Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 166

All right, people. All right. And as always, people, swagatam

swagatam. Let me just check first and foremost that things are all good. Uh if the audio is coming through fine, let me just mhm. Oh, people, what you can't see is my gadgets that I've set up here. Right, let me just check that it's feeding through to the Facebook people. Bring up the YouTube chat.

As-salamu alaykum, you're doing it, man. You're doing it. All right, people. Eid Mubarak. Eid Mubarak, people. I take it first and foremost, you can all hear me fine. Is that audio coming through good? Whilst you're confirming that, I'm just going to share this onto my page.

One momento, people. Un momentico. All right, so what's been going down? Yeah, you know, got to be careful here. Just in case my my pattern gets broadcasted. This one big problem, you know, this one big problem.

So yeah, what is going down, people? What is going There is just share that out. All right. Q&A live unrestricted people, as always. All right, so

what's going down? All right. Somebody said, "You've become Audio is good." Shukran. Shukran. Uh Earthling's Earthling soul. Wah. Wah. Wah. Wah. Wah. Uh Somebody's saying, "What do you do with your chest hair?" My chest hair?

Should I Should I sell it as barakah? Maybe I can uh make some special tawiz out of it and get that sold. So, you know, this one interesting, you know, interesting interesting. So, those of you that don't know, people, first and foremost let's get uh a big Eid Mubarak out to everyone.

All right, that's our hand signal, guys. Those of you that remember. You know, I can't get over this guy. I'm going to be honest with you. He's from that Boris Johnson That's actually legitimately him giving hand signals. I'm not making that up. Let me just show you guys. I've had to capture this image in the story. So, there he is.

So, people, people, people, what's going down? What's going down? Let's first of all Eid Mubarak. Eid Mubarak. Eid Mubarak. EID MUBARAK. EID MUBARAK. EID MUBARAK. EID MUBARAK. SALAM ALAIKUM. AH, THAT'S HILARIOUS, MAN. SO, PEOPLE, PEOPLE, PEOPLE, what is going down?

What is going down? What is happening? A I hope all of you have had a blessed awesome Eid. Um, Ramadan, to be fair, I think just kind of glided by quite swiftly, while I I mean, you know. You know what? You know, at this point, it would be good for me to kind of say something like, yeah, the month I never got to do enough ibadah.

But, everybody would know I'd be bragging anyway. But, I suppose there'd be some truth in that statement. Because I never got to do enough, meaning hardly did any, but No, no, no. a very blessed a very uh um spiritual month for for people.

Now, those of you that have uh not known, people eyes on Tik Tok. I is now on Tik Tok that that you could see right there, right there people, right there. That is my whatever you call it scan code or whatever it is. People, add me, subscribe. You know what I thought? Okay, let me share my thoughts with you guys here.

Yeah, drink. Let there be a sip of of chai first. So, what I thought is that look, any interesting uh especially humorous snippets, those kind of things, the memes, the uh they don't have to be memes in that sense.

There is obviously the naughty naughty, but other things as well. I'll be sharing them. I'll share maybe poetry on there. I'll share things like uh you know, maybe some reviews and stuff like that, but have it slightly different from my um let's say obviously Facebook is a bit more um I don't know, maybe more serious at times and it's got the lives and I use that and YouTube I suppose I've have my whole channel and Instagram.

Uh it's good for different things, you know, I'll share occasional kind of more serious uh stuff or snippets from a lesson on IGTV and I'll you know, maybe put pictures sometimes. I've got I'm not like, you know, these social media models of car current, so but but this is for more for kind of like humor stroke stroke banter stroke But people make it happen.

Get on there. That's that's what it is people. That's what it is. So, let's get some poetry to start off the day. So, what is going down what is going down?

Let's take some of your questions as well. Somebody said Mufti Abu Laith is this is actually a kameez. A kameez. Huh, flashy. Just to show you this is actually you know it's like This is a proper Eid ka chance scenario, isn't it? Seldom see me and salwar kameez. I do wear salwar kameez occasionally.

But occasionally occasionally. I thought since it's Eid, why not? So, what is going down? Somebody said how you doing? I'm doing good. But you know it's um I'm just you know in this time I guess we evaluate our own lives, isn't it? We're kind of thinking I was just thinking you know I need to do so many more things.

It's It's uh I was thinking that you know what? I as this lockdown concludes when it finishes I don't need to I don't know like there's so many things I've not really been optimizing. I need to do that. Jalou, let's see. Let's see. Somebody said, "Mufti, what's your opinion on Boris Johnson?" You know, this thing has been hilarious, people.

Those of you that haven't seen it, ah, damn, I don't think I sent over the uh I'll see if I can get it uh brought across while we're speaking, but the uh Dominic Cummings, people. Dominic Cummings. He We've got right here.

I'm just see. This is an absolute joke. Absolute joke. You know, the senior advisor to Boris Johnson. Uh the man responsible for these kind of regulations, for these kind of things of saying, "Lockdown. Lockdown. Stay at home. Stay Don't social distancing guidelines. The impositions, they should be fines. They should be this. They should be that." And people not going to their own funerals, not their own funeral, but their own family members' funerals, or they're not going to not going to their own funeral.

That would be rather interesting. They're not going to see their parents. They're not going to see their siblings. They're not going All along, Mr. Cummings is he all along is playing the said to his wife in Durham, "I is Cummings." He goes, "Who is waitings? I is Cummings."

And he's driving over 200 and something miles on his trip going up there. And he got caught out, people. He got caught out. worst part is getting caught out, I guess. Because at that you're totally shafted. So, he's kind of got been caught out now.

And he's had to kind of justify that what what have you been doing? Yeah, yeah, sub. What the hell is going on? So, he's had to he's come up with what no what it is this was essential travel. We could not arrange I I had a you know, his son who's ill or isn't ill or no, his son isn't ill.

He he's come up with these weird things like I couldn't arrange babysitting. So, I had to drive there to make sure my wife is safe. But there's a plot twist. He himself has COVID-19. He's like yard chate chate. As I is comings, I is spreadings. And then he's been caught out again.

He's been caught out he rather decided to stop along the way to take a look at one some castle or something. Why not? Why not? So, he stopped to take a look at some castle. He stopped in some woods. He's been spotted, exposed. So, he's kind of had to string together some story saying, "Oh well, what happened is I He said what it is is I wasn't sure.

I had to go again or something and I wasn't sure. So, to test my eyesight if I could drive. Because of the COVID my eyesight had been And so, to test it I went on a drive for several miles. I can't remember. I think I we he on Was it a 40 mile drive but he went on some drive down the motorway wherever it was and then he said and that's when he stopped off in the I think he stopped off at this castle or he's done something.

These and the government is like well perfectly makes perfect sense. Let me get this right. If you think you're blind is that how it Why were you doing that while you're on that?

I wanted to test whether my blindness had stopped and what better way than to put my one-year-old or three-year-old son in the back of my car and drive down the motorway. If I crash, take care, you know, obviously my eyesight still needs a bit of working on. All along we had there was some professor who lost his job.

I think it was just in these weeks gone because he had been caught, you know, the other urge the other urge I can't he he was also the professor was like I needs to be coming. He had to go see his girlfriend. You have to understand you know what it is.

The ummah needs to be a ummatan wasatan. You know, we made you a balanced ummah. We need to kind of have sympathy empathy for these scenarios. So the guy was struggling, you know, he needed to go and so he that [ __ ] had a miskeen lost his job. He should have also said But, honor I just wanted to check if it's still I want to test if it's still working.

If Cummings can test whether his eyesight is still good enough for driving, so he just drives down the motorway with his kid in the car. No, no, this is just an eyesight test. Cha cha cha cha. There's nothing else to look at. I'm good. Some job like a you know, it's like a cha cha. Does it say uh something beginning with P over here spelled p u?

So, if he could do that, the professor could have said, "Well, you know, I just needed to check if uh your honor, if the equipment was still working fine. It just I just went for a simple test in the best interest of of this national country really, in the national interest I did this." You know, I don't want that people that that that the rate the ED rate to increase in the UK.

So, people, this is what's going on with the with the UK. This is what's going on with the government here. It's an absolute joke. How can the government be seriously saying that's perfect sense and then at the same time be screwing over other people who've done it who've kind of gone out and said, "You know, here we're going out and said, 'No, no, no, no, no.

How dare you go out?'" You know, so you can see here let me just one moment, I'll bring this up as well. Mhm. Peoples peoples. Assalamualaikum. One momento one momento. I've also got something else to show you guys.

So, see now I feel like you know, you do one, two things on with the computer and you feel like a hacker. You're like, "Yeah, I'm far. I'm I must be doing it, man. I must be doing it." Let's see what is going on, man. What is going on? This one. Let me just un momento un momento.

All right, so here it is. I'm just bringing this up. So, this was an example And this is really Twitter had just exploded on social media. People were going mad, and I feel rightly so. Rightly so. That how can it be that, you know, that there's one rule for the government and there's another rule for for the peasants? You know, for the for the plebs?

So, as you can see here, people, this was an example that Rishi had to that Dominic Cummings has made it clear he was motivated by trying to protect his son, and he took steps to be safe. So, he had driven for an entire hour to test his bad eyesight. So, achacha cha.

Hamka vo samjhe hue hai kya? And what you got to love is how to certain extent they get away with this stuff. It's like, how does that happen? How do people actually get away with this? Oh, man. This is uh the day and age, people. The day and age.

Uh some people will say, "End of days, man. End of days, man. End of times." So, meanwhile, in other news, All right. I don't know if you guys have come across this post. This uh just one momento. Somebody had made a post about how there was something about God saving the Bible.

So, my sister-in-law died in a fire. Her Bible was beside her bed and on a stand, not a burn mark on the Bible. Awesome miracle from God. You see, people, this is when people then take the mic out of religion. So, peoples, let's take some of your questions.

What is bothering mi gente? What's going down? Let's bring up I'm loving this gadget, you know, by the way. I've set this all up. I've Stream Decked it, people. Those of you that think Mufti doesn't know IT. You think just because I left school with no IT GCSE.

So, what is going on? What is going on? Fraud e fraud break. You're doing it. You're doing it. You're doing it. Peoples, peoples, peoples. So, you can send your questions YouTube. I have brought up the Facebook questions as well. Those of you sending stars on Facebook, Geo Geo Maryam, Geo Geo Sufyan, you're doing it.

And if you're on YouTube, the equivalent the equivalence is uh sending super chats. That's how you do it, people. That's how you do it. That's how you get your questions always read out. Right, okay.

Somebody's asked about Patreon. There is a Patreon. I have set it up. I haven't launched it. Soon come, people. Within hopefully this coming 1 2 weeks, I'm hoping it's up and running. Somebody's asked Nimra, you doing you doing it. That's always an intriguing name, don't you think so?

A tiger. All right. Or I guess feminine tigress. Doing it. The question's gone now. See, I got so distracted that the Oh, no, there it is. Mufti Sahib, name me a book to know the fiqh of Sunni Islam.

All right. Okay, this is an interesting This is an interesting question because it depends in what language we're looking to learn. I think that the way people should learn fiqh. Okay, here's my advice. In fact, I'm going to give you I'm going to top this up, right? So, people have asked me as well about what books should we get for Hadith.

People have asked me in the past like uh we want um what books should we be studying for uh for fiqh? What should we How should we be studying these things? So, let me throw some ilm bombs at you people. Right, so what is this all about?

Look, first of all, my advice to people who want to learn, uh first of all, I think that's an amazing passion. Definitely, keep it keep it fueled, you know, keep that flame kindled. So, what I would say is that begin with just get a um I'm going to speak about fiqh, then I will speak about uh hadith and then the Quran as well.

So, we'll go in that order ending with the Quran, obviously the ultimate. So, fiqh, I would say start with um beginner's course. You can get You can choose any madhhab. You don't have to listen to pe- people say, you know, you have to choose. No, I think you have to choose To begin, you have to select a madhhab to learn, but does it have to be the madhhab your parents are on and does it have to be the madhhab of your neighbors and your neighborhood and your ethnicity or whatever?

No, it doesn't. I mean, a fine example A fine example, a living example in front of you is UH MOI. PEOPLE! IT IS I. IT IS I. SO, I chose the school of Medina, which is the Maliki madhhab.

And this is a different thing on what are these madhhabs about, but in a few sentences, the teachings of the prophet were disseminated by different people through different perspectives. They spread out in different parts of the land. Some settled in the northern Arab kingdoms, which is the Middle East, Iraq, etc. Others stayed in Medina, some settled in Mecca, some south in Yemen, some in Egypt, and basically, their interpretation and perspective would vary just as mine would vary from another person, another scholar's.

So, who they taught, they kind of built a community around them that the living tradition of Islam in that community was then trapped or trapped in the right word, was then kind of documented. And it became a madhhab. So, what happened is there were many There were many madhhabs, many. So, you could Some people have said, you know, maybe there was something like I mean, I've got so many books just up there of all these different salaf who had their own madhhab.

I mean, you could say whether they were in the 10 schools or whether they reached the hundreds, Allahu A'lam. But, over time, four persisted. So, that's in a nutshell. That's all for You've got these four madhhabs, the Hanafi, the Maliki, the Shafi'i, and the Hanbali. Hanbalis hardly exist really. We're just letting them in as a sympathy job. It's like, yeah.

Really, that was I wasn't fair. I needed to do the little finger for the Hanbalis. I need to kind of duck the little finger in as well. Make it like a proper dwarf. You're like, "A cha." Yeah, yeah, yeah.

In Columbia South Do we need a crash for the Hanbalis? Is there crash? Is babysit around or So, anyway, these are the four schools. Now, moving on to fiqh. You need to study some fiqh. You can choose a madhhab. I would personally say go with the school of Medina. The school of Medina is where Imam Malik was. But, it doesn't have to be. You don't have to choose the school of Medina. Obviously, to me, it's the Don's school. Why?

Why? In two sentences, because of one, where it was, which is Medina, where is the inherited practice from the prophet, where thousands of companions died and were buried, so the tradition carried on. Two, it is one of the only schools that is so grounded in two things, in tradition, Sunnah, and then on maslaha, welfare.

Okay. So, that's makes it unique for me. But anyway, whatever you choose, then get a basic book and just start learning. You could You could get There's so many things online. You could get elementary books in whether it's the Maliki madhhab, Hanafi madhhab, whatever. Start learning just what to do. It just tells you this is how you pray, this is how you fast, this is how you do this, this is how you do that.

And just learn it. Now, along the way, you may get questions, then you ask someone. Okay? Or you're watching a course, or you're listening to a course, and along the way you get questions, you ask. But a basic text should make sense. I've got a few courses already on YouTube. I've got a very elementary Ash'ari text. It's in six lectures, audio lectures. Then I've got a slightly, you know, I'll top that up with another one by Qadi Iyad, the legend, the Don from Muslim Spain, Maliki, of course.

He the author of the Shifa, if you've heard of the Shifa. As the poet said, a kulluhum hawalu dawa lakin ma ata bi shifa illa Iyad. Allah Allah Allah. Shifa is a book about the prophet, and it's a legendary book. See, once again, I don't know whether it's the best for people in this day and age, but but it's got a a lot of things in there, but it's it's got incredibly popular when it comes to the Sierra of the Prophet.

So, the poet says all of them Shifa means a cure. And he says all of them tried to bring a medication. But it was only Iyad called the Iyad who brought the cure, brought the Shifa. Allah Allah Allah. So, that's I've got his foundations of Islam which is in about 20 audio lectures.

That would give you a very good understanding of your basics. You can start I've got to buy the way a very detailed course I'll be airing maybe once a week, maybe twice a week called the Risala. I've done just two lectures already of it. It's on YouTube. What it is is these are from my archive videos. So, they're old videos as in probably about 7 years old now. So, some of my views might have changed.

So, when I will begin it, what I'll do is I have to air livestream it. So, it's a pre-recorded video. When I say pre-recorded it's a previously recorded. And then at the end of the lesson, I will probably top up. You know, if I've changed maybe my views on something, I'll add to it. I'll basically add a commentary on my commentary.

Wow wow wow wow wow. So, that will give you enough about faith. What you can do is you can start topping that up by wanting to learn about the Imam, who was the Imam, who were his teachers, what was his life about. You can Google this stuff. Wikipedia, add to it, make notes, proactively learn. Okay? And then you'll get to a layer where you start learning about differences of opinion and they say this and we say this. And then you add to that why do they say that?

And then okay, this is their evidence, this is our evidence and you start kind of making decisions. You can start reaching out to scholars. You can start saying, "Well, you know, I'm confused about this. Let me ask him. Let me ask" Okay, cool. That's fiqh. Now, let's move on to um um let's me and I think Imam Suhaib Webb has a book uh on the essentials of I think it's fiqh.

Now, I think I could be wrong, but but I think it's also based on Maliki fiqh. Uh I know in the UK, there is a book by Sheikh Ali Laraki uh who which is on Maliki fiqh as well. And Aisha Bewley's website has a lot of resources on the Maliki school. Cool. Second section. People I get asked a lot, "How should I approach Hadith?" So, a lot of people ask me this.

Right, those of you just tuning in, by the way, you can like and share. All right, so the um people ask me this quite a bit.

"I want to study Hadith. What should I do? Should I buy Bukhari? Should I buy the Muwatta of Imam Malik? Um All right. Should I uh but what how should I do how should I learn Hadith? Talk to me." So, people ask me this. Now, somebody's "How did you meet your wife?" Which one?

Right, so look, people. Focusing. Focus. Focus. Focus. Focus. Huh? I'm the captain now. I'm the captain. Focus. Right, so Look, Hadith people, we are in a new era. I need you to understand this. This has almost never happened before in Islamic history.

Okay, you've never had an era where this kind of material is then available on this level to I don't mean this in a bad way, but to the common people, common folks who are non uh specialists. So, in the past, it was look it was very clear. People studied Islam.

People thought look uh some people thought I want to get into Islam and I want to become a scholar. I want to do this. Other people became doctors, other people and the vast majority of people just were probably craftsmen, tradesmen, farmers. These kind of people would never have like owned a copy of Sahih al-Bukhari. It would like it would be me- meaningless for these people.

Like they just kind of got on with their day their lives, listened to some khutbahs, read the Quran, listened to nice preaching like you know today's equivalent of like Mufti Menk style and and that's it. But what happened is things have now changed. So, people all of a sudden want your common person and I'm not saying this is a bad thing.

It's fair enough, it's a good thing. I think it's a great thing. But we've got to understand. So, people say look, I want to learn more about Islam. That's amazing. Want to learn about Islam, that's great. They say okay, how should I learn? I'm going to go and buy Sahih al-Bukhari and put it on my shelf. I'm going to buy Sahih Muslim, Tirmidhi, you know, Abu Dawud. You see, these Hadith books, what are these Hadith books?

Now, I've got an analogy. I don't know if this will make much sense, people, but you have to understand what a Hadith is. A Hadith is simply a document stating some person's claim that the prophet may have done something or said something or acted in a particular way. This is what it is.

Hadiths were documented about by averaging about 100 years after the prophet. Then they were on mass collected another 100 years after the prophet. So about 200 years after the prophet, people started to really organize Hadith. Okay. So, 200 years is a long time. And people they, you know, they tried to do a very rigorous job in trying to document certain things and they made these databases.

So, these collections of Hadith like this you can see be behind me, I'm on the Mabud, I'm on the Dawud, that's on the Muwatta, I've got this car and you can't see these others, but they further up on the other shelves. Sahih Bukhari and Muslim, these are like databases that these Imams put together. Okay. By you getting the database, what does it mean?

This is a bit like, this is what it's like. It's like imagine 500 years from today somebody could access your almost said browser history. Yeah, this that.

Your reputation would go straight out the window. A cha cha, private browsing. Now, imagine they could access your browser bookmarks. Okay, so you know your favorites or bookmarks that you can create within browsers. Uh your internet browsers. Imagine somebody could could kind of they they 100 years from today, 200 years from today, they were really interested in you, in learning about you, let's say.

And what they could they got hold of is this here are 300 favorited or bookmarked uh browsers. I mean uh yeah. So, sites. Pages or whatever they are, but they they've been kind of bookmarked in this person's browser. Now, you're reading through that. So, imagine I'm reading through like So, you're really keen or imagine you are really keen 200 years from today in learning about me.

Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki. God forbid you come across my You're like, "Huh?" A cha No, but so let's say you've come across my You've got now my bookmarks. Yeah. In my browser, there's 200-300 of of them or there's 500 of them, let's say, or there's 50, whatever. You're reading through them. This is the kind of analogy that I'm giving or a parable in that sense, an allegory, sorry, for Hadith.

It is true, let's say, let's go with it is true, uh that this has been bookmarked by me. Now, there could be a chance that some of them were not bookmarked by me. That somebody was using my internet browser and they bookmarked them. It could also be that when I did bookmark these, I didn't necessarily agree with it. I just bookmarked it because I wanted to refute it.

Like imagine you came across a website and it said something like, "Oh, um let's just say vegetarianism and it was about being a vegan. So somebody might now, 200 years from today, say, "You know what? Mufti, I think was a vegan." Why? Because he had three pages bookmarked in his uh you know, browser, which were to do with veganism.

Now, it could be that's true. I mean, I'm not, but it could be that let's say they got that right. Or it could be I bookmarked those to say, "Well, let's see what these people's arguments are." Or to refute it, to say that this is nonsense, I'm going to refute it, or to share with a friend, or to You see, this is the amount of insight that a Hadith book database can give you about the prophet.

You don't really know. Like it's it's okay, it's true that maybe this is from the prophet. It may be the way the bookmark thing was from me. It may be somebody else did that one day whilst using my phone or my computer. It may be somebody mixed the Hadith up, got it totally wrong. It may be that the prophet did say certain things.

It may be that he was actually saying it in a in in a different manner and somebody understood it in a different manner. So the prophet was saying it to refute it and somebody understood it as maybe, "Oh, no, that's that's all right." Or the prophet said something saying it's okay and somebody thought, you know, the prophet's being sarcastic towards it, or maybe the prophet was using sarcasm and somebody took it literally.

Maybe the narrators along the way mixed it up. Maybe maybe it's right, maybe it isn't. This is as much information that you can take away from Hadith books. So, it is quite tricky really.

All right, so it's really um it like what do you do with that information? So, I would say yeah, I mean if you want to buy Hadith books and go through them, fine. Go through them. But remember that. Keep this allegory in mind. That these are simply historical databases that an Imam collected.

When Imam Bukhari collected it, maybe he collected it to show that now that I'm just putting this here so people know that this is absurd. Maybe he put it there to accept it. Maybe he put Obviously then Imam Bukhari's book itself obviously was I feel tampered with to some extent later on. But when Imam Malik put a Hadith in, sometimes he put a Hadith in to show you that this Hadith is definitely not true.

But I'm putting it there just so you don't think I don't know it. So, that's what it's like, okay? So, that's my thing on Hadith. So, many people when you ask me, should we um be following Hadith? Oh, sorry. Should we be buying Hadith books? Sure, by all means, but that's how you take away from it. Cool. Let's uh finally I'll touch upon the Quran and then we'll get back to some questions.

How to approach the Quran? So, we've done how to approach fiqh, we've done how to approach Hadith, now how to approach the Quran. The Quran I would say people, just go with, once again, depending on your level, go with something simple. Okay? Go with something simple.

Uh just what has a a good enough translation. People say, you know, in the past I did read a bit from I can't recall it now, but from like Pickthall's translation, people said it's good. Um whatever translation is good for you, go with it. Simple. It's just translating the Quran.

Maybe once read through an entire section, either read through the whole Quran or read through a section. So, let's say I'm going to read through a short surah. Or it doesn't have to be short or a juz. I'm going to read through this juz. First time, just read through it with its simple meaning only. So, you've got a simple translation, you've read through it. Second time, maybe now, if you want, if there's certain parts that are really problematic, by the way, then when you're reading through it, maybe look those parts up.

So, you can maybe Google what do people say about this verse? Because, you know, I don't like the way that that the way that's translated, it doesn't settle well with me. Or it's left me really uh confused. Somebody has said a Farhan has said that, "Look, uh um s- or some translations ain't good." I agree. So, whatever is simple enough, okay?

You you can go with it. Now, then the second time, maybe go over that same juz, but with a commentary. You could in English, I think the Study Quran should be fine. I don't really care, you know, all this stuff people say it's got all all in there, it's got that in there. I don't really care. I think it's just propaganda Uh and you know, it doesn't to me it doesn't make a big It's not a big deal, but some people, you know, it's like, "Oh my god, you know, it's bloody the apocalypse."

But to me it's no big deal. I think a great effort went into create, you know, into making the Study Quran. So fine in English it's I think it's great. Um but you could go through a tafsir on archive.org, there is the entire tafsir of the Quran in audio by Nouman Ali Khan.

You could just go through that in audio, you know, you've read through it. Now this month you're going to just listen to the first Jews. You're just going to listen to a certain amount while you're doing things. And now if there's So now you've done that. Now there may be certain things you've highlighted. Now if you're saying, "Well, uh By the way, you know, with highlighting, should you highlight on the Quran?" Um several ulama say it's okay to make kind of like indications and things on the Quran.

Personally, I don't like it. Uh I I wouldn't personally highlight on the Quran out of respect towards the Quran. Uh I would probably just put like a marker like a book marker or something like that if you want to do it like that or maybe put a little sticker. You know, you get these kind of page stickers that you can just take off. They're just like highlighted and things. So you kind of remember.

People do say you can. I mean, I guess it's not a a sin or anything like that, but Imam Malik as well was very strict about this. I've and I've always had this thing as well that when it comes to the Quran you don't kind of like color it in or you don't do stuff like that, you know, you don't mark up all your name and do all your own stuff on it. So, it's the Quran at the end of the day. So, once what you do is once you've you've gone through this let's say audio tafsir or you've gone through whatever, now points that you're stuck on, research these.

Listen to some lectures, Google the words, has anybody else done research on This is how you should approach the Quran. But, the main thing was you just went through a simple translation. And then you added you kind of fleshed it out. You added more meat to it. You added more kind of detail. So, I hope now that's of some help. Um the key to serious learning, those of you that have asked I want to be um seriously learning, I have to say the key is you have to learn Arabic.

You cannot get into any serious Islamic learning without knowing Arabic. Arabic is the key, people. It is the key. All right. Now, let's move on, people. Let's take some of the questions. Ra Ra, the sun god.

You're doing it, Ra. You're doing it right for super chat. People, that's where the super chats are happening. All right. Well, guess it is. So, what's going on? Que está haciendo? Over there. And on Facebook, it's the stickers, the stickers.

So, what are your plans in Jannah? Paint the picture. What are my plans in Jannah? All right, sir. making plans of sending me He's like, you know what? I think Mufti is kind of uh He's like, you know what? Both of you. Kafa, this is enough.

Send him ahead. I'll give it to you. He's like, oh, we've got another one coming. Somebody asked me about putting the mushaf on the floor, the Quran on the floor. Uh I'm against that kind of stuff. That said, look, there is a context. I do understand that these things always have a context. It could be that you're studying the Quran and you're sitting on the floor. And you're sitting on the floor and you're studying the Quran and then at some point you kind of put it down because you're, you know, you're reading it like that and that's different.

That I don't see if you're on the floor, you're sitting there with it, you've got it in your hand, but maybe you kind of put it down to open a page or maybe you try to focus or you That's understandable. I have no issues with like that, the context. But just generally, if I was here and I thought, well, you know, this isn't the mushaf, but I thought, oh, this is a mushaf, so I just put it there on the floor.

Um I don't like that at all. Um Similarly, putting any books on the Quran, uh for me, these things are, you know, I I wouldn't I wouldn't do things like that. And I don't like personally things like that, but I'm not saying it's haram, but I'm just saying that it's I find it obviously you shouldn't you know, use the Quran as a resting thing. You shouldn't kind of put things on it.

You should keep it You should always have that kind of sanctity for the Quran. Right, so let's move on, people. Let's move on. Somebody asked hadith analysis regarding Aisha's age. Yeah, that is to come. Eman has asked so much about what are your views on Muqtar al-Thaqafi?

Hi hi hi Muqtar al-Thaqafi. All right, so uh just on what Shahid Ahmad you're doing it Shahid. Eid Mubarak to you as well. Uh you said Shahid has asked uh Yeah, I got to pause here. It's super chat.

Got to give priority to Eid Mubarak Mufti. Likewise Eid Mubarak Shahid. Much love. I've gotten ear piercing upon seeing your fatwa. I'm Desi and earrings are looked down upon. How would you recommend going about dealing with family members, suitors, future uh suitors future in-laws? Somebody asked, do you look at Does Mufti look at Facebook questions?

I do. I do, Yusuf. I've It is all in front of me. So So Right, so Shahid, that's an interesting question because you know the Desi community is really strange when it comes to earrings on boys.

Uh that said, it is quite common now. Um Somebody responded by piercing your nose so they don't pay attention to your earring. You got piercing. You got a cha cha cha. Is it that Is that the One minute, let me show you.

You got your idea. Belt with iron nail. Right, so look. Um You see, it's ultimately, I would say, it's difficult because this culture exists. Islamically, you can state to them, "Look, I don't believe it's haram." I believe that there's many this is a cultural issue, but they probably might not accept what you have to say.

You could say, "Look, Imam Malik, all these great Imams, the grandsons of the prophet had earrings." Yeah, so Hassan and Hussein. Hussein used to have two earrings. One in both ears pierced, and he had them on like they'd some of the descriptions are on top as well and at the bottom. This thing of like ear piercing, this is very cultural that in later years, Muslim culture started to differentiate.

But in early Islam, maybe for 1 to 200 years, this was still part and parcel of that culture the the Arab culture. It still existed. It started to die out with each generation, and then eventually completely kind of disappeared. But um and it's interesting because the Desi culture, some people do pierce, you know, they like that, but then they associate it with that Malang and and I think the Shia do as well.

They have no problem with it anyway. But then I don't know because you get regular, you know, like Pakistanis who will I mean, in the UK it's common now, but even when we were kids, there was the occasional, you know, you meet some guy and he happens, you know, his parents have given him an earring. You know, it's like So, yeah, I would just say you explain to them, and it's it's up to them to accept you, you know, but you if it's that much of a big deal, you can take it off.

But you see, to me it's like I I think personally, I'm I suppose I'm at a stage life now where I just don't care. But I suppose there was a stage where I did care what people said. But now I simply wouldn't care. You know, if somebody said to me they've got a problem with my earring, I'll be like, well, I'm sorry.

What part of I look bothered did you misread? Because you know, I went to I remember a few years back we went to visit a Sheikh al-Hadith in about 2 years 2 years ago. Or actually less than 2 years ago. It's probably just about a year and a half. We went to visit a Sheikh al-Hadith. He invited us and I think I've mentioned this before and uh my friends were with me, close friends, and we drove there.

And and some of my You see, when we got there, my mates said to me that I'll take your earring off. Because they said, "Look, at that time it was quite new. I had it quite It was quite recent. And they said to me, you know, "Take it off because, you know, this is wrong." Not that whether we believe it's wrong, but it's uh proprietarily speaking, you know, the proprieties.

It's It's The Sheikh is not going to understand. He's going to see that At that time, I think I had a stud in there. And it was like, you know, the guy's going to look at you and think, you know, what the hell, you know, I've called a Mufti and Yeaqob say, you know, Malang type, you know, wearing an earring and doing this. And one he looks as, you know, wearing a he's got a goatee and I suppose he already knew what I looked like, but he didn't hadn't seen the earring.

But it was interesting brief discussion, but I my mates did said to me, "Look, listen, it's it's not worth it. Just take it off." So I said, "No, I'm not going to take it off." So, this So, you know, some There was this little back and forth going on. "Must you just do it?" And And I said, "Look, I'm not going to." Uh No, the ear hole wouldn't have been an issue. It's not like the guy's going to be right up in my face.

I turn around and he's like He's not going to like me trying to kiss me. But, obviously at a distance, you couldn't see the hole. But, because I've got an earring, it's silver, you'd be able to see it obviously. At that time, the stud would reflect. So, I said, "Look, as a principle point of principle, I'm not going to take it off." I said, "If he's got a problem, he's got a problem." Take it.

So, uh I was So, and to be fair, he obviously didn't say anything, but he was very respectful all of all the way through the sheikh was. And that obviously didn't come up. But, fair enough, but he It didn't There was no It didn't detract from any hospitality. But, I was like, "Look, I'm like this. At the end of the day, you know, I don't take it off when I go in front of my dad.

Like, why am I going to take it off in front of this guy? Like, who who You know, like I mean, I respect him, but at the end of the day, I'm not a kid. You know, good turn out for you. You know, it's not like I'm scared of these people. So, I don't care. Like, at the end of the day, if they don't like me, they don't like me. Oh, but I've got enough friends. My list of friends is quite abundant. So, yeah, so that's what I would say.

Right, somebody had asked about um um Mukhtar al-Thaqafi. Because they'd asked, you know, relentlessly spamming my Facebook page. Cher lawyer. Let's answer. All right. So, All right. Amen, you're doing it. You're doing it, huh?

Mufti looking dashing. Oh, dashing. You're teasing me, huh? So, Mukhtar al-Thaqafi is an interesting character. He emerges in um early Islam and he is from the Shi'atu Ali. So, what that means is he's from the early Muslims were the early Shia weren't, I suppose, a sect, but they were more a kind of though he um after the martyrdom of Hussein, radiallahu anhu,

there was a was the leader. But, if he wasn't the leader, he was a leading prominent figure from this group that went and avenged the death of Hussein. So, they killed off all the people that were involved in that Karbala attack or the main figures. So, this is the rise of Mukhtar al-Thaqafi.

He is a a strange, weird character because he begins like that, but then he gets much more and more immersed and he um at one point people say he claimed prophethood, some people say he claimed to be the Messiah, some people say he claims Jibril comes to him revelation, but there was this was like a a kind of arguably a slope.

So, he doesn't begin like that. He begins with this whole avenging Hussein, radiallahu anhu, and that kind of stuff. And then later on, he uh he's all very pro-Mahdi that there will be a Mahdi that will come. He initially wants that leader to be Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah, the other brother of Hussein, the son of Ali, but not through Fatima.

So, he had Ali had other children. So, amongst them is Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah from this woman who's called Hanafiyyah. So, now he wanted Muhammad and he claimed Muhammad is the the Mahdi. See, his name is Muhammad, he's from the prophet's family, he resembles the prophet, etc., etc. But, Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah doesn't kind of buy it. He doesn't go, you know, he's not too much with him.

Then eventually, Mukhtar himself claims to be the Mahdi. Then he claims to have revelation and I think he just eventually just goes kind of a bit loopy in the head. He is eventually killed. And it's quite interesting, intriguing his whole story because you see, with him, there was uh you know, who um

No, I'm mixing up the um that that he is it Abdullah ibn Zubayr. Yeah, it's quite interesting. Abdullah ibn Zubayr uh radi allahu anhu he is told by somebody in a kind of prophecy, a premonition.

Somebody tells him that you will be killed by al-Fattah al-Thaqafi. So, the Thaqafi and Thaqif is a tribe. Um it's from So, they mainly um live outside of Mecca, not too far, uh around the Ta'if kind of region. They they kind of were settled there, the Thaqif, Banu Thaqif.

So, he is Thaqafi because he's from that tribe. Now, when he rises and he has this insurgency and he's got this group of people and Abdullah ibn Zubayr thinks this is the premonition that Mukhtar al-Thaqafi is the one that's going to kill me. So, he has his brother Mus'ab fight him cuz Mus'ab is sent to Basra to kind of calm things down and he takes over and then he kills Mukhtar and Mukhtar's head is served to him on a platter.

Yeah, that's how it And it's interesting because five heads are served to different that whole thing beginning with Hussein radi allahu anhu being served to you've got Ubayd and then Ubayd's head is served to Mukhtar. And then Mukhtar's head is served to Mus'ab and then Mus'ab's head is served to Abdul Malik. And the person says, you know, in the past 12 years he says you know, he says

he says what is it? Aaman. something, you know, I've seen five heads being placed in front of people. He was the kind of secure the the guard, the royal guard. But anyway, Abdullah ibn Zubayr, he asks his brother that you need to you know, you need to eliminate this threat. And he does, he kills Mukhtar al-Thaqafi. Obviously, there's a a battle going on.

He kills him and his head is served. And then this head is sent to Abdullah ibn Zubayr to kind of give him the assurance that he is dead. So, when the head comes to him they put it and like they they put it down in front of him on the ground. And they remove the kind of cloth and it's his head and Abdullah ibn Zubayr with a stick kind of like prods it.

And he says, "Huh." He says, "And they said that he will be the death of me." And you know, the writers write like uh the heavy and all these historians, they write Al Hajjaj. Right, so it's it's interesting because, you know, I I mean they say that, you know, that And what was unbeknownst to him that fate had hidden from Abdullah ibn Zubair, Hajjaj ibn Yusuf al-Thaqafi.

Because at that point, Hajjaj hadn't truly risen. And Hajjaj was the death of Abdullah ibn Zubair, radi Allahu anhu, and a very tragic death and had him, you know, then strung upside down outside of Mecca and pinned and But it's um yeah, I mean, sometimes, you know, these uh deeply shocking, mortifying, but also gripping events from Islamic history.

Definitely worth reading up, people. Right, so uh let's move on, people. Let's move on. What are some questions? What is going down? Right, somebody's asked, "Do you believe in hadith?" Yes, I do believe in hadith and I've got plenty of lectures explaining that. So, what is going on? Muhammad What is Oh, I haven't read uh I was going to share a poem with you guys.

I I came across a poem. Um right, so Talk to us about scenic roof. There was a poem I actually read. I did I thought, you know what, I've got to share this. This it was epic. I mean I I don't know like some some poems they just kind of hit you and this I thought This was by Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar from Pakistan.

Sadakat is the truthfulness. Wow wow wow wow wow. I got to say that is epic.

I really you know some lines in this I found that really powerful that that we will snatch back and snatch and take back all our promises from you. And I feel that this I read in some places he'd written up but I think this serves better but because this is kind of by far it could mean that you, from now on, will even the truthfulness of of an oath will frighten the hell out of you.

Or it could be mean that he's speaking about himself, that the truthfulness of an oath will frighten me. But either way, and this this line, I thought was it it's golden, people. You know, by the way, masafat means distance.

It's an Arabic word. And had the masafat is the boundary of the distance. So, what he's saying is it was it was your house, your home, that was my limits. But now I've decided I will break all limits. But it just sounds so epic when he says ik tera ghar tha He's doing it, people.

He's doing it. He's doing it. I I I read that thought, you know, I've got to share that. So, people, let's take some questions. Um Is it true that Islam is founded on five pillars? I don't know what founded means. What does that mean, is founded? I suppose these are some key features of the rituals within Islam.

But I'm not sure. So, what is going on? Mufti, can women go to the graveyard alone? Mhm, the jinn's. La Llorona. The Yeah, I mean, women can go to a graveyard.

There's nothing wrong with that. You know, I feel that there's a taboo with this thing of women and graves. Don't you think so? In a lot of cultures people feel maybe women's and spirits and I suppose it's easy to make the the connection between spirits, ghosts, and a graveyard. But or even demons, but women that I'm not sure how that crept in, but that is there as well in many cultures.

There seems to be this taboo about women in graveyards. I don't think it it's really anything substantiated. It's not an issue. Um All right, so it's all cool. Um As to There is a Hadith that the prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasallam he sees a woman who's crying at um

at at a at a graves at a graveside. And the prophet asks her to um to be patient. And she's she's like in a proper state. She's like really bawling. And obviously not a a laughing matter, but I mean, it's not like just crying like tears, but like bawling. And the prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasallam asks her, "Look, be patient.

Be patient." I think her brother has died or something or maybe a husband. I can't really recall now. But somebody had died. I I I'm I'm pretty sure it's the brother, but so she's in a state and the prophet asks her, "Look, be patient and you will have a an immense reward. Um but she carries on kind of bawling, and the prophet leaves her. But then later on, she comes to the prophet and says, "Okay, now I will have patience." And the prophet says, "Innama sabru in the sadmatil ula."

The prophet says that, you know, patience is when the calamity first strikes. You know, now obviously you've bawled your head off, so now you're going to stop crying anyway. You know what?

Now this isn't called patience. This is just the bawling's over. Patience is in the beginning. So, at the first strike of the calamity, "Innama sabru in the sadmatil ula." Not afterwards. Afterwards it's just called, "Okay, I've run out of I'm losing my voice box now, and I'm running out of tears, so um cool.

What is going on, people? What is going on? Was Imam Tabari Nasai and Hakim Shia inclined? Yeah, I I think they were. Um I think they were. I think Tabari was definitely a closet Shia.

I'm not saying that as a bad thing. I'm not saying it as a uh you know, just in case now that Oh, yeah, I haven't been using this. Now that I've got this, I need to be kind of like I need to be people's people's my style style people. Oh my god.

WOW. ALL RIGHT. SEE BOYS TOYS PEOPLE. That's the thing. So, look. Yes, it is true that um um I feel this is in my I could be wrong, but I feel that he was definitely Tabari was a kind of closet Shia.

He just kept it on the down low, but he definitely same thing with Zuhri. I feel Zuhri was a Shia. It's strange, but I feel that he he kind of fluctuated in life. Like sometimes he may have been a bit anti-Shia, but I feel towards later part of his life he must have regretted and then come back towards the whole Shia thing.

And they the whole narrative because a lot of the Shia things in Sunni Islam creep in through these two characters. Through Zuhri and through Tabari. Tabari just brings he brings it in in in cargo load. Tabari is like achacha chacha manufacturing wholesale.

Tabari is like a camel to love factory one day. Who says the production has ended? He he just dumps so much Shia narrations into Sunni Islam. It's crazy, man. And and other weird stuff as well.

You know, crazy stuff Tabari brings in. But yeah, so um And you know, um Allama Tamanna Imadi, he has a great book in Urdu, a very detailed book on Abu Jafar al-Tabari uh detailing how he is and he has one on Zuhri as well, but detailing how Tabari was a Shia.

And it's very fascinating, so you can check that out definitely. Mhm. All right, what was some other questions, people? Questions, questions. Uh Hakim and the other people, by the way, I think they were inclined, but not huge They weren't like um I don't think they kind of you know, create were You see, I don't think they created any problems by being slightly Shia inclined.

I don't think they were I think they were Sunni, but just with a subtle inclination to a more inclination towards Ali and so it's a very kind of a light a filtered a watered-down kind of like a a Shia inclination, but they weren't You wouldn't really put them as Shia. I don't think that would make them a Shia per se. Um So, whereas Tabari and Zuhri, mhm I feel that they may have been closet actual Shia.

Uh Daniel Ramirez, you're doing it, man. You're doing it. The affairs of men were in harmony until they were changed by Abu Hanifa in Kufa, al-Batti in Basra, and Malik in Medina. Sufyan ibn Uyaynah. Wow, wow, wow, wow. Uthman al-Batti, huh? From Uthman al-Batti, um yeah, he was in Basra.

But yeah. You see, I don't know if that's a fair statement because Sufyan ibn 'Uyaynah himself, you know, to a great extent was clout chasing. Why lie, people? Sufyan ibn 'Uyaynah himself he, I feel, uh wanted to be the number one person, you know, the like all scholars do.

But he, especially in Hijaz, in the Arabian Peninsula. And he was great at Hadith, but he wasn't obviously a match for Malik, Imam Malik. So he obviously um And you have to remember people like Sufyan ibn 'Uyaynah, much of their kudos got eclipsed by the presence of these people.

Um I would say by You see, people like Imam Abu Hanifah, people like Imam Malik in their lifetimes were of super you know, like kind of like celebrity status when it comes to being ulama, scholars. They were huge. Uthman al-Batti, okay, now we don't hear much about him, but maybe he was quite huge as well back then.

I don't I mean, I I know he obviously was he as in he had a method, but I didn't realize how much of a following he had. But um Yeah, so it's quite natural for people to make statements against other people, you know, it's it makes to a great extent, it does make sense. But then he is the same guy as well.

You see him, you know, with Hadith, the amount of kind of bragging he does in Hadith. So I say bragging, but I don't mean lying. But um how he used to he would, you know, take certain books, not read them to certain shaikh. Is it okay I just narrate this whole book of yours from you? Yeah, yeah, yeah, cool. And, you know, all this stuff. So, um it's crazy.

I mean, so he I would feel that, yeah, fine. Uh but, I would take that statement with a pinch of salt because he was equally clout chasing and then these people are eclipsing his son. So, it's natural. Mhm. Right, I want to say uh this thing about the Shia, it just reminded me that I there's been an incident in the UK.

So, there's a tragic incident recently that a girl um by the name of Aya Hachem, I believe that's how she they pronounced pronounced it. Uh she was murdered brutally. And, you know, may Allah grant her an elevated مقام in جنة الفردوس.

On the back of that, there was a uh you know, matters unfolded and a drama kind of unfolded. So, first of all, there was this tragic thing. She was murdered uh gunned down, shot down, and killed in Blackburn, I believe, in the UK.

And, what had happened is then this page emerges to um to ask for sadaqat, to collect money. I kind of GoFundMe page to collect money for her janazah. People start giving money. Then, some people realized, oh, but she was a Shia.

So, they don't want anything to do with the Shia. So, they say that how do I get a refund? Honestly, it's not a laughing matter, but it's the absurdity of it can make one laugh. That would somebody really say something like that? These people are out of their mind.

I mean, first of all, that how can how can you ask for charity back anyway? From anywhere, you know, there's a Hadith in Sahih Muslim that the prophet said the person who returns to his sadaqa, to his charity is like a dog that has gone back to consume its own vomit. You know, this is that how can how can you go Like that is one of the most dis- shameful, disappointing, despicable acts ever that you give in

charity You know, Allah says do not invalidate your own sadaqa. Secondly, you invalidate it on the grounds of sectarianism, which is ridiculous. Even if it was a non-Muslim, even if it was any religion or an atheist the fact that you gave in sadaqa help ease the burden of that family is is an immensely rewarding act.

You know, you don't need to And to say well, oh, I realized this person wasn't on the same theological spectrum as me, give me my money back. You know, it's like the arrogance. It was so um it's so disappointing, honestly, and disgusting.

I honestly, I was uh shocked. And then there was a um there was another plot twist to this whole scenario with surrounding uh following on, you know, the mhm following the death of Aya Hachem. The second layer spin was that the charity page itself apparently was it wasn't even really entitled to be collecting money.

So, the charity page, I hear, emerges to say, "Well, oh, we're going to uh I suppose this could be be a bit of the masala segment. This person who's collecting money for Aya Hachem's janazah doesn't actually know Aya, doesn't know her family, is not involved with anything.

Then he when he gets clocked on this, he changes the cause of the charity. So, it's still for Aya Hachem, but it's no longer for a janazah, it's to now build a mosque in her name. And and then people are like, "Well, but apparently, do you do you even know this girl?" Um and he's like, "Yes, of course I know her. I know the family." And then somebody comments and posts her brother's statement saying, "Look, we have not authorized anybody uh no Aya has not asked for any mosques to be built like this.

And we do not nobody should be collecting money in her name." Right. So, then and there's this whole thing that spins off from here. So, this person then saying, "No, but you know, I wanted to collect money anyway, and I wanted to Astaghfirullah. Tobat tobat.

You know, this is a double whammy. You know, this is like they're doubling down on how disgusting certain Muslims have become. A girl dies in a tragedy. And you are using this you're capitalizing on this opportunity to scam money from people.

You know, your personal goals, whatever you're trying to do. Like you've got a center, you've got a masjid, you want to improve your masjid. Oh, she's dead. Let's uh post her picture and say that what we're going to do is collect money in her name. Astaghfirullah. This is how low certain people have dropped and stooped.

That is crazy. Honestly, I was like one I was discussing with the sectarianism. Then I realized, oh well, wait a minute. This whole charity thing, you start reading some of these comments, it's not legitimate. It's And then he changes. He says, well, I never really said it was it was like this. I was just doing it for And you think, well, what on earth is going on here?

Right. All right. So, okay, sorry. I was just reading something there. So, it is so embarrassing. So, this is what I would say is look, people do when you are about to first of all, first point is that any tragedy uh they were a human being.

Sectarianism should never come into it. I would say religion shouldn't even come into it. If they were a human being, that is enough. Okay. The fact that they were Muslim might make them even closer to you as, you know, because you share certain you share the whole belief structure with that person. And that's awesome and you can do dua, you know, you do maybe attend their janazah or you do things.

But just, you know, first of all, having that sympathy or having that offering condolences just about being a human being. So, that is a very important factor. The second thing is when you are going to help, be wary that some people might be scamming you on the back of your human frailty and your weakness to to kind of and your empathy. They may be kind of capitalizing on that.

So, do check that out. All right. So, the these are some important points, people. Cool. All right. Mufti, have you heard of the black banners of the east and the movement? Yeah, I don't believe in those uh hadith really. I think most as Imam Ahmed ibn Hanbal said that look, most he said that this whole genre to do with the apocalyptic events before the end of time is made up.

He said la asla lahu. Right. So, people, what is going on? Mufti Saab, what is your daily quarantine routine? Uh my only constant is chaos. It is sad but true.

Honestly, my You know, I I envy people with a routine. As John Elia would say, kya takalluf karein yeh kehne mein ke jo bhi John Elia says that why should we shy away from this saying it?

That whosoever is happy, we're jealous of them. Hi, John Elia was a legend, though, we know. In his own he just resonates sometimes some of those those uh you know when he has some of these poems. But he has some cruel poems as well sometimes, but they but they interesting they resonate still.

You know, even when they cruelty it's like uh you know when he speaks about some girl. As you do. The one I don't know is there the one people but the one and the one that you can't the one that got away. La la la la la. He's like he's like everything else since you has just been a substitute.

That's me putting it in my words, but his in his words he says uh he says "Bagal mein take a key Hasina that he's like this that I've got here this this he says this Hasina is like a beautiful girl, but he says that he says that my side I've got a cheap take a key like a cheap beautiful girl.

Like meaning that she's doesn't amount to anything, but she's beautiful, but he says "Bagal mein take a key Hasina Tumhari furqat guzari ja rahi hai." What uh he says that this is us having to substitute your separation.

Allah says everything else this is how we it's just you know this is just a substitute. We have to just get by now. What else is going on? So people side piece this is my side piece he's saying but Yeah interesting person nevertheless. So people what is going on?

What hadith about fasting the six days of Shawwal? Are they all weak? Yeah, I don't believe that it's authentic but I feel fine. If people want to do it, it's all good. I wouldn't you know deter people from doing it. Let's just be honest, you know, we don't get round to it because we're not that we don't feel like it. It's like he says But the beer either may not it's not that I I don't know the rewards.

It's just I don't feel like it. And in that sense you know, we don't get round to it but as it just so happens in the Maliki method it Imam Malik never liked it anyway said it wasn't authentic. So now we've got an excuse. Hashtag real talk people real talk.

What is going on people? 6:00 a.m. in Pakistan. You're doing it. You're doing somebody said don't believe in the apocalypse. Yeah, I mean the apocalypse if you mean by that that the universe will come to an end. I'm sure it will at some point. Look the universe has to come to an end. It will either kind of explode or implode. I mean it will come to an end but do these events have to happen in this particular way.

Um Why do Maulvis generally lack IQ? I Yeah, I mean, I think that the madrasa system dumbs people down. That is a huge problem, really. Yeah, huge problem. All right, and they need to kind of introduce critical thinking, really.

Rah has asked what that I never asked my question about what are my plans in Jannah. I mean, who You just want me to kind of fantasize about things and kind of vocalize my fantasies. I'm like in a swimming pool and it's just full of all these hoor. I'm like, yeah.

Jen I'm like I'm like Jannati Jannati. Like, yo, what's up, man? What's happening? And then you've got other people, they like Yar, we're missing prayers. We should be praying. Uh right, is that To be honest, people when we when they picture of Jannah, they just picture like one like huge kind of like an orgy going on, isn't it?

Not to be not to be crude with my words, but this is what is pictured by people, isn't it? Just uh this whole you know, just a kind of a bliss, a hedonistic bliss. And and this is why Ghalib said that you know, in his poem that Mujhe Maloom Hai Jannat Ki Haqeeqat, Lekin Dil Ke Khush Rakhne Ko Ghalib, Khayal Achha Hai.

He says that, you know, I know the reality of Jannah Ghalib. But this idea is still good in keeping the heart happy. You know, it it it's you know, when you start picturing. Right. Okay, on this somebody had asked that look um what about the hordes?

Do women not get hoor? Or is it just men? Is are the urges just for men? Like we're like, okay, who gets hoors? Right. So, we're like, I know. I know how to settle this. Look down. If you've got a penis, then you the answer is yes.

You're in. You get them. No? Okay, TK. Anybody else? No? Okay, TK. This So, the question is that, you know, this obviously bothers certain people that look will is that's not fair, you know, won't women get this? And I would say, look, personally, the Quranic discourse would apply equally for men and women.

So, women would equally if that's, you know, if that's how they want to picture it and that's what they want to get you know, get Right. So, yes, that they would be hoor equally in that sense for women, hoor men. You see, hoor to be fair would be the Arabic plural of hawra, but it could equally be the plural of ahwar.

It could be a plural for both in that sense. Um same thing with ain, they say aina, like deep-eyed, like, you know, but hoor and ain, but the thing is it could be for ayun. But my point is that it could mean about a man who's got that colored eyes and, you know, dark eyes and things like that. It doesn't have to be for women, but it's just that because the Quran is generally the discourse is aimed with the male pronoun.

So, that's how it is. But going by this understanding of Jannah, so let's say if we're going with a very literal understanding of Jannah, that Jannah is literally about oasis and it's about sex and it's about all of these things and it's about, um, you know, alcohol and chilling and just it's like a tropical holiday.

Uh, you know, that's what it is, let's say. Then in that sense, if we're going with that, if we're going with that, there is the other view that look, the this imagery in the Quran is just symbolic. The Akhirah is more it's nothing going to be like this. In my and I'm more inclined to that view, that it's all symbolic in the Quran, the imagery. And the Akhirah is more to do with consciousness. And I don't even think there will be things like gender.

I don't even think that will probably exist. But um, but I mean, but then people because we can't relate to that, we'll be like, what the hell does that even mean? What the hell is consciousness? This is why you need to try some mushrooms. Or DMT. But the thing is that people will think, look, well, what is, you know, what is all of this? This doesn't make sense. So, to most people this makes sense.

So, fine. If we're going with a literal version of Jannah, literal, absolutely textual, rivers actually with milk Huh? Dude, but but the but the acha acha acha That could have been a We've had that question before previously with the with the wife kind of and and the husband accidentally drank that milk.

That But this is not this haramis. You haramis that are thinking that. Achacha. That kind of milk. You're not going to even GET INTO JANNAH. YOU'RE JUST going to see it from a distance. You're like, "What is this all?" So now the people that are taking it literally look rivers of honey. Here's my cup.

I'm just going to dip it in here. I've got a glass of milk now. Achacha. That's a good boy. Drink Drink your milk and go to sleep. You're like You're like, "Yeah." But I came to Jannah. I I want to kind of like chill. They're like Drink the milk.

It's like, "Now go to sleep. Go to sleep." So if you're taking it literally can women not have men? I feel they would as well in the literal version. I feel women would have as many men as they want or they would have a man or two men or whatever the as the Quran says. Look, whatever your heart desires.

You know, if that's what the heart desires men. But I definitely feel that it doesn't have to be 10 men or 20 men or two men or three men or Huh? Doesn't have to be, you know, people watching this like start getting distracted and start thinking Hi, how do they see?

They're like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah." I've I've watched, you know, for research. I was watching That was research to do with that. So, it doesn't mean even if it's one man, but it could be the point is that the whole this perfect if we're going with the literal understanding, the perfect heavenly companion or companions, right?

For women would be men. Like heavenly men. I don't mean men from this world. So, but the truth is that you know what? The Quran, I feel the Quranic discourse includes that for women. But what happened is along the way as Muslim culture developed, men found it um Al Ma Ayman, you're doing it.

You're doing it, man. Much love. Much love. Right, so the I feel that as Muslim culture developed, there was a taboo about thinking You see, people are very insecure about thinking of their women with other men. That's always a huge no-no, especially in Muslim cultures. And in other cultures, but in especially.

Like there's a huge No, oh my god. And especially obviously could be the person's wife, but it could be other people, not even his wife. Could be his sister, but he's still thinking, "Huh, other other men." Like, so the point is that this is very taboo thing. You know, our culture is when you think about it, so weird that like imagine No, I'm just saying when you unpack these things and take them apart.

Now, look. The thought of sex and with any like when it comes to females within the Muslim culture, not for the for the men themselves or men themselves obviously always thinking about it. But when it comes to other female members of their family, it's like so, oh my god, this is like so filthy.

You know, it'd be like, "That slut." And so, look, if you think about it, here is uh like if if a man saw, let's say, that female member holding hands with a man or God forbid like let's say he saw her hugging or he saw her kissing or he saw her all hell will break loose.

Like, "What the hell? What a you know, or let's say even if uh the man was interested in her, he was kind of pursuing her and they're holding hands or they're doing it'd be like, "What the hell? This is disgusting. This is like this." And people do all these honor killings and they do all these ridiculous things. But yet, you'll have like when you think about it, a marriage. What is a marriage? Like the man will come and he'll say, "Yeah, yeah, you know, oh, I'm asking for your daughter's hand in marriage or for your sister's hand" or whatever it is.

And people are really happy. You know, and in essence, he's just saying the same thing, isn't he? He's just saying, "Oh, yeah, I just want to take her and I want to have sex with." You know, that's all he's saying IN DIFFERENT WORDS. AND THEY'RE LIKE, "YEAH." bring him a tailor, yeah. Bring some dessert for this person. Don't you know what he's about to do? Give energy to him, yeah. Let's go.

Bring the Red Bull." THEY'RE LIKE, "YEAH, GIVE HIM SOME GIFTS. Give him a gold watch. Do you know what he WANTS TO DO?" AND THAT SAME PERSON could have just been like could have been pursuing her, maybe holding her hand out. So, it's like, "Ah, they want to kill him." So, it's crazy what social narratives do to our perspectives, you know.

So, yeah, so this thing about this thing about women, people's You see, in Muslim culture later on, they pictured all our women in heaven with other men. No, they're only going to get the same husbands they were with. That's like an absolute bummer.

That's like, "What the hell is that about?" It's like, "Huh?" Here as well. What the hell? No, can you just send me to hell, please? Can I go to hell? Hell? Hell? Is hell an option? Kick. Can I do something bad here? Can I disqualify? This is crazy, people. This is crazy. That's why I get confused when some Muslim men will fight tooth and nail for multiple wives and ask why women get jealous.

Like, do men not get jealous when thinking of their wives and other men? I think exactly they do. And I think, in fact, men are much more insecure about let's say women being with other men or like in this question that Hina has asked, like wives with other you know, in fact they were you know they without get getting into too much detail, but there was a very fascinating discussion some friends and me were actually having on this topic.

And it's interesting to gauge reactions that if let's say you were to marry someone, but you knew that she had had a relationship with someone, would that bother you? And would it bother you if that person had was also a friend of yours in the past? And how it's interesting kind of gauging people's reactions. And and I think it's definitely true that this is a huge there's so much insecurities with with men and more so Muslim men.

I think they're massively insecure. Like I think it bothers people so much these kind of things that um Yeah. And society to be fair, it's not exclusively a Muslim thing. This is a it's cross-cultural, but it's it's less so in the West. It's still there, but less so. And it's that's just extreme in the in the Muslim world and in other cultures.

Can you recommend right? So, how would you refute the claim that the prophet had Look at this See, look Farhan interested in the real questions. He's like What's this talking about men, women, paradise, sex? What's this What What is this? Talk about Talk about real gritty stuff. We're about the real Let's get to the real deeny stuff.

Which is a question here by Mustafiz Khan. Is it fraud by taking money from banks haram? Is fraud by taking money from banks haram? I mean, Mustafeez Khan, I don't even understand that question. Are you asking about fraudulently taking money? If you're fraudulent fraudulently taking money, then it is haram. If you mean is taking money from banks haram?

I don't know how banks give people money. Do you mean as a loan? No, that's not haram. Do you mean as an overdraft? No, that's not haram. If that's what you meant, I hope that answers some question. Right, people. You know what? Let's do a few rapid round and then let's wrap this up for tonight. I think uh Ah, it's been a bit of a day.

If you've got a gun, uh yeah, that's another way that banks give you money. That's a good point, clear. Oh, it's like that robber and they asked him, "Why did you rob banks?" And he said, "Well, that's where the money is." I thought, what? Hello, you be saying it. That's a point. Point. Point you about. Point. Point. Point.

Uh Um what some questions would men and women share space during the prophet's time? They absolutely would. There was shared space during the prophet's time. I have got some detail videos on that. Somebody said, "Mufti, if my wife remarries after I die, do I have to fight a new hubby in Jannah?" Oh, look at the love Ikram has got for his wife, huh?

He's like not only uh he's asking, "Not only uh do I get to be with I'm prepared to fight. I'm prepared to fight the next guy off. THAT TOO IN JANNAH." HI, IKRAM. THAT GUY'S PROBABLY like stressed that this wife has followed him to Jannah.

And and then he's got Ikram to fight. He's like, "Why are we fighting?" He's getting punched in the face by Ikram. He's like, "Look, I would pay you. Take her." But Ikram's beating him up and he's got the wife. And like she must be like, "No, we're going to be here to we're here TOGETHER FOR ETERNITY." IN AN ABAD.

OH, YEAH. Khalidina fiha. Oh, yeah. Ah, that would be hilarious. So, yeah, nobody knows who's going to paradise. Billy, you're doing it. Billy's in the house, people. Eid Mubarak, Billy. Somebody, can I have you in Jannah? Hi, hi, hi, you naughty, naughty.

Jannah queue. Or we can make a Jannah on earth. Ah, is burglary haram? Toba, toba. Of course, burglary, you know, a thief is one of the most despised categories of humans. Thieves.

There's absolutely no honor, absolutely disc an absolute disgrace. Utterly haram. All right. All right. So, did Sheikh Asrar So, ah, Sheikh Asrar G, my beloved, beloved. So, I've got several videos where I reply to Sheikh Asrar to check them out.

Mhm. What was Imam Malik's view on who belonged to the al bait? Imam Malik actually just said the al of the prophet is all his followers at bar home." So, in that sense This is generally speaking the isle of the prophet all all of his followers are going to Imam Malik. Obviously, when we say that's when we say things like Allahumma salli ala Muhammad wa ala ali Muhammad.

He said that this was at by Muhammad. Sallallahu alayhi wasallam. But, when we're talking about zakat and rulings like that, that's different. That would generally be the uh Bani Hashim. That's what it would be. People, let's wrap this up, you know. I think it's been quite a while. Other than that, we've got Let me just Ah, other than that, I think I nature calls, people.

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