Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth | Session 37

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all right so let's begin in l-hamdu lillahi kathira wa salatu salam o allah rasool allah hill mustafa wada i body live in october remember who Dahomey tada Bobby sorry Medina tougher or but for salam wa alaikum warahmatullah wabarakatuh sana asks is waterproof lipstick permissible how would you make wudu whilst wearing it what how would you make wood oh I don't know I mean how

do I do we do now that I have lipstick on I mean can I still wash my hands can I still have I become incapacitated right so let's take that as a first question as an opening question people as an opening question right let's drink to that huh what what say you right so somebody said well shukran compliments as soon as I begin yes and uh you guys are gonna spoil me several rights of start

yeah scene Alamo salmon right so first of all the question on lipstick how do you still do all the way you still do although in the exact same manner that you do you just you know you whatever begin with the mouth rinse the mouth nose face arms head feet it's the same thing right so does the does the lipstick prevent your voodoo from being valid was the question no it does not in my understanding none of those things prevent

will do from being Valley that's my understanding which I've presented based on what Imam Malik has taught and I've highlighted this before when I've elaborated expanded right elucidated yes the woods look at the woods some of my mates were trying to take the mick out of me for that they were trying they were trying to when I was saying about the woods so I'm going to stress that even more the woods people the words las palabras las palabras right so the thing

is look I've highlighted when I've discussed my Fatah a few years back I think about two three years back maybe when I gave the flat white light of the understanding of Imam Malik and the spirit of the school of Medina that a woman wearing nail polish or nail varnish or whatever you call it that's absolutely sham bebe a domicile and Salaam aleikum right that does not prevent you from being valid you voodoo is fine you can do wudu above just you know you can have nail polish on whatever and do your do it's fine

so I've given that but what previously and this is the same thing so waterproof lipstick foundation things like this in my understanding all take that same ruling okay and I did highlight how recently how I was really pleased to also find the fatwa transmitted by if not offer from his shoe from and the likes of Cara Wien and other Musharraf within the Maliki method saying that they were giving similar Fatah WA in

their age when women were they were using a particular kind of hair some substance which was a obviously this is like six hundred years ago but but what I was reading in the book that in their time in their day in age they were using this particular substance which was it was waterproof if you like so it wasn't water couldn't pass through it and many of the old man had traditionally said that the Voodoo and Xhosa was invalid but Cheryl Orion right and that some of the Messiah cover

of even out of fan of the people and they gave the fat one I've lab rated on this in a previous previous shell so you can check that out in shall I gave more details then but they said that that was absolutely fine because otherwise you would end up with people refusing to pray and this was I did Haider I discussed this briefly with the chef Mohammed mahasin a dead do as well who agreed with this understanding as well ok so it's all fine the main thing is the ritual you can wash the face you know if you've got makeup on it doesn't you don't have to eliminate the makeup

in my understanding is it permissible to trim or remove nose hair for men Mahmood mahi-mahi Allah no you just have nose hair coming out sorry coming out swarming the vicinity display your Sydney sees it can make way for my nose here as well please I'm just sorry I'll just I'll be taking two seats please there'll be one for me and one for my nose here alright so of course you can of course

look people we need to chill out with all this kind of stuff it will be saved look over a thousand years ago eleven hundred years ago most rights in his text removing any hair right is not an issue okay the only thing that people there was some debate about what is the situation of the beard or for men within Islam beyond that there is nothing and for women I suppose there was this understanding that just shaving you know the shaving the entire head was an issue but beyond that and beyond

the discussion of the beard for men whatever and this disagreement on it but everything else is fine okay you can remove whatever here you want people don't worry about it this is not changing the creation of Allah okay write that here is not because Allah is saying I divinely decreed for you it's probably just because you're from I don't know Pakistan where you've been unfortunately blessed with unnecessary

unnecessary warmth resources in one of the hottest place regions in the world [Laughter] it's like where you totally don't need here because it's so hot but what the hell the genes say you know what because of all your interracial I mean not inter cousin Mary if marrying we couldn't be sparing in other things but I tell you what you can have the whole thing when it comes to here don't worry about well

get it's yours consider it yours no I swear you know when we used to study back in the days when I was in a mother so believe it or not when they when they allowed me to be in religious seminaries back in the so the thing so they were there were a lot of international students it was an international mother sir and in Karachi Pakistan and we had a lot of these students from places like Indonesia Philippines some from

Philippines from Thailand loads of tile Thai students and they're all kind of I mean they're obviously different nationalities and everything but they they have a similar kind of features and stuff like this to them and and most of them are they don't grow much facial hair so they just have like worn here coming out here two years coming out the end and I remember one of the guys he just had like this one here this one here coming out and right and and this one day fell

out and he was gutted sorry for the guy I mean I was but I was thinking I mean come on he's only one here but the guy was totally torn to pieces I was thinking hey you could just loan some of all here god damn it yeah rip this out take it take it we don't we don't want it god dammit we know anyway let's get back to some of these questions is it okay to pray behind a person who has a body of a human and a

head of a dog whoa Oh see now that person's got his name in some foreign language I can't read it but I would love to call his name out and and ask him Bravo where do you hang out what and what drugs are you on if you want to share a link to your supplier in the thing and then maybe you know we can all kind of share out the the head and we can all have this session while sitting in your world right so anyway it's far here from I syllabus far here on

Sakhalin people let me first of all say shukran ahead you reminded me this we there was just the the race UK 2017 event has just come to an end over this weekend it was held in Manchester in in from town Birmingham the heart of England and London I think it was amazing definitely something that if you didn't go there I think you should really in the future look out for these events I met that here there and many other people there it was great to meet the

people I thought the sometimes I don't okay this might sound how this might sound but sometimes I you know it's Lamech speeches aren't necessarily the most engaging of things and sometimes I you know like I might not it's difficult listening to a lot of Islamic speeches sometimes I mean you just because they're just saying the same thing and it's just you know how it is I'm being called a heretic already but I have to say here this was just awesome the talks were amazing dr.

Omar Abdullah gave an amazing speech about how the voice of reason is necessary Rashidah I lead the daughter of Muhammad Muhammad Ali was the AVA heart felt kind of like speech which really brought the crowd tears and she herself you know was overcome by tears and Imams ate shark here gave an amazing speech on the importance of social compassion but yeah it was um it was amazing so I think that was really good I have to express this

that I I'm I'm kind of hurt that Birmingham has such a bad reputation I mean Birmingham is awesome people and a lot of these international speakers don't really want to come to Birmingham for some reason and they feel that it's really so there's a lot of trolling that takes place a lot of bullying online a lot of they feel that it's kind of swarming with nut cases and people that are just really full of hate and violins

and and that's not true so I think we really need to disprove these rumors and show that Birmingham the heart of England is nothing but love people it beams with love so right so that's so inshallah I think and the Birmingham team that pulled off this event I think they did a great job and people really need to support this so I just wanted to put that out there right so let's Birmingham is swarming with nutcases I see your point but I just feel I feel

hurt or hurt might be a strong I feel disheartened that those nut cases can hijack you know the the heart of England the city of a million people right which the overwhelming people are not nut cases so yeah anyway let's get back to some of these questions now there's been a hell of a lot of questions

my problem is critical it's in the inbox I'll have to check that in the inbox later on in Reese I've got a question there's a hadith which supports interracial marriage I heard that there is one which says that if you have offspring that you will produce stronger offspring okay because marrying your cousin makes them weak but then the question says that didn't highly early alone marry fatima who was a cousin kind of yes so ali was technically the cousin of the Prophet

but yeah kind of cousin meaning relative okay so good question it's not a hadith as far as I'm aware luckily it's it's a statement from Omar where he says and advises that people should marry that they should the ugly boo fin Nika that you should it's not necessarily saying I mean it's not against it's encouraging all the the hadith or the the the opinion of Ahmad is not saying go find necessarily different races it's just saying distance yourselves that's what

the word is saying which includes obviously but you have to remember the world back then didn't live like it was a cosmopolitan like there weren't so many different races in one place but there were different people and so the hadith or if you want to call it a D right look at this what is the ruling I'm wearing super tight clothes didn't my Mallik permit this look at that though he'd Ahmed puppy Bapuji imam malik actually does permit that and it's actually discussed in beyond what I see

in I believe it's the eighteenth volume oh it's one of the final volumes is in the German section and if nourished is transmitting from him and he's discussing with his teachers about the hadith of women dressed in tight clothing and whatever and then this discussion comes up of men and Imam Malik actually highlights that it's it has no relevance because men do not even need to cover their tops so technically I could take this off but I'm not going to so Bapuji I hope that answers your question right so now coming back to

this so what signa Ahmad was asking or was encouraging was that people distanced themselves and it is healthy and he does mention who are aqua lists allele it's better for the offspring and that is true the more you kind of diversify the gene pool the better is and I've hi and I think we've discussed this on so many occasions I do think this thing of marrying cousins and that is very I find it appalling now but that's just me but I mean it's very widespread but in in the Pakistani community is very widespread you see the

example of Sayyidina Ali and Fatima or the allahu anhu man doesn't really qualify like that because it was you see in the arabs it was it did happen as a one-off it was the exception not the norm so when you have a lot of diversity fiying then some marriages amongst cousins don't really make a difference because the the mothers are different like so for example you might be related through the father but there's a whole different rich gene pool that's coming in from the maternal aspect and their parents and

nip so it diversifies it's not just cousin upon cousin upon cousin upon cousin then it might as well just be your brother and sister Mars all just be like Benji up up uh-huh oh I remember watching this comedy show worldwide several years back where the guy say he says hey this is how he introduces himself on the wedding night because they're just meeting for the foot size for a because they're Pele hamara nikka without ceasing cinema our

own right so let's get on to this next question right so what was the controversy between Aloha Sally and Paddy yard al-maliki miss R and T two T two Mir two Mir led to me right has asked this question right so now let's see there were issues obviously they

were not hardly in Europe I mean there wasn't I suppose there was some overlap of time but the call the yield generally fell in line with a lot of the Maliki at the western muslims in in in the time of Imam Ghazali you see you have to remember something people Obama's Ali was an amazing legend of this home unquestionably but like everybody he you know he had a personality he was a person he which wouldn't necessarily

resonate with everyone you have to understand that Imam Ghazali in the centuries after him was also slightly recreated as a personality and definitely became almost like a symbol symbolic of the tasawwuf kind of movement the chef ie I sorry the the the Sufi kind of orders and things like this although I don't think he himself had a particular order I don't think he was part of any kind of group so-called groups but he was definitely a Sufi in his later life why the full meaning of

the word as in became very ascetic and hermetic became a hermit and a recluse and abandoned everything and lived in a desert in a tent and wore patched clothing and he went really from you know you have like from rags to riches he went from riches to rags but by choice and and people found that very strange but with that he went through a lot of internal turmoil as well he gave up on a lot of things people say that you know he was impacted he was very close to Nizam or nizam al-mulk one of the patron governors who was

assassinated by the but by the sect the assassins and then this impacted us early but whatever in any wrote his books and he really turned against philosophy I don't personally agree with that thought of his but turning against philosophy the way he did I understand why he did it he did it because he philosophy to him in my understanding and what other Olimar saw was that it led him to immense doubts about Islam and so Imam was earlie himself questions

and questions Islam questions the validity of faith and finds himself in a very dark place as most people would who have ever taken their religion from a thinking perspective very seriously so if you tell me there's many people who take the Islam seriously from a practical perspective they may not necessarily find themselves in troubling waters but people who are very rational I'm very kind of critical and very they think a lot and they take Islam very seriously they at some point in their lives will

definitely find themselves in troubling waters about the faith that's just a way of because you have to question everything and and then so and I think one of the ways he mammoth has earlie writes that how he found his salvation was to debunk the entire philosophy I don't think so Haley this is necessarily after with a bar I suppose yeah and I'd like to come back to that I think philosophy personally is awesome and but anyway that's what led Imam al-ghazali to doing that Imam has earlie also when he became very hermetic he his book Illuma Deen which is and I'm sure

is it's an amazing book in its own right but it does contain a lot of weak or some fabricated hadith and it spread stories and and it gives this image of Islam as though it's very ascetic and very Islam is all about anti world antimatter anti it's about being living like a hermit it's as though it's as though this world ain't worth living it's a very morbid kind of view that Imam Ezeli presents in his later life and that's because of the stage that he was in now a lot of the people didn't

necessarily like that Imam ahaziah sorry I called the yard was one of the people in the Western Muslim world who who ruled for his book to be burnt I am against burning books so I disagree with that agreement of called the yard and other people but I do accept I mean I understand where they were coming from they were saying they were against this understanding of Islam being presented as this Hamitic practice that you see it's not that they were saying is that people like that isn't a part of the Islamic tradition but they were refusing to accept that Islam is this Hamitic

tradition there's a difference and you have to remember in all the Earth's time Sufism was not the mature majority practice or the majority worldview to saw wolf probably a hundred years after car the yard probably around the 600 700 onwards becomes a dominant practice throughout the Muslim world and then it becomes in the hundred years that follow it becomes the norm probably linked into things like the plagues the bubonic plague the Black Death things like this I believe in my personal understanding had a kind of link with

the rise of Sufism that it spread because people then turn to self blame I don't mean this in a way to criticize Sufism I'm just saying just as an analysis I think that because when people struggled with understanding how the plague spread they eventually resorted to it being a curse from God because of these sins and then this whole turn towards let's become more spiritual and you have to remember this is the time the great dynasties have collapsed like the mole heads have collapsed and they had a lot of barracks that were left they used to call these

robots so the robots become the NewsHour's and that is where the Zowie is actually were established in the former robots of the Mohideen dynasty which had almost a third of africa under its reign so you have two so these are the kind of things that led to thee but anyway so a lot of people weren't too keen on some of the things that Imam al-ghazali was doing they obviously rated him as a legend in his faith and Massoud but you have to remember the level the latter-day Imam Ahaziah is not so much the he's not presented as the Fatih that was hooli which is but he's

more presented as the Hermit the ascetic the Sufi the one who wants nothing to do with the dunya in fact he himself then says studying faith is really from the worldly sciences he places that under studying dunya Sciences is like studying fit and I can understand that because he saw all of corruption and things like that but anyway that so that was the the kind of I don't think there was a strong in tea or anything between called the yard and imam ghazali but I I know that Khalid was part of the general feel the culture Muslim culture of the West which wasn't so down with this whole Sioux

'fuck Hamitic lifestyle you have to remember Andaluz was very strong in a Haditha culture so they didn't like this thing of having weak hadith being found being spread so there is that it nourished would you please shed some light on the reception of ignorance works in fact especially muscle amongst Maliki jurists I'm not sure which if nourished you were asking about this - both are accepted as legends within the method the grandfather algid is more popular outside the matter of the grandson al-hafiz is more popular the

philosopher both have works and contributions on theft and assault there is more work on fact by the grandfather but the Baudette are mujtahid which also consider includes sulie opinions and then it nourished i'll happy the grandson has a summary of Rosalie's book almost a sparkle of the Rudi Theo Suez death which I do have somewhere actually it's a very good book right so let's move on people next question but that is fascinating by the way and I think it's it's okay I want to

say it's okay to have great legends of Islam disagreeing with each other at times it's not you know somehow oh my god oh my god you know they just think of it like this think of if you have a family within your siblings you you may not always share the same likes and interests and and sometimes people don't even get on with their siblings and and imagine now a whole Muslim world so people will naturally disagree so there's nothing wrong with that okay so people like BA Kalani and Missouri also sorry not battle on your

tushy and Missouri they also have uttered some words of criticism against Imam Reza of his take and stuff like that but even though Auto be that the coffee was a legend was a great fun a great fan of Holly and he always refers to him as a Danish Monde the genius right okay so is it really a haram to celebrate your birthday party my asks with celebrate I mean eat something with family and friends is it Haram to wish someone happy birthday absolutely Haram no it's not it's not

harm at all there's nothing wrong in celebrating birthdays people right there's nothing wrong with that you can celebrate birthdays you can tell people happy birthday is it happy birthday people don't worry about it these are cultural practices they have nothing whatsoever to do with Islam Islam does not prohibit them obviously if you don't want to do it that's up to you but you need to stop imposing not you thought other people need to stop imposing the skewered understandings of Islam on other people right can you pray sitting

down if you can't move or bend your legs offer an intense leg day at the gym right if you can't stand up then you can sit down but if you can stand up then you must okay right so what is the ruling on Rosh wa-ha-ha-ha-haa County but but that's the ratio of people rich WA as the good old want to God for we have that's an old Bollywood reference

therefore the old funds right so like in countries that are too hard to get any legal things done without it you went to Syria you know yes I did go to Damascus Syria in the late 90s and in the early 2000s obviously it was a very peaceful place back then but I mean there was corruption but worse than that listen is that I've also been to Pakistan so if you want to Abdullah I Luis Avila and Alice Allen the sheriff's right so the thing is that I've also

been to places like Pakistan and you have to remember that is probably I think it's rated the second most corrupt country on the globe after Nigeria surprisingly and I would have personally thought it's number one but I mean hey whatever so can you pay rush wah bribe can you pay these kind they don't call them bribes they just call them whatever they want to call them by sheesh or chai pani just snack assistants

Bopha gift all right happy yeah that's that whatever you want to call it right so can you pay this to get things done the understanding is yes you can I don't I do not encourage let me expand on that people let me expand after I click my wage yeah if you can just leave that briefcase over there right so let me expand on this you can bro you can pay these kind of tips or whatever you want to call them to get you to obtain

your rights in Islam right now even Appa Tabor transmits in his allege River from I think it was author of the alone on that in their time they were going somewhere in a road and access was blocked by certain people and they said well you know we need to go through and he said well the person said no I'm not gonna let anybody through and kind of hinted unless you pay me and they paid him to go through and from here they expand that look this is not the same as bribery bribery this it's in two kinds one is if one is

prevent justice from taking place that is cut on her arm and that is what the Prophet condemned when he said the person Arashi will must achieve in now that the person giving and receiving this rish WA are in the fire the other is kind money that you have to pay to obtain a right which you ought to have okay I've got neva me in the house there people a scholar from down south London Alamos Island Nizam it's a few roughed right so there is a distinction between these two kind of if you want to call them bribery's okay one is to prevent justice and one

is to obtain justice so if the system if there was systemic corruption by which you cannot obtain justice except by having to pay somebody and you needed that thing done and then you are permitted to do so in Islam and I've shown that people from the selleth also made those payments because these are payments that you generally would not do you are doing them doing them against your own will and happiness but doing them to obtain a right that is your fundamental right okay so that's the

difference okay next question circumcision Solomon formative ah right so we've got here a question on circumcision I've answered this on several occasions before that look circumcision is anything is considered so strongly emphasized for males that's all right it is not for it is not for women sorry girls right it is not for girls and I've highlighted the differences in that and why the cultural practice is what they

said previously do is it an obligation you see the the anima generally some column I did say was an obligation but most orlimar felt it was a strongly emphasized Sunnah Navid in the houses that you do in it do and hit right so now the so most Alomar felt circumcision was a strongly emphasized son now okay in fact to the extent that it was symbolic of you being a Muslim that in several parts of the world they call it like in the indo-pak they would call it

sometimes muscle money that you make somebody go through the muscle man making them a Muslim obviously that's not true you know you're not Muslim based on your foreskin are you Muslim I don't know okay let me ask my foreskin or the lack thereof right so it's not one of those situations where your foreskin determines your faith that would be hilarious but I mean it is

symbolic is a socially symbolic of Muslims so I would say if it's not an issue and if a person is converted to Islam then I mean I would personally encourage acts like circumcision I do think they male circumcision I do think they are generally they are from the millah of Ibrahim Ali Salam from the Sunna of Islam they it is symbolic of Muslim male identity but also it's much it's hygienic and it doesn't it doesn't impact anything relax all right

obviously somebody could ask for how do you know well that's because my alter ego isn't circumcised now the thing is that it's it's it's much more hygienic as well so and as far as I'm aware I think in America it is actually the default thing for males they they are just circumsized that's my understanding I could be wrong right okay so next question people show it should we take some Pakistanis are awesome all right now they are they are

Pakistanis are or all people are awesome let's get some I've been missing some of these live questions let me see if I can bring some up here and yes right what I'm going to do is just check right look at that so I don't want to write the hadith about what room is it so he how should one look at he's at these kind of hadith right what her room means by it I taking you talking about Constantinople

the Byzantine Empire which collapsed at the hands of muhammad al-fatih that was a prophecy by the prophet muhammad salallahu alayhi wa sallam and it did materialize so I'm not sure if that answers your question right so I can't seem to see the questions here right so let's let's see any interesting what's your opinion on sufi experiences in cash

seeking guidance from angels right okay can I share my thoughts on beer Karim sha Rehan solemn on asking that that's a very good question I would like to take that right beer gunshot for those of you who don't know people is a legendary scholar hailing from from Pakistan the indo-pak world who his works are mainly inaudible buddies left an amazing legacy right I'm just sorry briefly interrupted

perfect Hartman Raja sorry okay we've gotta have our jnana Salam aleikum I'm 30 there that's later people this is

okay tikka as-salaam-alaikum bundle take it down right yeah Jordan right so the thing is yeah about beer Karim shall serve he he in you see we're gonna take a slight step back you have to understand that this whole there is a certain there's different ways of thinking within Islam right and I've spoken about this previously there is the understanding

deeply rooted which I believe is the mainstream Orthodox position of Islam taught by the Prophet hailed by his his you know his cousin if not a bus route the allahu on and other people that this deen is one firmly built on reason this has come right through Islam unfortunately at some points its face turbulent waters and it's been challenged and some people who have been more dogmatic as opposed to reason based they have kind of sometimes tried to I don't know

snatch the mic from Islam and then some people there's been this struggle this ongoing struggle about is the Deen based on reason or is it not based on reason is it just something which should just be spiritual and a mystical or even if it's not mystical but it's just tough it's like whatever we have we have and Imam Malik was very much based on reason and many of the Malik here come with this understanding right through to our recent times we've you know got great legends of Islam obviously people like your mom shot to be in his time but whole tradition if not a shoe from the last century people like cher Abdullah

bin Bayer today chef roogie and many other great Maliki legends shall add matter a Sunni Mustapha bin Hamza all these people are still part of that voice of reason now in the subcontinent there was also this kind of a movement to to reclaim this true traditional Islam which is based on reason and one of the key people to do that was Charlie Liddell OE several centuries ago we're talking almost three to four hundred years ago shall chef Charlie a la talla we he kind of revives this whole spirit

within Islam and sometimes he is misunderstood and he's so loved within the indo-pak world that he is claimed by all sects today so you have people like the salafiyyah the annual hadith movement trying to say he was a hadith because he was all about refusing to Grindley follow then you have the you know the Obon diya will claim him the Braille via will claim him everybody will claim him some of the Sufis will say he was a great Sufi other people say he was against Sufism and and this and there is some confusion around some of his writings but he has a book

called Hodja to live balihar which is really just dealing with the massive of the Sharia the objectives of the Sharia and it's called the the compelling argument of God and it's all about that the Deen is built on reason and I will in my understanding in out in this last century from the indo-pak in the last few decades of our time this legacy in Pakistan was inherited by the likes of Pierre kerim Shah who was who

who was not only one he was it was also one of the the supreme kind of judges when on matters of sharia within Islam but he was a revolutionary figure and a he kind of inherits this legacy Peter I'm sure others of trying to bring reason back and to the forefront and he tries to do this in his top seed and in his in his books and in his Fatah war and in his teachings and he was the first person to introduce in his in Pakistan SEC Sekulow if you want to call them secular but mainstream education in a

madrasah so he kind of fused the two together so all of his mother saw it like his main mother sabirah Sharif in Pakistan was the first one to introduce combined education because he felt it was necessary for Muslim scholars to be clued up about the sciences of the world to not be kind of like clueless and he himself was an academic he graduated from al-azhar he had great links with the people in as hard beuker I'm sure Saab did and so I have huge and immense respect I I consider him from my indirect teachers I studied

at his in his madrasah in Pakistan one of the mattresses I studied in was his mother's although he had passed away before he passes away in the 90s but before I had gone to his although I did come to his mother I saw in the late 90s right 99 going into 2000 but I didn't really get to obviously yet passed away but I did meet his son day who is still today very active amino hasan ATSA right okay who does by the way they are they have inspired teaching and they have there's a center in dedication to them

to be kerim Shah Saab and his son in Birmingham called City City hasanat College which does offer as far as I'm aware free Island courses full-time part-time they have great teachers there those of you that have heard of share scene he is there he he was at this conference over the weekend somebody I respect I you know love now he is one of the teachers they they've got many of the teachers there now so and they are offering by the way they offering places for September so I know a lot of the time people ask me is anybody you know where can we go to

learn if you are around the Midlands you can travel then they do offer part-time full-time courses free as far as I'm aware but you can contact them city Asenath college and Charlotte I'm several of my close friends do study there currently so you know I've great feedback so anyway I thought I'll put that out there right let's move on to the next question people right okay what about all these cash van all these kind of things you see when it comes to religion there will be two kinds of people in line with this response I just

gave there will be that kind of person who is very much into the mystique of of faith he's into the mystical for him that is important for him that is all religion really has to be I can respect that you know I don't have but then you have the other kind of person who understands everything must be firmly built on reason this is part of in my understanding part of our tradition which the Prophet taught and was highly

presented by his the prophets cousin if not pass with the Prophet considered to be one of the most learned of this Ummah and passed right through the kinds like Imam Malik and so on and right through and I consider myself part of that line of thought that do believe that Deen must at all times be firmly rooted in reason now for me in so I find myself in line with those scholars the likes of even our roast and all these people who didn't really buy into all this you know this mystique element of Islam they

didn't necessarily see this religion really as this thing of they saw this more as folklore sometimes superstitions sometimes just myths and cultural kind of folkloric faith if you like this thing of like we communicate with angels we do this this happens all this mystical stuff happens I don't really personally buy into any of that people want to believe it they can to me these things that they all have a reasonable explanation to them okay now so if there's any event it can

be explained if you can't explain it it does not mean it does not have an explanation that is what Islam has taught us as far as I'm concerned right so I don't really buy into all this communicating with angels and you know seeing certain I'm not saying people haven't seen visions but I don't put my faith in stuff like that okay right let's move on people move on right is it true that Abu Hanifa rejected stoning to death for adultery I'm not sure if I've not heard that imam abu hanifa rejected

that but I'm not sure really to be honest with you I don't know I will see I know this has become more of a discussion in recent times and sorry I mean it has been a discussion over the centuries but it's become more of a discussion in recent times but so I know that the Maliki legend about cozumel broossooli almost seven hundred years ago said he kind of clearly highlights how the Sharia must reflect the ethics of the age and that the punishment system was simply a punishment system it

was not an act of worship so he highlights how this should and must reflect it's age so in his day and age he he highlights how all those punishments must be substituted with financial penalties which he then discusses with some of the kings of his time and they they embrace that method and several other Maliki embraced that method and I am in line with that way of thinking my understanding is in staiin age first of all stoning was something which was part of the Jewish law it was not initially something which Islam came with inside a Muslim the

prophet only condoned what the Jewish people brought to him in their personal trial this then remained a practice but was then to be substituted as soon as that community of humanity would change their ethics now I've got no idea what venir is asking yes and I refer to this as trajectory hermeneutics so somebody had asked am i against capital punishment personally I am against capital punishment although I would be

prepared to add a discussion level I am generally by default against all capital punishment right now and in my understanding that is what Sharia and Islam wants from us today that is what the Sharia mandates that it in this day and age things like this should be outlawed okay that is my understanding of what Islam is wanting from us and has traditionally always wanted from us so Islam set about a trajectory for human

ethics to develop now so that's my understanding I do understand some people have said things like this sometimes these vicious people who've committed great acts of terrorism and butchered children and done things like this and you know would you not in think capital punishment I do think those people deserve i I do think those people deserve capital punishment but would I you know do I feel that they should be for people like that or should they be punished continuously by some other method by having all their

freedoms and things like this taken away from them maybe that is a greater punishment for them and maybe executing them would be - for a state it would be too easy of a demise for these people you know maybe having to live decades you know come find almost 23 hours a day is maybe that's a greater punishment so that's I mean these are my these are my thoughts anyway right I'm at work tonight if Sal

al is asking the question right about Seurat the bridge of Sirat sharper than a razor thinner than hair bridge over he'll see these things we have no comprehension about what these things actually what these things actually are we just have certain descriptions about the Hereafter what exactly does this mean we'd never truly know ok these kind of things are describing the afterlife are simple just descriptions as if in a bar said that they do not have any

similarity with this world except through words like that like if the word tree is used it does not mean a tree like you know a tree so all I would say is that these things are simply what you know they highlighted within Islam I don't think it's all we do believe is that in the afterlife in Charlevoix Allah is very merciful and and he's his people will inshallah you know if Allah forgives them they will go and graces them and by His mercy they will go to Jannah how they will get their will they go over a bridge will they do this will

they do the what that we don't truly know we have some descriptions what do they exactly mean Allahu Alem ok Mufti sob do you stand for death penalty for committing adultery I've already answered this no I do not and that's in line with what will cost him and Brasilia said somebody asks there how do i reconcile with the Prophet being the best and his generation being the best of people you see when they said when the Prophet you have to read what the Allah mas said about that hadith when he's the older man when they write about this hadith when the Prophet said that I thought you know this is the best of times and then

it's after that and then after that this was relative it was not an absolute statement it did not mean for example the Prophet was speaking about for example global economic status he wasn't trying to say hey is this the best time for girl for global economy he wasn't speaking about that he wasn't trying to say hey is this the best time for space exploration is this the best time for medicinal breakthroughs is this the best age for cancer research is it no of course not nobody in fact the cell of

themselves when they comment on this hadith they say that's not what this hadith is talking about they are speaking within the context of religion of purity - religion as in the sincerity the the kind of when the most energy about the religion is concentrated it's in the prophets time and then after him and then after right then after after him after them so it's not about this is not about the best time so it's like

imagine I'm sitting in a class today and you guys come in so I say right so who is first today so somebody says I was does that mean he was the first in the world in everything no this is a context I'm talking about the first in this class in all like when Allah says to moosa alaih-is-salaam that well i took on a war like a fair mber do not be the first to deny this message what this Allah meaning the MOFA serine say in the Quran does Allah mean nobody before when Allah says that to Moosa nobody before him had ever disbelieve of course they had

along means in that context logical abuela Kevin do not be the first in this context they were the best with regards to the intensity of the the the kind of purity of faith the the the energy of Islam in that sense not in in every matter like hey were they the best in in driving cars of course absurd right to to kind of say that that and that would be actually I would consider it a blasphemy almost to have that kind of

interpretation because you're going to end up almost ironically ridiculing the messenger of allah sallallahu sallam by miss attributing things like that to him right so right so and and I want to tie this in with a question that somebody had asked me that they said that so how would it be that the Prophet today we've discovered things do we believe the Prophet was the most knowledgeable person on earth today we know things like quantum mechanics did would we say the Prophet knew these kind of things right right okay we have to understand

something the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam for us as muslims was the best of creation okay he is not Allah he's not God but he's the best of creation best of people for us as Muslims obviously to non-muslims they're not going to see him in the same light they might see him as a great leader as a great inspiration for people but not same way we see him now I understand that we will now say everything in praise of The Messenger of Allah but that does not mean we start to become absurd in our statements like we need to

still be people of reason okay does that mean that the Prophet had knowledge of everything in the world no it does not mean that the Prophet never claimed to have knowledge of everything in the world why would he do that that's absurd that that is it's almost disrespectful to the Prophet to say that that's like saying oh if the Prophet had absolute knowledge of everything that I mean it's it's I find that disrespectful because then why didn't he prevent the tragedies of his age that's not what the Prophet claimed ever he never claimed that he

never claimed that in fact many times when people would come to the Messenger of Allah he would say let's wait to see what Allah would rule will rule about this now that is now you have to understand the Messenger of Allah is not only when it comes to the Dean he is uncle it doesn't come obviously he is the most knowledgeable person he's not just the most knowledgeable person he is a legislator I believe and many of the Malik here many of the Schaffer here Sukie mentions it to be the opinion believed that the Prophet himself was a legislator

alongside a Lada he would legislate part of the rulings in Islam he would introduce them so I believe that now so when it comes to Islam he is the authority the Prophet himself is saying to you all when he inquired about them doing the tobira and how they used to cross-pollinate certain plants and stuff like this and and he said all that strange and and when they do this they left it that year and they and they messed up and they asked the Prophet the Prophet said I never told you to do that and to my animal be Amaury jr.

come you are better versed in the matters of your dunya when the Prophet was going to the Battle of Badr and then he asked where should we set up camp let's set it up here and then the person asks the Messenger of Allah Allah who is it from revelation or is this you know do you think is this your opinion and the Prophet said this is my opinion and then the person said then I would advise we set up close to that location because it has an advantage and it has a well and this and that and and people and the Prophet said that's a good idea the Prophet came to for example when he

came to Berea to ask her because maurice was so madly in love with her that please can't go can you tell her to take me back I want to marry her and she was like get a life so when the Prophet says okay okay I'll ask her because in Bihari they say that she used to run after her chaser in the streets of medina begging her to take him back so the Prophet you know he feels sorry for him in he asks and she says is that revelation and the process no so even the Sahaba understood that sometimes the Prophet is speaking from revelation sometimes he isn't so the prophecies no

it's just a suggestion and then she says no I want them and Prophet is fine it's your life I respect that so I think it's important so we don't stop making and some people say well oh the Prophet didn't know everything but when he was about to pass away he then knew everything I mean obviously then that would become I mean it would be impossible to disprove because you're trying to say the moment he passed away his knowledge was everything but the question is what is the point of going to such extremes to say this it does not diminish the Prophet is above that the

prophets honor and his amazing character is so far above us having to make absurd statements to bring love for him he is already the best of creation for us so we don't need to kind of make things up to make him more beloved he is beloved to us so I would say just hahahaha right get there man okay all right so the thing is right let's right so let's let's move on from that question but so that answers that

so no if people were to ask would you say the Prophet knew about cancer research would you say the prophet knew about no because these things were not applicable in his time the Prophet that would be a redundant question no obviously this was unrelated to his time altogether so the Prophet did not know about these kind of things but that's nobody it was not even a discussion in his age so end off right but at the same time when we are speaking about the prophecy Lila Salem it is important that

we don't read that we maintain the utmost other as Muslims especially the Maliki are really stringent about this that we show the utmost respect when wording using words to to kind of discuss or say anything about the prophet Elijah so we shouldn't kind of make a point in trying to say the Prophet did not know things like that shouldn't be that's that's dumb and it's disrespectful almost like I'm obviously we're answering something as a question but we shouldn't make a point of it to just say

like hey did you know the Prophet did not know things that that's like what is your point like why are you just trying to say this like I understand if there's a question and your answer but what is the point of just trying to say this I know in the past is this whole discussion on things like did the Prophet know what's behind that wall did the prophets knowledge be like this and sometimes there's certain statements that are transmitted from certain people and I do feel there's been a lot of discussion and in the indo-pak world this is the whole bloody this has become the end of the world I and people have said those statements weren't really

said I hope they weren't said because some of them were blasphemous from a Maliki perspective I I would find them offensive not about the fact that maybe some of them are you know like if you're going to say does the Prophet know things which are unknown not in that sense but in the comparisons that are given we need to be careful that's what I'm saying look what I'm saying is let's not resort to words which are disrespectful okay we must as Muslims show the utmost respect to the prophet muhammad salallahu alayhi wasalam you know that

is a basic that's a given okay so I think let's just have that inshallah as a kind of fundamental and I think sometimes like I've heard people as well go make this whole case about the prophets parents are in the Hellfire and stuff like this and I think really it is quite in my understanding I find it quite offensive I find it disrespectful I find it arrogant but you know first of all you're not to claim you know you're not God to say who is and who isn't in the Hellfire secondly these people

you're talking about are very beloved to the Prophet and thirdly it's none of your goddamn business that's all these kind of things I think Muslims find very offensive even out of these words against people like this were very harsh that anybody who says about the Prophet it's a parent's being in the Hellfire he kind of condemned them really harshly as do other people right saw the thing so that's my so I think these kind of things are just wrong going into somebody has highlighted that look why don't I go into some of the names of the

people look I don't I interested in going into names of people and I don't hold people today who may have a love for certain people responsible for what people may have said before so if somebody's going to say why don't you condemn the open these or why don't you condemn it's none of my business to condemn anybody okay I do not I refuse to condemn the abundant I refused to condemn brewery's I refuse to condemn the Salafi alike that as a as a whole yes certain practices certain things certain ideology certain opinions but as a whole thing that's not our business

right I do believe that as I've said before in the West the way forward for Muslims is to leave all this indo-pak baggage behind right and I don't really want to get into this kind of stuff because I find it really it drains it drains energy if you understand I mean I don't really obviously I don't like those those kind of words that have been allegedly uttered and I find them very disrespectful but then people have said they weren't uttered and there was a whole thing and let's just leave it whoever is whether he did or didn't say

is dead they've passed away we are not God let's leave this alone people today are Muslims Muslims today do not generally they do have a general inherent love for the messenger of allah now they may come off sometimes some people may come off like i said some people sometimes say or the prophet's parents are in the Hellfire but that just needs educating that's all okay if we leave the indo-pak baggage behind what shall we carry with us we should carry the Bernie and the Miss mandamus Allah the food is awesome right next

question let's take a look at these people Ibrahim Ali Salim smashed the idols it can be argued that this was a manifestation of extremism Rahman goes our big guts right so this was this a manifestation of intolerance or a hate crime but that's a very good question has shamrock has shamrock or I right right the thing is this was not

extremism okay because ibraheem alehissalaam is an amazing you know something i want to emphasize this and I think I like the way in the UK chef Akram Nedley has also emphasized this quite a bit and it's unfortunate that other people and I know not Assad no mana Rehan does emphasize this as well as times but it's unfortunate other people haven't emphasized this as much that obviously all profits are amazing but ibrahim alaih-is-salaam is an amazing amazing prophet of God for

us apart from this being part of his tradition Islam the Abrahamic faith but why the Abrahamic faith because he is the embodiment of the voice of reason Ibrahim Ali Salim during the entire Quran is the emblem the symbol of the voice of reason pointing point out every scene if you like that he is in in the Quran he is

bringing people to critical thought when he's saying oh maybe this is God now the Sun maybe the Sun is gone you know the Sun gives life and it does this and oh the Sun seems to say it how can something be gone if fame with her third eye Louis Allen Allen was a sugar how can the Sun be God hmm oh isn't this God how can that that's interesting how can that be covered you know he is reasoning

he is the the kind of almost in direct inspiration to the likes of Socrates that will come later on with this whole attitude of questioning people all the way this is Ibrahim Allison I'm Abraham who who begins this legacy legacy of let's resort to reason and when he smashes those idols he does it on purpose big it wasn't manifestation of hatred because if it was he would have smashed them all and just died disappeared but

that's not what happens when he smashes them he leaves the larger one and hangs the axe on him and he says in the Quran you know they said there's a flattened a young boyo pollo Ibrahim is called Ibrahim [Music] right shallot they explode they okay there wasn't one good right so the thing is now like right so when he leaves this

the the axe is with the the large statue and he says but for Allah who Kabira whom look the big statue he he's the one who brought them resort to reason come on because he knows what they are going to say they're going to say that don't be stupid how could statues are just dumb biggest figures they can't do anything that was with his point at Abu dude do you worship what I can't do anything he it was it was a catch-22 situation for them this was the voice the embodiment of

reason right so right the so just to just to highlight that that's not totally they have authority up job jammy-jam right so right now what is next question people god I need a drink Mohammed this Amman there's nothing just to take away that's all yeah call come back but - gonna kill you he died

[Laughter] hashtag Devdas these I've answered this question is the Prophet the most knowledgeable human advice for people who have to live with family members like parents or siblings who are always emotionally abusive get your own place get your own place people get your own place that's what I would say if you can people look and you're getting married as well definitely get married with your in your own place if you can I mean obviously if

you totally can't then don't but I would say if you can't make sure you do right you always have some thoughtful questions next some schools of thought have rejected some hadith for one reason or another hadith about Musa punching the angel the blind man murdering his wife can hadith be rejected if they go against the after and then we've got some other module who I don't like that Cunha already because that sounds like a trolling profile right is Jehan a lost island animus Allen right so people our counter

radicalization expert hailing from Brom town right there he's in the house right so and we've got some people this album edge who here making a point about HT first of all I want to highlight daddy's from the methodology of Allison awajum era it is from the teachings of imam malik and people before him from the teachings of people like if not a bus ignore my it comes through that hadith is not synonymous with sona that hadith are there's been a great job done a great excellent job done to preserve the body of hadith

but they are not they are not infallible okay there are some errors and sometimes we come across hadith that don't make sense as an and as April Josie said which sut transmits the three principal people I want you to remember the three principal where even if we're hadith once it meets the the validation criteria the sahi the five that it has to meet five conditions to be authentic and then it has to meet three to be valid at least okay

now the five it has to have a connected chain it to Silas honored bumped or what the transmitters have to be precise they have to be just good character it can knock clash it cannot have like any kind of contradictions within its chain or its content and it cannot be very and odd right so now then the three that makes it sorry it makes it authentic but is it valid even or Josie says it cannot laugh as long as we accept it my lamb you buy

in el Mar cool it does not stand out against reason to lamb you Holly film and all it does not clash with the transmitted tradition and this year would include things like for us as Malachy is the understanding that was inherited in Medina inherited in Medina right three Wellum you not a del Sol and it does not go against the overall principles of Islam then we accept it so things like Musa al-salaam punching an angel of death and stuff like this do go against reason so that's fine so you know we consider that something

has gone wrong here either the person who heard it misinterpreted or there's been a Mis translation or they sorry not translation miss transmission or somebody heard it from somebody else who thinks he heard it from the Prophet he didn't but something is wrong there is there's alarm bells ringing okay so we just quarantined that hadith now and this books and a science dedicated to this called muscular hadith by leading people of Alesana like even a phoric who was the father amongst the father the founding fathers of Alesana the ashati kind of whole

method really so anyway if you Sharla in the future I'd like to do something on that you were in line with my many projects that I'd like to do right so anyway somebody here said don't HT say this do not bring HT into this HT do not have a save regardless of whatever they say they are not an academic movement and they are not an enemy movement they are a political movement they HT people the Hezbollah hurried our neo forage movement they are a modern-day Huaraz

represent one brand of the Huaraz horrid is an umbrella term they are an extremist move organization that do believe in violence but just not in in the Muslim world only not in the non-muslim so they say in the UK we shall be violent but in the Muslim world they encourage military KU's and they are a cancer and and although look I accept many of them are great sincere people you know they're sincere they like good kind people I recognize that all human beings you know you can get really good people who are you know unfortunately part of this

cult they I'm not condemning them as a person I'm not saying you know that this guy is necessarily a bad person but the movement the ideology is a cancer it is in the UK it is definite in the world today it is definitely an extremist ideology they are extremists to tolerate them is to betray Allah and His Messenger I would say clearly that anybody who tolerates that kind of ideology of toppling States of causing military crews of telling people that they have guilt tripping them into doing

certain things these people have definitely heard you are from the huar age whether they they're not from the early group called the Hawaii but college was an umbrella term okay so you have to be careful if any of the young people around you have become affiliated with these people you need to really guide them away from this kind of an organization I do hope in sha allah they become prescribed and banned in this part of the world they are nothing but as i see and many muslim see a cancer which you know has unfortunately made they've produced they are the people who produce

the Quilliam foundation they are the people produced Maajid Nawaz I mean he was he is their production right they produced people like Anjem Choudary they produced people that went off and forgotten his name now Omar Sharif who went off and did the bombing they produced people that went on later on to do the London attacks they produce these people and countless other people all right but I don't want to really go on too much about them but I would say as a sincere thought if you know any young people that are getting influenced by them do be weary your own siblings your children

around you do not let them fall victim to this propaganda inshallah and I have and I think a lot of people like cher come to you surf and share our beloved mayor have done some great work in countering their ideology okay right next question people next question if you have more than one wife what a question right if you have more than one wife can you be intimate with them at the same time as in a quantum world

where you're in two places at once is the is the is the electron over here is the electron over this can you kind of like send them both the text message at the same time just don't create a simultaneous group with them right can you be intimate with them both at the same time I mean nothing that a look the scholars have disagreed on this kind of

stuff right generally most people felt it was haram to have both to be sleeping with them both at the same time if that is if this is your fantasy okay so right which probably includes now most the male race feminists are going to be like shooting arrows at this screen right now right so the thing is which now this is like most male race now that's all this fantasy right most the scholars when addressing

it did say that that most of them said no it's Haram and some of them said it was makrooh what the hell don't worry about it I'll tell you where it was interesting some of the my Lakia from al-andalus where you see this fantasy kind of because this is like a fantasy obviously of of most of the male race but then it goes a few levels higher with it's not just - it's like just so many and so one of the under Lucy Kings in his time the rulers he used to you know like they had these spas so they had they kind of like they

version like a pool if you like they kind of like like they had these kind of like Jacuzzi ish kind of pools that they had where they would rest and whatever like these spas and stuff so he wanted or not all but several of his concubines in there at the same time with him and her life are we born in the wrong era what we meant to really be some kind of andalusi Kings just like right so some of the Maliki scholars of his time said oh yeah go for it don't worry about it

and the other is kind of like really condemned at these these Maliki's for saying that what the hell other Maliki's condemned them I mean so it wasn't like a unilateral Maliki decision but some minor keys of the time were like what the hell don't worry buddy right so they're like how well you know hashtag boys will be boys I guess but yeah so anyway all right let's step away from your those fantasies Ahmed Ali provide cell right now Maliki overall

I tell you the Molly Kiowa my lakiya were just army on a different level this is right now what's your take on using love spaces what a love space love spaces where folks hook up oh my god I feel my life has been a lie what what have I been missing out on what are these

Junaid Khan please leave that the sectarian discussion somebody's asking a question about love spaces for God's sake I don't even know what these love spaces are I feel I feel like my life has been a lie I feel like I've been deprived where people hook up and sometimes consequently find life partners v's wife or husband hmm right so backery nothing that a right so what are these what are these loves I don't know what

you mean by love spaces you know because it sounds much naughtier than i think it is is it am I wrong go I don't I don't know I mean well I think I think I'm gay I'm going to go with what's not fun whoa Kurama people right so I'm going to go with host Nathon here isa Ali said I'll just do with one wife if I can get one come on I mean there's plenty of women out there of course you can get one somebody if you're looking to get married

there you go message him there you go look at that a hookup right there live on Monday nights with Mufti that's what I'm talking about right so I take it by this question backery you what you mean is like some kind of matrimonial or dating kind of speed dating events and stuff like this I take it that's what so this is a love this is a love space right now so look at this like this kind of white moths flying around whoa giving this like an exotic feel in my library

here right so now hey Robin I think you missed some of the the the stuff tonight well right so what it is permissible to go to these kind of dating speed dating events and stuff like that if you want to if you're looking to get married look whatever just just go up just be natural be human and just get the job done goddamn it right so don't like don't try to Islam eyes the whole thing right

don't try to Islam eyes the whole thing just keep it just keep it natural natural people just keep it natural okay now that the butterfly is a sign right whoa Holly just cause I'm too ugly what right so listen don't worry listen there's no such thing as just a person not knowing how to present themselves and I'm sure if that just sounds like low self esteem shall largest get some

self esteem and do whatever it takes to get some okay now post your photo and we're gonna get we're gonna start writing it imagine that imagine some person says now I'm just so again beep said look come on no you're not come on behave okay I post your then they're like oh just kill that person would just be like right take me now God just take me

[Laughter] right so anyway let's get back to the topic right so I think these dating things are fine just be natural yeah just keep it natural whatever it takes ask my czar Oh crying over the right so the thing right now just keep it natural folks but but these are fine whatever it takes sometimes you know I deal with a lot of I just I speak with a lot of people going through

separation and when I speak to them sometimes about well what about when you got to know each other and stuff like this and it's a shame sometimes people when they were getting to know each other they refuse to get to know each other they say oh this is on Islamic I'm just going to no message me if you're going to message me make sure it's a verse of the Quran I don't know what this is by the way this is like some o some Salafi cotta for Salah right so

right the thing is but I don't know what that is but yeah so like if you're gonna message me make sure it's only Islamic hmm-hmm you know send me a versatile and hmm god damn it relax people he's not you're not trying to get a I don't know like a touch with course going here yeah you're trying to get married for God's sake so in that case you should keep things quite natural talk about each other there's nothing wrong with this okay this is

normal okay so just and it's amazing that you have to say these things you think this is common sense but people are like is this Islamic oh I sent a smiley face is that Islamic Oh a cracked a joke is that Islamic oh I did this is they I'm what do you what do you want I mean do you do you want a Fatah every stage is that what you want you want a fatwa every stage just get on with life god damn it oh I think I flirted is that Islamic

dudes in a yoga this this you're not gonna get this done right so what is your opinion on organ donation that that question following up from the previous question can can have all kinds of strange meanings to it but I've got to understand that this is not this is not following on from the the previous question this is a whole fresh stock so stop .

people organ donation say not like hey i want to donate an organ not it's not aligned okay right so anyway some of those natural would be in the presence imran i like alright shukran shukran Sajid lucy sugar and i appreciate the encouragement right so organ donation is

permitted in islam there's nothing wrong with that and i've highlighted before share abdul aziz joy year two was that one of the leading Maliki scholars of his time and a contemporary of even assured and like a student to him junior to him he has his expansive fatwa on this from the 60s okay hey awesome reza yeah what a world line hey can i donate an organ hey he'll be like

and I was just wondering I'm in the mood to donate an organs God what was in my drink am I gonna if I pass out here [Laughter] what ich weiß worse than crimes such as murder and this is unanimous and is there a unanimous agreement on this Ghazi Mohan or Nahar Ghazi that is not true you see once again remember

when I spoke earlier on about context parameters context so in the in the context this butterfly will mouthful whatever is white I don't know it's just oh it's everywhere yes right there now this this which is worshipping other gods other than God so worshiping other stuff is seen as heinous or horrendous with her thighs distracting

me so much god damn right now this is within the context of creed and faith only it is not in the context of everything is within a relative context so let's say today so let's say somebody I don't know let's say you're studying science and in the laboratory you're some your professor says to you that hey being first and foremost the number one most important thing ever is that you

must be objective you must be objective and you cannot let's say you cannot influence through a bias the the kind of data this is what there's a number one you cannot contaminate the evidence that doesn't mean oh if you're driving a car the number-one thing is you must not contaminate the evidence duh I mean doesn't mean that why were you not wearing a seatbelt well because the number one thing Inc was I was supposed to be objective in the laboratory this is not this is common sense it's within

a context it's within within Creed when you're speaking about God worshiping God then yes the number one most genious thing you can do is say that hey this glass god damn my drink is empty oh my god I'm like I feel like I'm in a desert right all of a sudden now that is God if I was saying this is God hey that's God that's God obviously apart from me being mentally unstable but that you know if I did that that's a heinous crime in

reference to God to worship to theology to not to everything right so in terms of crimes within when we're speaking about humanity murder is atrocious it is amongst the most heinous and grave crimes there are the Prophet said that the first thing that will be taken to account on the day of judgment will be bloodshed and as long as you have not

shed blood then I still he said I'm still comfortable as in I am hopeful of your salvation that is the this is why I get so worked up when these people push this bloodshed under the banner of Islam right right so that this is how of course it is the most it is the most heinous of crimes so let's put that aside people next question right so somebody has asked can I be

provided with the Arabic text of the mature of the methods opinion for fast the six days of shawol right generally abdur-rahim Cozart within most acyl halide Halil does mention that to be makrooh in line with the general understandings of the method okay that is generally too fast the six days of shop world according to imam malik wasn't really considered a practice from the sun and neither did imam abu hanifa really consider that were look at this just seems to be is it all the zinc i've had

right the zinc supplements i mean i don't i don't know what it is that's attracting but anyway so that's what a Halil says and that is the mainstream of the method that was the understanding of imam abu hanifa as well if you want to fast them the later day Maliki have said that's fine you can fast them it's not really too much of a big deal but generally the popular opinion within the molecule method is it's not from the Sunnah right why do people say that if you do not pray in congregation you are sinful they quote the hadith that the Prophet would burn down their houses

that's not true shape Chowdhury right look what an interesting question sergeant which for scholars would you like to have a meal with Wow I don't know who art like there's so many scholars I'm so emphatic with I'll come back to that though this question I do not believe your sinful if you don't go to the Masjid praying in the Masjid is Sunnah it it is a strong emphasis on that to keep us that kind of community thing but it's not really a sin I know some people feel it is I know the humbly

method has kind of gone that way in some in some of the understandings but yeah but that's generally and that's and the Prophet was saying that because in his time the people who were raining were Salam from Syracuse New York arrived allakum assalaam move to Alaska whoa right so right so that yes so the Prophet was saying that about people who were traitors they were hypocrites hypocrites in his time is for us a religious term for what he was

speaking about craters that lay in their midst and these people were open enemies of Islam except they would pretend to be Muslim just to find out right so they were like these trolling profiles that you get they come on just to hear like what are you saying and then they can plot against you so I alaikum as-salaam Emily from I'm moon from Sweden enormous island lots of Americans of course the whole world this is Internacional people el mundo and window right so that's what it was

okay why to Camila asks why to Witten women witnesses equal one man witness okay now I want to highlight here I do not believe that to be true like that that is not true that is a misunderstanding and I like the way somebody else who has also spoken about this or addressed it is chef acromed we great scholar a senior scholar from the UK and renowned throughout the world that this hadith sorry this verse of the Quran right and tallulah Dharma for to

the kid I had animal okra then let there be two for example women who can testify it does not say and tabula does not say ant answer although many of the scholars interpreted that as tense' but others I believe sophiana be Narayana and I believe others did not they said table Allah Allah could have said to Bill tensa that Sansa because people say all women have weak men that's not what allah has said in the quran he has not said if he wanted to say intenser there homer if one of them forgets the other one he said until

their home after to the kira Haddam aloha now because he said if one should go astray then the other can remind her now because the following word was remind many people interpreted astray to mean forgotten but that's not what the verse actually says go astray now why was this you have to understand Allah was addressing a society that was incredibly patriarchal incredibly

patriarchal now you have to recognize that in patriarchal societies it is much easier much easier to intimidate women than it is to intimidate men it is much easier right ABI de Rashidah alaikum as-salaam there you go I've got your Salam okay it's a clip and I've replied right so now it is much easier in these societies to intimidate in patriarchal societies women than it is men and especially now look at the verse in the context it begins in the ayatul madonna

in the verse of if you are travelling wine kuntum allah suffering for a han booba and if you are travelling on a journey then let and you are about to take a debt or a loan or engage in this transaction then let you know a witness testify all to women why - because look when it's to do with money this all gains this is what brings out the greed in people now there's a great chance if you like if I did a deal with somebody away in a desert somewhere very few

people were witnesses I want to renege on my word I want to go back because there's more in it for me so I say I don't know what the hell you're talking about I never took that money from you I was saying if I took money from you you never actually agreed to this now the person says where are your witnesses now it's easier for me to intimidate a woman in that day and age and even today in some parts of the world then it would be to intimidate a man because the man would have had the whole clan behind him and he may this was a warrior society they were worried

as they would fight they all bloody carried swords and everything so women on the other hand it was easier to say look listen you will be in some serious and I will have to sew here Allah says that look should this was a safeguarding measure to protect the women that no one woman can be taken as an isolated case at least to because to intimidate to was at least more difficult because they're two separate women and remember they will still have some protection of their

clan this is why when it came to interrogation of the witnesses many of the ulama wrote that look when you interrogate men you can interrogate them individually you can cross-reference you can do but the two women witnesses many scholars wrote that no they have to stay together you cannot even interrogate them on their own why not why not even interrogate why not even cross-examine them on their own but many of the scholars said no even the cross-examination they must be together why because it was a safeguarding measure that should you try to

intimidate them there's two of them this has then been wrongly interpreted by some people to think Oh men are some how I've got a greater memory or men have you know they've got greater intellect or they've got that's not Allah hasn't said that the Prophet did not say this is not what Islam has said some people have interpreted that due to cultural influences but that is not the correct interpretation okay okay how long have I been studying Islam well I set out to study in Damascus in I

think was it the year 1997 or 97 97 I think I began study I just probably turned 18 now 17 just about turning 18 as I went off to study and I've got more details on my bio section in Facebook and when I studied in Damascus for a few years then Pakistan and different places and then went back forth and few other places and so it's been a little while so that I hope kamila clarifies that and this is why many of the scholars did highlight that look in other issues one

woman one man with there was no issue like did you see the moon because nobody is going to intimidate a woman over did you see the moon nobody's going to do that nobody's going to say hey did you see the moon Oh watch I'm gonna do this T that's not going to happen over other things a woman was fine nikka a woman could okay some of the methods disagree in many things they said a woman could be the the soul even the single Testament I mean single witness but when it came to those matters of money and in that society they were much eager men a

lot of the people were eager to become corrupt and therefore they were happy to you know easily intimidate and bully witnesses yeah ask about my age is no secret oh it's interesting how with age the the kind of changes I don't know sometimes I think mentally it's like this you know they say once a man twice twice a chai boys a boy I don't know twice a child it's and some things you become more childish in some things you become more mature Allahu Alem let's get please will you answer this question I've asked it the third Monday in a row

oh I don't worry buddy let's move on to the next question all right come on and zafar terrine what is the concept of anything that leads to Haram is Haram come from is there a clear proof for it did all the methods accept it anything that can right okay look Zafar that's an interesting principle in Islam called that it's to do with basically that I'll Mikasa Tabari rule was I ale that the the end justify the goal justifies the means and

it falls under that understanding and people say male attend more elaborate logic for logic what only a wire chief can fulfill basically in order to do something watch it if it can only be done through let's say X then that must be done so it's like one of those by any means necessary and then the means becomes necessary right so is this it's not a steps and it's not as this and this is a principle in itself like you know like I said it's one of the your solely principles

you see scholars do use it but they kind of pick and choose so it's interesting because a pseudo fit is great and I love it but it's on one hand they ought to be something which is really it defines everything but when you in reality kind of doesn't because the laws are already there like it's like the scholars already had all the rulings and then made up the 'soul effect because that is what actually happened the Futaba came first sorry mom Alex Fatah WA but like his mother when I was documenting century or two centuries

before almost you know like well before his rule came his Futaba were already all documented imam abu hanifa you know imam muhammad saaw hero rewire to a well documented before well before you know of course ee or other people are going to come along and start speaking about soon so it's interesting although Imam Shafi it does speak about you soon but by the time the O soul become this kind of mess heavy or soon that we have today the laws have already been well documented so people seldom do they

change them based on the you soon what they will just do is use the your soul worry fits so if for example so let's say should we wash the elbows when washing the arms in who do now most of the ulama would say yes because Allah says to the elbows ll Martha does that mean you include the elbows does to mean include or not so the principle hallelujah - mal al mogea Olay or whatever does that the boundaries include the boundary as well or not and

so here most the methods say yes we include the elbows so they will say they will use this principle here Maya autumnal Allah will watch it forward they'll say no here's a principle but then in other things where they don't have that ruling they will just say no it doesn't really apply here because of this caveat and that and so on so I so mean that's the the kind of endgame - if you like it is a principle people do use it but they selectively use it in line with their understanding of Islamic law

rulings on smoking shisha ah God people why do you want people to hate me I get so much hate and trolling from people look I do not believe smoking shisha is Haram I do not believe smoking cigarettes is necessarily Haram and no I mean I do not believe it's hard not necessarily I don't believe it's hot

I'm een but I don't think it's a good thing I understand today shisha has become a social element cigarettes generally are not good for your health and so I would say to people advise them to take care of their health but I'm not going to lie look I personally do not smoke I like look let's say my my children my daughters I would not want them to smoke okay I'm just giving you an example now obviously if they do in the future that's I won't be able to force them but from my heart I would not want them to

smoke I don't do it myself I would not want them to do it but I'm not going to lie and pretend Allah is saying you can't do it because it's not I know some people they find it easy to do to say it's Haram but I think it's actually the threshold to declare something Haram is actually very high contrary to what people make out they make out of the bars bloody down there that every time you step you step over it it's actually very high so I I don't believe it's Haram now what do you think about the

new book that has been published Muslim guide to have mind-blowing sex whoa by a Muslim woman author right what what nothing nothing nothing nothing right I have actually read the article that has the extract from it very well written whoa it's like whoa everybody must have read it by now come on don't lie so the

thing is that Muslims historically actually wrote a lot on this kind of stuff believe it or not I mean they never wrote like it's not the majority of their writing but they wrote without kind of embarrassment or they're all quite openly if you read the Muslim books that are like hundreds of years old on kind of sexology if you like they are very very explicit and they they are very kind of they just I mean it's weird because they're so much a nickel about just everything and they've got all these scenarios and

they're all own versions of roleplay and they've got all these they've named different techniques it's it's it's Wow it's something else but I think I think this book personally is good I think there's nothing I think it's it was written with an aim to encourage women Muslim women to embrace sex as as something natural and I think that's good it should be it is very natural I think we today Muslims especially from the indo-pak world and generally

throughout the world have suffered from colonialism in the pre Victoire in the post Victorian era we've become we've really taken on Victorian attitudes towards sex pre Victorian times you find that even the indo-pak world what was India then was India was I mean the Kama Sutra came from India I mean it's not you know I mean what what more do do we have to say I mean it's not but but they became very all hypersensitive towards sex and it became a taboo it became something like

dirty it became something which is okay as long as it's only done like almost with these Catholic or Christian Victorian ethics of it's okay if it's done for children otherwise what the hell was wrong with people that it's looked down on it's looked as a dirty thing that why are these people always so fascinated with sex it's like which is by the way him focused on all creatures on earth right so you're gonna get all creatures and most humans definitely all the goddamn males are in that category and and then you just got the hypocrite

males that are pretending they're not from that category they're like no it's disgusting why do they always I'm one of these really these higher thinking males who thinks beyond who thinks beyond just creature creature beyond the creature realm but anyway so I think this kind of a book is very I think it's good I think definitely before if girls are looking to get married or before they thinking of going into a relationship

they should that's true Abita because before he then's were described as being promiscuous and right and exotic and they were considered as weird and that's because if you've read some of the books that they wrote it's like whoa and they considered it a very natural thing and we've and even in Islam it was considered in the prophets time is considered too natural that we today we Muslims would condemn that culture that was around in the time of the Prophet if they looked into it today because it's

way too exotic for them it's you know but so I would yeah I think these kind of writings although they do appear very like wall shocking and promiscuous it may appear promiscuous but it's not really and I think it should be encouraged for girls to understand that especially if they about to get into a relationship that it's something which is natural Islam encourages it and it should be embraced okay nice guys let's wrap this up any lost a few questions opinions on the treatments of black and blacks and South Asians in the Gulf

countries whoa what a question I mean it's obviously outrageous the treatment is look the Gulf countries wherever is racism is utterly unacceptable needs to be condemned people we need love not hate okay that's the thing all right that's what we need right any is it allowed to follow the opinions of any of the classical much that he do it is I look I am a passionate supporter of the school of MIDI I do encourage each and all people to study the school of Modena as a school as a traditional school I think it

serves as a foundation to know your learning through one method but I don't believe it's mandatory that you know it's Haram to take opinions from other rule amar of course you can of course you know if you wanted to take you came across an opinion of your mom chef a Imam Abu Hanifa mammals there ie mom whoever this is all part of the legacy of Islam but naturally to learn you will need a base somewhere to start off so I advise other people may advise differently that the school of Medina which is epitomized by Imam Malik I mean he becomes the voice piece is something

that I do encourage people I have done a talk which is on YouTube called the way of Medina it's an audio talk it's about two hours long called the school of Medina in the 21st century if you're interested listen to that I give a brief background in Y not only the school and Imam Malik but why it's the most relevant for us in the West today in the 21st century and I do feel it's the most suitable school for us in the 21st century here I'm not dissing the other schools are they amazing but I feel for us here today why it's perhaps more suitable because it gives us that flexibility whilst maintaining an

authentic link to tradition so it's not just going all off and saying do your own thing it's got a chain an unbroken chain of tradition right so and if you want to learn more I've done a video on how to perform Salah you can watch that and you can start practicing if you want to adopt it it's all yours people this is all free it's all day it's your life practicing right so I've done an audio course which is available on Facebook you can run a search it's in six lectures called the ash Maurya it's a basic elementary course covering the purification prayer and fasting

according to the school of Medina I've done a more detailed one in 20 lectures by car the author who I spoke about earlier on today the legend from Muslim Spain in 20 all your lectures that's available this is free that's the five pillars of Islam you can you can get it download it listen to it I will be insha'Allah very soon having these all uploaded as audio podcasts available both on soundcloud and on hopefully on itunes ruler and on pot beam as well so these are some things if you want to just understand the spirit of Islam I've got a video

called Islam in the 21st century on YouTube you can listen to that how the spirit of Islam ought to be really ought to be light spirited and fun and full of life and energy and I read this amazing hadith the other day it was brought by it was brought it was but it was actually in the topic art of speaking about lugu beam and linguists and whatever but he brings this hadith in the amazing hadith where he speaks about that as happened abhi sallallahu alayhi

wasallam loved Yakunin he says let me a cool new bhima tamil we t know allah be mata has ethene they were not people who were like semi dead like if he looked at them they were like that and they were people that were all recluses and they say no they were actually very joyful work and they would often speak about the matters of jahiliyyah jahaly poetry and things are stuff like that so they would often speak of people say can you speak about TV series of course you can speak about things like TV series this is what they would do in their time about their jahiliya poetry the

pre-islamic poetry which is all about war and sex and alcohol but when it came to practicing the Deen they were mountains of men that's what and that is an amazing amazing transmission so I leave you with that people if you do need to reach out to me I'm on Facebook if you haven't already liked my public page do like it people write like it god damn it right if you need to send me a message you can do so reach out to me if you're on snapchat I'm on a Mac mount

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