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salaah namaz prayer salaat namaaz as-salah al-salah salawat haj hadj hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis ahaadith saheeh saheeh hadith sound hadith authentic tafsir tafseer exegesis tafasir tafaseer madhhab mazhab school of law madhahib mazahib madhaahib combining prayers jam' al-salah jam bayn al-salatayn jam' al-salatayn malik ibn anas malik bin anas imam maalik imam malik ibn anas sahih al-bukhari sahih bukhari saheeh al-bukhari saheeh bukhari imam al-bukhari azan azaan athan adhaan call to prayer imaam prayer leader shari'ah shariat sharee'ah maaliki malikite malikiyyah maliki school hanafite hanafiyyah hanafi school ijma' ijmaa 'urf fatwah fatawa fatwaa fataawa legal opinion haraam forbidden mandub mandoob mustahabb mustahab wajib waajib wajibat fard farz faraid fard ayn fard kifayah fardh sunna sunnat sunan prophetic practice rawi raawi ruwat rijal imaan eemaan eeman asharis ashaira asha'irah ashariyyah ash'arite sihr sihar jadu jadoo kala jadu sorcery shaytan shaitan shaytaan iblis iblees shayateen shayatin satan akhirah akhira aakhirah akhirat hereafter jahannam jahanam jahannum quraan al-quran sura soorah suwar soora chapter ayah aya ayat ayaat aayah aayat wahy wahi wahee sahabah sahaba sahabiyyah sahabiyat as-salaf salaf al-salih salaf us-salih al-salaf early generations mecca mekka madina madeenah yathrib ahl al-sunnah ahl as-sunnah ahlus sunnah ahl al-sunna sunnis shiah shiite shi'i twelver ithna ashari aalim ulama ulema ulamaa shaykh shaikh sheik shuyukh shaykhs dawat da'ee invitation umma ummat nikah nikkah nikaah nikah nama nikahnama mahr mehr meher haq mehr mahar talaq talaaq triple talaq talak hijaab hejab hijabi zinaa zinah fornication adultery in sha allah inshallah in shaa allah insha allah inshaa allah alhamdulillah alhamdulilah al-hamdu lillah alhumdulillah alhamdulillaah ma sha allah mashallah masha allah mashaa allah as-salamu alaykum assalamu alaikum assalamualaikum salaams salam alaykum wa alaykum as-salam peace greeting barakah baraka barakat barkat baraqah adab aadaab adaab manners al-din ad-deen ad-din ibadah ibada ibaadah ibadat

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right people all right wait there what do we have here let me just check I is live people doing it doing it on moment typical just flip this back here flip that over there right now we're doing it doing it arrived so first of all can everybody hear me okay let me just check I've I've

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got a whole new mic system people here is look at magic have a cell Mahathir it's way too late people are are is my dad che cosa Rara Smita one moment eco let me just share this out to my the page for if I could just get a sound

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check by the gentle walk on a Verizon the warrior you doing it you're doing it so I'm from Houston Houston we have a problem I need not get you know let me just share this first just be a second people a second there is yep that's that's me

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right there live and unrestricted people and that's done over in al hamdulillah wa kafa well salat wa salam o allah rasool mustafa ala i body latina towbar woman be Hoda homey tada Bobby Arthur Almudena tava were bad people for Salam Allahu Alam Alamosa hanim bikumu marhaban running lights

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bienvenidos then wave o esta semana people Ansel Adams welcome so what is going on what is going on what is going que lo que me gente que lo que what's bothering the awesome folk you know what this is a little problem now mmm this mic has me so pushed up against the whole yeah who Cara baboy a hooker hi let me just bring up my facebook

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empty its make sure I've got the I know what they're saying what's going on a writer they are yeah on you could do it yeah there they are people so multi through my week off last week by not showing up Gustav him off energy Gustav EEMA Mufti are you going to debate a sorority up

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Kaka he's you know what the problem is it's guys it's gone beyond that now there's a this has now become an addiction and obsession for sharehouse you see I warn people that you see I have this it's a curse people I have this thing about my personality that if you get too much if you focus on me too much you get addicted and that's the problem with my beloved my beloved Sherrod he's now

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his Kabul left Allah gay addicted he can't get me out of his mind yeah this is this is what I was saying you know I these people out there who have this trouble they're being chased by the opposite gender they having all this with X's they're having all this going on and me I've got people like Sheikh assir are obsessed about me very kismet yes salam ya Salam right I wouldn't be surprised if he does dream

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about me you know this week share Quran has been begging it so much I mean he's made in one week two posts about me just two posts about me in one week like wow I didn't realize I pre occupy your thoughts to that extent and and and somebody had messaged me that he's gone live about me right now at my timing haha this is the imitation is the highest form of flattery Rasheed yeah

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right so let's let's take a look at what is it that's bothering the people so we're gonna take a look at some questions today obviously I will be coming to my share my beloved when we lowered our our I'll be coming to him towards the end masala segment was a la multi masala right but I'll be taking a look at some serious issues as well today the the whole marriage of the Prophet to zeyneb responding to the Atheist claims that this was the Prophet lusting over another man's wife and debunking these false claims and I'll

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also talk about how that originated how did it creep into Islam or into some narrations of Islam I'll take a look at that as well but also somebody saying speak into the microphone it's not is it not catching my voice is this not catching is it not does he not cut does he not catch my voice yeah ma ya Salam yes Allah right so link to that live stream village wars can you speak about riddles redoubles

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doubles no nothing compared to us rods live feed which doubles your viewers voix share our is live now see this is what happens when you get so obsessed with me that you even try to imitate the Monday nights with Mufti yes such it's a curse people it's a curse I I have this effect on people it's not something to be proud of you know was the poet said

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Huson be curable I just need a Libra Nasir Dali the poet he said that this this beauty is a thing that is is a curse that whosoever glanced upon it did so with malicious intent but I don't know what Beauty share our seas may be he reminds him of Madras our days you

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know this one right so right what's going on what is going on people people just saying hello come on bro why didn't you both sit together why do you both sit together man just sit together man you see the thing is I've told you shake our odds heartache is beyond that now it's it's not about this is beyond therapy now but I love it the effect I have on

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people by just sitting here using internet for two hours a week and this broadcasting and the effect it has on people's lives and minds and the way they become obsessed so nice this one so views on what is going on let's take a look at some what preoccupying me sent a people an actual fatwa that it's Haram even you've tried

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and so of others mmm I'm trying to look for some questions live now the flawed methodology of a boule that's the story of my life flows full of flaws peer B and yet I still have this devastating effect on these individuals ah shame on

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them how they beg for my attention to stay relevant so let's get started with what's been going on this week what are some somebody's asking about 50 straight away into an a su lis question we'll get to that we'll get to that somebody said you speak negatively of Bihari Mir Puri Kaku yeah Mir for IVA sorry apne Bali

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yeah why would I speak negatively of Maruti let me just see of our time the questions gone unlike that it's gone what can we do so mm-hmm did did even a person and even my salute say idle talk refers to music in the Quran these things are not established well-established and the point is that first of all they not that clearly establish the chains they're not that clearly established and even if they are

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I'm not saying that there's never been an opinion of somebody no matter how virtuous the person was that music is Haram I'm sure there's been many a soul who's who've looked down upon music we you know as muharram as haram but the question is ultimately Allah @eo lower

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bring us the Quran and the Sunnah the Quran or the sooner the clearer Quran or the clear Sunnah / ba 20 yeah you know then you know let us that Anitha had them will speak obviously if it's not the clear Quran the clear Sunnah then opinions of people we respect them you know somebody can say look I don't want to listen to music only sin - yeah and end of story

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why is it bothering anybody else most er you going to attend the Hamid eSAB event in Birmingham I'm not a hundred percent sure I am trying to arrange to meet up with Hamdi Saab when he's here I'll see how that goes I do have I'm trying to see I do have a psychology kind of like event as well going on on the same date when he's here so I'm a bit hmm I don't know and that's kind of all booked as well so I got to see how it's happening but I hear it comedy subs here for a short while so let's see if we can arrange something to meet

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right RTO lower-tier rasool what will Amram income allah but then surah stammer stammer haha continue sir i'll give me buddy yaha huge hurry yeah what will am reaming finest I left him but if this is love for ado who Allah Wahiawa Rasul but if you disagree then back to Allah and his messenger only solamente okay so this is the problem you see they don't

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read the full verse then they say my methodology is flawed this happens all right mark Long's Etta you do when you do in it one moment could you explain the main dispute between Imam Malik and Laban sad in fact right all right what a 50 question right so that's that sounds intriguing so those of you that don't know Imam

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Malik is obviously sorry I was just slightly distracted just trying to there's a question here right mark Ilan's it I'm just gonna come to your question it's a very interesting one somebody here is repeating his question hamza not happens a use of use of hamza is repeating his question can a pregnancy test waved a the period [Laughter] emergency like a yeah um god this is an emergency question you know this is a

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pregnancy test taking place shall we use of hamza shall we all white walls you get the results you want to share if it's a one strike or a two strike [Laughter] and some of us can quickly provide your link to we can provide that to to the CSA Child Support Agency right so can but okay let's let's help brother use of

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Hamza who is having a little issue which makes sense people make sense obviously pregnancy not to be taken lightly so can it wave can the test wave the ADA period well I would say no I would say the ADA period is simply a grace period following a thalaaq a divorce oh sorry sorry sorry sorry man sorry right so but I would add that the ADA is not just for

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it's not just for the pregnancy the pregnancy is a key factor but I think sometimes it has other social ramifications it is important to understand that the ADA is simply a prohibition of nikka nothing else the woman can do as she pleases you know she can work oh wow shopping leisure do whatever she wants the simple prohibition is at least one menstrual cycle one month at the least or generally speaking three menstrual cycles where there is no nunica the

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reason for this it has other kind of like social procedures in place and it's to really I think it's to provide to promote or prevent a lack of social cohesion so people sometimes like I've mentioned this before if if if a marriage ended today and the girl let's say somebody got married again immediately tomorrow or the day after this can sometimes lead to a huge amount of social unrest like people saying Oh baby you know this is the reason this

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relationship broke down is you this was being plotted in fact maybe there was an affair going on this whole while maybe you know this is and it would just it's just there's so much of a headache involved that you see the Sharia I had a lot of wisdom in placing a grace period in just allowing people to kind of just move on even if it's within a certain amount of weeks with their own lives and then kind of like embark on new relationships it also prevents sometimes it gives the time or reflection period to avoid the kind of being on the rebound

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yeah be who died sometimes some people are on the rebound you know like I know I make a mistake in home it's on I rush into this relationship so it gives them some kind of thinking okay so cool all right so that's that right so right I thought it was to make sure she's not pregnant somebody said that's also one of the wisdoms there's plenty of wisdom

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wisdom galore people wisdom galore oh ye of little faith have some more faith in this faith right let's come to mark Long's Etta's question of rice so mark Long's Etta has asked the question whoa whoa whoa RS Sid blessings wha much love right back at ya look at this super chat sending super chats to to kind of support this effort and this channel Wow geo Millie done

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right so the and then we've got somebody who's posted six times hey bro is my store his masturbation from his master I've heard of masturbate visit my school patient my store right guys what's involved in this master and it's really six times in capital letters I don't know what's going on here people is mmm

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well maybe we should just let man's a legend man's a legend then it man's a legend in Oh in there and because he broke so let's get back to the question about Imam Malik and about Imam Latham sod these are both tons of the IRRI the contemporaries they're people who who have really contributed to the understanding of this theme okay

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ho de fer shukran shukran much love right so the the Imam Malik was the dawn of Medina he lived in Medina he represents the school of Medina lazy bin Saud is a contemporary who was from what is modern day Cairo back then they called it for thought now he lived over there he had a different way of thinking different perspective of this Deen and they clashed on certain things but on many things they had a sense of agreement in Latham salad was in great awe of Imam Malik and even though sometimes some

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people quote some statements of certain scholars to say Latham that was more knowledgeable than Imam Malik but this one hyperbole you know this one exaggeration no but Latham and Saad was a great scholar he was also somebody who prayed in suddle by the way you know in Salah he kept his hands at the side as is the school of Medina as is Imam Malik and his mother and they had many similarities but there's a popular letter that is published in which Imam Malik rights to lay the bin saud imagine that huh you getting I

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mean in this getting a letter or an email in this day and age from Imam Malik so the letter said he gave him Salam and he said in a who köttbullar honey aha look at the style estilo people spill oh my malik owes it has reached me in naca tooth tibi a Shia to hardly foofy her Allah Allah this is why I love the dawn of Medina his style in

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representing the thick of the school of Medina so he says it has reached me that you have began to give rulings not began but you are giving rulings which are in opposition to the people of knowledge in Medina and this is where this debate begins so he writes this letter saying this now what happens is he he mentions in there a few things Imam Alex letter isn't actually that lengthy it's probably something like about four or five paragraphs full paragraphs probably something like that it's it's published

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I've got it here somewhere now then Latham's had replies to him now that's interesting because Latham and sad in his response is trying to critique the practice of Medina and he says to him am i like that but you know you claim this immoral Medina there's the practice of the people of Medina in this but how come even Ahab's or he disagrees with this and you say there's this but how come this scholar disagrees with that over there any critic it criticizes even a chef Zoe as well he says you know he when he's over there he's saying something else and when he's in Medina is saying something else and and he's trying to say to him I'm Alec I don't understand this

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consensus which you're speaking about it's not a consensus and I think in some ways he was right and wrong you see he was right in the fact that he misunderstood dude what is meant by Emilia al-madinah you see many people have misunderstood this they think Imam Malik meant a consensus that everybody in Medina by and large agreed on this that's not what he meant he meant the the well-established Sunnah of the Prophet that is established through a thousand different people even if there are five hundreds of others

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that disagree with them you understand so when a hadith comes from one person to another person to the Prophet imagine having that same teaching but from a thousand so this is why Imam Alec said alpha and alpha abu allah ameen wide and wide that a thousand from a thousand are much more beloved to me than just one-on-one because he said al Waheeda unworried yinz a demon benedict that it will snatch the Deen from right in front of you bearing in mind people keep this in mind that Imam Malik has the strongest chain in hadith ever by the

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measurement of imam bukhari himself so that it's called the golden chain when it's one-on-one but he himself rejects that at time saying that I will take the the unmasked transmission so this is interesting right so what is going on what is going on recommend right we've got s Miyagi doing it Miyagi much love much love right you recommend me any books in Islamic finance all right just write please mention them slowly so that

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I can write them down mmm see that's interesting because I you see I'm not really too sure of what I'm not really too sure of what to recommend when it comes to things like finance because you see this is a very contemporary a contemporaneous kind of discourse you're not going to get classical books that are like that that discuss the I mean they discuss financial issues of course they do but finance today is a

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field in and of itself it wasn't a field like this back then so you know post-industrial revolution the whole financial field has changed the chain the revolution in economics Adam Smith all these people that have contributed to the science of economics they've revolutionized the way we think about money now and wealth then this has been further revolutionized in in our recent times you know with the whole thing where I mean first of all taking it - taking it - the kind of currency that we have fiat currency the way

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things are you know the whole system has now changed and now really cryptocurrency so I think it's really difficult trying to recommend traditional Islamic books as to contemporary books I don't really I don't really know what contemporary books to refer to because I've read a few and they've not really been my kind of way of thinking so I've not really followed them through that much my understanding is that our thick when it

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comes to finance is out of sync we need to update the whole thing it's completely out of sync all these people share her sorrow is trying to get you in his life tell him to pick a number and wait get in line get in line you see

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I'll be addressing his issues at the end in the most masala segment masala segment right now like everybody else he can sit and watch [Laughter] right so right so what is going on man what is going on cool yep so the finance thing I'm not really that I feel that finance is not a sacred kind of science in any way and we are really to be part and parcel of our day and age let me

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just bring this up slightly all right let me just check testing testing right so I think that we are not you know we're not meant to be kind of obsessed with just the things of the past in that sense okay there is nothing sacred about the dirham and the DNR for example they were simply just an extension of other currencies the DNR was taken from the Roman denarii that's where it comes from that's why

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it's called DNR and the dirham was taken from the Persian drachma okay so that and this is this is where these became in circulation there's nothing sacred about them it's not like it's a sacred science cool somebody's asking how's the keto diet I mean I haven't actually been on a keto de but I've been kind of dieting or watching my diet I've been working out I mean I work out anyway but I've kind of upped the game on some cardio and trimming down I've trimmed down a bit

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right so that's it really what else is going on Jewish Ottoman you're doing it doing it much love right back at ya so salaam aleikum from kuwait art if runner g kappa teh are all the way from middle queit shukran shukran masha'Allah did Abu Bakr al just SAS restrict hammer to date and grape alcohol only right so who's asking this hunt

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hound Oh handsome hound the hounds of hell are asking that what did abu bakr al just now i like over courageous sauce from the Hanafi yeah he's an i is a great mind honestly he's undervalued if you ask me by the hanafis i don't think the hanafis really appreciate him as much as they ought to he's a legend in my understanding he's also one of the people few people who had the courage to speak up and say that the Prophet did not have magic turn onto him okay

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unlike today you've got these srr yeah of Alison openly claiming that the the Prophet had magic turned onto him became clumsy did all these kind of things this is you see this is the problem and then they speak about we ought to respect the Prophet I mean if you calling the Prophet clumsy and you're calling him forgetful and you're saying he forgot verses of the Quran and but a cha masha'Allah but you guys can remember them the Prophet forgot them but you guys can remember them Shabba and some

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of them go as far as saying the Prophet became impotent so you've got these kind of you know this kind of nonsense being preached by people and a worker urges ass was one of the great minds in early Islam we're talking like something you know from today maybe 11 over 1100 years ago so he wrote clearly that anybody that says this is ignorant that the Prophet never had was never bewitched or things like this and these are the stories that people have made up he was also somebody to debunk things like exorcisms and all this kind of stuff say

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that this is you know it's nonsensical in that sense but uh shakes rod is el el gato el gato the Allison right so but the but come speaking of just sauce or what religious sauce he I do have a book somewhere dedicated to the discourse on alcohol and how people kind of began to DC disagree amongst it within the within the Islamic world but the hanafis did feel that alcohol was

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restricted hammer in the Koran was restricted to just dates and grapes that's it so really it's and that's it and everything else they said you couldn't call it summer but you could call it an intoxicant but everything else by default so most of the beer today and things like this at which I mean from grapes really it's just going to be wine or maybe brandy things like that you're not going to really get I mean that's really that that's that field only really most of beers and other kind of spirits and things like this today will be produced

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will not fall under the hammer category according to several hanafis and they will fall under intoxicants but they by default if they don't intoxicate they're not meant to be Haram in according to many of the hanafis in essence like meaning that if they were weak if they were weak in in their kind of percentage of alcohol now this is why many scholars do say and I played in the past a clip of oh they mean as well where they say that if something intoxicates about it has about 3 percent alcohol in fact that's what we say means clip which is

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on YouTube saying that if he has to 3 percent alcohol it's ok he's like yeah Kabhi Kabhi what is it parnesius Naboo ji told me honey ki taraf chanock Lee this is share with a mean sahib somebody saying can I get a message from a woman cuz Fring what the hell is going on here people with my admin Oh can a man get a message from a

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message from a woman what does that even mean four shots of three percent right can a man get a massage see people the difference between one vowel those of you that undermine vowels shame on you you thought she was trying to message you and you were ignoring her array aha she was trying to give them massage nothing less or if he turned up for a

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misogynist and she says it was message he was Mossad message not Mossad Lena Cass Mufti can you do my nikka would you really want somebody like me performing the Nika you want to go to these traditional mallanna as they come and they'll do the whole the you know the customary traditional routine somebody like me people would be like what the hell I thought they were Mufti was gonna

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come as well right so hmm can drugs which alter consciousness are they also Haram I you see I don't believe that psychedelics are necessarily Haram okay now things like DMT I'm not saying that people need to be doing these things but what I'm saying is I don't believe that they're Haram per se

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so right so Abu layth you don't fear Allah lying against his Sharia constantly against his Sharia constantly lying she don't fear this is the problem [Laughter] yeah tell me rather than fearing Allah I love Allah how about that my concept or my understanding of God is obviously slightly different to your

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understanding of God so you see to me God is not this kind of angry jealous kind of like somebody who can't control or somebody who just gets into at Empire wants to punish people and wants to to me that's not the understanding I have of God so obviously you're more than welcome to have that understanding you can you know you can have it to me I think if these things in this world that we can fathom imagine obviously we can't imagine how that you know to the infinite understand of degree of

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understanding that Allah would have for them so how can we be like oh I get it but you know but God's saying no you can't do that doesn't make any sense you see so right now what was I saying before I got distracted yes about psychedelics so things like DMT I think these things are incredibly fascinating I think that it's a shame that really the Muslim culture doesn't really have an exploratory kind of curiosity on these matters I do feel that it kind of unlocks the a different realm the realm

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of the consciousness that is unlocked through these psychedelics I think that would be amazing things like psilocybin obviously DMT these kind of things are I mean it's ridiculous that the humans have them as Class A drugs I think that's ridiculous and preposterous III don't understand that these things are actually cooled by many kind of shamans and people like this they call them entheogens that these are things these are not like just hallucinogens the entheogens they connect one with the

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sublime lack of opinion on Dharma please explain why the Prophet married yes I'm going to come to that somebody said respond to me our Chico Chico are kept at Chico opinion on Dawa man obviously I mean what do you think my opinion on dower man would be it's gonna be exactly what you imagine that woman is just very dramatic overdramatic about things and I obviously can't agree I don't think I would agree when it

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comes to understanding of faith on you know maybe put a tiny percentage aside that we probably agree on and I'm sure everything else we just disagree on our entire perspective that's a very he comes from a very kind of doom and gloom perspective everything's apocalyptic everything's about fearing everything's about sin everything it's sin centric the whole beam is about guilt it's about Haram Haram Haram Haram Haram obviously most of what he says is Haram maybe not all but many of the things I wouldn't believe they're Haram anyway

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but that said even if they were but this approach I disagree with so much so Salaam I like your philosophy because of how balanced and reasonable it is can I use this mindset without clashing with my close people who are strict it's my locker room of course you can of course you can and sugar and for your kind words and much appreciated you know much love for the super child but yes of course you can that is absolutely correct and it really one should use a balanced you see people look I I openly say I'm my

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kind of personalities eccentric I'm by no way claiming to be generally in my kind of behavior in my behavior I'm not a I don't think I'm normal like normal people I accept that I have an crazy sense of humor and I'm very eccentric I recognize that obviously I'd be stupid if I don't recognize that so I but I am Who I am at the end of the day and I'm not I don't really care about I'm not gonna change it for other people but I'm not that part aside put that aside my

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kind of eccentricity kind of thing but the message that I give is one of reason that this Dean ought to make sense to people you know so that's that's my message so I you know so I get the fact that you know to some people they say you know almost he laughs too much he does this too much he does that too much and why not as I as I often say that any moment spent in laughter is never a moment wasted so I mean these things are just who I am but put that aside you

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know you should definitely if you can take the message of what I'm saying that's you know that's what really is important to me Momo is in the her alright mom or you doing it you doing it right so what else is going on somebody's a sad man asking about I'm not ignoring I am going to I've I've got a whole detailed analysis ready for you guys on the marriage of Zeynep bent Josh with the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam so don't worry I'm gonna come exactly to that most is it true that

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laughing excessively is bad for the Soul hell no I'm tell if anything it is it is nourishment for the Soul I tell you seriously I think that humor just think about it God created humor you know there is humor in this world what would this world be like without humor I mean just it's so amazing that you know have you ever thought that we can't even in psychology I remember once going through this whole kind of research on humor and laughter and Freud

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has you know some writing on it and this obviously several of the people that have written on humor we don't we still can't comprehend humor like we don't understand it's beyond our current human comprehension like why do we I mean we've got theories I'm not saying we haven't got theories but they it's not a clear understanding why do we actually find certain things funny you know why is the punchline funny for us why is if we see something somebody fall over we just uncontrollably laugh like especially if you're watching let's say

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you're watching a meme of somebody jumping and he you know it's something unexpected happens now people say oh that's a nerve that's the the mind kind of coping it's a coping mechanism and it's a kind of nervous reaction to kind of calm you down but you know it's not really a compelling answer is it some people is it shouting Frieda is it what worries go I think humor things like humor things like love are actually you know you take these kind of two sentiments or these two phenomena they

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are beyond human comprehension and I feel in many ways they are the the floor that they are kind of like a sublime gift that we have as human beings right so what is right Jojo you're starting to look more and more like a Bollywood star [Laughter]

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right so what about the hadith where it says laughing hardens the heart you see this is my point exactly the hadith in a carrot or bike tongue beaten ethic that it produces hypocrisy or it hardens the heart by Eve by Eve had the lie Eve bring me so he had you know if you want to bring hadith bring its I know that's what I say bring me the voice of reason or bring me something that cannot be critiqued then

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we can talk right so some somebody said something about a poem you know I came across this I was reading something and this poem actually I was chatting - doc doc dr. Imran from Metro flakes and he'd mentioned the poem as well but but this is like variant to it I think he had attributed it for us but there's a slight variant as well where it says

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that cone kisi ke hot air rota hate worst sub co-op nahi kisi bad paraná ba ba you know it's amazing but he says that who-who kind of because the person the the image or the scene is that somebody must have relayed something traumatic or dramatic and the people listening have cried and the poet is saying that well who cries at the story

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or at the situation of somebody else in reality everybody's crying over their own chroma which in many ways is kind of true you know people kind of relate to things and then it triggers and then they get emotional you know speaking about things like that Caroline Flack this this whole thing I want to say a few words on these so I do so her the the tragic news of her

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suicide has emerged just after a Valentine's Day now I was I didn't really know who she was before this I'd not I don't really watch I don't watch at all love Island or things like this although I do see a lot of memes taken out of it on Instagram but I don't really watch any of that and I don't really know until this this had happened and she was all over the news so I was watching it that who is this person and and the tragic kind of events and the whole trolling and the hating and on a side note it's interesting in

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that alone that you see I the fact that I didn't me as a person and maybe there's many other people who'd never really heard of her but its with her demise that we become aware of her and it's over it's an irony and overwhelming irony that our mortality in ways may immortalizes that's you know as if as a concept that is so overwhelming that that's that how we you know in many

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cases but but getting back to to to this point that apparently she had some there was a court case going on of abuse between her and a boyfriend I think she kind of smashed his head in with a lamp which obviously is not a good thing but so I think there was some kind of court case going on and all these restrictions but the media were going mad in trolling her paparazzi's media hate online all this kind of stuff maybe this was my speculation I thought maybe the fact of being lonely and then Valentine's Day because it's given so much hype as well

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may have contributed to that maybe not but the day after she commits or on that night she commits suicide now I think that you know just reflecting on this whole phenomena the the kind of power that we as human beings have now with the Internet is it's so disturbing and I've spoken about this in the past it's so scary that we've kind of acquired these almost godlike powers where we can cast people you know into this kind of eternal

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damnation buy things online which way the internet never forgets it has the ability to forever remember you know which and ability previously only attributed to God you know in a Rob be liable oh well I answer you know my lord who does not forget and is neither misguided but here this power that we have and people gang up and they kind of troll the hell out of individuals a kind of a distant from a safe distance they

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have a an opportunity to really kind of chastise and cast out their inner demons and then just switch that off and go back to being you know these apparently nice people and I find that very disturbing and I just think that you know this this whole phenomenon it is is something that is right now leading to a huge discussion on should the media be restricted in their powers and things

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like this to really just you know troll the hell out of someone I do like I do believe in a free press but I also do understand that you know in this world it's all about just selling stories and people can be so cruel yeah so yeah so I just wanted to share some of those words it is I from there was something I heard that she had said and I thought that there is an amazing I mean I don't that it was attributed she had said it I don't know whether she was just reading it from somewhere but she had posted on one of her things

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saying in in a world where you can be anything be kind and I thought that's an amazing quotation really because it is so true that you know when we have so much potential in this day and age to become things to that we so overlook just these simple qualities of saying of being like why not just be kind or be a decent a good human but yeah I mean that's you know may Allah any person who is suffering from these things may Allah

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grant them ease okay and whoever they are wherever they are whatever faith they belong to you know people who have died of tragic deaths may Allah grant them a blessed afterlife and their family in this world may Allah you know make things easy for them and it's not just her there's many people who commit suicide I mean weekly if you just see the statistics and you know may Allah make things easy right so okay let's move on to some of the questions mmm

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what are these questions right so Internet has exposed the true nature of people it's right to be disturbed yeah I mean I get that it's internet expose these people as well but I feel that it's an opportunity to kind of really hate as well is it her arm to make a pilgrimage to Petra Petra is not where we make pilgrimage to right so it's not where we make pilgrimage to but I mean

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it's not haram to go to Petra but I mean it wouldn't be counted as a pilgrim oh I've been having a public my other obsession is drilled Atta girl Atta girl yeah that's something I've not really into is there is ma Arabs and Correggio Superion therefore rulership it's only for them if not please names colors oh you see that the thing with the Arabs being superior goes against the true understanding of the Quran it goes against the established son now and I

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think the hadith that the Prophet said I'm assuming Quraysh that the Imams are from Quraish was more a descriptive statement reflecting the status quo of the Arabs at the time because the Arabs at the time had seemed to have come I mean they were a rough obviously kind of people but they seem to have accepted the leadership of Quraish so at that stage to disturb that status quo and would now really just mess things up you

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know it's not like they weren't ready for something else it's a bit like saying that it's like how America goes into let's say it's gone into Iraq said look let's get rid of a dictatorship and what we're gonna do is this is going to turn into some kind of Europe but the truth is the people are not really ready like that you know it took Europe a considerable amount of time after World War Two to arrive at these kind of expansive ways of thinking these kind of liberal lifestyles or liberal mindset

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this kind of love of Liberty Freedoms tolerance these things take decades to kind of brew within a society it's not just about you know we come not this leader of replace him with somebody else and now it's like a mini Vienna or something like that it doesn't work like that and America obviously had to obviously they've had other vested interests but this is the pretext that we're doing it for the sake of democracy in a similar way the Arabs at the time of the Prophet Salla Salaam when the Prophet had a star bleached Islam and a lot of the Arabian

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Peninsula was kind of succumbing to the Islamic superiority at that stage they had kind of accepted grace it was the kind of status quo so to disrupt that would have just meant that it would just create chaos so the Prophet said that let the leaders not little but the leaders are from Croatia Lima two men Harish did this mean forever leaders can only be Qureshi that's you know absurd because why why why Qureshi what makes

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somebody so great if the Qureshi now so this is but that said many scholars did start to put this down especially the chef a surly and all these people right this that the person has to be horror she hence hence they've had like you know just like people for the sake of the name you know some weak kind of like absolutely powerless man he's been given the name of Calif just because he's Qureshi and from the Abbasid household but really everybody else runs the show and they just give him a slap every now and then and and and this went on for

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centuries this drama and then obviously went on to the sell jokes then the Ottomans and these people were not this is why they didn't call themselves caliphs by the way because they thought that well you know we're not Arabs we're not Qureshi and stuff but this whole Calif thing is kind of nonsensical I mean it's not it's the way we think of it is nonsensical anyway it's a fantasy there is there was never meant to be this kind of like oh the whole world will be under one kind of rule it would never work like that right so cool all right and the hanafis did challenge this understanding very early on by the way

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so what is going on what is going on people right I was right there was an issue I'll read this out actually I came across this I was taking a look this is a commentary on the hadith which are agreed upon inside in sahih nin ba Muslims other Muslim FEMA taka al-bukhari were Muslim and it's a commentary oniy right bye you've got Sheikh Muhammad a shank Rita Muhammad haba b'shem kriti now I believe right so I believe the father I believe he's the father of Muhammad al-amin

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but anyway Muhammad haba b'shem kriti but the interesting thing is I was reading the hadith we about you know like women clocking eyebrows and doing this kind of stuff now I have mentioned in the past that that Maliki's do not say any way that a woman can't do that stuff in fact there dear and the scholars say a woman can pluck her eyebrows and she can do these things there's nothing you know it's not Haram although the other methods are a bit kind of weird about it so here you had this issue on what if a woman has a beard why she's rocking a kind of beard so so he mentions he goes through the

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kind of the whole esta laughs now some of them look like in a year the whole baboon be my cat wait be my if I canopy I'll miss Oh - ah evening he right if the husband grants her permission then she can shave like husband may I today Jillette

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no I like that stubble and then Noah says Imam Noah we he adds that this is obviously this is the treaty the scholar who is bringing this these quotes he says : Noah we falada Haram Oh is a little hobble to stop he says that Imam no we said actually it's not Haram don't worry about what these people are saying for a woman she can remove her facial hair yes so and then he sang he goes on to say how the innama who are a LeMat

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Hibiki this is upon the Schaffer II kind of way of thinking I'm my Allah matha bin al maliki ax s Maliki's he says formidable Netaji boo is a is alloted Allah can Almera he says it is worship what are you talking about obligation for her to get rid of that beard yes L am I read that and I was like oh I've got to share this right so what is going on what is going on now

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but men can obviously shave as well you know called the yard does mention that okay they considered it mokuba our macro isn't Haram anyway but she'll tire but I've got a video on that anyway right so shall we take I tell you what let's take a look at this issue of the marriage of

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the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam to zaynab bint josh so i'd like to give a some clarity on this issue right so first of all a bit of a backdrop so a lot of people have raised and they've tried to I don't know try to kind of create an entire scandal out of this this incident the issue is what is the incident as in what really happened but

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the allegations that are being thrown at the prophet salallahu alihi wasalam all that the Prophet married zeyneb I mean that's not an allegation because that's something that happened he married Zeynep bent Josh that the allegation is that the Prophet lusted over her she was his cousin she was the daughter of his aunt his actual aunt Omaima who is the daughter of Abdul Muttalib so she was his daughter zina but an actual name wasn't zina by the way who's bara but the Prophet after he married her he

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changed her name to Zeynep so now so she's known now as zina bint Josh and she was somebody that at the time of Hagar ah she was when she moved to Medina she was in her early 30s right so this whole incident that has been kind of like pieced together and sketched he's really pained with certain allegations that the Prophet lusted overheard that the Prophet apparently saw her naked and things like this and became so infatuated with her and all of these things and they and this is utter

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nonsense utter nonsense they say the Prophet became besotted by her beauty and he couldn't kind of get her out of his mind and Ann's aid was kind of felt bad about this so because she was his wife and so Sayed kind of offers to divorce her for the Prophet and and all this goes on and then eventually the Prophet Marisa because he has a verse revealed of the Quran which is in surah ahzab to kind of fulfill this fantasy so to speak now these are utter nonsensical allocations so first of all before going into these allegations I'd like to explain briefly

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what actually did happen okay so yes it is factual that the and then we'll go into it in more detail and we'll look at some of these what these narrations are and how these narrations crept in and what was the origin of these the likely the kind of etiology where this kind of almost this virus emerges from so what's happened is yes she was definitely a cousin of the Prophet she was from his family the family were generally close with the Prophet she was from the early

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believers Zaid does marry her nas aid by the way is a Dubois Haritha he is somebody who as a young boy was take can into slavery by some kind of raiding tribes they kind of take him into slavery and they sell him some people say insu co-occurred some narrations even our shul says it was in suka Basha but the point is he gets sold as a child he's brought by Hakim Abner Haysom who then gifts him like posses Amon this is pre Islam they are kind of that kind of time

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oh sorry very early into Islam gifts him to a teacher who is related the aunt of that person so he kind of passes this boy as a kind of servant says what do you you know have this boy to kind of help you do stuff so here he moves into the home of the Prophet so this is how the Prophet kind of gets to know him he really gets on with the Prophet to a great extent Khadija says that you know she kind of dedicates him to the Prophet says that you have him you know just take it you got an amazing kind of relationship with him now what happens

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is his parents actually stumble upon him they find out where he is and they come and the Prophet frees him from being a slave and when the parents come the Prophet offers him that why do you go with your family and he says that I want to stay with you octa Ruka I choose you over them so the Prophet does ask him are you sure about this now and he says yes and here the family kind of accept it because they realize it's not as a slave he's kind of like a freed

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person and he's doing this willfully so at this stage the prophet formerly adopts him now in that day and age adopting somebody formerly was to make them you're kind of like virtual kind of blood they now carry the same tribal laws as your actual blood dude so the Prophet says in a narration arizuka what era Sunni I that's you know you can now I will be quick to you can inherit from me this we are now like as good as blood so he became known as they'd ignore Hamid he was but he had

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this thing because he was spent a considerable amount of time as a slave in a society like that they really unfortunately they look down on slaves the people at large so there were certain things that later on not at that stage but later on now now he's with the Prophet he's known as the Prophet son they used to call him sada Muhammad he kind of learns he grows up he matures he you know he gets much older now the Prophet wants to marry him off and break this kind of tribal custom of you know slaves are like second-class

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citizens oh these are ex ladies he's not even a slave but he is carrying the baggage and the Prophet wants to break that so this is in Medina by the way now so we're not even talking this is years later the Prophet proposes to Zeynep to marry him now initially zina wasn't really so keen on this marriage because of the social stigma was really strong now people today don't really understand this sometimes they think that oh when and this is like sorry Muslim romanticists they think of when Islam came everybody became this kind of oh I

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am now a Muslim I have forgotten all kinds of prejudices I have now become it was nothing they were still the very same people they were they still had the tribal baggage they still had the same biases and prejudices they still had the same social customs they weren't actually they just embraced a faith that's all they weren't so zeyneb at first wasn't that kind of willing and she she kind of like was then the Prophet himself goes and asks her that look why didn't you marry you know I I think it would be like it he's

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a great person and say it was a great person he had an amazing personality so she agrees tomorrow so this is the kind of backdrop to to these now what happens in the relationship that kind of ensues from that is there is as as in many relationships there is a lot of kind of turbulence but I mean not in many sorry but there is sometimes up up and down you got a lot of ups and downs in normal relationships but this did get quite turbulent at times the reason being a lot of the narrations

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have presented that that zeyneb still kind of felt this sense of embarrassment sometimes about his past him being a slave and she felt that you know he's and sometimes they would have some arguments and people have disagreed what the arguments were over some people said oh that you know they they weren't having children and so you know he sometimes was a bit like he was kind of preoccupied with this that mmm that we haven't had any children yet and it's been a while and and she maybe some people have speculated that may have kind of led to arguments and she in

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turn would say to him sometimes you know remind him that you know you're like I say you know you of a lower status than me at the end of the day so this is the kind of stuff that different people have mentioned certain orations is there is some speculation but what is known is that there was a lot of turbulence in their relationship now the prophet salallahu alaihe salam does come to learn about this he comes to learn about the turbulence now but it's an ongoing thing it's not like there was a one incident it was going on for months and months now the Prophet has a dream now Abner sure some people said oh

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he this was revelation as in actual revelation Abner are sure in his stuff seed highlights that this he says in these days as far as I understand had had a kind of fear oh yeah okay that this was a row it was a dream that the prophet had in this dream he sees that their relationship breaks down and he sees that the sorry it's not that he sees the relationship just break and he sees that he marries Zeynep in the future now the profit becomes quite disturbed with this dream okay because

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you see it's not about marrying zeinab the issue is that in that custom in that society there were certain traits in society which had no basis in the religion but they were still strong one of them was for example marrying slaves ex-slaves this was or a slave or a former slave this was seen by the society as an absolute no-no I like people saw it as don't be silly that's you know compares a huge that's an insult to the family the other thing was when you had somebody that was an

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affiliate with your family like I mentioned like a spoken-- a verbal family member so they're not actually blood but you announced them as blood so the way the Prophet had done with Zaid you could never intermarry then like so if that person because they were treated as so if it was a brother it's now as though he's your real brother if it was your son it's now as though he's your real son so you wouldn't marry your son's wife for example so when the prophet saw this dream it did disturb him because he felt that you know this is just ammunition

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for people to insult and harm the prophet salallahu salam and so he so it mentions there is a verse that is revealed later on and we'll come to that verse with where it's highlighted that the Prophet kind of he kind of held this within now during this times ad is having difficulties with Zeynep and he comes to the Prophet and says I want to divorce her like tell me like I want to divorce I've had enough of her like she's really kind of doing my head in

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I can't take this this is what Zaid comes in come cleans about her to the profit now the profit feel full of his vision and kind of thinking right he it's interesting the lesson that the profit gives us here because the Prophet says to him that it tequila that seriously like fear Allah and it's not fear but be mindful of God and he says I'm sick alakazoo Chuck you know hold on to the relationship maybe you can make it work not that's quoted in the Quran the Prophet saying that the

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Prophet on one hand having this vision but giving the lesson that is it destiny we don't know is it destiny but till the nth degree one must do the utmost best not to maybe it isn't destiny maybe destiny is what you will make of it so the Prophet doesn't kind of say oh well you know he says I'm sick alakazoo Jacob what tequila that be mindful of God and persevere in this relationship

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don't give up and Zayde continues he does he tries for a little while now the issue is that he can't for so he has enough eventually and they then does divorce her at which stage later on not it doesn't mean like straight away but later on the Prophet SAW Allah Allah solemn does marry her now the Prophet did not you see the thing was that the Prophet felt it's not about fearing people the Quran highlights that these

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customs you see because the Arab weren't incredibly Trent entrench society in tribalistic cultures these things of you're not allowed to first of all treating people like second-class in saying that oh if they're a former slave you can never marry into them this this issue the second thing them saying things like oh if a person has a kind of he's a verbal kind of relative you can now no longer these laws have become sacred when they ain't sacred so one of the

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things was the people calling Zaida Zaida Bahamut so allah revealed a verse order o homely ABBA him that cooled them by the father's name and hence aid becomes known as a demon Haritha and this just this part to some extent did hers aid because he obviously was so close to the prophet and he really loved being called the son of Mohammed even though he wasn't the son of the Prophet Allah so but he loved that and you see it's to console that that his name is revealed in the Quran and they by

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immortalized to kind of console him on this thing of him having Muhammad removed from his name so because he's known as they didn't how did that which wasn't about the I mean that was his father's name and he was proud of it in its own way but he was just so because he had this strong love for the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam and this verse as you can see it's verse 37 in surat al-ahzab well it took ulu leela dhyána molly way to hulu lila D and AM Allahu alayhi wa and Anne Tolley when you say to the person who Allah had had

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kind of beast out with his blessing that the faith and everything in general and you had also missed out some favors upon him the way you'd freak him from slavery's set him up in society given him the status facilitated the marriage right when you say to him I'm sick a lakers olgica what tequila that hold on to your spouse and be mindful of God what what toffifee Nausicaa mala who mopti and you hide in yourself like you conceal that which Allah is yet to bring

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to open what action us and you have this fear of what may happen with people right voilá who Haku and Tasha but rather Allah what we should all this is not like kind of reprimanding the Prophet but it's bringing to our understanding that we should all really what is it to fear about people if anything have that same that thing only of God now fala markawasi demeanor water on and when they'd had finished his affair with her his relationship with her the Wigner

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kaha that we had married you to her as in we had this destined why Allah mentions Lee kala hakuna al mumineen Hajj so the other believers do not find this to be a kind of a struggle fee as worthy at a year him because remember in that society marriages were not the way marriages are seen today and I'm going to just mention that in a moment acaba Eric Adam in Hoonah what Iran Wakana Amarula he Mahalo that when their relationships come to an end and that

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which Allah has decreed was surely done now it's interesting that you see and what what I'm saying about marriage is the way they were perceived in that day just to kind of clarify right so if you take Zaid as an example now just for those people who are not familiar they after he divorced Xena he married Don McCallum who is another cousin of the Prophet she's actually

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able Natalie Baylor the daughter of babe ah who is the daughter of Abdul Muttalib so the first one Omaima who is the daughter of Abdul Muttalib and her sister Bebo he said Mary's her daughter Rose called on McCollum and then he has from her to children Zaid even as a Dandrea and then he also marries dora who's the daughter of abu lahab later on and he marries hind' bent Ignat alam who is the sister of zubeida all of them Qureshi from Quraish they

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buy to a great extent bringing a dent to that bigoted culture that existed that we can't intermarry and you can see by these kind of marriages that he was having this was a gnome it wasn't you see because today marriages are so focused on this concept of romance whereas in the past it was an element of pragmatism of social participation so it wasn't quite so today when people are looking at this they obviously seen marriage is only done for romantic

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purposes but in the past that that was actually one of the least purposes it was done for it was actually done for pragmatism for strengthening bonds for for kind of like social participation for social cohesion for strengthening and the whole kind of society moving forward things like that so now right so just to clarify that point now I want to highlight some things here people have said that the Prophet marrying Zeynep they've brought certain stories right now these narrations they've brought there's about there's about nine popular

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kind of narrations one of them which comes from earnest rhodiola one the companion it actually doesn't mention any of those kind of things it just mentions that Zaid was having issues and then he divorces her and later on and the Prophet marries Zeynep and as I mentioned her name used to be Barbara but prophet wouldn't the Prophet marry to he named Isaiah then there's some narrations from kitada and now qatada now you see there are no more narrations from the companions from people now who never met the Prophet and people who are problem take I've spoken about Qatada in the

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past and the way he would he would kind of blacks and chains in Hawaii now you have narrations from qatada who starts to say that the Prophet you know will he doesn't go all out but he mentioned certain things o the Prophet was hoping they'd would just kind of divorce her without asking him and so on and as you go further descend down this ladder you get shabby now shabby says he changes the story he says that no Zaiden ever came to see the Prophet the Prophet went to see Zane so he adds this element doesn't add too much but he just says

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it's the other way round a krama now now a chroma is where the first you reach that rung of the ladder now this is where the key problems begin this is the same person people who Imam Malik warned against who I've told you time and time again this is the guy who the whole apostasy killings come from yeah it is through a trauma this person who was from the extremists in his day and age he was known as that he was a from the huar age he brings out narration he's the first person in giving some kind of he says because the question is in this

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verse where Allah says and you conceal in yourself and we've mentioned it was the dream some of these people this later interpretation that you concealed in yourself air within yourself this desire to marry Zeynep so a chroma is one of the first two to openly clearly open up that kind of car that this kind of this discourse in transmitting in the narrations then you've got a worker in a bahama who starts to say oh yeah he starts affirming these stories yes the Prophet went there yes there's this thing and Zainab had a hair uncovered even though

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by the way hijab is an obligatory at this stage but still they this is the story coming along then you've got somebody called Mohammed even a burn who says zeyneb when the Prophet went there Zeinab wasn't actually dressed well and these are all problematic narrators and they and they continue to get worse so you've got somebody known as Kelby who is a cab this person is utterly unacceptable he says that the Prophet went they these stories and he became attracted you've got then makka till now ma cartel says oh yes and the Prophet when he goes there he instantly

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instantaneously becomes attracted attracted to to Zeynep and then to top it off Abdul Rahman is a dis narrator who is unreliable he says the Prophet sees her almost naked and that he's standing there and the wind kind of blows this the kind of curtain out the way and he could see her almost kind of naked or semi naked and he becomes overwhelmed with her beauty this is the the kind of narrations that these people are saying right now I want to highlight something here where these

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things come from now these are utterly unacceptable the narrations are weak life battle mode oh right these are unacceptable narrations we did all this come from and why did some Muslims transmit them you see the problem is certain Muslims people like babari and this others as well but ee ee why fear maybe you know like Tiberius Tiberius of the Muslim Ummah like the Roman Emperor debride the amount of damage people like

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this have done to this Deen by just trying to I don't know be bring these narration all of these problematic narrations in Islam which are weak unacceptable nonsense are brought by people like EE he brings them these other people bring them o the Quran The Satanic Verses that these the that now so this is a problem in and of himself people like EE Tabriz book and these transmissions are really questionable but I want to get into why would these people do this why what was going on in

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their mentality now you see this didn't just the Muslims don't just come up with something I want to speak about something which I call I've termed this the kind of the reactionary reverse bravado effect okay the reactionary reverse bravado effect this is what I believe happened in that early kind of community amongst Muslims now what do I mean by this you see as Islam was spreading as it spread into the Middle East a huge amount of Christians come into Islam or they met

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or they interact they a lot of the Arabs in the Middle East were previously Christian most of them were they embrace Islam now some of them come to know of certain stories and they find other things in this huge kind of polemics and debates Christians in early Islam start to come up with this story that your prophet lusted over you know this such-and-such chain that your prophet lusted over this woman yeah now I'm not just saying this in fact right if we

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sorry if I can just bring this now here is an example this was John of Damascus as you can see who's known as yahan Abner Mansour now here he is highlighting that look Mohammad and Andy and he is very early on in Islam by the way so he is around he's born in 675 to 749 so you can see like he's within that century of you know of the prophets

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lifetime within that very early Salaf period so he would have been alive when several companions of the Prophet were alive things like this now he is writing that Muhammad had a friend named sayyed and the man had a beautiful wife with whom I fell in love once when they were sitting together Muhammad said oh wow oh by the way God has commanded me to take your wife now you think well and he wasn't the only one bringing this kind of a discourse trying to kind of trying to kind of insult the Prophet of Islam you've got now here's another example of

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Byzantine ruler Leo the third right once again you know not that long within that selleth period you can see 741 which is still going into you've got that late kind of or made into early Abbasid kind of period going on still very early in Islam sorry still Oh May at time and later on it goes into the Abbasid he is writing to Omar ibn Abdul Aziz now Omar ibn Abdul Aziz ruled from 99 to 101 Hillary which is only we're talking just

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really just you know less than a century after the prophesied profits arising and passing away in 10th in 10th Hitler and this is in 99 or a hundred history so within that 90 years he's writing saying look by the end of the 1st he reports that Muhammad's marriage to Zeynep now he does write it in strange you know he gets some of the facts wrong so he calls his EDA instead of zina B says that look that the he refers to the prophets seduction of zeda now this is the kind of things that the Christians are saying

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at that time to Muslims now what does this trigger on one hand it can trigger that Muslims kind of denounce this but sometimes unfortunately we get what I'm calling this reactionary reverse bravado effect where people start to say well the inner bravado manner try and own it like yes so what and a great example of this by the way a great example of this is if we're going to look at today in this day name

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with the whole age of Aisha thing so because non-muslims have brought this age of our issue to Muslims and highlighted it what happens instead of Muslims actually saying oh well you know this they've actually got a point here we need to look into our tradition and see all these things don't make sense they there's a reactionary reverse bravado effect like yeah so what this is our way what are you gonna do about it you know we you know you can't tell us this kind of reverse bravado takes place now so what some of the early Muslims

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start to do is they start to say well yeah but so what the way David in your sources biblical sources took Bathsheba right so if those of you that remember Beth Sheba was the wife of Uriah and David according to the biblical story caesar and she's so beautiful that he's overwhelmed with her beauty that he sends her sends Arai away on some battle to hopefully get killed and he takes Beth Sheba as his wife and then you know the Prophet Nathan comes and kind of gives him that story now this isn't the biblical sources we don't believe that

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as Muslims but you see some Muslims started to say the way David your prophets did this so the Prophet married Zeynep and and what and you can see this in very early sources like look right here is an account from several Morpha syrian bring this this is show canyon is fertile Adid you can see here that translating or interpreting these verses that so not a logical Idina column in Kabul that the Sunnah of a line those who went before that yeah and yet as a watchman and nursery masha that he can marry who he wants from women and what

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he's a man you know this kind of attitude so and you can see here that them saying and this by the way is Muslim sources even Assad is transmitting it from Hamid applicable karate you know from that the offspring of Bani querida he says the way Solomon had a thousand women so what our prophet took Zeynep here even at your age which is transmitted by blood moons and tabarani and you can say this is another nightmare in and of itself even at your age is a huge calamity in hadith by the way one of the transmitters of Jesus is gonna come back obviously some of the narrations go through him because you can see this now look at what even at

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your age is saying he says Oh son that's a life in lovina Holloman Coble he says Allah Dawood Willmar are the way David took the lady well let's see naka and he says and he married her was whija-- her is maja at least he comes out with maybe some of them say transmit her name is Alisa a generally Bathsheba according to the biblical sources he says Fedeli casona Fidel Castro not only Muhammad was a nub mechana I'm Lala he Adamic Dora and Allah her destiny and look he goes on to say here cuz I Lika means from Nettie he feed the wood well more I wanna be was a nib so this is a

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mature age who's alive around that time of Omar ibn Abdul Aziz and when that King is writing and he's in early kind of Islam that kind of young turba age this is him now he is openly embracing this vision he's saying that yes so the way David took you know Beth Sheba and our prophet you know he he found zeyneb attractive and took her so you can see guys that when I say that how the Christian narrative creeps into Islam he

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unfortunately does on several occasions we don't understand that most of the most of the early Muslims when in Islam spread into the Middle East were Christians so this was something I want to highlight and just to take a look at let's just coming to some of the questions I want to kind of like highlight some of the questions here

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right so those people having a kind of digressing on there those people did digressing if you just pay attention people right so this is quite important now you see let's take a look at some of the key criticisms the question so one of them they've said oh well the Prophet this verse of the Quran says were and you were concealing within it was actually to do with this lust if that was the case let's say that is the case right

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that the the Prophet was concealing lust why and then the Prophet makes up the Quran to reveal it to people - so he can legitimize him getting married to Zeynep why would he reveal it like that why would he make it up to criticise himself to say oh you're concealing something and Allah is about to bring it into the open if it is lust that he's concealing why would he do that to himself because since according to the a lot of these atheists the Prophet is making these verses up anyway so why make it up where you're going to you know why shoot

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yourself in the foot so this is one point secondly if Allah is saying in this verse that look and whatever you're concealing Allah is about to bring out into the open we did Allah bring out that oh the Prophet lusted Allah brought out was the wedge knack aha and we married you to her so that's to highlight that the other point is that the Prophet lusting over her right now I want to highlight something here Zeynep was the cousin of the Prophet who grew

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up around the Prophet she was somebody that was very close to the prophet's household there was no barrier at all categorically in the Prophet marrying her in fact the narrations say when the Prophet came to propose on behalf of Zaid she actually thought oh the Prophet had come to propose for and she was totally elated if the Prophet wanted to marry her he could have married her it was not there was no it's not like she was somebody who came from Persia or Rome or some way from her she was from the prophet's household the

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prophet knew her all of her life it wasn't something that you know she was in her early 30s when she migrated from Makkah after with the Prophet she was a grown woman a mature woman it wasn't something and this thing that the Prophet became so overwhelmed with her beauty I'm sure look she I'm sure look they were all beautiful women it's I don't mean in any sense like that but let's just be realistic if this was the case the Prophet was so overwhelmed with her beauty this was never highlighted by any of the other wives as oh that was

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something that she was such a beautiful woman that the Prophet it was never whereas he is highlighted sometimes with other wives of the Prophet the other thing is that if she was so beautiful the Prophet who had already seen her on so many occasions but way before he'd married her off he knew her you know so how is it that somebody you've known and seen all you know most of you mature life and they so close to your household they come and go you come and go and the whole thing and then one day you see her without her hair covered and oh my god

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you're enamored I mean just let's just be real on that I mean I could the story could add up if you're saying this is a total stranger you've never seen this person you see her one day and you're like wow does this even make any sense right so these are nonsensical just people are just trying to get a lot of mud and throw it on the honor of the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam and I say something you know that it's interesting that the Prophet in that verse it highlighted you know what her shyness our luck when touch our the

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Prophet he it's not that he feared people but he just felt that this is only going to give ammunition to try and hurt him but the Prophet didn't really think that marrying her would be a good thing as a not that she wasn't a good thing but that she was a she was a great person but that the social thing he didn't want he was already struggling with the amount of resistance against the message people making up rumors doing this doing that he didn't want more kind of like social drama now yet the Prophet marries her to put this bigoted kind of

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prejudiced cultural practice at bay to kind of do away with it nip it in the bud and this fear that people will use this as ammunition well why if anything is so true that till this very day they try and hurry as an insult against the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam so I I would say you know if anything I would plead to the voice of reason that just being feared like I mean this is if people are not Muslim that does this

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really add up that you know just trying to say oh just trying to insult the Prophet based on these things based on oh he must have become so enamored he must have become this just makes so much sense the narrations are baseless okay and really more so this is an explanation especially for Muslims who wanted some kind of a background that who was a nat first of all that she was the cousin of the Prophet Elisha who was 8 and how close he was and his relationship with the Prophet and how he was known as his adopted son and how the Prophet initially wanted to break the

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social taboo of marrying from the different classes and he did and they'd went on to successfully even after Zeynep marry so many other Qureshi women right and and I've said that marriage in that day Nate didn't quite reflect marriage today which is centered around romance whereas then it was more around practicalities and pragmatism and also understanding so what we've understood most of the narrations all apart from the one which is from a companion earnest which says nothing about this just mentions as ADA's having issues and he divorces and later on the Prophet Marisa but all the non

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companions like Katahdin an Akuma who is a key problem and I've always warned against this narrator Ikrimah right and people like this and more RTL and kill be and you know you've got eben is aid and these people bringing fabricated narrations and when you look at the verse of the Quran so these are things that I'm just summing up that we've taken a look at and what we did this originated from originated with that Christian polemics that the kind of debate the discourse where people are finding faults with Islam where they trying to criticize the Prophet where they were even getting the names wrong oh this woman calls zeda

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ziba whatever the mixing things up zeda oh it's Zeynep now this is the prophets seducing women these kind of allegations are being thrown and then we have a kind of reactionary reverse bravado effect where people instead of kind of saying mmm you know well we need to kind of realize that this stuff they they unnecessarily try to own stuff out of this kind of almost this privado attitude and they by causing more adding you know insult to injury really or to the Islamic heritage so and this is how

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it then creeps into our books like the berries book and listen which are not reliable books anyway by the way but it creeps into them so this was an overview of this whole thing so I hope insha'Allah it gives some clarity to people who are unfamiliar especially Muslims who have you know just had a lot of questions around this topic that to us as Muslims the honor of the prophet salaallah solemn is obviously first and foremost so and I always say look within reason we should always look at these kind of things and not just even if certain Muslim scholars have

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said them if it compromises the honor of the prophet salaallah solemn you know we do not throw the prophet under the bus those people that's just their opinions we are not kind of bound to follow them cool guys I hope that's of some help let's move on to some other questions right now how to message Mufti privately well you can just Instagram DM me that's it let me just bring up oh damn what's going on here right what's the I mean

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Facebook me sent there alright just bringing this up let's just see what the Facebook people are saying ry people I hope that's being helpful right I appreciate you admire your intellect shukran shukran shukran Sherman Daka right where's the YouTube people gone what on earth other YouTube people chatting about some kind of nonsense going on talking about their own kind of things right so oh my god is that the time

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I think it's Messala time people so those of you that don't know why beloved I will of it right so my beloved share asara is back on the scene people and he's been just obsessed and overwhelmed with me and he's taken social media several times this week actually within one week somebody who doesn't call my name you know you never call you never write

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and then within one week you do two posts one live video all about me touch care the a out that all right so speaking of social media that kind of reminds me that we've got so social media is a no-go for students of knowledge if someone thinks this is impossible I only got a phone after I got married a simple phone so why do students of knowledge need a phone if you need to ring your parents what I used because your parents

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have rights over you when I would go Damascus I would ring them once a month for two minutes yes place the 500 lira card into the phone box in in those times the smart phones were not out ring them and say I'm okay I'm fine they would say do you need anything I would say maybe if someone is coming next month please send this and that's it yes now why does a student of knowledge need a smartphone so you enforce to improve your studies you cannot have social media accounts you cannot be responding on

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controversial issues just bring that back I don't know if you saw that Bashar Assad was saying I just got a let me just see right sure Assad was saying that what is the point of social movement what is social media for students of knowledge he said I didn't even have a phone I just used to make two phone calls in a month to data

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package you know data packet small data small small packet data packet small data so he social media is a no gone [Laughter]

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[Applause] [Laughter] I'm serious this is how chef s rod is advising us to kind of really go about dealing with social media so used to make to two phone calls a to his parents a month and all used to say was are you okay yes okay do you need anything no okay goodbye [Laughter]

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that said our beloved has now taken to social media people and here he is once again and now he's taken to social media but this time with a new newly found obsession about me that you know why has

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done me do me do me do me so he's calling me a Kaffir that I'm a Kaffir for discussing certain issues on my hidden atheist he's obviously got an agenda against Islam and here he is our beloved ooh and now he's not sending a case yeah although possibly misconstrued but now it seems everything it's definitely and there we can see that's a little the Lion of

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Allison hamari cat humper attack you know this is the thing people so share are our beloved has beloved has has really kind of become so upset really that why you know why has mostly been discussing these things so he's taken it to social media he's oh and he's his logic has been this is how you're going to fix me this is his an extract or a part of his

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a paragraph from his Facebook post people so he's talking about me here the individual I believe is an atheist who doesn't have the courage to openly denounced faith hire Gawker right and I lack an absolute methodology so as you can see but he does give a cure hamdulillah you know it's he's not like he doesn't give a cure he does give a cure he says the only cure to help me is to either ignore me or insult his mother my mother

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I mean are you for real I mean this is actually on share Assad's Facebook page right so go crazy right and all I could say is people I can't do it I just cannot get seriously so social media is a no-go for student he's his logic like

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what is so let me get this right that the only way to do this is to call me an atheist maybe ignore me which he obviously isn't doing is going against his two phone calls a month data packet you know and using the internet not ignoring me writing excessively about me but the other way to cure me is to insult my mom I've been trying to figure out the whole night I've been thinking my chiku hook

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is logical but you know the whole night I can't seem to understand the logic of

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it's not like how do we get about this what this one nice let me just bring up here right so mm-hmm just bringing up the yeah so this has had me kind of trying to figure out his logic and I've been quite / - so what is this issue all about so the let's take a look at this

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actual issue as you can see Andy has asked why don't you and you know the ironies I should somebody sent me a picture of Cher cos there are coming live and saying look I'm gonna do a live to discuss mostly Abu layth now and he said please you know like the calm the status said something like you can't be rude but otherwise I don't mind any kind of questions I thought but I genuinely

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thought to myself like what you know first of all I thought to myself that what are we like eight years old but is this how this works now that I know I'm gonna give you this argument no no I'm gonna use the categorical no no I'm going to come back with a certain with certain data from site no no I know let's just insult his mom [Laughter] like is that like really honestly when I

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saw that somebody sent that to me and I just honestly just seen the amount of emojis I put in laughter but I really thought to myself that I must be really like like he must be so obsessed with I must be really getting to him too right I must be getting to him so much that for even for somebody like him to really stoop so pathetically in saying I mean

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insult my mom is that is that it I know this guy's got an issue with his Eman I not to fix it on three guys their Iman is this how we fix it I must have hit some real raw nerve I'm telling you ever since he's found he claims to have found ya jus Jamaat Jude in fact he's not a

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little Canaan he's a little foul name for name means the two phones he's got two phone calls a month for name so little for inane thinks he's kind of like you know this is like I don't know he must be so I'm just trying to figure out his mind like wow I must have really hit some forget a nerve I must have hit the entire nervous system but uh I mean he can if he wants I mean he if he

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really wants to insult my mom's fine you know I let him use one of those two phone call see as a month you know is that your heart in inter is that you know your deepest desire go for it mine is that it right so let's take a look at two calls a little foul name I've got the two phone calls and I discovered you jam a dude I really think honestly that Shekhar odd

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is actually at this stage in life going through maybe some kind of like there's some issues going on you know I I think there are seriously but I just wanted hey little for name I just want to say if you want to use one of those two phone calls to call me I'm here for you man you can talk to me tell me what what's what's bothering you yeah talk to me my beloved so anyway now I want her also highlight what is this issue that

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he's what is it that the phone Ain has kind of got so he's trying to make a big deal out of and I thought look let me I tell you what let me give the whole backdrop the whole kind of discourse presented to you guys objectively now I was asked in a previous Q&A about the bodies of the prophets do you believe that they remain completely preserved the way they are and I said that looked as this hadith and many people have and

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by the way my beloved my beloved small data package the foul name he shared that clip of mine as far did and I was kind of grateful actually I was like ah advertising on my behalf giving me mixed messages here I'm kind of confused you know you know now I understand why you know you don't cool because you only have two phone calls a month but anyway getting back to the topic so I said look there's a difference of

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opinion however it doesn't have to be literal so he's kind of gone on about these that this is a kind of this is the issues kind of picked up on so some people have asked me do you mind kind of elaborating on this issue so sure of course I'm happy to do so at your service you know right so right people now this issue of the bodies of the prophets I want to begin with first of all by clarifying that look as Muslims it's really important that this these kind of issues anything discussing the Prophet is a

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sensitive issue right because to Muslims the Prophet is the most dear person so by and large not just Muslims but any people of any faith the people of their faith the founding figures or the the amazing personalities of the faith they have a huge reverence towards those people as we as Muslims afterwards the prophets Allah Islam now many Muslims we will have a kind of devotional outlook now there's two to kind of pathways okay now I'm going to go down both I'm going

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to the first one is brief it's the devotional pathway now this pathway is where you just speak about somebody reverently and you just kind of like you venerate them and you speak so you know you don't ascribe anything you don't even bring into a discussion of word that you feel might be kind of you know unbefitting to that kind of so it's a kind of like a full of etiquette this devotional pathway it's Muslims have this towards the prophet salaallah solemn and towards prophets or towards

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great figures and people and towards the companions and we understand it and that's just a devotional perspective so you will say so you will see sometimes people will exist sometimes they'll exaggerate these things as well so they'll say things like oh the Prophet never even had a shadow for example or the Prophet wasn't even really a human being some people will say like he was actually something made out of lights and light and not made out of like human stuff now this is a kind of exaggeration down this pathway of devotional ism now that's fine it

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happens every way it's not like you know somebody could say look I believe that the Prophet wasn't even really a human being he was you know superhuman he was like this he was kind of like some people will feel that they won't say he's God but he had kind of godlike powers and he had all these things and he never ever he never really even needed to eat food he just he was you know he was just in the avatar of a human but he wasn't really a kind of human he didn't really need food he didn't need these things he didn't need any of this this is just who he how he portrayed himself amongst people he was

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kind of like an angel that's fine I mean that's from a devotional perspective people are saying these things so sometimes some people will say things like like so just as when you're speaking about God now let's say people are speaking about God and we say I'll hamdulillah Holika coolly she all praise be to Allah the creator of everything now one could say look in Islam many people consider the pig to be impure now Allah is equally the creator of the pig but out of etiquette you wouldn't people don't say that in the same sentence they won't say oh the creator of of the pig but because they associate that negatively I'm just

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saying giving an example or they wouldn't say the creator of the devil Allah the creator of the devil although he is the creator of the devil but out of poetic --it you know that that would be deemed like not befitting to say like that even though it is from an analytic perspective from an objective perspective right it is true Allah did create the devil it's not like the devil is a separate God but you wouldn't say it like that from a devotional perspective so I want to clarify these two perspectives the devotional one is not meant to be kind of like teaching facts it's just

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teaching nice things even if they're not factually true but they're just nice you know like people will say things like Oh such and such and they'll say these about prophets as well but they'll say like I mentioned all they say that the Prophet for example didn't have a shadow now they think that's a nice thing because they associate shadow with darkness and whatever I mean to me that doesn't necessarily sound like something like a praise but to some people it does so they've said it now they'll say oh the Prophet never you know no fly ever sat on the Prophet so this is a devotional speech and it's fine people

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do this all the time but these are not this is not really fact speak but we're not trying to do fact speak we're just trying to inculcate the love of the Prophet into people so when you're teaching people you say magnificent things it's like poetic poetic imagery yeah shukran it is like that and that's that's absolutely fine we do that about everybody we do that about people and why not about the best of people the messenger of allah sallallahu sallam himself that said sometimes you will have facts speak you know like this kind of factual speak were you speaking objectively like where did the Prophet live was he a human being like

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objectively speaking now objectively speaking it wouldn't make sense if the Prophet was not a normal human being like an a human being human human not an angel or made out of light or or something you know non human because then he wouldn't be the best example for us because what because if Allah was to send somebody that isn't human to be an example for us we would say well you know well obviously we're we're humans he wasn't really human he was kind of human but not really human so we need an example that's for us and the Quran says that tell them aluminum honorable mr.

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Newcomb I am a human just like you and from you Allah says we did not mark on that we would not send a messenger except from the people because he would be one of them and in that is a huge accolade and praise you know it demonstrates the majesty really of the prophet sallallaahu listen that he was from us he was us you understand but he was like the best of us now that's from an objective perspective we have kind of factual speak so people if were to ask what did the Prophet need to eat food

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well of course he was a human being he would need to eat food the Prophet would feel pain if there was pain he would feel joy he would have emotions all human things he would also he was a human so it's it's irrelevant trying to then you see if you start teaching devotional speak as factual speak the problem with this is that there will be many Muslims especially nowadays there's many especially the younger generation they don't they they don't buy into some

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of the kind of devotional kind of qualities or the devotional descriptions that imagery they don't buy into it as literal and some of them find it disturbing because they think then oh well then the Prophet you know that doesn't really make any sense to them now Islam is for everyone and they may be a time to speak devotionally but there is definitely a time when a person speaks for actually now this question that does the Prophet for example do the prophets do does their body disintegrate

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when it's buried I will kind of highlight this discussion in just a moment right now I've said that this hadith doesn't have to mean that now there is a hadith that these people are relying on now you see ironically the hadith they are relying on isn't even that sorry it's actually the hadith that they rely on is transmitted in abu dawood is in surah nisa even imagine nahi ban muslims vomit huh commander me more or less and some of this transmitter as well and this hadith that they rely on is by a companion called all signals and by the way even

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this companion there's a huge confusion on who he was they not even sure who he was some people say he was his name was all signals some people have said his name was o signa waste oh sorry waste him now some people have said his name was o signa I'll be aways Imam Hari said no there were three separate people you've got some people saying oh no I am saying no these are like the same people you've got even a mine saying they're the same people you've got something no his name was Oh Cigna Haditha a different companion so they're not even too sure about this like there's a confusion an

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element of confusion around this person right so Oh signals transmits this Hadees and by the way the people who transmit it from him there's there's many problematic people in this chain like Abdul Rahman even this there's a particular row up to live now you've got Abdul Rahman in easy double jab here is one who is definitely problematic and and a lot of people Bihari spoken about him Abdul Rahman if if nobody had him brings him and talks about him that his father had him problematized him these people like her saying Rafi in the chain Bihari da hood me all these people have

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raised issues with this chain but I'll come to that in a moment but this hadith is oh Sid knows or OSA be a waste or whatever you want to call him mostly been a handle oh sorry aasif no sympathy for this person he says that the Prophet was telling them that the prophets life was beneficial for them and he's passing away was beneficial for them his death was beneficial for them so the companion actually says Kay Farhad aramta how can you help us when you've become just dust or IMTA now our IMTA is actually like when the bones have become useless and nothing and it's actually kind of like

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isn't it's not necessarily a pleasant term and the Prophet says that o in this hadith o he carries on obviously it began by the whole thing about send Salam upon me that this you know even when I pass away it's still beneficial for you and so on and then the person says how when you know what cut Adam turn your bones have become nothing and dust and and the prophet said in Allah hirama a little art and tacular assad am beer that allah has prohibited the earth from eating consuming the bodies of the prophets now this hadith like i said coming from o signal also also be a waste or wasting

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also oh sleep now they thought whatever his name was this sahabi ready Allah on right now this hadith even though many people have said it's okay sorry bin baz said it's okay you know we'll consider it okay ala Bonnie said it's okay we'll accept it so he put it in this thing but it's got problems in the chain but let's just take it right now as it's acceptable let's take it as that did this have to be a literal hadith now I've said that they are two understandings is the devotional understanding and I feel that from that perspective people would take it as no this is literal the other understanding is that this is more a

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reflection on the efforts of the Prophet and do not go to waste now this is what some people like us are are the name has kind of made a huge issuer of the how can you know move to Abu layth say this right now first of all I just want to highlight apart from okay the the issues of the chain why is this an issue why is this an issue because they're saying that all this would otherwise seem disrespectful but I'm saying look I'm speaking right now analytically objectively factually

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that in that case are you saying that imagine the prophets or the old people because by the way this isn't just restricted to the prophets the scholars have put in the the Shahada the martyrs who by the way there isn't a single sahih hadith about the martyrs but they put them in there then they've put the pies people in there then people eyes or honey and other people have poor scholars in thee so I mean by that standard I guess do I qualify Oh they've put all of mine did the father of hadith once again do I qualify Mahaffey though I'm sorry her father of the Quran I'm half in of the Quran so they've put scholars have put all kinds of people in they put scholars half in the Quran that the soil can't

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eat can't eat us I'm a half of the Quran whether people want to consider me an Alim or not but I am a half faith so according to many scholars the soil would never consume me as well now look I'm just saying that we right in that case are we saying that these people imagine if they weren't buried they were just left just on on in not under the ground above ground that their bodies wouldn't do human bodies not require nourishment life blood flowing to it in order to stay alive does a body not disintegrate anyway regardless of soil

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does it not do that I mean in that case why bury the prophets Allah Allah Allah so why not just leave him as an example for everybody so we can come and see the Prophet why does he need to be why does align the Quran teaches to bury people why you know he says about the sons of Adam fort and then we showed them how to bury why you know they were why not just keep the prophets always there everybody can deceive you're the body's gonna stay intact it doesn't read in that case it doesn't need nutrients they don't need food they don't need anything they just they're not human by the way in that case they are a human but non-human laws

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apply to them so look when you say this the problem is that yes to a devotional in devotional speak it may sound okay to certain people but these many young people today who just won't accept that and because of these kind of things they will then reject Islam now you have to think that what are you actually saying when there's a factual question are you saying that Oh in that case these people because why not the Companions then are they not earlier why not al-bakr and omar why do they need to be very why not just leave them their bodies surely their bodies can

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disintegrate so look this becomes silly and then the other thing is by the way even if you look at hadith there's a much stronger hadith by the way much stronger now check this out this is actually very fascinating there's a much stronger hadith right I'm just bringing this up right so they say a much stronger hadith which is inspirati it's in Muslim it's in first and foremost a lot of Imam Malik it's transmitted by Abu Hurairah and

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you've got this hadith with the Prophet said that he tells them that he said Kolob Adam every son of Adam tackle all art the earth will decompose their bodies and then it says check this out illa allatheena except the sacrum bone you know the sacrum the which is just above the the the tailbone the coccyx so just above that is the sacrum now except that why because minwu colic Wafi he

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rock up because from here he was created and from here he will be brought back from the sacrum according to this sahih hadith not only do all humans disintegrate but all human sacrum never disintegrate this is Asahi indeed according to all human beings that our sacrum even though the sacrum is one of the last bones to disintegrate but according to this it never disintegrates because we are made out of the sacrum now that is actually very interesting

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this thing why because I wanna extrusive you that are wondering here just to bring this up this is the sacrum by the way so that bone over thee and if you're wondering this term akram it comes from the latin sacred why does it come from that because they believed there was a belief that this was a a sacred bone within the body in ancient Roman beliefs so we're not

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talking about Muslim or Christian before them we're talking about before Muslims and Christians were talking about Romans the Greeks believed that this was a kind of holy bone a sacred bone why because it was one of the last to ever disintegrate so they felt that maybe human beings were made out of this this in cross culture the Mesoamerican kind of native culture also considered this sacrum to be kind of sacred the Indian cultures considered the Kundalini thing

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to be around that region and the pelvic region about the so many cultures historically felt that the sacrum was some kind of sacred kind of entity because whenever they saw the humans they saw this when they disintegrate they saw this part and they felt that wow this must be represent something this then creeps into Christian through the Roman heritage it creeps into Christianity so they start writing about this how this is sacred in fact they then refer this to the Psalms The Book

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of Psalms they say and that this is what it's referring to in 34 where it says that their immense UNS that all bones that even though that destruction will come over all bones it says except it mentions one of them shall not be broken now although this is in Psalms later Christians felt this was speaking about the sacrum now from there it comes into the Muslim

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it's its once again you see that kind of virus creeping in and in Arabic they call it algebra then up the algebra of the then above the tail because above the the coccyx the tailbone so you see here Muslims and all of a sudden it becomes a hadith apparently that not only do no human sacrum ever disintegrates and this is in Bihari and it's in Muslim and I believe that Imam Malik brought this on purpose to show the nonsensical aspect of it that this once again most likely Abu Huraira had

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probably got this from Kabbalah bar who Imam Malik brings in his motto that Abu Huraira would go and spend entire time like several he would take out time and go to Kabbalah bar and take learn his religious scriptures from him now this most likely the fact that Imam Malik brings that separately and then brings this from Herrera in my understanding is Imam Malik kind of showing that you have to be weary what's going on here that this doesn't make any sense and this seems to have a Christian origin and in fact we know today it's even predates Christianity it's from the

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Roman greco-roman period and it's in other cultures as well the whole sacrum thing so my point is if you look at this hadith according to this hadith no human thing will disintegrate but from a factual perspective we're not going to say that there is another hadith by the way all most of the books that quote that hadith of all signals and this is interesting quote this hadith people and it's definitely worth kind of having a looking to that they bring this hadith so you've got most of those books so once again it will be books like it will

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be in its in Abu Dawud in Missa evening magical beam al Hakim brings it it will it's in most of those similar kind of books I believe the Muslims of Ahmed and other narrations and it's known as the narration of a Jew Subin is right the old lady of burnings Rahil now in this what happens is the Prophet is speaking about something and he says that oh and it's transmitted by several companions beginning with abu musa al-ashari it's also transmitted by ali bin ABI talib is transmitted by even our bus it's transmitted by other companions as well and some chains are critiqued as

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well I'm not saying but to be fair the other chain it's it's much stronger than the other chain it's got several people transmitting it in this what happens is the Prophet is telling people why don't you be like the people the old lady of the Israelites and they say what's who's the old lady of these and an incident that's going on but the Prophet then relates he says that when the Israelites wandered in the wilderness and they were lost Moses consults with them that what's going on have we kind of missed something and some of the leaders of the

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Israelites tell him that in Yusuf aha Elena Adhan Omo ii that yusuf ali salaam had taken an oath with us a kind of like a solemn pledge with allah like he had taken this oath with us that it were we to ever leave egypt we had to take his bones with us now this is use of a lease and i'm the prophet so in that moosa aleihsalaam says is that so so they say let's ask let's try and get the whereabouts of where use of al islam is buried now they find this old lady who

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then shows them now in this note and then there's some kind of disagreement and then eventually they go to this place they dig up and this is the hadith they dig up for stock roger i use all my use of ali salam they then took out the bones of Yusuf Ali Salaam and they then carried them with them in the Christian tradition and Jewish tradition these things are relics and these are well known the bones of saints and all these things in the judeo-christian tradition are relics and it's a well-known kind of phenomenon so now I know some scholars will then say oh boy bones it menti I didn't really mean bones it

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meant this but then you're just taking a metaphorical example you're just doing exactly the same thing are you not you're just saying oh but you know it says bones but no it doesn't really but in the actual hadith it says for stock roger i thamma Adama Yusuf they took out the bones of the relics of you so it says bones and they took them with them to the promised land so and that's actually a hadith which once again these things are in the same books you've got that is that are actually transmitting the other hadith as well and there's several companions transmitting it you know it's not just Oh Cigna also so on

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there's people over musa al-ashari these people like I leave no batali if there's even a pass and some of the chains are weak I accept that but I'm saying but I'm saying equally the other chains have criticism as well and what i'm doing here is factual academic speak speech sorry so this is it's not in anyway this isn't you see it isn't kind of detracting from the qualities of the prophets if anything it kind of emboldened them as the great messengers they were that they were from us as

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human beings we they are the perfect example for us how can they be examples if they are not like us as human beings so I think this kind of I know taking this kind of factual speak and saying that well oh if you say this we're gonna consider this disrespectful and we're gonna call you a car fare now and you think well okay I mean first of all that's so absurd secondly these are actually the narrations if I show you the hadith in Bukhari and Muslim and I would and what power where it says about

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the sacrum of all human beings can never be consumed you're gonna say yeah but that's not factual if I show you the hadith of Yusuf Ali Salaam where they take out you say yeah but that's not that's metaphorical as well and you say well okay well this one actually has a lot of problems and even this narrate this companion they're not too sure what his name was and and even this and then Abdul Rahman is either bin Jabr it has problems Hussein or Joffe in the chain has problems all these things have problems but even if we accept it can't this be metaphor no no that can never be metaphorical and you think well you know Islam is much more vast than that and the thing is that all these people what

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are you what message are you automatically I understand you're giving a devotional kind of respectful message but if the question is a factual objective question then you have to understand that for many people this could break their Eman it's not like there's many people who are not content with being told things like oh by the way scholars anybody who's memorized the Quran can never you know as a human being you can just leave him now on this table even after he's passed away because he's he's a saint his body will just stay like that because that to many people is just absolute like they won't accept that I mean why do people bury

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people then I mean why do they do that because think about it all these saints and martyrs and all these great people why not just keep them there as examples you know to help people afterwards to kind of say hey do you want to know what that Saint look like there he is because you as well as everybody else knows that that's not how the laws that Allah has set in this world the human body is the human body needs life it needs nutrients needs oxygen it needs these kind of things you know it's not and and that in any way if anything is it reaffirms the

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faith of people and the irony is these very same people who use this to say like like a sir are now our little car name of this age who is found gog and magog he fields that oh this is disrespectful to say this yet he will say oh the Prophet became clumsy by having becoming bewitched and yet the Prophet married and a child and he feels that's not disrespectful he feels that saying that the Prophet had a sexual life and relationship with with a with a child oh but we're not gonna call her a child we're just gonna call her a

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grown-up kid like that like that makes it better and and that stuff is utterly blasphemous your blaspheming against the prophets Allah I lives in them you know bye and yet in a sense of kind of reactionary reverse bravado they embrace that nonsense and then they question actual things right to say oh well this is a reason we're gonna call such-and-such a Kaffir cool anybody and by the way if you want if people want to calm you cough it call me a calf at all you want like I often say they say your dad's Dean you know you can't check out

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whoever you want so guys we went on quite a bit today all right so I hope that you know but these were very important topics so it kind of required the extension people I think we're gonna wrap it up with that it's being one hell of a show all right lair people or Ally it's been awesome as always you guys have kind of just hacked it there you've been through I gotta say it's it's been over two and a half hours now so people much love take very good care of yourselves

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