Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth | Session 40

all right bismillah folks bismillah let's see how this works out today yes Salaam let me try to share this first of all mm-hmm see how this is going right people as you're logging on I hope I hope be even illa that today there is some clarity with this if there isn't I'm just gonna roll with it anyway

as much as I can right so I'm just gonna share it one moment momento por favor on momento let me see Sajid Sahib al awwalin wa al hamdulillah wa kafa or salatu salam o allah rasool mustafa ala ideality notable women be Hoda Amin tada or be a sorry a little Medina tech toughie oh

but Salaam allahi allah o allah wa sahlan and apologies for not being able to join you guys yesterday sugar and low bond sugar and sugar and yesterday I don't know I think my system got possessed I had to delete my entire app I deleted my entire rap reset the entire route er I deleted enough staff from my iPad just try to I thought what on earth is going on here but lil I'll hum orale let's get moving

people let's get moving right so aina not normal where are we where are we well it's been an interesting fortnight a lots been happening around the world I mean yesterday was isten Independence Day so we had the Pakistan zindabad those of you and today how Independence Day for India so for all the folks celebrating that J hind' out there I think it is a shame really this whole the kind of somebody just

said the quality is ridiculously good what do you expect god damnit I'm delivering this uh-huh and that why would you expect any less from me people that's the thing I'm here to deliver this in HD right let's hit the Matic um this is for your a service to you people right so coming back to this independence thing I think it's a shame that there's so much right that there's so much this this kind of split between Pakistan and India all this

animosity I think India is a beautiful country and I think if there wasn't these issues I would love to visit India I'm studying Hindi by the way so I study Hindi so right should Hindi so for all of you out there some of my Hindi books they're not here they're downstairs now I take it but yep so hum secret but when with the actual day one agree with the actual Hindi script I find it amazing and a fine Hindi words as well awesome

but I I you know it's it's a shame to see how politicized things have become alaikum Salaam Robin K alamos Osman it's a shame to see how politicized things of being become that you can't even like when people use certain words it's seen as no no only Indians should use those words only Pakistanis should use those words yeah as halep said he said that why are you trying to

impose religion on all do right so Hamas alamos Island Simon Lois Island the thing is that look religion has got nothing to do with language you know it's not it's not it's like when somebody Hey they tried at one point solid there was some kind of an celebration and Holly was given some you know meat I eat the meat I eat wheat so he's eating some modern or whether it was whatever it was so he had some meat I and and somebody said to him they said to him olives Xavier matka yeah don't

eat that this is from the Hindus right so the thing is that just mister right right so the thing is and he said they said to him don't eat this kind of you know these sweets whatever they from Hindus and he said yeah he said yeah barfi Hindu or Muslim like this is kind of this sweet dish that I'm eating is this a Hindu or a Muslim Jah

Jah know Camilla you guys must talk that they would enjoy one a slam religion onto everything that just take a break for God's sake but yeah anyway so that's I I do wish that politics would calm down and people would learn to kind of really live with each other a bit more coexistence it would be awesome would be awesome yeah this is a stand-up comedian parental advisory I mean if something doesn't come with an advisory

work warning I mean is it even worth it the best things in life are always warned against the that's like how that's how you measure the greatness of something how many people are warning against this thing so there's a stand-up comedian Kunal I an Indian guy awesome guy I totally love some of you I wish you would do more actually and canal camera I think his name is and it's in English and Hindi as well mixed and me yes these awesome

anyway where he has one speaking about these politics CIT memory Javon Morris yeah Jim you gotta check it out to appreciate it anyway let's move on with some of these questions right now can Muslim women marry non Muslim men remember that article right this is the QA I will have sanam it's a Q&A god damn it but it's my Q&A so it goes by my rules okay if I want to talk our talk god damn it how dare you criticize me on

my Q&A so the thing right okay Robin yeah shukran for unnecessarily getting me slated so Robin shares an article on Facebook which I do not know about this article I've not read this article I've not endorsed this article and he said something about Muslim women marrying non Muslim men and and she tagged me into it and I suppose maybe to

be fair she didn't say I think she said oh this can be the discussion for the coming courtier so people reading this must have assumed that all Mufti is endorsing this right so they just start slating me so I'm getting a free free beatdown a virtual beatdown on what is it I will have said I was only joking I was only joking so I was getting this virtual but be

down on on Facebook and I've not said anything i've not endorsed the article i've not even read the i've not even heard of this article and and so this is all going on anyway so this question can muslim women marry non-muslim men hmm right and what is the whole situation about this right so just to clarify now look i have i have answered this before yeah i'm taking them from lost last night's post but you can post your

questions here if I catch them suffer I will try to answer them I'll try and mix and match some of the things now look in my understanding marriage right just work as a human thing so it's not that Islam never initiated marriage in fact the hadith which is a sahih hadith and I believe it's in Buhari it's from I share of the Allahu Allah and she says that there were four different types of marriages taking place in the in the time of jahiliyya the pre-islamic era and she says that

you know islam condemned several of them and she says one nikka and what was left is matter Arafah allay him a Salome and that's interesting it's an interesting choice of words matter are awfully heinous and young she did not say it's what the Sharia legislated for us she said it is what the people are practicing today so it was kind of showing that Islam came and people already had an understanding of marriage

it ruled out understandings which contradicted with certain values and rites and it sustained what people themself had introduced as a concept of marriage on that particular day so it's interesting because it shows if you look at that hadith which is in Bukhari from Aisha each the interesting point is where is the source of this Makar coming from is it coming from the Sharia from the people and it seems to be that it's coming from the people and the Sharia is

just saying no no no okay this one you guys carry on with now so we my understanding that is what Mecca was it's what people came up with as a concept of relationships and marriages and Islam ordained it in essence Makar or to work between anybody it ought to work but then Islam kind of restricted it to being well it should be between Muslims now then it kind of opens it up for al-kitab for non-muslims who happen to be closer to Muslims and this was

interesting because this this was an EVA when Muslims were trying to mark out a particular identity for themselves so you see the the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam as he migrates into medina and the muslims migrated with him they are trying to because muslims are in a very vulnerable state so they're trying to sketch out an identity for themselves as muslims and the other the other is the mushrik the polytheist is seen as the other

so initially muslims start to draw close bonds with non-muslims who happen to be share similar narratives like jews and christians because they're not mushriks and the other is seen as the polytheist so you start to see that the professor Allison highlights that look we are Oh Martin Waheeda the Jews and the Christians and so on and the Muslims start to fast when the Jews fast like the Prophet said why don't we our Shura as a fast and why don't we

take this and and a lot of Jewish and Christian things for the identity and solidarity are adopted and in fact there is another very interesting hadith and I'm going to do a small clip on some of the new books I just purchased last week from Morocco but one of them was the Afghan I would start by the famous Mahad this the legendary the legend from Muslim Spain Abdul Haq a leash belly and he has these a cam these rulings of hadith to do with rulings and he is the large collection and Cooper all but was Thoth solo and I purchased the Woodstock

and so in there he brings a hadith which I believe I'll double-check but I believe it it may be from Sahih Muslim but he brings a hadith in me where he says that the Prophet used to can i yes Neelu sharra home that he would allow hey he would design design or carry his hair in a style that would just drop back McConnell mushrik own yes they lawn and says that what can a locator be you

for red corner where they are on that they would that the oh yeah - shall around that the annual key tab as an identity would part the hair so he in this hadith he says it says that this is what the al-kitab would do and the Prophet first and the mushrikuna will all generally just push back the here for brother our Rasul Allah he Africa Shara who so the Prophet began to parties here come on as the al-kitab

would do but then he says in the hadith that o then summer after time after years satella Rasul Elijah the Prophet went back to pushing back his head because they had gone past the insecure stage where Muslims are insecure and trying to sketch out an identity now that they were secure the Prophet resorted to his original style which was what the mushrikuna used to do as well and they

were just a normal hairstyle that they still push back they here and certain people used to braid it so it was interesting that there was a phase when the Prophet migrated to Medina that to where the Muslims were trying to sketch out an identity because many Muslims were on a stage of vulnerability that they did certain things and that included praying towards the Qibla of the Jews that in which was Jerusalem that included eating the meat of the Jews and the Christians it included marrying into them it included things like fasting when they would fast and

include it even doing your hair like them but once Muslims became secure you start to see the Prophet saying you know what differentiate yourself from these people we don't need to because lest you fall into their mistakes we have a secure identity now and that's interesting and that's interesting so you see the Prophet saying later on about the miju's that look do with them the way you do with that look it up like you can take jizya from them you can and some of them I said you can marry into

them and so this is interesting now and that's where it kind of stops now can you marry non-muslims non-jews and/or women do so the general understanding is no there have been some opinions minority opinions in the past held by some great companions I believe amongst them it has been I believe people like Sedna idea of the Aloha and other people who believe that if a woman was married to a person who became a kaffir they could remain with them and they

disagree as in to what length can you remain with that non-muslim some people say you can remain with them during the ADA and that's a more accepted position and some people some people said you can remain like that wife could remain with that husband indefinitely and some people place conditions but they shouldn't be a sexual relationship and some people said it didn't matter although these were then minority positions and you have to recognize that Islam was kind of entering a new phase it was becoming it was soon to become a civilization and obviously many things would become important and one of those

things would be marriage as well so these views were no longer further kind of explored and appreciated and and really the world's kind of separated so you started to have a whole Empire way you had Muslims and then you had non-muslims and then nobody really followed up on these kind of things because there was no interest to do so so that's the the general although today you can resort to certain orlimar like cher Abdullah bin Bayer if you're stuck in these kind of issues and they can advise accordingly okay so that's some background to that but the general

understanding is that Muslim women do not marry non-muslim men and for Muslim men there was the allowance of Jews and Christians that's how it is okay let's move on to another question right last breath us where are we yes today's questions let me just bring these up people right so whilst I'm doing that is it obligatory to sacrifice an animal generally it isn't no it's sooner

it's an emphasized soon and the Hanafi method considers it watch it but they were jib is a lesser obligation it's not the same as a form whose Allah is forming on from that question would it be Haram if a non-muslim if a Muslim woman married a non-muslim the general understanding is it would be Haram that's the general understanding yes right so let's go back somebody asked am

i Hanafy hell no I'm not Hanafy school of Medina all the way people school of Medina so I traced my Elmi heritage going right back through the dongs of this Deen right back to the enlightened city the city of the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam medina - no water with the legends like imam malik who took from their teachers who took from their teachers who took directly from the messenger allah that's my chain of transmission going

right back through the dawn of medina imam malik although I respect the hanafi madhhab and all methods but I'm not happy definitely not Hanafy and I would advise that become Maliki become Maliki anyway so let's let's take some right there was a question about fadak are we allowed to celebrate me lad I've answered this before in several questions you can check that up you can watch my video on innovation motive is

an innovation but where do innovations stand within within Islam is there such thing as good innovation you can watch my video clip on it on YouTube I've done this so many times before so can check that there please the photic issue right okay look somebody said why you call meThe have not fit fit matter same kind of thing mother bees the school fifth is the understanding it's cool it's cool don't worry about it don't worry about it it's all good it's all right now this footik right okay what is for deck the deck is a

contentious a Content look at the woods contentious issue P I do that just to wind up some people that's all right some some friends that's all right so it's a contentious issue between the orthodoxy of Islam and the Shia okay a sect within Islam now Fredrik is the name of a land that was taken in by that that was that belonged to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam now that will land was called Fredrik it is a

particular village or a particular region a small region sounds like lodge but it was a particular piece of land that was a part of Hebert okay the Jewish settlement outside of Medina and when Hebert and the whole issues happened and the conflict and then as you're aware of it the whole kind of the battle in the clash but anyway following Hebert there were certain distribution of land and this piece of land called fadak was what came

to the prophet muhammad salallahu alayhi wasalam now after the Prophet had passed away for tomorrow the Aloha on her approaches Abu Bakr and asks for Fedak that it should be hers and al-bakr says that well the Prophet said that national natural am BIA that we prophets and messengers learned were through their hamon while dinara we do not leave any inheritance as in wealth inheritance in a man were little island our inheritance and and we only bequeathed knowledge

so he said that this is what the Prophet said so I cannot give you for dick now then what happens after that the the narrative is view differently by people the Sunni Orthodox Islam position is that Fatima although may have been I suppose emotionally a bit upset but she generally accepted that Fatima goes off and fought him on herself does not live

much longer after the Prophet has passed away she only lives for about six months off the after the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam under the law on her now during that time she doesn't generally as far as the mainstream Muslims are concerned may she may have not been happy with that decision but she doesn't really it's not up to much of a big deal let's take for a moment let's pause there everybody must understand and that this was any land that belonged to the

Prophet or came to the Prophet in faith that means after war and so on and this was what okay that means nobody owns that land nobody a worker didn't own it nobody on thee the produce of that land a portion of that produce was indefinitely dedicated to the family of the prophet including Fatima and Hasan and Husayn and and and so on that was indefinitely nobody disputes them the she I do not dispute that the Sunnis do not dispute that that the produce coming

from fadak continued to come to Fatima for her lifespan and her offspring after that there is no debate about that now the debate is on regarding the propriety and the ownership of that land according to some resources nobody technically owns the land the land is belongs to Allah and His Messenger and the Muslims have a duty to preserve it it is the the guardianship of the land is given to certain people who watch

over it the produce of it is given a significant portion to the family of the Prophet and what remains and the surplus amount goes back to the Treasury and can be used for other sources okay so that just to clarify some Sunni sorry some Shia sources including books like I think some commentaries there's a Metheny or somebody with his commentary on natural Bulava and this Doron Najaf via these not youth or nhf but during a fire which is a Shia work they also

accept that Fatima did not was was okay with this decision they do not claim anything to the contrary other Shia sources claim that no she hated Oba Carr and she was you know like hated him with viciously and and this was land which was usurped by the people like Abu Bakr but if we look at this objectively Abu Bakr never took the land for himself no Muslim at that time and for decades and the centuries after claimed that for

the clan for themselves nobody did it was walk okay just to clarify that okay so it was not something this was not to do with are they getting benefit from the land everybody accepts that they got the hala the kind of produce went to the family of the Prophet they disagree on the ownership of it that's all the other Shia sources are obviously very caught up about that and they they make a big deal out of it so that's just to explain then the Shia had an issue or there is a problem that kind of hit them in the face and that was that why when I Lee became

Calif why did I leave not give verdict to his offspring because he didn't because they claimed the Shia claims that I Lee believed that this was belong to the family of the Prophet so why is it during his leadership he did not give it to them because that is a known fact that he did not give it to them either during his rule his five years or whatever is of rule he did not give Fedak to his children or the children or fought him and he did not give it so

then they have kind of like I don't know interpretations for that like they say oh it wouldn't have been wise or he didn't want to stir up a great issue all you know so on and so forth and they the Shia kind of interpretations for that the suddenly say well because he never he believed that anyway that's why he never did that so right let's move on people enough of these sectarian issues let's move on right are there any of the here is left in this world authorities somebody who is a literalist

or a text released who does not believe in analogy they possibly may be you see the thing is somebody is asking that did fatima speak to a worker i believe there are narrations she did i have heard these i'll tell you who is an expert on this CD mohammed iqbal who is on facebook and he's from Birmingham Birmingham Sharif the Blessed Birmingham which I can't believe on a tangent I can't believe the council is allowing

our city to become plagued by not bloody doing something about the bin strike it is driving me hamdulillah mean this place is ok but I mean what I see on social media is the city's going to the dogs man and anyway let's get back to the point so see the mohammed iqbal who's on facebook he is an expert on these matters of Shia Sunni relations and the whole text and you can resort to to Muhammad Iqbal who is a chef and he's a Maliki scholar very learned at one of the most I think is

amongst the amongst the top qualitative brand of scholars we have in the UK today okay so but he likes to keep himself low-key so you can reach out to him if you want to discuss narrations on Shia thing but I would say look you have to remember it was a difficult time there were huge insurgencies huge rebellions a lot of Wars going on and there was only six months of a lifespan that faatima arabe allahu anhu lived after the prophet so it's not like she lived for years and years so it's difficult interpreting what actually happened you have to understand that okay so you have to be real about things

as well are we allowed to use watermelon juice to make wudu don't know what crazy kind of fantasies you've got going on there Hamza Shareef but he'll know is the answer water must be pure it must have three qualities okay it must smell taste and look clear okay or relatively clear is it a must to knock hair nails if you are sacrificing an animal absolutely not sedately octave that is not true you can trim nails and so on some scholar said

it was recommended I know the humble ease believe that but the general understanding is you can trim nails cut hear everything unless you are actually on Hajj which we here or not okay is it true that in Maliki v you can read a shot straight after mother him I mean nothing generally unless there's a reason if these if there is a reason to do so like the Twilight period in the UK when the Twilight does not the astronomical Twilight does not and then yes you can or if you were traveling or if there was heavy rain or if there was you know if there was a

reason why heavy rain I suppose if you're praying at home doesn't make a difference but yeah am I taking a Hajj group have you seen what I look like with the Saudi authorities even let me in no they probably would let me in to be fair I mean but no I'm not taking a Hajj hoop and I don't think I'm that kind of a guy you want to go with on Hajj I don't think I'm that you need

somebody really spiritual yeah yeah Messiah the Soviet era Biennale these issues of spirituality and the way you explain them Harlem though may hum Valley so much they Joe Nevada ha ha ha he says I would have considered you a man of God if it wasn't for this drinking problem that you had but uh that's solid for us but I mean yeah people like me now I wouldn't feel right

taking people on a Hajj group I think people need there's plenty of great people to do that anyway let's now let's move on to the next question some somebody just said this guy seems high this guy goddamnit who is this guy Jonnie a guy cornea you know you get some people they stop communicating with you and it's like it's I don't know what they they use words like I don't know

like you're already on a level hey yo what's up what's up I had this guy message me yo spikey I thought okay I mean do I okay are we on that kind of a relationship you know like that somebody won't say to me in between just like a

message ah you Joker I thought okay right okay you Joker - I realize I'm sorry I don't realize myself Polly Polly already but anyway right so moving on next question people next question can Muslims be cremated right now it's different no look listen it's different if you know somebody I'm just saying when you

you just get a random message from somebody yo what's up what's up spikey and I thought okay I don't think I actually know who you are but yeah so anyway can Muslims be cremated right can Muslims we cremated generally our the Muslim tradition is to bury somebody in the ground as Allah says in the Quran min ha ha ha kanakam that we have created you from this earth that Rafi

had no I do come and we shall return you into this earth I mean ha Noricum tarlatan Oprah and from it we shall take you forth ashes to ashes dust to dust goddamnit everything should return to dust it's that's the the kind of understanding the kind of philosophical backdrop as Madonna P says in his poem either nil numbing hell would fail bhakti hey you know Allah he says if all

we need is you she's all we need is love from you well he says that noona Minkel would define bhakti Hagee noon or cool let me fall Catawba trouble and everything that is upon the earth is nothing but a in essence it shall all just return to dust that's a way of looking at things subhanAllah in poetry as the Prophet said that in Amina sherrilyn hikmah

indeed in poetry we find wisdom so you should really I advise people to engage in meaningful poetry on that note let me take a question sugar and sugar and this you know with poet reads I've been asked this question before and I don't think I really got to answer that why if it's okay then why has Allah condemned in the Quran okay that why does Allah say what sure rreow tablet Allah Allah Allah you know a lot aronia unknown frequently

words in your he moon that do you not see that they you know that they are the kind of lost and just aimlessly wandering in these valleys they weren't literally going in valleys but you know that's it's metaphorical but do you not see them aimlessly wandering these poets well I know Mia alone a male of our loom and that they say that which they do not do and Allah condemns them in surah to Shara as in washer yah yah be almond you see you have to see how the most

serene or how the allah ma of the who have commented on the quran the commentators of the quran have explained this and if we take a look at one of the dawns of this last century who I often refer to and who is indirectly my teacher and I and he had he granted licenses Jazza to chef see the butcher who I went to and guy he does a--from and so he was even Archer one of the greatest scholars of the 20th century who has a tough seed of the Quran and in 30 volumes and he

was a Maliki master the Grand Mufti of the Maliki and the Muslims in Tunis of his age now when he comments on this he explains you have to understand what was going on the show are all right the sharara right in the time in Makkah most of them did not claim to be magicians they did not claim but some of them had this thing going on where they did used to say that they are given inspiration like that the spirit speak to them with

words the spirits and the gym and all these things so they would say that you can limo home hot if hot if by Suffolk hot if today in Arabic is a phone is called hot if but hot if in Arabic actually means a voice which we we don't which you can only hear and not see the source of the voice so they used to call that a heart if like a certain voice speaking so in classical poetry or Arabic if you read the word heart if they're not speaking about a phone so it was quite conveniently adopted for phones because that's what heart if meant you can hear the voice and not see

the person right so these show are are some of these sure I would say that these Hawaa t4 these heart if speak to them and that's where they get their poetry from now the disbelievers of Makkah made certain allegations against the against the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam took namely two key things one that they claimed you know he was mental and things like this and two and two that he was a poet okay and that maybe he was being inspired by

devils and things like this now so for this the yet today yeah I mean somebody just tried to type Joe what yeah I mean Joe wall means a mobile something that moves around mobile phone but the word phone in Arabic they use her teeth but anyway so the thing is that so Allah dispels these myths in the Quran and decimates them and says that the Prophet is not he is not mental he is not and Majnoon also

that the term much known in essence the way the Arabs originally used it was like oh that demons have possessed this person and he's become mental so what Allah does in surah - sha Allah is he is dispelling this myth of the Shara of the poets there were certain people in Makkah that would sit on the outskirts of Makkah they were poets but they would narrate stories and they would condemn people that followed the Prophet and they would call them losers and they would say that the Prophet is mental and

this is true poetry it's in reference to that that Allah is saying that a sharara this alif laam is little other than me it is for what is known which poets it's not poets as in all poets in the world it's the poet they're the one sitting on the outskirts of Makkah condemning abusing the Messenger of Allah and the Muslims yet to be normal Harun it is it is the the people who are lost and who

are misled and who have evil intentions that are following them this is what if nourisher explains this verse in the quran that these people these poets are sat outside of market they would tell stories and myths assert iran oberlin the legends of these previous gods and all the things that these gods would do a bit like the Greek myths of the god Venus and the God this and that and and so all of these things Zeus and all these kind of things so in a similar light the Arabs had their own myths and Allah is saying a litera under whom frequently

words in your he moon do you not see that they wander in you know in all these aimlessly with their tails I know me a Aluna male if I knew these people are not even people of integrity they're not people of integrity and they are they sing The Messenger of Allah who Allah says look in knack Allah Allah who look in our theme that you are somebody of great impeccable character so this is the comparison and these are the show

our our that allows condemning he's not condemning poetry in general okay so poetry is fine and the Prophet appreciated poetry and he said that poetry is good and those hadith way the Prophet said oh if you were to be full of poetry it's better that you are you know a person is full of vomit than he is of poetry that was to do with that kind of stuff the poet that was the poetry that was being used to just attack the Messenger of Allah and attack this message of truth and that was here

to fight superstition this propaganda poetry the Prophet was saying that you know you'd rather I'd rather be full of vomit than be full of that kind of propaganda which is just here to hurdle people from the truth so anyway that's that understanding I hope it's on Michael Mike mala people Michael Malays in the house our nasheed artist legend from the Midlands young legend who's heading off to al-azhar as well I believe to study so we wish him the best of luck there right so next course

chin right is it permissible is it permissible to watch sports games like football or Olympics Swimming's in which players auras are uncovered all right wait there is this has has shamrock nothing that a you see there's a similar question they are about somebody trying to sell a product about six packs and and they're having to show stuff like that you see this is

where you can't you see people ok let's first of all go to the understanding what scholars have said the general understanding people will say no this stuff is Haram Haram Haram Haram the general kind of this kind of message which is coming on so if you picked up a book from you know let's say some of our most of our fake books which are all classical so if you picked up a book a thousand years ago they're going to say well obviously this is Haram now you see we can look at what some

scholars today like when the ledge who's a legendary scholar share Mohammed Walid al hasan a dado who is one of the great musti's of Mauritania Maliki and renowned scholar worldwide when he was asked about when you live in a society where women generally are uncovered or not as in not totally naked it's not nudists we're not living on a nudist beach right unless you want to take up accommodation as for which you can contact right so

this is we're not talking about a nudist beach but we're like let's say in this society where women will wear short skirts or generally you know short tops and things like this do you have to always be lowering your gaze and not looking and B can you not look and he said where things are the norm you can just go by the norm so if that's how women around you generally dress you are not required to to kind of excessively to kind of like lower your gaze and think where they are normal that's his fatwa of the share which I find totally to reflect the voice of reason and so therefore I think that's

something we as Muslims here can adopt and and that makes life workable now this understanding so the same thing with stuff like football Olympics it's the same kind of thing right you have to understand look when we're looking at scholars in the past you see this is the thing we have to understand that the world has entirely changed entirely people entirely we are living in an absolutely different world today and you

have to come to terms with that because many Muslims do not seem to understand this they don't seem to grasp this concept that we are living in a different world and I mean a really different world a real I don't just mean oh it's you see time during time there were developments and they were kind of like the gradient was like this but since the technic and the industrialization of the world these changes have spiked we are in an absolutely different world today absolutely the way we think the way

everything is different so those scholars invade a image reconciled for their own day and age because Islam came you see when the Prophet was asked what is Islam he did not say that Islam is that you know all this ruling or that ruling or this he said Islam was the Archon these five pillars that's all it was the other things were there to reflect phenomena that was taking place they were rulings to engage which varied

from other prophets that went before and they were these rulings would vary as time develops and the narratives change of society people share I had in the house aloo masala and sure I had right a that's a comrade a fellow comrade from the days of study a chef living in London you can always reach out to him for advice people on Facebook right now so just to clarify look as a society would change so would these things all right a Manikonda KO bow or raha hai allah wa sahlan

Aloha Saarland right so the thing is now so would society would continue to change so would these rulings and that began in the time of the Sahaba things started to change so you see for example in the time of Sedna le for the Aloha I'm there's an understanding in Islam when rulings that you see when you hand something to somebody a merchant to do work on the merchant carries zero responsibility that is what the hadith dictates that's what the Prophet taught us what it said an Ali say he said sorry the time has changed corruption has spread

we will now hold these people accountable for any loss that happens to that product whilst they hold it what did the prophecy regarding the time of Othman you see the Prophet when speaking about things like animals roaming free camels and so on he had said oh if somebody finds a sheep or a goat or something they can announce it and they can do this and they can Muslims can repossess it and then the Prophet was asked right the Prophet was asked what

about a camel can the Muslim society repossess a camel if we found a camel just wondering and the prophesied Malecha well aha what's wrong with you leave the camel alone Mohammed or how was it uh-oh her the camel can feed itself and it carries its water nobody has the right to repossess a camel but what did man wrote the 'allahu undo in his time he said we're gonna change that law because the times have changed he said I'm a young fella Ferno Savio hey leo he said today we will confiscate any camels are wandering around because ah Anna's a Mankato area that the time has

changed so likewise things continue to change but since the industrialization era things have changed massively ethics have changed everything has changed it's like the iPhone 4 it changed everything everything has changed right so we need to keep that in mind now I'm like what the hell was I even talking about in the first place what right so anyway why did I begin this topic now backtrack right

so we have to accept that rulings change why was I even why was I even speaking about this let me see right let me see what was the question no I've lost it I've lost it now I've lost my what the initial thought was but we need to understand that rulings do change with time right I I don't know what the particular ruling was that I was trying to refer to what the initial question I'll have to

watch back and then answer next time but we have to embrace this understanding so people today are like still fixated in trying to say no no no Islam came because of these rulings no Islam came to connect us Oh about Orion Olympics sugar and sugar and Hussein I appreciate that right now the reason I was saying this is so when colles came in daytime so let's say to 300 years after the prophet scholars started to say like it's okay to see the aura of slave women that's absolutely fine

oh but normal women know because slave women this existed in their time so they just saw they just made a difference oh that's okay Oh her you can see her naked and to the extent they say in some of them a lot of the fake books or if you're gonna go to by different slave women in these markets you can fondle their breasts they mentioned you can kind of grab this you can grope them touch them you can feel them you can check how much meat they've got on them now if those markets

existed in our day and age window-shopping would have been taken to new heights this is where all this is where all the Muslim folks would just hang out we'll just be like right I think I'm gonna buy this one I'm just checking yeah I'm just checking look I've got I've got my credit card I'm checking I'm I'm a valuable customer god damn it or vital let me just check this one seriously this is in all the fit books and so they say you can do all this kind of stuff you can touch you can feel you can feel a breast you can feel her buttocks you can do this kind of

stuff you can check how much meat she's got on her now you see so it's interesting it's interesting how they manage to draw this distinction it's interesting how they manage to draw this distinction how they manage to reconcile mentally with this dissonance that on one hand everything was all about modesty and everything and on the other hand all this was perfectly Islamic so this is in all the books so for example if you take in in whether it's in the Hanafy fake books you could go through it

Aberdeen's rattle Matar in the Maliki works you could go through hot Bob's explanation on most acetylene this is all in the it's not I'm not making this stuff up I'm just saying and my point of mentioning it beyond the humor is to show it's interesting like for a moment let's put aside the humor and the fantasy and also the the kind of feminist talk let's just put that aside for a moment but it's interesting how they managed to live with the dissonance with the kind of contradictions going on how they managed to just reconcile

mentally and say oh well this is okay so in a similar way today things like what's on TV and stuff like this we should be able to just reconcile of not being funny but we should look and I appreciate the kind of Futaba that chef you know sympathy chef daadu has given who is a you know a respectable reputable very traditional scholar now what I'm trying to say that is my line of understanding that today

you see we need to understand that religion needs to be a working thing it needs to work for people why did I choose the Maliki method the school of Medina chose me school of Medina the Maliki method is too awesome why wouldn't I choose it I'm all about being awesome so school of Medina is just too cool man it's just it's for this day and age that's all so I mean we need to reconcile yes so when we're

watching Olympics football these kind of things in mind standing are not sexual acts so based on the futur the scholar has given I think it's fine I don't think it's something Haram I don't think Allah is gonna punish people like that and people can disagree with me they can disagree with and I have respect their position nobody's forcing them to watch Olympics nobody's forcing them to watch sports but I'm just saying that look the way our legacy if you want to call it a legacy or heritage for a thousand years reconciled and held contradictions regarding aura and covering yourself

they managed to hold it this is a tiny fraction compared to what they would do what we're reconciling so that's all I've got to say on that that's the kind of worms that some people are like a star federal law ba-ba-ba-ba this movie is taking everybody to hell listen people those people who think like that they have misinterpreted they've misunderstood God Allah is not this this pray this kind of

wicked this kind of horrific figure maybe in their minds but God as we understand him is that Rahman al Rahim if you can understand something it is to me ridiculous that you should assume that God can't understand me so anyway somebody asked here about this is another question moving on to this reconciling with LGBTQI P whatever all of these letters you know what we should have we should start

adding like Arabic letters to it LGBT to auf ein Schein they like what the hell are they this is inclusivity way being inclusive god damn it sure sheen is for sure I shall so anyway right but you know I heard an answer this is a question I wanna tackle is it permissible to not follow mother I'll come to that later on right I heard

a question this last week as I was chilling on my break oh yeah people as a side note I'm gonna say people take time out for yourselves and remember to enjoy life as well take a break when you can right that's what is what's life hashtag what's life if not lived right so leave it and ask Allah to give you this is another side note I'm just going off on a tangent here right I put this snapchat thing up I saw this somebody sent me this message on snapchat and it was an Islamic quote saying people

beware beware beware people if your life is going smooth that is if things are going good that is not because maybe it's because Allah is depriving you of the hereafter dude this is like we need that kind of suspense music with dude ah so you get to the arc here and it's like ah ah you sucker you thought you were just chilling in

the dunya who was gonna pay for this your dad it's like but but go sit in that queue over there you're going to the fire that's where you go that was a bad impersonation of the Jews tune but at least you figured it out Ahmed right so look that's lovely some people that's not how it works okay it seriously doesn't work like that don't think of God in such evil ways I think it's a shame that you think of Allah in such an evil way you think like

people have an image of allah that he's this sadistic god that takes pleasure in making people suffer why would God do that The Messenger of Allah said in a hadith inna had these people he said that he said do you see these animals the way the mother attends to and sees to its young that it lifts its Hooven and that should you know make sure that education trade on it or it kind of watches over the the young diligently sacrificing even itself and and the sahaba said yes

of course he said do you think that's merciful and they said hell yeah that's merciful and he said this is nothing compared to the love Allah has for his creation the the Prophet said he said that if you took as an example he said if you took mercy and compassion and broke it into a hundred parts a hundred parts people and hundred he is being used as as the Arabs would for likin liking an enormously massive kind of thing he said everything you see on this earth including that animal doing that

and all the compassion that humans have ever expressed is only part of one portion and the 99 is what Allah has for his creation people do not you know latter the noble is the nuna you know do not it is a shame it is a tragedy that you should think solo of Allah that he is this kind of treacherous or this kind of evil sadistic vicious being that wants to see people suffering he does not that is the Old Testament version of

God maybe it is not our Islamic version and it is not so if you are living an awesome life be grateful and carry on in your awesomeness people carry on in that do not be like do not think oh my god something evil is gonna happen it is not gonna happen but if you start thinking like that then something will happen because you've got a negative mindset okay so that's important I think it's important we do not believe in karma Muslims we do not believe in karma we do not believe in superstition

you do good good happens in in some ways that's nice to say but it doesn't in the universe way it's not how it works bad things you know you do bad bad what goes around comes around it does that's I know it's very prevalent but it's not Islamic okay so just to put that out there now let's get back to what I was saying so I heard this talk anyway right now the person was saying this scholar was saying gives an American scholar and I'm very kind of like a conservative minded scholar and he was saying well look Oh

I and I don't like using these with conservative but I'm only using it so you understand right now yes and right so and he was saying oh people have asked me you know should we that the LGBTQI community is supporting Muslims and should we reciprocate Allah should we reciprocate people and he said well no categorically no and he said well we shouldn't even really we should be mindful when we take their support

because they expect us to reciprocate and you know he said we got to be careful because we we can't endorse their ideas ever this in my understanding is nonsense I believe that islam teaches us to support them where support is needed right this is not like they have the right to practice their way of life this is what imam malik taught us from the city of the prophet mohammed from the city of the messenger the enlightened city al madina al munawwara this is what imam malik when he was asked about

people marrying their own sisters having sexual intercourse with their own sisters and their own mothers and daughters because it was their way of life should we intervene because look we're in medina we're in we have power muslim ruling they were at the height this was the golden era Haruna Rasheed and all these people so the golden era people of Islam what does Muslims were in great strength what does a ma'am Alexei he says know if it's their way of life it's their way of life Lana Tyrod l'homme he said this is

Madonna he said we do not intervene this is the way of life respect let them be this was humanism people before humanism became fashionable Allah this is in our legacy and we have abandoned it it is a shame it is a shame people that we have abandoned our own legacy as an insecure reaction to the West that's all it is now in my Malik's woods somebody said I'm not representing him let me quote you to him he said Lana -

out of the home for what the new home and he said I'm not bi his teacher he said he taught me right Robbie I used to say that the practice of Medina is the hood ja this is where we take his LOM from from Medina in my Malik's a cinema don't wanna therapy has taught me that in allahabad acara home and the experimental ik occupy room in mikhail AAHA wat this is the wording Wanaka help Anat Wanaka in Omaha that Allah has taught has allowed condoned much greater than having niqab means sexual intercourses vulnerable sexual

intercourse or all marrying your sisters and mothers and daughters what will ensure our cupola Allah has taught us to tolerate ye even at a conceptual level those who say that God is simply a statue and worship statues my last taught us to tolerate that for my by look at what about this then these are simply rulings these are rulings in my Malek is saying this city my malik people's of me if you want to shoot him shoot him I'm just simply a messenger so this is why you asked me why am I on the school

of Medina Allah that is why people write so anyway coming back to this so the thing is not this it's great that you can understand the Arabic now this is so so just to say that look we should support people in their struggles because the age has changed people it is about human rights and Islam should be at the forefront on this note let's move to a following linked question alright Harun okay I'm not sure we might

be talking about different shifts so you know I if the ship did not mean what I just what I understood then that's great alhamdulillah and I respect I didn't name the ship that's why I'm purpose but I am certain that many ships are saying this what I've just what I've said that ship was saying even if I've mistaken a particular share who I did not name just in case I miss quoted him or misrepresented him but this saying has been found in many people like so for example you know people ask him al-hakim and all these other people tweeting in English and doing all this kind of stuff

that they've been saying this non-stop and many other shoe have been saying this okay so just to clarify many scholars are unfortunately saying that right next question and this is tied into this question right that is people when you see when we look at human civilization yeah I'm sorry Muslim civilization and we can tie this into human civilization as well when we look at the Golden Age of Islam which was the age of science for Islam and and they traditionally and I said in my previous episode that the Muslims would call al hikmah which was wisdom

what we were today called science so they would call it was it was an amalgamation of certain things like alchemy physics science philosophy all these things it was basically a Hickman was the science or the knowledge of the Greeks that the Muslims found this is what al-hikmah was which today we would call science and medicine and all these things he see Muslim stumbled upon the knowledge of the Union the ancient Greeks and what they actually stumbled

upon was Galen Cathy it was a great treasure they found themselves upon and they couldn't believe it was mathematics and physics and the cosmos and and astronomy and Muslims already Arabs already had certain things about astronomy but they found other things in medicine they found no it wasn't just kalaam kalaam is what part of the theological aspect that developed as a consequence of this but they discovered so for example all of muslims would study people like Ptolemy and they would

study people like but why use and they would study Galen Galen is all of these scholars speak about Galen even on arabe and all these people they study the mathematical works and they study all their things with the Greeks when the Muslims stumbled upon this the Greeks civilization had ended this was like part of the legacy that the Muslims kind of stumbled upon and philosophy so they started translating this and embracing it and it took the Muslim civilization to a whole new height and they never just translated and they appropriated

they started to add to write they started to add to and master these Sciences and contribute to these Sciences so why am I saying this this I want you to hold that thought today the problem that we're facing if let me give you an example if let's say the West today let's take America and Europe and the civilizations we have here what for summary no longer in existence let's just say

for some reason they were civilization that all the achievements we have today were in books and in recordings but the civilization had died 400 years ago but we stumbled upon these works so let's say today we stumbled upon quantum physics evolution genetics medicine astronomy the cause cosmology all these kind of things today but the Western is human rights but the Westerners didn't exist like let's say they have ceased I guarantee you we would wholeheartedly

embrace it we would drown ourselves in this knowledge the problem is that these people are still in existence and they are not Muslim them not being Muslim isn't the problem because the Greeks weren't Muslim they believed in all these different gods the problem is these people still exist today so and they seem to hold a non-muslim stance like they are there they don't they don't look up to Islam so we and then

there's been a history of colonial you know the colonization so you take all this baggage you put it together and what Muslims are doing is they are reacting out of insecurity so they are kind of like saying well why have these people succeeded and we haven't so out of hatred and hating on this success they are dispelling anything that comes from them and in doing so we are losing

a great a great treasure of reality so I wanted to share that because look this last week I was in fact this week was it this week or within within the last few days I was visited by a scholar and I think the scholar was great very respectable person who has great characteristics and great character and I actually am you know a very I'm very honored that he came to visit me and

take his time out and speak to me and we got into a discussion and and it went on for a couple of hours and it was really interesting because he's one of the chefs biggest issues with me simply was the fact of or simply was my dress sense it wasn't even my views I was shocked I couldn't believe that I would have thought you know if I was to be him I would have an issue with my views let's say but he simply had an issue with my dressings

and he was saying that and I refusing to dress in Muslim attire because of an inferiority complex and I said well and we got into a lengthy discussion and and I think it's interesting that I summer in summary I highlighted that look and I have a lot of people ask me this question that look we know where in Islam have we been given a uniform no

way in Islam so you mean nobody has the authority to lie on behalf of Allah and His Messenger I can't start calling a Samsung phone Islamic I that would be a lie to Allah against Allah and His Messenger I don't have that authority now Allah and His Messenger didn't say there's a uniform so to create a uniform is an innovation in Islam because we really right should Islam is for the whole world with the cultures Allah says

he created us different now only Tarara for so we get to know each other and appreciate now it was amazing that I did when he said yes he kind of obviously had to accept that point he said we're that true but this was something a hundred years ago my ancestors and his ancestors and all of our ancestors would have worn let's say a shalwar kameez and this seems to be this obsession with sherlock amis which i have no problem with by the way but under culture and not under religion that's my issue putting it under religion is a problem

now the I said to him look that is true but we do not live a hundred years ago and we live today and I am and he said and there was a question also you want to be British because like and I said look let's get something clear I am British there's not I want to be I am just as many people here are and and so was the ship but not by birth I understand like II and and I said there's a difference with people who are born and raised in this country that we obviously this is everything we know this is our culture now there's nothing wrong in having Asian culture Pakistani

culture Indian culture Arab culture that's great and beautiful but to shove clothes in under the banner of religion is as ridiculous as me saying eating biryani is Islamic that's ridiculous how can eating biryani be Islamic like it's so it's the same kind of thing now I did ask the chef then and this is a point I said well why don't you encourage people to ride donkeys because let's be honest your ancestors and I'm sure my ancestors a hundred years ago

wrote and they wrote on donkeys so why don't we keep a donkey and he said yeah but that's ridiculous I said why is that ridiculous and he said yeah because we don't because the time has changed I said but but why can't we keep our heritage and and and and and he said yeah but you know if you're a farmer and and I said look no first of all your ancestors were farmers my ancestors were farmers why should we all be farmers today out of honoring our Muslim heritage secondly why shouldn't we all

keep a donkey and you could keep a car for long distances and keep a donkey for short distances and you can still be a doctor but you could just for a short distance right on your donkey and this could be your Muslim identity because 100 years ago but you see I said you see the absurdity in this ha ha but you don't see the absurdity in saying a hundred years ago your ancestors wore clothes like that I was like well hundred years ago they wrote donkeys like for why do you ride on a donkey like and so this was this is important to see that look people we need to live in the present

let's take another question people Brioni is some that hell yeah I mean I absolutely love briyani actually I mean I love chapatis but I love rice actually more than two more than chapatis all that's an absolute irrelevant point but anyway before I start getting hungry let's take another question ugly brush and get out of Chilton right so that's bringing in some Indian heritage of us ancestors our ancestors

haha but um but um barakatuh of just then let's go to it right so right next question is the hadith praising the person to conquer Constantinople authentic I believe it is I believe there is a hadith to the way the Prophet said that you know glad tidings to the person who will liberate gastón taenia which is constantinople

speaking hindi is non-islamic eric Aiko this is part of our Hindustani heritage as well we should embrace Hindi as well Hindi or do everything right so there's a female Hindi Urdu poet ESTs by the name of hiya Lata hiya she's very good actually and merges the two fuses the two together Hindi inaudible anyway let's so the hadith on conquering constantinople is authentic as far as i'm aware it mentions here that how

could the Prophet praise somebody who began the policy of fratricide in the Ottoman Kingdom I wonder if the Prophet would really praise such a person okay now you see I just want to say that when the Prophet praised a particular aspect it doesn't mean that every aspect about that human has to be awesome it does not mean that so for example if somebody did something Noble it doesn't mean you know throughout their life they never did anything bad either but so just to say that the work the Prophet was praising

was the liberation of Constantinople right so because consider Constantinople was like the kind of gateway to the eastern what was the Eastern kind of Christian Empire which was preventing many people from the truth and it was an Islam really came to liberate that so that's what it was praising jewelry for men in Islam I've answered that many times before yes absolutely it's fine as long as it's not gold and gold has some

difference of opinion right but okay now I'm cuz I've answered that so many times short back insides and things like that I absolutely find in Islam as that was speaking about imitating monks okay anyway coming back to this question and I don't think mohammed ii a muhammad attorney who is known as muhammad al-fatih hobble Fattah horrible hey rot or I will say it I don't think he introduced the concept of or he introduced fratricide into the ottoman

empire after him I believe one or two rulers after him was Salim a Lowen Salim the first who took the lock of of Hakimullah remain and Hardeman haramein so today or not today I know in Saudi Arabia King Fahad then he took that kind of luck above Hardeman haramein but the person who first had this was saline and oh well okay the first he was the first person to take the title Calif as well

amongst the Ottoman so before him for a good while over a hundred years the ottomans were just ruling with the title sultan so even muhammad al-fatih when he conquers constantinople he didn't use the word Calif now although he did adopt the title caesar he adopted the title Ceaser of Rome but and most of the Ottoman rule is adopted the title Caesar because of conquering Constantinople but they didn't you use they used to usually refer to themselves as Sultan's but Suleiman Oval was the first person who

adopts he's called by one of the he's actually one of the Imams or somebody calls him as Hakeem will haha remain and Hardeman haramein so he likes it and he takes the title and then somebody many thinks why don't I call myself Khalifa as well so he starts calling himself Khalifa now it's with him I believe who is the father by the way of Solomon who is known as Solomon the mug magnificent Oh Solomon alkar nuni in Islamic history that's his

son that's Salim son right now he I believe was Salim when he got in like kind of mass murdered his brothers and everything and really put this fratricide thing the hardened well had I mean he goes a cha that I guess it must be the ecclesia because let me show you some of my service for the haramein and he begins by slaughtering his brothers so he was he'd I know he perpetrated mass fracture side and murdered and butchered and but anyway that's just the history

and this is why it's ridiculous when and his son Solomon Oconee by the way substituted who was Hanafy Hanafy who today the hanafis don't take from God dummy right but he substituted the ha dude the the punishments of stoning and cutting the hand and things like that with financial penalties in his time that was solomon who is known as solomon oka uni because he came up with and never came up with but he he administered and made sure set about this project about codifying the legal

system within the ottomans and he was really known for using one of the you know the great rulers of the ottomans but in his time he substituted that he was known as carloni because of par noon because of law and in english I believe it's Solomon the Magnificent the Magnificent with all the stories about his herons over here in the West these Kings were like god damn those Sultan's are living it they were like struggling to divorce one wife they were like how on earth King Henry the eighth's has to go against his entire religion to come up with the

concept of divorce think about that you have to make your own religion the Anglican Church just to get a divorce and when he's looking at the East likes these kind of Sultan's and they've got their harems full of they just live in their lives but anyway coming back to this so I think look this point of fratricide and killing your brothers and killing this and that and like a lot of the also the Mughal kings the Mughal dynasty in India did the same thing even the religious like Alamgir and Aurangzeb

I mean Aurangzeb o Alamgir he did the same thing as well had his brother killed and stuff like this and had his father imprisoned shah jahan and many of the ottomans kill their brothers and stuff this is why it's so dumb you know when these people like these neo forage kind of sects like his bata Hadid and other politicized Islamic groups which are extremist organizations in essence they I mean they carry extremist views about trying to take over Muslim countries and do military coup todoku datas and kill people and stuff like

this they you see the vision they give is ridiculous like they give this vision of Islam with this perfect hole of fire and leadership and the leadership was full of this kind of stuff these people who call themselves K lives I'll be honest with they it was it was not Islamic in any way they were just kings and they would they weren't Islam it didn't bother them in any way they were like I'll give you an example they were like you take any Muslim Prime Minister today except they were much more ruthless because they could get away with things so it's like saying no i

shouldíve today no i Sharif ^ ten would have been like a regular Calif back in the past like in the general like these Ottomans and so on it would they were just as corrupt as anybody today except they had absolute rain like so today Nawaz Sharif has been dismissed because there's a judicial system and this worldwide pressure and this global kind of diplomacy and these global powers and pressure and stuff like this in the past in your kingdom you did whatever the hell you want you just kill her like so in the past anybody who raised these Panama issues

they would have just slaughtered him and his family and of and probably you know kill them rape the women and just it was that these things were standard they're not like you know it's not it shocking for us today because we live in a post industrialization world where things have changed so much but in the past these things were very normal and they were regularly as in happening right throughout the Muslim world as well being Muslim didn't mean anything different so this is why you see some sects like the she I was saying struggled with because they needed

leadership to be pure so this is why they came up with their own concept of leadership of Imam ax because the Calif leadership thing just didn't add up because they weren't religious in any it like they didn't in fact have anything to do with religion apart from just being Muslim so yeah so I think but if the Prophet praised prophesized a good action at the hands of somebody it didn't mean that the Prophet ordained anything and everything that person was to do throughout their lives so just to clarify that right next question whoa people whoa I'm feeling kind of

drained is it all this talk about Brianna's that's got me hungry now Abdul Majid Maja's in the house people Marge's in the house all right our HT expert I'm gonna send all the trolls and get trolled sending for you now anyway isn't it an oxymoron to say that there is such a source of law as each ma when there is no each man on the legal definition of each mal sufferer tureen

that is true there is no Osama say it RI that's what we're talking about that's it people are right all the way right now each MA consensus is within the books of legal theory you have this thing off you're right I didn't have Red Bull today I just have my usual cocktail right right that people speak about each man Iijima was in essence it was like a wild card

that was used often by people to just intimidate and apply pressure and stuff like these there is no consensus on what consensus even means so how could it yeah really be you know such a that's that's absolutely true but what is interesting is how Muslims didn't didn't actually a lot of Muslims kind of just went with it and maybe some people questioned the odd person questioning but everybody just kind of went with it because it was tribalistic you see it was part of their like they use their

each man to just force it on other people but this is why today it's important that you know this in a way it's one of the the benefits of the tragedies you know like in Arabic this is saying that like a rhubarb or attend a fee at that sometimes like like I suppose out of a tragedy you can find a blessing now the the tragedy the tragic overwhelming abysmal like absolutely horrific tragedy of things like colonization that took place but the

disconnect as a byproduct a caused to Islam and the Muslim history aloud now Muslims to once again see things afresh because there was a disconnect and so yeah it's true and even his mind the past was questioned by people like him I'm sure he was questioned by Imam Ahmed in Hamburg on saying whoever claims Iijima is a liar man did the ilyitch mouth or what Kathy but even hasn't ripped the whole thing to shreds and and but but in general people kind of went with it even though they had no idea on no common ground on what they were

talking about but they just used it whenever they want to shove something and somebody said oh you can't question this Iijima you think how on earth was the age man but it was just one of those things anyway moving on moving on and I've given a lengthy explanation on how I believe I do believe there was something as Iijima at the time of the Sahaba the time the Companions and what that was I've given a lengthy discussion on it in my previous life you search each man and my name should come up and shall I soon my website should be up and running and you should be able to find these things with much more ease so I do give a

definition on what the true understanding of each mount was and how we kind of got hijacked as the kind of age went by and was turned into this just intimidation a card of intimidation right okay next question people right okay there's a viral clip I think some of you know what I'm gonna talk about now there's a viral clip that's going around on social media you know what I'm talking about naughty naughty this basically this is a girl who's praying

her Salah pull side and she's in a bikini in a swimwear right so and she's praying her Salah oh you've all seen this clip don't lie so people are ripping her to shreds on social media and I've been tagged in this on several occasions and people have asked me what do I think about this right well first of all I think people have no right to rip into her like that it's nobody's business okay like look you can have your opinion

but I don't think it's right to kind of destroy people like troll them like you have no like you have no right to just generally be harsh like an evil towards people I get you're right to express your opinion I get your right to say look people look like if somebody said excuse me you know I don't know what her name was I don't people knew her name or excuse me sister I don't like using the word sister I do not call girls normally sister okay I don't buy into all this kind of what I call nonsense romanticized kind of

version of Islam which has only emerged in the last century or so but but there's nothing wrong with people who want to use that you know they want to call everybody their brother and everybody their sister generally Muslims in the past didn't do that kind of stuff but okay so you never see him you know like in the past in the Arabic books they say hey brother sister this is a new synthetic kind of Islam that we've developed in the West but anyway fine people could have said hey sister you know it's admirable that you have remembered you know taking our time

to worship but I think you should you know generally one or two cover when praying salat and things like this okay yeah we are all brothers and sisters in humanity I know I know I know I get I get the whole evolution thing my friend and we are all the sons and daughters of Adam I get that but I'm just saying I don't generally like this kind of I don't I've got no problem with you guys doing it but I'm just saying I don't buy into this whole everybody this artificial synthetic Islam of everybody is your brother and sister and get real and just call them but who they are you

know you don't need to over hey brother hey sister right anyway so coming back to this point so somebody could have said to her look listen this is the rule but they they don't have a right to tear into her that's what I'm saying right to start off with you do not have a right to be nasty to somebody just because look at the end of the day she was just remembering god that's what she's me okay according first of all first of all let me drop the bombshell right did you know according to the Maliki mother and according to people like godly smiley

who is a done in Islam and a done in the Maliki mother that's all eyes absolutely valid did you know that how they smile I've answered this before has said that covering the aura has nothing to do with salon he has made that point absolutely clear early on he he he was one of the major scholar amongst like the teachers of people like Bihari he's a legend in Islam called his mind and many of the Maliki of birth dad and Iraq followed him on this understanding he said that covering yourself was a separate obligation in Islam it was a

foreign islami and was nothing to do with shiraito's Allah with the conditions of Salah so this is why in the Maliki method you will get these rulings that were to cover yourself what are the different opinions within Islam within the Maliki method that it is an obligation that is an obligation with capacity there is a Sunnah that is only a recommendation to cover yourself in Salah but it is a separate obligation in Islam so the question is if I was praying if somebody prayed naked in a room where nobody could see them is this

a lot valid according to the Maliki er of birth death and Iraq which was a valid sub school of the Maliki and gaudy smile that this Allah is valid and they were legends legends in Islam Oh Thea smile he was you know in his time he was made the absolute judge of of I of Baghdad and Basra I mean he was an absolute legend in his time so this understanding that just to show this is within the school of Medina within Sunni Islam it is a valid understanding within

Islam that covering yourself is a separate obligation which is independent and immaterial to Salah that said so I want you to understand that and and I've said before that look based on this understanding advance of this before previously that looked based on that understanding if we mean oh if people praying and something was to become uncovered okay it's fine anyway the Salah you've got this difference of opinion okay now so let's put that ruling there now here the

majority of the people the other methods and the rest of the Maliki er said that no I mean there was a difference some said it was a for some said it was afforded capacity and remembrance some said it was a Sunnah and in some said it was must have just a recommendation and not really part of the Salah at all in any key integral way but the rest of the Maliki of did say it was an obligation and the arrest of the mother he said okay a person needs to cover in Salah it was a condition of Salah remember now first of all there's a difference of opinion in this must allow this woman praying poolside in her bikini and swim way it's not something I would recommend people to do I will not tell them to do

that but if they did it right don't be nasty towards them you have no right to be cruel to people nobody gave you the right to do that so what you have the right to do is you can get extent extent look you can extend your opinion you can say look listen you know right because I actually think it's amazing well III actually saw the fact that Wow somebody who and I'm being stereotypical just as people will be stereotypical of me and being stereotypical seeing somebody in swimwear like that you wouldn't think that they're necessarily somebody so and that's wrong of me to

judge like that but I'm just being honest that you wouldn't think that old that maybe they have a deep connection with Islam but wow she does you know the fact that she poolside put herself to praying and remembering Allah is in itself an amazing thing that she could have just said forget it who gives a damn okay but she may have done it in a way that according to many not according to all according to many invalidated the prayer so fine you know there's still a difference of opinion

but you could respectfully nicely extend a kind word you know you will get very far with kind words to tear into her she'll probably just stopped praying thinking look and she never recorded herself somebody recorded her anyway so that was my point I personally do feel that are the smile and the Malika the school of Medina have a strong point on what they've said that covering yourself in Salah is a separate obligation to that that is my general understanding that I do go with so I would feel that look based on what the Maliki have said her Salah would have

been valid but you know it was generally an obligation for her to cover which she didn't do and for that somebody could say you know the sin and things like that but the Salah would have been fine okay based on that understanding how would have I reacted I would not have if I was in that situation in somebody pray it depends look if I I wouldn't go over and come on you know the folly born on here Taliban rally it's not none of my business yes if I was to to be honest with you I was actually when I saw I was just in all that while somebody that remembered

this Allah you know like I I saw that side like wow like I wouldn't have expected somebody to be chilling like that and then remember this Allah and it would have probably put me to shame because I would have probably been delaying mine well I'm just saying so and yeah if I got into a conversation with a girl that did that I would have probably mentioned that look I think you know because I do believe the Salah based on what the Maliki I said was valid but generally it's because people are recording you or whatever that you should you know to avoid controversy and maybe it's better if you get a chance

just wrap up in a gown and then pray but look have some decency and stop playing God let's be honest right alright let's take another question people let's take another question right somebody asked how was my meeting with chef Bob sir a shampoo hope that is an amazing scholar still alive today in thought one and he granted me his assignee his chains of transmission through his teachers which is through chef ahmed al Hamadi is through the

legend who I absolutely love chef even assured who he took ages and license from from Tunis and the Maliki Don and also through people like Abdel Haile Kotani who has an abundant countless books of chains and I purchased his three volume collections of chains this is I suppose it's more a collector's item thing really if you're into it it means something for you if you're not I guess it means nothing it doesn't mean you know chef bow observe he's an amazing like I absolutely adore his commitment to studying and his knowledge and the fact that you know his association with these teachers and his love and respect for people I am Not

sure it does not mean that I necessarily have to agree with all his views in life we need to get over that kind of concept you know people sometimes feel that oh you share oh this guy oh my god let me find something he says which you disagree with ha he's your share I got you gotcha you know got him that's not how this works my I grow up for God's sake doesn't work like that so let's uh let's let's let's move on to the next another question people another question right

whoa my head is spinning my head is spinning alright let's see people sorry this I had the questions open and he just closed on me right was subtle always the dominant opinion within the method suddenly it's like praying with your arms at the side and the Mauna Kea do that I don't know about dominant is yeah it's always been a very popular outstanding position within the Maliki school and I've answered this before and you can find it on YouTube in shablow and check it out they have given more detail can you explain the Braille video Bundy dispute that's plagued the subcontinent right were senior the open the online

support of Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahab is the disputing purely on beliefs of this politics player play a major role right you see my advice Suleiman Ahmed is that look we in the UK as I advise people I do inshallah inshallah write my book someday and I'd love to write memoirs of a musty but then people would just hate me files to be absolutely true right so haha the duplicitous keep the hypocrisy

such as the hypocrisy of life right so right the you know this do pundit do Braille display this is indo-pak baggage leave it over thee respect him both love them both but you take what's good leave what's fine I'm not bound i have teachers who are do bundy have teachers who are brilliant teachers or selfie teachers who are whatever like take the good from wherever you want the it's a debate in indo-pak

which you know began over you know these kind of reforms that were made by certain people at the time and then it led to certain petty which I think are petty debates issues which really are not even a part of up either like oh how much knowledge did the Prophet actually have I mean who what what kind of an absurd question is that even like like how much knowledge did the Prophet have like like what would you want me to measure II like how the hell do I know you know like grow up for God's sake and

and why is this even important you know is the Prophet a human or was he superhuman as in made out of light I mean what an absurd question of course the Prophet was human but he was the best of humans to us as Muslims but he was a human I mean it would be you'd be silly if he wasn't a human we wouldn't have no you know locket cannula comfy rasoolullah you sorta nothing we wouldn't have a noose well because it would just be an angel anyway they say oh did the Prophet I don't know these kind of can the Prophet be everywhere is the Prophet

over here right now now you see why I'm saying we need to leave this baggage alone what kind of a question is that it's the Prophet here what what do you mean is he here what kind of like listen people do not allow Islam to become mythology I tell you what why he if you allow this Deen to escape the voice of reason and it will turn into mythology and I tell

you as mark my words it will dissipate and disappear it will melt in the hands of the coming generations they will not be able to sustain it in this part of the world because the voice of reason is way too powerful why do you not believe in the mythology of Zeus and the Hindu mythology because it's because because it's dumb if you allow Islam to become something dumb the coming generation okay you might cling on to it but the coming generations I tell you when they

hear the voice of reason it will pierce right through it you see we're at an interesting crossroad right and I want to present this to all of you as well we're at an interesting crosswalk people do we faith do we present certain truths as Muslims which are truths but they may end up shaking the faith of people or do we allow their faith to be sustained the way it is but it's built on

superstitions and mythologies and non truths like what do we do now I say that an insecure faith that people say to me yeah what you're saying is right like sometimes I teach things and people will say that's right but are but if you told people this then in my question everything they've known about Islam and therefore they might use Iman and I get what they're saying and I believe they're concerned to be sincere but do we allow Islam to be just passed on as

mythology and nonsense or non truths just so these people can hold on to it or do we get to the foundations and allow is farm to be built on the foundations of truth but it will result in chin shaking in the minds of certain people now I believe that an insecure faith built on truth is much greater and valuable in the eyes of Allah then a

secure faith built on lies that to me I refuse to believe on like a kava faith built on lies no matter how secure it is so that is my my understanding now why am I saying this because look these kind of things these kind of mythologies that we get these kind of beliefs on magic and I saw this YouTube clip about this guy with all these doing all these jinn things and and every all these people believing in these demonic possessions

and folklore and mythology and superstition and evil eyes and it's absurd it's absolutely absurd we really need to return to the voice of reason you see what makes human beings unique you see look people let me tell you something I came across this this this this kind of example I'll share it with you if there was a human on an island let's say you had a human on an island

and you had a chimp a monkey a chimpanzee on an island and you had to place your bet on survival you would place your bet I would place my bet on survival on the monkey the chimpanzee can out survive a human being if there was one human being on an island and there was a chimp on an island you see our strength you see this whole scenario would change if there were a thousand humans and a thousand chimpanzees the

thousand humans would clearly without a shadow of a doubt like outperform a thousand or even 5000 chimpanzees or 10,000 chimpanzees because human beings we draw our incredible strengths as a collective because what we can do is we can create imaginative realities that's really important for us to understand and using these imaginative realities we

can trust each other now I say imaginative because and people might get offended but what I mean by that is they don't have an object they don't have a reality in front of us but we need to embrace that because it's the truth so many of the things one of the great look at every all the things we man are so integral to our lives today are only an imaginative reality like obviously religion would would fall under that but you know things like currency money is

only an imaginative reality the fact that we are I am British or we live in Britain is an imaginative reality the fact even Wright's properties you know I mean not the actual thing but the fact that it's a property is an imaginative reality rights over people human right everything ethics every all of these things are only imaginative realities laws of physics all of our understanding of them quantum is our understanding of

them is an imaginative reality but it's testable but what I'm trying to say is look this is what makes us unique but we need to along the way question these realities that are presented to us look like this chimpanzee this monkey if you ask this monkey to give you a banana let's say this monkey ate a banana and I asked this monkey to give me his banana and in return of him giving me his banana he can have infinite bananas once

he's dead the monkey would never give you his banana but the human will this is the power that lies in these imaginative realities that was created that you see it's true though you could never get a lion or an animal to give up anything it has for a promise of infinite let's say replacements wants their debt they will never give it up

but humans you can and in that lies our power but also our responsibility like we need to be able to question and not be exploited as well because look these imaginative realities and the abilities to work as a cohort and a community are amazing but at the same time you know it's like somebody said they said but you know monkeys don't reach the moon monkeys don't you know

cure cancer monkeys don't create cars or run the world or create aeroplanes but at the same time monkeys don't create concentration camps monkeys don't conduct genocide monkeys don't you know subject other monkeys to horrific forms of torture monkeys don't you know like animals don't do that either so the important thing in understanding this is that look narratives are great narratives are you know they what they

are what make us great and within Islam we have many narratives being all the time presented to us but look make no mistake what lies so much of what we have it's look it's all part of our heritage and I'm part of this but it has through the centuries and decades and centuries it's gone through millions of minds and been reinterpreted all the way the Prophet for example when he was asked about Islam and EEMA when the Prophet was asked what his faith he said faith is believing in allies messenger his book that they will be an afterlife

and listen it that's it today what is faith you will get books and books saying faith is this Creed so so so you know like if you don't should you question one of these you are no longer part of this faith today you will have concepts opinions like let's not be naive much of what we have it is an amazing legacy we love it but it has gone through a huge process of institutionalization a huge process so

we need to have the faculties the COG faculties to question things to reason with things to look at things and say hmm I don't know we need to be in touch with the Mikasa of Islam the kind of objectives of Islam because times are changing rulings will need to reflect their times so we need to do that so I mean this is so this is an important message right that we need to kind of

really have the right and when people tell you you can't question that is a very dangerous kind of thing I anybody who's telling you that you do not have the right to question that is unacceptable to me that is a disservice to Islam and people say yeah but if you teach people to question they will question their faith let them goddamn it let them question their faith if that's what it leads to but do not let them build a faith upon the foundations of non truths because when they convey it

will crumble so that's I think it's important I think it's important sometimes you know sometimes I get I get emotionally I'm an emotional guy I mean touch with my my inner softer side as well right so this is the this is what what I'm saying like we need to really focus on the end this kind of folklore and mythology is from indo-pak and leave

them behind my you know like what's nice about them taking I I admire and love the way the the Braille we have this whole love for the prophet muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam I think that's amazing and we should take that from them this the way they have respect and love for the Profi I think they do overdo it when it comes to other people on some people but I think when it to do with the profit I think we should embrace that from them and I love the way that the Obon these have this devotion and

commitment to academia to academic and to the the sciences and III love that no not no not they're killing not the violence the profit never taught that the profit never taught the violent part that's they but the love that they have if you're going to look at a Braille V from Pakistan look at somebody who I highly admire he's passed away now Pia kerim Shah so who is an amazing scholar something he says I would say take it I love ROTC well I mean he he's not somebody that would encourage violence ever now somebody like that I would take his word oh you know like I mean

generally eyes closed I would trust him he was a man who was a voice of reason and that you Bundy's the way they are committed to learning and trying to expand in the commitment to academia we should take that from them right the question so I think take what's good but don't take the the folk low and rich you know that kind of stuff that leave that all where it is and the Wahhabis you see what we can take from the Wahhabis I think the seller fees waha BIA is they

courage to question things I I like the way they have a career although I think they you know sometimes they don't question everything they're not being objective they don't question their own things or their own scholars they only and they know questionable taymiyah he couldn't say anything he's infallible but but that general kind of thing that they refused to take this kind of things just because they are so I think that's awesome and they the fact that they have a kind of objectivity towards rulings

when it comes to hadith some objectivity I like that I admire that and the way they've refused to accept several not all but several superstitious practices I like that so but then you know they do buy into this whole demonic possession stuff and everything but they but they have refused to accept so many other kind of cultural practices as Islam III admired so we can take that from them look take the good from anybody I don't know from me you know you probably see me a thing what the hell is

this freak doing huh yeah if not anything just take my call to the voice of reason even if you don't see reason in what I say but take my call to the voice of reason and to just be consistent in Islam that's what I would say right so I tell you what let's we're gonna have to wrap this up any lost so we have a rapid-fire response to any questions there was a question there he's watching movies Haram like I answered before I do not believe watching movies is Haram I've given a

more detailed response before on watching Olympics and things like this is the same thing and this is the medium of the age just as the Arabs look everybody today does things like watch his movies watch his series does this does that now in the past in the prophet's time everybody was into the poetry and if you were into that you engaged with them if today you're not into anything then you have nothing in common with people that's like you know like what do you engage with people on like okay I'm not into sports oh I don't

but movies TV series now I'm probably gonna get some I'm gonna have like ah that's gonna probably backfire on me but what the hell look let's just be honest everybody watches movies everybody watches these things why should we be why should I be duplicitous like everybody does it behind and then they just come over and say oh but this is Haram but why like why I have this double standards watch whatever you're gonna watch my dope

don't you don't need to get everything rubber-stamped in islam by god you know we have this syndrome that we need everything kind of like oh I'm about to check a text message can God stamp it for me oh I'm about to go oh and I'm watching this can God stamp it for me oh and I'm listening to this can God stamp it for me I think you've misunderstood how this thing works God doesn't work for you it's the other way around okay so that's uh ah people the drink

has come to an end Allah look at that the glass is empty or is it just prepared for another refill is that what you know the lip said he said that the heart Uncle John nahi hardcore John nahi uncommitted them he said even if my hands have become so weak that I can't reach the glass anymore at least that ma I still have strength to look Leonard or

be saga romina marry a gay that leave the drink and wine in front of me at least let me look at it look at it if I can't pick it up legends legends right people I'm gonna leave you to it Michelle flights been awesome right if you are on Facebook like my other page my public page people like it god damn yup guru yeah how do you do I have to buy those likes can't you just like it god damn it you know when people look at people like now or Milan he's got

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very good care of yourselves it's as always an absolute pleasure and always with that though i look at this subhan allahi wa ta'ala a Maya say foon Allah is above what they ascribed to him as in descriptions well of the low salatu was-salam ala al imam known and the best of blessings and salutations be upon the blessed one who said The Messenger of Allah who said Al Madina to hide Allah hump in can Rihanna moon that indeed Medina is better for them but if only

they knew alright people with that take very good care of yourselves assalamu alaikum warahmatullah to Allah or barakato