Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth | Session 42

As-salamu alaykum, folks. Let me just straighten this up. Uh the intricacies, uh the intricacies. Right now, just share it from here. Mhm. Let you guys

So, just going to share this onto my other page. If my phone decides to respond, All right. Almost done.

All right. So, All right. Amani. Ahlan wa sahlan. Right. Michael Schmitz has already asked a question. So, we're getting almost stuck writing. So, Sunny K, wa alaykum as-salam.

Inna alhamdulillah wa kafa wa salat wa salam ala rasul al-mustafa wa ala ibadihi alladhina irtada wa man bi hudahum ihtada wa bi athari ahl al-madina iqtafa wa ba'd fa salam Allahi ala al-qawm ahlan wa sahlan bikum Bilal my just logging in. Ahlan wa sahlan. Bilal my bien venidos.

Uh people asking uh about what Zorenly Uh they're on a break. They're on a break. Chilling. Living the life. Right. Wa alaykum as-salam, people. Wa alaykum as-salam. Namaskaram. Achha. Pranam. Pranam. Sab ko pranam meri taraf se. Right. So, Yeah, those people that are of uh have been affected by the by by the hurricane in in America, you know, may Allah make things easy for them and grant them assistance.

May he replace their difficulties. Amen. I can't even really imagine begin to imagine what they must be going through, but America Obviously, this is a recovering that the whole weather thing, especially um in the southern part of America. And I'm not sure what strategies they have in place, but yassir Allah fi kulli hal. May Allah grant them ease. Our thoughts and duas are with them.

Right. I'm just trying to Mhm. Where are my I'm trying to look for something to be able to rest safely my All right. That's all right. Look at that, people. There it is, right Can you see those ice blocks right there? All right. That's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking about. You see those ice blocks?

See What's a drink without ice? It doesn't make any sense. Right. So, And this this is a gadget I saw online. I was like, "Wow! Ice blocks so massive." I was like, "Hell yeah." I tell you I I'm one of those people that if you were selling gadgets, you'd have me hooked.

I think I should I think I should speak to my therapist about that. Right. Hot drink. Hell no, this ain't a hot drink. This is cold. Hell yeah, that's an iceberg. That's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking about, people. So, how have you all been? It's been an interesting week, I have to say.

Uh I was really exhausted. I was yesterday contemplating on postponing today because but today alhamdulillah because I was kind of got I suppose a reasonable amount of rest, I was okay. But um yesterday Whoa! A whole day of a course went down, people. A whole day of a course went down.

In the blessed company of uh uh of Sheikh Akram Nadwi. Those of you that are not acquainted with the Sheikh, he is from Oxford, England. A legend. Um All right. Vamos con la escuela Maliki. All right. That's what I'm talking about. There is no other way except the Maliki way.

Right. So, that This was a course on demonic possession debunking demonic possessions and black magic. And so, it was incredibly important and there were there were some follow-up very interesting questions to to answer as well afterwards because I mean that were first of all related to these topics and then they opened up to anything in general and it ended up dealing with the concept of um the caliphate and its relevance.

Um Is there such thing as an obligation? Obviously not negating that, but in in a bit more detail and uh the concept of hudud, capital punishments, and how they can change with the day and age, and also the concept of uh choosing opinions that create ease. Um So, that's um something that went down yesterday.

The whole The main event was obvious This was the Q&A section in the end, but the main event was in two blocks. First of all, dealing with demonic possessions and then debunking that that there is no such thing as demonic possessions, looking at all the evidences, and then the fact that of magic debunking the concept of this fantasy magic that unfortunately many Muslims believe in.

Uh from the Quran wa Sunnah and dealing with any problems there. So, it was excellent. It was divided uh between me and Sheikh Akram Nadwi. So, it was going back forth back forth. And we will be editing that. I think it will take about 2 weeks. Uh and then following that we will share it, inshallah. Okay? Other than that, uh some of you saw my oil Snapchat kind of video.

Well, it's good to see that you guys have a sense of humor. Alhamdulillah. I can't You know, sometimes I just can't believe the things that people will push off under the banner of Islam. Uh it's so Ah! It drives you insane. The things people will say. And Speaking of uh what people try to push off as Islamic.

Whilst we're still on the topic of such uh exotic oils for that enlarge certain body parts, male body parts. I came across a clip, right, of uh the infamous um dawa man.

And I will like to maybe speak about it at some point. Trying to guide the the Muslims towards etiquette on sexual engagement and how to what he feels are the true Islamic Islamic Islam Allah Quran wa Sunnah Allah the Islamic positions that can be adopted dur- during sexual intercourse.

This is what we've ended up with, people. This is what we have ended up with. So, got some interesting things to go through today, inshallah wa ta'ala. Inshallah ta'ala. I need to I need to incorporate some of those styles. A lollipop. A lollipop. How would you like this lollipop? Would you?

But anyway, we'll come back to to that. Right, folks. I will be switching alternating between the questions, some of which have already been been posted and others which you guys are sending in here. Yeah, so Right. Feel free to whilst this is is running live, share this, people, inshallah, to maximize the benefit for others to learn a more You know, because it I have to say it it disheartens me sometimes to see the amount of insanity

that I see from these people. And yet the amount of the kind of circulation, the the kind of uh backing that such idiots still have even though they push absolute ludicrousy. You know, this just under the banner of Islam.

And then you think, "Well, why don't What about normal Muslims that what what Why are normal Muslims still supporting those kind of things? So, let's get some Let's get the voice of reason out there, people. A true understanding of Islam that stems right back to the school of Medina, the enlightened city, the city of the messenger of Allah So, yep.

So, that's it. So, feel free to post your questions You can click on that wherever it is that share thing and get this out there. Let people join in and maximize in Allah the Right, so where are we? Where are we? What's Please explain the context of this verse. Yeah, I mean this Right, so we

start straight in jump straight in, people. Jump straight in. Seka Maui has asked the question. You see, this has a context where Muslims are being urged to remain steadfast. Okay, they're being asked to have compassion whenever a movement or any anything begins, what is important Right, can see some people sharing it away.

Some other people all some people. That's what I want to see. Not people sharing idiots like what I've spoken about. Share some of this kind of stuff. That's what I'm talking about. In Allah Right, so let me just put this on mute. Right, so now this whenever any kind of movement or anything begins, what is important is that there is a a strong affinity amongst the people in the beginning.

And I mean that the affinity must remain, but the the first recipients of or of any movement are always or any organization or Islam, you could same applies to Islam or anything in life, they are a make or break deal. Okay, so everything hinges upon them. So, the same thing with the companions and this is why they were reminded at that particular point when when especially when certain Muslims were threat non-Muslims were threatening some of the Kuffar were threatening the Muslim community and thereby the Islamic existence.

So, they were reminded that if you must be if you that you must be steadfast even if it means being firm against those who disbelieve against you and are threatening you whilst remaining compassionate and merciful amongst yourselves. So, that's the understanding of that verse. Seka, I hope that helps. In Allah Right, so A question on is it permissible to cut your hair in the 10 days of Hijjah?

Right, now such carries out should refrain from cut You see this this Hadith that states that if you whosoever chose to um Was that a train? Is that what you're asking? No, that's actually an airplane.

For some reason, it's low flying close to where I live. I mean not totally low flying, but it's still Right, so now This Hadith that whosoever wish to set forth a sacrifice or whosoever would be sacrificing, let him refrain from um Let him refrain from trimming his nails and cutting his hair and doing stuff like that.

You have to understand how this Hadith was understood by people. Some people took this literally and that is the Hadith. Other schools of thought did not take this in that understand They understood that the prophet um Muhammad was addressing those people who were upon who were who were performing the Hajj.

Not Muslims altogether. And other Muslims may do that almost be him. Okay, so in a way of trying to simulate them, they could do that. All right, start show cut Right, so Now, this is what the Hadith is speaking about where it says Sheikh Abdul All right, people.

Sheikh Abdul from London. All right, so this is what the Hadith is speaking about when it says that to refrain from trimming your nails or from cutting your hair and stuff like this, it's speaking about primarily and the objective is to address those people upon the Hajj. Okay? Anybody else can do that in an attempt to simulate them and they will be rewarded if they chose to do that.

It is not an obligation. It is not even a strongly emphasized a recommendation. Okay, according to the school of Medina and this is what Imam Malik taught and he inherited this learning from his teachers who took it from their teachers from the messenger of Allah in a in the city of the prophets himself.

This is also the of Imam Abu Hanifa. So, you have the majority who actually put together constitute the outright majority of the Muslims worldwide. So, the two mainstream right throughout Islamic history have always been the Hanafi school and the Maliki school. The Hanafi's right throughout the the Middle East and the East Far East and the Maliki school throughout the West.

So, they've always I mean the have existed in the Middle East as well and in parts of Egypt and the Hanbalis minority, but nevertheless, so the there is the other view that no, you should refrain and you must refrain, but that really I mean, if you're going to balance out the schools of law, I suppose it's 50/50, but from the perspective of speaking essentially, the majority of the scholars have always said it was not an obligation because they constitute the majority of the scholars always.

The Hanafi's and the Maliki's. The have accepted it some of them many of them as an obligation and some of them maybe not and the Hanbalis felt it was an absolute obligation. Today, the Right, so today there's I know the really emphasize this and to the extent that I think they get offended if they find out people are disagreeing with them.

Well, as to them getting offended You do know that you you guys only appeared on the Muslim scene since like about 200 years. So, you don't really get to out out the school of Medina which has existed since the time of the messenger of Allah with an unbroken chain of transmission. Neither the the Hanafi school. So, if you're going to get offended by people disagreeing, well Well, just deal with it.

Anyway, so that's the understanding that if you are going to sacrifice an animal, you can cut your hair, you can trim, you can shave if you shave as as as as a Muslim man. If you're shaving as a Muslim woman I suppose you can still do it. What the hell, but So, the point is just to explain because that question had been asked.

Somebody asked me Somebody just said the follow the of I I don't want to really make this all about the but Do the follow the of? I I mean, I doubt that. I I seriously doubt that, but it depends what that question means. Okay?

If you're asking, do the of? Do the Wahhabis today I and I I I've said before when I use the term Wahhabi, I don't mean it as a derogatory term even if some of them may take it offensively, but I mean it to distinguish them between who the early and the true of were when the movement began, it didn't begin with the Wahhabi of. They only took the name later on. It actually began with people like Muhammad Abduh and those people who were actually a voice of reason um in based in Egypt and Azhar and those places.

It was only Muhammad takes that title and the uh sorry, the Wahhabia then take that once Rashid Rida kind of for some reason encourages them to take it. I don't know why he did that, but he did. And so, they then become known as the So, that's why to differentiate, I call them the Wahhabi of or the of the Wahhabia. Now, following after Muhammad Wahhab, the founder of their movement.

They claim to follow the Salaf, but what they mean by that is their interpretation of what the Salaf did, which is a really a puritanist interpretation of Islam taken uh really heavily influenced by a streak within Hanbali fiqh, within the Hanbali school of law, the puritan kind of Hanbalis because the Hanbalis were ver- varying.

I mean, some of them were chilled out and cool, but some of them were very kind of puritanist and super rigid on things. And they've taken that kind of strand. So, that's what the Wahhabi movement in essence is. So, yes, they do follow Quran and Hadith. Um but to say they follow the Salaf means this is what the Salaf were like. And the Salaf were 100 definitely nothing, in my understanding, like how they uh are today. They are a puritanist movement.

So, they're a bit like um that religious movement in Game of Thrones. You know, the one that uh is all about like just nothing else. That's that's the So, it's like this. But anyway, enough of that. That's not to kind of that And you're most welcome if you're a Salafi, you're a Wahhabi, you're watching this. Ahlan wa sahlan. You know, uh nothing but love. I don't mean that in any kind of derogatory way.

I'm just saying it as it is. I'm sure just as you would probably refer to the other people as there or people upon or people upon this or people even if we're even if we're good people. The High Sparrow thing. So, yeah, or a modernist or whatever you'd like to call me. So, I'm just I'm just stating it as it is objectively. Right, people, let's move on to the next question.

I was asked uh that question was dealing with yes, who are the Salafis and whether they are upon what the Salaf were upon. And no, they're definitely not upon them, but they they they're on an interpretation, a puritanist interpretation of the what they believe to be the Salaf upon was upon. Imam Hassan, ahlan wa sahlan. There was a question there about a European scholar I had given a shout-out to in one of my previous episodes.

Who was that? I was speaking about Sheikh Sulaiman Van Aal, I believe. I believe that's the person uh you're referring to. Cool guy, super cool, and I think he's based in he's between Belgium and the Netherlands, Belgium and Holland. So, uh but he's a super cool guy, and awesome, uh and I like his kind of, you know, very contemporary, and I think he's the first person to have translated any Islamic works into, I think, either Finnish or or Dutch or one of them, anyway.

Right. So, let's move on. Next question, people. Next question. Right. And those of you that have just joined in, as uh before I move on, remember to share this out there, people. Get it out there. Let's And I will be dealing with some of uh Dawah Man's claims later on, okay? So, we'll get to that in a moment.

So, should we take a question? What is your take on Wasilah? Who is she? WHO IS WASILAH? OH. ACHCHA achcha achcha achcha. I thought you Wasilah ji. Yeah, kaun hai? You're talking about Wasilah at-tawassul.

Going to graveyards and asking the person to make dua for them. Very common in India, Pakistan. It is indeed, my friend, very common. It is indeed. Intercession. No, uh yeah, Wasilah is intercession, but also um this is also referring to seeking help as well, I suppose. People go there and they say Ya Sheikh, give me

Pir Sahab, bachcha nahi ho raha hai, yaar. I got not having a child, and so You know, Sheikh Akram Nadwi Sahab, he he told a story yesterday. He said, when he was in India, one of his local villages, there was a guy there who what he used to do is he used to write out these ta'wiz, these kind of uh tama'im, these kind of whatever ta'wiz, whatever you want to call them, these little things to take away, take blessing from.

And so, people would come to him and they would say um uh to this Pir Sahab, not to Sheikh Akram. Sheikh Akram was relating the story. So, they would come to him and say that, "Oh, we can't have a like we we're trying, but we don't have a child. So, we want to we want a child. Uh can you give us uh give us a ta'wiz that's going to make us have a baby?" Although babies are Last time I checked are made by other means, nevertheless, nevertheless, this too is a theory.

Teach Teach the controversy, as they say. Teach the alternate theories. So, yeah, so the alternate So, this Pir Sahab, he would write on this thing and he would give it to them, "Larka na larki." So, so now he would give this to them. So, he would say, "Boy, no girl." This I suppose in English it doesn't really kind of sound right, but in in Urdu, that's what it means.

Now, so when they came back, this Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Yeah, so when they came back, if they got pregnant, so let's say I say Yeah, so if they got pregnant, and now let's say they had a boy, so the Sheikh would say, the Pir Sahab, sorry, not Sheikh. Pir Sahab would say, "Look, I said larka na larki." So, I said boy, not a girl. And it was a boy.

So, you know, it's like one of those ones. And if it was a girl, then he would say, "Look, I said larka na larki." You know, not a boy, girl. And if they came back after a while and they said, "Look, nothing, you know, we've been trying, nothing's been happening." He would say, "To yahi to bola tha." This is what I said.

Larka na larki. Not a boy, NOT A GIRL, NOTHING. AH, SHEIKH AKRAM, I SWEAR. I love I loved his stories yesterday. He was sharing a lot of uh kind of personal anecdotes. But um Right. So, let's move on. What is your stance on the triple talaq issue and the recent case in India?

Hindustan. Right. What is my take on it? Mera Bharat Mahan. Right. The thing is that Okay, what's happened So, for those of you who haven't caught up with this is in India, the Supreme I believe it was the Supreme Court. Uh they passed legislation outlawing So, they've kind of prohibited, made it illegal to recognize the three talaqs.

That's my understanding. Yeah, so it's not that you can't give three talaqs, but my understanding is that it's now not recognizable. So, but I don't And you see, the people were saying, "Oh, this is so so great, and now we've got all this, you know, it's been a huge breakthrough, and we've got all this, it's a massive step forward." I'm not so sure that it is.

They're verbal talaqs. I'm not so sure that it really means anything. Because the problem is that those people who give this talaq, they will just believe it anyway. And the women will believe it even if the court doesn't believe it. So, I don't know if that is a solution.

That's I suppose a part solution a part to the solution, which, in my understanding, isn't as great as the media was making out. Uh I feel that it the problem is still exactly where it was. The problem is that the ulama need to stop accommodating. This is a grassroots effort. You can't have You see, to have uh the Supreme Court dictate to It's like if in the UK today, let's say in the UK, the Supreme not the Supreme Court.

Let's say legislation, Parliament legislated that three talaqs are invalid. People just won't care. They'll just carry on. They don't really, you know, make any It doesn't really do anything for them. And those who give the talaq will carry on to give giving it. And those who the women who have had it given to them will still believe it to be valid, so the relationship is still awkward.

So, what we need is the ulama to be more accommodating. The ulama to teach these things, okay? That's what And the ulama to say that, "Look, this opinion now." And to do their own ijtihad. That's what we need. Okay? So, I hope that's of some help, people. Right. Let's go on to another question, people. Another question.

Those of you joining in, right, like it, share it, and post your questions, inshallah. I'll get to them. Qadi Iyad writes, "The Don, Qadi Iyad, the Don, Qadi writes, 'The Prophet was affected by black magic.' Oh. But I've just spent a whole day refuting that.

Did all the classical Malikis agree with this? Yeah, Adam al-Masri. Well, first of all, right, first of all, I've highlighted before that the Prophet did not have magic done on to him, and I don't want to really go into this in much detail, because we've done a detailed video spanning several hours in several segments dealing with the whole topic, the debate, the definitions, the

discussion, the four against, the scholars, the what I called the etiology. Allah, people, the etiology of this kind of this whole problem. I mean, that's usually etiology is when you're investigating, I suppose, the cause or the origin of diseases. Or or or it could be issues like this which are like that, because this has become like a theological disease.

So, and I've gone into explaining why the scholars took the stance they did, and it was uh it was nothing to do, you know, with So, even if you get people like Qadi Iyad and so on saying this, there's a reason, there's a background to all of that. But let's move on. And you're right, al-Jassas and many people challenged that uh the concept of the Prophet being afflicted, and and it's nonsense.

It is nonsense. But uh but yeah, inshallah, hopefully that video will be edited and out within 2 weeks. That's what we're hoping. Right, so, somebody asked a question there about um Allama Iqbal, and in his book he denied the coming of an Antichrist.

Did I take my vitamin C today? Ah, not in that day. You're talking about the Snapchat vitamin C. Wait. Do my hands look swollen? Right, so, right, now, Allama Iqbal discussing that, I haven't read Allama Iqbal discussing um but this topic has been discussed.

Is there such thing as an Antichrist who will come towards the end of time, the Messiah, the Mahdi? Now, you see, for some reason, this belief is widespread amongst Muslims, um along with the belief of the second coming of Jesus, and now, many scholars, especially in the beginning of the last century, challenged this whole concept, and they've presented very effective kind of arguments for for people to read.

That began with the likes of people like Muhammad Abduh, it began with other people, Rashid Rida, Abu Sheikh Abu Zahra, Mustafa al-Maraghi, Sheikh Shaltut. All these great scholars, the leading scholars of al-Azhar, the legendary Don, the Maliki Mufti of his time, Ibn Ashur, also uh kind of highly problematizes and and questions, throws spanners in the works of this whole belief.

The According to these scholars, Jesus will not be coming back. There is no second coming of Jesus, and this is Christian doctrine which has crept into uh Islamic sources and been misinterpreted by Muslims and passed on as the Prophet having said this. So, the and they've got a whole discussion about this um in their works, and uh also the Mahdi, the Mahdi is is even more interesting, because the early Muslims never spoke about the Mahdi at all.

There isn't even a mention of the Mahdi. And there is no sahih single clear hadith even mentioning the Mahdi. So, what's interesting is the Mahdi, first of all, is first of all mentioned by the Shia. He's not first of all mentioned by Ahl al-Sunnah scholars. So, early Ahl al-Sunnah scholars, when they're writing books like Imam Tahawi and on aqidah, and all these people don't do not mention a Mahdi.

Imam Malik never speaks of a Mahdi. I mean, Abu Hanifah never speaks of a Mahdi. None of these people spoke of a Mahdi. What happens is the writings about the Mahdi emerge in about the 300 onwards, about 300 Hijri, that is. So, in the 4th century of Islam, you start to see these writings of the Mahdi emerge. And many certain these Muslim scholars who have challenged the whole thing have said that that was uh that it was actually a Shia concept, which it is.

The Mahdi is a Shia concept, which somehow then got replicated into Sunni Islam, and then got mass circulated. So, that's what it is. And Ibn Ashur in his book highlights that this thing of belief in Isa coming, or uh and Ibn Ashur does highlight that uh many people, including, you know, people like I've many scholars within Islam, Ibn Hazm and many other people.

I believe maybe Ibn Hajar as well. Even Imam Malik, Ibn Ashur in one of his riwayat, mentioned that their belief was that Isa actually died on earth a natural death. Now, Ibn Ashur says all of these beliefs are just maarif Islamiyyah. These are not part of the Islamic creed. You can disbelieve in them. There's nothing uh he says it does not impact your iman, and many scholars have said this as well.

So, and I am clearly on that understanding that it does not impact your iman, and if you choose to believe that that is that in my understanding, that is fine. That is as if you choose to follow these great scholars of Islam, there is no harm in that. They were legends within Islam, and this is not a belief contrary to what some people may push. This is not uh from the aqidah of Muslims. This is from Islamic information.

Right. Ahad, those of you that don't know, that's Sheikh Ahad from London that's joining in. People, those of you that are joining late, as I've said before, right, like it, share it, get it out there, share the thing, and let's and post your questions. Let me get to them, inshallah. You see, it's interesting. Robin kind of just wrote there that uh well, that I think you wrote I think she did write or somebody else wrote that that uh what the what the what that they said that Isa is not coming.

You see, I don't know if that really is a sad thing, because it makes you act. It makes you kind of want to do something for for yourself. I I the other day, last week, I was online. That sentence is just going many directions.

So, I was online, and I was checking on social media, and I was reading these kind of comments and discussions on different on some people's posts, and I read this person saying that, "Oh, the world is so messed up. I can't wait for the Mahdi to come and fix it." You see, that that to me, it clearly that fits exactly why people like Ibn Khaldun 700 years ago wrote that this whole Mahdi thing is is actually nonexistent, and people have just made it up and taken it from Shia

Islam. Because this thing of becoming this kind of lazy or refusing to fix the situation attitude is is unacceptable. It is not what the messenger of Allah taught us. This is not the Islam that the Prophet left us with.

That Islam was that God will not help you until you help yourselves attitude. Or that God helps those who help themselves. So, you need to get up, get off your lazy behind, and do something. If you want to contribute to the world, contribute. If you want to learn, learn. If you want to do be an activist, be an activist. If you want to pursue a career, pursue a career.

If you want to adopt or enhance a skill, do that. If you want to change the world, change begin make some change in your in your circle of influence. But, if you have this attitude, "Oh, the world is so goddamn messed up. I can't wait for this Mahdi to come and fix it." How the hell is that going to work? Like so Let's Let's be honest. If a person kind of did come, Muslims wouldn't really accept him anyway.

Let's just be honest. Whoever Let's say if a person came, half the More than half the Muslims It depends what sect he belongs to. Nobody would really Like people say it's Salafis would say, "Oh, he's just a Sufi." Sufis would say, "He's a Salafi." Barelvis would say, "No, he's a Wahhabi." Deobandis would say, "No, he's not on the akabir." He's not a Hanafi. We thought he was going to be a Hanafi. And you know, modern If you want to say people I don't know whatever you want to call them, people of reason, they will say, "Nah, he's a dogmatist." And the dogmatists will say, "Nah, he seems too forward thinking.

Seems like a modernist. It seems like an agent Agent Agent Agent. He's an agent of the CIA." The activists will say, "Nah, but what has he actually done? Has he ever campaigned alongside us and done things?" The other people would say, "Well, Oh, where are his asaneed in Hadith?" You see, no, we wouldn't accept him.

Let's face it. Let's just be real, people. Be real for a for for You know, for for a moment, be real. We wouldn't accept the Mahdi anyway. Let it go. Let it go. Let it go. I'm sure Layla has a doll that plays that all the time. Let it go. Let it go.

Right. So, anyway, All right. So, that's my point. Look, if you want to believe like I like Ibn Ashur says, who is you know, the grand mufti of his time, one of the major scholars of the 20th century, a Maliki don, one of my indirect teachers in Islam. All right. So, has a 30-volume tafsir. Um Right now, this on the Quran, he As he highlights, look, if people want to believe in it, they can.

This is only Islamic information. It's not Islamic creed. It's up to you. And that's what I'm with. Out of all of these groups, how do we determine which one? None of them There is no one group that is upon the hack, people. We are Muslims. Everybody's got to take. And I suppose everybody's got a stake in this Look at the take stake take stake.

So, if you're asking me, Islam is one based on reason. It must always resonate with the voice of reason. Um Dogmatism isn't the way forward, especially in the 21st century. I think dogmatism could successfully work and would have actually worked more successfully than the voice of reason in the medieval ages because that's in the medieval ages, the common people thought like that.

So, it would resonate with them more. And if you were very forward thinking or very kind of relying on the voice of reason as Islam does, the common people may not actually You may not resonate with them. But today, alhamdulillah, times have changed. Okay. Ustad Yaseen has just logged in. All right, people.

That Right. Ustad Yaseen had shared some interesting points yesterday on why the whole ruqyah scene isn't actually what it appears to be. And a lot of it is It's either a facade or it's just illusory and make-believe. But that's interesting. Right. So, So, this So, So, just to clarify these questions. And I hate to you know, burst your bubble, people.

Some of some people's bubble. And I know many people will probably hate me for saying this kind of saying this kind of stuff. So, to them, I would have to say, if you hate me, What are you What is your hate going to achieve?

You're going to burn from within. It isn't going to bother me. I mean, so this We are in a day and age where Islam is being challenged on all corners, people. On all ends. It is being battered. It is being beat up so badly. It is being made more of more of a mockery than Mayweather and McGregor.

And their version of boxing. This is what is happening, unfortunately, to Islam. And we need to I I And what we what we can what we need to do is reclaim and prevent stop Islam from getting hijacked by certain people who are still who are not still, but for some reason are thinking from I don't know that that they feel this is 1066 and the Battle of Hastings is about to happen or they feel Right.

So, Right. So, the thing is McGregor and McGregor, I don't know what You see, I don't watch Honestly, I don't watch boxing. And I I I don't watch any sports. And although the hype around this fight, I thought to myself, should I watch it? Not that I could because I had a course a full course the next morning. And I was so glad I didn't. I saw the highlights on Facebook and I couldn't stop laughing, honestly.

I thought They were like And And I can't stand that Mayweather cuz you know, I don't know. I mean, as a I suppose as a kid I watched boxing. And that was the day I suppose, you know, people like Tyson who boxed. You know, if you want to watch boxing, they used to actually box. Not just run around the ring and just Hey, let's see who can run around the longest.

And I don't know. I don't know. But each to their own, I guess. Each to their own. Mufti Saab, what are you drinking? Nothing nothing. You see those ice cubes? That's style, people. That's style. Right. Now, again, a request. Let's see. What is your stance? I've answered that.

What is my Oh, I didn't answer the question on wasila. Sorry about that. Just to come back to that. My understanding on wasila, people, on taking uh on taking seeking intercession and asking people to do things and will you give me a child? Will you ask God? Will you do this? My point to them, my advice and sincere advice to them is, look, let me draw your attention to the words of God.

And they are the where Allah says to you that call on to me. The the ud Allah asks He commands you to ask him. And he says, "Astajib lakum." I will I will I will respond to you.

So, why don't you just ask Allah? Like I mean, is your And people say, "Yeah, but you know, Allah loves this person more." But Look. But I mean, what a That's what kind of a pessimistic attitude is that? Look, I'm not saying whether Allah loves some people more than others, but that's not how Allah taught you to do it.

You see, what you're doing is analogizing upon human beings. You are treating Allah as though he is a man. Or anthropomorphizing Allah. You are saying Allah as though he's some kind of a king or a ruler that You see, I can't approach him. You know, I don't know him. Uh Do I know anybody who knows him? You know, the usual thing.

There's too much protocol. Protocol. There's too much protocol. So, I need to I need to kind of approach Allah through people to kind of so he can be okay with me. Like so, if I said to you, "Look, here's a counselor or here's a parliamentarian or here's a president or here's" You'd think, "I can't just go to him and ask him." He'd be like, "Who the hell are you?" You know, have you ever done anything for me?

So, you are assuming that God is like that. And that's wrong in your assumption because Allah says, "Laisa kamithlihi shay." There is nothing like unto God. You can't figure him out. And secondly, Allah says, "Ud'uni." That call me that ask me. Ask me. He says, "I I pooch ask and I will give." Allah says, "All you have to do is ask and I'll give." And so And yet we say that, you know, but but you know, maybe God doesn't like me and maybe God doesn't

Has he not You know, God doesn't like you. God doesn't What What does God have to give you for you to recognize that he likes you? Does he have to give you sound health or health, the ability to think, the ability to perceive, the ability to breathe, to have to enjoy life, to be able to think, to be able to articulate your thoughts, to have food, to make have a family?

What does he have to give you for you to recognize? Allah says, "Did we not place for them give them eyes while he said what you have to say?" And we gave them a tongue and we gave them a mouth by which they could perform speech. And we guided them.

We guided You know, Allah guided you to him. So you say, "But God doesn't think good of me." You know, Allah teaches you that is your bad judgment upon God. He never told you he can't He never told you that he thinks bad of you. You think too lowly of Allah.

That's it's your loss. You know, it doesn't bother me. I mean, you can ask 100 people instead of asking Allah. You know, I mean I would just say you should just ask Allah directly. If you have a problem with that what can I say, huh? What can I say? You know, as one of my teachers used to say

He used to say that If I say they say that, you know, why does he why does he say these things? If I don't say I'll become a heart patient. That was our legendary Ustad Sheikh Abdullah al-Muntakhab. He used to teach me Sahih Muslim, a legend.

Sorry, I just thought I heard some I just thought I heard some voices which would be incredibly weird considering that nobody's here. Right, so asking prophet to pray for rain. You see, the thing is that there is one narration or something. I'm not sure it may have been questioned or not about Ibn I believe about um to do with is it Abbas radiAllahu anhu or somebody asking for rain.

But this is not how the companions generally taught Islam. This is not what they generally did. This is not how Abu Bakr went for example when let's say when in the time of Abu Bakr when most entire significant like half of Arabia denounced Islam or they started to rise and insurgencies and there was huge turmoil. The whole Muslim existence was compromised.

Abu Bakr didn't start saying, "All right, everybody let's do let's pray to the prophet to do this." He didn't do this. In the time of Umar when he struggled with certain with certain conquests and certain things and he didn't start saying, "Okay, people let's pray to to the prophet to do this." No, he prayed to Allah. In the time of Uthman when he was surrounded in the end and about to be killed and murdered from you know, from the tyranny of the people at the some of the people at the time.

He didn't say, "Okay, people let's start praying to the messenger of Sayyidina Ali." When he was going through all the turmoil that he was against the Khawarij and the civil wars and things like this, he didn't do that. Hassan Hussein um the people after them Abdullah ibn Umar, you didn't get the great scholars of Medina Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri, Saeed ibn al-Musayyib, you didn't get al-Qattan, you didn't get you don't get the you know, the Qadi ibn Hazm all the great scholars around in the time of just before Imam Malik, you don't get Imam Malik ever doing this or teaching

this. You don't get Abu Hanifah ever teaching this. So we need to just chill. Right, who is who is this who are you talking to? Right, okay. I'll just block. Right, I've blocked that Luke guy. It's okay, I've blocked him.

Right, so that's that, okay. Let's move on, folks. Let's move on. And I'm not saying this to by the way offend people. If you're a Sufi and you do things like uh you do things like that, it's your choice it's your choice. You know, you you don't have to answer to me. You know, if you if you you know, to me I can you know, this isn't like any kind of a deal breaker with me if you're a a friend or an acquaintance or somebody it doesn't affect me like that.

You know, you could be somebody and do that, fine. You know, it doesn't It's your choice. Obviously, I don't find it I find that just to be folkloric kind of religious stuff as you see in many religions. There's no uh Right, I don't know who on earth is this person with all these angry faces. Can he be blocked?

Right, let me see. Cuz somebody's upset that I'm I've spoken against asking people. Mhm. Let me see, people. Let me see. Uh right, sorry. Just one moment. Um Right, so okay.

Cool. Right, so shukran shukran. Somebody asked me about um Somebody asked me about what guide why do I feel what do I feel between uh Right, so so somebody asked me what do I This is so funny.

All right, well All right, um all right. Let me speed this up. One moment. Um that you chain that you sport around your neck is not suitable for a man.

Somebody Majid Abdullah said what you are saying is right, but my reminder to you that the chain you put around your neck is not suitable uh for a man, but it is for a woman. Right, now uh Okay, I didn't know I didn't realize um I didn't realize that you like your women uh

I didn't realize that you like your women wearing razor blades, but uh If you do, okay. Each to their own, I guess. Each to their own. Now the Or did you mean to say in chains or You see, this this is a a another example of uh of imposing superimposing um your cultural perspective onto an entire

an incredibly vast Islamic tradition. Where the Islamic tradition being 1,400 years old and you come with your you know, a perspective and you want to superimpose it on the entire history of Islam. Okay. Now, that is uh So Look, men wearing necklaces there's nothing wrong with men wearing necklaces and some I suppose some men did wear necklaces Ibn Taymiyyah in his fatwa speaks about this that if men are wearing jewelry whilst praying and they're wearing a necklace or they're wearing bracelets or men wearing

ank foot anklets kind of things which is like which I find like what the hell, but still. So that goes to show some people did. Although the general uh culture back then, I suppose many men especially since Islam stemmed from the Arabian Peninsula and went out, there wasn't a culture of men generally wearing necklaces or generally wearing earrings.

Some men did wear earrings as well. So including them or who is transmitted as uh Imam Malik's son actually had an earring as well and and some people believe especially the Shia tradition believes that uh maybe Hussein radiAllahu anhu or his offspring did continue to pierce their ears. Now, once again, that in my understanding is permissible for men. Okay, so right now Raymond Salfa, I've got no idea what you're on about, but if this is if you're trying to troll, you is going to get blocked.

So, so I mean, wearing earrings, there's nothing wrong with wearing earrings either for a man. If you think by wearing this, all of a sudden you become effeminate, and you seriously have got your gender role so mixed up and confused. If I If I put a necklace on, all of a sudden to you, I look like a woman. If I look anything like the women that are around you or that you know, I seriously feel sorry for them.

If those women look like this, all right, so look like this. God damn, that would be a scary thought, isn't it? It's like now It's like what my teacher or my my friend my friend told me once, where he said he said that tough women He said to me He said, "You know, when I was 20, my parents said to me, we're going to send you to Pakistan and you're going to marry your cousin." And he said, "I got there and I saw her and she was" He said that she was drop-dead gorgeous.

So, we were like, "Okay." And he said, "She looked just like me." He's saying like himself, "BUT WITH LONG HAIR." NEEDLESS TO SAY THAT OBVIOUSLY didn't happen. So, now Yeah, so I mean, if you think that by gender roles are defined by wearing a necklace around your neck, then you've definitely mixed up an entire You are seriously confused and I'm actually I'm actually concerned for you, my brother, and people like you.

Why you're so insecure about your your genderness with that it can be so subtly, so easily so easily shifted. That why would you feel that by doing something, you could shift so easily? And actually, let's go on to you know, there'd been this That reminds me. Let's This Dawah Man guy, right?

Now, he's at it again, people. He's at it again. So, okay, this is it. I'm going to deal with this issue. I've been asked to deal with it. So, brace yourselves, people. You can share this video if you if you've come come in late, you can share it, inshallah. We'll get this out there. And those of you that are concerned, this is going to be dealing with issues on sexual matters, so the warning is coming.

Now, Dawah Man, he's released this video, which I had I've seen it, unfortunately. Now, and he's speaking about sexual intimacy between a a man and his wife, and he's speaking about this. And he comes Come estas, all right, so now he's speaking about this and he's saying, "Well, okay, he wants to address sexual positions." So, Dawah Man felt that there was an urgent need.

There was a pressing pressing need within Islam to stop everything. Let's address sexual positions and what Islam encourages and discourages. All right. Let's do a commentary on the Kama Sutra by Sheikh Fulani ibn Fulani. Right now, so he goes on to say, "Well, okay." He starts ruling out certain sexual practices.

Haram. None of this, none of that, whatever. And then he says, "Okay." He says, "Well, what He says that okay, any positions Okay, he begins by saying any position is okay within Islam. It's not haram. However, however, he says that I have to say that Ibnul Qayyim Imam Ibnul Qayyim And he brings Ibnul Qayyim al-Jawziyya into this.

He drags him into this. Says that a woman should not be allowed to be on top of a man. Right, so he so he addresses this issue and he says that um So, so the basically that whatever you want to call that position, whether it's It's got many names. I don't want to It's not that I don't know them, but It's just you know, when I use words, people all of a sudden, "Oh my god, Mufti is using words." And scandal ho jata hai, ya.

It's a scandal. You know, it's that thing, isn't it? Cowgirl it is. Yep, that's the position. Now, so You know, it's like make a run to sala character dhila hai. That's the That's the history, isn't it? Now, so this position, he says by having this sexual position, a man becomes too effeminate.

No, not not the missionary. It's not speaking about the missionary, with the woman on top, right? The cowgirl kind of position. So, he says that this makes the man effeminate because the woman is in control. And a man becomes so effeminate by engaging in these practices that he will then go on to develop homosexual tendencies. And he says, "Do you know what then leads on to?

Do you know what this then leads on to? Do you know that there are people who do this then? This goes to the point." He says this goes to the point where basically those of you that have heard of pegging, this is what he's saying it leads into, okay? Which is where a a man will ask the woman to penetrate him using an artificial Yes, you imagine.

Now, so this is All right, so this is what he is addressing. So, he says that if you allow that position, this is what it will end up in. It will end up in you having a desire TO BE SODOMIZED. I MEAN, IS IT ME OR are these people closet homosexuals that they're just so worried about a homosexual tendency?

Is this serious Like I I don't get these people. Like Wow. So, he says Ibnul Qayyim al-Jawziyya is saying that you should never allow this a woman to have do this position because it will destroy you and it will lead you It will destroy your masculinity and you'll end up so on so on so on blah blah blah blah blah.

And this is being circulated, people, in the name of Islam. This is being circulated in the name of Islam. And he does Okay, look, we'll do justice. He says in the end that oh, I'm not saying it's haram. I'm not saying it's haram. It's haram. Haram. Not saying it. But you should not But these things lead They lead a person to great evil.

They lead you to this What was the the words he he a pervert a perverted and extremely perverted lifestyle. I genuinely honestly I I don't know what has become of Why are these people so scared of their masculinity?

Like You know, if you're a real man, you're a real man. You don't need Like you don't just Oh no, I've become a woman. It doesn't Anthony saying, "Don't knock it till you try." Naughty, naughty. Oh well, what makes you think that people haven't tried it?

Do you think they just qualify to write a commentary? That's So, so anyway, so that's So, I find these things totally absurd. And I hate the fact that you're right, these things do come from Christians because Christians have a very puritanist outlook towards Islam.

They feel that Islam is all about Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. They to religion. They feel that religion is all about refraining from any desires, any sexual desires, and and they feel that sexual activities are only for procreation, not recreation.

So, it's not recreational, it's procreational. So, anyway, and the last time I checked, this wasn't the Christian faith, so But it's a shame that these things get circulated under the banner of Islam and it then it then cook it then brings disrepute upon Islam.

All right, people, let's move on to another question. What do we have? What's a question, people? What's a question? Throw them up. Throw them up. Let's see. Right, so people constantly still writing the position. It's okay. We get it. We know what it is. Right, so What are ways you can get Jannatul Firdaus and how you save yourself from hell?

Be a good human being. How about starting right there, Jalaluddin Nawaz? Be a good human being. Help other human beings. Awesome. Right. A lot of best time to make dua. Anytime and every time you can make dua, whenever you want.

The Hadith do highlight that look you can when a person is in sujud, when a person is doing sajda, that is one of the the greatest times to be close to Allah. Uh but but it doesn't mean that is the only time. You can on your own you can do you know, whenever you the best dua is the one made from the heart, people.

Made from the heart. So, make a dua whenever, wherever, if you want certain specific, then you can make it in salah whilst in prayer, you can make it in sujud. During these 10 days of Dhul Hijjah is a great time to do that as well. Okay? Somebody's asked about my refutation a refutation by Sheikh who Hasnain Bukhari.

Look. Okay, now All right, let's just quickly respond to that. I I don't want to What is the collection of books behind me? There's a lot of books behind me. Mainly all dealing with Islamic kind of literature, dealing with commentaries, either on prophetic teachings of the Prophet Muhammad or on Islamic kind of jurisprudence, rulings, things like that. Okay? I hope that helps.

Other things as well, the Arabic language, grammar, uh poetry, you name it. Some of those down there are in Spanish. Right, now So, Right now Oh, sorry. Let's just get to this this refutation against me. I'm not interested in refutations against me about especially about things like that.

I did a video a while back because I was a bit upset about what I was seeing online about abuse coming from certain sects. Uh the Shia sect namely, but I don't want I don't generally like this whole thing of sectarianism. I do not like that in general. Sometimes I'm a human being just like all of just like all of you. Sometimes I can be affected.

I might read something and you might sway into kind of you might end up getting involved in a back and forth and uh Oh, no. I I want Those are in Spanish. I I totally love Español. All right, absolutely. So, So, the thing is now So, just to clarify, so I did do some it went back forth. I had some responses to me about this whole thing to do with the companion of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam Ali and his cousin and his leadership.

So, I kind of spoke about that. Um and and some people took offense to it and it went back forth and I did some videos and they're available. They're on um they're on YouTube where I kind of refute this whole uh concept of um why I disagree with for example the the Shia belief. Uh I I wrote that about it's a political thing and what I strongly disagree with is the abuse uh that abuse hurled towards anybody shouldn't be condoned by any religion.

That's my understanding. So, other than that I don't generally have an issue with uh with Shia per se. So, I mean, if you are Shia, you know, ahlan wa sahlan. I still have respect for you, but I as long as uh you know, you're not abusing and I'm sure many many countless Shia do not participate in that kind of abuse and stuff like that, hurling abuse.

And I know many of the Ayatollahs um I believe Sistani and there was uh uh there were a few others who I quoted as well had had had had declared it to be haram, forbidden to kind of uh Uh por qué los Shia no son correctos? Uh this is why. This is why. Right, so this is what I'm saying now because they because of the abuse and the whole thing.

But I've done a a video on that. I don't really want to go into it right now. And I've not And other than that, if if that's not the issue, if there is no abuse, I have no problem and I actually feel there should be collaboration between Sunnis and Shia. We do need to work together. Uh we are facing very similar problems.

Uh we are in the same boat. Okay? So, the thing So, the issue is that those challenges facing Islam are facing Shia Muslims and Sunni Muslims. And when belief and faith will collapse, everybody's faith will collapse. There's certain things I feel that we can learn from some of the Shia. Like I like the way some uh of the Shia do promote this voice of reason concept and they do have a tradition of that.

Obviously, Sunnis several Sunnis do as well, but I'm saying that I think this this concept is more easily accepted amongst the Shia community. So, we can kind of take that from them. They I'm sure they there's many things they can take from us and and look, we're not actually that different. Okay? So, this is why I do feel they does need to be a collaboration. Uh the the thing that I strongly condemn, as I have highlighted, I won't I don't compromise on that point, is abuse.

I strongly condemn that and I will continue to condemn abuse of any sort and hurling abuse to venerated religious figures, even if you dislike them, is in my understanding unacceptable, just as it would be unacceptable for me to uh abuse rabbis or or people that I may disagree with uh you know, verbally. That that So, in a similar way, Islam teaches us to refrain from that because it it causes hatred.

Okay? And enmity. So, that's my point. Other than that I don't have an issue. So, I'm not going to be really engaging in this person's refutation of me and I'm not going to really, you know, I've I've said what I've had to say. It's out there to recorded. It's on YouTube. It was to do with uh the companion Ali on and his decisions. And And I understand that according to the Shia he is incredibly sacred, but in my understanding he is a great incredible person within Islam, but he's not infallible.

And I did discuss how several scholars said that they felt that his decision for war was not uh what they would support and neither would have they supported Muawiyah's decision and they felt that to refrain from war, as many companions did, was the correct position. And I I cited that and I still stand by that. I don't feel war was the solution. I disagree with war. Okay? And I And that even goes today.

So, I disagree with wars in general. Okay? So, that's my understanding. Do you get road rage? I don't generally. No, I'm usually quite chilled. I'm not I'm not actually obsessed about speed and stuff like that. And I mean, unless I'm in a rush, but otherwise I I me just drive in style. That's what I'm talking about.

Calm. Just chill. Right, so let's get some questions here. Approach to a woman that I would be interested in getting married to and taking her out to get to know one another. Should I approach her father and speak to her briefly? Look, right. The thing is that Damn my drink.

Should have bought a refill right now. You know, relationships are human matters. You need to deal with them as a human being. Okay? You need to really just be a human being and deal with relationships. Okay? That's how it works.

It doesn't You know, people want a textbook answer on on relationships. You know, if you like somebody how get get to know them if you can to some extent because relationships can be difficult. You'll never truly be able to know somebody. I get that, but I think you should know people.

Do you like them? Do they like you? Do you know, can this work? And is that going to work by speaking to her dad. I mean, you know, I'm speaking about the UK now by the way and the Western world, Europe or the developed world, okay. So, America, Canada, you know, the developed kind of world.

Here I don't I'm not speaking about cultures like maybe in Pakistan or I don't know, Afghanistan or somewhere. Maybe in those parts of the world it might be safer to approach the parents and for the daughter's hand in marriage if you like her, but here you can just if you can contact her, you can contact her. There's nothing wrong in that. You know, you get to know her, get to do things. You see, bringing people have this thing like, "Hey, I want to speak to your daughter."

This is according to Islam. And the other person's like, "Bismillah Rahman Raheem. What would you like to know about my daughter?" I mean, how does How come you speak without knowledge? Uh Yeah, how about this, Sufyan? You just got blocked.

Right, so the the thing is that look, you know, they're like, "I want to know how I want to speak to you about your daughter." It's a bit weird. Like, look, if you like somebody and you want to get married to them at that stage, yes, by all means. I think you should you ought to you somebody needs to contact the family and do something and but if you haven't decided whether you like the person, I think that's your important decision first.

I mean, you don't have to follow this advice. This to me is just common sense. I heard some people getting offended. I read somewhere. You know, when you're bored and you Google YOUR OWN NAME. OSAMA IS IN THE HOUSE, PEOPLE. OSAMA. NO, not Bin Laden.

Zainul Abidin. Right, so you know, when you're bored and and you and you kind of end up Googling yourself. And the things you come you come across. Oh my god. So, so I came across I thought that you know, let me read some things where people are are mocking me and whatever and so I start reading. I went onto this one post and this person goes, "Ah, have you seen this guy?

Oh, this punk. Uh Just by looking at him. Somebody said, "Just by looking at him bro, stop stealing your little brother's t-shirt." I can't. I've got too many vouchers to spend at Mothercare. So, I just have to buy that that size, I'm afraid. So, I found this person saying, "Just by looking at him, you could tell that that he's got very little acquaintance with Islam and doesn't look like somebody who even practices Islam." Right, so this is what they begin with.

No, I mean, that is the name I was Googling. The name when I was Googling it was my Mufti Abu Layth. Right, so the person says, "Well, okay. Uh And he begins by saying, "Well, let me just say, needless to say." This is how he opens up. He says, "If he came to if he came to ask my daughter's hand in marriage, I WOULD NEVER AGREE."

I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, "Are you for real? What kind of a sick fantasy are you entertaining in your mind about me wanting to marry your daughter, whoever she is?" I thought "Get real." You know, is that is that your thing? Is that your mental thing of like, you know, when you get worked up by you know, like imagine you get worked up and you think uh All right, imagine you get worked up and All right, so imagine you get worked up and you say,

"Uh right, you know, if that person came to me for any help, I would never help him. I would never do this or if he asked me for money, I'd never give him or if he or watch you when he Is this your way your mental way of trying to get that satisfaction? If he came and asked for my daughter's hand in marriage." I mean, what a What a joke. I just found that ridiculous.

And then he went on to obviously say, "Oh, you know, this person whatever blah blah blah." Hating on me, the usual haters going to hate kind of stuff. But anyway, coming back to this. So, oh and sorry, I was going to say and he mentioned some of my fatwa. He says that uh He says that the fatwa that this guy gives it amongst them my deviant fatwas by the way.

And you know, they follow me so closely. So, the haters, you know, they're so they watch all of my videos, all of my Wow, I'm kind of like I'm kind of like I don't know, flattered. I'll be honest with you. So, so people, if if you're amongst my haters and you're watching this, love you, ya'll.

Don't worry, man. Hey, man, you you keep you keep doing that. Right, so the thing is look, now he said from his deviant fatwa that he gives is amongst one of them is that he says you can meet a girl in a cafe and chat to her if you want to you can do that especially if you're looking to get married, you can meet her without the wali and stuff like that and And I and I thought to myself, like isn't that just common sense?

Yeah, and they and they bring up the one on masturbation. Yeah, they go they go, "Oh my god." They get so get so offended. And Anyway, I don't even want to go there cuz the truth is if they if they deny it for themselves, they're only liars. So, look, if you meet a girl or if a girl meets a guy, you can get to know each other.

This is it's perfectly fine. How else are you going to know each other? And if you want to meet if you want to go get a coffee, if you want to go do something there's nothing Islam in my understanding does not object to that. Okay. You can do that. People in the time of the prophet, there is a hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari of Abu Sinan that he goes to the woman's house and he's there alone with her chatting to her.

And I'm not saying okay, go to the house and do that. I'm saying people asking me about cafe cafes and things like this. But the hadith in Bukhari when he finds out she can get married, he's the one who marries her. So, there's a dalil right there. Look, this kind of stuff, this natural chatting used to happen. The prophet was well aware of it. He did not condemn it. It is not haram. Okay?

You can meet somebody in public and you can chat to them and you can get to know them. People say, "Oh, you're going to flirt." But that's natural you're going to flirt. Do you're going to flirt. That's like what else are you going to do? I mean I mean, are you going to I mean, if you're like seducing the waiter by accident then that would obviously be very That would be seriously confusing.

Like, then you just realize, "Damn. Like, especially as a guy if you realize, "I think I just accidentally seduced the waiter instead." Right, so somebody said probably a weak hadith. That hadith is in Bukhari, Sahih al-Bukhari, okay? So, it's not a weak hadith. Right, now Right, so the thing so this why I say this.

Now look, okay, for a moment let's just pause. I have so many people, honestly, I deal with so many people that that that that are on the verge of getting an Islamic divorce, okay? I deal with many, countless, countless, sometimes every day. Now, they a lot of these people I always speak to them that how did you get to know each other, how long has your relationship been going on, what are the what you know, what are some of the key issues that about the breakdown and stuff like this and and I'm telling you that it is look, it true, all relationships can break

down. I get this, right? That that's fine. I mean, you could be the best of people but could still break down. But I think at least give yourself a fair chance. Like get to know somebody. So, you know, if if you want to chat to somebody, if you want to if you want to ask I mean, we live in a day and age in a society where people are so different. You have to remember something. Am I a scholar? I am indeed, I'm afraid.

A Mufti. A certified Mufti, I'm afraid. So, end of I know end of times, end of times. Right, so Right now, the the point The point is that we live in a time where the where everybody has a different mind frame that a different kind of frame of mind.

They think differently. They I mean that it's not like like in the time of the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu alayhi wasallam uh which ayahs is that? Because I think there's a few and so I can block, but I don't want to block the wrong people. Right, the in the time of the Prophet most people all had a very similar mindset.

Like they did living was of one type. People generally all thought on a very similar spectrum. Yes, they had slight different tastes and personalities, but it wasn't Remember, society was not about hey, it's all about you, be true to yourself, live your life, hey, pursue your dreams, hey, goals, aims. The world didn't live like that.

This is a very modern This is a post mod- This is only a recent way of living. We've It's only been a few decades that humanity has evolved like this. And I'm not saying it's great. It's great. I love it, but I'm just saying that the world did not live like that. And people in the past got married just for pragmatism. Like it was just a functional thing to do. Like I get married. Very few people ever got married based on romance ever.

Today everybody is I want that dream. I want to marry the one I'm in love with. I want to do this. I want to do that. And the expectations are up there. So, and everybody in this society is so different. You could be You could be a nerd, not in a bad not trying to diss nerds, but living next door to somebody who is a drug dealer, who's living next door to somebody who is a goth, who's living next door to somebody who collects stamps, who You could be like the whole The world here is so idiosyncratic and personal.

That's why you need to I think get to know people. If you're going to meet somebody in a cafe, you can't Look, it's a public place, so there can just be the two of you and the public. It's cool. There's nothing wrong with that, okay? So, right. Now, let's move on to another question, okay? Right. Now, the question, people.

If you just tuned in, share this. Get it out there. Get some of this insanity or the voice of reason, as I like to call it, out there. Click share. Put it out there. Post your questions and let me get to them, people. Let me get to them. Right. So, where are we? Where are we? Right. Where are we, people? Donde estamos?

Where are we? Right, the thing is uh Right. I'm just trying to get into some of these questions that have been posted here. Uh Is it permissible to adopt different aspects of Islam from the four madhhabs?

Right, Sidq Khan, it is permissible. Uh you are not Okay, I've answered this before, but just to clarify, to learn Islam, Islam has generally been kind of codified the understanding of Islam, how to do things in different schools of law. And they have generally come down to four mainstream kind of schools of, if you want to call them law or thought or whatever within Islam.

I would advise that if you want to learn Islam, you should learn you should learn them through one of these schools of law. That will maintain consistency. Okay? So, I do advise that. Uh I personally They are known as the school of Kufa, the school of Iraq, Imam Abu Hanifah's school, school of Imam Malik, the school of Medina, Imam Shafi'i's school, and the school of Ahmad ibn Hanbal.

I personally advocate the school of Medina, the city of the Prophet, which was the school of Imam Malik. And he obviously not only is a legend, but I feel that school is most suited for our day and age, especially in the West. And I've highlighted that before. So, but that said, if you do wish to choose different rulings in between to make life easier for yourself, then that is permissible.

You can do that. And if you are school of suicide bombing, what the hell are you on about, man? God damn. Right, blocked. Right. So, So, that's my uh explanation. You can uh It is I've I've blocked that person, yeah. So, you can choose different things to make life easy, but in general, I do advise that you learn your Islam through one particular school.

On that note, I'll give you a little announcement, inshallah, following uh Eid, maybe a week after. I'm just choosing the platform that it will be delivered on because it's I'm not think I think Facebook Live is not the best option, but I will be delivering classes on fiqh. I've chosen a text uh from the Malikiya, from the school of Medina, that I will be delivering, inshallah.

So, watch this space, inshallah, for more of that. I I did used to teach before and then I kind of for a few years I I stopped. And the other day I was sitting here and I picked up that book over there. You can't see it now. And I was going through and I was just like, wow, I love what Ibn Baziza has done in this commentary. And then I thought I just realized how much I missed teaching it.

And I thought, you know what? God damn, I need to I need to teach this stuff. So, inshallah, it's coming back on. It's coming back soon. I just let Eid go past and I'll chat with some with my team, with my little crew, uh with my homeboys. All right. And we'll get a inshallah um something going. So, I do advise sticking to a school and really the Maliki school.

So, it doesn't matter what school of thought you are, jump ships, people, cuz this ship is going to make it there much faster. Right. So, but if you need to pick and choose, you can, okay? If you need to pick and choose, you can do it. It is not haram. Anybody who tells you otherwise is really just trying to control you by misusing religion. Let's take another question. Somebody asked, what do we believe about seven heavens and seven hells?

I don't think this seven hells is mentioned anywhere, but in the Quran, you have this thing of sab'a samawat. And in some uh versions, sab'a aradin, the seven earths. Now, seven heavens there doesn't mean heavens like jannat. It means samawat, like the cosmos kind of things. This, in in my understanding, is uh the Arabs would use this.

Sheikh, how did you meet your wife? Which one are YOU TALKING ABOUT? UH-OH. I BETTER WATCH OUT NOW. There's going to be like coordinates given. Right. Can you detonate something at this coordinate? All right. Either that or my food is going to be poisoned and next thing you hear is Mufti Abu Layth poisoned to death.

Right. So, now Right. So, coming back to uh I've lost my Yes. So, it mentions in the Quran about the the seven heavens and the seven earths, so to speak. Seven was used by the the Arabs for a great number. That This was a common number they referred to.

You need to learn how to laugh. Well, I'm sorry, Shabnam G. Shabnam X. Shab X. Sh Hum ek shama ki jiye, Prabhu. Right. So, I ask your forgiveness. Right. So, Nathan, that's not true. Okay. Right. So, the So, this was used by the Arabs, the number seven, for just excessive.

Just as we have today, um the people In English, there's certain numbers that are commonly used. So, this was So, today people like for for for a brief amount, people always use often use generally use the term like two. Like, hey, give me two minutes. Hey, give me two seconds. This is just a it's a figure of speech, okay? It's a way of speaking.

And the Arabs used to do the same thing for saying seven, you know, seven of them. Like, there's just loads of them, like that. So, um Yeah, like in Game of Thrones, the seven kingdoms. Right. What's going to happen, huh? Game of Thrones, who gets the Iron Throne? Well, well, we can't discuss that here right now.

So, when Allah is speaking about the seven heavens, he's speaking about the vastness of the cosmos, okay? Somebody had asked earlier as well, can they be alien life? Um I believe they can be alien life, and why not? Um why not, people? Why not? Somebody asked earlier on, what do you think about the jinn? Are they aliens?

I I don't I'm not sure if the jinn are aliens, but it is interesting that you know, when you read up on the domains of life, and you have the domains of life kind of um this Generally, right now in science, they kind of break into three. They kind of break off into three. You have the archaea, bacteria, and you have eukarya. And from eukarya, you get all the other kind of kingdoms.

So, you know, you'll get the animal, the plant kingdom, the You'll get all all kinds coming off from there, really. Now, and then from the different phylum, and then class, and then order, and then family, and then uh you'll get genus, and then species. Now, archaea, which is the first um My brother modulated his laugh to sound like yours and forgot Well, shukran, Nimra.

Shukran. I I'm honored. I'm honored. Nimra. What a name. I I do say I I I find people's names intriguing. And if you don't know what that means, that means like a tiger tigress, I guess. Tigress. All right. So, now This coming back to this. All right. So, it is interesting how archaea are actually extremophiles.

So, they are the tiny single-cell kind of um I mean, kind of like organisms which don't have a nuclei and stuff like that. So, they're different, and they're different to bacteria. And they're extremophiles, so they can actually survive thrive in extreme like boiling like you couldn't boil them at boiling point. They They can thrive well beyond between, you know, over 120° even C.

In almost absolute freezing conditions, they can survive. They can survive in extremely poisonous and toxic circumstances. They can survive in space. And the European Space Agency has conducted its experiments, and they survived there. And it's amazing. And I thought that it's amazing how people didn't link things like I'm not saying that they are jinn, but I'm saying if they were to link jinn, I'm surprised they didn't link them with things like that as opposed to kind of because they you know, that I'm just saying the way that the kind of

link in the Quran is given khalaqnahum min qablu min naris samum, and from this fire, something thriving in fire and stuff like this that the the jinn before were created uh well before humans uh in these conditions. And it's interesting how I'm just saying, and this is what people like Rashid Rida kind of allude to, although I don't think he said archaea, but he said things like microscopic organisms and stuff like that.

Anyway, let's move on, people. Let's move on. So, Jon Snow is not actually Jon Snow. Right. Okay. That's interesting. What do I think of Ibn Sina's theory of the infinity of universe? What do you do and do What do you think about it and Zakir Naik? What do I think about Zakir Naik? Right. Ibn Sina's theory, I think jinn could be the White Walkers.

All right. That's interesting. Right. Now, the hmm the infinity of the universe, I do feel that the universe had a point of origin, and that's what science also kind of confirms that the way the universe is expanding shows if you play that in reverse, it seems to go back to a single point of origin.

Uh that is scientific. That is also my belief. So, I disagree in the infinity uh the infinite nature of the universe. Although it from a scientific perspective, it could be argued that did that universe then spin off from another a multi kind of universe as I know Dr. or Professor Lawrence Krauss has argued these kind of things, but that's very speculative that science hasn't kind of found anything uh conclusive like that.

So, my understanding is it does go to a single point of origin. Right. Now, but other than that, I think Ibn Sina, the fact that he was a great thinker, is amazing. It doesn't mean we have to call concur with all of his thoughts and decisions. Right. Those of you who are just joining in, ahlan wa sahlan, people. Right. Feel free to like, share, get this out there, and post your questions.

Inshallah, I'll try to get to them ASAP. All right. So, um What do I think of Zakir Naik? Hmm. See, Zakir Naik, I think in some ways is has amazing, you know, maybe qualities, and you know, he has like a computer of a mind, and he can memorize things that that that just seem incredible, and he can quote things um things done like, you know, this book, this page, and this this this.

And he he definitely has a you know, like a kind of market or an audience that he has tackled and engaged in in I think comparative religion and stuff like that. So, that was great and admirable and deserves credit. I think the issue has been sometimes on his opinions when it comes to Islam.

That I've had an issue with. I think they're very sometimes misleading. They're very kind of typical Salafi way of looking at things, very kind of puritanist. And And his his response on one of the questions to evolution was just just absolutely absurd. And his response to some questions are just so Anyway, I don't really want to go into them.

And And they do more damage from that perspective than they than they possibly aware of. Right. So, what are some other questions? Where have these questions gone? Who do Who do I think will sit on the Iron Throne? Uh that's Right. I can't be discussing that here. Your views on Britain First and Tommy Robinson. Watching some of their videos.

I think Tommy Robinson uh is an idiot, an absolute idiot. He's a bigot. He's a racist in my in my understanding. Um and he's somebody who is producing, you know, he's highly His actions are highly irresponsible for the following he has. Uh he does nothing but incite hatred into um the heart of this country and tries to tear away at the fabric of what makes this country an amazing country.

Uh and that is it it's it's foundations upon tolerance and harmony and cohesion in a society. So, I think what he does I I I abhor he his kind of uh that attitude. It's very I mean, some people that follow him obviously may be the same as him, and some may be just very They may be people who are misled.

And this is why I dislike him more. Because some people out there, I suppose, if you are working white cla I mean, working class white, uh maybe kind of underprivileged within the UK, and there may be many people like that. It's easy to to kind of see scapegoats, and it doesn't help when people like that yell from the top of their throats all this kind of bigoted hate thing.

The fact that he goes on about the Pakistani Pakistani kind of peop men and grooming and stuff like this and the Daily Mail. The Daily Mail should just be should be burned. That's what it should be. It's nothing but fuels hatred. I mean, this you know, the way they really picked on Pakistani men for for these kind of crimes. And And from the offset, I will say that these kind of crimes are an abomination, and no kind of abuse as any should be tolerated.

But And I say that time and time again. But to pick out and single out an ethnicity, and to blame it on Muslims, and uh is utterly unacceptable. Right. There are many that much that that If you want to pick on pedophiles and sex offenders, then the largest clear the clear profile for that is English white men.

Usually middle-aged. That is what the profile is. I'm sorry. I'm That's not me making that up. That is the profile. The largest number of offenders constantly being imprisoned and charged and being sentenced for pedophilia, for horrific kind of child abuse, and for horrific sex offenses and things like this are middle-aged usually uh white males who like are from weird kind of backgrounds.

That is who they are. They are not Pakistani. Right. Now, just because some Pakistanis have done it as well to single them out and to make it an ethnicity god damn problem to make it an ethnicity Shukran Abida for sharing the statistic 90% that is wow that is see see how overwhelming that is to make it a and then some people say well it's not surprising their prophet married a child the prophet did not marry a child Aisha was in her late teens despite what some idiots teach out there.

Okay now I've got a detailed video on the age of Aisha if you haven't seen that then please do it's on YouTube like it share it get it out there so you know let people hear what is the true understanding of Islam. Right so let's let's fire out some questions because I'm going to have to call it a wrap pretty soon my battery is coming to an end I forgot to charge the iPad I'm afraid so right so if you haven't watched my age of Aisha go to YouTube do watch it like it share it get it out there inshallah

Mary became pregnant despite being a virgin how would you respond if somebody says uh this is at odds with the voice of reason that is a a very good question how did Mary the mother of Jesus not the mother of God right almost say the mother of God by accident that is all certain people would need right the mother of Jesus alaihis salaam alaihimas salaam that you know peace and blessings upon both of them how did she become pregnant look we as Muslims and

Christians believe that to be a miracle now does that clash with the entire laws of nature and the laws of science well not I would argue that it doesn't because because parthenogenesis parthenogenesis uh is where a where a female can give birth without male intervention right does occur in not only many I mean it occurs in many in invertebrates okay including in fish in

in certain uh in in certain birds in in in several creatures and it up to a few decades ago up to only a few decades ago parthenogenesis was not even known to occur in any kind of invertebrates like that so it's only been discovered now within the last few decades now it generally doesn't occur in mammals and things like this but what I'm trying to say is within the within the domain of life within our general

within this domain we have several kind of other invertebrate species that do demonstrate parthenogenesis they do give birth without male intervention so although it isn't known to occur in mammals does that make it impossible I would say by our current understanding you could say that oh it it you know it doesn't but then up to a few decades ago we didn't even know that it occurred in certain birds we believed it to be impossible so I would say that this belongs to the realm of

um what what is yet to be known so it's kind of like perry logical as many scientists would say and stuff like this so I don't believe it's at odds with the voice of reason I do believe it's incredibly unlikely uh so so I know I can't get pregnant but we keep trying Anthony is that right so but I'm talking about parthenogenesis so for a male to get not for a male for a female to get pregnant by herself by producing if the egg was

to produce a double set of chromosomes and it was to then fertilize which does happen in several uh domains of life within the known kingdom and in within recent decades it's been discovered to happen in more species than we anticipated okay so in birds in fish in other things it's it's now been discovered to us so what I'm trying to say is that it's not at odds with the voice of reason okay so so so that's no this is my response from the voice of reason perspective that

parthenogenesis is not unscientific it is scientific although it does it's not known to occur in mammals but it wasn't known to occur in birds either up until a few decades ago and think about it this has been science we've been logging the the characteristics of creatures since the time of Aristotle so I'm just I'm just bringing that to you know to your no in these species right in these species you can study these kind of species parthenogenesis and how they do

replicate and things like that okay I'm not saying I I'm not doing my PhD on it but I'm just providing a response to is it absolutely uh unfathomable it's not unfathomable that's what I'm saying right okay uh somebody said that the eye suspended between the heaven and the earth is this statement literal no it's it's not literal it's it's a general expression right so let's I tell you what people let's fire out a few questions if you've got them then going to call it a wrap uh

if somebody asked you to recite some Urdu poetry what would you recite there's way too much poetry to recite people way too much poetry to recite poetry I love it all that's what it is uh have you watched Hamza Georges versus Lawrence Krauss I have I've given my thoughts on it on my discussion with the Mad Mamluks I wasn't incredibly impressed to be honest with you although Hamza Georges Torts is incredibly talented I do give that

Faraz Ghaleb and Mir Taqi Mir are all legends of the Urdu uh poetry right people I've got to call it I got to call it a wrap I got to wrap this up because the battery is just gone down to 5% so I'm going to have to get this uploaded too so people do like it leave a positive comment share it get this out there let people kind of let your friends and family be exposed open up their minds let them have this cognitive opening people and if you do have any questions you can message me inbox me on Facebook you can

add me on Twitter on Instagram you can Snapchat me on Malm 2014 malm2014 right and I'll leave with the dua Anthony Corda you rock too man you rock too that's what I'm talking about that all praise be to Allah alhamdulillah alhamdulillah wa subhanallah wa ta'ala ammaya sifun that he is above what they ascribe to him wa salat wa salaam ala al mamnun the best of blessings and salutations upon the messenger who said al madina khairul

lahum law kanu ya'lamun that madina is better for them if only but they knew so with that people take very good care of yourselves and I'll catch you next week inshallah salaam alaikum wa rahmatullahi ta'ala wa barakatuh