Meetup With Shaykh A R.Ghauri | Difference Between The Prophet’s Preferences And Religious Rulings

we've got Rahman Rory yeah how are you doing you're good I'm good I'm good I'm good how are you keeping alhamdulillah it's like uh 10 10 to 5 in Germany so yeah

vampires this is this is it awake at these Godly hours yeah you know when I when I when I always when people ask me especially my relatives they're like why why are you so active at night and stuff and it's not good to be funny and I'm like you've been telling me stories of some old Bazaar nice people and Pious people who've been awake the whole night so when I say I'm awake you know why is it bad but yeah because you're awake streaming Netflix

[Laughter] don't worry it happens to the best of us right now I just gotta stream all these others and just catch up with um uh again you're you're nice Allah was really really nice and uh especially you know you said uh I lost about um you know what the prophet said and what he said in you know normal life and stuff because a lot of people confused

that verse they literally teach you the mosque everyone in general people and the the uh the imams and the most they teach you that everything the prophet said out of his tongue is from God you know so it's like a wahi so one sense it is pre-planned but people think everything he says is Deen and that's where the problem with Hadith comes as well which you hide a few times because that's a that's a very good point and and karafi for people who want to read

that you can read karafi having this discussion because it's really uh the because this you see using that verse from Surah Allah saying that the prophet does not utter from his whims it is but Revelation revealed unto him now sure now that that's absolutely but that is speaking about them calling his Revelation nonsense like the the kufar of quraish are saying that he's making this up

and Allah is responding by saying that this is not you know this is not him making this up this is being revealed unto him so this is very different to people saying like so for example let's say the prophet is now chopping he's buying food or he's sitting at home uh or he's saying can you pass me this can you do this or he's just having a conversation uh how are you what's going on just day-to-day things these things are not Revelation these things are just normal lives the prophet salallahu is living

his life and and it really comes becomes clear in those examples we those companions ask him that because that's the best that they make it very clear because it's like the woman saying burritas the prophet saying Marie Marie because Marie used to follow her around in the streets and he was obsessed with her and people used to say that you know what's hey look at him which is interesting because you had a man following around a woman who is not married to and everybody would say check him out check him out and they would all see it and this was going on in Medina

and even the prophet saw it and it was a well-known thing because he was obsessed and madly in love with her and so the prophet even said because he came and he asked the prophet please you know if you ask her and the prophet said look what just marry marith and she says oh is this revelation and the prophet says no it's just a yeah it's no he says I'm just saying it because you know it's just a suggestion and she says no in that case certainly not I definitely won't I mean she says and the prophet actually says uh not in that same thing but he says to the people

when they say that isn't it so mad look how madly he is in love with her he chases her around look there he's going right now and the prophet says isn't it mad that his gosh like how his obsession like how the energy that he brings in loving her is equally met with the energy she brings for hating him and the prophet says isn't that like isn't it like crazy how that they they're bringing opposite energies of the same strength yeah and everything is the same issue if you

think about it it's the same issue with with Sunnah right which you have brought up as well in the last three years I guess a lot of times I've heard you like what you've said like a lot of people can't differentiate between the Sunnah of the Prophet which he did as a other as a habit or which he did for time and place and which religion and the funny thing is people criticize you or me generally always because I bring that up and I say there are two kinds of Sunnah if you take it but then the funny thing is you know yourself

they don't a lot of them don't wear hats and then a lot of them they don't yet they don't recognize the house especially they wear turbans and they say the same thing about turban but when we say turban entropy and maybe uh some other things then they of course take it like uh that that's too much now you know so I think the you know the issue is sure that it's uh and by the way we gotta I gotta get you onto a Mind Trap okay so I and we are gonna do that so we are on WhatsApp now so that uh we'll sort that over there so you see the

thing is that I think people find it really difficult at what point do they draw the line exactly with devotion yeah like I'm devoted to something I really want to do it at what point do I draw the line in saying look it's okay I'm doing I I don't have to make you do it you know like if you see it differently okay it doesn't change my devotion like if a person wants to wear a hat let's say now first of all the prophet salallahu didn't used to wear a heart because

Hearts were not the customs of the Arabs um they did wear turbans though so now okay but the prophet never exclusively wore a turban the Arabs as a whole War turban so including quraish including the mushrikeen everybody whatever it's just all Arabs were turbans so here there was a question that okay technically the prophet often kept his hair covered often um now did he do this because everybody did it in Arabia mostly I mean most people sorry most

people did it it was a custom or did he do it because Islam said now the prophet never any never taught us anywhere that we need to cover our heads okay so that's fine this is why the Maliki method does not say that covering your head is some now or anything Imam Malik and this this is the Maliki method but okay what if we decide to cover our head out of love for the prophet because he covered it so this is now a different issue so this is saying look okay I've recognized this is not something it's not in the Quran it's not something that Islam brought introduced but because the prophet

always did it so let's say for example and I love the prophet so much so what if I did something a bit similar it's like how people would say today like you'd see in non-muslims and other people like celebrities people love celebrities you know they love Michael Jackson so they might curl their hair like Michael Jackson they might say I'm going to do this so people say well look we love the prophet so much so I'm going to do something extra that he used to do so let's say he liked dates which is of course beautiful it's something commendable of course and exactly but that then not knowing where

to draw the line in that devotion because that devotion is a personal thing exactly yeah it's not Islam has not even asked you to do it but you if you do it the near the fact that you have this much love for the prophet that is highly commendable and that Nia is something which we celebrate that intention and we say that you know Allah blesses you blesses that intention but the action in and of itself is not an Islamic action so just as the prophet for example uh he you know lived in Arabia so if a person says well I'm going to live in Arabia because the prophet lived in

Arabia now Islam has not asked them to go and move to Arabia but if they did it that's them that's not an Islamic act that might be their personal devotion as a person they're doing it Islam has not asked them but sure their intention is a different thing but it doesn't make the ACT Islamic and I think this differentiating here is where a lot of these people find it difficult it becomes too cloudy like they think well because it's being celebrated the intention therefore the ACT has become Islamic

and and I think unfortunately as well this miss this is a misplaced love it is a love but it's a misplaced love there was this this discussion okay I do but I do admit I think it was too much for the people to handle what I said but there was a discussion we were discussing exactly that topic and uh and you know they said that yeah but it's still a sign of a Muslim if you walk like this and if you have a job and this you know you can I'm sure you can you have you've been in that position where you just look at those people who are discussing with you and you're like

this is so much stupidity these arguments how which one shall I tackle first and I just burst it out and I said yeah but you do know that whatever you know the signs you're describing were the same wore the same things clothes here the clothes of the of the clothes of the Prophet were just the clothes of his time he never like so it wasn't that the prophet yeah so for example when let's say strangers or people came from Persia and these places they couldn't tell who the prophet was he wasn't distinguished in the sense that he wasn't somebody that wore a

particular child like you could tell or that person is like the the VIP he wasn't he was just well what everybody wore we just were Arabs wore and so there's nothing Islamic about that about being an Arab but obviously the love is in its own place but then we and I think this is more difficult for us you know like this is sometimes to differentiate because they yeah and I think sometimes some groups you know maybe with their whatever like I said it's a misplaced love and they've they've kind of pushed

it so hard like uh people like sometimes the tablet yeah they've kind of pushed things like this so hard in saying that everything is a Sunnah sitting on the floor is the sun uh you know not using a spoon is a Sunnah because the prophet never used to spoon you know using it like they've just they've just turned everything and that's the problem like for example especially when you live in a country like Germany like of course in in England it's a bit different if if you don't mind me saying because I've lived there for like yeah five years or seven years um but in England it's still like the

indoor pack have dominated the Muslim scene over there so that's when you see Birmingham or you see like Blackburn or Leicester on some parts of London they have like enough have dominated everything so sometimes the the thinking over there is very okay regions Park Mosque is different but except of that you know a lot of East London and stuff but like in our communities here for example Germany or Italy Netherlands because Arabs there are a lot of Arabs there are a lot of Turkish people so you see I've grown up with every single mother that's so hard for me every time I used to come back

from me questioned every mother and I didn't know of course so I had to get prepared you know and every mother and I remember to move this up where this small incident like that's the thing that happened so many times there was an Arab and he uh like in in Pakistan or like Afghan Afghani people or like uh uh from Bangladesh and stuff they don't put the Quran even in the mosque they don't put it on the carpet they put it on the Shelf

carpet we not on the floor you know so they won't even that they won't Arabs don't they just do like for example they're reading Quran and there is a sajjada part which comes they do a sujood and then for once yeah yeah and there was this guy I'm not saying I'm not saying all Arabs but I have seen that in several Arab countries then there was a fight because there was one guy he came and there was a fight that's just like I mean he said shame on yourself how can you put the Quran on the floor and he's like there is nothing wrong when putting on the cup and he's

like oh stuff Allah and you you're doing this to the Quran you don't have any respectful and of course Arabs are hot blooded and he was like how dare you saying I don't have respect for the Quran you know there was sometimes this is done with what happens is you get this reactionary uh sometimes okay so there's two different things here one is just like somebody like a pure innocence like somebody's in a Masjid it's not a dirty place it's a very clean Place nobody walks in with shoes on even in the Arab world people don't go in with shoes and it's a very clean carpet and they're sitting in the themselves on the floor and they then think look they're

holding a must-have and then because they're about to pray they just you know there's no nothing nearby they just put it on the floor next to them on the prayer mat and they just pray now obviously in the Desi world we generally wouldn't do that because people we would see that as like oh no this is very disrespectful but but okay to them that's fine this is a nice clean place this is a prayer mat I'm putting it on there but then I've also seen in my time I've seen people maybe to make a point of there's nothing wrong with putting the Quran down doing that on purpose I remember many years back there used to be that where people used to it that way

in the city centers and used to have some of the very kind of like passionate you know back then the salaries that were like we're doing that one very passionate and stuff so and I I remember in Birmingham I remember the the outside the library the old library they used to have these steps and people used to do that with it and so back then I was just a teenager and I was really impressed by these people because obviously all these people had embraced Islam and they were many of them were converts as well so I do excuse them that you know that I'm sure they they have probably had only been Muslim maybe a year or something but they you know they had the whole

Garb the whole gear the proper the Saudi scarves and preaching they knew the Arabic with they knew much more than me about Islam back then I was just a teenager they would say you know I I don't know any of this I was like I don't no idea what you're talking about but I remember that they like while speaking they would read from the Quran and stuff and we to be honest I'd never even read the Quran in English at that point as a kid and these people know these verses and they can quote it and I was so kind of wild and and then they would just get the quranas put it on the floor by the steps of the thing and they would just carry on and

and I remember actually as a kid I mean as a teenager I actually went to them and said that I remember saying to them that look uh I mean I must have been about maybe about 17 or something so I said to them that oh look you know brother you know can you like I tried to pick it up and they said to me what are you doing and I said that you know oh this you know did you this is on the floor and they said you what about it and and I said that you know oh you can't put the Quran on the floor it's like why not what's wrong it's a book like obviously I'm not disrespecting putting on the floor like in and I remember they would do that consistently he wasn't like just a and I

don't know whether that was but this sometimes there's this kind of almost a Bravado to say well you know to say here that maybe you cultural people are kind of too wrong with your culture so we're gonna go the other way to prove a point uh and and of course I do take into consideration that this is only you know this is a small sample I can't say this is representative of all salaries that do that or anything but these were some people that I saw and yeah but yeah the thing in the Masjid I can imagine a lot of fights breaking out that time

if people come to you and then you have to you know calm down first both of them and stuff and uh so it is it is a very fun and games huh yeah and then one guy came and he said uh everyone and he he got criticized because he used to pray is Sunnah at home so people were like you know he's happy because yeah means you have Madness the other way you know you have this thing that in the other way home where people and then they will also make you do nothing and you got to to you know if

you don't do a certain amount of nuff I'll pray then you're not uh you know like people go the other way as well like with their strictness and uh imposing I suppose especially here I mean maybe not so much in Germany but they they'll have this this cultural stuff like a person like this salai 17 record and if you don't do all these then you're a wahhabi basically if you're not praying all of these and he said to them listen and Sunnah I can pray at home it's okay the prophet is to do it and then they said oh my God he's a wahhabi Wabi and then you know to calm the people down is like map is coming at

uh you know referring to me it's like a jummah he's gonna do so after the will go to him and we'll clear this matter and everyone was like okay okay okay so it's like I'll show you I'm not happy that they went there and after Dubai they came to me made a circle and they're like yeah we have a question I'm like what's up and he's like yeah I used to pray I pray my uh sooner at home and stuff and I told them and they said surprising me and I looked at everyone and I'm like no no it is and then I said see after the mosque and then people were like Imam [Laughter]

so what happened to you that's it you probably have a lot of guests so no uh well I might just take one more and then wrap this up today but yeah but we gotta catch up take it stay blessed much louder from Germany all right so