Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth | Session 31

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questions uh let's see let's get through some of these through some of these godamn questions let's get them out the way huh well people and the inquisitive nature it's good to be inquisitive by the way as Socrates had said that are not unexamined life is not worth

living just trying to bring up those questions you can feel free if you do have other ones you can fire away I will try to incorporate them sometimes it is difficult getting a lot of uh oh right I haven't blood yell I haven't shared this let's see uh all right take to okay I can see it now it's all all right just got to share this people to my other page so other people can see that it's going

on right now we've got quite a few uh sh right now let's take some of these questions people been firing away with some of these questions huh some very

interesting all right so what do we begin with should I go right a damn oh technology people technology what is the meaning of Rah Mercy seems to be an inadequate translation if not antithetical at times whoa faran I did ask you to um expand on that and you said uh and faran said when I think of Mercy I think of having the power or right to harm punish but

refraining to do so whereas rahma at least in prophetic narration is often associated with how uh mothers treat their children so the idea of a god being merciful uh or the prophet being a mercy to the world seems to miss the mark on what is intended by rahma it's an interesting very interesting quite a philosophical I don't know push into this week's session of Monday nights I think um um it's interesting because I would think that Rah does mean Mercy in essence and obviously the term Mercy is

um inter intertwined with obviously compassion um when you say things like uh choosing not to punish or that is seen as Mercy I mean hence you get the term mercy killing uh euthanasia I'm not saying that's what uh Carlos Comas right right so the thing is uh so I I do actually think so in my understanding I'm not saying it's a comprehensive uh you know I wish I was the seaboy of the Arabic language but from my understanding of the Arabic

language um and the term rahma and the concept of rahma I do see it generally synonymous with Mercy um I don't see antithetic antithetical or an antonym or something that is kind of anti or just even different to uh to Mercy so Allah I mean and that does incorporate obviously the the thing that you said about mothers and their children and stuff like this and and in in the Sunnah it's a lot about Allah forgiving people and

stuff like this okay so next question people um can you explain the history and where the concept of come from supposedly in the and if it is a majority opinion with the hanafis who disagreed with this to put it into context please do uh I got told that is a strongly recommended Sunnah and that you are liable for punishment if repeatedly missing it whoa Muhammad Ahmed look at all this uh uh

look at all of this um punishment talk huh so um and shukan stay blessed likewise stay blessed I think the thing is that Sunnah the way I see things is uh that you have okay we got to zoom out we have an understanding we zoom out into just a black and white World in this black and white World there are the obligations which have been set so obligatory mandatory prayers rituals Etc they've been

established on the other section and then you have legislated prayers or rituals or worship actions which become legislated okay now so in in the Shar we would call this m okay with an with like from the term so these actions have become legislated or you could to be fair you could still remain zoomed out and include the obligatory ones in that as well because they've all been legislated so if we're still zoomed out actions rituals worship this has been

legislated this entire block okay right so now so if we're to say this is it people this whole thing has been legislated now let's just say this selection here was mandatory made mandatory and now that's out of the picture Okay so that's an absolute mandatory legislation then what we have is these actions have been legislated um by

the imass right some Mas online with us today people that's some some luminary presence right there right now the thing is so you have all of these Mas these actions which have these I rituals that have been legislated now some many of these once the prophet legislated them as in he demonstrated what they were he may have spoke about them or encouraged people to do them or just defined them so he may have said for example

whosoever prayed two when entering a mid will be given so and so reward or he may have said for example um whosoever uh prayed two before um before the prayer of the will have so and so uh action or whosoever found himself in need then let him turn to to Allah and offer two RA in prayer which people often call for example so he's

legislated these okay then it doesn't mean because he legislated them he always had to be practicing this it doesn't mean that it's that he defined what these actions were some he simply defined so he may have said um you know whosoever found himself in need why not turn to God with an offering of two that would now become a it would become within this parameter of legislated praise it doesn't mean the prophet was always doing that or the

companions were always doing that but it's an option so this is what people put down under the kind of Na section okay um because it's been defined by the prophet it's been defined by Islam it may have been encouraged and as the more encouragement there was to it it starts to move up this spectrum so the more encouragement you know people will consider that must why uh because that was encouraged by the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam um now it maybe that the prophet prayed this as a oneoff he may have prayed it to

demonstrate it he to the people that hey you can do this or he may have done this just because he wanted to do this he wanted to offer certain ra let's say the prophet um I don't know like let's say for example it's the early morning what people call early morning and the prophet decides to pray now this because the prophet is praying them uh and they're part of the legislation so therefore they have a um a recommendation to them we call this must the according to school the school of Medina is

the okay these are the Sunnah which the prophet prayed but not consistently he just encouraged defined and may have prayed as a oneoff or maybe he didn't even pray but he encouraged to do these then you have those actions which the prophet either strongly emphasized or he he made a habit of consistently offering them it doesn't mean he always offered them but consistently did so so it could be for example uh the two

of uh of the morning prayer which the malikia call F and everybody else just calls the Sunnah of fuder I suppose now that becomes the Sunnah the the Malik just called Sunnah the true Sunnah as in the Sunnah and the other they will call must now some people will call the and the others some people like the draw a further little like they split that sorry the non- emphasized in the the

ones the Propet Prophet just emphasized sorry just defined and encouraged they split them into two as well so some schools like the hanfi school will say oh that the ones that the prophet himself prayed as a oneof will be but those which he justified and never maybe whether he prayed them or not or whatever he just defined for a reason we'll consider just mustahab so to them must is not the same asah the non- emphasized Sunnah and to the school of Madina there same thing so that's just one group that

their prayers which the prophet said you should pray them if you want to uh and he may have sometimes done it but he didn't generally always do them so things like that okay but this whole thing is a spectrum okay this is a spectrum and then you've got right at the top of this spectrum those prayers that the prophet strongly strongly emphasized and always made an issue of making sure he always prayed them like the wi to the extent that some people within the Maliki sorry some people like the Hani ma considered them waj now once

again when they said waj they didn't mean waj of the rest of the mhbs the rest of the schools so the rest of the schools when they say waj they mean an obligation which the term wajib actually means in Arabic but they invented a technical category between obligatory and Sunnah which they called waj so this layer in between the mandatory and the defined emphasized the Sunnah is according to the hanf called waj um which was those that category that although Allah didn't make it an obligation but we're treating it like an

obligation okay and the way they they have a technical definition for it as well they say that which the say that which has been established through non-conclusive means okay um so they call it in will call this so anything established through becomes and anything established through means becomes Haram according to the Hani school anyway that's a bit technical uh for people and some people may not grasp that but according to the majority of the people it's very simple and the hania you can include them as well um that it's it's like saying look

the whole thing is a spectrum you have the absolute top which is mandatory and these are all legislated actions so for an action to become na it must be legislated see so you can't just introduce your own kind of prayers so this is how things then are they become for example so so if a person said for example I would like to offer three three three three people the Malik

M right so the thing is I'd like to offer three n right so that's my n voluntary prayer I want to do three three you know the in three right somebody asked me about that they go uh isn't though Heen 3 I go well sorry man I think got the wrong religion cuz that's the Christianity man the Trinity it's not but anyway the thing is so somebody said I want to do three n they can't do three n even but they say but this is voluntary I want to offer it to God they say well you know

what well God don't need your n the thing is uh so you say to them that look the thing is three does doesn't work because the prophet never introduced it he never legislated it it's not on the legislation board people okay it has to be on the Spectrum so the prophet has to have defined this upon this spectrum and if he didn't so this is why when people uh you see so the prophet said for example you can pray he

spoke about why don't people offer two two right so we know na is in two he legislated and defined two but if you decide to change that make it three then this becomes an innovation okay so once it's on this spectrum then there's those which are simply just defined and they're na so you want to just pray na you know they're done in twos you can read offer pray uh um what is it 10 na 12 n whatever you want to do ah but here it becomes interesting because should you def

decide to add an extra point of definition which the prophet did not Define then it will become an innovation so as the prophet defined them you can take them so the prophet said look prayers are done in two uh that's fine he didn't Define when he didn't say I mean some he did like he said why do you like as you move up the Spectrum he prayed in the early morning or when you enter a mosque or when you're in need but you could just offer because you know prayers are in two they've been defined and encourage and just left for people so if somebody decided to just offer two that's fine but if somebody started to say you know

what you know every Wednesday I'm going to offer um 10 the problem here would become first of all they would be asked why Wednesday and why 10 so if they said look well um Wednesday because it's just convenient because I have a day off from work and 10 just because I think I can handle 10 anything above that and I won't be able to be consistent then that's cool that's cool

people don't worry about it's cool but if they said you know well well I don't know like let's say they said uh Wednesday has a spiritual feel to it like I don't know like I feel or let's say they said Monday because the prophet was born on a Monday or it's the first day of the week working week and it has a spiritual field to it so by praying on a Monday I'll get blessings in my risk let's just say this said this that my

working week by praying on the Monday I'm going to get this uh special blessing in my working week and I'll get more money or something now this definition that they've added this Cog that they've put in there will dismantle the whole system because that Cog doesn't belong there or if they were to say well uh Monday just happens to be coincidental which is fine but the number 10 because you know why because because the first 10 suras of the Quran happen to have this or because 10 is a mystical number that happens to you see

the moment they add a religious element to their why their definition they decide to add a religious Cog into this formula the formula will collapse on itself okay so it has already been defined by the prophet you cannot add any more kind of of U uh kind of kind of uh uh cogs or any anything else to that equation so just to make that clear okay I hope that helps you can watch my video on innovation in Islam if you decide to if that makes s if you want to know more about that what levels of part should

women do right Abu is that [Music] you uh sounds legit what level of B should women do have to adopt should it go as far as nikab or not you know I've answered this before that the nikab is not uh from the Quran ornah the nikab is the face Veil and uh and and I quote here Ahmed who's one of the leading uh Maliki mu in the world really and somebody who I had the honor to to be

hosted by in his house and so I visited him and and the thing is he is one of the the most senior scholars in the in one of the three most ancient classical centers of learning throughout the Muslim World which are alar the Zuna and the these three which are over a thousand years old of continuous learning almost now he is one of the senior figures worldwide and within Alazar and his uh video is available on YouTube where he clearly says in his D that look theab is not from the Sunnah it is not from the it is not for it is not Sunnah this is a cultural appropriation that was used for

safeguarding so um I do not at all and I think it's a shame that now non-muslims have had to make it into an issue because we as Muslims should have really fixed our own house put our own house in order before non-muslims start to tell us what to do because then it becomes an issue you see because then we get defend Ive so we should have fixed ourselves there was no need to wear the nikab in countries like the UK um obviously look I'm not I'm against Banning stuff because I don't think people should tell

people like they shouldn't impose uh although if I was in control I think the first thing I would ban it's uh but it's true though I mean seriously I think Muslims are the bigger issue for Muslims really I think let's face it our biggest issue would be with [Music] Muslims right so I I think um I I I absolutely can't stand the nikab I'll be honest with you because I think it's um I mean look

if in some parts of the world it makes absolute sense right and I understand that it's a safeguard measure where if you happen to be in Kabul or in kaha or in toror or one of those parts of the world uh or in ra right then obviously it makes sense because you know you don't want to get kidnapped and you know you're not in the mood of getting kidnapped or or butchered you think yeah don't really feel like getting butchered or you know you don't want to be kind of like sold into slavery or gang raped or anything like this you know it's not it's not

the so the thing is now so so okay I understand that part of the world in the UK come on people come on get real be or in the West in general snap out of it with this oh I'm so dazzling and I look so goddamn beautiful that if men were to see me they would melt right

have some coffee some very strong coffee and take a look around okay they don't actually rate you that high hash delusions of grandeur people are deluded they think they so I mean I don't I don't get what look the thing is people are not going to knock themselves out crazy uh trying because they've seen your face okay so pull yourself together get real okay um and it is irritating it I can imagine obviously people from non-muslim perspectives okay we as Muslims just

have that kind of respect I guess and we just kind of hold back but as non-muslims they're probably thinking look what the hell like if I started covering my face you you wouldn't like it like let's be honest if men did it it would be intimidating it's true isn't it like if if men walked around with bandanas up to here that would be intimidating and you wouldn't want you wouldn't tolerate it for men and they would say and laws would come into place I guarantee you in Muslim countries if men started to wear bandanas to cover their face and they said it's because of my religion they would rip it off their

faces that's in Muslim countries so how do you think n so okay they're not as intimidated but they but they feel that what the hell is this like why are you so so I can kind of sometimes understand where people are coming from where where non-muslims are coming from with this and I personally I I don't believe in enforcing things but I believe Muslims should have put the our houses we should have put our own house in order a long time ago and we should have stopped encouraging women or teaching them to cover the face because this was not from the Quran it was not from the Sunnah and it was look even hanafi F right in this

country majority of the people are hanfi even Abu hanifah and in Han they say it's not they say it's it's not from the original hij that is actually the ruling so why not go back to the original ruling right because you know you're arguing for it as though you're mistaking it as the original edifice of Islam and it's not it's something that was introduced into Islam as a safeguarding measure so anyway I hope that helps and you know I know people will probably be offended at what I said but look I'm just speaking the truth people you can't handle the truth godamn

it look few women wear the nikab that is true but they make an issue out of it isn't it and I'll tell you another thing it's like you'll get like look so for example in the Quran according to the apparent reading of the Quran uh you know Allah says uh that those women who have uh who have and the word that is used used to have kind of SAT but that they you see now the apparent reading shows that they do not need to observe hij right as long as Quran

mentions as long as they're not trying to just go about cause whatever but they do not need to observe hijab and that is the women now the MU differed amongst them but one of the readings very evidently was that uh women in the uh post uh you know that have gone through their menopause now that's not actually that old when you think about it but yet you will so according to the apparent reading of the Quran and there was a difference of opinion but many women once they've gone through their menopause do not need to even wear hijab just dress modestly that's what the Quran says so now and that's the apparent reading

of the Quran and that is what several people went with you know when you look at what certain people said and even bring that he'll bring the different of difference of opinion as well in there and he will show who said what and I believe uh is it Abu and and and other people they've commented on this and they've shown that look that this many people did consider this to mean um menopause now people even women that are very old elderly will still walk around with like full nikab on and stuff like this and I understand look they've done this all their lives I understand it's cultural

um but that's the problem people don't understand it's cultural they think it's Islam you see if it was just made clear that this is culture then there isn't as much of a problem but it's presented as this is Islam that's the problem because then everybody has to bloody take you know they have to be the take the brunt of it so so that's my point anyway so yeah I don't know how many of you are going to hate me a lot more for saying that right so the question next uh are what

is your opinion on should women be saluted for wearing it due to the social aspect in the UK uh I'm not I'm not for wearing it okay I'm making myself very clear it is not the prophet did not teach it the Quran did not teach it the prophet never taught it uh the prophet so you know this is not from Allah and his messenger it's from culture people want to wear it it's up to them I I don't salute you for wearing it I think you're adding to the tension of the social fabric of the country which we are part and parcel of okay so you know you can deny all you want for example we

here in the UK are British so the the thing is that I don't know people might be European they may be American watching this that's who you are now some people are creating uh tension in that social Fabric and they're doing it on the pretext of Islam now it may be that they strongly believe in these things uh but that is not how um I don't salute that some yeah somebody said isn't it f in the early H texts it maybe but iin humbly okay and many of the malikia didn't even consider them a legitimate M the H's

just about barely made it into the schools of law you know who was a major of this um he said some in his time he said when they asked him about the H maab he said maab he said IM Ahmed was a great a scholar of who had some opinions in he said he said he said I've got no idea of him having a maab and neither do I know of him having any reliable transmitters and so what did they

do they beat the hell out of him until I think he eventually died but they they attacked vandalized his house and tried to burn his house down and stuff like that he's the famous mufas of the Quran by the way look I respect the H school today don't worry don't worry don't worry they are minority school man today they barely exist even today right throughout the ages I respect them I think they've got some great work some great efforts but the the truth is look the Helly school to me has always had it's always suffered from bipolar okay it's had this bipolar kind of tendency to it on one

hand they've been really big on Mas like the malakis and they rap them and on the other hand they they've acted this you know this like this very kind of like Pur purists and and this is you know so and this is evident and and I respect obvious IM Ahmed you know may Allah have mercy on him but even his speaking of IM Malik you know the way he speaks of IM Malik in some places he highly rates him some places he disses him and says oh you know what a weak opinionated guy and his Hadith was strong though I'm thinking

uh right look we love them all but the truth is as a school of law they've ly had any influence throughout the Islamic history any significant influence as a school in Creed they've been perhaps more popular in recent times because of the salafi movement but as a school of law they're there they're respected they're like a minority kind of people that have existed within um within the Islamic societies um and they've and I've always felt and this is with no disrespect that they've had this kind of bipolar tendency that they that they either extreme Puritan ists or they're just

super chilled in some things and and I find that like like difficult to because then there's a claim to to them fighting each other on who is who what is the school so I Josie can be very strict chilled I mean not but can be chilled as well on certain things uh from the Han can be very chilled um you know you findi uh very chilled on on on certain things and then you see because he's chilled they then call him and they call him all these things

and it's amazing it's amazing but the but the point anyway right let's move on to our questions people somebody asked about women shaking hands um um right the thing is uh right okay let me let me answer this question actually what is my view on Islam because I was asked this um and Abdul Jani Al you see abdad gilani um the thing is you know with Abdul Kad Al gilani I don't think from a f

perspective he's spoken about much I don't think people really even even the people that rate him today they rate him because through a kind of Sufi narrative as in like an extremely Pious person who did a lot of good work helped the poor did things like this so it's not and obviously and then some Sufi kind of beliefs about trying to say he was like super mystical and can fly around and do everything and a demig God right so the thing is I don't um so but the thing is that so

okay excluding those absolute people who totally lost it with Abdul Kad Al gilani but people who just generally respect him they respect him for being a uh like a philanthropist a great person who helped people who kind of fed people who did things like this these kind of narratives they don't transmit his FIY opinions they don't say oh by the way he believed this in this or he believed this was his fatwa or this was his thing so I'm not really sure we can bring abdad Jani into the into the into the kind of uh narrative here into this discussion because I don't think we

people quote him in Islam I mean to you see I was asked what do I think of this of this title shul Islam I think this title uh shul Islam has been recreated in this last century um right the thing is that right anyway the thing is I think this uh uh I think some personalities if we were were to say in our in the 20th century have been recreated within the Muslim history For Better or For Worse right I'm not this isn't a value judgment I'm not saying it's a bad thing

but these personalities have been recreated and reinvented by the 20th century uh Muslim scholarship uh and and there's a few figures and I would say one of them is definitely IIA has been recreated I would say unquestionably people like salahudin Albi have been recreated by uh um by by Muslim scholarship and also the Muslim narrative in general with the unfortunate tragedies uh that befell um you know the sacred land of philistine Palestine and you know may Allah ease their suffering and uh the their

struggle I mean and restore them to safety uh as swiftly as possible I mean but I mean because with with the tragedies that befell Palestine uh the umah kind of recreated this hero figure Salah he did exist and he did do great things unquestionably but was he the same way that today we know of him throughout Islamic times I'm not sure he was um I think he was definitely respected unquestionably but was he the way today as like a like a known household figure with that kind of thing I don't think he

necessarily was in that sense I think that was kind of recreated in light of the issue what what uh um what took place now no I'm not you see somebody's asking here was he acknowledged of course he was he was a great person I'm not you know may Allah have mercy on him and you know Grant him an elevated Mak in Jen but what I'm trying to say is that the personality that's been recreated in this Century has uh has this some Recreation and reinvention taking place I'm not passing judgment I'm not saying it's a bad thing or a good thing it's a human reaction so it's it's what's

happened so if you went 200 years back and spoke to Muslims about Salah I don't think you would get the same like I think they would think oh yeah yeah yeah you know he's a good but I don't think he would be as well known necessarily as he is today and I don't think all these stories of Valor would be known about him I think the fact that he re reclaimed goods from the the Crusades would be known but more things wouldn't you have to remember he also had a kingdom the ubid kingdom and after it he gave it to his sons who fought each other and they didn't Muslims didn't generally like what was going on there was a lot of Bloodshed that took

place you got to remember there was all of that history the a you know salah's Sons were you know fighted over the part of the little kingdom and they fought each other and all this kind of stuff so it wasn't as like romantic of a picture as today we picture it so T is is is another figure that's been recreated by the salafi movement now the salais needed a figure to kind of hinge their whole dawa on and that figure they found they found their messiah in I Tamia and uh and they've reinvented him unquestionably I

mean including the title shul Islam uh this traditionally people who were known as Islam uh were people like was known as Islam who today isn't referred to much as sh Islam but um in his time he was today that he's kind of like monopolize this title I don't have an issue necessarily W uh with that uh except I don't think he was above other Scholars I think he was he was a great scholar but I think there were many much more greater than him in my perspective obviously salais would disagree with me on on that um and

and I think he was a great person but once again I think he struggled immensely um in trying to understand where he fitted in because of his AA and and I think the only way could make sense of things was by outcasting other people and I think he struggled a lot with um this kind of antipathy towards because he had a lot of uh there was a lot of kind of like him against the world in everything him against the world in everything him against the world in beliefs him against the world so that side of his I don't

really find myself kind of like liking too much but I I love his side of of mas of where he does speak of and fwa he is very contemporaneous for his time he he does exercise a lot of mus I love the way he he spoke on matters of T just honestly and and and trying to safeguard Muslims I love the way he for example said I I shared this last week about women even about menstruation not impacting things and um when he spoke about the Hajj and stuff like and how he

was prepared to to go against the tide in in matters of everyday Islam not so much about beliefs but everyday Islam that side I love about him somebody asked do I think IM gazali was recreated I think IM gazali there's been he has been kind of but I don't think it's just the last century because Imam gazali there's been this whole Sufi narrative that's carried on about him for centuries uh I do think he's been recreated within the Sufi circles but I don't think it's in the last century I think it's been going on for centuries so Imam gazali is an old

figure that's lived on right through us so for example you know we could go 300 years ago they would still be in the Sufi circles speaking of Imam gazali in this same way that they're speaking of him today um whether that figure that is transmitted has been slightly reinvented I think the the thing the way Imam gazali today is presented is as this Sufi figure that part seems to today Eclipse his true character and personality of being the the fak thei the philosopher that side of him today seems to have become eclipsed which I think was the central part of him and

this Sufi part which today seems to have been Amplified um I think was the minority part of him but but that's my interpretation and people could disagree with me obviously right so uh I was asked a question about women shaking hands I did say look people like Abdullah have given that fatwa and do totally agree with that that in these circumstances living in the west where things are generally where the context deem something asexual uh in the like business meetings um that kind of like uh environment that kind of corporate or work employment environment

or that very uh courteous uh professional atmosphere in these things there is no harm I I feel in these societies for women to shake hands that's what ABD has given that F and I totally agree with that um that's in light of our own understanding of our age okay so uh how to understand the hours of praying when at home is there any proof precise hours uh you see the thing is the hours of prayer are scheduled by obviously timetables which reflect for example where the sun will be at a certain time and these are

astronomical um kind of calculations and and mathematical calculations so I think um there's no harm going with any calendar that's or any kind of time table that's fine can parents force their daughter to wear hijab I've answered this before I do not believe they can um um and it depends here what we mean okay I would like to elaborate on this um I think there's a difference in saying things like um so for example within a household people have

rules okay those rules are rules that come part and parcel of a household um that's not the same as religious Authority that's like your roof Authority so I could have in my house a rule that everybody should be home by 10:00 or by 9:00 or let's say I've got kids uh obviously mine if they were out that late I'd be definitely worried considering one of them's two but the thing is like let's say I was to say okay everybody must be home

by a certain time that's my rule under that's my Ruth Authority that's not religion okay there's a difference here now I could say look I want so for example I want you to like I teach my children about Islam or I bring them up in a certain way or I tolerate certain things or I do certain things these things are part of my kind of Ruth Authority I I can do that as a person where it's my house it's my rules okay what I can't do is shove it down their throat under the you

know the the the kind of license of God okay because what I'm going to be doing is creating a hatred in the hearts of these people against Allah and his messenger and I have no right to do that you see so I can what I believe that as a parent it is a duty as a parent to throughout theia to kind of inculcate the qualities or the love for modesty in their child I think that's a parental Duty okay to to kind of like want their children to be modest people to be good people that's a

parental Duty and I support that um part of that would be encouragement on how what modesty means now will be different vary from culture to culture so you know obviously if somebody had a daughter who's uh much older and let's say she's wants to wear a mini skirt now people that will bother people naturally because of our one our religious understanding two our cultural understanding now you may have your and it will go against this whole this part of this mission that you wanted this child to have an understanding of modesty so you would obviously bring

them up you see this is the thing this is part of a program okay and it's part of a relationship that you ought to have and I know it's difficult I can understand it it will be difficult but it's part of that relationship now it's not a military relationship or it shouldn't be this kind of military relationship like ah and I can understand like I said look there will be roof responsibilities roof Authority and they will be kind of like if you want to call them punishments or forcing as in you know people would say oh if you don't do this right you know if you're

not home by this time you're grounded oh you know I'm going to take away your luxuries you're not going to get an iPhone an iPad these kind of things these happen everywhere that is normal there's no issue in doing things like that with stuff like normal roof reasonable things but as to technicalities like let's say somebody does dress modest they dress reasonably modest but they're not wearing the hijab let's say this even in culture it's not that we we now recognize that as a religious thing it's not like you

know it's not it doesn't mean like people don't recognize that even in let's say you could take a country like Pakistan people would recognize the hijab is from religion but modesty means you just overall dressed modestly they understand these differences so you see when there's a difference on matter of religion so the girl says look I'm I don't want to wear hijab I believe that the parents do not have the the right to force her to do that okay because what they will do is create a hatred in her heart and a a

strong sense of rebellion against religion okay so so I wouldn't advise that at all okay um I would you know you can talk to them you can speak to them you can encourage them and look just chill out as well people the main thing seriously is Modesty you know like if a girl had a hijab on for example I'm just giving an example and she wore let's say just I don't know tight leggings and went out twirking everywhere right the thing is that one you know like I can see you questioning look trying to be worried

about modesty or this and that and worried for a safe well-being and people just you know harassing her or whatever but if she's dressed modestly and now you just you've got an issue with this religious thing and she doesn't buy into it yet just give her time and just chill out okay just chill out people chill out that's what I'm say okay so anyway let's move through these would you consider it disrespectful to face the feet to face the feet to words oh to point the feet towards the or to leave a copy of the Quran open when not

reading from it uh there is no this is a proper Packy thing now isn't it so and before you get Ed I can use the word py don't worry about it people I am a py so it's okay right the thing is look you know it's like somebody like people say to me oh don't use the word people are going to get offended not that py follows on from but I'm just saying people say don't use the word people are going to get offended I go well the only reason they're going to get offended is because they're retards they go oh my God but you can't

call a a I go what the hell are you supposed to call him what like a genius like what the hell are you supposed to call a they go oh but people truly people would find that offensive I go well truly disabled or you know like people who are slow mentally mentally challenged I wouldn't call them retards that that why would you call them retards you'd call them mentally challenged or as in they've got learning disabilities or you'd call them like that you wouldn't say you you're calling a a who's a dumb idiot right so and people say yeah but that's a

disability but then tell me do you not call blind people blind do you not call deaf people deaf is that is that what you know is that offensive to call people blind people blind is it like oh you're blind do tell me do you not call people who can see when they've done something wrong like are you blind or something do people not say that why is that not offensive to say are you blind can't you see are you deaf I've been calling you everybody says this but it's ah so it's okay to what it's okay to mock blind and deaf people huh huh you

ah I love it I love it right so anyway coming back to this thing right political correctness look I understand everything as a setting so obviously if you're giving a professional speech you're not going to say uh you know like you wouldn't expect the prime minister to say something like you although the prime minister is probably but I'm shocked bloody hell I can't believe how the Tores are just gaining votes I

just anyway don't want to turn this into a political discussion right so this thing of pointing the feet towards the this is a it's a very Indo pack thing in general some other cultures may have it as well but it's very indac they feel is disrespectful it's not disrespectful to point your feet towards uh the or to you know according to look what's I'll tell you what's more of an issue which the discussed in the past and that was could you urinate in the direction of the now they discussed that and people said generally Malik and all

these people they said look at that time they said if if it wasn't an open place where people are openly saying that is the and you happen to go there and but then if it's just like as it is within buildings and stuff like this they said look there's no issue that this is why according to IM Malik and other people if the toilet was facing towards uh the it was not a problem and that's you know according to people like Omar as well transmitted through uh the school of M but I know that the school of kufa the Hani did find it problematic to urinate towards and they base this on a Hadith which fair enough I respect them for

that uh that the prophet said uh you know that do not face and do not you know when you're going that when you're going to relieve yourselves don't you know go at the or uh do not defecate you know relieve yourselves in that direction but the other MBS the school of andar cuz Omar said that look he saw the prophet s alaihi wasallam urinating and in it's in a Hadith in um I believe it's in Abu da it might be in ter as well that he says that when he climbed on the roof of ha's house who was his sister and the wife of the prophet he says he could see that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam uh like as he was on the roof he could

see the prophet was down below and he was relieving himself but he could see his back like from you could see him back the prophet was uh sitting down and he said that he could uh he he saw the prophet urinating as he never saw him Ur but he could see that he's that's what he's he's doing now in the Hadith he says that he could see his back and he was facing towards the so this kind of showed well oh so that means it's not a problem to face the so what the um said is that look if this wasn't an open place where people were using this as a then you went there

and urinated that would be wrong okay so cool a question there that Junior has been asking is ting to your full Haram right overeating is not Haram but the the prophet said in a Hadith that look that a non-muslim eats from Seven uh intestines and a Muslim eats from one and some people felt that oh this meant that there were seven intestines and really and and Muslim only utilized one and that's not what it meant the prophet Sall Ali was wasn't giving a medical kind of like uh uh a diagnosis here or what the prophet

sallallahu alaihi wasallam was saying and the term seven I've highlighted before the Arabs used for excess okay and what the prophet said was he was highlighting to people that look don't overindulge and this was not a religious ruling it was something I suppose it had a hint of religion in there and trying to say look just two things in moderation you know this it leads to obvious the Arabs were not you know in the prophet's time none of them were obese people ever like they couldn't fathom obesity right like they they were help they say the prophet sallallahu alaihi was when he passed away had a

flat stomach flat got got still work on these abs godamn it but the thing is that so the point is it was something to encourage moderation and it was also a time of scarcity the prophet said in a Hadith that none of you is a Believer if he eats whilst his neighbor you know goes to sleep hungry share your food like go knock their doors and I was going to say knock them

up I don't mean it like that but as we did used to use when we were kids also to mean like knock the door okay to knock up I know now it means to get someone pregnant but the thing I don't mean knock up all your neighbors like that but what I you guys just just practicing Islam my friend just I just knocking up all my

neighbors for some reason Gary is the only one who isn't pregnant yet right so the thing is right so anyway getting back to to this right so the thing is that what the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam was saying is that you should have so much you should have a philanthropic a kind of a A Love For Humanity uh in in you as a human being and and this is where you know the Hadith where the Prophet said that oh jiel spoke to me about so he he kind of

spoke to me about the right so he spoke to me about the rights of uh of the neighbor to the extent that he said I was worried that he would say even give him from your inheritance meaning like damn like the neighbor had so many rights and it is a shame to be honest with you because we live in a society today we we're so indiv individualized that we don't it's difficult even having any relationship with with it doesn't have to be that kind of

relationship the one where well hello it is I it is I again so the thing is you just turn up in your dressing gown so the the thing is it doesn't have to be that kind of relationship but I mean today it's difficult because we're in a world in this part in this part of the world we're in an age of just hyperbolic suspicion okay so if um so if for example if your neighbor started to say all this uh you know like imagine you knock on the door you open it and

it's your neighbor and he just says well hello there just I just thought I'd say hello so you'd be like okay hello right so the point is that it's it's like you would think that what what do they want like what do they want because it's unfortunate that's how the world we live in now so it's difficult you know sometimes I would like to have more of a friendly relationship with my neighbors but we we it's just the world it's the

price we pay for and the individualized Societies in which we live right uh all right okay whoa okay Rashid if you could just watch your comments before you get blocked right so the thing is anyway let's move on next question um what is the Malik so just to make that clear this pointing your back to the mus like if there's a Quran open and my back is there uh is not um this

respectful um right right it's going to be a problem if I just start speaking in U what do you say we leave the The Poetry just for right now but it's not disrespectful to point your back to the mus neither is it disrespectful to to point your feet towards the direction just to clarify that all right Halal dating right Halal dating well wow

Hal you see it's it's interesting because now we've got labels for everything this is the this is the thing isn't it so it gets really you know when things get defined to to their absolute becomes a problem doesn't it you know it's like [Laughter] the point is that look what do you uh what is like what is halal dating I don't understand because you see we got to because when we start labeling things they we problematize them as well

so look let me get this right men and women this is natural attraction being drawn to each other and it's since time immemorial okay it's nothing new you know we're not first people to be born uh who are attracted to the opposite gender it doesn't you know that's an innate thing okay it's innate with within human beings I know the homosexuals will will disagree and say okay we're attracted to the same gender whatever

but the point is attract ction nevertheless is innate people since time immemorial have socialized I mean since human modern since the anatomically modern human but even prior to that even just neander tals or whoever they are even animals primates they're drawn and they have attraction and they do their version of what interacting whatever that is to to get the attention of the other person to check them out speak to them in terms they you know they'll speak they'll Converse they may be this is part of a kind of natural

humanness there isn't nothing unnatural about that the okay the issue is Islam has said okay you know things should be within uh a marital framework they should be like this um so you know like having actual sexual sexualizing the whole thing should be within a framework but prior to that it hasn't really defined how to go about things Islam hasn't said okay this is how you may approach the opposite gender take three steps then stop at this stage you may now raise the

Gaze to a 35° angle at this point you may now speak you can utter no more than seven words you know it doesn't work like this so Islam just left it to people however they do this okay now so you meet people you want to get to know them or you don't want to get to know them cultures vary people vary expectations vary in some cultures it's no big deal you know they just like somebody and the fact that I like you or you like me is enough I don't need to know too much about whoa what kind of mindset what kind of hobbies what kind

of a weirdo are you what kind of weird freaky stuff are you into and don't need to know that it's okay in some societies it's more of a big deal so whatever look whatever floats your boat people just be natural just be normal don't be like this kind of weird robotic mechanical you don't need to be so mechanical about these things just be natural it's in you anyway to be natural so if you had a conversation with somebody you had a ation with them look

what it's between you that person and Allah is watching you know if people say yeah but you know oh but this that whatever look you are accountable for yourself you're a human being you you have like the prophet said in the Hadith seek counsel from your heart you know what's good you know what is beyond limits just be a normal person people say oh well ah but you know if you start speaking to them you might flirt with them you might this is all part of do do you think people previously did not do these things that this is somehow a 21st century invention this is not okay right

like oh like the Hadith in bukari where uh what's his name um Abu uh saic where he says to that um where he says to the lady I mean he's a companion she was a companion as well where he says to her oh he comes to visitor in her house and he says well oh you know you you're looking very pretty and oh so he says Ah you you you almost look as good as though you're you know you you you're happy to be married and he said this because she was in a state of she was not supposed to be getting married and she says yeah because

I right okay Rashid um I'm just checking right so I haven't blocked you yet but any out of all the comments and you will be right so the thing is look now so the thing is that the prophet uh so so she says yeah because I'm out of my and he says well no you're not I'm sure you know she had actually her husband had been in an incident and had passed away so and she had been pregnant at the time and she gave birth now obviously if you give birth is over so you don't wait out the full four months

10 days whatever it is so the thing is now right so anyway in this point uh so she so he says I'm going to go and ask the prophet so he goes and asks the prophet and the prophet says well what she said is correct and then he goes back and marries her so the thing is look well what was going on because I mean he was obviously chatting to her chatting to her in her house chatting

uh ah right rashed is that who you are well okay just hang in there then just watch the right so the thing is right so that's the the point so when you say look how can I be in touch with this other person can I call them can I text them can I meet them you can do these things right but look what are your limits you know what your limits are you don't need you know you don't need to be micromanaged some people are obsessed about being micromanaged like I need to be micromanaged oh oh third person is the devil godamn

it right so the thing is look you don't need to okay if the third look if you want to meet up you can meet in a public place you know it doesn't have to be doesn't have to be like a hotel room right it's not that's a not that was a a no no okay so NY NY the thing is so you can do these things okay so the point is look you can meet in a public place you can get coffee you can get tea you can get food you can chat but so anyway just to clarify that right so the point anyway

what I want to say is well this leads to another question you see there were many things in the prophet's time where he would advise these things as general eates as well but they would be given a religious kind of veneer because re the religious rhetoric was part of the social fabric of the time and it would get people doing these things okay right now so the point so so if as an example the

prophet said in a Hadith oh uh do not leave your containers or vessels or bottles un uh do not leave them uncovered as in make sure you close them off like you like a like cork but they would tie a a kind of cloth leather thing on it and tie and uh and he said it's like the uh like he said in the Hadith that unless the Devils eat from it or drink from it um so these kind of things so in another Hadith the prophet

said that oh if if you've eaten something and you go to sleep without having washed your hands that and and the wording of the Hadi speaks of like licking from it and stuff like so let's say you got grease over your fingers or food and you've kind of gone to sleep and it mentions and in another Hadith the prophet said oh that uh he spoke of like in Devil terms for somebody who went to sleep but left the lamp uh left the lamp a lit like it was still um had a flame in it a live flame

and he left the lamp like that and went to sleep now these kind of aith today to you and me would seem very common sensical about hygiene and safeguarding but even okay there's a minority of people today who actually believe it's still to do with the devil all these things but why the prophet spoke of it in that way was he was emphasizing the importance of these things to safeguard these people to teach them better hygiene to not have things like rodents or things come up to their hands and bite them or or to cause

infestation or to prevent diseases to prevent illnesses to prevent uh houses from whether it's burning down or to prevent these things the prophet was speak teaching them all of these things but he would teach them with religious rubric religious rubric and rhetoric the language was part of the society then it was how people spoke when they got a message home and and it is true look the the prophet spoke of cleanliness to that extent he said it's Next to

Godliness okay why put it on this thing because yes it is true that when you are more clean it will make you feel more pure and in so it does have that religious impact but also it's a good thing to do it prevents illnesses it prevents diseases it prevents harm to society it allows uh to cultivate a very healthy community so it was important to emphasize these things that that this purification is it's half of your damn

Faith but really was it about the fact that oh it's about punishment and going to hell for not being clean no it wasn't these things would you see today we would do these things anyway so today somebody would just brush their teeth when they wake up anyway but what if you lived in a society where people wouldn't necessarily do all these things what how would you inculcate these and bring them into their daily lives the prophet said in a had in

look I am to you like that of a father he said look I will teach you everything including going to the toilet does it mean that this going to the toilet is about you know going to heaven or going to hell you see to some people

yes right so the thing is now the point is that does this mean was the prophet trying to say speak about heaven and hell and was he trying to speak about going to the toilet is to do with Heaven and Hell and religious no some people have taken that literal angle but what he was trying to do was make hygiene Health importance uh safety make these things part and parle of the lives of these people and yes it will naturally lead people to a greater relig a greater practice of religion and observance of it but it's also about

safeguarding them and the way the prophet spoke was with through religious rhetoric so it's important to understand so when the prophet said things like look you know but the thing is that sorry that that the thing is that okay that you know that one traveler is a is a devil two are devils and so when the prophet is speaking about these things about look oh when two people are alone the third person is the devil does this

really mean that oh you the devil is only there when two people are there does it mean that by the devil I mean he had the the capacity and the insinuations to do all sorts and to do wrong things or perpetrations or crimes or or you know just deception do these only occur to you or do you only get these Whispers when you're alone with another person can you not get them in a group of people you can but what the prophet was trying to say is that you see he was speaking about risk factors protecting vulnerable people well you

know the thing is that the vulnerable people are protected um right the vulnerable people are protected uh when there's more people around so obviously when you say you know so when people are on their own they they're more likely to be harmed they they are more likely as well to get up to stuff I accept that but also they could be violated so for example you have to remember this was a worrior society as well that the prophet was addressing they weren't just you know they were like like worrying you know worrior people like I mean we can't picture that

lifestyle we genuinely cannot picture it they were very kind of like I mean like it was just too real for us like too kind of gruesome those societies were and and so the prophet did say about people meeting on their own and obviously it leaves people vulnerable so anyway now moving on let's see um is the idea of a personal Shayan just metaphorical Hugo asks I'm not sure if it's metaphorical as in like you see the thing is we have

this capacity as part of us to have like human beings can be incredibly um immoral they can be vile and I think it's almost a tendency because we have an um I think we have an instinctual need to exert control Power I think that is very instinctual um it's it's because it's found in other creatures too it's not just human primates even in rodents like Even Rats will exert control on the

environment now the thing is that human beings are no different we will exert control on our environment okay now this is why we have to be careful when people start of institutionalized religion because people use religion to exert control but coming back to it I think look we have what an inbuilt capacity this shaan so to speak is with us is part of us that we will be we are inclined to committing atrocities and we are prevented from that through our voice of

reason um but there is an internal struggle uh many times and maybe at all times throughout humans life you know throughout a human's life they can commit wrong that is when the prophet said the Shan is in the blood the Shan is in the blood did he mean one action one interpretation is oh the actual shaan is this little creature who's running around in the blood cells that's one interpretation I find that a bit dumb uh but people can believe that fine the other is that it's trying to say it's in you as in part of you it's part of your

DNA it is inextricable like you cannot this is you that you will have this shaan within you this kind of to but you will also have the capacity to be very good and it's like it's how Freud said that you know we are more moral than we think yet far more immoral than we can imagine Dr zimbardo's experiment was awesome to show this you know and he has a book on this the uh where he speaks about the the kind of bad apple effect but he calls this the Lucifer

effect but it's interesting I mean you can watch Dr zimbardo's 1979 Stanford Prison Experiment which they made a movie on as well but it really shows this and then he Dr zimbardo who's a psychologist he did a lot of work following the Abu thing where he also said that look I I told you this would happen but anyway I hope that's of some help yep like the Vikings are in Arabic bad kids are called shtin yeah true that's absolutely true that's insane right I'm just trying to read some of

these right so let's get right where we at people where we at uh you studied other religions in depth which other religions have you studied uh I have studied to a certain amount of the religions I'm not saying I'm you know an expert on other religions but I have studied other religions I did uh teach um uh I taught religious studies I taught religions comparative religions at a uh gcsc and a level to an a level which is a college here below University level so and I did my training uh to

teach in comparative religions we did have to look at other religions and the whole kind of study involved I taught philosophy of religion as an this is a few years back and and on my own I researched a lot into in my own way um to into what what I could of other religions but yeah but I mean so that's and that generally included to a certain I I was an examiner for Christianity for gcsa Christianity paper for about four four years four or five years I was an examiner so um so to some extent you know I would say the main religions the

six major religions that are taught within the syllabus which would be Islam Christianity Judaism Hinduism Sikhism and Buddhism uh these were what we generally covered how important would you say Udu is to anim student of the de Udu people U huh Allah ah the the thing is what does

say what he says is that if somebody was to ask that's a bit of a difficult point but he says if somebody was to ask why should which was the old name for U be parallel to Farsi he says just read him a c something from my works and tell him that's [Laughter] why he was he was a Don was a Don the thing is that you see it's not U isn't necessarily important as to be anim but it's it's it's it's a beautiful language

unquestionably if you are from I I mean I'm not saying you have to go out of your way to learn it but if you have access to it um then I think you definitely should learn it it's definitely amazing poetry in it is awesome this it was it is it is an art it is an an artificial language that was created unlike most languages working bottom up so they work from a ground level until they become formalized it worked top down so it was a language created for the mul courts

for the Kings and and and it was kind of a vernacular of its time that was put together it was almost like their way of speaking a kind of Posh slang that only the you see slang is normally spoken by the the lower layers of society and then it makes its way into the upper uh kind of to the elite but this was a reverse effect so this was like an elitist slang which only royalty spoke and Aristocrats and those and it worked its way down and it became a formal language of the mul courts and it had a because it was designed for Kings it had a lot of respect in it and stuff like that when I

say Four Kings around Kings it was designed and obviously many Don poets people like uh who they call you know the the the god of of of expression um of poetry really in U and all these people amazing amazing and and people obviously rated it unquestionably and I see why they rate it as as uh what do it say

U that's the that's D Dei who's from DHI but the point is I don't think it's necessary for Islam but I think it's a cultural thing if you have access to it's awesome I think all many languages are like that so if you have access to them to learn them then I think you definitely right now I'm uh currently Studio espanol right so the thing is I'm currently enamored by Spanish and I find it incredibly awesome so I'm trying to learn it but I think we should continue learning Whatever Whenever we can okay the Malik

view on the fifth of shaan a lot of people have asked this look I've done a video called on The Fast and fous series which should be we'll start releasing them soon again I mean we did this last year they are available on Facebook Maybe on YouTube as well I called them fast and Fus for the fasting thing and it's to do with thank you if you didn't get that already right so I think um that uh in there I do address this the 15th of shaan has no authenticity within the Quran or Sunnah uh if people wanted it some mabs were kind of a bit more lenient to it like the Hani maab Maliki

maab was uh the Maliki maab was a b um buenos noes gracias gracias Mano so the thing is that I would say the thing is that the Malik Imam Malik was kind of strict against these things you can watch my video I go into a lot of detail but it doesn't have much deep authenticity behind it I don't personally observe it I don't think I don't advise people to observe it but if people wanted to observe it I won't make a big deal out of it okay so I don't think it's uh um right so the thing is I you know I

won't make a big deal out of it that's all okay what time to fast in Ramadan right I've done a detailed video on this and um if you search for it it's it's going to be my fast igus uh series it's where I think it's was it episode 9 but it's where I speak of the alar fatwa and I don't actually agree with the alar fatwa to say that you can just fast till 6:00 but I present my counternarrative which was practiced by several of the sahaba and the some of the like and other people and I

mentioned that in there and by like and other people where they would permit uh the eating into and Before Sunrise so you could eat into F time but with enough time to do your W and pray before sunrise and I and I give my a lengthy discussion there on why I permit that and why I feel that is fine in this situation tattoos I've given an in-depth explanation previously please refer to that over there okay um right what are your views

onmed Ali and his vicious criticisms of the Maliki School you see the thing is uh the Rari Brothers there's several famous Rari Brothers I mean there's probably about five or six of them in total but the point is U the main popular one see the Ahmed alari was uh uh who was a major major you know Hadith scholar un I mean his Hadith skills are phenomenal um and then you've got C the Abdullah Abdul aiz and Abdullah and and then you've got others as well but these are the main three and with the lead person being cidi Ahmed and they had

this they had a kind of real mix of ideas as well and and I think it may have been just a you know they were a product of their own environment just as we all are a product of our own environment and I think they've got some confusing views on some things and some things they're awesome um unquestionably I love how they've challenged the the audacity to sometimes challenge I admire and sometimes I find problematic just like everybody else but um I um I know they've had they had some kind of Shia influence uh with regards to the companion mua and I've done a whole detailed video

on mua and how I obviously disagree strongly with anybody that criticized him like that but uh beyond that they they were great hadii Scholars and but then they so they were very kind of cque almost in their Outlook and a but at the same time hardcore kind of sufis so there was this real mix of a cocktail and um it's it's it's amazing I mean but they did produce some great works now he says in his work that all the malakis have not produced books with Del now um yes she Ahmed alari is

amongst one of the people that Abdul fat takes from but he's not his his only teacher but I mean well cmed alar is well known I mean some of myat Will Go obviously my uh the sheh in who granted me who I visited in his home and spent an evening with um the dawn of tan all right people who I have some photographs with on Facebook as well um now his teachers he is the son in law and the main student of uh him and his rival there's always Ral rry him and his

rival uh um you've got Abdullah Abdullah who I also visited when I was the in um um in punja in tangas but the thing is and I've got photographs with him as well but the thing is that he uh they're Rivals but and they both claim the Legacy to see the Ahmed alari as they both claimed they were the better student uh but really I found him to be of impeccable character honestly wall I I'm not just saying this they're all amazing people but you know the the guy the

Sheikh he's in his uh 90s I mean he does not look it he looks like he looks old like maybe in his s maybe about 70 years old late 60s does not look in his 90s and he's walking talking healthy invited us in entertained us he do he does not V take guests anymore for a few years he has not been taking guests but he agreed to meeting me uh we spoke to him on the phone and it was difficult getting hold of him he kind of just leaves himself to his own research and he didn't just give us time he gave us an in I mean time and hospitality and immense like the the

kind of loving attention I I have to say I was really and I'm not saying I will agree with all of his views um you know sometime people think just because you rate somebody you're a clone of them I'm not I'm not a clone of but I really respect his respect to this tradition hisma his servitude and he is the son-in-law of Sidi Ahmed alar he married Sid ahmed's daughter um right so the thing is anyway so to bring to and he runs his own Institute he has an Institute called uh named after Imam shabi in tatan but right

now right so my point is what C Ahmed said in his thing about the Maliki not having Del I don't believe it to be true I think that was a very skewed reading because you have to understand that when you grow up around people and you are the you are a rebel to them you will naturally only like you see that you know as like as as in the poem it says that you know that you uh that when you dislike somebody all you see in them is the problems it's it's it's natural

so he obviously was surrounded by malakis who were very kind of extreme in their way and in in North you know West Morocco and and obviously they were his first kind of the Vanguard of who he had to deal with and attack and they attacked him and so naturally he was very critical towards the Maliki M although he says look this is what we were brought up on so this is what we fall back on Malik and he did serve the Malik so he's done his and he says this is the [Laughter] best hash

grur he says this is the best thing that's been produced on the rala I've got it here it's over there it's only like one volume and you're like come on C Ahmed come on get real sh this is the best thing that's ever been produced on the right so he says the Malik have never produced books on the right um look all of these books behind me are on Malik yeah so this is like's commentary on the m one of his most detailed commentaries he has

evidences nonstop in this this is commentary on the M nonstop evidences ABD nonstop evidences uh this is another one of he's dealing with things like this he that's up there uh sorry the now he may say okay what I was speaking in terms of works these are commentaries Oni so on Hadith okay they bring evidences but what about he works so then okay I would say uh let me just see where is it right all right let me just turn this

around people so all right there it is you can't actually see it from up here but it's in the the Shelf up there you've got um so as you can see up there that's the jam right there in the middle right that uh what you can see people which is today right being printed in 10 volumes right now this 10 volume work byak yunus as an example was referred to as the mus of the Mal that is a work it is a pure work it's not a commentary on Hadith or

anything like this it is pure full of evidences beginning he begins with the Quran verses of the Quran for every masalah he begins with then follows it up through Hadith the diversity within the maab the other Ms battles the points out the jam ofun I mean it's it's a legendary I give you an that's just one work I'm there was a book known as which the said by which they're trying to bring portions of it back into print they said the Malik have nothing I mean nobody produced anything like this so look just because people don't rely on

these kind of works does not mean that these Works did not exist okay so I think his his views are skewed I disagree with his fact that the Maliki didn't have the it had plenty of Del okay can human beings control gin I've done a whole video on this I do not believe human beings can control jinam that was a miracle to him as a prophet of God okay um is it mandatory to use the name Abdul Abdul when uh with an attribute of God no it isn't so your name could be Kim it could be for

example Rahim it could be I don't know so you could have these kind of names okay you don't have to be called called Abdul you know Kim Abdul hedd you could just be called Hamed okay is it fair to say that one of the major factors for the formation of sh uh was to restore the declining Islamic Powers wow what a question um H um I'm not sure you see because I'm understanding this question in two ways that was uh that did people reinvent

these people to restore or did these people themselves like sha D was he the way he was because to restore declining power I'm not sure if that was the case um time I'm not sure if he did it really to restore the power I think it was more his own experiences and his travels uh an exposure and maybe what he saw the decadence within Muslim of of mus of the Muslim Islamic Heritage as opposed to Islam as opposed to the Muslim countries

um if you are self-employed is it okay to get income protection and life insurance health insurance things like this look uh Hassan I've answered this previously that uh some did somebody just say the books are not reversed can you can you read that yeah is that not reversed

you so there you go blocked read blocked in reversed right so the thing is look um I've answered this before for that in Insurance in my understanding I've given a indepth uh understanding uh in in previous videos I don't want to go through the whole thing where I've spoken about riba okay um now I've highlighted that the riba mentioned in the Quran it does not fit our understanding of riba today okay when we use riat to

mean uh anything which means you know where you are giving with less where you are paying into something and first of all insurance is not RI like that insurance is you see today the problem is we've stuck labels of ribbon to everything it's hard to to now differentiate okay so when you pay for something and you get like you're paying for a service but you're not sure whether that's going to happen this is not called riba people today are just God they on a riba they like trigger happy when it comes to riba and everything RI

rib rib rib Ri so it's not right so the thing is it's not even that so the point is that it's this is uh whoa right okay so this is to do with um this is to do with buying a service that you're not sure you'll actually be using okay so that's the this is called and the prophet forbade that because it led to arguments and it led to fights and deaths potential deaths that doesn't

apply given a broader parameter that governs the the and ensures the safety of that it does not apply to that so in my understanding these things are permitted and I've given an in-depth understanding of riba anyway in previous videos you can watch that inshallah um is there a monopoly of religion in Salvation wow um you see I think if we look at the Hadith then the prophet said that nobody can say that they will enter Jenna because of the Good Deeds but they will enter by the grace of

God I think we need to not be concerned about who about passing judgment on people not making it in the okay people make it don't make it that you see we have a duty that to observe the faith to to be on this journey this path that leads to Allah but what we don't what we don't have a responsibility to do is to condemn people to hell okay we can say that look Allah has said because the Quran does speak of uh like the or

people who deny the message or who do this or who do that there are threats in the Quran that is there I'm not denying that but does it mean that Allah has to carry them out the previously have disagreed on this matter the previously when they discussed that uh that Allah does Allah can Allah have threatened something and then choose not to carry out a threat and many felt that Allah doesn't have to carry out his threats right because he is the most merciful and we can believe

that that's not this is a valid difference of opinion so I would say look and and it doesn't and it's a bit to me it's a bit pompous and a bit kind of like I don't like like it's a bit arrogant trying to speak about H who will go to hell huh like who the hell do you think you are right um you mentioned that certain drugs cause people to dream as well as evidence additionally certain schools of thought and psychology waited of Dreams imp patient analysis psycho analysis seeing them as manifestations right um granted that

these schools are thought of more on the fringes rather than then isn't very mainstream himself wow you know when you read one of those comments and you don't know whether you're getting rinsed or you're getting what I often do is I just like them to just play a mind game with the people so if they're rinsing me play a little hashtag little mind game on them right so the thing is look yes psychoanalysis does give uh dream interpretation great um and I don't deny

that element of psycho anal is I believe that element to be true or not true but to have some truths potentially to or the potential for some truths because dreams are part in mind I accept that dreams would be part of they would be linked into the unconscious mind I accept that that is not what I have a problem with obviously I don't agree exactly with Freud's interpretation of saying every single thing is is a fallace is a male or it's the male fallace that every single thing you're seeing is just right so although I would agree

that Freud definitely uh had some sense to what I I would I I do like Freud and I do feel that he was on point that the SE that the sexual instinct is perhaps the most powerful Instinct I do buy into that but I I but I don't think the way he over I think he overdid it with several things in in just putting that onto everything everything you see or imagine must be a sexual representation I don't think that's necessarily the case now and that you know and many of his own students uh you know whether it was Adler or whether it was Carl Yung or other people disagreed

with him on that point as well and even other you know psychoanalysts that came through and you know so they and his own daughter didn't fully I mean she did support his whole thing but she had her ways of looking at things as well but my point is there's a difference between saying this is your unconscious mind and this is God speaking to me there's a big difference right so I do not believe dreams are God speaking to you so somebody says hey uh uh should I marry this person uh a normal human being would say well do I like this person do

I get on with them would I like to be in a relationship with them do I like the way they talk can we string up a good convers this is what a normal person would think and here's this this kind of a person thinking do I like do should I get married to this person I know I know what will give me the answer speaking to them talk no no don't don't behave what I'm going to do is I'm going to pray two I'm going quickly go to sleep and God's going to show me a dream [Laughter] [Music]

# delusions of grand you really think God's going to show you a dream where he's going to tell you what to do ah right okay okay you got this can you imagine if elections were like that everybody everybody just go to sleep it's National sleep day right just wake up measure the dreams right quantify them how many people dreamt it should be the thing is look

this is absurd this is ridiculous this is pathetic and as silly as it gets okay so and this is so widespread in our Muslim Community so there's a difference between that and saying hey do you think the dreams could part of the dreams could be tied into the unconscious thoughts of course they could be tied into un unconscious meaning noncontrolled thoughts of course they could be because your dreams are a manifestation in my understanding of what you know what reason but it may be because of things which have been preoccupying your mind so unconscious

thoughts and fears and stuff like this so anyway I'm not so that's just to clarify on that okay um the question here about say Ahmed br's war on Ranjit be justified in today's India isn't the desire of political domination of Faith brought bad name to Islam um intact say Ahmed Shah can easily be considered as a jihadist to want to subjugate non-muslims you see the thing is this is a historical retake though because we're talking about a time where oppression was already taking place and you had two invasions already in operation you had

the British Invasion and you had and these were invasions and occupations and there was huge I mean there was some prosperity and it was coupled with tyranny as well so people trying to restore prior rule because you have to remember prior to that their only point was prior to this it was mul Rule and prior to that it was sultanate rule so can you say to them why weren't they saying let's have a democracy well I suppose the democ the concept of democracy wasn't that widespread then so I don't think you can retrospectively kind of like slingshot blame on people that lived centuries

before your time and didn't share your kind of understanding of how to uh how to do certain things because that their era was a different era so I I don't think you could justify like you couldn't say oh he was uh a terrorist or something like this today like retrospectively trying to say that because he wasn't he he was you you know you would say he was a freedom fighter he was somebody who fought for independence from the

British uh right okay allum Habib Jeffrey is saying that the correct position or the popular position within the Maliki is s um what do you have to say about this it I mean the that is a very that is one of the two mainstream views within the Mali maab and you can watch my Mal videoos or holding the arms both are valid right people let's wrap this up I think there's been U can a woman lead other women in prayer according to the Malik there's a difference of opinion Malik transmits from IM Malik uh

that yes you can and that's the understanding that I hold that yes you yes they can women can lead other women in prayer that's not there's no problem in that um right is it fault to pronounce the intention for Hajj om uh the thing is you see no pronounce pronunciations of intentions are not um it's I mean there's a difference that maybe in some Hadith there's a declaration that the prophet is making a declaration that oh Allah like as an a declaration to Allah we are doing this for you but that's not a pronunciation

of an intention I know I mean you where ever the prophet showed you to do something you follow where he did not do it you do not innovate that's my understanding that's my teaching okay so in W Salah these things you do not do that um question about images by pencilman images by pencilman anyway the i' I've answered this previously you can check it out um I do not believe that there are uh that there's any issue in drawing in drawings or pictures and stuff like this that was only to do with

early Islam okay and it was not even to do with pictures then the prophet said in except a drawing okay on on a parchment kind of thing he said that or on a cloth he said it was statues and that's because people had just left idolatry it makes no difference today because people wouldn't start worshipping these things is there an this thing of an Islamic model for political governance the point is that look uh whoa so many other

questions right the thing is that um you see Islamic governance in my understanding the Quran never spoke to us about Islamic governance the prophet never spoke to us clearly like that everything he did say about that was in a context today there seems to be this obsession over Dominion right now people will you see now the thing is as well people will quote Scholars now there's legendary Scholars that will for example say yes and they will emphasize historically but they didn't do that throughout their life it wasn't their it

wasn't their fix and their game or their go-to but they did speak about it passionately so let me give you an example The Legend who I totally love uh one of my inspir ations one of my heroes he has 30 volume T really big on um the objectives of the Shar now in his time he wrote a reputation as well it was an article I have his article where he says Islam does have a system of governance now you have to understand something first of all people like as and other people that were contemporary with him including Legends who I I totally love like once again she uh

Muhammad alad Hussein uh a contemporary and she of Alazar one of the grand shs of Alazar as well from Zuna and he also was maliky and Legend now these people they do have these these kind of articles that they wrote most their works are imprint right most his let's say his works on his his all of his things this was one little thing that he did speak about he was not obsessed over this he didn't rant on about it and yes he wrote about this same thing with

Muhammad Al Hussein you know he his his work is available in volumes 15 volumes today his Works he wrote on on language on Hadith on fatwa and everything and he has this one little article on this as well but why would have they said this you have to understand their context it's incredibly important they lived under colonial rule now it's different you see sometimes when you are when you look around and there's a foreign non-muslim

Authority ruling over you it's hard one of it's very and you are oppressed it's hard not to hate it is hard not to blame them for your problems which to in all honesty they were probably responsible for a huge portion of the problems the the the colonial Powers were responsible for maybe not for everything but for a huge portion of the tyranny of the suffering of the butchering that took place in Algeria the non-stop you know the enslaving

almost the the killing the genocide the mass rape and decapitation of female slaves and of prisoners of of war that took place in Algeria was atrocious and one of the greatest crimes of recent Humanity it is difficult to live in a time like that under those people and then not say that Islam doesn't have a because you will say that because what you see is

is just tyranny of of the kufar of non-muslims over you so you will see this you will see that Islam has this but like let's so this is why I feel that people when they wrote that it was a reaction to their time and they were very harsh against somebody who said Islam didn't have a system of governance uh like as in it didn't promote it just said said right Muslims just get on with things uh because to them they felt at

the time the colonial Powers were doing all of this and they're taken over actually ruling and you and the only thing that's giving us hope is to reclaim like you see the only you see to fight back people need power and that power they derive it from Faith nationalism which was also born in the 20th century was the secondary power that people drove you know they they kind of got this power from this Spirit of nationalism but the first thing people Muslims got it from was Faith they needed to be told that the alternative system comes from Faith they

needed that at the time if anybody was alive at that time if we were in their time we would say the same thing because that because you need to rid this tyranny it is like the religious speak of the Prophet it is what will get people through this now okay what about in a time where it that's not what's happening so okay let's go let's go back 700 years 600 years let's go back 500 years to the Ottomans let's go back to

the abits why were people not then talking about all of this hey we need Islamic governance and we need this and we we we show me where they were talking about it I don't mean did they ever write an academic article but where was the fuss why did it never exist because they weren't being ruled by non-muslim Powers they were just being ruled by Muslim kings who usually didn't care about like they didn't when I say didn't care they obviously cared about religion but they didn't get involved in religion they just K they were preoccupied is a better word themselves with military expansion and the military aspects and the

administration and collecting taxes and building you know and fortifying and networking this was what they worried them they didn't you know they weren't like hey what's the fatwa what's the this and what's the what's the T of this and they didn't you know they they were monarchs they were dynasts they were rulers they weren't F so this is important to become is to to recognize these differences so yes when you're going to read from some scholars in a colonial time that may have said hey well look what is this governance and people were harshly condemning them it was because of the

reaction but in essence the Quran does not speak of this and I do not believe that there is a defined system on how to rule I think Islam promotes Equity Justice it promotes broad principles and then it lets Muslims get on on with it okay so if there was in a day and age like this the for example because the world is now changed saying that they will be an oligarch just does not work people want self-determination they want rights they want this they want that so the the leadership would reflect that because they would be part and parcel of the people okay so I hope that helps me

folks I'm going to leave you to it inshallah that was a indepth whoa I'm sure it peeved off sure it ticked off a lot of people look man I'm just saying it as it is you know what I'm saying just saying it as it is and I don't know why people sometimes get so worked up look I'm just one uh I say to them I'm just one they must be literally probably in the world today a million Scholars at least right millions and there must be at least a million I I would assume I could be wrong but now most of them you can get your fatwas if if you want from

them I'm one person amongst a few who maybe disagree with them why would why do people get so worried why do they get so perturbed by what I have to say I'm a minority of people I'm sure so but look I am trying to aim my thing in in understanding because I feel Islam Allah and the messenger of Allah have instructed us to understand this Dean when when it's when when key word when it's come to us and it has come to us in the 2 first damn

Century so we are under Divine commandment to understand it as when it has come to us in this time right so we must so there's no point me saying hey uh what about in the 12th century H well I don't live in the damn 12th century hey what about the Medieval Era well I don't live in the damn Medieval Era well what about the 10th Century then well I don't live there then either I live in the 21st century I live in in this part of the world this is how this makes sense to me this is what Allah and his messenger are saying so that's what I

will present you like it you like it you don't like it what the hell go to hell if you if you don't like it I don't give a damn it's as simple as that right I say what I say like it love it lump it whatever do whatever the hell you want the thing is right what you can do inshallah feel free to reach out to me if you're on Facebook like my Facebook page this page I'm going to be using this page more often so like it share it um this is my the public page you can send messages to me the only thing annoys me on this page is I can't send voice notes back it

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