Manifest As Mercy | Meaning With MALM #40

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right all right let me bring up some of the comments um just going to also do a quick audio scan [Music] all right what's that what have i opened i'm just checking here for

well i guess that can wait right so let me just see is the audio coming through loud and clear it's um

have been some interesting days shall we say some interesting days let me just grab a while you guys are tuning in i'll just i have to take a sip of that let's see people what is going on who have we got with us loud and clear of right all right say it in from kashmir

al-amin all the way from bangladesh all right as always shukran all right so shamrock g how are you i'm yeah wow what can i say

ah in the words of mere but [Laughter] wow it's been some very fascinating interesting uh days you know as always oh i need to need to go get a haircut allah be praised a lobby praise there's um a lot's been happening in all uh dynamics really so we've

i've been uh blessed with another little one i've chosen the name people so this is the final one i own up to [Laughter] ah so there's been a lot uh

there's been some family uh just you know this whole summer thing weddings going on but there's also on the other side there's um some you know very unnerving issues like my mom's health has kind deteriorated and may allah make things easy i mean um so it's just been in the middle of so much really um and to be honest

i thought i wanted to do a show last week and i couldn't get around to it um and i thought to myself well let's do one this week and then it almost slipped me and i thought well you know sometimes enough you know that's the see what ruins things often can also be it can be hesitation that as the poet says in kunta the azimuthin

that you know if you make up if you have an opinion on something then you must have an azim that also works so yeah i thought let's do this i may we'll keep this relatively short today and i'm thinking also from next week i will charla that's it the intention now that

i will change the timings to um to kind of evening time uk so yeah let's go with that see how that works for next week so for now manifest as mercy people chicken

um yeah so uh manifest his mercy allah i thought let's share some words on these i wanted to go over also a few verses of what could be a better surah indicating mercy than surah

it doesn't really get any better than the people so that's something i want to take a look at just the first few first nine verses of suratur rahman and we'll speak a bit about that in just a moment i'll take a look at your comments and what's going on

much appreciated so people what an interesting time it is um somebody said you're here i'm getting too old for my hair about there yeah okay too old for that here i need a haircut here too see everything is but a blessing from allah we should

allah all right now let's begin with uh you had to come across some of these classic lines of mir taki mirza

mir taki be the legend ah i thought why not it was so i guess relevant with the whole thing of pondering uh with life with uh um just you've got mercy and and contemplation oh yeah allah bless you you really should not have that yes keep you always blessed and always smiling i mean you really didn't have to but it's i really appreciate your love and sentiments

may allah keep you blessed um donate some of that here you could yeah so [Music] you know what tomorrow inshallah let's go to the the barbers the hairdressers you know on friday in case i forget i should have a mind trap with dr um shazad salim again on some very interesting topics surrounding um [Music]

surrounding women islam and jurisprudence if you like or just the whole conceptualization so there's a lot of topics to go into that a lot of the kind of challenging maybe um [Music] problematized notions that people raise to do with women and islam we should be discussing them it may take a few sessions at least two if not more with dr shazad saleem so it will be this friday um

around 7 p.m uk time so look out for that people all right so shukran mufti style looks good muhammad shakur [Laughter] allah is you i mean i mean um

mufti could you have a debate with christian prince no i would not be having a debate with christian prince so i'm not interested it doesn't matter you know it's people say these people say this they say that you know it's not look

focus on your path keep walking one step at a time don't worry about these people what are you going to entertain every single person that you see along the way see look this is what he's saying that they came you know you know this whole thing of fakir and

it's not just poor but that kind of dervish concept of somebody who's just it's kind of this kind of malang this mystic wanderer in this search of in the search for god that that they came and left this echo that ham dua that may you always be happy this is the echo they left behind and then that they set off see manifest this

is it as a mercy for people on that when we say that we could no longer live without you now this is a promise or a pact that we have now realized as in turn to

a reality as in they've now gone up now check this line out people shift i'm telling you that is such a line that look he says that in the end he says maybe shifa was never in my fate that the healing the cure it was never destined

for him he's he's in this line it's in this couplet it's as though he's suffering from an illness whatever that may be maybe symbolic metaphoric it may be love it may be uh an achievement it may be ambition it may be courage it could be any this is not speaking about um you know it's less so speaking about actual ailments and illnesses and more so about a a metaphoric that he accepts at the end that okay maybe the cure was never

destined for me okay like as in your capacity full strength but to our full strength that we medicated tilled the nth degree as in we took every possible path till we could it's just a testimony to the human spirit

jesus what is that one thing and he says ah what a style yeah in his poetry he does that sometimes ah he really that for that one thing we stripped bare the heart and removed from it everything else what was that one thing and

and the fact that that humans have the capacity to do that once they set their goals their eyes on something you know find your charles bukowski find your passion let [Music] that we so longed for your for passing by your your house your your settlement your bold your accommodation this is just

this is once again drawing up that trope that motif of where a person longs for something and just to even pass by it by accompanying by just that being in the presence of even if they're not there but that attachment and this can be extrapolated to all right up to the transcendental a person may go to a certain site you could turn up to the haram it's not that god physically lives in

these places but it's just that you go there is an association there is an attachment so eventually he's giving the the image that we were drenched in blood when we finally got to that that that street of yours it's quite a tragic but showing that the the journey

the the adventure that this person had to go through through hell and high water to get just to an association that when you manifested yourself it resulted in the person saying

i lost my senses my true self sense of consciousness this is an amazing word in in order kind of describes this losing oneself that you separated me from you that this union was cleft asunder the other way could be understood

you ripped me from my very own soul we did such that upon such that that when it came to it we fulfill the right of worship and and he says it that it's actually in this same poem it's further down it's not here but he

that what would you reply if somebody was to ask me that you did come into this world but what is it that you left behind it's really something that in a world of countless options and choices and crippled by by roots and paths that drown us with their options if anything we should manifest as mercy the verse of the quran

107. we have sent you we have not sent you except as a paragon of mercy for others right i just want to share those words um [Music] to sob ah

there's a lot left yet there's a lot inshallah i will unfold a step at a time stay blessed prince christian just chat because i'm beyond foul mouth yeah i'm not interested in these kind of debates i don't i'll tell you what i am interested in is discussions with people but they have to be of a um a certain nature caliber

who you know whom you can discuss with otherwise what's the point of it i mean who just wants to you see if i just want to argue if you just wanna you could just argue with the wall [Laughter] it doesn't take much creativity to just be i think it reflects an unsettled soul to be constantly kind of i need to argue with people i need to argue it's the opposite sure you can have conversations you can have dialogues you can have

i don't even see the point in all of these christian islamic polemics i don't we're not you know we are so post christian islamic polemics now it's irrelevant and immaterial to the discourse so yeah aisa look liskey thanks must you always cheer me up shukran may allah keep you always cheered up um

bless you and shukran for your love and support your guidance has changed my life and guided me to where i am now allah bless you for your kind words allah guides whom he wills and and he guides us all and he you know he fashions our hearts and allows them to to to feel the light and i think something with you know this comes back to that stillness something with age

this inner reflection this murakaba this kind of uh inward directed thought this is in essence the remembrance of god because zikr allah could be understood in two ways one is to the utterance one is the remembrance and remembering is not always to say someone's name that's also a way that's a an aspect of the

people say somebody's name they say allah's name you say ya rahman people may say subhanallah oh i suppose that's more praising allah but just the name if people are just saying you get people that may just say ya love say the names of allah as they are mentioned in the quran that's one way another way that is also the qr law is the remembrance this kind of inward directed we one loses themselves

in the thoughts in the reflection in the mindfulness just as if you were to say you know i was remembering such and such that day that's not to say that you were simply preoccupied by just saying the name as in oh yeah i was he has it still said upon him and i said yeah i was remembering the other day and i said it's you know that's not to me and i was just saying

that sound more like a song but that i was lost in thought immersed this is also a thicker of allah and it's also a permutation of it is pondering in things in realities in an essence in yourself this is all

allah says that we should have tadabu we should kind of be contemplatively contemplatively immersed in pondering over reflecting on mindful of the entirety of the creation of god so to just and what this does is this kind of inward directed thought is it brings a stillness this mindfulness to just practice to just still everything within

you could just somebody could go on youtube and just look at something like mindfulness for three minutes just how to quieten the noise and what happens as a consequence is the intuition sharpens and that intuition has a connect with the transcendental intimations allah it does intuition is what is guided divinely so yeah that's um i get distracted

let's move on to always keep you blessed and smiling uh all your love and support is always much appreciated

sugar and clear i don't understand always explains the yeah these th i tell you poetry has a way it has a way um it really does allah daniel may allah bless you ah here islam channel usa allah it reflects an unsettled soul yeah that's exactly what i uh wanted to say so shukran um [Music] yeah so somebody asking about um mufti isn't a sports fan just a gym

that is true but had asked about the congrats to paquin today um i i think i heard somebody say during the day that pakistan won i think was it again afghanistan or something i don't really watch many sports it's weird because i i just can't find myself interested in them it's like if i watch it i get so bored i just don't

i think that that must be an abnormality in me because because everybody watches sports and they love them and i can understand the concept of why people love them and the sense of belonging and it's almost at a very core level there's a sense of tribalism which is inherent within our psyche but it just doesn't manifest with me i just no i find it so boring i just see people running around the pitch chasing a ball and i think

[Laughter] that must be the streak of autism in me or something i i would think that maybe i do have a streak but then i think the only thing that makes me think um i don't i don't know is my sense of humor because i thought somebody once said to me musty don't you wouldn't you think you have i said well aren't we all on all spectrums at some point you know it's not like some people are on some we're all on all the spectrums to some extent but it's just to an extent which is still within normality and if we can use that word even i don't

know if that's the right word but um or that is socially common should we say and yeah and then somebody said we were having this discussion once and i said well you know i could see what you're saying sometimes because things like this make me think how i don't find certain things totally i can't relate to the passion that people relate to with it but then i think my sense of humor is too um [Music] bizarre for to be what's the correct uh term

neurodivergent that's it ah i learned the word people neural divergent i like it but you know speaking of cricket i know that there was some in the uk there were some in the midlands some kind of clashes between hindus and muslims and it was in the media as well and that's a such a shame to watch and here and you know what is it with people in fact even today i heard that when there was the pakistan afghan cricket match

somebody said oh people start throwing cheers afterwards and getting all uh restless and like what is it that we you see i think it's a sign of maturity of becoming an adult that one can accept defeat however whether it's your defeat or their defeat that it's a sport at the end of the day you know it's like tk it's a sport you know it's not nobody's dying over this so they shouldn't be it's supposed to be sportsmanship and that's why you know people say because

it's supposed to be something like be a sport the saying you know be a sport like come on see it's supposed to be reflect that spirit but yeah yeah yeah that was in leicester yeah you're right and it was um yeah so let's move on people somebody said enjoying uh intellectual discussions between

people identify their country and ultimately themselves with it no they do there is that's why what i said that sports see sports is two things at a um at a spectator perspective and an affiliative angle it is identity and tribalism that's what it is from a psychological if you're going to psychologize it that's what it is people they identify it becomes part of them they define themselves through it they may buy the kind of you know the

props and and wear the t-shirts and do all of that so it becomes an identity becomes it's an identity element to it from a participatory element if you're playing sports it can have that as well but it can also see playing sports is also a uh a substitute can also be a substitute spiritual affair and what i mean by that is um you see when people play sports there's a point where they

get into a state of flow this is for participatory this is not for people watching but people playing they get into a state where you are in flow that you're not even thinking about what to do as in you you you're thinking but you've it's not that you you have no thoughts but you've gone into this this kind of state that is between um having to plan everything and between being unawa it's something that is

it goes into like an autopilot highly functional mode and that when there's been studies done on things like this that this this whole thing this brain state which is defined as flow being in a state of flow humans become incredibly productive in a state of flow you are a peak performance it is not like you and me just sitting here now when you're in flow you are it is you are killing it it is on another and people try to optimize these levels at work

they try to enter into a state of flow sometimes music sometimes certain mindfulness they they train themselves and one another parallel where people enter certain kinds of these kind of states of mind has been with religious experiences so there has been some studies there was an interesting book as well i was

listening to the whole discussion on it but it will come to me but the where they're discussing this whole thing and highlighting how sport in the modern world creates a a state flow which is for people who have no spiritual experiences because in the modern world people are many people have stepped away from a spiritual world view this it provides a mirror image to this kind of peak state of mind that they enter it's almost like a spiritual experience

in that moment even though they know they're playing sports but for a moment they forget everything the moment becomes greater than the thing itself and it is it's it it could be very well defined as a spiritual experience so that that's also something for people who love sports to play them with a passion that's maybe the world's the contemporary modern world's way of substituting experiences

right sports is just another outlet for asabia sure it is it is as well right um right so let's take a look i'm going to share a link and i will let you guys jump on and

it's an odd cup sometimes is necessary you know people we have to understand so right let's let's share a few words on oh before we do gold globe allah bless you and azarathi allah keep you blessed i mean shukran much love for the super stickers and super chats i wanted to share a few words

on suratur rahman now just i want to take a look at um the first nine verses of this surah and just take just see how we can take some lessons from it that are meaningful for our daily lives that enrich in our daily experience and the meaning and our connection

with the quran i mean so surah rahman by the way is an um it's absolutely one of the most all striking surahs of the quran it's um i suppose short to medium has 78 verses it's a maki surah it's begins with the name of god one of the few surahs that does that begins with allah and it's highly

um exceptional and exceptionally remembered by almost everyone for its fabulous verse fabi allah that which of the favors of your lord will you deny and this verse is repeated in it 31 times 31 times you get

so if you don't know the surah is in the 27th jews if if you get a chance to you know visit it read it if you can even if it's a few verses um it is something so there's now there are many virtues that have been associated with sort of now it is true that most virtues of the quran are not generally authentic a hadith but just in terms of meaning giving meaning there's so many a hadith that say things like whoever concerns himself with this surah

um or herself with this that every difficult affair becomes easy for them and maybe one way of understanding that is because through because people one way of looking at it is just through the barakah the the kind of mystery of the surah and recitation and another way is by pondering on gratitude because the whole surah is

so entrenched in this concept of gratitude and mercy so when a person is const going over and which of the favors of your lord shall you deny and it's interesting this to kathy burn it's in arabic the jewel form so it's it's like you're addressing two people so one way of looking at that is some people had said well maybe this is

addressing insuljan it's insuljin so it's addressing humans and let's say non-human entities that's one way that some people can see it and and the beautiful thing about the quran this is the beautiful thing is that it gives you mind-blowing readings every time you look at it with fresh eyes and there's many ways of looking at this in the past as well many people did see that no this was a uh this was an

ace a style of expression that many arabs used it was the dual form so if you look at all um ancient now we're not going to have ancient speeches preserved so they don't usually preserve ancient so let's say you look at pre-islamic texts or literature you're not going to find speeches but you will find poetry still preserved so in all of that they often you will find not in all poems but it was a common um style

of expression that many of them many of the great poets would always exercise this that in certain um in certain olds or certain uh couple they would begin by saying addressing two people and then they would continue with just this two two so like kefa nabki

um you know that stop here and let us cry but he's um and then bisecting at this particular place that's um very famous and many of them there he does have another one as well by the way very similar in

[Music] um so but this is a common thing to especially in classical arabic that they would express when making certain statements one of the styles of expression was to address to dual as if there is a dual there even if there isn't so and it's very likely that this surah is in that expression mode of expression so it's not but one could say well it is just addressing to let's say species one could say that one could say however you

want to look at it so different um there's different ways of looking at it but that seems to also be a very apt way of uh understanding that so and this surah it's interesting i tell you that this surah is named the uh in certain uh narrations that arus now that's an interesting concept and the the bride of the quran so it's like well okay that's interesting because

it brings into discussion this whole the the energy the kind of vibrational energy of the feminine and that's has it's it's very profound when when looking at how this surah it anchors itself nests itself within the center of the quran reminding us of mercy and gratitude with this

this vibrational force that could be maybe um characterized with with a kind of a feminine in the sense as the womb is a it's a it's a manifestation of the feminine and in arabic in the hadith is mushtaq

derived minarama allah and allah begins that's fascinating that the rhyme which is this the womb and in the hadith could see that it has been almost extracted mushtaq derived from

and the ultimate is and i guess in in many ways what we in this world are doing is trying to manifest as mercy or we ought to be so that's just wow so when you think of it that this it's amazing that there are some of these messages but they're not they're left there in some mystery you know like it says well this is the the arus the bride of the quran what does that mean

and it's this sheer force of just fascinating reality which is also the ultimate femininity in a way as a bride the manifestation and and so that's one of the lock-ups that people have given that they say is attributed to surat let's take a look at this

so now it begins straight away after bismillah and like i said very few surahs in the quran that can just begin with allah's name and this is in makkah now why is that also important because of the ingratitude that people were displaying and they said to the prophet to to

almost taunt him that who is this what is this rahman they said allah takes us to in reply to them this whole surah reminds them time and time again is the one that has gifted you this and that and do you not see this in the world

it begins immediately it goes into allah that he taught divine revelation and taught it rhythmically with a rhythm a quran not just a makaru not just a red speech but a quran a rhythmic scripture

here allah takes our attention right back to the origin he created insane allah this is the defining feature that separates in sun from the rest of creation

that it is you see allah says he taught in sun expression taught him speech maybe some low-level speech low level existed prior to homo sapien maybe it did at a very low level i mean more developed than

you know if we can call that speech but more let's say very low level but here it's not that it's not you could even get animals to learn some speech you could get crows mimics human speech fantastically if you watch it on youtube parrots you could get um you could teach sign language to primates you can teach animals many different mammals different things to understand speech and to respond to it to

to act according to it to even select it where they can you can teach animals this allah never said this because this it's not that this is not amazing but it was everywhere in nature allah takes you to the miracle taught in sun expression how to express the most complex the most

astronomical mind-boggling philosophical conundrums to to envelop them in words and to capitulate them to someone that they manifest as the same idea in the psyche of the listener and evoke the same emotion that you are feeling i'm feeling overcome with love or joy or sorrow or sadness or melancholy or excitement and i utter an expression

i bring together words in such a way that when it hits your auditory you you when it hits you it evokes the same experience that i'm going through when i'm saying them that is nothing short of magic nothing short of it it is such a this is and i tell you till today this remains such a conundrum that how

did expression in language human language develop because it just does not make any sense if we did not have language it would be absurd to assume that language could exist i mean what i mean by that is that because we have it we take it for granted but if you try to cover your blind spots the fact that we have this inter-subjective reality with words that we've all agreed upon

that we that are not just you see that language is a true synesthesia you know synesthesia in psychology is where your senses are mixed up so you can it's like you can hear smells you can see sounds so this is called synesthesia okay and and it affect affects some people as a condition a very small portion of people can be affected with this as a

as a kind of disorder but many people have experienced this sometimes on psychedelics they experience synesthesia so they can it's where the internal uh senses almost cross over so you can all of a sudden c sound now it sounds absurd to say it but when people experience it they they can experience it they know oh i i did see sound or i could smell colors or i could uh hear shapes or i could it doesn't make any sense when we say it it sounds absurd

but when people experience it they know oh yeah it ha and language is that it is synesthesia in in real time but it's so accepted that we don't even think about it because we have a word like if i say you know water or cup or dog or these things are not that they're not functional kind of they they are you have the signified and the signifier

you and you have this attachment which is totally doesn't make any sense what's the word dog gotta do with dog like okay if you called a dog woof then it would like child would that would make sense you see like if you were an alien that didn't have this form of language expressed language you would assume that yeah that makes sense to call up cat meow makes sense but to call a dark dog is it's it's basically

a synaesthesia it makes it's like saying hearing smells it doesn't it's like what so that's how it is so imagine you had a bunch of people that into that were sharing um a synesthesia experience let's say so they would all of them could um let's say they could see sounds or they could hear colors but they could all share in this to the onlooker it would be absurd like

you'd think but they would make sense to each other but to you it'd be like what on earth are these how can they even do that that doesn't but to them and synesthesia is a real thing and many people have experienced it um just with psychedelics alone it's actually often experienced with psychedelics so now if people have this shared experience that's what language is like and here you have it but yeah and this is nested by the way expression in consciousness and we'll speak about that another day i

want to speak about this whole with adam and the cognitive revolution of consciousness and how allah chose adam but and what was made himself special from that perspective from an evolutionary thing and this whole the angels being amazed and almost in in disbelief but we'll speak about that another day but that this is nested in that

now it's fascinating here after allah takes brings our attention then straight shoots it out to the greatest of celestial bodies that captivated the interest and fascination of people

allah see because it's going from well in sun is so amazing but what about the sun does it not have a calculation does the moon not have an orbit a calculation the sun has an orbit as well the sun many people sometimes are run away the sun has this orbit where it wrote a rotation i mean it has an orbit within its position as a solar system as well but even its rotation takes i think about 27 days where it completely rotates

and so you have this and our our uncovering or learning about the sun and the moon and the celestial bodies continues till this day and we're so wowed by it and people you say oh but you know allah says all these things all flowing in orbit and then some people oh but the sun doesn't happen it does oh but you didn't know [Laughter] it has a rotation and it has a solar

orbit and the solar system itself is flowing through the galaxy ah but you did not know you see so when people try to find fault oh but allah says and allah says yes that they swim in their orbit that's the word yes ba'on it's the swim and does that not so brilliantly describe

the beauty of how these celestial bodies how they flow so but coming to here asham that there is that there is houseband that there is a calculation to these things and we continue to discover i mean we continue to discover the sun in its you know its fourth state as plasma completely you know just it is just this i mean it's not never ending but this source of energy

it's so fascinating yes you see that everything here and now here yes judah doesn't mean that these things are prostrating people could say oh well does the oh does the do the stars prostrate do the trees prostrate look i i often ask you that when people ask these kind of questions

i want you to just use common sense and think that did the people that were did they not know they knew see you've got trees trees are not going up and down up and down in prostration nobody assumes they are that's not and it's not just about the winds moving the branches it's still if you're taking a literal completely coming down and prostrating on the ground and getting back up but that's not what it is that's not what's such that that's a human manifestation how do you do such that

is about submission that there is a submission from out there to the stars in the body the you know the celestial these stars that we've got in the cosmos out there they have contributed in their submission to our very existence

the very formation of life is dependent on stardust stars that had to explode and completely annihilate themselves in submission to god for those for that for those elements to eventually end up as life on earth all of our nitrogen and carbon and all of these things right to the very source of life as well that we see on earth the trees and the greenery that is

responsible for aiding us in the breath that we take that is the source of life it is all yes judah it is all in submission ah but is insane my that has allah not raised the skies above

the heavens of love has he not raised these are they not so distant and raised here doesn't mean i'll raise them and put them are they not so distant from you they are so distant and you see this well now this is the this is the point that allah after mentioning all of these things is bringing it to

he has placed a balance now you may think well but i don't see the balance this isn't about whether you see it or not there is a balance if you go right down into particles you will find that they will have the anti-particles

that matter will have anti-matter for it to exist that it would have had all particles must have these anti-particles these forces must have the negative forces there is a balance even if you do not see it it is going all around you one could say in many ways are these any do they are they any you know are they not one could say almost in different terms the angelic manifestation of the cosmos

that they the the things that are invisible but keeping everything together the forces these if we could say entities these gluons these photons these nothing that we can see massless particles is it really any short one could say of an angelic reality

it is but words now well allah has established a balance now this all comes to this point do not upset the balance to not transgress with justice now this is fascinating because on one level this could be speaking right down

to the infinitesimal that when you're trading with people you know when you set the scales that put the weight justly you know you get these videos on um these viral clips where people are scamming the public and and this is that's what it is the people that allah says destruction to those people that do that you see these clips where they're conning the um you know they've kind of like slightly tipped the scale or they do this and there's loads of these viral clips utter at a very core right at the fabric of

society that in your daily lives don't do this even if you are tempted and then you zoom out right into society and life as a whole and the ethos and ethics and morals and that

let the balance be there justly with justice that's what don't upset that balance of justice it is so and by doing so doing all of this what are you ultimately doing you are manifesting mercy on god's earth and that is that rama it goes right back to

so you see the just beginning this surah within the first few verses how you you immediately are brought in first of all in the presence this awareness of the all-merciful and then showing right through house revelation has come from he has created in sun taught him something that's even more amazing you may think oh the creation creatures are amazing what about expression and when you think that's amazing what about the cosmos

oh and you think that's amazing yet it's in submission it is not arrogant that everything has a place and a setting a balance do not upset this you zoom right in in your day-to-day activities don't don't con that person don't be kind and you zoom out and you have a societal a civilization perspective of ethics and morals it's

such a beautiful reminder wallahi i want to share that with us um let's what i'll do is i'm going to share out the link and let's get yeah let's get if anybody's got some questions uh is ah imam he allah bless you um wedding is saturday oh wow imam kazi is getting married may allah bless this journey

dare i ask is it the third or the fourth [Laughter] you know okay check this out for some reason people have it in their minds that as as kind of folklore that they think oh if you recite sorata rahman it will result in you getting married [Laughter] okay so that part isn't true so you get a lot of these questions that shaykhs get that oh if i recite you know i'm looking to get married if i recite uh suratur rahman

will this facilitate me in me finding a bride or it's like well not so sure about that but [Laughter] but the intentions are good the intentions are good so you just bring this around so right let me just you know you get these updates they just jump up they're like

they're like oh would you like an update you're like no yeah i'm all right for now um so but congratulations imam kazee congratulations a lot he's in pakistan partying [Laughter] let's share the invite let me get this copy it

well at least some of us are enjoying life shall we say living life allah you know but so i've shared the link and i can do is whilst you guys are clicking that i'm just going to adjust this um

oh oh fry so that should be cool these right um helping mom because he's not marrying imam cuz he's cause he yeah i think uh i hope yeah i think people need to branch out

you know there's so many different cultures and different why not explore a little torah [Laughter] if not a lot then a little at least one should branch out and explore a bit what is the you know you should have a bit of that ibn spirit about you too well i guess even or if it is going to be the same uh there's nothing wrong with the same cultures and sometimes and that that has its own fun and its own um

as you can imagine um but just correct this all right so but you can still um i yeah i wouldn't really advise relatives relatives or cousins and that kind of stuff that goes on i would say slightly slightly farther afield at the minimum and yeah

moody just said um i just got engaged to my cousin [Laughter] well moody you know if it doesn't work out on the bright side you can say to her you know if it doesn't work out you can say on the bright side we'll still be cousins [Laughter] oh my god i ca you know what i don't know i guess if it's if it's all done then it's all done otherwise you know i don't know man you know this whole cousin thing and it does the problem is that you know within this

there's a show it's on netflix actually i watched a bit of it um it's called marrying cousins or cousin marriages or something but if you type in cousins it will come up on cousin weddings or something and it's it's in the uk it's based in the uk like a documentary but it's oh my i do it was just so difficult to watch i couldn't really go on because it's just showing the amount of because it's not just marine cousins you see because in many cultures they may marry

cousins but it's the fact it's you know like in the ancient greek um philosophy when he says it's you know when they say well what's the the world on and they say it's on this and what's that on and that's resting on this and it's on and that's on a turtle you know the famous and say well what's the turtle on and say well the turtle's on another turtle and say well what's that turtle on and he says it's just turtles all the way down it's a very famous uh um right thing i'll bring it up actually

there it is um it was i was just trying to i was trying to see who it kind of goes back to but it's just speaking of infinite regress the same thing turtles all the way down i was trying to see who was the expression by in its origin um

i don't know it um nevertheless so the issue is not cousins it's just that it's cut it seems to be cousins all the way down that is a problem so if in certain families people are all branching out and they you know they marry father of field and father field and so let's say the mom and dad are completely separate from totally different you know different villages different people they have kids the brother marries somebody else from a totally different

thing he has kids uh now let's say now let's say the kids happen to get married now there's so much diversity in that um you know in that dna pool that that's okay that wouldn't you know inshallah that wouldn't cause um issues inshallah but the problem is when let's say this couple get married and their cousins and the brothers and and so this brother and this brother marry that sister and that sister and and they cousins to start off with and their parents were cousins and their parents were cousins and they have kids

and make them now the the dna in this instance is just basically steering itself in the mirror it's it doesn't have much maneuverability so that's a recipe for disaster like that offspring will be incredibly weak genetically and they will not be and there's a great chance that they will suffer with a you know a lot of um either apparent or hidden kind of defects so that's that's the issue so yeah it's not just um

it's not just one or two um because many cultures do marry the cousins like some arabs do it as well but they it's not they don't always do it like they'll branch out quite a bit as well so there's so much diversity and i think what had happened in the indian kind of south asian diaspora was that they just kept it within and within and within and it just started to intensify yeah right so okay that's um

unfortunately anyone like that can't stand but and i don't mean this in a way to kind of pick on people or you know may allah make it easy for them i mean but it is it's difficult because i there were these statistics or something saying that uh pakistanis make up in the uk that new newborns new babies uh each year i think make up something like three percent of all babies that are born or maybe it's three or four percent of all babies that are born in the uk are pakistani and each year but from all disabled

babies i think pakistanis had 50 or something and that's you know at that stage the science is it's what it's telling you is making sense it's not something you know people have to take heed may allah make things easy and may make it easy for all people who are struggling but the younger generation i think they should really just be i doubt it i don't know i can't really see them being so subservient to saying well yeah let's go marry my cousin in pakistan who looks just like me

and it's like my mate would say he was a great friend of mine very close to me right so so uh this is tariq may love bless him always so i remember him once years ago he was telling us all he goes oh you know i was uh i was gonna my family said oh let's go to pakistan and and you know we're gonna arrange your marriage to your cousin and he's like i said well i was young and i said all right then and i went there and he goes and i said oh yeah wow she's beautiful and i go ah okay you know you know and he goes yeah he

goes he goes she look just like me but with really long hair [Laughter] so it's just looking in the mirror except you have longer here [Laughter] no that was so funny so yeah so that's that this one's not nice man there are a lot of but another uh piece of advice since we're on the topic i'd say and i'll address

this another time in more detail but i think this is uh in the uk especially because this is in america slightly different and they have a slightly different culture not slightly different so in the uk i would say that it's really important when you do one that you do you try to marry at least slightly farther afield and secondly when you do get married that you leave the nest okay it is too important to leave the nest do not

you know this staying at home business it's it's a car crash in slow motion that's all you're watching it's just a car crash and [Music] you will so infinitely regret it and it will just ruin that first um you know we'll just ruin this whole can you imagine the the early time that's supposed to be all the honeymoon phase and it's it's got to be a nightmare really how do people i don't because can you imagine just even

staying in the whole it's like your parents are in the next room [Laughter] everything would be on mute it would be what kind of a life would that [Laughter] in case your parents wake up at night and they go huh it's like beta is

the whole thing i think it's just and it's so and you just can't grow as people you genuinely can't you uh yeah you know and some cultures they have that that's more so arab cultures have that that they have this um which is such a jahili custom that the the girl i don't know if they do it in the west but in in the arab countries they they tend to do it and i think people are obviously moving away from it alhamdulillah but with the way they have to

prove that she was a virgin so and the way they prove it is everybody's that they're in the house and the guy and the girl have to go in the room to perform the the deed as one must with everybody right there and people right outside the door so you've got all these aunties and all these people literally outside the door and then when he's he's finished the holy uh the holy union they finished the they have to hand out the sheet the bed sheet can you imagine that and yeah

with the they want to see the they what they say it's basically like saw you know the movie jigsaw that saw it's like let there be blood and that's the that's the the thing that they i mean how ridiculously absurd does it get that you've got people all outside the door waiting and then when they pass the cloth out then they do all that and they do all the um you know whoa the deed is done and you think what that how does that even how do oh my god wow that's

like another level of uh just mind twisted cultural phenomena [Laughter] right so yeah that is very jahili traumatizing for the i think it's traumatized for everyone for the woman definitely and for the even the ma i think it'd just be so weird everybody would just be like okay for their sake it better not be a marathon

it's like i'll be like what the hell's all that going on in there it's like and then there's just blood and blood and they're like are they expecting a dead body or something it's like ah what the hell yes allah may allah grant some maturity to these people i mean i mean honestly jahiliyyah customs have no place in islam and islam should really you know he should have weeded out all of these

these absurd and ridiculous practices so plot twist the x comes by with the bloody she [Laughter] it's crazy it's crazy here so right people i've shared the here's the thing but we can do a session one of the times on relationships just focusing zeroing in on uh just relationship advice and i don't know if advice but guidelines guidance i guess

but yeah because i i really think it's so important to leave the nest and to fly away even if they are unhappy with it but it's so important somebody sent a super chat let me check have i missed it has it gone

they see edits when will muslims let go of their homophobic hung up uh first of all shukran for the super chat um right yeah i i think look these things are going to take a kind of um a cultural like there has to be a an immaturity process that takes place which is happening it is happening i think there's a difference between you see what a person's opinion can be on something you see islam

it teaches you many things now a person may say look i don't i disagree with a certain act or this thing is they may feel it's not good and that's let's say the opinion they believe like take gambling let's take gambling now the quran does not mention homosexuality it's not mentioned uh as a directive like it's mentioned within i guess the context of the people of luth within that context but what's also mentioned in that context is more so how they treat their prophet and reject him so which would have been the greater

concern for denying the message and the messenger and the secondary thing would have been their actions so it's like the israelites for example their actions are mentioned but the the importance is on whether they accept the messenger so when they deny the messenger that's the primary focus so so homosexuality isn't directly a topic within the quran it's mentioned as a secondary issue when it comes to the people of luth al-islam otherwise on its own it's not mentioned now you take something like gambling now this is mentioned in the quran very

clearly it's mentioned that this is a registered mean amelia shaitaan and it's very clear kind of words these are things that are mentioned now and you can understand let's say gambling is something that's harmful and it it does this or it does that and and maybe some societies don't deem it they they may say well it's okay it's healthy if it's done like this or it's like that now muslims many muslims can differentiate there when it comes to this clear ruling of the quran gambling they can clearly differentiate between

the what is being mentioned as the don't do to the with differentiate between that and the person so they may say look somebody may say i believe gambling is haram and i dislike it i you know oh i can't stand it let's say or i don't i dislike it but it doesn't mean they hate gamblers so you don't get these people walking around outside every time they go past somebody coming out because i hate that person oh i hate that person i can't stand that i don't think muslims generally speaking react in that way at

all to gambling i think they recognize that okay they say well look gambling this is what islam says about gambling we don't gamble or this is our belief or this is what i teach my kids and this is what but they don't carry uh this energy of hatred towards the people especially if the people believed like let's say here people believe gambling is fine it's not illegal it's not obviously it's licensed and regulated and all of that but so people who do it do it of their own you know their free will it's their choice people who

live here generally not muslim anyway so people walking past don't and muslims don't usually i don't know i've not come across muslims hating on gamblers for example saying i hate gamblers i hate gamblers maybe gambling they might say oh well this is not good or this is our belief towards gambling and this is what it is but but they don't carry a and that's the maturity mark differentiating that you may look people who have a belief that okay that's your belief about something it's not about the people

and remember people are always free this them people here are not muslim and you shouldn't have this you're not here you know i often remind people about imam malik and it's in the madonna that he's asked and he's a great imam in his age with immense uh loci of influence if he wants to exercise it i mean he's in his lifetime people in muslim spain had started adhering to his interpretations of islam so you can see his locus of influence how far it's going

so in his time he is asked about muslims that have now are in a powerful positions surrounding the zoroastrian communities the majutsus so one of the popular marriages that the majusi um settle settle is hard historically one of them not old they had i believe five different popular marriage types customs but one of them was incestuous incest marriages so they would marry

their own sisters their own fathers their own daughters their own mothers they would they would marry direct immediate you know nuclear family that's what they would do one of the marriages so it wasn't it didn't mean everybody was doing that but it wasn't uncommon either so this this is it was known so when the muslims came across this they were quite shocked and now they were in a position of power so they ask imam malik

you know when we find out that this person is about to marry his sister his mother his daughter uh she's about to marry her dad her brother her son should we interfere given that we can and imam alex he said if that's the way of life that's the way of life imam ali and this is the alim of medina he said imam he said allah has taught us in the quran that the greatest of things is shirk people denying god

and yet he's even tolerated that as in tolerated as in he hasn't told us to go and force people to worship him so people who deny god god has refused to to express this kind of or to force them or to interfere with their way of life in using any power or any kind of he's forbidden they forbade that in the quran so if and so imam malik said that he said that that is akbar

means it is greater than men and all this incest and he said so if this is their way of life this is their way of life sure if they ask you you can show your way of life and and you can be a beacon of exemplary behavior that people can say wow you know i want to be like these people you know why are these people always so so positive whenever i look at these people they're just full of love and yeah what is it about these people i want to be like them this is the hadith you see you went you know when

people mix up that when the prophet would send the companions and people they would say you know there's this transmission that kuno mithla now be like us it wasn't that be like because why were the people so uh in awe of the believers that the first community that that went it wasn't because oh they you know these people were somehow uh superior they weren't superior muslims were actually very simple in the early community they didn't you know have much opulence and wealth and they were very content people

and this is what struck people yeah they don't have the dunya they don't have they seem so content and happy it seems so positive and loving seems so caring but what is it what do you guys have they would say you know and and the thing about positive people you'll see that happiness follows after them and it's almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy that if you want to say good luck not that it's actually good luck but good things come their way and people get curious that what do you have

who is your god we will show it to us we want to keep a little statue like this for good luck as well you know you get all your crops grow and your this happens and where's your statue i want a good luck omen so we don't believe in these things our and people were really in awe of this this is where you become a beacon of people say wow i want to be like that person so yeah i hope that helps right um

all right i wanna [Laughter] all right okay so people shall we i'll share the link if anybody wants to jump on otherwise we can wrap this up for today and

somebody said about islamic philosophy or something i think i missed the question um did i find any um musty saab did you find any possibility to interview western academics about islamic history archaeology and syrah sure i mean you know speak to them and let me know if you know any people that are interesting usually two things if they're interesting and interested let me know and yes of course we can sha allah

make this this happen what is this lizzy trust fuss in liz we trust huh we do not trust any of these people so basically it's the it's ah you know it's it's the whole race going on in the uk for who's going to be the next pm prime minister and is it between um sunak and rishi sunak and liz cross and to be honest it's they're both as bad as each other you know it's not

it is a shame you know on that note i i wanna i shared this clip on my story as well two by the way if you don't follow my instagram thing do you follow it i try to you know on my stories i try to share just positive things and you know just i think there's enough in the world as it is and if we can bring a smile to people's faces that's you know we've done something in that day and um but i shared this thing i saw it and it was just heart-wrenching it was it was it was like a post shared by the lad bible and

it it had this 71 year old man who was said he he said i live in my in my car shame on the government at 71. it's heart-wrenching honestly that this is um the problem with they're all the same you know it's whether it's going to be this liz truss or russia sunak or whether it was going to be you know whoever that boris the whole thing with this government is that it's stepped

away from really caring about people and it does care for the elite rich you know you had this clip going viral of uh rishi sunak saying that look i um you know i'm going to do more to stop our funds going towards these community issues and connect so they get spent more in these affluent areas there was this kind of clip that was viral and it was just a shame that this this is what it is i guess and i know people there's a this huge thing

with the cost of living energy prices and it's it's just not fair because the uk is not being feared let's be honest they're saying oh well the war in ukraine but uk energy only six percent i believe is is is it's from the um [Music] it's from you know it's from gas so and a huge percent of the uk energy now the electricity is through renewable sources and they've got you know nuclear um generative power

they've got other power other uh capabilities that they didn't have decades ago so when they set these prices so in the past the energy pricing in the uk the electricity was pegged on the gas so they they've had and it's in legislation that they've got it like that so the prices were kind of pegged in a way to have some some um some form of symmetry to in in some sense now so what's happening is they continue to rise

raised the price of gas because of the ukraine russia war but the time has changed so gas is not actually what uh first of all it's it's it's a tiny portion of the energy consumption in the uk secondly most of the energy consumption is no longer based on uh gas accessibility and it's based on renewable sources and other uh means which are very cost effective for the uk government but they're still charging the rates at the gas rates because it's locked into prior legislation and they just don't give a damn

you know the truth is they just simply don't care it's like i was you know you had it's interesting there was this clip going around of hancock saying saying raising this saying that look and it's like interesting times when you agree with these people all of a sudden he goes well look why are they pricing them based on gas that everything has changed and then they said well but but you know isn't that legislation and he goes yeah but they should change the legislation and they're like yeah but that could take years can you hear that that could take years to change the legislation

it's like why does it take years you've got people you have a duty to people but they don't care about the i guess it's the thing isn't it very few people have cared about the lower you know the strata of society it's always really just about the middle classes the upper middle class and the upper the elite um circles of society that's what it's about so may allah make things easy i mean i mean i think it's also a reminder to us all

that just to be kind you know people are fighting a difficult battle that be that manifestation of mercy i mean i mean and i mean it's i know this is all over as well in the world somebody says democracy failed i feel that to an extent democracy is um it you see democracy is elusive okay and by that i mean elusive from illusion so you know

and with there's like a subtle overlap in all of these meanings but elusive from illusion and from to elude to be something difficult to grasp although it's not an illusion it's something difficult to grasp and elusive as in something that is alleged almost like in that sense but here elusively that this is it's quite an illusion i think that the people they don't really get much of a say i think i agree it's probably the best it's one of the the best of the lot on the table

but it's not truly democratic is it they need to democratize truly they need to come up with a way to truly democratize democracy because it remains non-democratic really it's just it's set up in a way to give you the illusion of choice yeah if you powerful disagree they don't make any changes and often the the powerful you see the people who are parliamentarians and politicians usually are from a certain

um class of and you know strata of society that they are not really fast you know they have a lot more in common sometimes than they do and then you had people that did care like jeremy corbyn but nobody you know this was the thing i guess the thing with jeremy corbyn was he didn't have that charm and charisma and and and society is just it's the scare mongering that say oh my god he's going to turn this into some kind of a communist state it's like for the love of god i'm scaremongering right you know what let's uh i've shared

the um i've shared the link i'll take on one two people and then we'll wrap it up there's uh i can see what there isn't somebody say yet if you could switch on your camera we've got ashiko rahman now i have to let me right switch this on first

okay people get ready for takeoff is this connecting all right so all right this is all right so that's not knock the whole thing you know what all right let me straighten this and then i'll straighten that right uh my this ain't connecting which means it's connected to too many other devices let me disconnect these

devices one second checking that we've got this

um let's see if it connects now okay it seems to state that it's connected i just got to do an audio check audio check test okay that's playing all right so ah man [Laughter]

bless you allah bless you always i mean so life i remember your love allah what's been going on it seems uh is there trouble in paradise in [Laughter] you know exams in many ways are like a metaphor for life huh i think the most unfair thing in the history is exams

wow okay why do you feel that that's interesting like in my country uh like they based their your whole performance based on one single exam which helps in a year and everything's true actually it's so unfair you can't do justice disappointment really yeah that's it is true then and the other thing is that we are in society we are judged on certain

uh intelligences only you know there's this whole i remember there was this um really powerful picture um like a meme quite old that had um all these animals and it said okay today we're going to today's test so it had like an elephant and it had a cow and it had like a monkey and it had like a fish and it had and it said okay so today's test is like you said we're going to climb a tree and we're going to be you know you can't and and like the moral of it was trying to say that if

the education system is designed to test a particular people a particular skill set it's not that other people aren't necessarily failures but maybe they're good at different things which are a different skill set that just isn't this skill set so just because an elephant can't climb a tree or the fish can't climb a tree it doesn't mean that they are useless but that they have their own fields in which they excel so yeah

right so unfortunately uh where um did my best efforts on maths but result was terrible in that in in maths yeah yeah i got all the questions commonly in the exam but i still didn't well you know fundamentally as long as you don't mix up that there's just one card as long as you don't get the maths wrong there then there's still hope you know if you go like if you start saying well

how many gods are they you go like a problem but otherwise i think i think you'll somehow what is this is this like a is this your college exam or high school university university it's just that radiance of see youthful look i'm thinking you're doing maths at university i'm doing computer science engineering so i'm in the first year so you have to do some basic courses like first one here you have to do some courses that every student uh

needs to have then uh after from second year you get the main courses of computer science community okay that's that's that's it christmas trash when you're totally stressed out just chill out one of the days listen to a bit of joe nilia a bit of shady and just you know just relax just unwind into the evening a lot sometimes i tell you you know with tests

it's interesting because sometimes it's the nerves that um that like i'll give you an example like there's been times in my life where i've i remember i've done some exams yeah and i've been training so hard before the exam and and i learned the stuff to be fair but i was i had to learn references and all these things and and i i made these flash cards this is years ago yeah i made these kind of with all these notes and you know

this reference and this year and this this this and all these and i had these bunch of these and i remember i was um i had to go to the exam hall and the day this so it was going to take me something like an hour to get there i was going to be on the bus and uh and then i get there and i still was gonna be there let's say almost half an hour to an hour early as well so i've got a bit of time to just refresh my notes and and i remember setting off and i've forgotten the the flashcards so i'm on the second bus and so it's too late now i can't go back

and i'm like where's the flashcards where's the flashcards and i'm panicking and and and i was like oh my god oh my god was it this was it that was this the year was that the year i was like oh and and and then all of a sudden my mind just went blank and i couldn't remember anything and i thought yes i am i thought i i remember and you know i think i kind of panicked a bit thinking i can't remember anything my minds can't just blank and um i went into the exam hall and i remember when i sat there you see at a point i kind of like just

harmed my nerves and all right girl like you know you have to like i think you it's a bit like what i was speaking earlier on about that mind state this peak states of mind this kind of state of flow that if you can get anywhere close to to a right state of mind you just you start performing in ways that you surprise yourself and and i so i give that example of where i became this but in the exam hall i did at one point because first i started kind of when i got the exam i was like oh i don't remember i don't remember and then i remember thinking

look just calm let's go i'm just starting but there was that and i tell you that i contrast it with another example where we had this exam and we had like so much to obviously we've done the stuff but we have we got so much to go over revise you know be like this know it like that and and the night before we're supposed to be doing all of these

so some of these are examples are from madrasa some of them are from uni some of them like my psychology degree but there was this one particular time where the night before we were just like you know what like i remember that we had an opportunity to watch this movie that's what we like there yeah so we start watching this movie and then the movie was just so good we're so into the movie then we're like you know what yeah this is so comfortable let's watch another movie [Laughter] so we just chill then we were like then we were like you know what let's just

let's get something to just chill why don't we eat something why don't we kind of have some snacks why don't we go drink something you know like have some tea have some we'll chill and then so much of the night is gone and you're so relaxed you don't feel like now revising anything and so i was like you know what ah it doesn't matter don't worry about it you know i just had this thing that don't worry about it like we got this and it's that state of mind i'm telling you without any revision i remember going into that exam and i i must have smashed the exam i i did like so well but i'm telling you more than anything it's

often a state of mind like when you have this assumed era of confidence you just do so well and sometimes the answers come to you from places you don't even think you think like yeah how did i come up with that answer you surprise yourself but it's and sometimes you could be working so hard like i gave the other example but you you panic and because you're like a bag of nerves and you you're like oh and you can't remember anything and you so sometimes it's just better to just

kick back and watch a movie and and just say don't worry about it man it's a good one actually shahrukh khan says

that it's the whole verse comes together to to to conspires together to make things happen but it's true you gotta you know sometimes in life it's it's you just gotta go with it you can't you know there's that speaking of poems you know it's like that whether you have to face uh joy or sorrow that whatever it is that do it joyfully of your own will like you've got to do it anyway so in a way

you have to go with them that's it yeah so in a way why not smiling because it's gotta it's gotta be done you know there's no so ah gentle it's yeah and i think sometimes when you have that spirit that look i'll tell you you know with an exam i'll give you another scenario as well yeah exam keeper today i'll share another incident so a terrible story about me this is a now this is a story from from one of my uh years when i was doing so i was doing this psychology degree and on this one year so it took me i did it part time when i did my psychology

degree so i was working and i was doing it on the side and um so you could do it part-time in i think i took six years to do it or something but i was aiming to do it in um yeah so yeah i think i took five or six years i can't remember because i did it on a part-time kind of scale so you could choose the kind of modules you want to do in the year and in the uk we have this open university it's absolutely great man honestly i can't recommend them enough so so helpful but um so yeah when i was doing that my is a

bachelor's in science bsc psychology so one of the years uh that year was so hectic like i began the year so the year i remember so the first one two months we began like we did first month i was obviously focused studying second month i was studying a bit got a bit distracted and then so much happened that year you know i just could not study i had all the books i just didn't get through any more like i did the first month so let's say there were nine months of

whatever it was the the study i did the first month i did most of the second month let's say and then that's it i got so distracted with work this started to happen there were other issues going on i remember i'd qualified as an examiner that year and that got so burdensome and these other kind of things personal things were going on in my life i was dealing with that and i was just all over the place honestly and before i knew it the whole almost year had come to an end so the academic year it come to an end and we were going to have exams

and we had something like i think there was so i booked myself i don't know why i did this i booked myself into one of the final tutorials you can go to a tutorial so i just booked myself in and it must have been about i think maybe it was less than three weeks it was about two and a half weeks away from the exam something like that and i went there and i don't even know why i went because i i was just delusional i think because i knew that so i went there and i i'm thinking to myself i've got i haven't studied this whole book i haven't studied this whole book with all these modules in there and

topics and i haven't done this and you know you had to catch up on this and i thought you know what i i turned up so i think we had just under three weeks left uh two and a half weeks or something and the ex the teach the tutor is talking and they you know they made a comment they said that look let's just be real they're supposed to be revising and they go let's be real anybody who hasn't studied this material i'm just telling you now there is no way on earth you can let's just be real that you can move forward to do this exam

like there's there is no way you can learn it now they said i'm just being very real with you if you haven't done it then you it is impossible that you will now be able to learn it and i don't know you know with that those words this kind of zid emerged in me right this kind of out of nowhere this this kind of i don't know whether it was a stubborn notion that just leapt into my consciousness that said like he looks like it was the state to prove something wrong i said i said you know what

okay game on i've got three weeks i'm gonna do this i spent day and night honestly i went over i've revised i used my techniques before so what i would do is eat chapter before beginning it what i would do is what i first do is i go through just all main subheadings read them out aloud to myself i read the summary at the end then i flick through stop stop randomly like i if i see anything interesting i just highlight highlight highlight stop it then i leave it might go have a cup of tea i come back

now i read then i read it because i've already picked up on maybe some of the keywords the summary i've seen the chapter headings i have expectations as i read speed reading what i was doing i was making audio notes i would go okay so if i read something interesting like let's say it said i don't know david or you know rosenhan did this experiment in let's say 1973 you did i did okay this is experiment little briefing okay no done and left a little uh title for that note next note i'll go on to the next thing do i'm telling you and then what i would do is as i would move on the next chapters when i'm driving i put

my earphones in i'll play play if i'm going to the gym i'd play my notes i was just working out in the gym i was playing mine those two to three weeks i just glued myself and you know it comes from lot of feet but it came to it i sat the exam and i passed it and i knew the the stuff it was it was you know sometimes there is something about the human spirit that you know it just needs to come to that biting point though [Laughter] you know it's like insane when he gets on that attack on something he has this that no i will

now do it now you know i will move whether it's you know move mountains to get this done now and at that stage but then obviously sometimes you want to be in that stage and state and it doesn't that's also the fit of insane you know sometimes you're like yeah if only i can do this you're like oh let's leave it today oh god um yeah that's it there is a rebellion yeah that's that's the word there is there is that but i don't advise going doing that taking that route it's a very

the best is to enjoy if you can and to space out your studies and the best thing is if you you know when you finish chapters try to discuss them with people with friends or key things try to just talk about them to yourself then you know like summarize them to yourself when you're doing something like maybe you're driving or you're walking somewhere and okay you might look a bit like a lunatic if you're just walking talking to yourself so maybe in your own room then you just explain to yourself explain it and if you can't explain it you don't understand it so or if you're speaking to a friend try and make it a bit interesting like imagine you're speaking to a friend say hey you

know check this out i heard this really crazy thing in mathematics the other day that it said you know something like this and you make it a point of conversation and so what it does is it brings it to life and i guarantee you you won't forget that thing you've learned then yeah and since uh the title of mercy is manifestation i don't know yeah yeah i don't know talk about like anything

on sorry say that again like manifesting as a divine extension yeah i guess we in this world you know it's interesting insane in this world is because allah sets about things through asbab this dunya is has set causes into play and sometimes we are the cause you know maybe sometimes allah is feeding people through you maybe sometimes allah is guiding people through you maybe sometimes allah is bringing a smile to someone's face through you

maybe sometimes allah is consoling someone through you maybe he's helping someone through you like you don't like you want to be that force you don't want to be the one of harm and i guess we all ultimately are you know it's it's a a push-pull we all you know nobody is ultimately a pure source of good uh but we try you know we try i guess that's the yeah there's a hadith uh you often mention that you become so close to the divine that he sees like

through your eyes see through his eyes and he sees this through his hands or through her hands and he you know he becomes the feet by which this person walks and but as in yeah two years before i was like no but uh now i can't understand you know there is this i tell you one of the things that is so amazing is this the divine mystery you know this mysterium tremendous this mystery of god that

it kind of terrifies us yet fascinates us you know we always and terrifies here is like it's not about like um [Music] scaring terrifying but you are in awe of it's a bit like how we always say allah this is the mysterium tremendous and then there's the it kind of it has this effect on its at fascinates and it also fascinates you pulls you in this is

yeah and it is true that look our relationship our in life we will insha allah we continue to grow continue to develop you know we it's true we wouldn't be you know if we look at ourselves two years ago three years ago like you said we may be different people but that's part of the journey then that's part of the journey i'm happy i'm happy about that i'm uh nurturing you know you you're very you know i love the the speed at which you're maturing honestly you're so young and so ahead of

your time i i don't think i was a fraction of that maturity when i was that age honestly i think i was abysmal i think i was when i think back of myself as probably what what are you like maybe 20 21 or something 22 this uh 22 yes so i'm now 43 so if i think back so almost over two decades ago when i was 20 or 21 or 20.

i don't think i could stand the me from then i think i'd want to kind of go i think i'd be so i think that me to the me now would be so annoying like i would and embarrassingly annoying i think i i think so this is how i think i mean i'm not ashamed of the me then because i think it's all you know part of the journey but i think i would be very i don't think i would like to be in that company now like if i could have that me now to talk to i think i'd be just

that would be a nightmare so but this is a reflection of how we also need to exercise sabar with people because everybody's on their own journey and and age isn't a true reflector of where they are on the journey it's just they're at different places you know some people might be you could be half the age of someone who and yet double their maturity that's i mean it would be a shame but i'm sure there's many people like that so

yeah that may also help to open some portal easily like uh if that version of me uh was there you could be accessible like you have to be so uh confident like ignorantly confident sometimes to youth does that though and you know when you're [Laughter] you have that it's a bit like it's that dunning-kruger effect in psychology that you see the less you know the more confident you are it's like the more sure of it you are this is why

uh people who often uh are stupid not to kind of degrade them but let's say they're not so intelligent they're often so certain of themselves and people the more intelligent they are the less certain they are because they come to realize well things hmm you know they're not always that clear so maybe they come to realize that maybe what i know might still change and so they become less sure and this is why they become less convincing to the common people because somebody could be

not as intelligent and gifted in that way and actually quite let's say just stupid but because they s so sure of it it's like trump the way he would speak would appeal to the masses because he would just come across so sure he would just be you know he'd come across very simple yes i know him great guy great guy you know wonderful job you know elon musk builds rockets you know i'll send them to space great guy it's just it just speaks coronavirus kovid yeah you know we're gonna we're gonna we're

gonna bleach it out we're gonna bleach it up yep [Laughter] yeah so and people uh people love that like if you're contrasting uh jordan uh peterson and andrew tate oh andrew it's an interesting one yeah on the other hand john uh jordan peterson is like very academic a very good resource person oh yeah yeah he's talking uh he's talking in a way that uh like he's uh maintaining gaps between them that look uh yeah there's a context

there is a reason behind it and it varies from and on the other hand andrew trade is like so confident and people love like people love that is very confident uh the other person have like they have really it is so true because the thing with yeah like people like andrew tate it's that he got something about him but uh the way he uh he presents it with so much certainty that he's so sure of himself and in fact you know

what's happened now him being censored um which to be fair my personal opinion on censorship is i'm not so happy with just censorship like that because i feel in that sense because i feel that that's like it's not because it's it's not fair in a way because you're saying well everybody else can say the things but okay even though he said crazy things as well but because he got let's say so popular he managed to figure out the algorithm so in that case everybody's going to

block him it had me curious because i'll tell you one thing it had me curious that why would they block him and because i just refuse to believe that the reason they blocked him is because they actually care about women i i don't buy that like i don't think these corporations like sure they're not i'm sure they don't hate women but they're not that fussed either they they're just conglomerate you know corporations are just interested in money and and in things like that to tell me that the reason that they move took this move

uh you know together con you know in cooperation in tandem with one another was simply because they were so moved by the the fact that they felt the rights all you know that this person was offensive to women now this i don't know i don't buy that so i so it has me wondering i wonder what the real reason was that they actually agreed to uh blocking him because you've got corporations like tiktok which is china which is right now at loggerheads with the united states so over taiwan why would they even agree i

mean tick tock has been in the past uh pushed to be banned in the west because of how it's collecting data for the chinese government so why would they agree with places like and that they atrocious on human rights issues i mean do they really care so it made me think i wonder what the real agenda is that why i mean i'm just wondering i don't know like i just find it i don't know what it could be but i don't but i just find this difficult to buy that the real reason is that they just all got sincere and thought oh we really care about uh these people and andrew tater said this

because look nothing andrew tater said has not been said already and what about rappers what about drill music what about this killing of people and what about you yeah like stays in a way in in such a confident manner and such a ignorant way like he does like if anyone says something other than it like he he will uh take his hundred percent uh effort to disagree with yeah and i think he the thing with him was he clocked the algorithm so he managed to completely dominate the

entire algorithm and nobody before him had ever done that so that's fascinating and i think that must have annoyed them that how did he but i'll tell you what was interesting is it must be very humbling for him because you know i remember there were certain clips of his where he says i'm untouchable you know he says i'm off the matrix like you know you guys tomorrow could be switched off you guys this could happen the government could shut you down this could happen that could happen me i'm there's a clip of his where he's saying you know i've worked myself to i'm beyond the matrix i'm untouchable i'm like this you

know i've i'm like set up for life but i you see now this was interesting because you know it's like that anybody who does that tahati of ainat like in the quran it mentions it is from the sunnah of allah that that person is humbled you know it is whether it comes you know you know whatever the rhythm and whether it comes after a while but it humbled him definitely to some extent it brought him down a few notches which because you know it was but i but coming to the point here the the confidence in which he

professed things was uh you know staggering and mind-blowing yeah yeah like somebody said he used to say you know cancel me i don't care i don't care that that didn't work out so well you know it's like that's you know it's where he's saying this cancel me cancel me out okay okay and morgan freeman's voice comes on and says indeed he would come to k as he would soon find out

yeah who doesn't want to be hurt yeah you know it's true that he doesn't miss it like he's lying you know the glance the attention is so powerful that anybody that's caught up in it will always um you see it's too addictive it's too addictive we have to honestly we have to be careful how we get sucked into the power of the clients just the viewer the you know how many people look at my photo how many people like my thing how many you know this viewer this viewer

what we what it is it is it's interesting it's simply somebody becoming conscious of you and you becoming conscious that they are becoming conscious of you this matter consciousness it is so powerful so powerful like since you i'm not sure tell swine t-i-l

t-e-a-l teal okay teal s-w-a-n a-l oh yeah yeah okay yep it's come up oh an international speaker oh uh a woman right till swine american spiritual influence uh right actually i think i've seen some of her clips on instagram or something like i think i may have face looks a bit familiar uh oh she speaks about out of body experiences and stuff okay yeah i think i may have seen one or two not much though but yeah okay

why does she speak of this meta consciousness she is mysteriously suspicious like she uh she stated that she is half human halfway oh no then i definitely haven't heard of her i haven't heard of him she talks something uh talks about something very deeply like very spiritual out of body experience but sometimes i like her but sometimes uh his own uh lecture doesn't come to be in sync yeah i think that look there are a lot of people that

we will find that do speak of this kind of spiritual psyche consciousness thing i think sure like at the end of the day we have a very rich tradition in islam of the mystics that have spoken on this and wherever you can get goodness if you hear a kind word there's a a an absolutely beautiful hadith that kalimatu

that you know a an empowering a right word it is the lost property of a believer enema wherever he finds it or she finds it they're more deserving of it let them take it so if you um you know referring to also the verse of the quran that they follow the best of it that people when we hear things we we take what's good and we can leave what's bad so if i i don't know who this person is but if

she if people are saying sometimes certain good things and you think well oh that's power empowering alhamdulillah but if you know if it's weird or whatever you know you'll you'll get you'll get all kinds of people i guess she says that uh like she gives some courses online so she says that uh like the from the money he'll uh create an uh city where everybody is universally conscious like creating a meta consciousness okay sure i mean okay interesting interesting but yeah let's uh what we'll do is let's

wrap this up for today inshallah and i can see somebody just put up top g bugatti top g has been cancelled here oh you know what though i i do kind of i i won't lie i i don't like the way that it is say that again agitations yeah to the community in general the internet community all right okay sure guys let's wrap this up so first of all ashika rahman shukran much love for tuning in sharing your thoughts as always

it's been a thoroughly enjoyable conversation you take care revise for the exams don't kill yourself over it it's all good man take a little break just breathe inshallah it'll all unfold majestically in front of you i mean all right take care speak soon all right salaam alaikum oh it came back there it was going from one and there he was again look at that the magic of the consciousness allah guys it's been awesome really uh seeing you guys just coming on uh

just speaking sharing my thoughts much love may allah bless you all keep you all smiling i mean all right we'll wrap this up for tonight uh there is going to be a mind trap on friday evening uk time probably around 7 00 p.m with dr shahzad saleem uh i'm really looking forward to having that conversation with the sheriff we're going to speak about just many issues surrounding um women and islam and there's a whole you name it it's probably going to be part of the discussion and it may span

maybe two or even three conversations so let's see how that goes other than that guys to um [Music] do please keep me if you can in your prayers my mother she's health not too well and [Music] yeah and for everyone out there that is going through any kind of difficulty may allah make things easy for them um yeah that you know everybody is fighting a difficult battle when we think about it so yes if you want to reach out to me you're more than welcome to uh to follow me on instagram if you're not already following me on

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