Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth | Session 7

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see who these people are assalamualaikum Nessa cut Holly how you doing first question I have to ask is can you guys hear me okay my comfy little throw here look at that people that's what I'm talking about that's what I'm talking about people that's what I'm talking about

we get that as a cape look at that hahaha that's what I'm talking about so bismillah r-rahman r-rahim al-hamdu lillah wa kafa ocelot assalaam o allah rasool al-mustafa while our motherland in october a member who Dahomey tada will be our third a little medina tip tava whoa bad for Salaam o aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato ich near me shukran shukran all of you

or some kyani yep I'm well I hope you will write do any Khalil Chaudhary was a I will butter Ahmed chicken right let me just go through these comments pram Tom jacoub choco P on good shukran shukran I hope you're well too so what have we got today was go down must depend on people what's going down can I put my and before any body has a

moment it's the dog it's the god damn selfie camera okay before you start to have some kind of like hallucination that your motive NAB the lassies and you have to condemn the evil and the only evil that you know right now is mostly drinking with his left hand

yeah don't forget the martyrs alight yeah that's a good question I won't forget that I won't forget that right so just to clarify people somewhat do not somebody got worked up last week because I said I know what I should do I should drink with my left hand and therefore everybody would think that I'm drinking with my right hand and this guy had a sudden taka surged out of love for the Deen of Allah he he felt so pressed to

condemn that but how dare I make take such things lightly yes I learn anyway my only words to him and people like him is get a life bro because you must be living a serious misery if the ha honestly life must just be miserable yes Alan anyway people be grateful for what Allah has given you in this dunya enjoy life live each moment

people enjoy are enjoy you're only gonna be on this dunya once and this dunya is what you have right now they are the blessings of your Lord indulge don't fear in indulging in his this is from his blessings to you that he wants you to indulge in them that's why he's given them to you cheers to that sorry let me do the Islamic version honey and Annie and Penny and right anyway let's take some questions any of

metabolism verses prophetic nutrition many people have the nutritional context of Allah look at that look at all the love right back at you people right back at you right shukran shukran right makes me laugh well Sheree me ought to see laughter is contagious it is from the most amazing gifts of God to to mankind laughter I tell you right what do I think of let's start with an interesting left hand there you go for the record I

am actually left-handed and so for those people who are going to try to condemn me later on you see I wear my watch on my left hand okay but I I am left-handed then it's one of those things I have to say I'm I'm very I don't know I got proud of left-handed people they have a uniqueness to them right so let's get started okay I tell you what let's let's take a serious question there was a question right at the beginning I don't know how far back this will let me go I could see their mirror said so now are they come as Salam Amira shook him and you say okay we've got a

question I can't see on the screen right now but I did read it as I kind of as people were logging in about is there a set finance were expensed towards truth one I take it that was in perspective of the father does the father of asset finance this in Arabic is called enough apart okay so expenses and there is a duty of care that you have even if you're separated to to bear the expense is towards your child or your children just as you have that same responsibility towards your parents and

in essence also and there's a difference of opinion on this last point but I do believe also towards people who have some link with you and they may become in need at a particular time so that's a contingent situation so the first two are fixed and this one is if so let's say you had a sibling now you may say well I'm not responsible for a sibling oh you had I don't know there was an uncle I even believe it could be a friend he couldíve extend to a neighbor it clicked if somebody fell into a dire situation you would have some responsibility from a religious

standpoint some mandatory responsibility to at least to some extent kind of share your pot now to children it's unquestionable and likewise parents now the thing is Islam has not Oh including to the wife as well so since this is from the father's perspective or the husband's perspective he would have to pay the expenses of his of his wife of his children or his parents these are Islamic obligations fundamental obligations so what does he have to give let's say the wife or the children is there a set amount there

isn't a set amount the Sharia hasn't said okay everybody gave you know I don't know 85 pounds to the child up to the child and and and just give away your credit card to the wife give away these things are not determined okay they what the aha call almota our of hashable Matara according to whatever is is kind of is understood to be normal so you know if it's obviously children what would cover their be the expenses I don't know whether that's going to be

food clothing education stuff like this there isn't a set amount the same thing I suppose with whether it's going to be a wife or whether it's going to be the parents whatever would cover they kind for their general expenses now and that would also take into consideration your own means as well so I mean what you have to give obviously I mean if you don't have much to give then you can't be giving some you know it's not expected from you but if you do have then it is expected from you that's what it is I do see a lot of divorce cases I would say that I see a

lot right and the thing is and I'm you know I sometimes supervise some of these things and an assist in in these matters and so I would say that naturally what you see the problem I think is that when a couple are splitting right the split no man's cleft asunder what God has joined in union but the thing is anyway ignoring that verse of the gospel for a moment when they do split asunder when they go their own ways the thing is that

people you know this it gets I think it gets very messy with a lot of people it shouldn't be that way but it is so when you look at the Quran it speaks of Em's our company our roof or - sorry humble essa that you live together with kindness or you part ways gracefully but seldom do people do things like that so this is why people then the husband doesn't support let's say the children in many cases and also I have to say from a lot of cases I'm saying I'm not saying it's it's like that with everybody but the the mothers will sometimes instrumentalize the children

as a tool to exact revenge from or not revenge a but to kind of like - I don't know - occasion some harm if you like on the husband in saying well you don't have access they'll block access and won't allow them to and really in all of this the true people who suffer are the children and I think people and I see so many of these kind of cases and it's difficult explaining to people but people will you know they live their lives and but the real victims in this situation on both ends are the children that they're not being

maybe given the kind of expenses that they do deserve and on the other hand they're not being given access to both parents they do owe people on it'll make things easy for each and all may he guide guide us to the voice of reason so the thing is now okay so that's that question answered what else have we got move on to something a bit more walk our Husein Hasan asking can we keep dogs as pets can we keep dog have to say you see as a as a Pakistani I think I've I've got

like a phobia to dogs oh I can't be around dogs honestly I don't it's just just my upbringing although the Maliki me that's not the fatwa though the the Maliki method is actually quite relaxed on these things and you can keep dogs as pets a lot of people made an issue about them being in the house I would say that my understand you can't keep them in the house but you should be kind of conscientious of the the Muslim community as well because a lot of people who consider them to be impure and so if you have Muslims coming

into the house it may cause I don't know issues in May you know maybe they'll feel uncomfortable with certain things in it so I'm just saying just be mindful of the whole greater picture that's all right keto be dole a right fatwa regarding metabolism there you go right prophetic nutrition I honestly don't know what prophetic nutrition is you see the thing is I I don't think that in my understanding I don't think the prophesy

Ali Selim was giving us kind of like nutrition or diet related advice in general I mean I know people take this line and but this is in my understanding it's all part of that kind of synthetic Islam that we have in this day and age but i am i understanding personally i don't think there was any i'm sure their food may have been more healthier just as today rural food is much more natural organic and therefore more much more healthier than you know like fast food

and city food and stuff like that so I'm not doubting the healthiness of what the Arabs in the time of the proselytism ate compared to our fast food culture undoubtedly it was much more healthier but I don't think that was an Islamic thing per se I think the process awesome apart from making the food halal he just ate whatever yeat like what the people around him ate he was a part of them so they would eat I you know like sometimes I don't know what exactly we call it actually I'm not even sure what we exactly call it in

order but thanks I know Asian people do they when I say Asian I mean like indo-pak people do this that like when you have a runny kind of let's say like a curry so you have a sullen and you get the bread you're gonna break and put it in the and the roti you're gonna put it in there and mix it and then eat it I'm not sure maybe somebody can put up there what we actually call that we just tend to call it a we just call is that eat because the Arabs used to call it studied general historically so when that's what they used to eat like and I

know in my household we've just used that word sorry like I've not known what else when we were growing up I remember my mom used to call it some I can't remember exactly what it was but it does taste ever so nice so the thing is now that they would eat like that but is that more prophetic to eat like that I don't think it's necessarily prophetic I just think it tastes good and obviously that their food was healthy so I don't actually necessarily endorse such thing as a prophetic diet I just believe that you know an organic diet is awesome so you know in the time of the prophets and they they ate different things so it was

it Holly bin walid or one of the Companions was eating a lizard and they licit by the way were like you know if you search they weren't the geckos the kind of small little little things like that they lizard through massive yeah so if you search that I mean you could see an image of it but in the hadith the the the companion was eating it and the and he offered some to the prophet and the Prophet said he abstained so listen so the Sahaba thought whoa is this Haram

and the Prophet said no he said he said aha ramen wad the prof said no he said later and Mila Majid who BR they call me for a G dunya are for whom he said that it's just I didn't find it amongst my people like we grew up we never used to eat this so I find myself I find it quite like a nauseating it makes me just a bit sick I can't have it so the companion carried on eating now you see here that the Sahaba weren't trying to all embody the diet of the Prophet they weren't trying to say also you what do

you eat what do Kureishi specifically they weren't trying to do that so it's just a natural you know what if it's natural if you guys eat rice you rice obviously the Arabs traditionally in turn eat rice there but if you chapatis each a party's whatever you eat just go for it people next question all right what do you think of groups thicker mo how you doing how you doing a group they come you know whatever different things do it for different people all right my personal opinion I've discussed this

will please watch my video on a lot of laughter faces they please watch my video on innovation in Islam and how that was interpreted by the orlimar they do there is a split position on what they call can be there be good and although a lot of the early Maliki's didn't accept it the late amount it so I respect all these positions as a person personally because I was asked what do you think I I would say just stick with the Sun that it's safer so whatever the Prophet did do I would say that better to do and

whatever he didn't do I'm not saying it's Haram or you can't do it but in my opinion personal opinion it would be easier and better to do what he did do and there's plenty in that to keep up your preoccupy your time but if you know if some people I know group thicker and stuff like this is a is a core part of their life it's something that gives them incredible meaning so if it does that for you al hamdulillah you know I'm not gonna say to you don't do it don't you know whatever you're still doing something good at the end of the day you know you doing it better than better than people like me so when are you coming to America I don't know I've gotta come to the States man I don't know if they're gonna let me in with the

with the you know with Trump coming in or whoever is I wonder how strict the immigrations gonna get but let's see what up a beamer the aramean a rough what's the stance of Sharia I just answer that question do you still remember your heft face hold on I really need to go over my hips you know I really do you have you ever suffered oppression Imams up what advice to give them good questions Subhan o rip neurotic Chaudhary Sahib you know I don't know worry I mean I suppose we've always been sad at some

point we've all been you know we've all had moments of sadness although it doesn't sound like yeah I think just like every other human being I've been sad as well at times you know like maybe I've been kind of odd and all I've gone through difficult patch or something's happen in my life but I don't think I because but that's not what depression is understood as I think depression is understood as like an ongoing so you're not just sad and down but you're down for long period of time we're not talking just one day or two days we're talking like you know like months yeah maybe you

know like hamdulillah I mean nothing like that has happened to me I mean I have I've been naturally I remember a few years back my life was really turned upside down with some traumatic kind of events and stuff like that and which followed in which you're more than aware of my car being put behind bars and stuff and I think I think the thing was it you know like obviously it was though there was tragic parts to that there was sadness you know this this stuff that's gonna happen he's gonna hurt you as a person I have to say that mourning is an

example when I was going I remember having to you years back totally relevant but I was going and it was the day I was gonna get sent down but there was a chance maybe I wouldn't but I was kind of new and I had to pack some stuff thinking uh-oh that this might happen tomorrow and I put my daughter's photographs in there and in the morning I just kind of tried to sneak out like to go obviously my friend was waiting to take me and I remember my daughter woke up and I didn't wanted to wake up and

she woke up and and I was difficult it was difficult so and I went and obviously I was given a vacation for a good few months but the thing is that it you know everybody's life will face some moments of challenges some difficulties some but I think just see through them you know like naturally you will get to you momentarily but you've got to you know you got a laugh a lot more like even that like okay was for that moment but then afterwards I was back to my

normal self cracking jokes doing this in fact I'm probably one of the worst people you know I don't know if siya bonds on live today but he was saying the other day as well but you know and I some of my friends say I'm probably one of the first people to have around because I will in a tense situation or a sad situation because I will just crack jokes everywhere he was hey I will crack jokes at a funeral I can't help it honestly um this is why I don't like going to these places because I I will just see something funny haha I get myself into so much trouble with these things I'm

telling you I can I see like funny things in everything and it becomes really especially where I made funeral actually I couldn't help the crack jokes obviously he was needless to say very offended but point is this is it look life this is life like there's nothing wrong in seeing the funny side to think so don't get me wrong you'll all have the downside and stuff but just don't let yourself be down do things to distract yourself you know if you're feeling depressed distract yourself go

out now if you're somebody who goes to the gym go to the gym if you're somebody that's a good way by the way you know if you're feeling frustration go to the gym pump it out seriously if you're into the steam hmm I find that really kind of helps works wonders on me to kind of really unwind you know sometimes I've had like somebody asked like one of the question here is if I was really stressed out what would I do I'd honestly go and have a super long session in the steam really works wonders for me amidst a few other things but but the point is that I really like do and go out with friends seriously

have a laugh like you know when you're with friends you're gonna have a laugh you're gonna chill do this more often enjoy life socialise watch some comedy seriously watch some stand-up that it's like don't and you have to because depression I understand is clinical and it's but I would say try to pull yourself out of it I know it's going to be difficult make sure you're eating make sure you're because one of the things is last loss of but I loss of interest in anything you have to force yourself to become preoccupied with certain things learn Arabic I know you're gonna think I don't feel like learning lose yourself

distract yourself you know like tire yourself out physically will release endorphins and in in careful in and stuff like that in the brain positive kind of you know activate the neurons and but you have to and there isn't it you know people will say oh it's Lomb if you're a true Muslim you can't be depressed that's ridiculous you know everybody can be a rat look at that marry moi baguette I'm left-handed definitely lucky people the thing is look don't let yourself kind of this isn't true it's got nothing to do with

your iman you could be the best of people but still fall victim to depression and Islam doesn't have a miracle solution for it's not gonna say hey oh you depressed yeah recite this door you know like a lone man Wow I'm feeling awesome now you wish it were only a you know I heard somebody say on Facebook once oh you're depressed that's because you're lacking in Iman I thought what a oh this is gonna depress them even further like that that's just it's wrong okay on all levels anyway let's

move on right Isaiah Jones assalamu alaikum alaikum salam' all the way from new zealand alright can ask from the Koran be interpreted newly in different faiths I'm not sure what does Nass meanest man honey it means people so I don't know who else you want to include in people but I'm considering purchasing a book on Hanafy faith called the initiation of Abu layth the summer on the country of kardi opinions but do you know more about it um not sure the initiation I'm not sure what which one I do have some of our latest summer candies he's Nawaz ill

books or Futaba is a highly rated Hanafy fatty and somebody who is a great scholar so absolutely christmas is coming is it permissible to sobriety Christmas let it snow let it snow let it you're all thinking of that that diehard seen at you with with Bruce Willis let it snow the thing is look when you say celebrate Christmas we don't celebrate Christmas as Muslims but what does that mean celebration does it mean like you can you can say to non-muslims Merry Christmas there's nothing wrong in that celebrating we don't necessarily

celebrate as a fit as a festival but you can chill out you know kids watch TV and you know whatever they do stuff and but there's no harm in that kind of stuff I don't personally see it Haram to have a Christmas tree that's my personal understand because it's not part of the Christian thing is more the Roman Empire but you know I'm not saying you have to do it if some people do it just don't just don't go all Taliban on them that's all just chill out people you know like look if people want to do it let people exercise their own freedoms you know you know let style aim be more Satan you're not God sent here to to kind of to just crack down on people is it ok to to join a pool where you pay some money and make

picks based on the team which will match if you have the high school I'm not sure I fully understand this I'm not sure I fully understand that question it's been sinful if he/she constantly misses from demócrata Adam little Khan I don't purse I don't believe a person is sinful if they miss swollen because that would be then they would be an obligation I believe if you disparage them as in you you'd be sinful if you kind of you kind

of despise them like ah so now look down on them in that despicable way then that but that's for your kind of attitude towards them not for your not being able to perform them ok because there's some nur right for I'd go hurry chef love your work Allah Akbar for odd shukran shukran Baraka lovey plug-in beyond Clermont for any students worldwide who are looking for master a plug-in right they look at that topic for discussion shukran Ali Murtaza wolf you look like Conan all right look at

that well with my Allah these are ornaments Raisa don't freak out people okay so when when I have to draw this allahu akbar it says on it reversed for all you for any out there cuz oh my god he wrote a lot of awkward backwards this guy must be a mushrik steroids you still got the razor blade hell yeah man I love this razor blade honestly love it are steroids

halal last time I checked I don't think people ate them actually actually actually they do sorry I take that back planning to come to Germany on Mars Sarah Allah insha Allah somebody actually is speaking to me I've mentioned some something I said about going there I said why not people why nice sounds awesome why did you choose Islam as a way of life what convinced you you see show show me show me sorry show me the thing is that I'm in

all honesty see I I come personally my own immediate family are not necessarily I don't come from like a practicing family okay so when we grew up it wasn't we're just I mean Muslim like other just born Muslims we weren't necessarily practicing praying and stuff like that and to be fair they still ain't necessarily but the thing is that it's not about what why did I choose Islam I think these things in all honesty they choose you in a weird way that's I can't say because I can't say sometimes I have to say I do get fed up with hahaha not

so much with Islam but with with with Muslims sometimes and and it makes me think that damn like and I think like okay like if I hadn't studied Islam like I would probably end up hating it because of what Muslims try to shove on to me as Islam driver in the house Omar Omar Tariq is that you people Omar that share ours personal driver right there so big up baahir Beachley assalamu aleikum cha cha

cha the hill ji Alamosa Shama deep-space Kashmir all the way from India hailing from a family of poets people Muhammad Don can please answer about the fasting on 10th Muharram so we fasted a celebration I think the 10th of Muharram generally well is there more to that question some of the Shia friends say that this fasting trend was invented by Bonilla no the fasting they are sure are is to do with that it was considered a virtuous

day within Islam but many ala ma felt that with the advent of Ramadan and these things were no longer as emphasized and those who chose to do them can still do them they still carry virtue but they no long some believe they may have been obligatory before Ramadan but it's a day of virtue it's not from the Shia or the bunny Omega trend in that sense that's not true I'll begin my father and before I finish the last sunrise time occurs but I need to repeat the Salah no that's fine as long as you caught in the hadith says when Adric era coterminous mina Xalapa blent the classrooms for Caracas 'allah whosoever reaches or attains one rakov

salah before sunrise has attained the Salah I am good father awesome the best way to be best way to be really on these things assalamu alaikum dear mostly how he picks around from italy alright I've answered the question on dogs yep do you subscribe to the view that Eman fluctuates or it's a constant in a person's life you see it's a good question I've you know I've read that debate in detail historic when we were studying that does Iman go up and down what I'm not sure and then you see I believe people have Iman in the sense they have faith they're believers and I believe the quality of

that faith varies and fluctuates throughout life so I'm not sure what that exactly means them but that's what I believe what's your opinion on men and women shaking each other's hands sure I mean generally shaking hands is not permitted generally but I would say if it's in in certain contexts like business and where you go into or you know work a job interview or other things like this many all am I like chef Abdullah bin BAE and others have said it's permissible people like chef yaku be have also through action demonstrated is permissibility and I personally am of that opinion as well that in those

contexts the main thing is not to go weird I don't believe it's Haram in those contexts and I'm sure many people will disagree with me they find the voice of reason and your understanding of it Ziggy well the voice of reason is it's the voice of reason I mean I don't think is if you have to define what is reason to people that's like saying they find common sense they find what makes sense to people Allah in the Quran right throughout the Quran is calling us to saying look can this be cut I mean after that at the don't you I fell at afternoon don't you use your reason

Allah saying in the Quran so one could ask well what does Allah mean by why don't we use our reason first of all lush and define what reason is and then we should use it no but Allah know is is teaching us that we all know that we have a certain sense of you know of reason and we ought to resort to it and that was the true message and and the Dawa of all messengers or all the key messengers Amira reverts are not going to give up their pets I believe that they're not gonna and I I would have no issue with that personally I think they you know they shouldn't have to shouldn't you

drink from your right hand South gave Junaid huh no because I follow Lucy what's my devil signs devil sign devil devil ha ha relax people it's the right hand man how many times have to say it's the right hand it's a bloody flip camera god dammit welcome to the real world some of you are gonna end up getting trolled by me on snapchat all I'm saying is warning alert people warning alert right so the thing is now it's recorded on my cell

the food choices or medicines are based on preference and so what was available absolutely I agree with that and you yeah seeing mirror effect on camera okay let's go longer all right so as I said that person fasted on as a celebration I don't know mmm I want to die it's cold chewy it's called chewy that's it it's called chewy ah there you go Trudy that's what these to cool this cool is something I think something else is worth it but they did call it chewy that's it see look at that yeah look at that I was trying to figure out what they called it look at we've got some

proper DC experts on the line here could you give some advice on all the youth who have kind of abandon the practice of Deen many ignorant amount I think it's difficult because I would say to them that look Islam is much more in kind of encompassing that this is a caravan of hope not despair and you know if you're fed up with something I've read you know what I'm gonna tell you I read the other day I read the other day this question being set out to some allama about somebody this woman saying she had hijab on and stuff and that's because they shared the picture that this this organization did and she said well you

know I struggle with my Salah and stuff like this and la blah blah and I've come to the conclusion anyway I'm not happy with Islam I'm giving it up and their advice subhanAllah you know you need to seek repentance you need to ask Allah to forgive you need to stop your singing you need to beware this is the devil talking to you you Oh what the hell was that

yeah good job bro I think I think you really I think you definitely did it there that made all the difference what the hell is that about you know like kill crippling people and then trying to get them into believing they're possessed or something they're giving up on the faith god damn it what's wrong with you look at the the the prophetic there's that example now look at the Prophet a person comes to him in fact the woman comes to him complaining about her husband and one of the complaints she says he doesn't pray for job ah what kind of a welcome was flimsy didn't even pray for John even so

the Prophet asks him he says you know he says that tell me he says do you not pray for her this is in a hadith transmitted in multiple books Abu Dawood I believe it's in the Muslims in multiple transmissions and and and he says he says that I think his name is actually soft one and he says that he says yah rasool allah in the common land a stately though allah bada badda bodda relations that we are people who don't

wake up until after sunrise so what what oh the prophecy Allison had said he according to people like you follow the devil devil urinating you ears the devil devil you know you should seek forgiveness you're gonna get thrown into hell you're gonna that that's that what these people the image that these people get what did the Prophet SAW some say he said he's a hunter he said he said either stay cutter for suddenly he said you know what when you wake up just pray

look at the difference between but what the messenger Allah saw al salam is is his approach his attitude if that was a caravan of hope that was true hope like look look the main thing is you your connection it's gonna take time for you to build that and everybody's gonna fluctuate all along the way you might today be on top of the you know they say for you if you feel like you're on top of the world just remember it Ruvo turns around every 24 hours it's gonna go round you'll find

yourself at you know on peaks and troughs you're gonna be like ah damn today you know what I'm not not feeling it so what so this this we have to have a very broad approach okay so and and if you can't handle that