there was a lot more richness to that verse of the quran and they just kind of

didn't really pay it wasn't interesting to them i guess right so real madrid i don't know who you're talking is it is this question to me or is this you're crazy juicy i'm sorry i i don't know what this question even means from morocco the days of tribes are over

i don't know what you talking about [Laughter] see this is why you shouldn't drink no idea what on earth is on about right so let's take a look at some facebook questions whilst that's happening i wanted to answer uh i'm just going to bring up some questions to from miss patrioncitos right so from uh my patreons you're doing it people much

love as always right i'll bring up here as well actually uh where is it alright there you doing it people you're doing it you're doing it much love as always right so some questions from the patreons uh the concept of premonitions and whether it's true or not and if it's true then is it what what then it what then in it should be i think then in what ways does it manifest

okay so premonitions if a person has a kind of like a bad vision or a bad feeling usually it's to do with actual visions so you've all watched like final destination and these kind of movies i take it where they have this vision something's about to happen but they see it so vividly but somebody could just see certain things is there any substance to this i think they can be they can be but there doesn't have to be at the same time see these things are from the rabia these things we don't know i do feel that like i've mentioned that the consciousness is connected there's a

kind of like a network of consciousness the ar as the hadith says that these are the consciousnesses are connected that which has some kind of that they have some knowing they know each other there is a harmon a synchronization between them um and those which they there is this kind of maybe uh adversity or or between them they

dissipate and they kind of like digress away from one another so it's it's interesting what this hadith actually means and baffle many people but i feel this is what it's talking about the souls meaning consciousness so yeah and you do get many stories of like where a mother will have this feeling of a child or sometimes a mother will have a dream of something it may not be clear but she will have a dream that somebody's in danger and they on many occasions it's been you know it's beyond the um there's been sociological studies on this and

sheldrake and other people have looked into it as well and you can research this is beyond the scope it's above the laws of probability now it's not always the case so it is hit and miss but it's above probability which is what makes it definitely very interesting and you get sometimes loved ones siblings you get people in relationships

people might think huh all right so the but you get people who are they know each other with a kind of strong bond that have this that something happens and the other person feels anxiety and studies have been done on twins i not just identical but just twins as well so you would they experience these things and like i said it's above probability even though it's not always the case so yeah all right uh plato's cave i've spoken about previously the allegory of the cave that

was one of the questions could i speak about that i do feel that's a an amazing a beautiful um allegory that is given and i feel it's prophetic um you know it's something that there are words of um of divine wisdom this whole story of the cave and the man coming out socrates trying to escape and come back and i it's only recently i spoke about that so i will get that cut out as a separate clip now what are the forms of bigotry against race religion and class system what are the forms of bigotry against

i don't understand that question i don't understand the question so i'll have to answer that another time how can we how can we tell people that the advancement of a human being doesn't prove that god doesn't exist i don't think we need to you see we don't need to prove to people whether god exists people will have a natural yearning for the transcendent it's not your job to prove to people that god exists i feel this is an obsession of modern

day um this kind of dawa brigade these people who are really just neo muslim ivan you know evangelists these people they um this is what they they they feel that we have to do these neo-muslim missionaries that we have to go out you know they're just following the christians who did this muslims never did this like in history do you think muslims used to stand on street corners preaching in even in

mixed societies calling people to god to no like when did they ever do this when did they stand in the town halls or in the marketplaces and say things like where is the is this in history you've got you know a thousand years of history go on show me when did this used to happen who used to stand in baghdad or in or in granada or in ishbilia or in tunis or in maracas or in you know in marwah or in nishapur or in shiraz or in these different places

who used to stand there preaching like this that there's one god and you know oh that you people better believe in islam you better believe people just live their lives and islam was an extension of their character it intrigued other people yes they spoke about islam with people i'm not saying they didn't speak about it they had discussions so people would ask them you know that's different why do you guys do this or we worship just the one god oh they worship just the one god wow okay what's that about they told me but this you know this kind of i'm gonna stand there shout to people

and i'm gonna this is an obligation i have to convince people that there's one god and this is a very modern phenomenon you know and and it's ironic that we inherited it from the colonialists we inherited it from our colonial masters this thing and we then think this is the sunnah of our prophet irony subhanallah irony all right there's something here about fascism okay a video link i haven't watched that

video link there's a question by sahil you're doing it so much love as always ah we spoke about canopus the star but this sahil is a different kind of star [Laughter] doing it doc you're doing it uh in the past muslim scholarship was institutionally this going in the future divergent schools of thought yeah this is fascinating that you see in the past there was something known as endowments so you had this kind of patronage where people used to patronize

not in the bad way i know patronizes but they would if i say as patronize uh certain people that they saw as people of potential now these weren't always scholars they may have been artists they may have been poets they may have been usually was people associated with a form of um that were kind of like the literary potentials of that age they were seen as the artists of that age i won't say celebrities uh even though

they were celebrities amongst them as well but they were seen as that's what they were seen as so why would people pay you know patronize them well because it's what rich people did and this was one of the ways so rich people would it was part of their club you see that people want to be associated with enlightenment or they want clever people around them or they want this kind of stuff in the past especially so you know they want poets they want these people to be in their gatherings

so what they would do is patronize give them a stipend give them a kind of like you're saying it's not a salary but it's like like an endowment to say well it's a grant basically they would give them financial grants which were based on an annual basis or sometimes maybe monthly but usually it was more than monthly so they would do it like annually they collect this money and the point was you you know you write books i tell you what you carry on writing your book uh obviously which means you won't be able to make a living so here is all these thousands of dinars now that was one way

another form of endowment these in arabic were called the walk or sometimes they called us as well so um now the these work for the plural another form of them was that people so you had personal patronizing that rich people would do the endowments by you know aristocrats or kings or dynasty ministers or or kind of like these kind of special people of prominence another form was where somebody

for for like charity would give a particular field to as an endowment in the path of allah so they would say for example this field and it generates all these foods whatever they may be i'm listing that as an endowment for academic pursuit that means if you're a scholar and they might say for the scholars of that madrasa so imagine there was all the people of this mosque that study in this mosque or for such and such city or for such and such village or town whoever or sometimes to a particular family they might say

let's say ibn khaldoon he came from a family of scholars so people know that that whole family is involved in elm so they might say you know to that family for the academic pursuit in the name of god i gift this these fields and they and those fields were lucrative you know significantly like they they yielded an exponential amount of of produce so when that produce would be sold obviously all belong to that family now what they couldn't do is sell it they couldn't as in they couldn't sell

the fields they could sell the produce and that money they would invest in the academic pursuit so why people did these kind of walks for charity for good deeds you know people felt guilty sometimes they're closer to um you know maybe they're about to die and they think well you know i'm giving that particular field in the name of god and so this is this was another method that was done as well and then people had their own trades as well in the past like imam malik was a a tradesman imam of hanifa was a tradesman businessman so this this is something that people did as well they had their own

trades as well so sometimes you get all these scholars with these names um like anna somebody who worked with brass and copper and stuff like that and you'll get hatab for example because of working with collecting firewood and you'll get these kind they'll be named after their profession and many of the muslim scholars were also judges so that was a very uh that was seen as a very prestigious career to be in today scholars are it's nothing like that there today

it's not a dignified profession at all to be a scholar if you worked as a scholar you'd be you couldn't even survive i think it'd be useless because especially in the uk i think in america it's a bit more prestigious um here imams are paid peanuts they pay them ridiculously poor i think i don't even think they give them the minimum wage um i think imams here would probably be on maybe you know it'd be ridiculous it'd be like half the minimum wage or something be really like treated like a peasant it's not a laughing match but this is

why you see you pay peanuts and that's what you get you get these kind of cowboys as imams then who um and then they just teach kids like they teach in a muktub and that just gives them pennies once again and so they live off a very poor lifestyle and so and then some of them go into this other thing like we're gonna take your gins out and demons out and exercise people because that brings uh there you go that yields a great amount of money as well always you know magic we're gonna cast aside this evil spell

that brings the magic and magical money we're gonna bless your house for you will so this is how these people do it today or they just work i would always advocate to people anybody that's becoming a student of knowledge or that is a student of knowledge or that has become a scholar i would honestly uh advise you to always think entrepreneur entrepreneurially i would you know this this path to entrepreneurship i advocate it for everyone that you really need to get into business uh investing invest in different

businesses start anything anything around you is a business potential you're just not looking at it with the right eye i'm telling you it is there's there's money to be made in from a business perspective in anything that you you know you could be you could be looking at you name it everything around you you know i could be looking at fragrances i could be looking at oh look at this product you know somebody has to get that from somewhere don't they if you can uh if you can source it you can sell it you know look at look at this this is a chain somebody must have i bought it thousands of people must have

bought it i mean look at this microphone if you can source it if you can sell it anything everything is a business potential gadgets electronical products clothing look wearing a shirt you know it doesn't have to be a designer shirt like people just want good stuff if you can source it from a better thing you can sell it you know every it's often just in the and so i i definitely i advocate that and sometimes you can maybe you haven't got the idea another person has and you can invest see that is another

good way to make money you invest with people it's a risk but you know if it works and many a times it does work so i would um so i would say that these things always like i advise people to the path of entrepreneurship and become independent i mean today as sahelad mentioned there are things like you know you people can support scholars they can support things uh like i how i have paid uh patreon many people have these things and people support and you know that's from the goodwill and

you know it's these things are are great you know and it shows if anything i suppose it's an opportunity for people to build a bond because ultimately we're all busy in our own worlds in our own lives and people sometimes like the amount of people i think about this like thousands of people will probably watch what i'm saying and to thousands of people they may think well from their side they may feel that they kind of know me and in a way that that's great but in a way they kind of know me without knowing me and sometimes people want to have a kind

of bond their personal touch and and these platforms are great for things like that you know there's obviously you get to know someone you it becomes a bit of a a personal one-on-one thing and that's good but i wouldn't say to people to to see this as your source you know things like patreon or these should never be yours or like youtube or uh you know these kind of things are great and they're wonderful and you know people support your cause and it always help it's always helpful but i wouldn't advise people to see that as their soul

you know the i'm gonna become an imam and that's what i'm gonna do no like they put that business acumen to many other ideas but cool i hope that helps uh let's go to mj girardi said you're the best mufti this yet you know this is the greatness within you you know right so did i miss any people arguing about the age of aisha yep the age of aisha

how to source something somebody said uh you see this look man the fact that you're having to ask that in this day and age you know what watch a lot of gary vee i i like what he says you know gary vee he swears a lot fs and bliming and why not but that's his but it's real talk you see there's google right in front of you how can you ask that how to do something i mean you've got you've got it right there this what is there that cannot be found you want knowledge there's knowledge right at your

fingertips you want business this business right at your fingertips everything the world has been laid out before you it's the willpower don't get me wrong look we're all lazy i'm i i'm i i don't you know i'm i'm in that boat as well you know i just chill as well but but i also i like to do the lazy investing that works as well the lord gives who am i to deny his gracious

and if everything else fails then like me you can just become a movie critic [Laughter] guys i want to share some thoughts on being happy yeah a few people have asked me a few things like this look what happens i feel that in life

we're on a conveyor belt things around you are determining your your kind of um your pace your distractions so you're in school there's a list of i've got to get this homework done i've got this test coming up i've got this i've got this distraction and you see the mind is in a state of it's it has a ironic nature to it the self it longs for stillness for a calmness

tranquility but ironically it's never been trained to handle that because it's driven constantly driven it's in motion it's in motion it's driven by pleasure by ambition by desires by wishes by so it's in a constant state of motion a chase a perpetual chase yet it longs for a stillness a serenity

a tranquility but these two are are paradoxical opposites and hence freud speaking about the the principle the desire principle pleasure principle and the death principle which is the ultimate stillness but let's not go to freud right now you see we're on this conveyor belt and life kind of does that to you and i'm not saying that's a bad thing i'm just saying that is life so we're on this school college university learning work uh you know people have this this kind of cult

social expectation you should now get married you should now have children you should do this so what happens when people are in the usually it doesn't have to be but let's say they're 30-somethings late 30-something some people it's their 40-somethings what happens is you see at that stage there will be a kind of you've been through your physical puberty in your teens but there will be this kind of mental this cognitive puberty that you go through

which will be about the existential things which will be about this kind of well what are greater things than this world now here some people will still push this aside so that because it's like puberty it will be in its own way painful because it's like an opening it's a emerging this kind of from uh this metamorphosis so it's a mental metamorphosis so it's gonna have its kind of painful side to it so people will brush it aside and they'll keep

you know they're preoccupying themselves with these little oh you know what's happening there i've got this little event i've got this token thing to do here i need to chase this up i need to do and those things are important as well but see what i advise you is and i get that this isn't for everybody but i advise you to kind of move from the realm of simply discussing people

discussing events to discussing ideas and concepts this is a much more lofty arena to be in now that is a platform in which that existential metamorphosis can manifest it can happen when you start to discuss ideas when you start to discuss concepts you start to to understand why you know people's philosophies or

you explore them you start to have a deeper outlook on life now it does come with you know there will be that kind of turbulence just as there was with puberty but on the bright side you will you know it will pass and you will be in a whole different realm of things you see if you don't if you block this from happening what happens is you continue to these questions still stay there like you will still think of oh my god what is this what is that

and what happens is the struggle weirdly becomes something else and it becomes it leaves people i feel quite bitter because they're on this conveyor belt life isn't really yielding much meaning for them it's just they're just discussing people events you know oh and it's it's just a perpetual chase that they have at that stage of life they're in their 30s mid-30s somethings late 30 something 40 somethings late 40 somethings

their conceptual growth is no different from when they were really in the late teens or early 20s it's like this is an approximation i'm trying to tell you if you don't go through this this is what it's like it's like being 20 something and having the vocabulary that you had when you were six that's the parallel people i'm trying to tell you this is you want to engage yourself with ideas and concepts believe me it will bring with it a different level of contentment now it and i find that so many people

sometimes they struggle then because they remain just at this level of discussing people and events only in life life becomes very shallow and then if you only discuss people and events you then measure your own life by people and events so you see yeah oh such and such is doing this oh why oh my god why am i doing and you you find that you can't attain this inner happiness and it results in this bitter and you find that you'll find yourself hating on people

i'm telling you you know this is another thing if you find yourself hating on people stop yourself i mean they'll they may be the occasional one or two people that you just can't stand you know this happens with everyone but if you find yourself hating quite a few people i'm i'm telling you stop yourself just think about it that why am i doing this something is wrong with me

there is a deep unhappiness within me and i would advise you you may say well musti how do we embark on this some of you may ask others will think what is this guy just barking on about you see i would say that the way the gateway to these things to discussing these ideas it may be different for different people it may be for some people art it may be poetry it may be philosophies it may be other kind things which have deeper meanings

you must by that stage be somebody that is trodding that path if you are in your 30s 40s and you are not a person that is trotting these deeper paths then unfortunately you will probably be consumed by that shallow kind of emptiness of life and it doesn't have to be so time consuming it could just be at a simple it could just be 15 minutes a day but you need to kind of invest in this deeper

development of yourself it will be incredibly self-rewarding with time so that's my you know so you can branch out it might be music for some people but i don't mean that making noise just a deeper realm appreciating octaves and the how they touch the soul because i definitely feel that music not well some people call music but true you know some with the with the elevation of the octaves i feel that the soul responds to it consciousness it

triggers it um but yeah so and i genuinely would advise you that go into seriously embrace laughter it is uh it is something that i feel that it's ironic that our society has demonized laughter it has kept this it has associated it with the madman and i think that there's great wisdom in that

but you know when you look at check this out look at the universal um expressions that human beings have so these studies like ekman in the 70s had kind of i uh set out six universal expressions that were worldwide people could see them yeah uh whether so they would be like happiness let's say uh anger there would be fear sadness um they would be surprise disgust okay so these were the six

that he now some people put contempt in there as well but what's interesting is out of all of these out of all of these this most of them if you were to depends how you group them but if you were to group them in positive and negative like let's say related to joy really that's only happiness and the rest of all of them fall in the other camp so it's it's amazing i would feel that you should capitalize

on that one and the amazing thing about happiness and laughter is how it's so contagious and it's it's unfathomable you know like we don't really understand why we laugh at things it's true isn't it psychologists this baffle them we don't understand laughter and if you had two people laughing amongst themselves and let's say they're laughing hysterically and talking and laughing if an alien was to come and observe that the alien would assume

right the alien would assume that the laughter is the real communication and the the talking in between must be just because when people are just laughing they're just laughing laughing then one person would say something that laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh one person says something laugh laugh and it's not even like to other people it doesn't make any sense it's like what are they so it that's almost the actual communication that they have and i just feel that it brings such it's so it's therapeutic it will keep you

uh you know fresh it will keep you lively it will you know it will it's anti-aging if you like it's it's restorative it will restore it's medicative it will medicate you it will i feel that in it allah has hidden like innumerable gems in this ability to laugh so don't ever underestimate it you know i i and i feel that i know people mock me oh musty laughs he does this he does this but i would rather

have spent my life laughing i would rather have a life that i lived laughing rather than you know living it miserably definitely or even without laughter that that to me that that's a no-brainer i would definitely do that so my advice is do don't let people kind of shun you i feel society doesn't like it it sees it as oh it's not serious enough it sees it as you know if it sees you laughing they kind of almost

hmm it disturbs them and i feel what disturbs them is just the inability to do it themselves so they hate on the person that's doing it so yeah so i wanted to share that you get people then having these other chasing after these other things so to sum that up make sure in life as you've reached certain age a certain age like definitely by the time people are in their 30s and definitely beyond that there is a pursuit of greater of of understandings of

more depth you're not just a shallow person anymore it's great definitely do make money do do all of these things but still make sure you are pursuing ideas concepts notions philosophies arts you up and these things will lead you to the divine and similarly driving that i would say make sure you open the floodgates of laughter these things i i can't emphasize enough right let's take a few questions and then we'll

have our i know it's getting very late claire said you ever just sat and tried not to laugh you'll laugh me and my brother definitely you will henna same mufti a life without laughter is no life at all absolutely absolutely um i i have to stress that because i see so many people ain't like that and it's sad

the irony see it's that it's sad and i mentioned uh i i put this instagram post and i mentioned this verse of the quran from surah najam that was and i said it's amazing isn't it when you think about it that allah begins the verse with abhakka and it is he who enables you to laugh he begins with laughter and then says and he has given you the ability to cry because the life will give you enough to cry about anyway so allah begins with abhakka and he made

you laugh but what's interesting is i said that you see a person crying you see these emotions that you these universal expressions crying is something a person can just do on their own you know it's true isn't it if you think about it you can just forget about the outside world if you just pensively like deeply in reflection just thought about oneself the self it is enough to make you cry if you think about it it can it can result it doesn't have to but it can result

in a kind of burrowing sadness almost and it can make people have a uh you know almost exultantly it can make them cry almost it results like that with people when they go into these deep self-reflective kind of things so the self in itself can just is enough to make a person cry let alone the dunya and the whole world out there is enough uh but and you know what's that uh

hamdil [Laughter] but i said the interesting thing about laughter is laughter is can only be done about something about the world it's amazing isn't it like you have to laugh about something it's not about the self so it it truly connects you to the world the laughter does whereas sorrowness can be internal and although

joy can be people are thinking i think mufti i think it's getting a bit too late it is it is that's rather my some of my philosophical moments inaya you do and as always shukran and much love for the super chat right so somebody said ek minute uh mufti you missed the super chat about uh maulana maududi right i have answered that previously i haven't read much of maulana maldouti so but

i've heard good things about him i've heard some critical things but i've heard that he was very critical as in he he he he advocated for critical thought and i think he came at a time when people and in a region where people weren't prepared for that so that's why he gets a lot of hate um so i somebody said did he not advocate for a caliphate i don't know he may have advocated for a caliphate but unfortunately the indian subcontinent

had become obsessed by that time with this concept of a caliphate somehow thinking that was going to restore for them a lost glory which the indian subcontinent was never part of a caliphate you know the irony is india was never part of the khilafah where was india what did it have to do with the uh you know the abbasids or the uh seljuks or the ottomans or the it had nothing to do with them india was a region on its own it had its own dynasties it had their own the hindu it had the the guptas and the

you know those kind of uh different dynasties and then it had the muslim dynasties the lodhis the dolox it had the uh hilgis and the different delhi sultanates and then it had the murals but it was never a part of the other arab world so i don't know where you know it's just this fake nostalgia because it helps people you see i i get it because obviously colonialism muslims have been battered for so long and so it's nice to have a sense of hope even if it's false you know it's but some story rather than

nothing why not ah why not a.a said etiquette of uh lo making love huh etiquettes of making [Laughter]

foreign so people let's uh let's start we got to start wrapping this up so let's go to some of the masala as always the interesting um so as you can see people i had allegedly dropped myself in it as some would say although i don't i would beg to differ oh rather but i sack butterfield's controversial joke on the christchurch massacre

so those of you that are aware i had done this a while back but since this clip was shared out you got a bunch of people that were like you know what the hell is going on here so obviously before any others you had uh uh baba faridin gangutili he made a clip straight away as you can see here it was being shared by

this here is uh it was being shared by asim quraishi here i will come to asim sab as well in a moment uh so initially this is being shared by baba fareed in gangutili saying oh my god oh my god oh and this whole clip so i'll bring you up to speed on the clip you guys can watch it

so there's a number of issues that the i don't know which is the key issue what bothers them more but there's a number of issues one is the topic that they're saying why did i advocate for freedom of speech okay two they're saying this this is the key issue why did i uh state that humor is sacred [Laughter]

so why did i say huma is sacred this was number two uh what else why did i grin at that video clip so there's a smirk there's like a at the end of that um clip when i play and i comment when he cracks the punch line about the taxi drivers uh i kind of uh grin or something so these were the problems i just want to say before anything look

i'm kind of flattered mixed emotion you know this one this one right because why why why you might ask that look yeah he was somebody that that was dedicated to an entire sect now i i don't um support that uh obviously i don't support him in that case wahabi but i mean i don't support this obsession

with against the shia right so um obviously we have our differences theologically we have different understandings with than the shia but look at the end of the day people are who they are you know we should try and build some bridges we need to get by as human beings the shia will have different perspectives we will have different perspectives you know okay if i'm with a shia person i just won't want to talk discuss on things that may just lead to an argument let's leave it and just talk about the things that we do have as common or just talk about something else but we

shouldn't be spreading hatred because look by hating on people they're not going to stop being that you know if i say oh i don't like shia beliefs so i know let's hate on them so by hating on them uh somehow the einstein logic is they're going to stop becoming shia or stop being sarishiya which is dumb because that's not how this works so exactly so i feel that we should build bridges and not kind of hate on especially since most muslims are just born muslims they're just born into it so you know they

yes so anyway but he was gangutely he was dedicated to an entire sect the shia sect this is what what made him basically he wouldn't speak on other issues he wouldn't speak on obviously i mean why is there to see the issue is people want to be relevant but they don't know what makes them relevant they don't remember what i said about delving in ideas in things that they they this is above them they can't appreciate art can't appreciate poetry they can't appreciate uh is this there it is

sorry gangutil is sending some gender they can't appreciate music they can't appreciate life so i know how else can i get clout let's chase but what can we do let's hate on a sec so his whole making was part of this uh wahhabi group that just hated on shia did refutations on shia non-stop uh what's interesting is you'd never criticize uh the saudi regime obviously bahrain is not allowed to no huh

[Music] that gave him his fame and so he got a huge bunch of following uh the selfies promoted him like mad and they selfies come on petrol dollars it's it's not like me just sitting here using my internet this is actual dollars and you know anti-shia rhetoric and

promoting him so he's had whatever thousands of followers and so these people they left all of that left all of that to focus on who a different sect sufis to focus on who politics trump middle east he was

truly he dedicates now he dedicates himself to just me i thought wow i won't lie i am flattered because you know this you know you gotta give it a good day

[Music] there he is people below it high five so i am flattered i won't lie uh this is now to get views these people have to talk about me i thought it ah you know as in that movie the guy says he says

that so so these people now have to make video clips about me so to get to remain relevant so this recent one was this clip now this got then shared and before i discussed the issues in it it got shared here by uh why leave out the other haters so asim qureshi is like oh my god those who support i find this utterly despicable oh are you so i thought why leave

baba asim out of it right so let me see if i can find so before i bring this up i just want to say what's interesting is i seem to have this unique ability that i can bring together people from so many hateful different narratives who would otherwise never unite so you would get them that you know they wouldn't unite on anything remember recently i spoke about that uh that thai

auntie uh this newly found obsessed hater who's actually hates islam as well yet you got somebody like that who is absolutely wouldn't pair up pairing up with uh asim koreshi sab why that's just one of the people you had i'm just gonna bring this up you had other bunch of or from diverse walks of life coming together asim qureshi who is an jihadi supporter who would

then be very anti people who support the saudi regime yeah coming together then there was if on momento let me just mm-hmm just bring this up has it gone oh here it is oh you guys probably can't see this there was a haris

[Laughter] also getting involved obviously another hater are you a failed journalist [Laughter] so you got all of these people coming together who i'm sure if you put them in a room they'd probably just kill each other yet

right what is this right yet let me just get out of this what is going on there okay let me just press exit here hopefully okay so yeah you've got all of these people coming together just to hate on me i thought only very few who can unite the ummah in that way very few people

let me one moment on momento if i bring this up here no not that one we embrace them this is the every single thing that is set upon us and we do with it because we have no fear so when we see the example of this is a speech being given this is who these people are palestine kashmir afghanistan

[Music] upon all of us to support the jihad our brothers and sisters support the jihad of the is it any surprise that this guy is not going to like me i thought

you know this this is the thing so these people had made this uh shared this saying look you know oh my god mufti you know luka he's saying we should defend freedom of speech somebody yasser saying that rokaya harris lost her mind a long time ago yeah uh and that's absolutely true i mean she's just another example of somebody what i said earlier on struggling to find relevance because if you are not a person of ideas you are just a person that is of other people

like your world is just other people your world is not a world of ideas of concept you you have nothing integral to give to the world except report on other people who have ideas [Laughter] so to these people the only way they can remain relevant is uh speak of uh

khadim rizzuri said mullah umar led a group that brought america okay he's no mulamar no this guy is no umar but this guy is another example you see he is in many ways you know asim qurayshi this is a a kind of syndrome he is reflective of him of a whole category of people and let me let me tell you this this category of people their life has kind of been unfortunately a lie because they spent maybe a few decades and like

in a way i can feel sorry for them but you know it is there it is what it is like they you see they spent maybe two decades of their life invested in this jihadi sympathy and what's happened is just the world just moved on it muslims today the majority of muslims are young muslims in this country the majority of muslims are muslims under the under 35 perhaps now even under 30.

those people are not these extremist sympathizers they don't sympathize with taliban or with al-qaeda or how these people used to rate anwar al-awlaki and all these kind of extremist terrorists they they're not that category of muslims these people don't have a voice anymore they don't have relevance anymore you spent your whole life not enjoying what allah had actually given you trying to set up which never which allah never even asked for but never happened and you struggled and struggled and now you've reached a stage in life in the middle ages

where maybe your own children are even doubting islam and you don't have the answers for them this is not him specifically this is a generation of people like that so what what you have is they they you've got the younger people around them who now will ask questions because look science has moved on atheism has moved on uh generally the world has moved on they've got newer challenges they've got newer questions this generation of people this kind of asim qurayshi people

they don't know what like what do you have to show for anything the islam you represent is outdated the nobody resonates with it you're no longer nobody's going to set up for you nobody even is going to sympathize this jihadi sympathy anymore you sacrifice so much of the dunya and now you can't have that dunya or you can try but you know you're a bit old or you're not really and then your own maybe young people around you don't even believe in islam you yourself may now have doubts on islam but you haven't

actually studied islam to know the answers foreign you know as the poet says that i didn't get you know he says i i didn't get the lord i didn't get god and i never got women either he says it's like i lost out on everything

like not neither the dean neither the dunya and i suppose that's what really burns them because when they look at somebody like me they see that the deen for me is not an impediment for my f for my dunya and that bothers them because for them it was a constant impediment so they see summon [Laughter] they like you teasing me you know so this is why it really

bothers some of these people i get that and it is a bichara kind of thing i mean i don't i'm not saying him but people of that generation because a lot of them i'll be honest with you they when they reflect deeply or they try to now they even see holes in islam like to them islam doesn't actually stand up to so then they have to make an extra rigid stance to make sure that islam doesn't collapse for them for them but obviously they could take the answers from people like me but [Laughter]

this is the you know they're obviously not going to come to me because to come to me it would be enough [Laughter] this is the thing you see to me i have the answers to these the problems that the atheists present and all these things but those answers may not fit in with the narrative that they've been so rigidly defending and the irony is this uh these haters like this you see the i

on her profile he said she represents islamic studies i thought are you taking the mick right look this this look and i'm not i don't mean her appearance i don't mean that i mean are you taking the mix seriously you wouldn't they wouldn't know a single thing about islam they couldn't even probably be able to read jazama they wouldn't like how could they write they represent islamic studies it's like what the hell do you represent by islamic studies the alif mata [Laughter] and you know these people the funny

thing is that the only people like that kind of that lady rokia the only people that would give them a justification for the islam is me and this is the irony that they you see they would now and they hate that because because they hate me so it's like well nobody else their version like the islam they want to live is basically what i teach it's not what this asim quraishi who they commenting with all these other people they would preach in islam that would have them decapitated that would consider them apostates but

this is the struggle like they would say oh i don't need to wear the hijab to these people you're a sinful so and so worse than the blah blah blah blah blah and the fact that you say you don't even need to it's not even a commandment means you're a kafir according to those people because they say one is it's a sin not to do it but to say it's not an obligation is kufa obviously there are answers but the answers i give [Laughter] who else are they going to go to this is the thing like so this is what the like in the english-speaking world you're not gonna oh even if they find other people but those

people would be very similar to me then like you're gonna if they go to javed ramadi saab but then javed ramadisha's views are gonna be very similar to my views they're not gonna be very different so anyway right so moving back to our beloved and the questions that he has raised

so i wanna give an explanation look listen people first of all i wanna just answer these some of these questions because some people have asked i do believe in the freedom of speech i do believe that people do have a right to express themselves now in that particular context we were speaking about humor and i did say that i believe humor should be protected sacredly now obviously i didn't mean you see the dumb things that people started saying oh sacred oh what does that mean or does he say in the quran oh where is

that in the quran what are you saying you had this lady on there on the same post right clearly the result of whose parents you know this is why obviously you shouldn't marry your cousins your first cousins the lady said oh you know he's just always on uh alan rock road he's just always in cafes and restaurants

i thought unless your dad is paying for my bill why does it bother you and secondly she said oh do you remember there was i wanted to take a screenshot and put it here but i forgot she said oh do you remember he said two three years ago somebody insulted his daughter and he said he got offended so we should insult his daughter and remind him

you know i i i don't know how these people survive in the world like how do they survive how did they not get like how do they live like [Laughter] i think if we can figure out how they live it's really surprising why the neanderthals went extinct i mean i don't damn does that mean that if neanderthals were alive today the the wahhabi following would have been huge anyway look listen right okay

now nobody said nobody said that insulting people as in abusing people verbal abuse is fine i've always said in fact i've got a video it was shared recently about is swearing haram and i've said that look to insult someone is forbidden if you're abusing them that is forbidden now nobody's saying that i'm not saying you racially abuse people or sexually as in verbally abuse people and obviously look them saying that oh three years was it

three years ago there was i on one of my monday nights i spoke about some people speaking about wanting to you know they were saying oh about speaking i i don't even want to really say but they were just saying all this kind of atrocious stuff about my daughter who was three at the time now and you know saying like horrendous things that crimes that they wanted that they should carry out against her and i found that despicable and i reported it to the police now look them saying oh why didn't he find that funny

i find this question hilarious like wait a minute why didn't i find some people making comments not comments about stating what they should conduct acts of sexual violence against let's say my three-year-old child why didn't i find that funny uh so why if if i didn't find that funny why can i find other jokes funny oh my god i i sure hope this lady is claiming

disability benefits i mean is that really a question is that genuinely a question like so look let me get this right and there were several people on this same and check this out this jihadi sympathizer asim qureshi on his when somebody sent me the link on his page several people saying oh we should insult mufti's mom and we should insult his daughters and see how he likes it is this what islam has been reduced to

did he tell them off no did he delete their comments no why would he he's like well absolutely fine and i'm not saying he needs to but look did he this is the islam that they're supporting this this is what they're supporting now look let's be clear what did people can go and watch my clip i it's recorded it's on youtube i've said very clearly that look there is a distinction between a comedian who's on a stage making jokes and there's a difference between hate speech we as human beings okay not the

inbred ones but the normal human beings we can tell we can pick up when somebody is on a stage making jokes and when somebody is rallying a hate you know a hate speech we can see the difference we can tell so do i defend the rights of comedians to be able to speak unrestrictedly i do defend their right to do that i may look i may hate their jokes i may dislike their jokes i may like their jokes i may love their jokes i may it doesn't matter the point is

that even if i hate the joke even if they made a joke about pakistanis being all inbreds if they made a joke about all people are like this it may be a dumb joke it may be stupid but they have the right to make a joke comedians do have that right because comedy to me cannot be censored if you start to censor it where do you draw the line this is you can't say well because it offends me you can't say this because every joke the purpose of jokes is that they the punch line is something you don't expect it has to be politically incorrect otherwise

most jokes wouldn't be funny if they were not politically incorrect so this is the it's the the unexpected nature of them that makes them funny to us so do they have the right to say i feel they do have the right to say now people say oh my god um but he made a joke about people that were killed in the christ church thing he did

i mean what what what you what do you want done like do you feel is it illegal it's not illegal do i feel these things are haram by islam to make jokes for a comedian i don't feel the haram by islam but yes people said look there's civility he could have been sensitive true i agree he could have been sensitive but the point was this joke has already happened he's not going to ask my permission to do it so the point is should these jokes be allowed yes i feel that people have the freedom and they asked me what would i say oh he wouldn't defend jokes about the holocaust

of course i would i feel you have the right to make a joke about the holocaust now legislation may prevent you from doing that in certain countries and i feel that legislation is wrong it needs to be revisited jokes should not be censored that people should have freedom they said would i defend the joke about 9 11 i would if somebody was to crack a joke about 9 11 many people did crap many people do crack jokes about now it's a bit outdated i feel that they have the freedom to do so it doesn't mean you have to find it funny but you have to have the right you see under freedom of speech to allow people

for comedy this is because this is linked with you see satire is linked with critical thought it's not like insulting yes it could offend there is a difference between offense and conscientiously just insulting someone verbally like me just swearing at you is not the same as me satirizing something for a different reason now this is not to do with that particular joke per se is to do with the topic so i wanted to share that but the joke thing the other point they had an aspect sorry the other

point they picked up why did i smirk at the joke look the nature of jokes is there's a punch line to them and the punch lines are counterintuitive so when you hear something that's counterintuitive even if you don't like it sometimes it may have a knee-jerk reaction i've heard jokes which sometimes are totally disturbing and you felt afterwards like i shouldn't have laughed but you will laugh the nature of laughter is it's unfathomable it's not a rational calculation you don't laugh at something but because let me get this right when people somebody walks like if you and they fall

over and hit their head and you laugh that's like wait a minute you're just laughing at somebody's misery if i made a joke about deaf people or blind people or stupid people you laugh but you're laughing at somebody's misery there's blind people out there if if i may if somebody made a joke about disabled people and you're like well if somebody made a joke about racism or about a race a particular thing so basically you're just saying jokes can never be allowed because most jokes are always around something like this so you're saying well no jokes can ever be allowed because

they're all politically incorrect and even when people fall over if you laugh at them you should go to hell oh god you know the biggest joke in this is god giving you that particular brain because that mindset is a joke in itself from god to the rest of us it's like saying hey check this out [Laughter] this is exactly what it is so look people were saying look why would you would you laugh at a joke if it was your loved ones well obviously you wouldn't i'm not saying you should laugh at that

christchurch joke let me be very clear i'm not saying you know this is the problem with muslims they get so emotional that they refuse to to hear the voice of reason nobody has said you should laugh at that joke you can happily say i find that joke disgusting happily say that in fact i want you to say say it i will say to you that is a disgusting joke that is insensitive i will say that i'm saying it it's insensitive but does he have the freedom to say it

i'm saying yeah he does have the freedom to make these jokes yes i don't like it but that is the freedoms that comedians have they stand on a stage and they make jokes people say yeah but people died in it that's true but you see that's he's making a joke obviously he's making a joke about it now i'm not saying look this isn't about him this is about the concept people say well would you laugh at it if it was your mother that died in it well that's a dumb question you know because if you had to ask that question you're clearly obviously the love child of siblings

because that doesn't make any sense look if you are traumatized by an event you're naturally not going to be laughing by that event that's obvious you know the fact that you are suffering from trauma it's like saying well look would you laugh at a joke about a blind man you might they say ah but what if that was your dad [Laughter] your einstein you know the genius level of these inbred muslims is like it's just at another level it's like well what the hell are you talking about how does that even make any sense obviously if you're traumatized by a

particular event you're not going to laugh at it now if you're not traumatized by it personally there's a chance that you may as a reactionary thing laugh to something that's being said and i want to say something here why is it then okay some you know like that said and she wrote something about kuffar and stuff like this i thought look why is it okay to then laugh at any tragedy of non-muslims why can you crack jokes about that you know what why is it only muslims that you can't

are muslim god's favorite people is that did god say that oh you can't make a joke about muslims right you can't make a joke about sorrows just reading the comments you can't make a joke about muslim but you can make it about non-muslims why can you make jokes about dead non-muslims so then you're going to say unless you say you can never laugh at a joke about any death ever ever right so any joke involving death ever you can never laugh at that and if you did laugh let's say i told

you a joke and it was funny and it was about some random like i said some japanese three japanese people that went down one did this and he fell off a plane and he died and you weren't expecting it and you laughed why why why did you laugh why you wouldn't laugh if that was your son that fell off the plane you see and then you say well oh oh but it wasn't a muslim so it's okay but if it was a muslim japanese that fell off the plane then oh why did you laugh so look what what is this haram policing going around

look islam is to do with you police yourself okay if you nobody's telling you to laugh at anything clearly you don't have enough laughter in your life anyway these people are clearly miserable i guarantee you you know all of these people that are making a fuss i could guarantee you they are stuck in miserable lives miserable lives and this is the problem that they just want the world to be sad and they struggle that any any kind of excuse that they will have to stamp

some authority and what better better authority than to claim religion which is absurd really because when you look at some of them they actually islamophobes themselves that thai what's her name what do these women have to do with the islamic discourse nothing but they'll bring islam into it why because some oh this guy this jihadist sympathizer baba

fareed gangutili all these other people oh so the way we can reconcile this is people should go and abuse his mom of our age [Laughter] so okay so the ability to crack jokes is equated to uh let's go swear at somebody's mom okay tikka you know if that if that brings peace to your heart go on then just you know if swearing at my mom if sitting there swearing at my mom brings you peace and brings you this kind of brings you closer to nirvana you know this is if this is what

obviously in your religion you've been taught who am i to stop you from getting to paradise keep reciting and keep elevating your makam i mean this is the dumbness that these people have you know arrived at this this kind of wow it's pitiful man so this is what these people and what i find intriguing you see check this out i find this so intriguing that

these people want to speak about honor of dead people yeah and look i accept people somebody said these people are shohada yeah fine i accept every dead soul is to be honored but i recognize jokes are a different thing they said for a joke and i and i do defend that and on that note just you know for a moment just to state that look the whole message of the quran was in its nature a statement that it knew would be offensive to polytheists somebody said the quran was an academic

discourse no it wasn't quran wasn't an academic disc it wasn't there to say hey i got this theory you've got this theory let's have an academic it was making a bold statement it was an interest in academic discourse it was there to make a statement does allah not call the kuffar deaf dumb and blind mute does he not say they like animals does allah not say this in the quran a bastard child um he's a man but the fact that

oh i'm sorry the quran is politically incorrect unacceptable now this is the problem these people haven't even read the quran with meaning in their lives you know what do these people know you know they obviously they judge me you know this guy sitting there with an earring with a chain but hey i've memorized the entire quran i've read it with meaning i've read it with several tafasir you haven't even probably read the quran once in your life with meaning so you see if you read the quran you'll see that it does it offends with its message but you have to give the freedom to offend

otherwise how can ideas be challenged let people challenge your ideas now there's a difference between that and just outright going on and like you know just going on a rage swearing at people just oh you effing blimey blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah i did this to your mom and i did this too you know that hey what's your name ezekiel if you ezekiel hey you know what i did last night don't you dare bring my mother into it it's like that that's everybody understands what that is that's different

now i want to come to this point these people speaking about what voicing your love you know oh not speaking up for the deen they said that why he's trying to appease the kuffar all of these people that uh gangutili fareed kangutili this uh what's his name asim qureshi and all these other people tell me where is your love for the prophet sallallahu alaihi

when these najdy wahabi disrespectful people say that the prophet married and buried a child where is your love for the prophet how salallahu you concretize and validate these beliefs when they say that the prophet forcefully took safia in other words raped her after having killed her husband how dare you not condemn that teaching and this is to everyone that supports

these things the mother of the believers these filthy people they refuse to today out of their arrogance to recognize her as a wife of the prophet they call her a concubine of the prophet allah says they are your mothers these people say she was a sex slave to the prophet out of spite for maria radhillah she was the only wife of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam that brought him a child that lived in

this world after prophethood that was that was ibrahim al-islam who the prophet said that he sees such radiance in him that he almost sees prophethood in him if he lived that when he passed away it broke the heart of the prophet why don't you defend that you don't you refuse to call her a wife of the prophet till this day they will refuse to call her a wife they do not include her from the zoja where is the love for the prophet sallallahu alaihi says that the prophet went and tried to forcefully touch a woman

told her to give herself to him nonsense rubbish yet they support it where is their love for the prophet bukhari says the prophet forgot the quran he forgot he the prophet became so clumsy forgot the quran he heard a person saying it he heard a person reciting a surah and said oh yeah that's the quran oh i forgot about it oh yeah write that that put that in the quran as well this is the prophet of god so clumsy

do they no no that we hear we obey our dada told us we have to who's the prophet don't worry ah throw him under the bus they say the prophet moses ran around naked in bukhari so people could see his testicles to see if his testicles were swollen this is bukhari where is their love for defending the honor of this deen do they speak alfred does their dad speak out for it no they don't

why just to appease their wahhabi leaders sitting in saudi arabia funding them where is this you know this love for the prophet that they say where is it yeah what is this love is it only for calling people murtad and we should kill the apostates is that the only time your love comes up is it only for saying we should kill shia we should kill khadiyani we should kill people is this the only time you remember the love for the prophet sallallahu alaihi that you want to fabricated hadith on the back of ekrama who was a hariji who was from the hawari sect who imam malik said you shouldn't be taking from this person

but just because bukhari put in his book where is the love for the prophet what is this honor for the deen that they speak of you know nothing but fake of absolute false facades also nothing but fake these people yes they hate on me so yes if they find anything you know if they find me sneezing you'll be enough to say well that's blasphemy but tell me did you once stand up for

the honor for the love of the prophet sallallahu alaihi not once did you not once forgetful you know this gangutili he has a thing on youtube with him and his uh whatever his his group are discussing the prophet they say yes so what if the prophet was clumsy one of them said yeah so the prophet had magic done on him magic done on him by some jewish witch and the prophet became impotent sexually impotent so they say it was so what if the prophet was sexually impotent

you know if if only their dad was sexually impotent and hadn't given birth to this useless you know this is the love they show for the prophet sallallahu alaihi so what if he was sexually impotent so what if he's clumsy forgetting the quran oh he's trying to forcefully touch a woman he's trying to he's marrying bedding a little child little girl he's raping a woman take killing her husband snatching her having sex with what kind of an islam are you

not for the muslims where is that in your picture in your portrayal of islam where is it i don't see it allah says that he is this person who has come as a paragon of mercy to you people yet you know then they find one yeah words fail me you know i i don't this kind of thing charges me but i i see that none of them will will challenge their

seniors and refuse to follow their sect and say these things none of them rather they will keep the peace with the you know dean with them nudged with the you know wahhabis and they will keep it with them and what they will do instead is say it doesn't matter you know maybe the prophet did it it's okay it was a different time that's not respect for the prophets that's not honor for islam your honor does not lie in trying to set up some phony kind of some weird fantasy caliphate around the world which allah did not ask you to set up neither did

neither did the prophet the prophet was not here trying to chase politics see that's all the prophet is for them for them the prophet is somebody that has given them the license to have power you know we want to take over we want sex slaves we want to enslave their women we want to we want to show them we want control we want dominion nothing but insecure people and hence their faith crumbles before them as they age because they built it upon a upon a cobweb

this is what they built the iman upon what this this is this is the worst of things to build a foundation upon but yeah let's wrap this up people it's been um quite but yeah it's been it's getting very late we've gone on for quite a while guys as always it's been awesome this was a bit extended losing my voice now but yeah if you want to reach out to me you know the places instagram facebook messenger

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