Meaning With MALM #3

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what is going on right i'm going to take a look today inshaallah which is a weekly lesson and so it's important to be learning on a daily basis nevertheless at least on a weekly basis i can teach you something so i'll be going over some verses shortly and then i'll take a look at some of your questions comments and then bring some of you on live all right for the meet and greet of ryan any thoughts that you may have

right a lot of questions i can just see them here actually questions about oh wait this is right all the way from australia all right so what is going on can you do a weekend meet up

america a.m right america this whole thing people are asking what are my thoughts on the taliban thing cello will discuss some thoughts i'll let you guys uh click like and share um muhammad sheikhs have you heard of muhammad sheikh's opinions uh i have some some i've not watched so many but a few i have heard of right love from my dil

let me just grab my earphones as well all right what's going on here so yep sugar and sugar and love from my look at that from his heart [Laughter] right so what is going on

people there you go an amazing imam and and somebody that's always involved in research and from the from the outskirts of birmingham people so someone you can connect with right taliban cure from you mufti

let's before we begin the the lesson on some verses from the quran right love from bangladesh shukran shukran i should incorporate the uh bengali uh bengali intro as well into my intro sikhna that's that's the only i've got to add to it kuch why not huh why not

salaam's mufti love from the guy who's still on a journey allahu akbar ain't we all on a journey that's uh that's how we oh a cha cha cha all right i think uh oh you're doing it yeah you're doing it you know what's interesting is i i'm trying to check if the equal comments are showing up on both sides hmm interesting right before we begin i want to today just to remind the topic and then i'll digress about

some verses of the quran or the quranic description of god's love allah your hip and that's a fascinating topic and it's something where you can actually take a look at all the verses of the quran and they're not actually insurmountable it's an amount that you can actually look at quite easily and see where allah describes those he loves and equally those he doesn't love and we'll speak a bit about that but before we get to that some people are asking

some people are asking about many people are asking about the taliban situation you see our thoughts and ours are with the people of afghanistan and anywhere where people are struggling and suffering may allah grant them ease may he replace their difficulties with comfort i mean see afghanistan has really

it's been toyed with for for generations okay this is unfortunately the situation there and so many people have played proxy wars with the land of afghanistan or using afghanistan is just a a means to an end it's irrelevant to the people they don't really care about it and so many hands have been dirty in that game so many

the international community primarily and and the afghani people as well they as well are a part of that game as well it's not it couldn't have happened without them but so many greater forces the americans the russians one could even argue the chinese um other you know the international the europeans to some extent pakistan even india it's just everybody has you know unfortunately where they could play an angle they've played it i i

don't mean right now i mean for decades so and you have to remember that the taliban are afghani people so america now has decided to withdraw and you know joe biden said why should we help a people who ain't prepared to fight why should we fight for a people who ain't prepared to fight for themselves which is an interesting statement because you think well that's how we should have always been what were you doing here in the

first place spending you know billions billions and billions of dollars over the years almost just under 20 years under two decades of um an occupation and really what is so telling is that it was never about afghanistan and it was never about democracy or freedoms or human rights or women's rights or these are all a facade it was never about this because look if america was

which it was in uh afghanistan for under two decades do you really think it's difficult to to give rise to an entire new generation within 20 years it's not that difficult if you're spending billions it's not that difficult you know if you just start if you just began on education if you developed imams if you developed community reps if you'd set up an infrastructure you'd set up schools set up universities i mean a degree takes four years it's been just

under 20 years you would have had a whole generation brought up now on a different way of thinking with knowledge and information on how to handle the world situation the world crisis um or crises of the world how international relations technology it's you know if you're spending billions anyway you know one is we're not spending billions but they are they have so it was never about that and you know people may say they've wasted

billions they haven't wasted they haven't wasted billions they funneled and siphoned them to to goals or to to points that they wish for them to reach because they've they've given out contracts military contracts other contracts the this money has reached people i don't think it's just been set fire to it's reached people on the back of this war who've been spending it i mean it's

been funneled out with these privatized contracts with military contracts with weaponry with just other you know but anyway that's the politic no point going into the politics of it what's the reality is that we have to just embrace what is and think about how do those people move forward and the truth is they're gonna do it themselves the world is not going to do it for them the world is not going to help them um

donations and things like this i think are wonderful for where they can reach but it's just a drop in an ocean it's not going to change anything the taliban themselves will have to realize which i think they are i think it's dawning on them that this is their country and these are their people and i think they will have to the fact you know in some ways it may be and as weird as this sounds it may be a counterintuitive

i don't know if the right word is i think it's high time and opportune that and maybe even a a blessing in disguise that this has been handed to them and why i say that is not because of the taliban i mean i totally can't you know disagree at all ends with how they operate because they are just a cultural tribal militia that's all they are they are not i mean islam is very little about what they are about it's all about culture

their particular afghan culture that has been given a veneer of islam it's nothing to do with islam but it's their culture the point is you see it is sometimes quite easy to fight for something it is quite easy to fight for something and it's very difficult to live up to it now resisting is at times much easier than fulfilling so when there is so much tenacity

in the opponent it is at times just better to hand it to them and say there you go run it because it's not easy to run a country it's not easy to run a household let alone a company let alone a you know if you if you run a small company that has under 100 employees imagine then a medium-sized company in going and then a large you know huge corporation how difficult that would be

running a country is immensely insurmountably complex dealing with ministries departments international relations resources so in many ways it's better to just hand it to them and say deal with it because now it's not about shooting now it's not about trying to fight americans or these armies you know these soldiers or survive it's about trying to thrive trying to and that's difficult and people then realize that damn you know there's uh

we need to you know so you've got all these pictures of the taliban on bumper you know bumper cars and on um eating ice cream all of a sudden and working out in the gym all of a sudden because they've not seen this you see so and and it's it is tragic for any suffering that happens in the interim which will inevitably happen to some extent but to be fair i think it may not be the overall thing may not be as bad as people fear they haven't i've not allahu alam i've

you know it's difficult being able to tell what's going on there because i don't think there's any real some of the media i did watch uh the western correspondents over there were seemed i mean it was a woman and she was saying she you know it's quite surprising it's just it's nobody knows what's gonna happen but it's not as though you know they've allowed her there they've allowed her to interview them they've allowed these things they've said they're not going to you see women's right is something the world is kind of has flipped about so they are conscientious of that so they're saying look we're not you know we're not going to be so cruel i

don't know what that means but let's see and may allah make it easy and the truth is that there is nothing else that anybody can do anyway i mean america invaded for god's sake i mean america the superpower of this age was there for 20 years and couldn't do anything so it's high time that it's handed to them which it has been and said look rule they've said we're going to you know be compassionate we're going to be mindful of women's rights okay let's see because when people start enter the world of politics and diplomacy everything changes believe me so this taliban that we're seeing now

five years from today will be a very different game mark my words because that's the nature of raj niti of politics so let's see and may allah protect the vulnerable and the truth is that i do feel that um i feel for all you know all the victims and especially women in the sense that there's an element of uncertainty they don't know what's going gonna happen but may allah protect them you know may allah make things easy for them

and i i think as well it's people have we have to just let it be people have to just step back stop you know this just let it be and let's see how it unfolds you know as the legend jalaluddin rumi he says that as you walk on the path the path will appear let it let it be let them because look there's people are saying there's women issues there are women issues there's humanitarian issues but let's face it they're everywhere you know there you've got the issue of uh women being made to weigh purpar

okay and that's in pakistan you had an issue the other day some some girl was stripped in while celebrating independence day i i believe and a few hundred people stripped her and in in public and then i don't know what the what they did i mean i she was assaulted i don't know whether she was um in what details she was assaulted but this happened in front of hundreds of people in a country like pakistan and you've got

you've got there you've got people ripping their clothes off and even you know europe this is the hypocrisy as well that you know they uh and i i agree that where this crisis people should you know be concerned about women's rights but they'll say you know like you'll get france saying women's rights women's rights women's rights but then they don't give a damn about the women themselves i mean they will just ridiculous oh just persecuting constantly ethnic minorities for a certain look i get it you know you you don't like people could say oh we don't like the burka we don't like this

we don't like that but come on making laws against a hijab and discriminating they can't attend school uh par what is it trips or they can't do this if they can't do that parents can't attend them not even talking about the kids if they were so where where is all this love for women's freedoms gone you know people say so you know it's nothing but a facade people deca is in the

so that's my thoughts on the matter that look let things be to allah belongs the affair before and after that's a beautiful verse wallahi that was one of the fine that was the final uh it's been reported the final thing that imam malik said before he died you know when when he knew it was certain death and one of his students kind of put his head in his lap he was lying there and he knew and they said shall we go get some help i mean he was uh he was old by that stage and he and he knew that this was

this was it and they said to him what now imam he was the dawn of medina you know legend honestly imam malik his mother is something else and and they asked him what now you know the imam hijrah the legendary scholar of of medina and he's from the table and and he said he just looked at him and and he said [Music] women and that's it he closed his eyes and died he said to allah belongs the affair before and after

what a way to go that is that is something right so let's move on people lonzette worst is the cia salafi [Laughter] you know wallahi noam chomsky has been speaking about this stuff for so long um you know it's a shame we as muslims haven't really celebrated people like noam chomsky but he's been speaking about this the us created this mujahideen era let's not forget that we are all suffering today

you know these religious extremism that you see everywhere it is a directly was fueled directly fueled and planned i mean other people fueled it as well but it was you know the whole thing was driven forward by the cia to fight off the russians communism just because of their thing and it's interesting that today many muslims think communism is evil and i'm not saying communism is good or evil i'm just saying you know okay i'm not a communist but people feel it's evil from an islamic perspective

that's the interesting thing and they themselves are victim of the cia propaganda it's fascinating isn't it you speak to a muslim and they think oh my god communism is evil like it's kufar it's the kufa and you say why i'm just curious why i'm not a communist but you know to me islam is it's it's it's it's neither and both it's capitalistic in its own way it's com socialistic it's definitely socialist but and it's you know it promotes entrepreneurship at the same time the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam

refused to get involved when they wanted him to control the markets the hadith where they asked the prophet uh it's in bukhari where they asked the prophet that can you get involved they're hiring the prices they've increased the prices and the prophet said he said he said let people be let the you know the the markets unfold so it's definitely got capitalist end but it's got socialist ends as well and one of the first communist states

that was ever established was by the muslims it was by the karamita i mean they may have been a sect but they were muslim and it lasted for about two decades as as long as the the american occupation of afghanistan and but my point is when you speak to people today they think communism is somehow and and you you think you can ask them why and they don't realize they are victims to cia propaganda i mean their islam their perception of islam not their general they

they are giving an islamic they are telling you allah deems this to be kufa and who told them [Laughter] yes you see so this is why we have to really always be critical we have to question where things come from the cia fed this they got saudi on it they got other countries pakistan on it they said look listen you have to stop you have to help stop the russians the commies the red and so what do the muslim countries do what good old muslim countries do

haiyal jihad they open the floodgates of jihad so they started preaching in every ju mahatma about the verses of jihad surat suratul anfal the stories of the prophets wars these things non-stop they nurtured an entire generation with this thirst for blood and for global dominion and this jihadi kind of phenomenon emerged and now those are the people that are running institutes and you know this

mindset is now firmly gripped in society you can't eradicate it just like that those people will have to all just die out and you'll have to have a fresh breed of muslims that are more compassionate and merciful and and that's and and this isn't even about religious folk i'm not even talking about religious religious folk not talking about your mulvi and your imam from the masjid i'm talking about the common person who is in those muslim countries like in pakistan you'll get the common person who um isn't religious you know he doesn't even

have a beer he doesn't he doesn't probably pray but he too has been brought upon this so they have this you know and we should kill and we should do this it is a catastrophe but may allah have mercy i mean right just because the cia says something it doesn't make it wrong true that is true it doesn't make it right either [Laughter] you see it's true it doesn't make it wrong

but that's why you have to use that right azerati you do in it yard with the super chav the super sticker much love much love there was also i missed gold globe chakran for the super chat or the super sticker much love let's take a look at today's

lesson before i do let me just bring it up here so all right now we're going to take a look today at allah how does god describe his love in the quran and what lessons

can we take from this so you've got here some verses and these are some examples i will show you a there is a you just bring that back there what is going on right there is here is a little chart but i'll come out of this in a moment uh this this was actually um

made by somebody who has um he has forgotten the name of the channel about the quran so may allah bless him uh right so you've got here a number of verses where allah is explaining and we're going to go to some of these verses but i thought let's just show this quickly so you've got where allah highlights how he loves the just how he loves those who are pure you'll have the muttatahirin you'll have the moxetin you'll have and here you've got number of occasions those who fight in is in his cause feasibility and

that can mean in many ways those who struggle it doesn't have to be a physical fight those who who do uh good deeds uh a tawabeen ah you've got people who purify themselves you've got al muttaqien and this is an interesting one we're going to come to the steadfast saberin right now and on the other side as well you can see a lot those who he does not love okay now i want to highlight something here

allah does not say allah does not say in the quran ever that he hates note that that's incredibly important allah mentions he loves allah your heb there are several verses allah loves okay never does allah say allah hates such a people never says that in the quran you do not find a single verse he says he does not love la you

he does not love neither does he say he despises you allah never uses this yes there is one verse allah says and notice allah does not say about the people but he says about the the action to assault in when they were setting off for the assault this was um the non-muslims were to attack with the in this particular case with the hypocrites that kareem not carry allah hates them or dislikes them

this act of these allah disliked that but never does allah say he dislikes a people he says he does not lie makes the verb negative there's a difference there's a huge lesson to learn in that allah you know people say um oh you know you are we just reading too much into these verses are we no we're not because think about it you know some people say the prophet the prophet was a warlord in fact jordan peterson recently said that and that

is i okay i accept he has also said i don't know much about islam so he has i've watched one of these things where he says i don't have enough knowledge about islam to come in but i would say that anybody who has with any decency tried to learn about islam and the life of the prophet sallallahu alaihi from an objective viewpoint academically i don't just mean you did a google search but somebody with some academic rigour can see that such a statement that the prophet was a warlord

it completely is a misfit and a mismatch to the prophet's whole mission his life and the legacy because look take the quran as an example the quranic discourse the language even used in the quran is not a that of a warlord it is not um i'm going to come to the super chats much love for that shukra and i'm going to come to them it is not for someone who is speaking about war i'm not saying there's no verses that

address that they do but the language the rhetoric like just think about it when you are a particular person you use those words and many islam revisionists have actually they've actually been intrigued and have marveled at why is it the language of the quran if anything seems to be of a mercantile nature it seems to be of a somebody who is a trade is into trade a merchant because it's a lot about suffocating a lot about trade and make a deal and

profit and kasara and hussaran and sales and you'll be surprised i mean this is you know i'm i'm i'm not saying this i mean just read the islamic revisionist material and you'll see that they actually are intrigued that why how is it using these things because they and they've got their own theories but it's definitely not the language of a warlord somebody who's saying oh let's round them up let's do this let's do it's not and i'm not saying there are no verses

of the quran that that do not address war of course they lived in a uh in a tribal society but let's be honest out of 6 200 plus verses how many of the verses are speaking about war tiny amount so and here is another fine example where the prophet is describing allah and he is sorry the prophet is teaching people the quran with the words that allah is describing himself as in allah allah loves

now if if this was a warlord you tell me why wouldn't it reflect that language that allah does this and he you know he strikes down with the sword and he hates and he it would use language which reflect a warlord so right so here allah never uses the word hate as i mentioned and uses the word love and uses negative love as in does not love la you and these are some examples i want to just take a look at because uh just how amazing they are you've got suratul bakra let's take a

look at these few examples 195 okay now this is an incredible verse absolutely incredible that spend now this means in anything that can that can serve some help it does not be like a theory as imam malik said uh speaking about sabila that they are many and countless

so helping someone building hospitals helping the poor this is there is a there is a cheat that god has hidden in helping you know when you give forward it brings counterintuitively it brings so much fulfillment to you and that's counterintuitive because you would think actually i'm losing money why would i get happy but you do well you see um and do things you see this can it's an amazing

verb and word because it can mean kindly it can mean properly in allah allah loves those people who are of kindness but of um of a meticulous nature they see it through and the next verse that we've got here

whoever's is true to his word for in allah 76 whosoever is true to his word now this is something which i think is so important because it's it's very unfortunate that muslims today certain muslims have become in some society synonymous for deception and for trying to con you and that's that that is very tragic and i'm just being honest because yesterday

i was with a friend and we were speaking and and he's um he just lives up here so i don't know qadhir if you watch this geo right so and he just bought a new car mercedes and the interesting thing is that we had this discussion and he said look i'm going to be honest i i wouldn't buy this i wouldn't buy a new car from a muslim specifically a pakistani he said he said i would never trust him and he himself is but he's just being honest because he knows that they're always they're going to be playing an angle you just can't trust

them and this is really tragic it's a tragedy that we have become synonymous like that as muslims with deception whereas allah says whoever is true to his word or covenant allah loves those people who are mindful of god and notice it doesn't say muslims

once again spending look at notice how many verses always god's love is about those who love for others and help others okay those who hold in anger you see people of hell and helm is this that you you can remain calm in tense situations that those who hold in anger and note allah doesn't say those who don't get angry they have raith

and what's fascinating and those of you that are into arabic will will will know that karthi mean is mansoob here you see and the question is why why is it why isn't it moon and some will say that's that allah is saying this is being specified it's like being highlighted if you like

okay and that follows as well you see this follows anger why those who forgive people when something happens it's happened you know those who can't forgive and note it doesn't say muslims forgive muslims people are in nurse because this is another thing we have this thing that we should show compassion to muslims why i'm just muslims of course muslims but humans you know this is why it kind of this is why i find it so you know disappointing that muslims they will speak up about tragedies happening in the world but only if it's

a muslim country they don't seem to care if it's you know when that was happening in colombia they don't care it's not their problem that is just so wrong that is not the way of islam really and you've got here wallahi once again the people of ehsan and there's just so many ways to translate that but you know one is people who have a this

people because it borders between this compassion this kindness but also people who see to things getting done now this was an interesting one i thought that let's let's let's include this now look at this and this is by extension to all of us but to the prophet that by a mercy from god that you were soft for them

if you were harsh they would have long left you who would have left you the believers would have left you remember to be consistently forgiving make dua for them seek forgiveness on their behalf that is making dua ultimately include them when you it's always great to consult and

once you make up your mind you your resolute then just have reliance take that leap of faith okay now those who rely on him because you know indecision is a nightmare honestly it is one of the worst things is people who are so constantly chronically undecided it's it's horrible there's a there's a poem um i read probably about

i don't know 19 20 years ago or something i read it when i was in madrasa that um foreign if you are somebody that has an opinion then have some res be resolute for inna

it is what ruins opinions that you are undecided okay that you'd have no resolve to you that you have to kind of have that and that in who rely on allah and you've got this is uh another example here that was from ali imran again this one from uh

you know people who have faith those of faith of belief those of good deeds it doesn't matter about what they ate as long as they were mindful of god that they did good deeds constantly reminding after a time lapse about mind i'm translating taqwa as being mindful with god but people can translate as god consciousness or conscientious of god a fear isn't the

right word well once again you see essen see see things through be kind now you can see here example upon example of the kind of people that allah loves and note that they are always people who are doing something even though it mentions yeah they do good you know yeah they may pray they may do or yeah they have faith they may have but but they're feeding the poor or they're giving even when they are struggling or they're holding in anger or they're constantly forgiving people and that verse is

an amazing reminder that why is it today people that are religious us are not seen that they are sorry they are scenes synonymously with being religious is synonymous with being harsh and allah says and this is to the messenger of allah that look

they would have long left you was it because of the belief no they would have left you because character is everything and being loving being compassionate is everything in being a leader seriously people need to you know people think it is only an insecure man who thinks that to be a leader you must be kind of like seen as kind of very forcefully strong and shouting or never

leaders really look at lead study leadership study leaders throughout the world they've never been like that true leaders they've always they've they've been charming charismatic they've never been you can look at any structure when you look at the alpha in that structure it is seldom about fighting take an example you go back to take it down a notch primatology look at the ape family look at chimpanzees there's been you know uh

well um there's several books by professor what's his name ah damn right it'll come to me i've got actually got them right here but uh ah right but uh he he has the one about the uh the philosopher and the primate and he has that's one of his titles and many others um the wall no ah right sorry it'll come true but if you read the studies i've been through those books

it's so fascinating to see how a chimpanzee takes over the new tribe they have like their own kind of contests and it's not how people would think people would think oh is it that to become the new alpha he goes around and he beats up all the others he doesn't i mean he doesn't he isn't weak usually the alpha isn't weak but he's not necessarily the strong guest the chimp what he does is he goes around and checks on who's sick he pets the young he goes and he'll kind of like you know how chimpanzees they kind of take out the

they kind of check for i don't know pet each other's hair and check for things and he does that he it's really crazy it's like a president going for a candidacy you'll see that how they go around they pick up a little baby and they take a photo this is exactly what the chimps do to become the new alpha and once they have once they are accepted by the majority they become the alpha and then that's it it's locked in and this you can see in the animal kingdom humans are incredibly much more complex real leadership never is about this

having to show brute strength and brute force and only insecure people would do that and to learn from islam and greater still to learn from the character of the prophet sallallahu alaihi the quran teaches us that it was because he was soft they would have left him if he was harsh you know you can see how much this echo of love

mercy compassion essen and these are just some of the verses so even though there are some verses in the quran i think at least on two occasions allah does say he does not like those who reject and their caffeine can mean also a rejection and arrogance people it could equally mean disbelievers but allah never says not even once in the quran in allah your hebrew muslim never says it once that allah loves muslims or in allah you're

allah loves the believers never says that once he always says about an action those who are doing this action of god mindfulness they are mindful of god muttaqien he loves them those who are masinin who are doing this act of kindness or meticulous nature they see things through he loves them those sabering those who are patient he loves them those who are calves those who are holding in they can suppress anger he loves them those who are being who are often turning back they don't feel arrogant to admit that

they've made a mistake he loves them those who keep clean and pure almost he loves them you see that there has to be an active action not just this oh i have faith i'm a believer god loves me doesn't not according to the quranic description so i think that's um

all right sorry there it is franz de waal that's in sugar and chocolate i've got a few of his books right here but yeah right so um right let's so move on from there but that's i thought it's really important to have a lesson on god's love in the quran it's really something we don't talk about enough i know some people do

but it's not really explained in this way that allah never mentions about loving muslims or believers he mentions about loving people of who who loving people who perform certain actions right now there's been quite a few uh questions some super chat azerati you're doing it yeah azamat let me see if i can see the super chats here should be able to oh all right okay i'll come back to that

because that's a question i'll start from the top all right from the top let's azamat usenov you're doing it man what a name you killed it mufti [Laughter] gahayan [Laughter]

i wonder what the ethnicities what ethnicity are you as much what is that that's i don't want to just come across like guessing and then all of a sudden i i seem like nowadays you know in this sensitive day and age we have to be subtle man we have to be soft man soft all right let's take uh azerati much love much love for the super chat right haroon mufti deep question here what truly motivates you to do these dreams for us

first of all shukran for the super chat much love whosoever doesn't thank isn't grateful to people is not grateful to god why do i do these dreams i wallahi love connecting i love connecting with you guys i love sharing my thoughts i love this sharing this message it is to me

it is indis inseparable from me that's that's truly it wallahi i genuinely love it i am i think by by nature as well i'm somebody that's very social um i am very extrovert by nature and yeah and i think one of the although i can be you know i can be you know in solitude as well you know some people they freak out if they're on their own i'm not like that but

somebody told me once that um that the precise defining marker of being an extrovert is in the presence of others you become you you have an a different energy by just the presence of others so i thought about it and i thought yeah definitely so but i appreciate the question harun i really do i love connecting and and these shows i uh by the way mine trap i'll be doing mine trap tomorrow i'll have uh mahmoud from the united states

on we will discuss a bit about the afghan issue another issue amongst other issues as well at the end of so the mine traps will be resumed and the book club i am looking forward to that i am reading look at that so you can't really see it because of the screen at the back but money by yuval harari oh my god about that i've got to make a a statement uh not a statement i've got to uh let you guys know about the book club so what it is we do have a discord server however

um the way to join it has changed so anybody who wants to join it if you can contact lee i'll as soon as if she does message on here i'll bring up her profile otherwise i'll make a post and tag her into it so and and if you just if if you reach out to her and chat to her then she will add you accordingly but it is only it is really for people who are serious about the book club in and of itself as in they want to read okay and they want to discuss that at the end of each month so at the end of

this month we will be discussing this book money by yuval harari it's not the server is not a fan server it's not a server for islamic discussions it's not a it's just for reading it's not even neces it's not restricted to muslims and i'm not interested in anybody who's immature on the honestly i i made a terrible mistake by saying yeah yeah here it is if you want to join it and boy we had the floodgates of hell were opened up and you know the hounds of hell came

oh my god just immature people and just i mean they're not kids but they might as well be you know the mental age of a kid and i honestly just don't have time for it and so i was like chuck everyone off so we've chucked everybody off and i said that only let those people on who are serious about they're going to get vetted if they're serious and they want to be a part of it then it's awesome to have your company to talk about books and ideas if you want to just jump on there because you think

it's a fun server then it's not and if you want to just jump on there and have islamic discussions then no it's not the place and if you just if you think it's a banter thing then no so people who are interested in that i thought i'd just i will make a post and i'll tag lee um which is spelt l-e-i-g-h right so like lay i guess but pronounced li right um all right let's move on muhammad hassan right much love for the super chat

do we have to make up all missed salahs ever don't you love it you see like do we have to make it up ever right here uh look these things have a difference of opinion the the general view of people is you have to always make up salah this is the general main view that you will find in most places so they will say you always have to make up salah there are some people

who feel that no they feel that if you had to make up salah then allah would have mentioned it but he never mentioned it and neither did the prophet ever mention specifically about yes there is a hadith about the prophet saying that's a hadith that whosoever slept you know slept on a salaz and they had to pray and they fell asleep all forgot about it and then remembered oh damn i was supposed to pray then let

them pray when they remember now this hadith is speaking about something at hand so oh i was supposed to pray damn i forgot let me pray does this extend to salas that you intentionally left out over a lifetime so this is where the scholars have disagreed most have said that you have to pray always as in you have to make it up some questioned and ibn rushed as well questions in his beta0 the famous maliki spanish philosopher

he questions that you know there is no clear evidence that in the quran or the sunnah that a person has to make up intentionally left prayers although he does state that majority of the people say yes you do but really the evidence doesn't seem to be there so yeah so these some of these scholars say that look the main thing is what is at hand so the salah at hand is what matters and to me i i always remind people that it's not about don't see salah as a kind of burden as a kind of debt as they can see as a

thing of gratitude and it's always about the now you know i haven't been able to pray before let's start now see and this is why i'm not keen on this debt approach because somebody who doesn't pray the the reason is because he's already struggling to pray so if you tell them okay well you only have to make up you know well the good news is you only have to make up 8 000 prayers well obviously this is a person who's struggling to pray one so

to me it's about focusing on the now see living that ever present now right let's move on the art of the deal allahu akbar right uh go globe shukran much love uh for the super chat and do good indeed allah loves the doers of good asala absolutely note that you know what's interesting it's not muslim it's salihen

yeah it's the people who do good but not the people who are apparently reforming or making claims to make others do good [Laughter] you see in fact for those allah says do not stop it with with all this this this corrupted thing that you're presenting they say

we are people who have come to do good to teach good and really so people who make da'wah to be spreading righteousness often you see people that carry the actual problem of facade because really this is about correcting yourself it's not about correcting others so yeah

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i'll do a one-on-one where i just show you so where where are we awakened 1981 you skipped my super chat right your super chat seems to have oh here it is marabi this quranic grammar structure very widely from that of hadith also if you know what's the earliest dated copy of quran versus hadith we have

that's a an incr incredible question really anybody who reads the quran can tell the language is so different from that of hadith so different honestly seldom you may find an odd hadith that carries some of that kind of language but most of them and i remember speaking with professor mead faisal

last year and he said to me he said the moment i read hadith i can clearly tell just by the language that this you know that this must have come centuries later and and i feel that and i found that intriguing but i can see what he's saying that the very language of the quran is so different from this language of hadith that is um transmitted now one reason for that may be that um

obviously these are dealing with day-to-day issues in the hadith the other thing is hadith for the most part is paraphrased okay so most hadith is paraphrased it's not necessarily the prophet's words themselves so the majority this is why imam malik didn't like paraphrasing hadith he was again against it but the majority of the scholars of hadith all approved and condoned paraphrasing hadith so the majority of the hadith probably i don't know i mean it's difficult putting a number on it it's arbitrary

but we could just say i don't know 80 90 or 85 percent of the hadith would be if not you know maybe 90 i don't know would be paraphrased so people would say as they understood it so there is going to be a massive difference in the language um keeping in mind that these are these person maybe or not every person but the majority of the people in the chain so let's say by the time it reaches imam malik and imam alex quite early or let's say by the time it reaches imam bukhari or

imam muslim or imam you know you've got several people in the chain several so even if you're saying it's a short chain and there's only five people in the chain let's say but out of those five three may have paraphrased it so person one paraphrases it now it reaches person two he paraphrases it and he reaches maybe the first two didn't paraphrase it but then as it reaches down people are paraphrasing and then the next person is paraphrasing it next person's paraphrasing it this is why you will never or very

difficult to find the same eloquence um not even that and i'm obviously the quran is kalam allah but even from that ancient classical arab style it's difficult to find it the in the hadith content so that's one thing yeah i mean it doesn't mean that all hadith are fabricated it doesn't mean that either that's an extreme to go to and i disagree that hadith are uh you know all fabricated or stuff like people who reject hadith

because i believe that the fact that it does show all these things because it does carry across so much but what i say is that one should be just critical when studying hadith you shouldn't blindly follow if something appears problematic it should always weigh up to the three golden you know the golden principle the golden laws for hadith which are that it cannot go against reason

cannot go against the quran or the living tradition of islam and it cannot uproot an islamic principle and then it is sound that's and naturally there will be some corruption in hadith naturally and i think the problem is that these muslim scholars have been torn between trying to protect the legacy the loyalty for the the craft and the people behind the craft and at the same time between what their

critical faculties of thinking well does that make any sense so this is where people have gone to extremes so some people have gone to an extreme to reject all hadith and i feel that's wrong and some people have gone to the opposite extreme and said as long as the hadith is in the books and it's like then we must accept it and that's wrong how do we know that's wrong and the perfect balance is people like imam malik and imam abu hanifa not necessarily the hanafis that came actually the hanafi's yes as well but maybe not so much

latter-day hanafis are an exception but early hanafi as well and imam malik and you see these people so imam malik in his mother will bring a hadith and say it's absolutely look here's the chain it's the golden chain but then he'll say and we reject it and and that is the perfect balance being able to accept and reject and but it's difficult finding that balance because people get insecure you see they think oh my god if we do that then and then sectarianism is another problem because people feel that oh i'm not

allowed to um if i question it then i'll be going against my sect or my group or my this is another problem competence is another problem people don't actually feel competent enough to question ah but these are problems coming to the other part of this question what rami asked is um the the the structure i feel that what is a miracle honestly of the quran and it's so amazing honestly i i can't state this enough and somebody tried to question they said

you know mufti you speak about superpositions of the ayat of the quran which i borrowed the term from quantum physics of superpositions but this really i have to say to me one of the greatest miracles of the quran is that it was all too easy for the quran if it was from you know people say this is just made up or the prophet was taking it from the assyrian texts and the uh you know the the middle eastern texts and the apocryphal bibles and the

uh he was just taking wisdom from here assatea and he was doing this and he was making it up it was all too easy it was way too easy [Music] to make mistakes honestly it was i find it so phenomenal that the quran nests part of its discourse in a necessary ambiguity and that is i think for the common person they they miss it you see they just can't appreciate it and i think it's such an

amazing feature of the quran honestly me and dr mead faisal were speaking about this um about two weeks ago and it's just so it's hard to see people can't appreciate it but because they only read translations and in fact in the past when i've mentioned certain things um you see the quran nests part of its discourse its ayat in a a a buffer this kind of this

superpositional nature to it that it can mean multiple things and it never seems to box some entire i mean maybe some verses obviously are just clear but and you see right it's hard to explain this because when i say clear they all appear clear they appear clear to what you are reading but you could take an entirely different meaning and it could still be clear to that that is just an amazing feature it's so wonderful

but you have to appreciate it and i think one of the things the quran does about that as well is it addresses the the al-kitab of the time with narratives and incidents and stories that that they know but it leaves it in a way that it works with them and even if it was different it still works you see and um yeah and as let me give you a little example let's say i've spoken previously about the

uh how moses may have been akhenaten that akhenaten from the uh egyptians the pharaohs may have been moses now obviously we don't know but it's plausible it's interesting the quran doesn't take a stance on this and that's that's just so honestly it's so amazing and yet it leaves it like if you read it just from the judeo-chris christian tradition nope if you read it from an egyptologist position it could be as well

you see and it still is clear to everyone who's reading it and this is to me the miracle of the quran because it came for all times all places and all minds that you might read it and think wow this actually you know it doesn't say this or it does say this and and and and it just wow so yeah let's ah right we've answered walker's question all right somebody said are you wearing black for ashura well

let's just say the universe coincided that i happened to be wearing black today and it happens to be muharram but mondays is history tomorrow is a mystery indeed indeed right i tell you what let's take on bring on some of you guys that uh let's do a quick i don't do a we can do a quick meet and greet and then let's wrap this we can start to let me see actually where we are oh no we've got time we've got time good

good good i'm sharing out the link people if you want to jump on there you go i think all the comments from youtube don't seem to come up on this because i can see many more here now some of them are and joseph is asking what institute did i study in i studied in a variety of institutes i i've got a whole video on youtube if you watch about where i speak about my studies but very briefly

i studied initially in damascus in a variety of institutes including damascus university and mahadal amania institute privately i was there for a while maybe a year and a half then i studied in islamabad in pirkharam institute which it was the main institute being in bera punjab but the branch being in islamabad then i studied actually went back to damascus for a little while then i studied in karachi jamia binoria which is mustin aims institute besides that i have done some partial um

you know minuscule kind of studies in egypt in cairo uh spent i don't know maybe a few only probably just under a month there uh but in al-azhar with some of the top dons they're discussing uh in morocco infest many occasions countless occasions with many people there but then just my own and in the uk um uh university of birmingham i did my um i did a graduate in teaching i did my master's in education i did then a

degree in psychology with the ou so those have been my kind of more formal studies i guess right somebody says hassan says let's do a quick meet and greet 10 hours later faisal durrani let's bring on faisal durrani how are you doing

hi can you hear me i can indeed i can indeed let me just get rid of this thing here um all right there you go how are you doing facebook i'm fine alhamdulillah how are you i'm good where are you joining us from uh from loughborough it's uh not too fast yes yes love bro

from you say that again it's 45 minutes drive from you yes of course it's uh an amazing uh quite scenic place as well what's on your mind yeah so my question is uh i think i think this uh the only reason i'm asking this question is here is because you provide this safe environment to ask questions like these uh i have been recently

just in your you know your service thank you very much so i've been reading a lot of books on philosophy and reading on all these greats like socrates and you know uh you know the buddha and uh martha illegally yes and all these amazing people that have lived in the past and i was asking i was just discussing with my friends uh the other day i was thinking if we take our prophet muhammad and uh and if we just take a look at his philosophy do you think in our in our love for our prophet over the years

we have kind of stripped away the the struggle that he himself went through to kind of finally arrive at islam as a religion and philosophy because the way it is it has been taught to us throughout our life lifetime is you know this this man who's really honest uh everybody thinks like that and then an angel comes and finally you know kind of reveals the truth to him whereas there are all these other people like socrates and aristotle and plato

and buddha who had to leave you know live in in you know you can desert the world and leave everything and spend years meditating introspecting thinking about life and finally arriving at their philosophies and you know it's i kind of i'm used to i i use this knowledge with my friends whereas if you've got a if you've got a teacher in classroom okay and there are all these students and some of them are really hard working students they work really hard and they finally you know pass the exams but then there's this one student who's a teacher's favorite

a teacher being god here he's his favorite and he's already he's he he also not only does he allow the student to you know uh you know struggle and learn you know for the exam himself but rather gives him the paper uh you know outright before the exam says these are all the questions and it kind of gifts it to him because he's his beloved he's his favorite and i think obviously you have tremendous amount of respect you know for pro profit but i think in in order to bestow this sort of metaphysical stature for him we remove we could kind of feel like it was just

given to him as if he was entitled are we not stripping away the man he was and he going up to you know and instead of this angels coming to him and revealing the truth he finally arriving at the truth himself now i'm not saying that god has nothing to do with it and this is a man really coming with the coming with a philosophy but to me at least to me my faith is god doesn't seem to be this this king like or human-like person who just says okay you know i really like this person here's my gift to you you know god can be

the truth i mean obviously when you say i uh when you say who will now you know he's not something that we can really comprehend what you're saying is that if i've understood this correctly is that you know there was this whole this kind of like uh the making of the the the prophetic arrival uh the kind of mental making of the prophetic arrival with the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam which would have been years and years of introspection um you know

meditation it would have been years of mindfulness um and and this is very clear in our literature our literature doesn't deny any of this the literature mentions the prophet would often go to haruhira and he would often go and just be my you know practice mindfulness or meditation people some people don't like the word meditation so maybe mindfulness for them but i don't have a problem with the word meditation uh and they say that he would kind of get to hannah okay and um and it's interesting what what what does that exactly mean what was it that he was doing

they don't seem to focus on it in telling us and what's happened is in the then there's the struggle of the prophet's life in makkah and then there's the medinan um you know the kind of thriving stage at which islam kind of this explosion of islam and it's the the stage that really is setting the future into into motion that huge spectacular things are going to happen now and you're right in all of that

maybe you know we've we've kind of forgotten about what about the the what gave rise to the mindset that the the mental journey i don't think islam would be in any way opposed to us focusing on that and i think actually you're right it's important to but along the way muslims haven't for the most part focused on that i think some people did mystics and uh the early proto-sufis that before the subwoofer became a thing um those kind

of people may have and this is why that's what they got into you know this is practicing this mindfulness and going into meditation and and i think people that did that um even i suppose uh mahadeen arabi or other people like that some of them may have then been seen as oh my god these guys are deviants because they're not part of us you know that structuralized islam because that kind of islam which i i think is a very healthy islam

is is more about the spirit of islam it's a very jesus-like islam as well as opposed to the moses like torah version of islam which is a very letter law driven islam that many people associate with and they kind of make sense of so i would agree if i could draw up a distinction of let's say what is jesus like and moses like and i feel that islam contains all of these but people

do tend to find themselves on one side or the other and you're right um more people unfortunately may identify with this moses like version of islam this judeo kind of thing coming through it's very it's all about almost very rabbinic how the rabbis were into the letters and this is uh yeah i agree so i i think i don't think it's been completely neglected i think some people did focus on it um and i think it's important to i agree with you that you know maybe even reading up literature about people who

were like the people of the path you see because this is what i call the path um when i say you know those who walk the path it is that stage that you know it is the prophet in understanding this the concept of self the concept of god trying to not not just the concept but trying to that that be in the presence of and yeah so that is the past is that not the you know the concept behind prayers i mean it is it is although it's not for me

it's for uh you know it's for us i mean one can see well that's what our prophet said you know how this is how you pray but you being from pakistan you know you see you know millions of people praying for 50 60 years of their lives ritualistically but that doesn't that doesn't allow them to connect with god he would want this that doesn't change their character once so what is then the reason behind it i mean a parrot can be taught how to talk a certain way and copy you does that if it does not elevate you you know the prayer like your character your

mindfulness your philosophy then is it just about copying 100 lines uh you see i i do see the benefit in all because i feel that people human beings are different and the beautiful thing about islam is it came for anyone and everyone you see you could be in the north pole you could be in alaska you could be in you know the aborigine in uh in australia or new zealand you could be uh in south america you could be in asia you have a completely different mindset

but islam you will find islam still relatable because that is the malleability and i think it's fantastic and i think sometimes some muslims ironically get scared of it where we shall be celebrating this is the amazing beautiful nature of islam so but i do i recognize part of that nature is that to some people they just want that structure and law and they want that kind of to them it's about structuralism they want the letter of the law and that's how they live

that's the code that's the imprint and that's fine and islam has that and to some people they want the spirit they're not letter people have to have both because it has a physical aspect and a spiritual yes but i don't i don't mean that by the spirit a spiritual i mean you see to some people they are wandering souls yeah both wandering and wandering yeah you see they've not been born for cages they've not been born to be trapped in

structures they are free spirits um and i feel islam equally caters for them but those people i feel will always be a minority in mankind because i think to wonder and this is what i mean by walking the path i feel that to do that a person must have um like your common person i just don't feel would end up on the path it is only for a select few because just by its very nature it requires that you know you said like how the buddha went off and how these people socrates went off and

this kind of it requires a certain person to be able to do that your common person will be too involved in just life well you should be able to really good point like all you know this just following this prophet's path is perfect but when we start to discuss you know following his path we would usually come down to he used to use this in a swag he used to port you know black mascara but i don't mean that by the path

always a worry about sitting in you know so you know absolutely you see this is more a this is more the letter of the the message you see this this this is for people who need structure in life always rigidity is paramount and that makes sense because there's a lot of people like that in fact i would argue the majority of the people are like that and just how you get different people you'll get some people who are creative you'll get some people who who are you know you know but but that they they're not

drawn that way or driven that way they may some people may be more you know uh talented in other ways or some people are mathematical some people are very logical some people are very um you know driven by kind of rhythm so people are different and i think there are many people who to whom that it serves the purpose like they need to know that this is a miswork or a siwak and i do this because this is what the prophet did and and i need this kind of structure in my life uh i

because some person could say well what was the purpose of the miss work you could say well it was to uh you know to just brush their version of brushing the teeth and you've got a toothbrush but and this is why the vacation autob in his commentary on taramedhi says that using a mouthwash this is 800 900 years ago in muslim spain he says using the rasool the mouthwash is the same as using a miswak but you see to these people this is their spirituality and that's wonderful there's nothing wrong with that you see you could be someone that sits somewhere that he does that and and this is how he feel has this fulfillment

but then there will be certain people who are meta structures they are beyond and above structures the world of structures to these people contemplation and mindfulness with god that is the ultimate but you see that realm isn't i don't think your common person will be able so if islam was defined like that your common person would would lose it they wouldn't be able to do things like that and i think it's made in a way that the you know when when we when i used to teach in schools many years ago

we would set the the lesson plan now i think everything's changed we would set it that it would be aimed at the the the low ability so because you have mixed ability and you'd have what we used to call then the gifted and talented in a class that would probably be ten percent of a class so just maybe one two or three pupils in a class and then you would have the bottom sen the special needs which weren't special needs special needs but actually sorry they may not always be specially sorry they were just low ability uh in a class and then you had maybe 10 and you had the majority which were just average

so you would set the lesson that it would incorporate the low ability and it would be aimed at the mixed average ability but the gifted and talented themselves would be able to extend and stretch it and take it there but you would never set it that the lesson for the gift and talented because it would miss the majority of the people they could never do it and you know these people are gifted enough to do it themselves they can make they can make that leap but the others can't so i feel in many ways and this is what ibn rush would say that you see this is

the nature of the islam that it's aimed at the average person but with the springboard for those who are gifted he says that they can reach out i got my answer thank you but yeah faisal it's been amazing speaking to you god bless you man right that was faisal durrani people right what have we got here some all right we have the other youtube comments gone there they are afrai behave all right well we've got some you do and

we've got the mods on youtube mariam you're doing it you're doing it all right so who have we got here let's bring on some people carlos jacka i'm talking from portugal to you from portugal i follow you okay a pleasure i salute you and i hope everything is

okay with you now alhamdulillah okay so i follow you for a long time uh i i like very much to hear you you enlighten me very much because you know it's difficult to be muslim in portugal it's difficult to be because you know we are uh a country which is 90 christian catholic roman catholic so it's difficult it's not easy but okay we

we strive and we go along and so uh now i would like to make you a a question i think it's not an easy question but i'm i i i think you have already talked about this but i'm going to tell you and hope i could have your answer it's about miracles but i'm going to make a small introduction okay small introduction um when i talk about miracles what i would like to know it's it's the following you know and i know and this is a question about philosophy

and science uh god uh make the world the best way he could for us okay so the world in scientific way we can say that god had made this world and the universe the the better way he could for us okay i i believe in that so my question is that we know that the world the world is limited is limited in the way that it's not perfect it sets it has its own limits which which were established by god let me give you an example of what i

want to say the speed of light you know by the equation of of yes the equation by by einstein says that you cannot have a body with a speed superior to the greater than the speed of light because if that happens the the the body has infinite mass mass infinite which is not possible obviously so this demonstrates that there exists limits in our world so my question is that

if there are these limits in our world so how is it possible to have miracles because when you have a miracle you are going to exceed these limits of our world you are going to do something which which is not physically possible i don't know if you understand my question yeah okay it's about the nature of miracles and uh they are not uh

god created the limited world how is it possible to exceed these limits because uh even here we are we are um how can i say or we are we have an obligation to obey to these limits because otherwise we cannot we cannot live here how is it possible to exceed these limits and have miracles i don't know if my question is is clear yeah i mean i think i think i get the question from what i've understood is

you're asking that miracles would defy uh miracles generally speaking depending on what we mean by miracle would defy the laws of physics and therefore how could they be yeah possible yes how could they be possible of course so right i think that's a fantastic question carlos uh you know uh the whole you see i would say you see this comes exactly back to uh what i was just speaking about a

little earlier on when i was asked a question by uh uh that about the nature of the quran and i then followed by saying you see to me what is so amazing about the quranic discourse is and i use the term i i kind of borrow the term the superposition nature of the quran from uh from quantum physics because you see what the quran has a an objective you see the objective of the quran

was the revelation for the faith as in at the time of the prophet sallallahu alaihi islam was to now root itself here it was to root itself as in you know the seed was planted of faith and it was to be firmly planted so it's rooted and then it can grow later on this was the there was an objective of the quran for revelation there was an objective that was the objective was not the objective of the quran was not to say i know let's teach humans geography

or let's teach humans science or let's teach humans even history this was not the objective of the quran ever nor of revelation the objective was to just create a a a connect between the creator and the creation that's that's what it was the rope this umbilical cord that we have that was it just disconnect so the nature of the quran was such that it nested its

discourse its language in a certain way in certain rhetoric that is malleable that had superpositions to it that you see people this i would argue that maybe most people throughout most of history and even today if we're just taking account uh throughout the globe i would still say the most uh even today so as a whole most people would believe in supernatural kind of events

most people would believe in that um so whether they happen or not regardless but most people for the most part of mankind and even today if we're speaking technically most people would believe in that so and and so you've got that but then there would be certain people that would be very reason-based and very rational and critical with the you know critical thinking so so the you know mathematicians and and logicians and and philosophers and scientists today and physicists and all

these people who will measure things but that will not be the majority of mankind but they will still equally islam for them as well you know islam is well not just for the common person or for the majority of the people it's for everyone so the quranic discourse nests itself in such a way that you see people who read it and they do themselves believe in in supernatural events it it allows them to believe in that like as in it doesn't say this is how it happened but the nature of the verses

that they can take that meaning from it and go and and this gives them some meaning there's nothing wrong with that and it's wonderful islam is not teaching physics it's not teaching science not teaching biology or teaching history or science but to this person so somebody for example he reads let's say he reads the the verse of the quran that is that the hour draws near and the moon has been split apart now some person let's say in fact not some

person most people most muslims will say oh so the moon was actually split okay and they will look at so they will say oh we have a hadith that the prophet salallahu pointed at the moon and it split so maybe the quran the quran is not saying it's talking about that but they will say maybe it's talking about this maybe and you see that they take that meaning from him and it gives them meaning and they think wow and this is from the wonderful this shows not only the

majesty of the quran but it shows the you know the incredible nature of the prophet sallallahu alaihi and to them it serves a meaning and and that adds this kind of uh it adds flavor to the to their belief and life and it works for them like they don't have to do anything they don't have to act on it but fine and and and life works now you have somebody who's a physicist now he looks or an astrophysicist and he looks at this and he's equally mind-blown

wait a minute you had proto-earth and you had you know the collision and the moon initially was actually joint with earth way before and and it was hit and and the moon you know and then its formative structure kind of gravitates and catches with the earth wow it could it be talking about this that is and he takes that from it you see and this to me is the beautiful nature of the quran in presenting things in what i call our superpositional

in taking a superpositional um or the superpositional nature of revelation so the quran itself there is never a verse never a verse that contradicts science or clashes with science per se these verses have there are certain verses or certain series of verses ayat that when you read them together they could a person could take a meaning from it that had so some people could read the quran and take this meaning that oh

you know allah created man by let's say the creation story you know creationism so somebody reads it and he says you know and because at the time of the the prophet there were christians there were other people in northern arabia and in byzantine byzantine arabs and and greeks and other people so they were they had a certain version now the quran doesn't destroy their version for them it doesn't you know if if that's the it basically if they want to read that into these verses fine the quran doesn't say this is how

it happened it doesn't say this isn't but it has this superpositional nature now they may so some people read the quran even today and they believe in a creationism they believe that one day there was nothing then one day god just created man then one day he just created this one they just created you know elephants and one day just created and some people believe that and the quran doesn't say don't believe it doesn't say do believe that it just leaves them because they will get on with life and they will learn but it works if it works for them if it adds some people say no they couldn't be evolution because this to me

shows then the the majesty of the power of god that he created man with his own two hands just like that like kun fayakun hamdulillah you know that if that works for them it works you see now the quran doesn't state it like that but it but they can take that meaning from it the other people they say wait a minute what do you mean there is an evil evolution have you read the quran the quran itself is saying oh you want to see how hulk how did allah begin creation why don't you walk through the earth and explore why is allah saying that why doesn't he say i'll tell you how

creation began it began by me saying here is mine and he knows go observe the observe which is the fundamental root of science observation so it works for everyone you see now what's interesting and and i'll give you a fascinating example is even when you take things like uh when they ask the prophet about jesus now look how easy it was for the quran to just make a bold statement because people say the you know oh

muhammad muhammad made up the quran if he did it would have been all too easy for the prophet to just make up a bold statement you see they asked the christians asked the prophet what do they what what what do you say about the or some people ask the prophet within this backdrop of judeo-christian kind of scribes that what do you say about the prophet uh about jesus and um having a father you see it is fantastic well i find it so amazing

how the quran deals with this because it's so it's so mes it's so mesmerizingly beautiful when you think about it because what does the quran say the quran could have been so easy that that the prophet said let's say people say the prophet made up the quran it would have been so easy he could have said the verse could have said

he doesn't have a father but the quran answers it in a parable in the motherland in the like adam you see those who want to take the the the similitude of jesus is like adam he created him from clay he said be and he was you see look in that one verse this saying be and it suddenly was this creating from clay this is like jesus

so some people want to take they say oh wow see he doesn't have a father alhamdulillah you know yeah we accept we accept this message of islam some people look at it and say ah well adam did evolve so so did you see so this is to me the beautiful nature of the quran that it caters for everyone and it has this superpositional um ontology that when people read it they can take a meaning and the quran like it doesn't dictate to them and it's not here to teach them science or

geography or it's here to just connect them to the creator and what they take meaning it allows them take a meaning it's not yeah so that's so it's not you see about the miracles most of the talk about all of this is really to do with theologians and scholars it's not and although it's nested in the quran but all of those verses are like this they kind of where somebody could read it and say well hmm actually it doesn't really say anything like that and somebody else could read it and say wow it actually does say that

and i think that's the amazing nature so i agree with you i believe i i agree with you i think that quran one of the magnificent qualities of the quran is that quran has a never-ending number of layers that allow you to read the quran from different points of view i think it's a bit like when you go to a movie you and you see that movie three four times when you go to the second and third time you see the movie

always in another way and you you find the details that you never saw in the first way so the quran it's a bit like that once you get i would say yeah and even even because of the nature of the rhythmic kind of uh wording of the quran it's you see it's so concise and precise like the word it's not like just like if you just read a book it's just got you know just so much detail and the quran by its nature never does that

which leaves an infinite room for opportunities yes yes and it's not one thing which is very important in nowadays and i you you you talk about this a lot and i i i agree with you it's that the quran is not a closed book it's a book of signs it's a book of signs and you know that's amazing that you say that because that is the very definition of the word ayah a sign yes yes yes and the quran is

yes book of signs yeah and and tells you go to go and search go and find the the meaning uh search for the meaning i think and and that is something that i learn a lot of with you uh sincerely i'm talking sincerely and i'm very grateful to to that and i hope you will you will completely appreciate and i hope i'm going to to to to to learn with you in portuguese

okay thank you thank you very much mufti thank you very much thank you stay blessed okay thank you right people carlos from portugal all right once upon a time that portugal was part of the muslim andalus it was where great legends like al-hafiz the legend the master of um of hadith in the muslim world was ibn abdul the great maliki from almost a thousand years ago and he a part of his life he taught and worked

as a as a judge in lisbon in portugal wow you know imagine walking around there thinking this is where even after boy used to hang out and he used to this is ignacium and ibn rush then wow right okay so uh we've got uh oh if carly if you i can't see the webcam so is it disconnected so all right i'll let you connect it then i'll add you we've got meanwhile jawad

all right how are you i'm good so i just finished that so i came here with i like that look at the the the pure hindustani hindustani i like it and right so everything of course of course the whole thing the whole i refer to that i refer to the whole thing as hindustan right so

that's the order yeah how are you keeping by the way alhamdulillah how are you doing good lil hamd very well alhamdulillah so i think you chose a great topic today i was listening to a little bit on and off on the love of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and and i think there's uh i was recently reading the ayat of mercy and the hadith on mercy and how you know if you forgive a brother and then there's the hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam you know what

we'll do one of those i will do one of the lessons on that you know on forgiveness i think that's and also mercy i think that as well i think these are excellent topics to really um and with mercy i think what's amazing is there are so many ways of looking at it so there's allah's forgiveness towards us and then there's our forgiveness towards i thought

[Laughter] making him say but he didn't i didn't say it just in case somebody still heard it all right yeah no it's true this uh god to us but then this between us this is where it really matters

for us between us as humans as a species that we because it really i think these things have to be cultivated you know the by default is i think a weak or not having compassion or or not it's not the absence but it's a very limited amount and i think we have to cultivate it as humans and develop it and the hustle is darkness you know allah said alhamdulillah allah

the darkness precedes the light it's the and it's plural it's the the darkness is but there's just one light which is sufficient and nord so i think humans we have to cultivate these uh compassion and a lot of studies with you know in child psychology shows that children um can actually be quite they that you see children can be quite cruel and quite harsh and bigoted and and any child psychologist will tell you that but actually working with children

they learn how bigoted and tyrannical and horrible and cruel especially the younger they are they can be and what it is is as they grow because because one of these babies are so innocent from our perspective and they are innocent but you see they're so like we are the human is designed to see we see them they automatically are just like cuteness overload but that's how they design to be on our brains so when we see and it's it's fascinating like when you think about it that so for

example babies have like really big eyes now they our eyes never change shape throughout our lives when we're born we're born with the same size eyes that we've got right now the rest of us grows and it's it's just made in a way so this is why they appear so big on a baby because baby's so small the eyes just seem so big but they're actually just the same eyes that we've got now so they've just been that size all along but we we see them as like wow this is so and that's the fitrah but

working with them psychologists see that they and people see you know anybody who's been around children will see that they actually are quite cruel very egoistic and very self-centered they don't want to share they don't the younger they are and these qualities have to be taught to them that you know that uh you see it's the and let darkness prevailed and then allah brought forward light you see we have to kind of bring these about ourselves and yeah

and i think it's even in the quran there's different themes as well when it talks about like uh avoid like there's certain verses which uh are pointing towards avoiding if somebody just said babies don't just have them now they've always had of course man i didn't mean it just it's a 20th century phenomenon but um there's like ayat where allah not only talks about unity but there are verses where allah is teaching us to avoid conflict as well right like for example

says not to for example say anything about their gods or anything that they call upon except allah subhanahu wa that's because then they'll do the same to you and then it creates this back and forth which becomes unknown verses like that are a clear sign and these verses are really is uh you know a huge part of it is in medina so these verses show that islam was never about global dominion and it was never about taking over the world and making everyone muslim because

verses like this just wouldn't make sense then if that's what it was about but it shows that islam was about mutual coexistence compassionate coexistence and then there's like the verses of the their prayer places and to about i'm praising them you know praising them saying that allah's name is glorified in these monasteries and synagogues and churches that you speak of allah's name is being glorified it's you know this wow you know i i feel that so many things in the quran

we our we just haven't yet appreciated how just the awesomeness of certain verses we we haven't yet have we it's exactly there's there's so many verses and the the longer you spend with the quran the more you and the longer you spend on certain ayah then you start to realize like there's different meanings open up on you and different yeah and i think salah opened up so many meanings for me right like uh i i remember i shared it once with you on one of the old meetups

when you used to hold those where i said like for me even the prayer taught me for example like somebody said imagine me it's a baby with my you know i've i actually have a picture somewhere of me as a baby i'll have to find it but uh i found a picture of me as a um i've had it actually for ages of me i think i must have been four or five but uh maybe i'll share that someday i have a baby picture right there of me no that would be incredibly freaky if you're like what are you talking about mufti i got your

baby picture right here on my wall [Laughter] but i think there's a lot of exploration obviously in the quran and like even in the practices like for example like salah and stuff and how you know the rich and the poor and every culture they're all praying beside each other regardless in the same roles in the same nobody you you that's beautiful and i think you know islam really one thing people cannot deny is and it's a shame today that you know

publicity has you know done a disservice to to this factor that islam has been it has been a testimony of the unification process of people bringing people on a trajectory for unity it really has like you know people can say all kinds of things and i'm not saying muslims haven't had issues they have with racism and tribalism and everything but you know for the most part islam really has shown people have traveled you know like ibrahimovic is a fine example of him traveling through

these different countries going into sub-saharan africa we you know going meeting people from the whitest of the whites to the to the darkest of the dark to to the chinese to to people of all shades and colors and and yet where they where there was islam there was this you know just you know just i come in peace and people were like oh masha'allah you know oh you know what he's muslim and they you know maybe and there was some link of some arabic kind of words and and a kind of language and people ate

and you know people underestimate the value of having certain commonalities like once i spoke about just the concept of halal this food that the birha and the fact that you could go to china and somebody still does that automatically puts you on this trajectory to of of a common bond and it's so simple it's just diet you know they could cook it looks totally different tastes totally different but yeah but still it just puts you on and and i feel that this it's so unfortunate that today um there is a lot of this you know with

some people this kind of uh exclusive exclusive will have this exclusionist approach of like it's just us yeah you know oh check them out where islam really was this this grand unification thing is trying at least and even with those who didn't embrace it look at the large empires of europe and christians it says you know what they're still you know what these guys they still the quran praises them as you know if you want to see love in a people it's an nasara christian that's like wow

think about it it's it's bringing people on a unification yeah and and even in in many ways it's telling you not to even you know don't spread hate towards those who don't believe because those could be your potential brothers tomorrow your potential sisters tomorrow and if you spread hate towards them then they will you know be turned off by the idea of sharing a religion with you because when they see your character but they see the way that you're practicing then it turns them away i think really this these kind of messages so need to you know be so emphasis i think

everybody knows them at a lip service level so people all say yes of course islam is about love islam is about about peace or about having unity but the problem is it's only at a lip service level and no with many it is but i'm just saying with some people who can be like loud drums you know very hollow but they make loud noises so these people who become the voice pieces for for many muslims they have they need to kind of really we as a collective need to kind of get more into these kind of messages

yeah realize ultimately the journey wasn't it's not about you know places it's not about shrines it's not about you know masjids it's not about it's ultimately man's journey to god yes and it's embracing the journey of each other as well right you know there's a he

has a poem and this comes back to you see today nobody would dare say stuff like this they wouldn't even have and you know when he would speak about the spirituality or the religion and he's like from we're talking 300 years ago he said he has this poem he says oh right what just happened there i heard oh sorry i thought i heard a sound right so he says

it was the word for um the old the temples you know the manders the old kind of temples they had in india i don't know how they were different from mandir's but they often use the word der and they contrast it with kaaba this is an old especially in meev's poetry in the ancient kind of classical uttar poetry so he says so meer has left the there and he's come and embraced the kaaba right so he says

[Laughter] look at the punch line he says whoever god wants he he he basically he you know he ruins [Laughter] with a with a play on words here but you see people today what he's trying to say is i guess there he's he's kind of toying with the with the with words of destiny and um with these themes and and what is it ultimately he's kind of toying with all of this but today people wouldn't even dare say a poem like that because you

know unfortunately the the level of tolerance isn't uh but only somebody like me could have said it you know okay so [Laughter] really did have something in them to be able to say some of the stuff that they said they did no he was an absolute you know if you re these people they i feel had a connection with god that many people because they were

philosophers you know these people they they they were people that the journey was in there and it was you know from the heart and it connected and and it was all it was the you know trying to this message of love and contemplation and which really is the saintly message it is um yeah but let's uh that's that's mead let's not take up more of your time right now

from them for sitting for over two that was imam jawad look at that doing it doing it much love people much love so look at that rosalina you do yep everybody is well shaji uh right can no hate please no hate not

to hit man don't do the hit do the love man do the love you know what you don't wanna you don't want these negativities and these things uh you can't allow these things to creep in i don't think i had a um did i have in that but you know speaking of negativities creeping in i'll share a poem and let's wrap this up people yes

there's an epic and actually ties in with life you gotta love this you know this is a student of dark and epic epic poet um he he says in his poem so he says you have to pardon me okay

you see this is an epic urdu word honestly i really like especially the word badguma because guma mean can mean like thought or i suppose yeah like um but bad guma is uh where a person has become negative or critical okay um and these kind of negative thoughts and critical thoughts uh gold globe sugar and much love for the super chat murad he says pardon me

that by becoming negative of people that this is to his to his love teri that what did we you know we even ended up doubting or casting suspicion on your your love allah

wow honestly this line this couplet of his it just ki it kills me sometimes you know when i think about it he says that in the path of loyalty or in this path of love he says such a phase or stage also came upon us that we even became negative towards ourselves or even doubted ourselves

he says it's true it is truly beautiful that being amongst the rosebuds being amongst roses being amongst flowers is truly beautiful he says he says but life truly is such or is that which is spent amongst the thorns

that is really um something because what he's trying to say is that its difficulties in life that in make the story so colorful you know when you sit to watch a movie if the movie didn't have any struggles or twists or if it was just like nobody would watch it in fact many stories when everything's you know the person's kind of i don't know they've they've achieved what they were going to achieve or the guy gets the girl or

people just get up and they leave they don't even wait for the final minute because that's it now you know it's it's the kind of teeth clenching uh the the parts that have you at the edge of your seat that make it so exciting so he says that has

all right guys uh let's wrap this up um it's been epic as always you guys have been totally awesome much love to you um joseph says am i more inclined to po i'm i love poetry it's life man it's life you know on many a days i have to say poetry has been quite the companion

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okay gotta wrap this up so go on then clothes abandoned on the shore what you know what there is just something so striking about that phenomenon just thinking about it clothes abandoned on the shore your body is here with us but your heart is in the meadow you travel with the hunters though you yourself are what they hunt like a reed flute you are encased by your body

with a restless breathy sound inside you are a diver your body is just clothing left at the shore you are a fish whose way is through water in this sea there are many bright veins and some that are dark the heart receives its light from those bright veins if you lift your wing i can show them to you you are hidden like the blood within and you are shy to

the touch those same veins sing a melancholy tune in the sweet stringed loot music from a shoreless sea whose waves roar out of infinity allah that's by the legend mawlana jalaluddin people take very good care of yourselves remember me in a kind of