Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 165

All right people. All right. What is going down?

What is going down? [snorts] Right. Let me just check that we is live on momento. On momento just check my pages. All right. All right. All right. I can see it. I can see it. And there it is.

All right. Let me just check. Is this all right? We is live people. We is live now. Just sharing this and then we're good to go. Let me just bring up the face pe Facebook people as well. All right.

All right. There you are. people as always.

All right. Ra people right and swagam swagam people so what is going on I'm just pressing share here and we is good to go there it is right all right

That's good. That's done. So, what is going on? What is going on? Let me just bring up uh somebody said, "Yeah, you know what? I thought, you know what? Let's leave it a bit rough for the folks as well." [laughter] You know, people are like, "What the hell? [laughter] [gasps] Does his hair not even grow there?" So, it's got to be done sometimes.

Sid is in the house, people. You're doing it, Sid. You're doing it, man. That's it. That's it. Keep rocking it. All right. So, what is going on, people? As you can see, right, let me just bring up here. All right. Now, all right, people. All right. Check this out. Look at that.

Look at that, people. Look at that. V. That's what I'm talking about, people. That's what I'm talking about. Do you see some of that the the graphics? Look at that. [laughter] Ah, it's got to be done. It's got to be done, people. It's got to be done. So, right now, I'm just waiting for a few people to click like, click share.

I'll run you all through the usual people. the usual. Now, I'm just trying to see what is going on here. You know, I'm always fidgeting with some of this stuff, trying out different things, seeing what's going on. [laughter] [gasps] It's not making much sense to me, but that's that's all good.

Let me switch this back into studio mode over here. You guys can't tell the difference. I can. [laughter] [gasps] So people, whoa, Ramadan is about to come to an end as it is. Be taking a look at some of your questions. I'll go over some of the things. I'll go over the Eid prayer. Uh how that is bothering me.

Look at some of the questions already rolling in. That's what I'm talking about, people. That is what I'm talking about. Right. So, what's been going on? Let me see over here. All right. Check this out, folks. Check this out. All right. You like it?

You like it? This one. You know this one, [laughter] [gasps] right? Let's take before we actually get into some of the questions. Do I have a poem? for [screaming]

people. What a way to start. Now, as you've probably figured out that the iman for some of you might be up there might be rocketing. You know, some of you blessed folks since Ramadan is uh is coming to an end. Some of you unlike me [laughter] have have utilized your time.

[laughter] So the power of your iman, it's going to be somewhere like this people. This is where I'm expecting you to be. your

I man to be people. [laughter] Some of you might have been wondering the same question as me that why was the bad guy trying to shoot him with what's its [laughter] [gasps] he was shooting him with what's it crisps [laughter] he was trying to break his fast as well as well as his salah this this naughty naughty people right so but I did actually come across something that was very uh um inspiring and it was uh an

old man teaching another old man uh how to perfect or better his tajid and pronunciation of the shahada and by extension the Quran. And I thought that is amazing it that no matter what age you're at, you can never you never need to feel you're too old to be learning. He loves

ashu ashu ashu ashu ashahadu ashu ashadu an allah. An allnham [clears throat and cough]

madame. Muhamad, I thought honestly I came across that I thought it was amazing.

Mashallah may Allah bless them and each and all you know at such an age I don't know what their the age of the people in the video is but presumably uh at their age still a focus a passion for Tajid people now that's what I'm talking about that is what I'm talking about the love of learning right so what

What's Ramadan people? What is going on? He goes, [laughter] "Don't make it long. You making the mind go to D track, you know, a detour." [laughter] So, what is going on?

Clearly in their 20ies. Absolutely. Absolutely. Mhm. So, what is going on people? I've we've we've got some I did make some notes to make sure one or two people had asked their questions. I thought well in case I forget I always keep forgetting people's questions. So, what is going on?

Did I im Malik want to become a singer pop idol? Huh? [laughter] This is it. Salaf got talent. [laughter] Salaf got talent people. The Salaf got talent. Imam Malik. Let me tell you about Imam Malik. Imam Malik wanted to become a singer when he was uh a young boy.

So presumably this must have been [clears throat] anything under 10 up until maybe like about probably around actually I'm assuming maybe around just the 10 mark maybe a bit more 11 uh something like that but not too not like into his teens or anything but he wanted to become a singer and he had this uh passion for it and his mom told him that [clears throat] his mom told him that.

She goes uh she goes [laughter] that is the equivalent of what his mom told him. But in the in the most in the eloquent Arabic, you know, she said it. She said uh booty. She said what it was is Imam Malik was blonde with blue eyes.

So even though today I guess there's this whole uh because of the western influence and there's this whole thing of blonde and blue eyes is is you know seen as uh a mark of beauty and things like this in that part of the world and in that day and age it wasn't. So uh it's not that it was seen as the you know antagonistic or the opposite of beauty but it just wasn't the appeal factor.

So people preferred they always had this thing for dark eyes uh black almost black eyes. Hence the Quran speaks of you know now is actually from the Arabic word. It's the plural of the Arabic word. So a woman who is uh or a guy who's awar is somebody who has uh you know the kind of u the blackness of the their eyes appears as almost jet black almost uh uh I guess

also mine are almost almost jet black so and the whiteness is uh is there's a stark it's like bright white so there's a stark contrast between the two. And then also their eyes are very, you know, especially on women, big eyes and things like that. Uh, not so much on the men. It just look weird on men. [laughter] Who?

Who are you, mate? Where the [laughter] Allah said you're going to get, but it was plural. Did he specify whether it was going to be men or women? So, here you are, mate. What would you like us to do, boss? [laughter] [gasps] Right. So, this uh so this thing of of dark eyes or dark hair, black hair, that kind of contrast with uh especially when it's contrasted with something fair, it has a strong contrast

to it. So this was seen as incred like a hallmark of beauty for the Arabs. So because im Malik b you know gora he's this gringo [laughter] keness who's this gringo over here this this white kid and he's there with his blonde hair blue eyes and his mom said to him look it's just not going to fly this all right tie's in the house man you're doing it you're doing it big up right So, somebody said it means deep eyes, not uh

dark uh I mean it could be deep from the sense that not deep as in like the kind of submerged as in big eyes, but it was actually to do with the blackness of the eye. Uh because the Arabs found that to be incredibly beautiful in their day and age. I mean, it kind of had a a contrast as you can see. So this is why was it doesn't mean that if somebody doesn't have black eyes or dark eyes that they're not beautiful.

I'm just saying what the Arabs always felt that this that dark hair was something very appealing. Not today. Today Arabs are mad over [laughter] blonde hair. But in that day and age they didn't like the kind of ashkar thing. So um so I imam Malik was uh uh his mom kind of told him that look it's just not going to fly people are going to look at you and say [laughter] that one that boy that boy [laughter] so I im Malik Bara be was disheartened and so he went away from this thing of

singing and and when when you know when you can't go to music and singing where else do you go. So he went to Elm [laughter] [gasps] and lo and behold he became a dawn in uh in to the extent that he had his own mother and you know till this day he influences people had he become a singer nobody would have heard of him today so that's the story of Imam Malik somebody asked where can you read about Imam Malik I was just thinking I had this ah where's it gone Um I had this book uh

a very good kind of detailed study just on Imam Malik. I'll have to find it now. But uh Nadim uh that's where can I read about the life of Imam Malik? I think he wore earrings too. That is correct. Nadim, you're absolutely correct. Uh Imam Malik did wear earrings. uh he um up until definitely up until his probably his teenage years and then whe as a man whether he continued to wear them or not I don't know in his senior age he I don't think he wore them then but uh he used he never considered it haram because otherwise you know he wouldn't go around wearing earrings and

his son wore an earring um so it wasn't something that I Malik considered haram Now in English about Imam Malik I'm not I think there was a translation on the on the four imams um there's I mean there's several works on Imam Malik I just don't know if they've translated these kind of things into English you see you have to remember something people people who translate have an agenda unfortunately this is the truth right whether we like it or not so people So

let's say for example a uh somebody's translating something and he sees a particular book or a particular part of that book that does not fit in line with his agenda, they may choose to leave that stuff out or they may choose not to translate that book and one that fits more in line with their own agenda. So uh there is a I believe in Arabic Abdul Khan Dekar who was an amazing scholar from Damascus uh one of the leading grammarian scholars of uh the 20th century really he and and I had the good fortune of you know spending some time

with him. He had an amazing sense of humor. Now he has a book on Imam Malik. He writes in there as well about Imam Malik's hearing. Um, a lot of this stuff has been suppressed unfortunately because as Islam or the Muslims, not Islam, but as Muslims progress throughout time, they start to standardize their view of Islam and anything that appears to be slightly outside of their window of Islam uh or their standardized view, they start to well, you see, they don't need to lie.

It's simply enough for them to just become quiet on these things. If everybody chose to become quiet on certain matters, it would just be forgotten. You see, so it's like it's a bit like that. Immalik's son, I know uh not Rahib, sorry. Um in Kabani byani, he but that's in Arabic.

He mentions this as well about the his his son and earrings and and how Imam Malik want to be a singer and stuff like this. He mentions that several people do mention it like the Yad mentions it in his madic about wanting to be a singer and I think he also mentions about his son's earing but I don't know if he mentions about Imam Malik's earrings and stuff. So yeah, I hope that's of some help. Um h do you know why Imam Malik stopped wearing an earring?

Look these things are not religion. [laughter] You know it's like saying uh do you know why this person stopped wearing Nike at a certain stage in his life. [laughter] You know sometimes some of these matters are just not that deep. They're like they're obviously culturally specified. So maybe a person at a certain age just chose to be different.

You know, he he no longer wanted to do something. It doesn't mean that he's um oh my god. Like I Malik now realized I was doing something haram. It's not like that. But it's just he he I I don't know. You see, once again, it's not that I've read somewhere he didn't wear an earring as an old man, but it's just that I don't hear it in his description, but it could be that people just chose to leave it out or it could be that he didn't used to wear it as an older person as many of the so they mentioned people like Sopan who was a great of hadith used to attend

the hadith classes whilst wearing an earring. I think what they had was, you see, like in many societies, people sometimes have a uh like a set, you know, like a a social a socio stage that maybe at like sometimes at a certain stage a man might start wearing suits more often and and a certain stage he might now shift into a different kind of design and you know, maybe a particular type of colors now they wear And maybe at a certain age a man starts wearing a waist coat.

You know, I'm just saying. So it's in a similar way. They had their own social kind of styles. You know, Imam Malik wasn't somebody by any standard that was uh uh out of vogue. He had in fact they say uh you know he had something like I read somewhere up to hundreds of pairs of shoes.

And he although you see ironically he used to be very weary wearing shoes in some parts of Medina because the prophet had been there uh out of love for the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and that was the mam of Imam Malik but generally he did wear shoes and he had hundreds of pairs of them hundreds and you know and he used to wear very expensive clothes that was because he was quite rich very wealthy Imam Malik was as was Abu Hanifh he was rich as well.

Um these imams kind of spent on themselves and you see that this their attitude towards these things is chilled. Then you've got Imam Shafi who was uh who was unfortunately uh kind of struggled financially. You know he his whole life was a struggle when it came to finances. So um I im you see that in his he's not very um he's very sometimes harsh to towards certain things that are finance related whereas Imam Malik is always chilled and that's because they were people of commerce.

They had money. They traded. Imam Malik used to trade. He's a tradesman. All right. So all right. What is going on? Billy is in the house. Billy, you're doing it. You're doing it. Misab Rah Rah Rah has the the sun god Rah. [laughter] It's the sun god Ra on my life.

Ya Allah, I've brought him to here to this this much I've done. [laughter] I let you take it from here. touch. [laughter] So the sun god Ra has asked Muisab what's your opinion on Zakir Nike and Korea?

Who is Korea Korea is? Uh somebody said thoughts on the incelss. [snorts] You know, I I just came to learn, I think it was only a few months ago, what incelss, [laughter] if I got this right, that they are incelss are incelss are people who who are they choose to remain celibate.

No, sorry. Society has forced them to be celibate because they won't have sex. Nobody will have sex with them. Somebody saying there's a mic problem. All

right. That is that better? [snorts] I'll let I'll wait for some feedback. Let me just Where's my All right. Mainly vibrating. Mainly vibrating. Robocop voice. Hello. Oh, hello. [snorts] Audio is still bad.

This one not nice. It's sorted. No volume. No. Better. Yes. No. [laughter] A. So, uh, so incelss, if I, if I've got that correct, they're people who society will not have sex with them. [laughter] You know [laughter] [gasps] what?

That is a calamity indeed. That is a uh what do what can we do for these people? Are they are they just men? By the way, I wonder if insults insults can't be girls. I don't think I'm sure everybody I'm sure for a girl that's never a problem. [laughter] I'm sure that's uh a problem. Just, [laughter] right?

So, I don't know what to really say. I think yeah, we should set up some kind of like a GoFundMe page for them. [laughter] We could kind of allocate sympathy, pity kind of [laughter] or get those robots, those sex bots that Japan has made. That that would that should surely fix it. It's very lifelike.

So I've so my I've read [laughter] you can't see that over there. So somebody said why don't they just play with themselves? Really, really you naughty naughty. Well, what game do you suggest that they play with themselves to distract themselves?

[laughter] [gasps] Ah, so what is going on people? They need a life coach. Yeah, I'm sure, you know, if people, okay, let me, you know, let me give you my thoughts. A lot of people have asked me sometimes, what do you think of things like, following on from this, um, what do you think of arranged marriages like as in online arranged marriages or through contacts

from abroad or from different places? You see what I would say is that look a lot of the time I get people asking me look they're struggling with relationships or they're struggling to find a spouse or they're struggling to find oh I suppose like some of these incelss. [laughter] May the Lord of mercy have May the Lord have some mercy.

[clears throat] So the these people or people facing this crisis what should they do? Now I would say look there are certain people who have been very gifted. Now let's say they happen to be uh very good-looking. They happen to have a lot of you know just every you know many good things about them.

But I would say these people are are probably you know a minority in society even though they may be very loud and have a huge presence but it's it's a minority within society. Then you've got many people that may just be just average and that will probably be most of the people um you know just trying to they're just your normal kind of average people now.

And then you'll get some people who've been kind of short strawed in society. [laughter] And it's it's I I I'm not this I'm laughing out of uh out of out of kind of like uh feeling their pain, out of empathy. I'm laughing. This is not a [laughter] They're like bad.

They're watching this thinking aa chaa empathy, huh? [laughter] Right. So, uh, Right. So, the thing is that now let's just say people are slightly short straw for whatever reason. Uh, short straw doesn't mean short straw. [laughter] I don't mean short.

They're kind of like short. [laughter] Although we did have a few questions on micro penises as well previously, but I don't mean necessarily, but that too, we can welcome that in this category as well. [laughter] Let's give a big welcome.

That's got to be a proper They're like, don't rub it in, huh? Rub it in. So look any person who's facing any kind of difficulties or sometimes some people uh they don't have to just be short straw in terms of their features and things but they or their physical like a physicality about something physical but it could be about circumstances.

Some people could be uh just stuck in certain things that relationships just won't work for them or certain things won't happen. And sometimes, you know, women will sometimes say, "Well, look, they're divorced. They've got kids. They can't quite find a decent guy. Um, and I can't uh or if I find a decent guy, then he's not good-looking enough.

Or if he's good-looking, but then he's too much of a playboy. Or if he's too much of this, then, you know, he doesn't want to settle down with kids, or he doesn't." And you get this in all in both genders. Uh, both in all five genders. [laughter] LGBTQI, RSPC, RSPCA, mother.

[laughter] So my advice to these people is why not? I'm not saying you have to do this, but why not explore? explore from abroad or somewhere somewhere where you can tilt the kind of handicap. [laughter] Sometimes I don't know where these words come to me from. I don't mean you you tilt the handicap person.

I mean you can tilt the scale as in look everybody in this dunya is looking out for something for themselves. Let's just be honest. Let's be real. Real talk people. Real talk. Yeah. Now look we men are always looking out for you know they they will always be mesmerized by beauty. Yeah. Now women are always looking out for other things and uh beauty as well but amongst other things.

Now why not sometimes as an option I'm not saying you need to but as an option look go global go worldwide you know that look there's because you would get a much better scope a wider array of what's available worldwide if because people now you may say yeah well the other person let's say a woman looks for a guy in a different part of the world and dashing stud of a guy happens to be [laughter]

Riy Ridan Abdul Karim but he's already from the UK Riy you're doing it you're doing it but now let's say she finds a stud of a guy now she thinks to herself yeah but he only wants to come over here because of the passport or let's say a guy finds uh some some guy finds a girl that's amazing for him.

He thinks, "Wow, that's so I could never, you know, marry somebody like that from, let's say, the UK or because it just wouldn't it would be out of my league because girls usually girls tend to always marry up or marry sideways. They seldom marry down. [laughter] This is a rule in life, okay people? I'm giving you some hard lessons today. [laughter] Guys may marry down.

girls seldom marry down. It just doesn't happen like that. [laughter] They they will always marry up socially or socially speaking. So now the guy thinks, well, you know, this will be out of my league if I was to find a girl like that in in America or in the US. Oh, sorry, in the UK or Europe. Whereas here, you know, I can easily get into this relationship. Oh, but she only wants a passport.

Yeah. Now this, but let's be honest. Let's be real. Everybody just wants something. You know, this is, isn't it? Like this is, you know, this world is one of means. Everybody's after something. Now, it doesn't mean that they, you can't make a good relationship out of it. I'm sure you can if I'm sure it's very plausible and possible.

It's not um you know, so I I I don't know. Like I think because sometimes I've had people say these things to me, ask me as questions and I think well what about if you kind of branched out. I've just thought this a lot of the time that you know you don't need to go global go worldwide. I mean nowadays everybody speaks English but these are my thoughts.

Uh have you seen your face like Diab Diablo? All right. Yeah. Hell yeah. I say I'm I'm I've said I'm the devil in corner anyway. So it doesn't Right. The Duke has asked a question. Just coming back to uh uh the Ra's question and then I'll move to Duke. Duke, where's your question gone?

Duke's question is is modernday bank interest the same as ribba in the Quran. So right. So I hope that's of some help people. But don't explore, explore, explore. But I do feel that look, sometimes situations can put people uh they can put the odds against them, but they can always level the plane if they think out of the box.

[laughter] All right. So, uh first of all about Zak. What do I think about Zakir Nike? I uh I mean I'm not a huge fan of his work or anything. I'm sure he's done a lot of good. You see I thought Zakarik was the the kind of religion comparative scholar that you know in that sense he was great.

He was kind he was an a follow on from Ahmed didat. Then he kind of went on to become a quasi scholar of Islam. The problem with this was it was just spreading that same very dogmatist kind of view. The very selfie um you know I'm a doctor. Uh I know I know everything. You know evolution is nonsense.

This is this. I'm a medical doctor. You know you can't and and these kind of things make a um they don't show Islam in a good light. That's what I think anyway. So, I'm not too uh fond of that kind of da somebody. What's going on? Miy thoughts. What am I here? Miy Oh, damn.

What do you Yep. What's going on? Miy into interracial marriage. [laughter] I'm into any [clears throat] marriage. It's all good, man. It's all good. Uh, so what's going on? What's going on? Musty, looks like you're growing a fistful beard. I'm not actually, but I just thought, you know, sometimes, you know, you got to sometimes you got to kind of surprise people.

[laughter] I thought, let's do it like this for one day. And then shaving is something standard I do almost every day anyway. [gasps] Have you ever got gout pain on big toe? What? [laughter] No, I haven't. Alhamdulillah. I don't know. That is a really strange question, Siraj. I'm uh I'm concerned [laughter and clears throat] about the kind of interest you're taking.

So, right, let me see. Oh, right. uh some before we go for some other questions, let me just bring up there's uh bean people um I've got to just one moment.

Right, we've had this week uh the passing away of a a scholar who spent a lifetime. He is from the UK senior spent a lifetime dedicated to this dean. Allah Mahm, may Allah have mercy on him and bless him in the afterlife. Um, and it's not about whether we agreed with his opinions or not, but it's about the fact that he was a very well wellrespected senior figure and he's passed away.

He uh was somebody relatively open-minded. He'd studied with people like Kandeli Sab with uh say Sulman Nadui um Mui Shafi the father of Mui. So he'd kind of studied with him and he's apparently written over 100 published works. So that uh in and of itself is something just so breathtaking and that includes things like he's got um some some works on the tanzil um something onith of a similar title

uh that title kind of he took that in a lot of his works. So may Allah have mercy on him. he passed away and on that uh note there [snorts] was also uh I'd come to learn that sheh Zahir uh Sab from Birmingham um who I consider a friend a good friend I mean Allah I consider a good I think but no on this I'd come to learn that uh he'd also suffered a huge loss, the loss of his

mother who's passed away. May Allah have mercy on her soul and may Allah grant him ease and his family ease. May Allah grant her an elevated mat. Things like this are a huge um there are huge loss and a huge tragedy and the shock factor I'm you know I'm sure is unfathomable.

May Allah uh bless everybody in in in their family life that still has an opportunity to benefit from the appearance and those who have passed away may Allah elevate their in so I just wanted to say that right so what is going on people what is going on uh and the question was highlighted.

Somebody said I put up a question and it was what was your oh mi what do you think about his all right rapid eagle you're doing it you're doing it right so his [clears throat] are uh unfor [laughter] they are a cancer for this ummah um and it's it's somebody who I mean it's a group who are obsess obsessed with a false nostalgia, a kind of romanticized image of Islamic history.

They clearly have not read Islamic history. In fact, they're actually their hallmark is a lack of scholarship. [laughter] The only thing they can boast about is not having any. They they don't have any scholars. And the thing about them is they are so, you know, they spend an entire lifetime, an entire lifetime just going on, banging on about this.

Uh, right. So uh right so now they spend an entire lifetime dedicated to things like um let's set up a how would what would we do once we have a caliphate?

How are we going to what are the offices going to be called? Oh this is the ministry of justice. this is the ministry of this this is how [laughter] as if that's how Islamic history was and that's ridiculous you know it's nothing but it was not they neither live in the present nor the future nor the past these people are just ridiculous

right so Now that's what these people are. So I mean I I would say that right now what I would say avoid them like the plague. [laughter] Seriously, if you've got young people around you who are becoming influenced by them, I'd be very weary.

They are an extremist organization. Um they're not currently extremist extreme they're not currently violent extremists in this part of the world but they are extremists. Okay. So 100% and they are people who um if given the chance they would legitimize bloodshed massacre.

In fact in their works they actually speak about in Muslim lands people should take over by any means necessary. This is what their works say. And in certain papers that in certain books the their kind of pioneers speak of even if like people should do military coupetars even if it leads to countless bloodshed they say it's worth it. So beware of these kind of nutcases.

They are nothing but the kawar of this day and age. Cool. So that's my thoughts on them. And anybody, you know, these anybody that's associated with them, be very weary. You know, like you get these kind of uh five pillars and things like this. Be very weary of these people. You know, they they they are the same people who praise Osama bin Laden. They are the same people. You know, if I remember reading on a few years back on the posts of some of these people how how they find Osama bin Laden to be the one of the most inspirational figures of recent Islamic history.

They find you know these people are so obsessed with this bloodthirsty kind of culture. They are a virus in the body of this ummah. That's what I would say. So now never support them on things like that's my thoughts obviously. I mean they can do whatever they want but that's that's what my thoughts on this matter.

Cool. All right. So you're most welcome Rapid Eagle. You're doing it. You're doing it people. Uh right. So, let me just see. [sighs] Sorry, one moment.

Right. So, uh, all right, let's deal with on momento people. Right. All right. All right. All right. So, I'm just bringing up some questions as well. Let me take a look. People have been posting. Okay.

All right. There you go. People, if you are trolling, do be weary. You will get blocked. [laughter] All right. Okay. I've blocked uh some of those trolls on Facebook. Right. So let's move on to some other questions people before we do. Nadim you've asked a question. What were the errors flaws in the Mazilite creed?

Um right that's a very good question. [snorts] Now the you see I've been asked this by quite a few people about what is uh right that what is the problem with the mazilla now

the you See, you have to understand the mazilla were in essence an extremist organization, an extremist group. They were a people that were quasi takiris. They believed that Muslims by committing sins were kafir. You have to remember that. Okay. So that is always very uh important. Then they had a very rational side to them as well.

And the problem with the theological cold war was that it led Sunni scholars to sometimes become much more dogmatic as a counter. And I've got a detailed video explaining that previously. But the Mazilla in essence believed that if anybody committed a sin, they were no longer a Muslim. But they weren't a kafir either. They created a purgatory state and placed them in in that.

Right. So Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. All right, people. All right. So, I will also I know I've been asked this question on several occasions and I did say to somebody I'll answer tonight. They again I have answered it before. They've said look about my kind of change over the years and I will I will kind of explain that.

[laughter] I know it's shocked a lot of people. I don't know why but yeah. Oh, I haven't. Yeah, I've got a poem for you guys. You know, I came across a poem. Speaking of poetry, people, I came across this book. I was um I I was uh digging up some old material at home and I came across this book called

and I'll go through some just one two kind of things in this but this is uh I've had this now I brought this maybe in my first trip abroad when I was studying I had gone to seek knowledge at the age of And it I it accompanied me right throughout my travels for the next seven eight years that I was out there.

uh I had this with me and I used to read through it and wow you know it brought back some some memories people and I'll share one two of them but I'd also come across this poem in Uru people right now this I'm not quite sure who wrote this because I've read some different some variations and I wasn't sure but and it's it's a kind of uh what they call that it's slightly um it it's not constricted to a meter.

It's not metric all the way through. It's slightly it has its liberties and I'll just read through it and then uh hopefully you guys can understand. It's not a complex one. It's in [laughter]

Shane, he's talking about the shoulders. for pencil.

[laughter] Ulta first. Ultain [laughter] [laughter]

[gasps] [laughter] [gasps] [laughter] B in our language means mother. [laughter] This is the

[clears throat] [laughter] [gasps] wow that was honestly it I I came across this I was like wow that is amazing and that what he spelled for the dyslexic [laughter] people out there you got to kind of cater for everybody.

They're probably going, "Huh, he's spelling it out at the end." He says, he says, Wow, wow people that is amazing.

Uh I I just loved that. I I came across that and I was like wowed like wow wow wow wow. But yes, I was going to say that this brought back some amazing memories people. It um And it's basically a it's a collection um of of just different poets and some select poems of these and it just goes right from I believe it begins from pre-Islam right

up until the 20th century. Amazing poets in there, poems. Uh you've got different kind of it's got some sketches in there, you know, the famous very famous poem that was said to uh the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam but it was about love. Somebody said it that's in there.

The famous poems of Yazida are in there. There's just so many and you know the Majunua is in there is in there. You've got like these are the kind of Romeos of that era. Uh you've got the famous you know the playboy of Makkah and Medina back in the time of the so he he he was born in 23 hiji and he passes away 93 hij so he's very so he passes away the year Immalik is born that's how classic he is and he was

Kureshi from Quresh and somebody very wealthy and he does travel But he lives uh resides also in the holy cities as well. But he's very well known for always trying to woo the women and uh and he's the the author of the statement. [laughter]

He's the one who says that, you know, as long as she wants our salam. If she doesn't want it, then salam upon another. [laughter] [gasps] But yeah, he was an amazing poet and it's got all of these and I I was reading through this again. I just came across it this weekend and it just brought back so many memories.

Wow. Honestly, it just blast from the past people. I I Oh my god. You know, something like that I used to read 20 years ago and over 20 years ago and and when I saw it now, I was like, "Wow." Subhan Allah.

Did Were they real? Now it almost seems, you know, that they, you know, when I think of them some of those days just seems like did they actually happened? [laughter] There is a very interesting poem. I I'll I'll read one to you or part part of it. Um there's a poet by the name of Rasheed Ali.

Now he writes a poem called between friendship and love and this is about him he visits his friend in Brazil I think and he's an Arab and and he ends up kind of falling for his friend's wife [laughter] [gasps] love triangle triangle [laughter] what is this what's the vidana [laughter] That's what's going on, people.

They're triangular. Triangulating the signal, you know, triangulating the signal. Um, all right, Dervish, you're doing it. You're doing it. So, and and he and he and he writes this poem where, you know, he spends this time there and he really becomes infatuated with her and then in the end she's on it.

[laughter] she's on it as well. But at that stage, he uh feels that this is um he feels that this is that this is wrong that you know this I can't be really doing this. So yeah, that's uh it's let me just see here.

Mhm. Right. So he feels at so so he kind of declines politely her offer and but it's it's an amazing poem. It says that what a such a a woman of beauty that when Allah granted it to her beauty he he clearly didn't keep like keep any count like it was unrestricted [laughter]

and he speaks about her and everything and um And he speaks about her beauty and the way you know one of her looks could kill if looks could kill people. Um but then he speaks about you know I was going to when I was going to leave he the problem here he says he says

[laughter] the problem is that she my darling has got a husband that you know somebody who is also dear to that is such an epic line of his you know he says that he says this friend who really honored me during all these times.

So he says, "So if if the heart and the mind or the intellect ever clash, then it's always the voice of reason that you should go with." [laughter] Cuz he speaks about she finally kind of was on board that she kind of wrote to him that she writes it in a uh um in a kind of handkerchief.

She says he says uh that she wrote a message in a handkerchief. Allah Allah Allah that is wow and that's when he says to her you know he says I can't he says no po [laughter] he says I can't do this.

He just can't. Uh yeah, but it's I came across that. I thought, wow, you know, it brought back so many memories. I thought I'd share it with you guys. Guys, let's get back to some of your questions. What is going on, people? What is going on? Right. Uh let me see. [snorts] Mhm.

Mhm. All right. All right. All right. All right. Got to Okay. Sorry, I was just trying to click this.

Clear it. [snorts] [snorts] Right. So,

right. Uh [clears throat] uh. Right. Okay. So, right. Sorry about that. I got a bit distracted there. Right. Let's take a look at some of your questions people. What is going on? Right. Okay. The uh that Abu safe guy is being blocked.

Don't worry about that. Uh right. So what is going on? When is I've answered this before. You know, it's it is most people will generally go with it's in the odd nights of uh the last 10 days. Alhamdulillah, it helps people focus. So, that's fine. That's good. People tend to say it's the 27th and you know, we haven't really got a problem with that.

It's all good. What do I think of Jordan Peterson? I think he's amazing. Um, right. It's I think he is somebody who has really brought back in mainstream this thing of you can it's okay to believe in God you know because it's unfortunately it was uh it was getting it it was almost embarrassing to say you believe in God and people like Jordan Peterson have really brought that back that look you

can believe in God it's not you know If you're going to call it absurd, it's as absurd as any belief, you know, in the belief in saying, well, I I don't believe in this or I I don't believe in a god. That's also just a narrative. It's a belief uh construct. So, even I'm not saying it's a religion, but it's a belief construct unquestionably to say that look um and it's not the absence of a belief construct.

It is in and of itself a belief construct in saying that I believe that there does not need to be a um a creator or to you know to this creation that I believe because obviously we're not witnessing it. So it's a belief that I believe that this could somehow organically arise from nothing in you know at t0 at time zero it just kind of popped into being and created there was a kind of a cosmic dust that creates this is a a belief structure whether you like it or not it

is equally a belief structure. One could say well you know anything x near out of nothing is an absurdity logically. So that is equally absurd. So people like um Jordan Pet uh Pet uh I mean he Peter Jordansson he has given us a huge kind of um [sighs and gasps] a huge contribution to this discourse really.

Yeah. So I I mean I totally love what uh you know what what his works his videos. I would especially there's a debate between Jordan and uh Sam Harris on um it's in Vancouver and that is an amazing you know something that I I would say is a must for the the uh theology students.

Yep. All right, let's move on people. What is going on? What is going on? Sorry, I know I said it. I said it backwards whilst I was talking. [laughter] I did say it correctly as well, Jordan Peterson, but I said it.

It happens. It happens. My mind is a cascade of of just chaos. Right. So, let's take a look at some questions whilst you guys are posting here. What about people who've already submitted on Facebook?

Let me bring up their questions. So, people who've already put it on my profile. Mhm. There's Oh, well, there's only two questions here. One is by Isa is Isa Ali. Is deer and rabbit meat from supermarkets halal? H rabbits die by suffocation when they are caught in snares.

Last week he said using snares is fine. [laughter] Well, if I knew uh [laughter] well, if I knew that uh you were going to keep tabs on me, [laughter] I wouldn't have said it. [gasps] Uh is Allah an atheist? What?

Right. So, okay. Yeah. So deer and rabbit meat h you know this halal meat thing is a whole huge discussion in and of itself that has many layers to it. Okay. Uh I do feel it's a it's a complex discussion that what is when I say halal it's actually not the best word.

Uh the beha is a better word. Okay. Because the beha speaks of uh the beha will speak of things like um just moving this along. One moment.

Me bring that up to there. All right. So, Zabirham is slaughtered or sacrificed meat. Now this you know to many people is like saying well yeah that's what they refer to when they say halal. The question with that or the problem is that halal means which is permitted. Now many things are halal but they're not sacrificed.

And I spoke as an example fishing is not you know anything from the sea. Any hunted animal isn't actually sacrificed. Ritually speaking it's just halal. So what do I think of the behame? I I'm definitely um supportive in support of the the but I feel that in essence the behame had an objective and it had two it was double layered.

The primary layer of the primary focus of the bame was to create a distinction between Muslims and non-Muslims. the polytheists of the prophet's time. In the prophet's time, the mushri of the Arab and other parts of the world would offer sacrifices to their pagan gods.

Now any meat that they used to offer it became obligatory for Muslims to demarcate and distinguish their offerings by always mentioning the name of God upon sacrificing those animals. Now this was the primary focus. Now those people the polytheists of uh of Arabia did not used to offer wild animals as offerings.

So wild or offer fishes for example, marine food. It wasn't something um you know sea food wasn't an offering. It was only kind of docile dosile uh creatures, goats, sheep, camels, um cows, maybe things like that that were offered. They didn't have chickens, by the way. So in the prophet's um surroundings uh in that part of Arabia generally speaking chickens were not found.

So that I'm not saying chickens didn't exist. Of course they existed in the world but they weren't in abundance in Arabia not in the hijence you don't see the prophet speaking about chickens or speaking about things like uh chicken food often or things like that. But the companions do speak about chickens later on as they branch out as they move towards other parts of uh uh the Middle East and things like that, Byzantine territory when they take over, they conquer the Persian territories.

They do find chickens and things like that. Hence, some of them speak about then sacrificing a chicken for Eid. Whereas the prophet would never have said that. Um now the prophet wouldn't have said um about sacrificing chickens or things like this and I know it became a debate um between the celophies.

Uh, and I know it became a debate between the Copies and the rest of the Mabs because they spoke about you can sacrifice chickens and on on Biggie then you can do this and people turned it into a kind of mockery. But yeah, but coming back to the point, so in the prophet's time, they the animals that were given as pagan offerings, Muslims were mandated to always mention Allah's name before sacrificing them.

This was the kind of the the fine point of demarcation, the kind of delineating factor that distinguished Muslims from Kufur, especially mushikim. Now the issue was okay, what about hunting? Well, because they never that was never a pagan offering. So, Muslims were not obligated to kind of make a sacrifice of them or a ritual that it's okay.

Yeah, fine. Mention Allah's name, but you just need to shoot an arrow. You don't even need to shoot an arrow. You can send a hunting dog and the dog would kill the animal. So, you know, even if you say, look, with an arrow, one could say, okay, you said bismillah, you let go of the arrow. Fine. But when you release a dog and you say bismillah Allahbar you know the dog has to chase after the prey and the prey would run for its life literally and the dog would have to catch it.

Now they would be easily you know they may be a few minutes lapse be between the dog actually catching the prey and between you saying bismillah. So that was it was then just a kind of like a gesture. Hence you get sometimes uh some people didn't say like maybe they forgot or maybe they slacked or maybe they and there was the verse of the Quran that you know do not eat from that which Allah's name has not been mentioned above.

There is this verse of the Quran but is this speaking of the pagan food or is it speaking of all food? So you have the hadith that some of the Arabs they came to the prophet and they said well look we've got this meat and they gave some meat and the prophet was distributing it and somebody said well you know when they sacrificed it they forgot to say they didn't say bismillah and the prophet said well but they Muslim so it's fine the prophet said say bismillah and eat because the prophet knew that uh the prophet knew that

there is no the polytheist factor doesn't exist here. So this is why it was really just all about particular animals that were offerings, pagan offerings. Wild animals were never really or these kind of things like rabbits and lizards and I don't know whatever turtles and this kind of stuff were never offering. So they didn't really seem to care much about them.

They said, "Yeah, say bismillah." But it wasn't really anywhere on the radar. So h the next layer of the bame is that it creates an identity factor. This identity glues together a Muslim collective. So we worldwide now feel that we have some connection with each other.

we all eat halal or the meat. This kind of creates a a kind of bond. So the identity factor still remains today. However, the first factor I feel isn't actually of present today because nobody really makes pagan offerings anymore apart from you know nobody offers animals to their gods apart from Muslims and Jews and but that's it people of the book but generally speaking people don't do that anymore.

So hm so this brings into question this whole thing of could you eat the meat from like in these countries and things like this what I would say is that or could you eat for example somebody has asked hunted meat so I would say that look the identity factor still remains so it is uh very important I feel to stress that halal kind of the meat and to generally always go by that That is my kind of advice as Muslims to always generally go by that.

However, this other meat like rabbit meat that was hunted or deer meat or things like this, I would feel that it isn't uh whether it's good or not maybe a debate, but I wouldn't feel that it would be haram because it wouldn't fall under any of those categories of like an offering. And it's seen as kind of almost like exotic meat.

So I hope that makes some sense in what I'm trying to say that look halal in brackets or in speech marks should always should still be a priority for Muslims and it should be something that we support and are behind and what we eat generally speaking. However, these other meats like things that are hunted or things that are um even if they're done by non-Muslims, would it make it haram?

I would say, well, because it doesn't really fall under either. It doesn't definitely not a pagan offering meat and it's it's not really considered an identity thing to that extent like rabbit uh meat because you don't really offer it as a sacrifice anyway. So if somebody else hunted it and they weren't Muslim but they weren't hunting it in the name of I don't know I don't know in the name of Zeus or in the name of something like the Darius [laughter] or something then it's it doesn't really it's not so much of an issue.

That's what I would feel. So these are my that's my ruling on that. Cool. Right. So what is going on people? What is going on? The Norse gods there are a rise of polytheism in certain areas. There are but it's not real. Like I understand that look people are trying to prop up uh like the Norse culture and that's do you know why this is?

I'll tell you why this is. It's because people have reached a certain stage in life that they want a sense of belonging and they want that culture like because western civilization has got over that religious uh dictatorship of the church that's been finished. It's been eliminated. Now there is a [snorts] huge void for religion for that kind of sense of the god or the gods are watching over us or that god is because this is such a powerful mo narrative that Muslims and other people of religion have so you

start to see that some people want that so they you know it's becoming fashionable again again so it is there but it's not on that global scale and it will never be on that global scale it never was nor culture was never a global religion. It was a religion but for the Norse people, but it was never a kind of proletizing faith.

Cool people, what else is going on? All right. Yeah. And somebody said it's because of Hollywood. Yeah, definitely. I mean, Hollywood has played a huge role in that. Cool. People, some of you are posting your questions. uh feel free to post them. I am checking them. I can't seem to scroll backwards on the Facebook questions here.

I can see them only as they appear. But the YouTube ones, I can scroll back. So people and those of you sending your uh supportive super chats, you're doing it. You're doing it. Much love. Right. So what is going on? What is going on?

Somebody said they love uh Greek. Yeah, I love Greek mythology. Yeah, I mean it's fascinating. I I love learning about this stuff. But I mean there's a difference uh about actually believing and just being fascinated, right? So what is going on people? Can you be contacted over Snapchat? Uh I think maybe try Instagram is a better way to contact me.

Right. So, it's okay, Muy. We're pointing out our trolls. Who are the trolls? Anybody trolling, give me a shout. I'll get them blocked. Mock and block, people. Mock and block. Were there any pointers that I just in case I forget? All right. So, right. Now, let's take one two questions.

I will uh I I am going to go through the Eid prayers as well and just explain what that is because Eid is coming up and some of you what are the rulings to do with that? I'll give that a few [laughter] moments. We'll come to that a in a just a little while. Peoples peoples peoples.

So within Greek mythology, there is a figure called your anus. [laughter] Uranus. All right. You're doing it. Right. So, we'll do after burping. [laughter] A man, you're doing it. You're doing it.

There is no voodoo after things like that. Voodoo is only done after going to the toilet. Okay? Simply put, right, guys? Uh before I forget, I've started to air once again some from some of my archive videos. I've been uh I've done a whole entire course in the past on the I've aired two videos.

It's on YouTube called risalah the section dealing with creed belief. Uh do check that out. What I will be doing is in the future with the reseller, I'll probably try and ear it maybe twice a week. And what I'll do is the lesson that's covered in the end of it, I'll try and um maybe do a maybe something like a 20 minute kind of like an adage at the end.

And what I'll do is deal with maybe some questions that have come up during that. Not uh I mean it's not so much a Q&A but maybe just add to it. So I'm already doing a commentary on the this will be like adding further notes. It's a further annotation upon my commentary. A hash [laughter] I'm doing a hash upon my upon the so I'll add to it.

And also because these videos were made some what some 8 years ago, 7 years ago, my views have sometimes changed. So what I'll do is if my views have changed, I'll highlight I'll try and highlight that. Maybe sometimes I'll forget it. There'll be an oversight, but I will try to highlight and add a bit more detail to the whole discussion. It's already very detailed, but I'll try and add um a bit more.

Cool. So that's uh what's going down people. So do check that out. Similarly, I've also put up uh a lesson on Quranic Arabic. I've got an entire course on that as well. It is by Dr. S. I mean it was based on Dr. Si's book. I don't I've got it somewhere but uh I will be airing that as well probably once or twice a week.

So all of you that have been asking to learn Arabic, now is your opportunity. I think there will be certain PDF. Um I mean the book is available if you purchase it online. But I will within the video I think there will be kind of the lesson that is being covered anyways that you can screenshot and kind of catch up with worst case scenario if that makes sense.

Cool. So don't uh forget to check that out people and spread the love. So people saying look I'm not teaching f I'm not teaching stuff. I'm putting a huge amount of you know a a plethora of resources out there. Similarly tomorrow night I will be on mine trap again. I'll have a guest. Uh, at a ra big muscles, uh, Atif, those of you that know Atif from Braum, uh, who I call the Muslim Pitbull, but the version the Muslim version of Pitbull just resembles him a bit in in his looks

and style, that's all. But the hench version, right? He's got biceps out there. I'm telling you, you know, this this is this is nothing. Like, if I was to stand next to him, I'd just be embarrassed. [laughter] Right. So, I'll have him on tomorrow night. So, do check that out. Right now. Right. I'd been asked uh somebody's asked a question. What cast do you belong to?

Whoa. [laughter] Cost question. Mhola. Who is Jat? Mola Jat. Those of you that are familiar with the Jat clan, that's us. That's what we are. We're from that. Uh which origin its origins were I think in the Punjab.

But uh a huge amount of Azad Kashmir is I I read somewhere 80% of Azad Kashmir is actually Jot and also the title that is used sometimes is chrisis but the actual thing is jut of jat uh origin. [laughter] I'm sure there's a lot of mix in there along the way, but yeah. Anyway, what is going down?

Right. So, speaking since I'm speaking about myself, right, this one people, this one, this one. Um, people have asked me, some people have watched my clip. Now, I'm going to speak about my my a bit about few words on my development. Some people have come across my clip in the past.

There's a clip around somewhere online of when I'd come back and they saw this. What the hell? And they've been absolutely shocked. Um in saying must someone said I'm a hippie Muslim because of you. [laughter] A happy Muslim because of me. Right. So, so what they' done is they'd come across uh this and it kind of shocked them that they thought well you know how can it be that let me just unm

let me just bring this over here people right so you can see they saw this picture of me right that you're going to see across the screen now. [laughter] And it kind of shocked the hell out of them that what the hell? They saw that and they thought, well, how did he go from that that thing over there to this thing over here?

[laughter] [gasps] So it really kind of surprised them and they said well you know a lot of people and this talk that I'm doing over over here uh that you can see this talk is uh it's a bit of a kind of morbid talk as it is. So I'm speaking about things like uh I think it was about death and um about kind of benefiting and seeking knowledge and things like that.

So it's had a few people kind flabbergasted over it like what the hell happened and people have thrown up their theories. What happened? How did you change? Why did you lose this iman, this faith of yours? Uh why did you uh I know and you felt you lost out in life [laughter] and they're trying to psychoanalyze me and they want to kind of they want to fit me in some kind of standard that they've got in their minds.

[snorts] So a lot of so several people and you've got the haters but you've got several people who've legitimately asked me that look what is going on what happened. So, okay. Uh, let me just shed a bit of light on that. You see, when you see that picture of me, this um the where I've I'm speaking at this conference and I've got the hat on and I had come back from my travels abroad.

I believe it was that year that that was more or less very soon after I'd kind of come back from traveling abroad. So, there's two things to focus on here. one is my look, my appearance and two is the the personality so my attitude um how I kind of behave. Okay.

So the outlook the apparent sorry the actual look in terms of my hat and wearing a hat and having a beard let's say around the sides and things like this. This was not something that I suddenly changed. It was not like one day I woke up and I just kind of just took a blade and shaved my beard and uh I took off the hat and changed my clothes and [laughter] it wasn't like that at all that what you're looking at this kind of picture it is if I

can right if I show you this right just to bring this back. Right. This what you're looking at right here. This is something this is in 2005. Yeah. It is 15 years ago from today.

It's something you know almost a lifetime ago. [gasps] Now the change people are saying, well Mui, how did you change? What what happened? Was it an event? Was it an incident? Was it this a midlife crisis? Was it something a um a lack of fulfillment, a lack of desires, a lack of I don't know what was it?

It was nothing like this. It was simply life. Life is what it was. Do you understand? It's not look you you have to understand these things that life is what happened. These things did not happen overnight. I it took years in the development my furthering [snorts] my knowledge uh consolidating my learning battling grappling with concepts discussing dialogues debates months years

of dealing with ideas dealing broadening my horizons I've read so much more since I came back I obviously I used to read there as well when I studied. I studied for something like seven years abroad. I was out of this country for more or less like seven or eight years. I was out of this country with very few visits back. Maybe I only visited it I only visited twice whilst I was away and and other than that I just stayed abroad.

I was in Damascus for you know a couple of years and I was in Pakistan. I was in Damascus I think a year and a half and then in Pakistan the rest of the time in different places. Islamabad and Karachi and now you are restricted and you a person grows with their environment. Now you will grow to certain heights depending on where you are.

As you come as you your horizons change so will your conceptual horizons. When I was back here I pursued further academic learning. I pursued a degree in psychology. I once again came across a broad range of people. Uh I pursued a degree in uh a teaching degree. I taught philosophy at Alevel.

I had to study philosophy, western philosophy in western uh institutes at university. I had to I I did a mast's. I you know spoke with my professor my uh kind of had discussions back forth, thought about things. I pondered over a lot of this psychology that I was learning and I met different people and there was a gradual conceptual u metamorphosis over those years.

I mean it wasn't something it wasn't like one day I woke up and this happened. This took years. A I mean probably I would say arguably probably about [snorts] initially four years four maybe something like that. four years uh for at least between 3 to four years to some change that you saw um it wasn't necessarily like this but it was more than probably about 60% that probably took about 3 four years when I was back all those that kind of thinking a lot of um a lot of thought went into these kind of things about what does this actually

mean confidence as well about confidence about ideas. This was incredibly important because you know when you're in the madrasa [snorts] the issue was this that you see I I was always by the way when it comes to personality when it comes to personality no it wasn't bad influence actually you know a lot of the Muslim friends I had here they were actually very traditional like they had you know long beards many of them have still got very long beards till now you A lot of my close friends still have much longer beards than me.

They still casually dress in jubas, shalwar kamies, do things like that. They're still very See, this is the thing about my circle of friends. They're not actually um you know somebody I'm not like a you know like some kind of pab for them. You understand? Like they live their own lives. They do their own thing, their own kind of spiritual growth. They're not dependent on me in any way.

So yeah, at that time I I kind of like I thought about um concepts. This thing I wanted to say about confidence in ideas. You see it hinges on your outlook. Now you see people who've watched this video clip of me speaking about death and seeking knowledge.

I'm very serious in that. So they assume they assume that that's how I used to be. You see now this is is the that they are mistaken. I was nothing that was not my persona. [laughter] I used to as much my persona was very similar to how it is now. I used to crack jokes all the time. I used to have a crazy sense of humor.

I used to have like different opinions all the time. I was a very like I was a maverick in my opinions. I was very these things were still me. But you are watching a clip where I wasn't quite one the topic was quite morbid uh and very serious about seeking knowledge. two, I was still finding myself in how to develop, how to give speeches because at that stage I was very young and I was told that if you give a speech, you can't be cracking too many jokes in a speech.

This is what I was told. Yeah. Now like I gave speeches in Pakistan, I gave speeches in my institute, I gave speeches in Arabic, I gave speeches that were televised on Pakistan TV at certain points. I remember the the home secretary of Pakistan visited our madrasa. I gave the speech in English. Now I I gave the the graduation speech in our year when we graduated in Datul hadith and there were at least 3,000 people present.

I was one of the people that gave the speech. So you see I was kind of molded and told off that don't crack jokes when you're speaking. So okay. So I I kind of inhibited that side during speech. uh during speech delivery because this is how I was told in the Madras no you're not allowed to do this when you when you give a speech you have to play play a particular part you have to put on a mask when you give a speech you have to be serious so I did so when I gave that speech I was still in that mode what happened in

the years that followed and another thing about madrasa is you know when you have your fy opinions. I used to have a lot of maverick opinions. Uh the the the [clears throat] a lot of the people around you were absolute kind of like they were people who they were absolute joy kills when it came to independent thought.

They hated people having their critical thought. the teachers, the students, they used to I mean people will tell you that even now that knew me from the madrasa days that he used to even then always have these kind of we strange opinions. It's not something I developed when I came back and even then I was very kind of out of the mold by their standards not by the UK standards but by Pakistan Madrasa standards.

But the problem was there was so much of a knock back. Every time you disagreed, people hated on you. Everybody hated on you. Now you see you live there. You don't have somewhere to go back to. You live in that institute. Your teachers are there, your you know your the fellow uh classmates are there, your friends are there. This is life.

This is the world. Now whether you like it or not and you're still young. You see, you haven't actually found yourself entirely in adulthood yet. You know, you're still searching your path. Now, facing constant criticism is harsh. It's difficult. You know, you people always telling you what the hell is wrong with you? You know, you're not allowed to think like that. This is haram.

This is you know what you're doing isali you're going becoming misled misguided and constantly getting this knock back. So you have to kind of you you're not 100% confident in always promoting these views that you have or these kind of thought uh because you're still you haven't fully matured in them.

Now when I came back here and I then had a different circle I had my circle of friends who I used to discuss religious friends non-Muslims universities taught in colleges I taught in schools I taught I gave private classes I started to mix with different am I started to read things I started to discuss with professors I started to develop like there there was a maturity in the in the confidence in promoting these views in in being true to

yourself. Now and that journey of being true to yourself, you know, to thine own self be true. This probably took me something like from that point. It may have began uh probably the year after maybe like in 2006 2007 it began properly and it would have lasted for at least a decade I feel that at least till about 2017 maybe it was a very long process you know these things it wasn't something overnight and gaining a lot of you know trust and and you know do you need

validation from other scholars don't you need valid ation. Do you need this? Don't you need this? Yeah. So, it wasn't something about, oh, you never got to, oh, you came back and your parents, you know, as a kid, your parents never let you, your parents forced you to go to Madrasa. My parents never forced me to go to Madrasa. My parents flipped when I told him I wanted to go to Madrasa. They they were really anti anti this whole me going to study.

they they weren't they weren't from this kind of scene and they didn't like that as a uh so I actually had to fight I had to put up a huge resistance to study it wasn't something easy and I was never my family were never religious anyway and I never went to Madrasa as a kid I went to normal I went to secondary school I went to a college we just chilled out did our normal stuff so it isn't so with this video in terms of personality Yes, it's developed to some extent like everybody, but it hasn't actually changed.

It's just in that video you can't tell because I was taught that this is how you give speeches. You don't crack jokes. The other thing is in terms of how I looked, yes, that has changed, but it didn't change overnight. It changed with my views over many years, spanning over a decade. But I I wanted to kind of put this out there because a lot of people have asked me, and I thought, fair enough. This is um uh you know it's something very you know it does it's I'm sure it's interesting to some people that and especially in letting them know that look it's okay [laughter] honestly what kind of a life would I be

living if I was exactly the same as I was in if my thought processes were like in 2005. If you think today, if your knowledge and your awareness and your critical skills and your the information you have and you are exactly how you were, I don't mean you've aged but not mentally since and not conceptually since 2005 or since 10 years ago or even 5 years ago.

Then what is the point of your existence? [laughter] Are you just trying to contribute carbon dioxide to the plants? I mean, what is the point of you? [laughter] [gasps] Yeah. So, cool. I hope that's uh um you know, it helps because I would say look, do not succumb to peer pressure.

Okay, cool. Guys, let's take let's get back to some of your questions uh of what's going on. Oh, I was going to give a little uh I was going to give uh uh my thoughts on some fragrances. Mufties fragrancees review. All right, people.

All right. All right. All right. Where's this? Ah, can't find it. Yeah. So, some thoughts, people, very quickly. Uh, I was going to review today some perfumes, right? An epic. You everybody's heard of this is women's. Yeah. So, Coco Madamemoiselle by Chanel, but this people was the intense.

Was it worth the hype? Those of you that haven't women, I know Eid is coming up or any other occasion, you may be considering it. So, I'll take a look at that. And also I thought well this one I'll contrast uh right so you've got let me just where is it [laughter] mon gerain we've got here I'll just speak a bit about that as well uh and people have asked me what is the best perfume what is your number one of all time for men so I have to give that to

these people, Creed Aventus. And since I was mentioning Chanel, I thought I'll bring this up very quickly. This is Chanel and Teaas for men. Uh I saw some hype about it. So what is this hype all about people? What is this about? Let's take the look, people. Take the look. All right. So uh right first of all let me just monga

right all right let me bring this up people this is something those of you I thought you know what if and let's just fragrance up some bookmarkers [laughter] right so this is something it's quite floral But oh, [laughter] it just went over there. Right. So, look at that.

That is it is a very I have to say regarding the notes, it's [snorts] a very sweet, soft, loud kind of opening to it. Straight away [snorts] you've got there's a bit of there is that lavender and a bit of that kind of floral scent, but it's not harsh. And this it has a huge kind of vanilla uh un uh base note to it.

It's very very strong, very sweet. Uh has huge longevity to it. It is definitely something that if you're into your sweet uh kind of I I use the term loud but very kind of it has a a huge uh presence to it. some, you know, if you're into the kind of like uh gourman gand uh that kind of fragrances, then this is something definitely it's Yeah, it's very uh elegant as well.

It has that kind of elegance to it. So, yeah, definitely. I mean, I would probably rate this out of 10 maybe about seven out of 10, right? This was the I know there's a bunch of them that Geren have done that this was the just the intense era perform. So, I know they've got a whole series of them, maybe about five or or so that they've kind of got slightly different uh titles to them.

But yeah, I hope that's next one people. We'll stick to the women's. Right. So, let me just check on momento. All right. So, Coco Madamemoiselle. Now, everybody, you know, my one of my number one for women's perfumes people is Coco Madameiselle. I that has to be like nine out of 10.

Okay. Now, this they ca they came up with this Chanel did the intense, but is it worth the hype, people? Right. So, I'm just going to have some Oh my god, that bounced back on my lip. [laughter] Damn, I'm going to smell off this. Bloody hell. [laughter] better avoid the the the gay quarter [laughter] in Birmingham city center.

But so right now this wow it has a very intense opening people. The opening notes there's like a like an orange a burger m strong smell to it though. It's very powerful, intense, and you can definitely smell a kind of rosy jasmine smell to it.

Okay. As it settles, it does have a bit of that kind of vanilla smell, but see, it's already like the the opening notes are already dissipating, and you can kind of see the the heart notes coming through. I mean, it's nice. Don't get me wrong.

It is good. But it is it does not compare to, you know, to the original. uh you know for Chanel to kind of go and make an intense version of Coco Madame you think that at least it should be on par with its you know with its predecessor or if not to top it. This definitely comes way below.

If I was to give the original 9 out of 10, I would give this maybe seven being generous like seven out of 10. It is nice. Don't get me wrong. It's very It does have a uh um a strong u kind of rosy smell. Maybe something a bit more mature.

I don't know. That's what I feel. But um yeah, I'm not too impressed with it since you see it's got a lot to compare with. It's trying to compare with Coco Madmoiselle and you know, you can't really uh do that. H right then people perfume of all time. This all right.

Hello. Hello. Yep, that's fine. seems to be um all right. So for the daddy perfume people, this is the one you know people ask that what is the one for men? For me it is definitely Creed Aventus. Okay, now [snorts] this I really think that this is the best thing that Cre have ever done.

They've never made anything that comes remotely close to this. The spice and wood is good, but you know, this is my utmost 9 out of 10 for men. Somebody [snorts] said the audio is rattling. All right.

Hopefully that's better now. Somebody said it's crackling. Uh hopefully that's better. Let me see. Bring up the I know you can't hear me. Uh that's because I'm [laughter] That's because I put it up. Do I still sound like the Terminator? I'll be back. I'll be back. [gasps] I take it.

Is it still It can't still be uh out there. Let me see. It's a sign. Yep. We got to start wrapping up, people. Right now, this right. Don't need a bookmarker for that. I'll just spray that on myself. See, as soon as it opens up, people, as soon as it opens up, you can smell that burger smell straight away. The burger comes right out at you.

There is a bit of that kind of pineappley kind of smell to it as well. Um, this has it. You know, the thing about this is I love how it settles. It's not so much the opening note, but more how it settles. It has that puli smell. It has this kind of like vanilla uh oak moss. But you know what? This is just it's just amazing.

It's amazing as it settles. That's in my um in my opinion. Uh I have to rate this, you know, the best of all time. Now, since I had done Chanel, I thought, what the hell, you know? So, guys, if you're looking for a perfume that you think, well, a fragrance that you think is a must, that just suits every occasion, it has to be Creed Aventus.

And there are a few counterfeits, not counterfeits, but uh a few kind of ripoff fragrances that have kind of copied the the smell. And they've done a very good job, I have to say. Very good job. Um so that is my number one with Leighton of of the House of Demali. Those two are up there. They are my absolute number one.

Um, this I came across this right by Chanel and Teas. I thought, well, all right, what's this hype about? It's something that's meant to kind of transport you back into uh the 80s or something. And right Chanel men's anteas named after the Greek god.

That is vile. [laughter] I can't stand that smell. Honestly, it's so straight away you're hit with this kind of lemony lime smell. Um there's like a a fresh I mean not f but like that kind of um I think they said there's coriander or something in there but this very strong jasminey smell that just endures that whole thing it and it lasts forever.

You know, this all it honestly what it reminded me of was simply sitting in my dad's car in in like the late 80s, early 90s as a kid. And you know, you get that kind of cheap car freshener, air freshener, that that kind of strong jasmine cheap one for like 99 p. That's what it reminds me of.

100%. I mean, this is this is Oh my god. I just can't stand it. [laughter] That would get like honestly for me as a fragrance it would be like one at best two out of 10. Uh it's called Antaus is named after the Greek god do you know the famous who was undefeated and then um uh isn't it uh Achilles I think who or is it Hercules who kills him eventually but he and his secret was you had to kind of lift him

off the ground to kill him. He was a Greek kind of god. But I don't know. It's that's nothing divine. [laughter] But that's my uh review of that people. Cool. All right. Let's move on. Let's take a few questions. And honestly, it gives me a headache that there's an absolute migraine. I've put it on that bookmarker and I've just I just hope it kind of Oh, no. That's That's a nice one.

That's a Oh, that's that uh Mon, right? So, okay, cool guys. What has been going on? Let's talk about this has been a huge topic that a lot of uh people have been asking about and that's because in Pakistan they've started airing uh grill on national TV during Ramadan.

Imran Khan thought it would be a great idea. Let's get this out there. This was arguably one of his worst decisions ever in my opinion. [laughter] Why? Let me tell you why. You see, [clears throat] you know, Pakistani people, they can't handle this kind of stuff.

Uh you see they they need something to bring them into the real world to allow them to move into the future. This kind of stuff just propels them further back into some fake nostalgic past romanticizing about some caliphate. [gasps] Do you know the the actress I I don't I can't recall her name.

I've never watched her to grill, but I've seen obviously clips of it. Who goes by the name in it. I think she's the lead actress Haleima Sultan Hale Kun or something in the uh in the in in the series. I don't know her real name now. She's obviously a huge hit with all the men in Pakistan and they're like wow this you know she's so they've all taken to her Twitter page and her Instagram page and they started she's her following has just surged but the crazy thing is that they are shocked as hell

because these people are not Islamic in real life. [laughter] So, they've gone on her Instagram page and she's there chilling in her short dresses, in her skirts, in her, you know, doing as as these actresses do on Instagram, posing and, you know, kind of doing all her, you know, maybe wearing something very sexy in some picture or something else. And and they're like, "Huh? To

[laughter] uh uh Madame Khalifa? [gasps] So, somebody said her real name is Ezra. Ezra. Okay, that's a interesting name, right? So, they're like, "What the hell is uh Miss Khalifa doing?" Miss Khalifa.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. This one's going to be mistaken with another [laughter] mistake. Mistake mist in case you guys start searching miss Khalifa [laughter] and Khalifa. Mia Mia being the the pronoun suffix of mine in Spanish.

my my in case you end up with my Khalifa. [laughter] [gasps] So they're thinking what is uh uh what is this Amira doing on Instagram showing her legs and showing this and showing her top and you know dressed all in certain clothing.

Toba my mother. [laughter] So they've started preaching to her in saying uh uh and they so I've seen some of these things where they're saying uh I've watched people's reviews of it where they're saying uh they address her by her igral title of you should be ashamed of yourself miss please to do toba please to we do dua for you may Allah this is no good you know representing Islam in good way your clothing from much better.

[laughter] I bet she's not going to walk around in the 1500 medieval dress, is she? [laughter] This is the worst thing that Iran Khan has [clears throat] possibly done in his entire career. Now you've just got a bunch of people who want to set up some kind of Ottoman caliphate and they can't distinguish between reality and drama.

And they're thinking what is uh our doing [laughter] now? They want to uh take her from her her level straight up to the you know the the want to take her there straight away overnight in saying what's that if if [snorts] only if only you were the sultan in the [laughter] you teasing me you naughty naughty right so

Now the this is the problem. And then when they've seen the the main the lead actor uh Khalifas [laughter] Khalifas's chilling on the beach and he's with his sunglasses and he's chilling there in his shorts and and people are like [laughter] People [laughter] are doing dua for them that may Allah return their iman to the da that it was upon inra

[laughter] and you're like this was no baba noi this is a drama you know this one so god damn this is the worst thing to have ever Um, mus Muslims need to be shown drama and things like this on how to progress with Islam about Muslims who are comfortable in their skin as Muslims in in the current world.

Not about some fake, you know, uh, thing about the father of the Ottoman Empire from so long ago, the rise of the Soljuks. I mean, it's entertainment. I get that. But the problem is these people are seeing it as fact and they're seeing it as an aspiration. So, yeah, this is an absolute I think a disaster.

But that's my thoughts on it. Anyway, somebody said there may be uh some positives. There are a lot of positives from the drama. Yeah, perhaps. Perhaps. You know what it is? I can't really It's not my kind of thing. I I've not watched it. I can't really I'm sure if I did watch it, it'd be okay. But, you know, I don't like all this kind of like I think one of the reason Muslims watching it so much is it's giving them an excuse to watch something.

Like they want to watch something and now they're like, "Ah, this is ours." Like, it's Muslim. I think, look, there's awesome TV series. If you want to watch them, they're already there. It's on Netflix. It's on Prime. [laughter] Watch them. That's what you call TV series. This Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Gangs of London. Oh, McMafia.

[laughter and gasps] This stuff. What the hell is this? Yes. I can't really be bothered with all this kind of nostalgia of like, oh, the medieval times. But yeah, but I'm sure I'm not I'm not hating on the show. I'm sure, you know, if you like it, fine. I mean, that's amazing. Um, right. Right. All right. So, Money Heist, obviously epic, of course.

It's [laughter] right. So, I've seen all of Ozark as well. That's amazing. Right, people? Let's uh do a few quick uh catch up of Eid. What to do on Eid? People are uh freaking out. What do we do on Eid? I thought, well, okay, let's just recap some of the rules for you guys. Now I'll give you some simple uh some of the simple Eid is coming up and it is permissible to pray at home okay and I'm going to explain that in just a moment very quickly and just go through some of

the differences okay on how to pray as well. So I thought I'll just quote it from this. He's done a nice way of uh he's kind of sequenced it pretty well. He is a chef and from the Ottomans obviously around shortly after but yeah why not on this occasion we'll use a What the hell? What the hell man?

What the hell? So they all all the scholars uh they you know they definitely legislate they accept Eid as a um as a ritual prayer they disagree about its ruling you know sometimes I have to read it from here you know if I don't read people say you know can mut even [laughter] I have to, you know, this time I have to this one show the public, you know.

[laughter] [laughter] [gasps] [laughter] Right. So, so here according to imanif um he gets this wrong says but that's not uh the m he made a mistake mistake mistake mistake

so it's according to and Ahmed said so what is the ruling to do with Eid generally that's the difference of opinion But it's sunnah. Okay, I'm just giving it to you. Um, Abu Hanifh he does mention said, "Oh, its conditions are you have to be in a city. There has to be blah blah blah blah blah." This is irrelevant stuff.

Don't really worry too much about it. as he says so im Malik and Im said there's no problem in people praying on their own uh whether men or women can pray on their own okay so that's the ruling yes you can pray at home on your own that's always been a thing within the Maliki m and the m Right.

So what about how do you pray? Well, we know it has some extra Allahbar. So what is that all about? Well, so they all agree that you have to do to start off and they disagree on what comes after that. He says three in the first and three in the last and Ahmed says

five in the first and six uh sorry I said that backwards six in the first five in the second he said seven in the beginning. So now and Ahmed say between each you do you glorify but Malik and Abu Hanifh said [laughter]

nah mate you just do and the difference between this is based on some of the hadith in how they saw the prophet how some people described the prophets some people said they saw the prophet doing seven as he began uh the Eid prayer and then just started reciting. Now because with the maliky you don't have a dua when you open the salah. You don't say subhanah or anything like that. You just say alhamdulill.

So you start straight away. So they saw that the first would have obviously been the to start the prayer. The six that followed were the forid. The im would have thought mistakenly. [laughter] They would have thought ah seven they must all be extra. So because the sheets have a dua when you open salah.

So they obviously start with Allahbar then they read a dua like subh. So now to them they would have read this then did seven assuming the person is saying they were seven but the first of those seven the first one was actually for opening the prayer and it wasn't the um of of Eid right then when do you do them

and said that you these methods that you do before you do recitation in both you get up or you know as soon as you begin and you do the and then you start recitation alhamdulillah now when you get up the second time same thing that's however However, Abhanifa said, "You know what?

You mix it up a little. Shake it up. Shake it up." He said, "On the first one, you'll do it before uh but in the second one, you'll do it after recitation before going into." So, remember, it's only three with the and do and you do. Okay? So, you do. Now, generally, they all accept that you do. Now Malik in wonder why says you don't do apart from for the first for starting salah but all the other Malik you've got you've got other people um

you you've got the um abdus and uh you've got a lot of all the other malikia generally transmit that you you can do you know okay so it's in the it's in um as well in his maj that's that's the as well that it's to do so you do Allahbar you raise the hands okay now then there's just to touch upon one two of the points what if you missed prayer do you have to make it up

you do not do said but Ahmed said and was kind of had both opinions now right okay now they do disagree should you pray outside if you have an opportunity but since it's in lockdown I won't go too much into that but they generally all say that except the they say if you can do it in the masid and the masid is large enough then that's better okay there you go sometimes you got to read from the book just so so people know you're literate [laughter] [gasps] Otherwise people start to think yeah you know I don't know whether Miy can even

read. So in simple terms we will pray Eid at home on your own. You can follow an imam virtually. If you are you can do that that's fine. Uh even if you do it on your own you can. It's just two you before beginning you can um I mean you know you can do some etc things like this but you begin the main thing is you begin if you're doing it on your own there isn't going to be aud prayer okay so you just do two and you

begin according to the malik you begin you do kind of like you do Allahbar then six extra and You just pray normally in the second rakah you stand up uh once you've stood up you do five extra and then just carry on normally the difference with the hafi which is widespread in the UK is they don't do they just do three extra on each raqa in the first raqa they'll do three in the beginning so when you start you said your dua before you read fata you do three in the second you get up as normal you start reading fata surah then you do three and then you go going to

rur. That's what it is. If you miss it, you don't need to make it up. Relax. And yeah, I think that pretty much covers it. If you if you are praying with an imam and you've missed the imam has done them, then you can just catch up so long as you're in the same. If you've missed it all together, don't worry about it. Okay? But uh if you can make if you can catch it in that raka, just catch it.

Just do it yourself. Okay? if you can. That's if you're praying behind an im. All right. Other than that, we've got the ruling on. Yes. Um you can uh can be given in cash. It doesn't have to be food. And you can give it it is an average like the cost of I don't know is it something like about £45 maybe £450 4 something like that.

Uh it's per head. Okay. So each person of the household even if it's a child they this much amount is given per capita. Okay. So you will whoever the per whoever the responsible person will give for everyone in their family. Okay. And you can give that to charity. You can give that before Eid or on Eid. Okay. I hope that wraps things up. What about the dua and hugging people and things like that?

Obviously, you've got social distancing going on. But if you are hugging people wherever you are in the world, that's fine. If you say things like you can say that im Malik was asked what do you you know people say is this okay? He said look it's not something the prophet did but he said I see no problem with you know these kind of practices. It's all good people. It's all good. I thought I'll uh put that out there.

Okay. Right now we got to start wrapping this up. Oh, there was something I'd come across people for right now. I'd come across this upset tweet, not tweet post [laughter] in the masala segment by Asim Kureshi.

Now he had made a post saying I am so upset like he was so upset about what Hamza Yusf Shikh Hamza Yusf had said. So what is it that she Hamza Yusf had said? Uh and it's to do with the lockdown and domestic violence. I mean first of all domestic violence is haram in Islam. To to to beat a woman uh is haram.

the the verse in in surah Misa verse 34 that the the verse in there is very clear in the comment in the commentaries it's very clear that that that that has nothing to do with violence um that any any physical act of violence against a woman or don't forget women actually are also abusive about close to 30% of all domestic violence in in America is is women uh actually against men.

So men men are also abused uh physically and a lot of men and I'm one of them you know because I've never hit a woman and and and like I grew up learning that that you do not hit women. Um and and and so there are there are men who actually will be uh their their [snorts] wife or their spouse or or whoever will get violent with them and they won't fight back.

And and and ER doctors know this because they've seen men who come to ER with boiling water had been poured on them uh when they were sleeping [snorts] or something like that because of some these domestic disputes. So it's it's not just the women but the majority undeniably the majority uh of of you know around 66% in the US I don't know what the stats are in UK are are are women.

So the majority of of of uh victims of domestic violence are women and unfortunately even uh murders that are spousal they're usually uh perpetrated the man against the woman. So this is a human problem. It's been a problem for a very very long time. Um what people should fear God and and know that Allah subhana wa ta'ala is is uh is over them and uh even in the verse and this part this person this individual took offense to is is is uh is over them immediately after that bec for that very reason.

So you know I I just no woman should feel insecure uh in her home. No woman should have that feeling. The house in Arabic, the word in Arabic is musk, which is the place of sakina. And the Quran when it talks about in sorry that's coming when it talks about uh the reason why God created the man and the woman uh one of the reasons was that that you find tranquility in your spouse.

uh and so there should be sikina in the home and if there's not that home is not practicing the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam we know that the prophet never raised his hand to hit a woman a child or a servant and that's in the hadith so the sunnah of the prophet is never to raise his hand against a woman a child or a servant and if you're doing that you're not following the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam so I I would just remind people of that I I mean, one of the interesting verses in the Quran in surah Mariam, you know, where where Mary when when the enunciation happens and she sees the angels, she she seeks

refuge in Allah and then she says in you know if you have tawa I mean when you're in a situation like it's if the person has an ounce of piety in their heart and that woman reminds them that should be something that stops them from from doing that. But women have a right um to to to to be safe and secure in their homes.

And I would just add to this and this is a very understand that your husbands right now are probably in in in there's anxiety, there's concern about, you know, their jobs, where they're going. These are all real and they create an immense amount of mental stress. And so it's very important that a woman understand that especially if she's being provided for generally by that husband.

I mean sometimes both spouses are working and that's very different situation. Um but when the husband is the is the main provider for the household, it's very important that the woman really help him in that as his partner and just be a source of solace for him. And and because some some uh relationships you can have uh unfortunately people that are always complaining or they're or or they just go the person or they push buttons you know as they say in modern parliament you know like and some spouses whether it's male or

right so that part that you could see there that's what's kind of triggered that [snorts] uh this uh what is it aimi who's I'm not sure if he's the founder, but he's uh definitely uh in like a one of the lead figures of the cage um organization. So, and he says that look, oh my god, this is and he's quoting Hamza Ysef and he's saying this is really awful advice [laughter] and victim blaming.

I can't believe he actually just said that. Now, this is why I made you guys watch the whole clip because I was like, well, if I don't do that, you won't know exactly what's being said. [laughter] So, in essence, Aimi is just trying to do this to Hamza Ysef. Hamza Yusf is the kid, [laughter] right?

So, I mean I honestly let's just get let's just get real here. [snorts] Right. I'm just going to bring up sorry your uh comments just disappeared for a moment right now. Let's just get real that I mean without this is without any kind of hate or anything nothing like that but let's just be real like the organizations like the cage which are seen as uh sympathetic to extremists [laughter] and by the media they're dubbed as obviously like terrorists or terrorist

supporters. This is how they're dubbed, right? So, and whether they I'm not saying that they are terrorist supporters, but they're definitely sympathetic to uh many people who have been part of that extremist narrative. So, they're sympathetic to them. Now, come on, let's be real. [laughter] How can you be jumping off all people how could two things one first of all how can you be misrepresenting somebody like let's say she who said many things in the past which have been so controversial you could have easily picked him up on something like that you

know if you hate on him let's say he said so many things and you could trip him up on oh my god he said this and this this thing and huge controversies in the past and about the Syrians and this and that and But seriously, to misrepresent him on this [laughter] and then to cry that the media in the West misrepresent Muslims like let's say like their organization and other people all the time, they're going to say, "Well, why do these med these media always quote us out of context?

They always misrepresent us." And then this is exactly what you're doing. [laughter] This is the problem with Muslims, you know, these kind like the problem is that we're always in such a state of like victimhood like that, oh, we're always victims, we're always and they just turn, you know, from victim to oppressor within a split second.

They look any opportunity they get, they will do exactly the same thing that they loathe towards other people. And it's shocking. And and the second layer which was which I found so hilarious was [laughter] [gasps] that how let's say uh I mean I'm sure Asim Kureshi isn't representative of the whole cage thing but definitely a part of it. How can he let's say like saying something like this oh my god how can you say this to women?

I mean I think it's a bit late to jump on the me too bandwagon. [laughter] and try and win the feminist vote. I mean, for God's sake, [laughter] you know, from like extremism sympathizing to let's try. I know. Let's try and get the the women's votes as well, the feminist vote. That's just No, no, no.

[laughter] No, no, no. [laughter] I just found that hilarious. I thought, "Oh my god, when I saw that, I thought, this is so hilarious." uh how could this actually, you know, like [laughter] to try and appease to to like the feminists in uh in this, you know, especially when it's so obvious that you're not Oh my god.

Anyway, people, I think we've uh Sic, you're doing it, man. Much love. Much love right at you. Right. Uh [laughter] That's it, people. Spread the fittan and facade. That's it. That's it. Cool. All right, let's wrap this up, guys. It's been way was there anything that I had to cover that hasn't Meanwhile, there was u I I ain't going to share that, but I have heard that there may be a debate going on.

You know, sometimes I try and keep on keep tabs of what's going on on the Muslim scene. So, I think uh Imam Aim and maybe the Shia, I don't know. I've seen a few videos floating about. I don't know whether there's going to be a debate. Fight fight. Debate. Debate. Debate. [laughter] Not. People behave. Acting like a bunch of kids. [laughter] No. So, well, cool.

But I don't think I've left anything. Nope. It's all good, guys. As always, right? If you need to reach out to me, do so. All the platforms are there. You know, I keep saying these things, but you know, it's like then they're like, you know, you know, I had somebody damn, I wanted to share that actually. Somebody uh tagged me in their status on Instagram saying, you know, I used to despise.

These were his words. I used to despise Mui before. Uh but now after a few years, I I've realized I actually kind of like him. He's he's funny [laughter] even though I still disagree with him theologically like in beliefs. [laughter] He said, "But how do you say?" Yeah. I I I but now after years I've realized I like his humor.

I thought aa then like why does Miy [laughter] Guys, as always, much love. If you need to reach out, here are the platforms. Do like, click the notification bell, people, so you keep so you're kept updated. Releasing videos daily.

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