Fear Disguised As Practicality | Meaning With MALM #29

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there is okay so miss me i want to take a look today at a topic that i think it it it concerns us all and it ties many factors together so we're looking at from things like time opportunity life fear potential

self-sabotage that's the key word for today [Music] and i've put it under this theme or pinned it together with this theme fear disguised as practicality allah and i thought we'll take a look at some quranic guidance on that

and also as a story to introduce i thought you know what last last week we spoke of heisuran and i think my in between you know my sporadic sudden dyslexia takes over sometimes so i think half of the way you're more than half of the way i was saying her name as herzone it's but since we were looking at female archetypes i thought why not introduce walada bintul mustaqi

allah the spanish muslim princess and her legacy um a love story that also faces its more than fair share of anguish and with her ibn zaidun who is the other half of her love story so i thought and that zeroing in on this theme of lost potential

especially by means of self-sabotage and yeah so fear disguised as practicality and this was inspired as a title by uh jim carrey's speech who really highlights this point of we often take the path in life of fear but we disguise it we coat it with being practical [Laughter] so it's

maybe we're too scared at times to succeed maybe we're afraid of embarrassment what if we try to succeed and we fail miserably will we be the laughing stock of our people will we recover from this embarrassment will we and these questions questions questions they remain so often we may tell ourselves that no i'm actually being very sensible

or we may tell ourselves you know it's not really practical let's say let's say someone wishes to pursue a passion they've always had it could be an art it could be let's say somebody it could be a business that they've wanted to pursue it could be a relationship it could be there's so many things somebody wanting to learn something to further their learning somebody whether that's going to be

in the general sciences or in the arts or the humanities or in islam whatever it is somebody wanting to that they had a connection with someone and they thought you know what i'd love to this is something special i should have pursued i should pursue it or somebody thinking man i always wanted to open that cafe i always i had this great business plan i always wanted to have this little startup somebody thinking there's so many things somebody thinking i always wanted to

paint but yet then they lulled themselves out of it by telling themselves you know it's not really practical is it [Laughter] they say you know you've got um you want to stop do this startup you know you you're currently in this job you you've got you know this you've got a the patuity the the kind of the the steadfastness of this income

do you really you know it's not practical risking you want to take that relationship you know it's not practical you know think of hmm all these people are going to be upset all this is going to happen or you want to really study i mean think about it you got gotta wake up every day you gotta go to class you gotta do this you gotta it's not really or even i need to get to the gym i need to fix up my health i need to fix up my i'm not happy with my the way i look

think but is it practical though going to the gym every three days a week doing this is this really practical and this license that we have this kind of card that we use of practicality this is often an excuse for the world trodden path of fear they were just too frightened to do it and in light of that i thought this is uh there's a story which i think in some way or to somewhat encapsulates that as well about dam will come to that

so right always people the army of bukhari if you haven't watched it it is on youtube check it out uh as you can see an epic thumbnail right there all credit shukran nora much appreciated but you can see those of you that haven't watched this it was about moles my eel and definitely it's from the store strengthen stories segment you should catch up on that right so

people i've got a quote for you and since we often begin with one inspired by or sorry by mawlana jalaluddin himself move but don't move the way fear makes you move allah what a quote move but don't move the way fear makes you move that you see sometimes decisions they are being practical and practical is is good so it's not that practicality is negative and it's not that being

sensible is negative sure as hell is not but you have to go back to first mover principles and what i mean by first mover principles are put all of this aside for a moment what is it that is moving you

are you being moved by fear or just by reason or by what what are the first mover principles and then fine you know move but don't move the way fear makes you move don't do it as a consequence of just simply being too afraid to achieve it or to give it a go

and in light of that people [Laughter] that is such a quote i have to say that is such a poem

that in two segments or two sections our life or this life of mine has ended up being divided that relax you're too young yet you know you haven't reached that age yet um

and now you're not that young anymore to be doing these kind of things honestly i love this poem it is so though um and i think this poem will will underpin the story that we'll come back to we'll circle back to today on wallada so

and this reminds me of uh another poem by uh zafarik baal where he says [Laughter] he says that to die over such enthusiasm and passion is in itself an achievement it's a feat i mean this is wow it's an accomplishment but it's just that they say

it doesn't quite suit you in this age [Laughter] that's an epic one um reefy johnstone shukran much love for the super chat dearly appreciated um we'll bring up some some people's greetings let's i just take this off all right so i thought let's begin with these poems because they really

let's just check who we got with us today the one german dude who wasn't allowed in art school and ended up becoming a dictator and starting a world war azan g is so well said huh how villains are made [Laughter] one must seriously it is in many ways what you're saying is actually so true that you know you can't

underestimate i mean okay let's look at it as imagine we're aliens just kind of down an alien view on earth now a person like hitler just look at the potential the man had i mean what he did you have to remember he wasn't acting in a vacuum it wasn't just somebody that jumped up and forced people to follow him he there was an interaction

between him and the german people at the time i'm not saying today german people but at that time and he was incredibly charismatic charming empowering he i mean if you look at what he did it's like wow honestly i don't know whether he just coincidentally did it or he he kind of strategically planned everything because there isn't there's no short of a stroke of genius

in how he engineers his whole his whole thing you can call it a deen his deen it's this religion kind of way of life that he orchestrates just think about it from gestures symbolic gestures to something as simple as this to a great vision tying it into an archetype of some kind of lost grail you know this holy grail almost off the master race providing this

story because people need stories see they're they're in the low of the low they're in a great depression germany was so he provides them all of this vision far beyond their imagination of a master race backs it with pseudo-science so you know blind them with science and then brings the charisma brings uniform you see when you create uniforms now something psychology teaches you is the purpose of a uniform is it

de-individuates it removes the individual and consolidates the group you displace guilt and you find brotherhood or you find belonging and identity then he gave it symbols swastika think about like these things are not small these are the things that make this is the stuff of religions having grand narratives having some kind of creation myth having some kind of

the way he's doing this master race it came from somewhere these aryans obviously got it all wrong but it's still it doesn't matter it's not like the public are going to know any better gave them this vision gave them a dream de-individuated them through uniform gave them symbols showed so i mean it's like and all that potential was in this man who takes charge when he sees this weakness now imagine if hitler had been a force for good imagine he had in his time because this man

was a man who wanted to get into art school god knows he may have been like the next van gaal or something but it's this is it isn't it that lost potential but in his case obviously he actualizes his potential but in a very malignant evil harmful criminal way but yeah that such is the story of life enantiodroma people how the potential and things within them carry the potential for their opposites

yeah how easy uh how easily brainwashed people can get yeah it's true i mean people can get mahmood abdul shukran much love i am an alien we're all aliens i guess in in some way of looking at it uh mufti upload the girl the resale lectures in sha allah insha

those who break hearts look at the look at look at the tag name huh those who break hearts [Laughter] wow there's uh you see there's that [Laughter]

does have something to it see he says those that's in dedicated to the tag name we had the those who break hearts i said that that we came into your gatherings and then we got this bad reputation that we lost our name in the in the eyes of the age that we lost our reputation

i gotta say the way urdu poets bring things together he says and it was by your hands that we got auctioned off wow you gotta love it yeah history makes it seem like he just snapped for no reason yeah it's interesting how obviously and people there was a tv series a while back i didn't really get into it but it was one

uh based on this that the nazis had won the war and they were then running the show not like how you have the western world let's say uk france us how they've kind of dictated the culture as well so in that tv series it's the nazis in japan and they've won the war and they've they've kind of shaped the world and it's now post world war ii i i thought the theme was epic but i just for some reason couldn't get into it i remember trying to watch it but yeah let's

move on alright do you have any advice for spiritual preparation before ramadan besides practicing forgiveness and gratitude i do and i think in many ways we're going to be able to tie it into today's session okay so when we go to the quranic guidance i want you to i'm going to remind us that this why it's even more um pertinent and relevant with ramadan just around the corner so shukrin for that

reminder and we'll come to that all right all right elias saying hello abu leith well hello hello hello elias how you doing man i don't know who that is by the way and why the repetition of names but hey why not huh right so

mm-hmm so what's going on people you know in other news i finally you know i'd believe it or not i'd never watched peaky blinders can you believe that i've never watched peaky blinders and in other news i've now caught up with that almost it's very um i have to say some incredible um just quotations in it just quotes they are epic and and it is very um strange hearing all the birmingham references

so the reference areas and it just seems so strange here on tv why has life been feeling more unreal recently that's an interesting one say that i take it say the fatima shukran first of all much love for the super chat um i wanna you know on this note say that okay so here's what i think check this out so i mean

we've spoken previously about consciousness and we've mentioned how we presumably how consciousness we understand consciousness to work and if you think about it we're all conscious but i feel some more than others especially when it comes to self-consciousness just as adults would be more self-conscious than children and women would be more self-conscious i feel than men and

i mean this could be just in in brief very minuscule levels but they would definitely i would feel that they are more self-conscious self-aware than men are self-aware and then the presence of a woman it impacts the kind of frequency of that self-awareness for men so men become more self-aware through the presence of a woman and

and then once they are self-aware you see i feel it's like exponential causality that people there is this knock-on effect of people as you heighten your self-awareness your self-consciousness i feel it's not you're not acting in a vacuum you are affecting a kind of frequency that you have of the rule of this consciousness of self-awareness

thereby making people around you also heightened or at least somewhat elevated in their self-awareness and i feel that there is a kind of rise in this in our age that we at a social level this then collective consciousness if you like or the the mind at large or

the this kind of networked as the hadith that there is a higher a heightened self-awareness that is giving a a feedback loop so i do feel that we in this age and it doesn't have to mean everybody is but it's in the air at least considerably so that's my thoughts on it

i don't know how you guys feel about that thought but i mean just as a personal view i mean but i do feel that all right so let's is primary sclerosing trangitis registry like

exponential causalities that exist at a clock collective consciousness yet i'm gonna need some definitions here that's nothing to do with this sclera is it now to do with the eye thing is it but okay uh well what a question what a question we'll have to forward that to our medical expert team shukran muhammad

you see collective consciousness doesn't it's more to do with the mind the ruler it's not something about but obviously there is a mind-body connection there is this you know you can't escape that so it is true people can make themselves sick i'm not saying that is making themselves sick rather sorry you have to go back to it i'm not saying sclerosing sclerosing chlangitis and

angioedema rather [Laughter] i'm not saying these um but yeah it is interesting you know psychosomatic illnesses nothing to do with this i'm just saying how people make themselves they can make themselves ill but people can make themselves better as well obviously not in everything but it's it's shocking no short of a miracle in

the kind of things that we can though and you just have to study placebo effects to see to see that acting out its potential and it's really just begins with the mind obviously i'm not this isn't to belittle i'm just saying belittle health conditions this is just to say that the power of the mind and belief is of inestimable value right so

right let's move on to the verse but before we do muftis up why are you not present in clubhouse yeah clubhouse yeah because don't people just argue on the isn't that what they do mufti are you familiar with the works of david hawkins uh i am of reason i mean so this is a somewhat of a more recent discovery and he's an absolute gem absolute gem i feel that it's you know i

was speaking to somebody in uh one to one perspective sessions and i was just highlighting that it's unfortunate that we don't have you know as muslims we don't have many people tackling the the kind of problems that

unhealthy religiosity can bring with it so so just slightly without getting into it too much so let's just you know zero in on that religion the power of faith is unfathomably

and majestically powerful i mean it's so it is such a boost in life it is something that will get you people who have faith are not only usually healthier they come back from adversity stronger they usually can um recover from whether it's going to be whether it's going to be physical or biological or even just situational crises much better than their counterparts who don't have faith faith usually on all levels

is so empowering this is the gift of iman that through right throughout the quran you see this being spoken of remember the quran is speaking of faith faith it is always addressing iman in fact it addresses the believers as just the people of faith those of you who have faith it seldom addresses muslims as muslims the quran does use the word islam and it does use the word muslim but

very really and in fact on one or two occasions it uses it to distinguish between those people who who don't really have faith but they're just following the rituals um they may not be hypocrites but they're just not so quality that the arab the bedouin said we have faith allah says don't say you have faith you don't you know but you've submitted to the fold of islam now so that's and but there's nothing wrong in in using the word islam or saying we are muslims there's nothing wrong in that

and it's now a social identity but just first of all beginning from the fact that in the quran and the sunnah this is not the case islam in the quran and sunnah does not really address you as a muslim it addresses you as one of faith as the one who has faith and it seldom uses but there's no harm in using the word it's not against you using the word islam but this is not how in the prophet's time they used it they didn't used to go around saying you know those people are muslims is that guy a muslim is he they would have said is he a min this is how they would have used it in the prophet's time

it is true arguably that this comes in more during the the time of bunny um especially with abdul malik trying to demarcate a different identity and make us very distinct to christians and jews so and then a lot of this appears in his time this usage and he there's a strong push and there's no harm in it i'm not saying it's a negative thing but it's just interesting to know where it comes from so okay now

coming back to this whole thing of faith it is so powerful so just enriching on every level however like anything they can be side effects okay which are which are unwanted and not from it so you could take like i could give you you could eat food which is very healthy but there could be a side effect maybe you have an allergy to a particular kind of thing maybe the food when it was presented to you it

went off maybe somebody left it in the heat and the foods now got spoiled or maybe you know they could be many things food poisoning some you know some things got into it doesn't mean the food itself the food itself is a source of nourishment and healthy but by the time it makes it from there to your to you something could have gone wrong and something could be wrong with you to start off with so you know you've got allergies so just somewhat analogously going with that so religion for some people you

see they it turns like they get caught up with some of the side effects which shouldn't really happen but it does and this is things like so people are let's say they're praying they're doing things but many people are just doing this as a kind of fear that if i don't do it i'm going to get burnt by the hellfire and so everything is simply about rendering a like ticking a box so as not to be put

so it's not to be hurt and tortured so a person thinks oh my god oh my god i don't pray i don't pray i'm gonna burn in the hell fight i'm gonna burn in the hell fire oh damn i better pray damn damn i better kind of so this archetype that they project of god is this one who is a very strict accountant almost like he's like a tax man that if you don't submit you when your accounts are submitted god to them is this kind of ultimate mohasip this this one who will take you to account and

you will be then punished just as the tax man will not spare you if he catches you and the tax man doesn't really have a relationship with you that is of afraid it's a very stern relationship it's not what the dynamic is not like hey how you doing it's it's very professional and it's just about you know it could be polite when the tax hmrc writes you that they they can be polite somewhat friendly but stern and professional and there's no informality to it there's no bond and

dynamism between you and them they're just there to take their money if you fall short you will be punished now right so this so now okay so people have they get caught up in this projection of god that they think god is oh my god i didn't praise a lot today you know damn i miss my salah i'm going to get punished i'm going to get burnt yes but i better beg his forgiveness i better beg his forgiveness and then what happens is then they look around and everybody else not everybody but for the most part

almost everybody doesn't do these things so most people don't pray as in salah most muslims don't praise allah let's i mean i'm not saying that as a it's a good thing but let's just be honest i've argued that probably it's a stretch to say anything even 10 of muslims i would probably put about five and argue that's a stretch that five percent of muslims pray five prayers i i wouldn't believe that's the case at all but that's okay let's stretch it

let's say five percent of muslims so if you live in a muslim area like okay muslim areas ain't that far from here let's say we went to alam rock in birmingham if i stopped randomly 10 people i would argue every 10 i stop it's very unlikely one out of those 10 people that are just walking praise five times a day i i think that would be very very that i can i'm that certain of it i mean obviously if you went and stood outside a mosque that's different but i mean just on the casual muslim populated areas

so now this person is witnessing these other people and he's thinking well she's thinking damn you know this guy's gonna burn in hell she's gonna burn they're gonna burn they're gonna burn oh my god all these people are just gonna burn now this becomes a very like a neurotic way of looking at the world this is very unhealthy

this understanding of everything is simply about firefighting you are simply damage control and then they don't know how to get out of these and then the whole and now this this has different elements to it on one one kind of splinter reaction to this is self-righteousness sometimes people stop thinking that they're actually better than all these people because they do pray and that happens unfortunately people start thinking that the other ways they just get so bogged down

into thinking that oh my god oh my god and then life all this potential of life has gone this is not how you see okay if a person wants to live like that maybe to these people it debilitates them they can't function i've got actually clients i'm telling you that they cannot function they they their life becomes so it comes to a standstill it becomes like ocd it's so obsessive and intrusive these thoughts are and no muslim scholars

that i'm aware of deal with this issue you see it's the elephant in the room and maybe that's because you know maybe they feel that if we address it we don't know you know maybe they they're not confident in addressing or maybe they are confident but they think that if i address it i might get too much backlash from people i don't want to ever i don't know but whatever the reason but generally people don't address this that how do you address that and that is that you have to for these people and this is

why the people i that are part of my kind of network loop that i'm speaking to people that i'm having this conversation for i always highlight to them that you see this in my way that of looking at the quran with all its beautiful glory is that it's speaking about mercy and compassion that a person shouldn't see god it never addresses god as this kind of accountant

this kind of tax man somewhat of a tax man and people they need to stop that the especially these people who are becoming debilitated so yeah these are huge uh challenges because and i think sometimes um this is where we're mentioning i think in the beginning you're mentioning some other people um that they may have this so you you can listen today i feel many muslims listen to people that are non-muslim then but have faith

and they find so much meaning from them that they unfortunately can't find from their own speakers islamic speakers because the islamic speakers are just either just giving the normal kind of nice stories and nice preaching and there's nothing wrong with stories stories are beautiful i mean there's nothing wrong with that but they're not tackling this issue and and maybe it's a scary issue maybe this why is it not being tackled is a conversation that needs to be had but yeah so that's the elephant in the room yeah it comes down to the wrathful god

of the old testament this is it's very you know it's very freaky for for people for some people those people who it isn't that's awesome but i've come across a fair share of people right let's move on let's see who we've got all right all right i've got no

alright yeah dr peterson yeah so this is why i feel that in this day and age many muslims are gaining so much from people like dr peter dr jordan peterson well i see that's my dyslexia which i don't own up to dr jordan peterson amongst other people like you mentioned uh was it david hawkins or other people there's these people they provide some nourishment for something that people are not getting

um they know abedin no one said that you'll be punished there's no he can also forgive he can also beginning when we are yeah i mean i get the gist of what you're saying i know right i think you probably missed the point of what i was saying so i think it's probably fair to leave it you see i think you've missed the tree for the trees for the woods it's i'm not saying you see you're saying no one said this what i'm saying is there's an elephant in the room especially with several people that maybe you don't

speak to people therapeutically you don't deal with people but if you did you'd realize that there's a lot of people who it's like saying you see you don't see things when they like you may not see people with illnesses but you're not a doctor so people don't come to you but they do go to a doctor you can ask a doctor in his locality how how you know how healthy do you think the people are in this locality that come to you and he could say well bloody hell you know it's a nightmare he could ask somebody just just wonders you know who just lives on a particular road and just he says no i

think everybody's fine i've never come across anybody with any illness but then why would he come across people because people are not coming to him they're not approaching him he's so when you have people approach you on matters of faith you come to realize where people are struggling and a lot of people are struggling with this this kind of imbalance this um this narrative that life is just one that you ought to just just get out of it clean like just save yourself and get out save yourself from the fire kind of thing this

narrative it may have been very healthy for it may be very healthy for certain parts of the world but definitely people living in this part of the world find it very challenging and maybe many people do live up to that narrative but this is where they then suffer neurotically and they and then you see that when they raise these questions and they tell you in confidentiality what they actually think of the faith and where they fear they're not being judged because i i have those conversations with people that say

that they are you know that that they want to give up on islam that they've had enough of it that they that this is what people keep telling them i've had people break down i've had people so this when you see that and you see it from many not one you you you get a little idea that hmm okay so okay let's move on right i want to oh did i miss a super chat all right let me just go back okay sir much love shakira for the super

chat i've recently discovered you and i've really improved my life in some of my life in this shukran shukran may allah bless you all [Laughter] these words mean a lot they do um you know sometimes like everyone we're in our own world and we think

and we think to ourselves what am i even saying and what am i even doing and then somebody will say something and yeah it's very meaningful and it's kind of it touches the soul nourishes the soul in a good way in a healthy way i see saracen much love shukran for the super chat yaar musti why does jordan peterson get a pass despite his anti-muslim stance while richard dawk and sam harris and christopher get blacklisted by muslims um right i don't think okay i'm going to

be a bit apologetic for dr jordan peterson i don't think he's anti-muslim all right i don't think so i've heard more of his recent things where he's very celebratory celebrating his muslim fan base and his muslim audience and i've watched the clip of his where he actually he laughs and he then he tells the people he says you know he says many muslims think he says many of my muslim fans say that jordan peterson is actually a muslim he just doesn't know it so i don't think he's anti-muslim

but i think he said certain things in bad taste and that were should not have been said by somebody as so intelligent as him because he knows you know he's a master of words i mean this man is just wow you know if you want to understand expression incarnate this is the man he is so truly god has gifted him and so for for for somebody like that to say words about the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam albeit in ignorance but still it's

it doesn't it's not right because he's so intelligent and knows better that said i think he's very rapidly swiftly corrected himself and said that he doesn't this is what i've kind of what i've seen of him the other thing is you have to understand he is the abu valid [Music] to the ibn hazm of our age you know when ibn has him just spread like wildfire and there was nobody to stop him not a single soul would dare stand and debate him not

that people weren't trying but they were failing abysmally until abul waleed al-baghi returned from his travels to the east legend maliki don he went kind of head to head and toe to toe with you know the heavy weight even has them and even has them himself had to concede that

i've met my match he never conceded that he lost but he said that truly i've met a worthy adversary a worthy opponent and jordan peterson is like that to celebrity atheism the man has single-handedly i feel brought back faith into the public domain as something reputable and sophisticated it's true no i can't see anybody that could have done that and and it was and believe me the trajectory was looking abysmal it's looking so

a i look i admire people like christopher hitchens i admire sam harris i admire richard dawkins i i and i don't think people should hate on them even though they hate even though they in varying degrees have uh they've all been very critical of islam and religions as a whole and some have even shown somewhat hate at times but still you don't have to be like that you don't have to just if some somebody hates you don't have to hate them back yeah take the higher ground they are truly geniuses there's no doubting that

people like sam harris richard dawkins and you know the four horsemen dan dennett as well these people are geniuses let's let's just be honest there's no harm in you know the problem is we when when we find somebody that's against us we pretend the person is so such a jahil such an ignorant fool and blah blah blah blah blah that's really reflecting our own insecurities you should be secure enough to admire the

the talent that the opponent has the skill set they bring to the table because they have truly upped the game i mean these people because you know you are only as good as your best opponent otherwise who were people of faith going to go up against and they were really giving it hard and heavy and for the past decade and a half like these people decade at least that it was the decade of atheism they smashed to pieces to smithereens people of faith i mean it was becoming

embarrassing for you see put muslims aside look at non-muslims they were embarrassed to admit that they have faith because muslims live in a bubble so it's different because we just live in closed communities but if you look at the greater non-muslim societies in the west they weren't prepared to own their faith until the likes of jordan peterson emerged and so yeah we have to be very grateful that you know and allah the lord works in mysterious ways so yeah

somebody said uh muslims go to dawkins and [Laughter] one day doesn't take us seriously dawkins is amazing honestly i think these people are incredible testaments to human potential and this ties into today's lesson i look like them love them or hate them it doesn't mean they have to do it for your sake they don't have to do it for islam but they have contributed to human intelligence you know

it's just observing human potential god you know this in sun body jesus you know we where in sun can get to you have to admire it even if they're going to have the audacity to challenge god that too you know it's like aziz miya says in his kawali

incomparable you can't compare him to anything that he says he in his kawali he says that he even challenges god what is this thing what is insane you can't even see us from outside from space we are imperceptible like us you know we're not even a speck not even a speck i mean you could probably see a speck we are invisible we don't count from just space

and yet the audacity and allah calls to the shows that in the quran but marvels that he gives now examples for us god says and forgets himself

how can how can life be brought back to these things but you see in this there's two ways of looking at this one is getting caught up in that negativity and seeing oh my god oh my god these people are doing such they're saying this about god but the other way of looking at it is well it doesn't hurt god nothing harms god let people say isn't it a testimony

to what god says in the quran that that this ensign i'm putting on earth he will rise to such powers that eventually he will try to remove me from the equation and the angels are thinking this inside this this this this thing allah says

so in many ways you see you could see this as getting angry in sun is doing this or you could see the kind of amusing beauty in it that this yeah this is a creation of god that look at the potential and look at the the delusion of grandeur [Laughter] and it's it's kind of it's amusing somewhat cute from a distance you think you think wow

you see we are all whether we want to or not we all are we all are all are indicative of the divine will of god we all reflect intimations

of the transcendent transcendental will we all do and you can see that in people and see that as a as with the eye of of good like as that you think wow you know amazing so yeah i missed another super chat

muhammad hussain shukran shukran much love for the super chat how would you finish madhuri pray if you joined jamaat in the last raqqa stand one rakah then sit or stand two then sorry if you join mahrib and you catch one prayer so you catch one raka okay excellent and then stand one rakaat then see or stand two and then see no so what you do is you build on the youtube

so you build upon the actions and you make up for the the verbal uh things you've missed so as an example if you've caught one rakah the rakay you stand up for now you'll treat that as your second so i mean it is your second but you're going to treat it as a second and then sit okay because you've done two and then you'll get up for the third so i hope that helps that's the majority way of looking at that

right guys let's um let's take a look at today's verse so how to be live in the shaytan regime i wanted to take a look at this verse from surah [Music]

and then there's a second verse which will follow up from allah now i want us to remember the axiom the rule the canon okay the lens when we approach the quran and that is of superpositions that the quran how depending on who and where they are in life and how they're looking at the quran it will

give them multiple meanings to add value to their lives that's from the beauty and the majesty of the quran right so let's take a look at this verse now i know many people have taken a look at this verse surat al-azhar and it's mentioning that it's highlighting that allah is saying that we presented this amana this entrusted entity whatever it is to the heavens to the cosmos to

the earth to the mountains and and they couldn't bear it and insane carried it and in sun is transgressing and ignorant now many people have looked at this verse and they've said oh this is talking about taklif taklife in arabic means uh it doesn't mean the kliffen the cliff in urdu like suffering or pain to but the cleave in arabic means liability which i guess that's interesting that

urdu made that connection with liability and what the cliff in arabic means um islamic capacity so once you are mukallath you are liable to conduct certain actions you can have the responsibilities for them so what we'd call today maybe like legal or somewhat legal capacity having capacity in a legal sense that term is taklif in arabic so some people said well maybe this means to cleave and some people say maybe it means something else and i know ibm ashur also covers the aqua that you know reason voice of reason and and i think

that's more on um towards what we want to take a look at see i invite us to take a look at this verse again and you're going to and read it with me right that inna that what is this and the reason i'm saying this verse is because somebody asked me they they said to me mufti you know there's this verse and uh allah gave this responsibility to the heavens and and then you know we asked for it and

now we're gonna get punished somebody asked me this they said and he said well i didn't personally ask for it so you know why am i included in this because this verse is saying this so i said okay let's take a look at the verse he said where does it say that so i said sure some people may look at this verse the verse has not said that the verse has used words which people are interpreting so the word the verse begins with

there is a trust something entrusted which was presented doesn't say what that thing was and some people then interpreted it to mean many things okay fine that's their interpretation now i said read this with me that's not what it's talking about see allah is bringing to our attention

the potential of insulin human beings look this thing that has been entrusted to us one way an awesome way of looking at this is it is the potential and you say potential for what and i say for anything

because in sand the potential that we have inside us the potential for anything of some glory now it is presented now in this verse now there is naturally somewhat of an allegory here it's not saying that this is a physical thing in the sense that he is a trust being presented to the heavens to the cosmos to the but somewhat allegorical now

why the heavens now just stop bear with me people when because when the quran is being revealed is being revealed to the prophet sallallahu alaihi salam and those around him in arabia you have to go back in time in sun people as they're traveling through the deserts

surrounded by nothing except just these tall looming mountains and saudi arabia is an incredibly mountainous region of the world so and it's got one of the most um you know per capita the most volcanoes that are present um saudi arabia definitely is amongst the leading uh in the world for how many uh mountains are actually dormant volcanoes now so you've got all of the

and people are traveling now when a person ponders on themselves so let's put ourselves like we are walking through a desert at night in seventh century arabia you're weak disheveled feel powerless

now what is it that you see that symbolizes the utmost brutal strength you see one these immovable mountains some of which can breathe fire

then your eyes go to the fastness the never never-ending cosmos that envelops everything always there and the firmness if anything is of the earth

these three entities symbolize insurmountable formidable strength power and vastness these are the things everything else is so weak these things are almost eternal for you mountains they've always been there watching down on you and everyone that has passed

through these valleys before you the cosmos it has seen tragedies triumphs and this earth you can't you struggle to pierce the slightest amount of it these things you are taken aback with by all of these three entities that symbolize the greatest of strengths to you

allah says yeah these things they do shadow down on you they watch over you almost with this formidable power that's that you see but you know what in a

but the s the true potential of being they couldn't bear that allah doesn't say in the in this verse he doesn't say we made him carry it he doesn't say he doesn't say haml now we made insane carry it he doesn't say is

he sought out he said i want to carry it i want to carry it allah doesn't even address that point you're still caught up in wow these mountains and the cosmos and the earth and allah saying that they didn't they couldn't bear the potential and you're thinking wow so this potential must be so so insurmountable allah immediately follows it by

insane in sun bears that potential now you you look at insane and you say what insane this person he can't go a single day without water

without food this insurance he has the potential allah says inna [Laughter] people think allah is dissing insane here that's their way of looking at it but it's not you see inna he in sun within him and her they have this unfathomable potential to achieve

yet they are transgressing you see you're looking outwards you're unsure in sand transgresses outwards they transgress against people they harm people they do things that you're looking at it like that but this is bigger than that look inwards yet they transgress against their true potential

the definition of dulm in arabic is to place something where it doesn't belong the truth is that the potential was left to die jahula so ignorant insan is so ignorant ignorant of what you're thinking outwards he's ignorant of this they don't know mathematics they don't know science they don't know sure or ignorant of all of those things

insane is ignorant of the potential they carry within they've not realized it this insane has been created with a gift that when they lock into their potential they against all the odds will achieve

this is the gift the mystery this is the miracle that god has placed in each and every one of us now you see this verse he bore it

continues is increasingly transgressing to his or her true potential and remains ignorant of it now you see this verse how amazing and empowering this verse of the quran is that surah azab verse 72 and i want you to follow that with this verse from surah mulk that many of you perhaps have memorized

and many people once again they they read this verse and they read that oh allah has created death and life and so it's a test but i invite you that look like just let's visit this verse let's just take a look at it now allah begins with

he created death why begin with death this it follows from the verse we're speaking before and as in it connects with it because when we think of our potential see what do we do insane is a social creature as even

his or her nature is social we judge by comparison so i look at him and i look at her and i look at them and i think you know what i'm such a loser i mean it's true or i think you know what they've got it lucky in life i wasn't born in a wealthy family i wasn't born to educated parents i wasn't born with privilege ah sure i mean i'm doing okay given the

circumstances fear disguised as practicality allah begins why because in death we are all equal in death we are all equal privilege or no privilege so let's begin from a perspective of equal equality an egalitarian

foothold speaking with death chalk still think that there's a bias you're all gonna die okay so a person starts to get starts feeling a bit down that mote before the anxiety can kick in allah says

but you're still alive you're full of life see now people think they restrict this to things like doing good deeds and by that they lock that into just worshipping as in a person reads nafal all day long and he does but that's not necessarily what the verse is saying sure you can understand the verse to mean that you can interpret it in that way

that allah created death he created life to allow this life to allow you to to be tested in what in the excellence that you do and you come asa muhammad that excellence is not restricted to worship sure that's excellent but that's not restricted to that

to see to allow this to be a test that what potential will you unlock in this life which one of you will be the most excellent in their legacy this is the verse

to see which one of you is going to unlock that is going to truly perform excellence this isn't restricted to anything whatever you do you excel in it unlock that potential in it and allah finishes this verse with aziz see allah is almighty because when allah is saying about let's see then bring your excellence let's see this is a

a platform this is an arena liable it's like it's a place where people get tested not so much like a tax man testing people more like an arena where people compete they get tested because they're competing they're performing it's like a stage let's see the excellence that you unlock and you might think well see at this point you might go back to that the downer

oh but you know i don't know my circumstances my background [Music] i don't know my it doesn't really there's too many hurdles there's too many i don't think i'm cut up allah is almighty that don't fall short allah is almighty but then seals it with allah for you see aziz allah

why because truly speaking we will always fall short we will never truly unlock all our potential maybe we'll unlock it wrongly we spoke earlier on of people like hitler he could take a a person like that who naturally he had all these skill sets about him and he taps into his potential and unlocks it but in such a disastrous malignant cancerous

evil way you see so there's that but then there's so many people in life who they don't even tap into their potential they will just let it go to waste by the excuse of practicality that maybe you could have been the next einstein maybe you could have been then the person who discovered or at least contributed meaningfully to the cure to curing cancer maybe you

would have been the next person that started some business that ended up you know helping so many people and feeding so many families maybe you would have been this this next multi-millionaire that then goes on and does all this philanthropy maybe maybe you would have been a person that touches the souls of thousands maybe but maybe you felt sure allah says allah for he's he's forgiving

but don't despair these verses they are so empowering and they what they do is they they realign the narrative for us how our relationship with allah should be and how we interact how the interface should be so i thought okay let me share these in your own time to read them they are memorize them if you can allah 72 and surah mulk verse 2.

okay people with that we'll move on let's see and somebody just said true potential for what specifically see that is the question for what and that is what you have to spend your life trying to answer so what is happening people um

one of the biggest tragedies this is a lema mark lonzetta of his societies denied the night sky because of light pollution so true it is something isn't it yeah the night sky i think this amana could mean consciousness yeah i mean it does mean consciousness because the potential that i'm speaking of this this potential that is locked into insane is nested in consciousness because without consciousness it would never

mean anything because when you have consciousness the miracle of it apart from the consciousness itself is what you then do with it where you take this because in sun if you think about it we have reached wherever we reach

we we take into the loop existence like think about it the universe it is conscious of itself through our consciousness and in many ways it sees itself through our eyes because we are part and parcel of the universe if you think about it that you see think somewhat of a poor approximation but let's say

take the human body as an example now we have things we're going to have whether it's the eyes the heart different things operating differently and serving that function through which we get to participate in somewhat of a poor approximation but extrapolating from that the cosmos in it this tiny part it has this us seeing it [Laughter] and obviously us tapping into this

consciousness this the arwa so yeah it's i think it's it's amazing when we see it like that let's move on all right smash the like button much love yes of course i dearly appreciate that

right so what is going on people oh i was going to read a poem today actually but shall i read it and then we can go on to our story somebody said uh what's that right it's

talking about communism i don't know what that i don't know what i'm talking about right so this was a classic of but i thought it ties in so well with today's uh fear disguised as practicality especially with the story that will come as well

and i've read this before but i thought it just ties in so well with today's story so [Music] the situation or by the one could say the temperament of the condition and what he means by that is to improve

obviously it's why are we doing things in this world we're doing them to often improve ourselves improve our current state improve how you feel improve your your possessions improve things so they improve so they give you some immunity why do people want a better car a better house more wealth more because these things serve as amenities to them so that for that betterment for that

you see for that because we are so immersed in pursuing these amenities that we don't actually get to enjoy them it's ironic you see a person works themselves to a literal death to think i will enjoy this why are you working for all this extra money why are you to say oh because i'm going to be able to enjoy i'm going to allah there is no

future and past it is the everlasting now and if we can't bring ourselves to appreciate to enjoy then you never will and he says you see you're ruining the very thing for which you claim

he says it's not out of our desire or passion that something went to waste it's just that the life of passion itself went to waste he says was your separation

so incredible like such a buzz for me because it was in your separation that i got to consume so much alcohol you see that people they say oh you know like they see that as a as a token of enjoyment that a person is drinking obviously it's not part of the muslim culture but the culture at large so people see they associate that drinking with a sense of booze with a sense of fun and he says so he's saying

that you leaving me when i think about it it was something amazing i really tail

date he's saying there is only one calamity with the capital c that what one wanted to say never truly got said and what one said was never truly heard [Laughter] ultimately what he's saying is miscommunication or the lack of communication that communication take that c back to the sea of calamity the ultimate with a capital c calamity

for insane is communication that iki had [Music]

you know this is the thing with john ilia is he so brutally kind of honest with his uh brutally real the realism is so gritty in his poems he says that he says even after you went my dear there remained a strange atmosphere in the heart and he's trying to say that even after you went that this passion was still there he's talking of himself

that you had left but your memories continue to live on here it says but eventually even your memories left you see that wow that is so brutal it's just so gritty

on a similar scale he has his following on often read together us that he says from her alleyway from her street i just got up and come to my street it was just the mata of one street

this is an urdu idiom we see that in urdu when they say what they mean is that something spread like wildfire like everybody found out about it but he's using his there's a play on words that and that and yet this became a rumor for the people

and this you know something allah in fact i'll give her this another two we'll squeeze that one in as well this is actually from a different point but it kind of had a bit of that scale so just squeezed it in there but this you know john ilia when he reads this on this line he actually starts crying on this dancer and it's really it's kind of it's tragic

watching him do that he says says her kind her plea of honor to me this kind of heartfelt plea to me he says that her hope that this kind of plea of hope to me with such

fervor was that hang in there like like as in um like you have to give your life to this as in your your life span like get old with um like he's saying this was a plea that you have to you have to be devoted for a lifetime and he says um

and he says and a life span has been truly spent but he's saying this where they haven't the fruition of that love did not materialize so when john elia is saying this and this is why it ties in so well with this story is that she had said to him that give that this is was her plea that give this some time that this will take time for it to materialize and he's saying as an old man that um like i've given it my life my lifespan and then when he says this

he actually starts crying and it's so it's heart shattering to watch i suppose somewhat of an elderly poet saying this where he feels he's close to the end of his life and he speaks of his own tragic love story as well john ilia um

[Music] so people this was these were the words of hazrate right i think i've got a mr super chat a moment shukran much love for the super chat could you give the explanation of why the hadith about music translate the word as entertainment i couldn't find it in your videos sure i mean i do have i'm pretty sure i have some detailed videos on music you can watch them yeah so the

the word uh that is used in the actual hadith is if that word in itself doesn't mean music so maybe people are using it to mean music which is fine because music comes from entertainment so the actual definition of massive in arabic is my yul-ha-bihi that thing by which one is entertained so then maybe the collective or the kind of orfi maybe by earth convention people started to use that to mean refer more so to

music so for example when i say entertainment today what comes to your mind so you may say well music dancing and stuff and i might say well why entertainment in itself doesn't mean music or dancing entertainment means to be to entertain someone i could entertain you by by telling you jokes but yet that won't come to your mind when i say the word entertainment but if i said it like that then you'd say yeah sure that too is entertainment

i get it i could entertain you by by telling your story i could entertain you by telling you poetry i could entertain you by meaningful conversation but yet these words won't come to your mind when you hear the word entertainment that's because your understanding may be shaped by the convention in which you live okay and the the culture so anyway the word maazif is not the arabic word for musica it's not so the arabic word music does exist or for example uh

they could so the prophet salallahu could have let's say this hadith those who accept this hadith asahi first of all because there's a difference of opinion on these things some people don't believe these hadees to be authentic to start off with obviously amongst them ibn hasam and other people and then these are great mahadevi now one may say well i disagree with ibn hasam and all these people sure that's fine you can disagree but see when you disagree just be you see you have to understand you have to be confident

to to accept and to disagree with courtesy because the problem is that people when they disagree with something they start becoming rude start becoming offensive start attacking start you don't need to relax yourself you know you know this this whole thing is just sure whatever you believe go with you know if you say look i believe this here means this fine you're not the first many people in fact one could argue the majority have gone with that

now sure that's your way of looking at it majority of the scholars went with music is harm you find yourself comfortable you find yourself in that crowd i'm sure you're amongst many great names and you know great company other scholars challenge that and some challenged it more than others some felt well maybe some music is okay some felt no music is haram and they obviously all argued it so some of these people who said music is haram

used these hadith to say well this hadith is speaking about musical instruments when it's using the word ma'azif they also said things like um the had the quran doesn't like people to be distracted and so they used generic arguments and they used a lot of other hadith as well which are not really so strong so they and some are fabricated and some are just weak and they used hadith like the prophet said i have been sent to break the musical instruments i have whoever listens to music will have malt um you

know what is it lead poured into his ear or things like see once again very scary kind of stuff was used and then you have some people will say well oh but doesn't everybody say so so on this side of the fence people would argue well okay but what about drums didn't the prophet salallahu listen to drums and they say well okay well drums are okay then say well hmm okay why are drums okay because either god likes music or he doesn't like music

i say well he doesn't mind drums but he just doesn't like the other things so what are the other things so well blowing to this whistling it's whistling hara so some people on this side of the fence will say well whistling is haram i don't think most people will consider whistling haram if it wasn't just whistled they may say it's not good or it's whatever but they won't say it's haram so they say well okay so god

you know where's the ruling on whistling and you say well okay well whistling ain't haram but blowing into a tube that has some holes on it and it makes some sounds like a flute is haram okay so god doesn't like but he's okay with drums say yeah he's okay with drums some will say no he's not okay with drums then some say well actually he's okay with with blowing instruments because there's a hadith in termiti that the prophet islam is walking with ibn umar and somebody's playing a flute and the prophet tells him tell me when we can't hear him anymore so they're walking away and

so the prophets actually instructing him to listen and tell him but if it was haram then isn't he going to get lead poured into his ears so how can the prophet instruct somebody to do something haram so well okay so this group of people said well okay so blowing instruments can't be haram so okay so what is haram then so there's a group in the middle that said well drums and things like trumpets and stuff ain't haram because they used to use them in war so okay but string the instruments are hara

so like guitars and so they say okay so god doesn't mind drums and according to these people he doesn't mind blowing instruments but he draws the line at stringed instruments so well why and say well see well this group will say well you're not allowed to question why and sure that's fine you know if you if you're from that group follow that but these people will say well no because we're allowed to question all of these so why are we not allowed to question that one they will say well where does the

prophet say about stringed instruments there's no hadith about stringed instruments so if it's all instruments like that group over there or it's no instruments but to say well it's all instruments except this and accept this and accept this but why are we leaving well what does a string do it says vibrations so so this group would ask well why would it why does god have a problem with vibrations because it's just sound why does that's so they would argue that well nature makes sound and god

has set up the world with sound and sound is just ultimately vibrations and so why would god condemn sounds it doesn't to them it doesn't make any sense that surely everything god says must always make sense now this group will say well no we don't believe that everything god says has to make sense and therefore we believe in dogma and that's okay you know if you're part of that group and you follow that that's fine that's how you worship allah that's your devotion you just practice you

don't you should not then listen to any music you should not engage in any music you should because it's haram for you but for these people they don't believe it's haram that's their way of looking at the deen you know you're not you're not here to see how does the rest of the world do it you it's just your devotion so if you want to and these people would argue that there's no such sahih hadith and nothing in the quran that says music is haram and obviously shokani has a very good elaborate discussion on that himself in spite being a very you know

i won't say he's a he's he's clearly a man of hadith if we can use that term he's clearly of the hadith persuasion like a strong hadith persuasion i don't even mean like the maliki hanafi like i'm talking the shafa'i kind of persuasion of hadith so when a scholar like shaukani does a grand analysis an evaluation of all the asani in his final volume i think it's the final one or yeah it's the final one i think so it's he concludes as well that actually

concluding all of this you can't say that that musical instruments are haram although he himself footnotes it by saying but i would argue against like i would personally advocate that people don't get into music and that's fine that's his personal choice and personal [Music] and that's welcome and if people are doing that but he himself says but you know what looking at all of this one cannot say this he says there is nothing established in the quran that is clear to say that music is now that's his now this is this camp over here is a

minority camp okay this is a small quantity of people now the majority of the people fall more so over here now it's up to you you can follow the majority you can follow them you can follow these people say music is haram wherever you follow this is all islam you know it's not this is not just islam this is not just islam these people are not just islam all of this is islam this is the the beautiful diversity of islam there's different ways of looking at things some people they look at things and they say well no this is how i follow islam

i'm i don't ever question and that's you know what that's an incredible level of submission one must admire that submission don't have to agree with it other people like imam abu hanifah imam malik they are very clear that no no islam has to come allah that all the akam in islam that we that they that that their rulings always have a reason for being haram they're not just haram it's not just it's not a ritual ritual is only

worship so all other actions have a an objective to them so you have to be able to understand the objective so that's that kind of group but people disagree sometimes people hold a principle but they don't practice it so you might get some people saying like many hanafi's now they say that the akka must always be this was imam honey they must always have a clear reason and objective to why this thing is haram but yet many hanafi's will also say music is haram and they won't question it sure that's their see people sometimes

are fluid they have a principle maybe they don't practice it here maybe they practice it somewhere else it's up to them they lie let people be stop obsessing over the other you practice see when you look at it who do you follow who do you fall in line people say well i don't know to follow maybe you watch something maybe you make a choice all of it is islam you're not gonna you're not gonna miss the mark but whatever you choose see to some people music is a wreck

ruins them some people surprisingly it ruins some people sure i i read a quote the other day somebody some comment some person said look i used to be into music and my life was it was a nightmare and then i i kind of i've got serious about islam and i stopped this and now their life is is in order alhamdulillah more power to them you know some people need a certain discipline otherwise they'll be ruined so more power to that person keep going other people music

nourishes the soul many people they feel that music it it it connects the soul to the divine more power to them we are not here to control other people we devote ourselves to what we follow that is i think that one of the most important

for a person when they take their deen seriously to learn that as the quran says you are not here to control them let them be you say oh but they're doing sins according to you according to you but you're not doing that sin not according to them you see they're following different people you say oh but i think those people are wrong but you know what right now it doesn't matter what you think the other people are you know allah has not

made you much to think about what other people are all thinking it doesn't matter they have their hd heart your viewers they had follow it this is true islam submission you submit when the nufs doesn't even want you oh why i don't want them to listen to me so i don't want them i i i'm trying to save them from the hellfire relax submit surrender let go allah this is the biggest battle of the nafs that a person will

find in faith as learning to let go to surrender well i'll leave you with that let's move on it's a super chat moment could you give oh right now that's the same one much love

i see saracen mufti and zen buddhism they say that the entire universe is a living entity or part of a living entity believe this what are your views um right so what well when we say the universe is living i mean it depends what we mean by that i understand you're talking about the kind of the gaia hypothesis but you see in some ways one could argue that oh that there is a a kind of life but it depends what we mean by life because if you're measuring life by

movement then the universe is expanding if you're looking at from a scientific viewpoint if they're seeing us as just all dots within something then sure we because we are part of the universe there's no you know we're not separate to the universe it's not like the universe then there's us we are part and parcel of the universe so i could see what where some people are coming from with that but i would be more interested in the philosophical ramifications of that so what they mean by that from a uh consequential perspective

so because we are part of the universe obviously we're part of planet earth which is part of the solar system which is part of the galaxy which is part of the universe so you know there's no separating us from the cosmos but yeah and this is why allah says in the quran that you see you look into the cosmos you look into yourselves

see it becomes clear that allah that this is the truth yeah but i i don't if you mean by that by the way just to kind of footnote that if you mean by that is the universe from an islamic perspective like it's conscious and thinking and planning and no i don't believe that and i don't think they believe that either but what they physicists are looking at is maybe consciousness is somehow out there maybe it's

i would feel maybe it's somehow intertwined with the building blocks of reality and we somehow tap into it and that would be the greater kind of uh consciousness yeah uh so somehow much love for the super chat this is off topic it's been a pleasure seeing you grow all these years mufti and growing alongside much love many blessings sugar and i dearly appreciate that may allah bless you keep you smiling yeah you know we we all continue to to grow we continue to develop and and it's it's a journey

isn't it life it's um you know it's very it's important otherwise if you are still the same you from a year ago from five years ago then you haven't lived then those years have just gone to waste um shukran much love for the super chat quite a few super chats pouring in here really hampered really humping dick am i this is the kind of

well okay is that german or something willie humphrey dink thank you musti you've taught me so much a lot keep up the great work take care my friend your buddy willie hump from buffalo new york much love bro likewise much love to you may allah keep you smiling you know i can feel look at that i can feel the love right through that message that is it's amazing you know sentiments how we feel them like i'm reading it and it's interacting and it's creating this it's

it's fusing into this dynamic effect it's amazing so shukran honestly may allah bless you abundantly really i mean right so i see saracen again much love shakaran mufti at work i saw a muslim doing wudu out of a poke out of a public dog bowl what's a public dog ball i i didn't interrupt him to him in peace but should i have stopped i'm not sure what a public dog bowl looks like now is this you just mean like a dog bowl like a public where they just put water in it for drinking or

is this something else is this a see i'm unfortunately not so well versed when it comes to pets i think that's been something which has not really been it's a part of my life and i think a lot of dc lives it's a shame in a way because when i watch movies and i see how people are so um at peace with animals and and i feel that i never i'm not really and and it's difficult just doing it because you can't just go oh look at this dog i shared this clip the other day there's this pitbull that

comes off it kind of comes running at someone and it's leash just snaps and and this sudden music comes on and you know the person's life has just flashed before their eyes and i i shared that saying the owner saying ah you don't bite don't you see you can't i think you can't explain to people who because a lot of desi people definitely pakistanis and i'm assuming this is we've grown up with this somewhat of a phobia almost of dogs

even though with me i think in the last few years i've for a great to a great extent overcome uh that but still there's things like because i've not grown up around with pets and i've not and it's difficult then just because you don't know how the dog's going to react you can't just go to die [Laughter] yeah i guess the equivalent is like saying to someone um that let's say you say to a normal person like oh don't worry the leopard isn't

gonna bite don't be like see the natural fear that you would have still it's like that for people who've grown up with that so yeah but i do want that to go away i mean most of it i think i've kind of dealt with but still i want to maybe learn to be very natural with pets but let's see damn right mufti totally agree yep

sugar and sugar yeah not afraid of not scared of hygiene factor bowl okay okay okay no yeah all right so cool let's move on people let's move on

going to the gym seems to be very positive for my mental health more than i thought shallow waters although that name doesn't quite suit i'm sure you're not just shallow waters but yeah people underestimate what going to the gym does to you not just physically but mentally i would say even more than the physicality is the the kind of mentality that it brings it really it's weird that how allah has hidden you see these things are like cheat codes

where you least expect them so you think well doing arduous labor that's got to be horrible and it is to a great extent horrible but in it is a cheat that when you do it you actually feel so good on a mental level and you grow physically when you do this arduous labor physical tension bearing stress on the body and you actually end up looking better like look look at the cheat in that that's just like a proper cheat code

hidden in that it's you can see almost the divine irony the divine humor there's this kind of hidden in this wonder a miracle that humans are going to have to do you know stressful physical activities to survive to hunt to build and they're going to hate doing it but in it not only will their mentality improve that their their mental well-being but their physical well-being will improve and look so much better that's just that's like wow

[Laughter] kira ghost a thousand thanks mufti for the guidance laugh and love shukran shukran kira dearly appreciated may allah bless you keep you smiling kabir iqbal once said people who have no hold of their processes of thinking are likely to be ruined by the liberty of thought can you elaborate on what this quote means to you wow khabib shukran much love for the super chat that's such a powerful quote you see what i understand from that

is that it's somewhat sartrian almost where you've got uh satra trying to explain as well that human beings are doomed to be free and what this means is that this is what i'm understanding from it that you see people who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by the liberty of food that many people are not trained

to be effective thinkers and that makes sense you see if we tie this into anchor this into what we were just saying about stressful physical activity many people are not trained for stressful physical activity today because we live a life a sedentary kind of a lifestyle of leisure we work in offices and do things so we're not used to physical physically stressful activities so if you did it you'll probably get hurt probably pull a muscle or

hurt your back do this do that get an injury hurt a joint because we're not used to it so okay we have to go to the gym and train in this day and age we otherwise would just be living in an armchair kind of lifestyle similarly where do we train the mind to be analytical to be evaluative to be

deeply thoughtful to be philosophical where do we train these things so maybe some people amongst us do we engage in this we entertain ideas that challenge us we learn how to think about something without getting emotional or without kind of reacting negatively to it without getting angry we try to learn that we learn how to evaluate opinions we learn how to synthesize new opinions we learn now that's somebody who has spent years if not decades training their thinking faculties

but i'm sure many people don't think to that extent they don't train their mind to that extent so they just have low level thought now the problem with this is such people when given so many so much freedom of thought may find themselves in an abyss and may break down see i think a lot of people like to just be told what to do yeah because we

in this world i think we as insane wish to remove as much uncertainty as possible and we want to always remain as close to certainty as possible so people would rather just be told what to do what to say what do i believe tell me what i believe that that's a fascinating question you know when you think about it it's also in many ways one of the most amusing questions that

anywhere else may induce hysterical laughter yet sanctified by people of the cloth but it's strange that in organized institutionalized religion this question is celebrated tell me what do i believe [Laughter]

see this is why allah says that he already this is already ingrained in you that mimbani adam went allah he took this you already have that connect deep within which you'll never be able to escape but people want to be told tell me what to do because and that makes sense because it gives them certainty so when you leave a person

to their own thought there's this is what i understand from it there's a sense of panic and it's the same thing with choice if you don't believe me look at the psychological studies on choice the the paradox of choice and the the crippling effect of choice and how it's linked to subjective well-being which is happiness or the lack of it you'll find that counterintuitively the more choice a person is given the less they score on on their on well-being on being happy

which is crazy it doesn't make any sense does it because you think sure if i have more choice i should be more happier because to some extent it holds true like there's some of there is a somewhat of a value so if you had no choice and all of a sudden you have some choice you will be considerably happier in life so let's say you were given no choice of food you just eat whatever i throw at you this is it and now all of a sudden i give you two dishes or i'll give you three and i say well you know would you can choose what you'd like to eat

and you're going to be thrilled this is this is the life but then i give you 50 dishes to choose from it's strange you see it doesn't follow the corollary you think there's going to be a logical or i'm going to be even happier but you're actually going to walk away less happy so there's studies where they will make people choose something and they've diversified the studies but let's say they had to choose a particular item that they could take away with them and they found that with these were

limited to just a few a handful that you had to choose or do you want to walk away with this would you like this phone would you like that item would you like that and people took them away and then let's say 24 or 48 hours later they were asked how satisfied and happy they felt with what they had and people would say yeah you know yeah i'm really happy you know i got this or i got that and people have tried it with different experiments so and what they did is they then increased the options and you found that where people had

something like let's say a hundred somewhat of a hundred or two hundred things to choose from they often whatever they chose when they went away given a short period of time they often felt very unsatisfied with their choice and this in some ways ties into relationships that we the problem we're facing today that we are flooded with choice and it's crippling because you know you could get into a relationship and then you'd be like oh this is amazing

then you'd be like got a the lord has created more creation out there that i was unaware of let me ponder over the creation of allah off yes [Laughter] so then in insan can't help but be beguiled and led astray allah so in many ways

this great liberty is paralyzing for us it's quite it can be cataclysmic almost um we can't help but you know recognize the catastrophe in it so yeah uh yeah so this is uh right let's move on people what's this question must be much love coffee times are

confused about mdma it's not the same as depressants but it's but is it good to go look i've got a video on on psychedelics although mdma is not really a psychedelic um yeah you see there's so many discussions to unpack with stuff like mdm mdma psychedelics are usually entheogens

so they peop the things that connect a person to god other substances like mdma are in pathogens they they enable and increase our empathy as people so things like mdma have a very powerful therapeutic element to them and as a therapeutic tool if instrumentalized as a therapeutic tool

they can enable great recovery and great healing especially for victims of ptsd people who've had post traumatic stress disorder in certain countries like i'm pretty sure in some states in the u.s and some other countries they now use mdma to help them heal because of just the studies they know that you know put the bs aside it works it's like whether people want to agree with it or not but it seems to work so it's like how cannabis now is it's they they're recognizing well

actually it has these some properties in it that that heal in a different way yeah that has a different kind of healing on the the kind of cannabinoid receptors within the body but this mdma for people that have been through trauma or people for bonding or for giving that side of empathy or just enhancing in a therapeutic sense it clearly works and so hence those parts of the world that hail this they say look this clearly works and and i recognize that but simultaneously it does

have a culture of abuse as well so some people may abuse it they may cause harm to themselves while abusing it they may take you know damaging quantities of it they may um not be healthy with it as in it's like anything can you imagine um like let's let's say a person takes i mean this is not too um [Music] belittle with this comparison but i'm just using ad absurdum almost an example of saying well okay let's take orange juice it's obviously very healthy but it's

very acidic you know you you start you know downing a hell of a lot of orange juice and you're gonna have a lot you're gonna have a problem you know that kind of acidity is not going to just be unnoticed so and that's something pure pure i mean that's purely helpful orange juice is just helpful and mdma is in itself a chemical substance which contains which can be harmful so it's not that's a very bad example but me showing an approximation where even if you take something that is mainly just a source of good

yet it can be harmful if taken inappropriately or taken in quantities that are harmful and the same thing with chemical substance because with mdma these things in many parts of the world are not going to it's an issue of legality they're not going to be legal so therefore you're not going to get the proper guidelines i would personally argue and i've said this in the past that governments should not proscribe and ban these things rather they should have places which are guided with people because people take them anyway they take so why not have guided trained facilities

so and they could tax them and they could you know make make money off it like they do of alcohol and cigarettes so yeah so these are the things to so yes they naturally have a lot of good in it that has clinically come forward you see this that are being used by um for especially therapeutic purposes throughout certain countries in the world uh and the studies have shown that there's a lot of study you could just google the studies of mdma linked to trauma and stuff like this but then

you can also google the studies on harm because people the problem with when something is not licensed and not regulated is this abuse because it's not trained you know it doesn't show you you don't buy a cigarette box and it says okay this will kill and this if taken like this or if you're smoking this much a day then it can do this to you now that's clearly available with tobacco or clearly available with alcohol but because these things are not clearly available with these substances people are prone to harming themselves then so yeah i hope that shed some light

right let's yeah somebody said hydration yeah hydration and many other things like there's many there's just a whole thing with obviously hydration the dehydration is one of the uh potentially dangerous side effect but that's not just the only if harmful quantities are consumed they can be categorical neuronal damage in the brain and that's huge that's not that's not something that you should just gloss over because remember brain damage is it's something very serious but

obviously that's if dangerous quantities are being consumed but then what is dangerous what isn't once again for people who don't have access and the government doesn't give them access to it and doesn't teach them then they're just going to ask the local dealer as they're getting it from and it's not like the deal is going to be so clued up on clinical studies i mean ah don't worry about it yeah take this down take another one i'll take this the next thing you know this bachara or bichardi has got you know they've they've got they've killed off so many nerves in their brain so this is what i'm saying that it's these things have been it's like

it's like what you're asking is it's like a knife that's what you're saying and it can be used for good and it can be used for harm and this is it and on these things we have to you know what the the book for this month is called how i change my mind it's by michael pollan and it's on psychedelics mainly he does actually speak a bit in the about mdma so at the end of this month we're going to do the book review that's honestly epic because in there as well he highlights this whole you know this whole nixon thing honestly it just is just one person deserved a

right nixon honestly are a loser his political war on drugs continues today to influence so many people and they just don't know about it but nixon declared at one point timothy leary the most wanted most dangerous man in america i mean who believes that timothy leary a professor from the most dangerous man in america nixon declared honestly i think nixon could have done with a bit of these bit of these psychedelics himself but we're going to discuss that at the end of this month so i look forward to that

so people with that in mind shukran for the super chat much love azerati dearly appreciated right today i want to share take you all on a journey allah right so whilst we i want to share with you a story let's time travel this story is about love it's about fear it's about suffering

it's about self-sabotaging it's about poetry it's about the fusions of souls and it's about regret allah ah what better than that so to do this guys we've got a time travel chicas ichikos girls and guys we've got to go back almost a thousand years not too far from where i am and maybe with some of you on that is we've got to

go to south west europe espana or as it was known then al andalus allah the golden era of them i was about to say murabithin of bani umayya has come to an end the sun has finally set on the magnificent dynasty of bani umayya and islam in the west hailed in its heydays

as the most powerful kingdom on earth allah but the son like all good things once it attains perfection once you you've hit the ceiling the only other direction is to go down [Laughter] and so it does the great powerful imperishable state the whole of europe

bowed and saluted to who the king of england wrote to in a personal letter and we'll speak about this in the future his great grandson by the time it reaches him the kingdom this this peninsula the iberian peninsula which is spain and portugal today but andalus has shattered into several little kingdoms known in arabic as

people say differently at times but it's fine so it's the king's and the what if in urdu means like a prostitute or a whole but in in in arabic it doesn't mean that it means the parties the kind of um

yeah like the groups if you like and the factions because that's what you've got here you've got all these different factions who have a different part of al-andalus for themselves so this is going on and the great city of kurtoba is also part and parcel of this this this era of the kings of the um of the parties right so so people just you can just call it kings and kingdoms if you like so this era of kings and kingdoms

uh might be a better way to translate it is the downfall of muslim spain because you know the glory has now gone and in this time the great grandson of abdul rahman and nasir is al-mustakhvi and he's in right so and he's going to be the stepping stone to today's story because the story is about this woman wallada bintal mustafi she was

hailed as one of the most outstanding poetesses of her era acclaimed and renowned for her stunning beauty she was someone that who the gossip and rumors and stories would go far and wide about okay she loved literature she loved poetry she participated she was a woman who left an indelible

mark and left her name an imprint on the legacy of what we call islamic history but getting to her we've got a slightly backtrack just to get a grasp and that is her father al-mustakhvi in his time he's this kind of king who rules over cortoba cordova and he's incredibly indulgent as one can be why why not why not and they say he would just spend his

time with alcohol and women as as often the one percent do so he just lived a life of just indulgence to the nth degree why not see the pleasures in this dunya but as anyone who does that other things get out of control so in his time there are these there is a rising power in the form of this person known his

name is jawar abul hasam jahawar and he's of uh berber descent but these are people who have a political standing so some people uh he is generally his name is jahwar some people have read it as jahoor but it's jahuwar he has served as a minister for the kings before mustafi and he served in different amongst different dinasts and he comes from this family with his they've all been ministers so they've had courtly experience and they've worked with kings

and and he's based in he's a man of great they say pious um no a pious reputation and somebody very um a man of his word and a man of honor so what happens is in his time he starts to see mustafi is just drowning in decadence so they think look we're going to assume control here because it's not like he's got any control anyway so when they do like any struggle for power

there's always some resistance and naturally the lines are drawn and as often blood is unfortunately shared so whilst the swords are drawn he is not really one for you know for for the battlefield

so much indulgence in just the king size in just a king-sized bed has left him not of that field he plays different fields so he thought you know what i might as well just do one why not time for a sharp exit so he says to his daughter who is uh sorry walada that's his daughter that would you let's i'm i'm out of here.

so she refuses she says i'm not going to go with you i'm going to stay it's it's cowardly to run and and this will take us to her personality but just to conclude on him al-mustakhvi runs from he goes into some kind of hiding on escape as a refu as a fugitive

these people they take over who is now the king that is he has taken that authority he's considered a very respectable and dignified leader he refuses to take over the palace because he knows that wallada and other family people are still living there and he says that it's okay because as ministers we already had a very nice comfortable dwelling and those of you that would remember from my andalus course that cortoba was already designed with

you had you had cortoba and then there was a madina zahara was built there as a [Music] for the kind of upper classes and the arist aristocracy to live in and then madina zahira was also built by uh and these people like jaguar have served as ministers with so now that they are in control they refuse to take over the palace they say look it's fine we're gonna stay where we are he he what he does is he resumes duties as the imam

like he leads certain prayers he visits if he finds out certain people are ill he will try to visit them he actually gets involved in community projects like in giving some funding and trying to so you can imagine he's won the hearts and minds of people and we move that to a side wallada the princess which she was she grew up in opulence obviously she was in a palace she had wealth her father was very indulgent she herself grew up very confident she

was they say incredibly beautiful she herself um her mother was spanish european and spanish in the sense she was blonde not because some spaniards are slightly darker with their hair and complexion and she took after her mother so she can see that she generally stood out because most people were in andalus especially the muslims they may have had like a golden kind of skin but they they usually had darker hair and dark eyes and but she herself had blue eyes and was blonde

so that made her somewhat different but in addition to that she was incredibly confident very bold and she would openly go out she would be in the presence of people without hijab she would not wear hijab and she would call host these kind of socialite parties and dinners where people would come and especially people of some stature and especially people that had were good at poetry or literature she would host them she loved poetry and she herself

competed so this is who we're dealing with wallada bintal and the king just would just let her be they never really interfered with her they never tried to take over or repossess whatever assets and things like this they just let her be and she thrived and she was somebody that um even her poems now check this out this is a poem of hers this will give you an idea of her uh that she says

check the first answer she says i am most cut out for grandeur for greatness and opulence and ali allah she says i walk my special walk amshi mishiti well and i do whatever the hell i want look at this like if i want to get be lost somewhere i'll be lost if i want to indulge i'll indulge she says

says the person who loves me i give him my cheek i enable him over my cheeks she says and i give my kisses to whoever wants them this is wallada look look how open and this is in that time and by the way this is in the time of who just so we could give you an idea who's living in cortoba when she's around even

most likely it's been argued that he was he used to attend her gatherings because ibn hasan was from aristocracy as well so he had that link and he always grew up around women and he and he writes this in his book and that he would attend her gatherings and learn from her this is what some historians have argued so these are the kind of people abul walidal bhaji is the all these great people are around this is and they in that same town this is what we're talking about

so and abu kasim al-jahad by the way had studied with the likes no not with the hypnosm actually uh had he studied no no no no that's uh no sir he hadn't studied with uh jail but i believe that al-mustakhvi the indulgent father had studied with some great maliki scholars before because naturally the kings would grow up with a good education i'm pretty sure he studied

with abu mohammed al-assili who's obviously the father who's already gone out of the picture now he in his younger days in his youth he had studied i believe with muhammad al-assily who is the person who introduced sahil bukhari to um [Music] the iberian peninsula and it's his uh transmission of bukhari that is part of the he's one of the powerhouses of the transmission and i've got that in my bukhari gate another my discussion with dr abdul majid as well so okay now

this is wallada so we mentioned her father had gone off as a fugitive he eventually gets tracked down and is killed well leather continues her life she is very bold and deering she does as she pleases she calls people and many many a good soul is smitten allah by her charm that she has so many people that fall for her and she would because she had this they say in addition to her looks they say and her speech she had this way

that was just so like wow you know what a woman like that so amongst the broken souls that lay in her wake is ibn right so just who is this character let's just pause that and briefly just briefly introduce him so he's somebody who's grown up he he comes from a family of knowledge and

he finds himself in diplomatic positions so he starts rising in the political ranks and remember i mentioned to you that jaguar family who take over used to be ministers so ibn zaidun and jahuwar's son abraham jahuwar's son his name is his name is actually uh as well so ibrahimovic they're actually friends so even as they do they're kind of friends because they they share that same aristocracy background so as he's grown older

when jahuwara has takes over he takes up a diplomatic role so he works as and this diplomacy role of his he'll continue to progress in and later on he ends up becoming known as so he he is like the equivalent of the foreign secretary and the home secretary in one later on with the that's with this um a different dynasty but this is the role of this person and he becomes this huge political figure but also he becomes a great poet

and that side we owe to allah allah in the words of is it rishi kapoor that messiah that i'm not a poet but this love has made him into a poet allah so he falls for walada and he falls hard allah but he himself is incredibly eloquent so him and walada sparks begin to fly right and

they have this powerful connection straight away but like any good tricycle there's always a third wheel [Laughter] right actually the there were a few competitors right so there were many people that loved were were like madly uh obsessed with wallada because of who she is she's this celebrity socialite and she's always out and she's very apparent she doesn't do hijab she's eloquent with her poetry she invites

these people but she's not interested you see it's difficult to win her over see many people are won over by her what what did he say that's that sub ki saki penazarho is

he says that the one the bar man the one who's giving everybody is watching him but who that he watches everyone that's not necessary so she's only interested you have to be creme de la creme the best of the best to win her over so a few people are trying to compete now even as they do he has this pizzazz factor to him allah and he has this poetry that catches her captivates her and she likes him and he's he's good looking he's handsome and he's also of some stature he's not he's not as high as her but he's still

you know he's a minister he works for the jaguar now admittedly the jaguar were against the omiyage but still they you know he's fine she takes a liking to him but there's some people competing now there's another character there's two actually one uh i believe his name was al khalasi or something but there's another main character by the name of abu amir uh uh what's his what's his name that we're dealing with here very popular ibn abduls

there's a famous maliki by the way with the name ibn abdul's this is obviously not him who has the book uh the not the the major which is the maliki mother text of ibn abdul's but this ibn abdul she works he also comes in and out of the palace he's got a ministerial role as well but he's not as charming he's not as handsome as ibn azadun and his poetry ain't on that level but he's still trying you know it was one of those he tries too hard he's one of those characters trying too hard yeah this one

so what happens is the relationship between ibn zeitung and wallada is blossoming and they arguably they get up to the fun and the fish fun should we say but there's always these question marks and there are what we would call today mind games now the question is why were these mind games there one could come up with many reasons but i would say it's just

the fitra of insane you see this fear perhaps disguised as practicality that often we take the path of fear people may self-sabotage so wallada had this thing about her that she would often um she would kind of tease she would tease him don't like she would never openly yes she's with him let's say she's with him but she would also entertain other people she wasn't like you know i'm not yours yours i'm not committed i'm committed but not committed man

so you can imagine this would uh wind up even as they do now even as adorn is saying all this poetry to her uh there's an epic one of his mini so let me just bring that back so even if they don't saying to her that that this is how look unsettled i am about you that even from my own self i'm kind of jealous almost about you he says

that from every even from you i'm jealous over you like check this out it says he says if i could hide you away my eyes till the day of judgment it still wouldn't be enough this is his kind of so she would she would be with him and she would obviously say all these poems as well about him but she would also tease and she would be a bit uh self-sabotaging at times as well so what she would do is sometimes she would

entertain ibn abduls because he was also a minister and he had a lot of wealth as well and so she would entertain him so what happens is ibn zaidun obviously he reacts as well like he thinks like oh so he thinks he had a car who can play this game man two people can play this game so he also starts trying it on occasionally with one of walada's servants one of her she has these palace girls the girls in this palace so there's a particular one

uh known as inaba a grape so he says this one grip so ibn says starts trying it on with her some people say he genuinely was trying it on with her some people say no he was just doing it to wind up a wallada um but anyway this it becomes apparent that wait a minute something's going on so in this one gathering wallada is the ibn abdul's all these people it's a socialite gathering and they have this innova this this girl palace girl she's singing and ibn's

is taking so much attention to her paying attention and he start he's praising her so excessively and he's clearly enamored by her that this infuriates [Music] so she is not having this so what she does is starts distancing um ibn's she's clearly upset with him and she asks him can he leave

so he tries to say okay hey he says no i was just what do you mean you're misunderstanding this and and and he gives her time to cool down but she doesn't she's like no no no no no no no so and she says some poems in this as well she says to him she has this poem that lo kunta for being hawa

that if you were to be just in our in this desire between us you wouldn't have chosen my slave girl and you know you wouldn't like you wouldn't have desired her that she she's saying this to her to to him she and she says that uh what character what are what that what is it that well let's see if i've actually got it here somewhere there's a poem right let me bring this up i think it's actually i've got it on one of these pictures as well

oh there it is that you left a branch full of fruits and you went to a branch that didn't have fruits meaning you chose my slave girl why didn't you go with her like obviously she wasn't going to let him go with her either but she was like you know that's it this is over and then the mind games come back in so she to to wind up ibn zaidun even more she starts bringing ibn amir closer so

so you've got so now we've got uh sorry abu amir uh ibn abdu's she starts bringing him closer so she'll start hanging out with him uh and it becomes clear obviously even as they don't hear from people old you know she's taking a liking to him and so obviously even abduce is kind of peeved off that what the hell we had a thing going on and uh you know how can she be doing this to wind me up and so what happens is ibn comes to learn that ibn abduls is writing all these he's writing this

these love letters to her and this one particular occasion he writes something quite like you know really grandiose to her but ibn zaidun finds out and remember he's part of diplomacy and that ministerial platform so he has access to sometimes when letters are going so he intercepts this letter and he reads it and then what he does is he writes a letter pretending that it's coming from wallada and it's going to ibn abdus and he proper insults him this became known in

history as a result the the kind of uh hysterical letter or disparaging letter and in it i'll see for i actually may have brought it here to to give you an example he he writes it's proper just insulting and he's taking the mick out of him and he's and it's coming allegedly from walada and he's obviously got all these seals and things to to make it look like that so let me just give you read a bit of it as an example um

oh you whose uncle has been and who's been caught in a dilemma because of his ignorance and he's just going on he's just really the one that person who's so blind he can't even see the day of light the one who who has fallen like the way a fly has fallen onto a drink al-mutahafit

and he just goes and he ends it by saying as well look who people uh who who they laugh at and they do this and his knowledge uh and he's just going on he's just ripping into him so this poem of his sorry this letter of his becomes viral like people find out and they they're all mocking uh ibn abdul so obviously they find out this was a prank so ibn abdul is obviously as you can imagine incredibly annoyed wallada is a bit of is quite upset as well

because she's saying well how dare you pretend to impersonate me and write a letter so she's annoyed ibn abdulz uses this opportunity to get himself a bit closer to her oh you know the hard the opportunity so he says huh yeah why don't we both we should meet up more and just diss him [Laughter] you know it's like that those memes the guy is with the wife saying hiya

so he uses this as an opportunity to draw closer and wallada kind of knows as well and she's angry so she entertains this to enrage ibn zaidun even further so even if they don't write some poems to her um really popular ones as well that look why are you doing this why have you kind of cut us off and and she's not engaging him she's not she's not allowing him entrance into the palace she doesn't want to see him and she's like as far as he's concerned she can he can burn a bit more but she

does actually love him now this is the thing she actually loves him and she doesn't love this if not abduls but she's using this that i know why don't we let him use allow this opportunity to make him burn a bit more these mind games are going on which are in many ways self-sabotaging so yeah so whilst this is happening even as a doom gets quite annoyed because he's heard that they you know these two have an intimate relationship so people are telling him hey you know what if no abduce is really close to her

you know blah blah blah blah blah and so what he does is he comes out with another poem even as a don does which was quite insulting to wallada so he has this poem where he says he says in it let me see if it's um

let's see actually have i got it here might not have it here no i don't think i've got it here but it he says in it that wakalu wakalu abu amirin that he says that they tell me that is trying trying it on with her that and he

see says he says and i told him the butterfly gold draws itself close to the fire now this the reason he uses butterflies because walada was known as as the butterfly of cortoba this was her kind of title her tag that people would call it so he says he says i told them that the butterfly flies close to the fire and he says

he says you take you you you call this out as a blemish that somebody has followed after succeeded us he says that somebody has succeeded us like come after us and taken our love says but there's no shame in that there's no blemish in this and then this last line stanza he says that he says that what comes in he says what comes

he used to be known he used to have a nickname the mouse should be called okay so people used to call him far so ibn zaidun says in this final stanza he says and how many delicious foods have we already we've already consumed the best of it

and he says and we've had a good amount of it ourselves and then some of it we've left for the mouse to eat now this was incredibly degrading and obviously one he's likened her to food but in many ways he's he's indicating that she's she's just basically like a that this is what she is that you know oh we've already had so much of her and we've um you know we've eaten our full uh we've had our fill and now we've just

thrown it to the mice and the rats she took naturally she walada took incredible offense to this she was so offended that because she is ultimately i mean she is the great you know great granddaughter of annas in his time the most powerful muslim on earth

she is not just although she doesn't have that same glory today but she's still from the upper elite echelons of andalusia society and he's just you know treating her like this in this poem and and the poems would go viral they were like viral clips today so she said i can never forgive him for that and this is the strange thing that this kind of love story they both had so much love for each other but it's like for some reason these push-pull factors kept

making them sabotage their relationship so she's absolutely fuming ibn abduls obviously uses this opportunity and he says you know what he says that he needs to be taught a lesson so the princess is obviously she's had it with him as well so she's not going to take his side right now so he wins her approval and using his ministerial reach he has him arrested over some charges which are to do with something else he says he tells the king which is

that did you know ibn zaidun is actually liaising with the king of seville which is ishbilia and i think there were actually some liaisons so and i think ibn zaidun had been offered a job pro prospect from isb from ishmael which is seville in southern spain which was a slightly more powerful kingdom than kurtoba but he hadn't taken it up yet but this is said to the king the king says what the hell is this guy a traitor has him imprisoned so ibn zaidun is in kurtoba in prison now

this news obviously reaches wallada and for some reason she said has it makes it known to nazi doon in prison that let it be known that i'm actually very close these days with ibn abdus me so it's weird that these mind games continued in prison ibn zaidun writes one of his most popular poems known as his because it ends with the noon i mean he says several poems but um

he has this poem which became so well known he says other he says that separation of being far from each other has now substituted our proximity that other he says and in place

of the goodness that we you know the pleasures of meeting each other we now have this bitterness that has taken its place in he says indeed like the time the day and age which used to always have me smiling in laughter with meeting you has now come back to make me cry allah and he says wallahi

he says he ends it with that line actually it's a it's a long poem but he says wallahi our desires today do not desire a replacement for you like you are still the one in my heart this is what he's saying neither have my heart's intense change this is one of his most powerful poems it is said by some historians that walada does have a change of heart and writes to him because she has this poem that

uh uh that she writes this poem that when it's nightfall wait for my visit but she never does visit now why arguably once again people say it's because of her um this kind of this this split mind okay some people say that she was always bothered by this thought that she felt

uh she and she says to ibn zadorn on certain things you just want to achieve me as though i'm a prize because i'm this princess and you need to have me that this is like your goal and this and she doesn't deny that he loves her and she doesn't deny that she loves him she actually says that she is the love of her life but there's a side of her that says well he just wants like but he needs to have you is it because you're like a prize to him and this self-sabotaging of being able to just embrace this relationship

the fear and this is why this whole thing of fear disguised as practicality that if she just fully embraced it if he fully embraced it if maybe there's a fear that i don't know like what if i fail in it so why don't i just sabotage it you know years ago i remember when i did a psycho when i was doing my psychology degree but i read this book games people play i think say what's his name burn is it eric burn but so one of the games and it's it's about

transactional analysis which is like a splinter from psychoanalysis and what he argues is that people often play games but they may not know that this is a game so he gives the example like let's say um he says there's a housewife who wants to become something like she wants to have a career in something but she's always afraid that she's going to fail in that like she'll never be able to make it so she marries a man who is very controlling and doesn't let her have a career

and then she says to people well oh the reason i don't follow korea careers because you know my husband won't really have it and he's too strict but in underlying this there's a game script where she has facilitated a situation that will then prevent her from doing that thing that she's afraid of she's afraid of failing in so this is a scenario like and the whole book is with many different kind of games that people play so it's called uh games people play so similarly you've got this going on here between wallaada and implants

and whilst this is happening ibn abdul thinks that you know strikers the iron is hearty strike so he thinks you know what ibn zaidun's been in prison for over a year now or maybe like two sorry for about two years i think or one and a half year so he plots to have him executed obviously he's got ministerial uh prestige and power he's got a lot of wealth and he's got sway with the people the powers that be so

because his charge as well was one of treason alleged reason because although it was debatable he was saying he's becoming very friendly with a neighboring king that is an opposition so he kind of romps it up and tells the king and he's they're plotting to have him executed now and apparently the king agrees he says well if he is a traitor then you know rather without him than with him so upon hearing this hypnosis dawn thinks yeah he thinks damn he says think you know things got real huh

he thinks i can't be having this so rather overnight huh he plots and does a prison escape ah prison break and he pulls it off he escapes from prison and and with this with the security of nightfall he they say in one day reaches seville a journey that would normally take three days

this is how he fled for his life and he makes it to seville and in seville the king as i'd mentioned already knew of him and he was a great you see ibn zaidun was a great diplomat there's no denying that he had been he was also somebody that had been called in when there were tensions between non-muslims and muslims he actually came in and there's at least two popular incidents that he resolves or he's called in as a mediator at a national level this is who he is so when he arrives in seville the king immediately grants him the post says to him i want you to be my home

secretary and then the foreign secretary and he eventually gets to post but in between he's now in seville so he saves he escapes with his life but his heart has been left behind [Music] and he can't get walada out of his mind but he has to focus on his new job his career and he has to build this up and wallada as well she just like because of that insult that he

in that poem degraded her she maintains her stance and the years start to go by and they're still saying poems even has said so many poems in between and these poems have circulated people in gurdwara have heard of them and he says poems about wallada he says in me the kertuk zahara allah remember the place i said you had madina zahara you can still visit some um kind of remnants of it in spain today the museum and stuff they've they've kind of created this uh tourism aspect to it and he says

that in either kertuki that inni the kertsuki bizahara says i remember you in zahara like whilst i was driven with so much passion towards you that this this is him saying this um yeah and he says

but but that's but these poems of his are well known he continues to write poems she does say a few poems but not directly towards ibn's either but she continues to lament and have this feeling and she feels that she was insulted but at the same time she's torn in this love towards him and then the years start to pile up all these years these years are piling up even even comes back to cortoba he makes peace with uh they say is passing away he passes away his son becomes king and his son was a childhood friend of

ibn zadoon so ibn zaidun gets a job with him a diplomatic post but it's not that long he then has to go back to the ishbili kings of seville who are planning to take over by the way and he gets elevated his career is thriving they send him off to different places he has to go on diplomatic missions and these diplomatic missions take like half a year sometimes you've got to go all the way to valencia go all the way to malaga stay there sort this dispute travel over there come back so this is going on

uh and the years have passed and a decade and more has passed now ibn zaid although he does marry people saw marriage more as pragmatism back then he does marry and he does have kids but he continues to be blindly in love with walada that after more than a decade plus they say almost nearing two decades he comes back to kurtaba to find walada and

they say that wallada at that time hears that he's looking for her but she's aged and she feels that you see because walada by the way refused to marry anyone she keeps her gatherings going she has people coming even abdus is showering money over her she lets him be with her by her side for stuff she does take his money when it's needed and his help but she refuses to marry him and he tries and tries ibn abdulz continues to try

till omar till his death she refuses so at this stage coming back to this so it's been almost just under two the better part of two decades even as they don't comes to visit but she's aged and they say that she finds out ibn zaidun is looking for her and he's in cortuba but she says that you know what she refuses to meet him and she says i would rather the memory he keeps of me is that of me with my youth

because i don't want him to see me and replace that face with this old face and even doesn't get to meet her and he goes back and falls ill and then dies she almost continues to live almost another two decades after she dies an incredibly old woman i think in her late 80s she dies till her death she remains a bachelorette she refuses to marry uh with a deeply anchored love for ibn's ethon

but a love that never got to see its fruition mostly because of an uncertainty a a self-sabotaging self a fear perhaps that maybe ibn zaidun was just doing this to because she had some note right because she had stature and she was from the elite or maybe he she was just a prize to him or maybe better will come or maybe

it was too good to be true so it was but this to and fro between her love and teasing and tantalizing and self-sabotaging led to one of the most unfulfilled love stories of islamic history she dies as a bachelorette having left though in her wake a legacy of so much poetry

especially from ibn zaidun she turns ibn zaidun into one of the greatest poets [Laughter] of all time you know there's a poem that in mahmoud could be that the the kind of intoxication of these eyes they turn even the pious into

into alcoholics this is what it says [Laughter] it is so true it says that and a series of of just affliction and tragedy the poet whose name is commerces they turn and incen into an artist and such is true

what although their love story was incomplete what it triggered through sublimation as psychoanalysts would say was ibn actualizing his passion and channeling it into poetry and he went on to write some of the most incredible poetry most of which was always dedicated to wallada but there we find people a path they chose to take was unfortunately a path of fear disguised perhaps as practicality that what would people say that now he said

this poem about me and for him as well he you know that she was teasing him what would people say if he didn't do other things and what a story huh wow honestly so do uh in your own time if you have an opportunity to check that out um this was just a picture you can see there one of his famous poems as well

that why did you cut this rope between us of unity why did you of union why did you cut it or why do you cut it so people with that i give you ibn zaidun and wallada bintal mustaqi allahu akbar and we find in stories strength and lessons yeah wow so let's move on people i i do think historically there's been so much tragedy there has often just been tragedy i have to say

so much tragedy huh yeah let me share the the link and if anybody wants to jump on you're more than welcome if not we can wrap this up let me get the link this is so sad it was indeed it was this is why it was so relevant to when john ilia says us

that he said that the request from her or from him in this case however you want to take it is that you must spend a lifetime devoted and he says i have now spent that lifetime [Laughter] or as the poet says he says we have after you when it came to love

whenever we wrote the word we wrote it as crime [Laughter] let's get some of you let's get some of you blessed souls on here and let's see what's going on i will meanwhile um just see if i can what's going on here

get my bluetooth all right people what is going on here it is connect all right this is now connected people so right that's that well meanwhile let me take a look at some of your comments i want to read the full story yeah it's good you should salaam alaikum drowning

gotta test that commitment [Laughter] scorpio yep that's the one but it's just you know it's a shame to see the the unfulfilled potential that they had but i guess it manifested itself in a different sense by leaving for us so much poetry seema much love for the super chat dearly appreciate it thank you for all your love hard work and courage in showing that reason and religion can coexist i reverted after watching your videos

wow i'm uh honored and uh i highly appreciate your uh comment really may allah bless your journey to start off with and yeah that means a lot it means a lot so just seeing that that not only has it helped but actually brought you back to the path of faith the journey of islam

so yeah again let me and what i'll do for the rest of you out there the link right let me check catch up on some comments called him a drowning flight yeah that's that's what we're talking about i it definitely has improved my life for the better yeah you know this path of faith it it involves

as much if not more unlearning as it does learning along the way and we have to do that we have to unlearn so many things we have to yeah because yeah yeah because we there's so much culture there's so much folklore there's so much there's this lenses filters how we view this our interface with god how we interact with god there's our understanding of god there's

our expectations of god how we expect god to be with us and towards us this all needs to change not maybe not for everyone but for a lot of us it took me many years as well with many things too and it's you know it's important yeah but it's honestly it it is a a beautiful journey and it makes iman and faith so sweet honestly it changes everything everything

you know it's like yeah it's it's like one could say well there's a drink and one is sweet and the other becomes so [Music] distasteful that it could be somewhat poisonous you know this and one is not only sweet but nourishing but yet they are both drinks seen from an objective lens they you know they're still just drinks and

but it's how they serve and the functionality they have and the faith should always complement your life should never impede your life should never if your faith is making um your life more difficult for you then you know that's an alarm bell that something's not right because islam should always complement your life you should always add peace it should never be making you more anxious yes

for helping that deep programming process yeah so true the woman in the story was horrible but you know we are all victims of our circumstances the the glass or the mirror is so clear when it's the rear-view mirror okay and it's even clearer when it's watching somebody else you see when we watch other people's lives we're like oh this is so easy it

makes sense they just did this wrong they did that wrong this person was horrible this person is this but maybe we're doing the exact same things you know we're probably but we're justifying it i'm sure they justified it i'm sure they said well no you know it's not practical or i'm sure this person he shouldn't have done that he made this mistake or shouldn't have said this poem about me or what will people say or what will so yeah so i'm sure people always um do that yeah

[Music] all right people i'll share the link if anybody does want to come on they do have to uh switch on the video cam and they have to switch on their mic and that will then show through here once it shows through so do be in front of the the cam and and then i can bring you up on this okay yep i've gotta agree now what's this unlearning to learn was the biggest and hardest struggle but so worth it like you mentioned yeah

that is definitely the case mm-hmm [Music] people otherwise we could wrap it up today if i'm sure there's quite a few episodes of it of the tv series i've got to catch up on alright so where are we at people

hmm there are unfortunately in history a lot of tragic love stories but there's some worse than that you know really hard hitting i'll share some in the future um if you want tragedy it's going to leave you a bit devdas moment you're going to be like you're going to be a bit like

but yeah i've got to tell some of these stories there's uh of remember we've got to do we've got to cover his cool does uh-huh what time will you go to sleep sleep is for the mere mortal allah

somebody had asked well there was a message i saw right there about um about daniel have you watched danielle's debate on muslim women shouldn't get educated i haven't watched it um

you know you know what i would say is look i mean i i we does one even a discussion like that doesn't even need to be entertained okay you would already know the the answers

to that question should women be educated and you don't need people like daniel hakiku to tell you the answer let him be if he wants to keep saying these things he's more than welcome to say it because surely if people want to hear that they can go and hear it but you don't need to you don't need somebody to answer that question that's like saying you know it's a

simple question like asking that should we eat healthy food i know let me watch a two-hour uh lecture from a sheriff saying no we shouldn't well i don't know if it's two hours or one hour whatever it is half an hour or whatever it is so it doesn't need um you don't need a person you don't need to watch someone to tell you the clearly wrong answer when the first very verse of the quran

of revelation began with ikra read how how could any person calling to illiteracy and he may say well he's not calling to illiteracy he's calling just to um [Music] i don't know no higher learning for or no higher education sorry no further education as in state education but do you really need to to hear it from him and if you do then there you go you know well that's that's that because people

we must remember people or these views or these this phenomenon is only there because people want it to be there you see people like daniel hakigachu do not operate in a vacuum they operate by supply and demand just like anyone one could say just like me could like anyone one could say every single person is operating

with dynamic exchange there is a demand for what he is saying therefore there is a supply you know people i'm sure many people surprisingly to my amazement but i'm sure not to their own they must love what he has to say so so there you go have it i mean it doesn't you know to me these things they don't really warrant you don't need to deconstruct things like that that are

just common sense and if you do then god you know then may god have mercy on you if you need that so yeah but these but like i say these things you don't need to watch you don't need to panic you know it's like some people say oh my god can somebody deconstruct his video it's like why why do you feel concerned why do you feel say oh my god people are watching this people can make up their own mind you know

so my god now non-muslims will think that no muslims allow well you know don't flatter you know don't flatter these people by trying to say now all of non-muslims i really doubt that all of non-muslims rely on such people look relax if people want to watch them let them watch them people don't want to watch them don't watch them you don't need to engage these people by trying to dedicate hours and hours and you definitely don't need to have anxiety

issues over these because i have had a few people um reach out to me like i honestly can't see that why people are getting stressed out you know so what people have said worse than you know people have said much worse than that so what makes him so special

[Music] the young insecure male in-cell audience appeal to that type of content let them you know they can have it they can have it and more of it i'm sure taniba i will be more than happy to keep and today i'm sure you know fine more power to you you know honestly daniel you know i don't harbor any resentment towards him and even

you know for saying this kind of stuff that he does like women should pray in a closet or women should not leave the premises or doing all these kind of stuff sure i find it absurd but i'm sure he would never in his right mind ever have a discussion with somebody like me over it but do i harbor and do i even think oh my god what is he saying what is it no in fact more power to him you know why because look he sees a market

and he goes in you know he sees demand and he supplies an intelligent businessman you know he's he's become a somebody from a nobody in the islamic sense i'm not saying this to discredit him i mean he has a degree from i think harvard but in islamic studies i don't know what he has i don't think he you know he definitely isn't uh qualified in an islamic islamic sense i'm not saying he doesn't know anything about islam he does know stuff about he definitely knows much more than your

common person and he doesn't know about islam it's not he's not new to islam and he's not ignorant of islam but it doesn't make him a qualified mufti or a fakie he's not on that level but he's still intelligent about islam and he's clearly to me i see in him like i see in many of these people i see things operating beyond the apparent i see a various too

you know a genius in his own right you see he arises out of the obscure and he becomes somebody and people follow you've got to admire that you see you've got to admire that this guy has no islamic think about it he's not we're going to be scaffolded up or he's not rising with islam however the likes of sheikh hassan

obviously gave him a foothold and picked him up and peop and the yakin institute had him as the key researcher or whatever he was like he had him gave him some noble position and and then as they give honorifics they call people shir and everything and start and don't get me wrong i would i would call him from his knowledge side usted as well but i'm sure they called him because i would call us anybody who has a a good degree of understanding about islam that doesn't mean that they have to profess it well it doesn't mean they have to have good opinions it doesn't mean they have to but they have

a good amount of information doesn't mean that they qualify to a mufti a mostly level or a share level you're talking about six to eight years full-time education full time that's like that that's something else so most people are not qualified to that level but more power to them you know they know how to see something and sees it you know why is you gotta you gotta rate that because they see now if i told you imagine i told you there's going to be a person

let's say here's this person or you gave i gave you a person and said look here he is he doesn't look very islamic and i'm saying this as in people would judge me as well i don't look so islamic neither does he dress western let's say doesn't have a big beard doesn't generally let's say we're a heart or whatever is studied in western academia doesn't have islamic qualifications now i want you to make that this person is not only going

to attain let's say clearly look whether we like it or not daniel is an islamic celebrity he is there's no hiding that he clearly is an islamic celebrity now if i told you this person is going to not only attain islamic celebrities you know celebrity ship but he's going to while trying to whilst attaining it say the most absurd things that nobody

with their right mind would say like women cannot in islam go to university now you would think nah they'd never be able to pull it off how could you do that and he's done it so you know you've got to rate that that he has clearly seen a market and he's gone in he's gone for the kill and he'll come out with even more absurd things because he realizes that there's a market for it fair enough you know because i to be honest i i

would have really doubted that anybody would have as much courage to say things like this publicly in this day and age whilst looking in that sense like and i'm not saying this to judge him by his looks but let's just be honest if you're going to be very judgmental he doesn't come across if you as a traditional is is you know like an islamic person neither do i neither do but so somebody like that and come who's western living in the west and he's going to say things like that you think nah you got to be crazy nobody would do that and he's done it he's pulled it off and he's

getting views i'm sure he's getting paid so you know what i see in that the genius that other people don't see [Laughter] so am i worried by hell no why should i be worried why should i or does it disturb me no people have said crazier things than that yeah i would love to have a discussion with him though um i mean i'd be polite and not be respectful i'm respectful with all my guests on minecraft if maybe daniel haku watches this

uh if you do have a warm up to having a to to to being a guest on my show then and i will be courteous to you and respectful but i would love to have you an on a show and have a discussion with you on some of these matters if you're ever willing to do that if not it is what it is [Laughter]

um most of your audience are curious and smart bunch yeah they are exactly um musty holding back yeah i mean you know look it's not about look nothing i've said is actually wrong it's actually from a meta-analytic perspective bang on see what we don't see in people you know a moment ago we were analyzing walada bintil mustafi and from this safe distance of a thousand years

so easy to say well ah what a fool you know what an idiot she's just so stubborn oh she was a self-conceited oh she was just afraid oh she was just and to be so judgment it's easy and maybe she was these things maybe she wasn't but whatever the point is she lived her life and she did what she did and i'm sure she had many regrets but in similar ways i do stand back and maybe now with somewhat more maturity

and i observe people and and i think to myself you've got to give it that they've pulled off certain things that you think nobody would pull this off in their right mind but but they have pulled it off with actual gain social gain celebratory gain financial gain influential gain power they've pulled it off with power and so ultimately well played

as to should you learn islam from them well for sure i'm sure my viewers would have more sense to already know the answer um people are somebody just coming on if you if you do want to join the live chat you've got to activate your camera show us your beautiful face allahu akbar or handsome face and let's get i've got someone just tuning in for farooq bin in am

where are you from you know karnataka yes salaam from karnataka okay yeah you know what i'm really glad you've joined the discussion um all right so with all the um uh sorry i know you've probably got something but but i mean i'll let you say whatever you want to say but i would like to circle back to what is going on right now with the hijab rao and and the judgments in karnataka i'd like to circle back to that but and because you're from the first person perspective it would mean a lot but first of all whatever was on your mind

uh be my guest uh what's been preoccupying your precious thoughts yeah it's too many things but uh one thing i would like to ask you uh regarding these uh do

do they understand do most people then understand hindi there yeah yeah most of them do but actually in the rural areas they don't know what's the main language is it [Music] not at all it's uh canada canada okay canada okay okay yes yes see wow all right epic you know so do you random question here i'm just so curious you know when you when you hear things like uh telugu or malayalam or these can you understand them i can understand kannada because i have been living for quite a few years just a little bit

no but canada is your language isn't it the the uh no no no i mean actually i am from a place for a state called assam oh assam right on the east yes northeast yes the one that kind of breaks off is just like this yes yes it's also called the seven sisters okay wow okay what what language is that over there uh it's called okamia in our language but generally people call it asami's wow okay see look at all of these cultures man honestly india is such a

big place and it's full of so much diversity uh yeah okay shukran no i used to be cute i i'm always curious that these southern indian languages if they understand one do they understand the other are they similar but i think they're not i think they're actually just totally different yeah yeah languages i mean still they have some similarities but uh just on the face value people might understand a few words but when you start having a conversation they will have no idea what they are talking about [Music] so so yeah so coming actually in my end i am still processing that i am talking

to you about us us assam all right this is uh so so talk to us what's on your what's on your mind actually uh i would like to uh know what's your perspective uh i mean how is it different in your perspective

oh right okay um okay now i mean i'm asking you even though you have answered this in one of your monday nights but uh it's i think it's gone private i i think so i'm not sure because i mean i i'm trying to think of the exact when you were saying the first uh contact of revelation yes are we asking what it was like what's the narrowing the question when you're saying what was it what do you mean what was what i would like to know what's different in uh

in this story you actually uh consider right okay so am i making myself clear okay so what's the tell me what the normal story is and i'll tell you what i wha or just very briefly what do you see the normal story is okay uh what i think is he got the regulation in the cave and he actually the prophet is muslim actually did not know what what's happening to him even though he heard every each and everything and he was not able to comprehend and he went to his wife and i don't know he asked her to cover him

with blanket or something and yeah okay yes so this i don't think there's any i mean the usual the usual story there's nothing about the story i was going through actually the uh gandhi's perspective regarding this but since he speaks actually that's the problem since he speaks only in urdu and my i can't understand that level of urdu okay so i i could not make much of it but then i came across the website of yours where they have uh put each and everything uh with the timestamps and uh the monday nights uh

that particular episode number wow okay so let me okay so right i don't i don't think anybody really disagrees with that what you've mentioned series of events the only thing is the so when revelation happened how is what is the description so for example we know that the prophet sallam would retreat to this cave where he had uh a mindful uh practice yes so the prophet would yet the hannah now we're not exactly sure how

or what were these meditation practices that the prophet would do because when islam came the first early years which were the most of prophethood 13 years was spent in a very difficult struggle like a very uphill battle for islam and its identity then the following decade the last uh which is the last let's say nine or near 10 years of the prophet's life these are spent in trying to not only set up a settlement which is a madina

but also resisting battles and attacks and and so much is going on that along the way people have passed away and then after the prophet salallahu sallam has passed he himself has reached a certain age that people that knew him from back then would also have been that age and they many of them would have passed as well so what happens is the hadith that come later most of those people weren't with the prophet when he was in haruhira so like let's say when you're going to

get narrations from some companions even from i shared allah she wouldn't have been with the prophet at the time of haruhira he wasn't obviously aisha wouldn't have been with him at that time so don't we have hadith from his wife right uh yes okay this happened that day yesterday if we yes but the thing is yes so the chains are the issue yes because the the point is going to be she passes away well before yes so the question is well

who is narrating this and how well is the description because by the time they're telling this story so the assumption is this look the assumption is that somebody has heard khadija radhi allahu anha tell them this incident but then khadija radhillah herself was not there in the cave

you have to keep to keep that in mind that khadijah was not there in the cave the prophet sallam was in the cave when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam experiences what he experiences he is really deeply shaken by it whatever the incident however it was obviously its revelation but what how is it experienced he is really it is very traumatic for the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam he gets away from the he is in a state of shock and he comes to hadith

and this part is being transmitted that he's saying look comfort him that he wants and it's actually even till today it's used as a medical and psycho psychological uh therapeutic practice to kind of cover this kind of covering and comforting because it provides that and then the prophet is trying to make sense of what has just happened this is so overwhelming and then khadija is mentioning that she goes to her uh she goes to her relative who's a christian and very well known and

um and this whole thing that and he's he he he tells them that no this is revelation because bukhari in bukhari this is the first you know you've got this chapter key for canada how did revelation begin and this is the lengthy hadith in it so he tells them that how is uh how is this person the prophet muhammad sallallahu alaihi does he how does he treat the poor does he feed the the homeless does he do this does he do that and then he says that you know what since these things are true he says that

i fear for him the day that his people will turn against him and they will remove him and she said and the prophet saying that would they remove me and he's saying that you know you've got no idea what's in store and then most i mean there's a difference of opinion but people say revelation does not continue it's punctuated from that point to maybe one and a half year later some have argued some have said maybe a year later or the better part of a year but usually they say like one and a half year almost so

the question is that the description how the manifestation of revelation took place i think it's very difficult to put that into words um and for people to then narrate it let's say 30 years from today or 20 years from today it's very difficult like such an experience to be put into words because the experience itself is what uh we would describe as ineffable so ineffabilities when we can't put things exactly into words

so that's the thing so it's not so i would say that in terms of what you said overall there isn't a disagreement everybody agrees that the prophet salallahu would often go to this cave he would seclude himself he would meditatively practice mindfulness we don't know what he used with the techniques but we know he used to do this and we know he used to do this regularly then we know there's revelation that he receives and then we know there is this period of shock that the prophet goes through and

then maybe the one and a half years within two years there is uh revelation is resumed and then the prophet finds this peace and solace and then he is instructed to go and preach and and then the other tribulations begin so i don't think people disagree with all of this as to what about him trying to commit suicide or at least thinking of suicide yeah people have disagreed on that yeah so people i mean uh what i i think uh i maybe uh i got gandhi wrong but

maybe he was saying that he actually did not try to commit suicide um i mean uh he's going through our series right now which is very interesting yeah i have that in my buchari gate as well that i say that this is um clearly an inaccurate hadith and i think most people accept it's inaccurate um and they try to say this is ibn shihab speaking and not the the chain but you see this then what it does is it you see you can't the pro the thing is you see

you come back to first mover principles um that why what is motivating our study and once we clear that because if we say well what's motivating is trying to be clear and objective and transparent then the rules have to be the same everywhere if you say well look in this case even though the sanad is there but in this case we're going to pretend that this word when he says he is going back to just him which is fine

but then you have to accept that the reason you're doing that is because this hadith is appearing disrespectful to the prophet which i agree it is now which in which case other asani than other hadith in the same book are equally questionable so you can't say well i'm only you see because it's either it's all or nothing you see once you open the door it's in you either don't open the door or you open it and then if then the problem is

when does it come in it's it's subject to interpretation you applications are you might say i criticize let's say you you're critical of 200 hadith in bukhari maybe somebody else is critical of 10 maybe somebody else is critical of 300 maybe somebody else is critical of 500. i mean there are maybe somebody's critical of 700 but keeping in mind this 7800 hadith in bukhari at least in this narration that we have uh so that's still only 10 it's not a lot so the question is well

about criticality of being having that lens but then what is motivating us to be critical is another question so yeah so that but coming to the did the prophet saw alison try to commit suicide i don't believe the prophets also tried to commit suicide um and the question you see this is it comes back to this same thing like let's be honest there were no muslims at that time apart from the prophet's wife khadijah so the question is who are these people that were never there because the muslims that come to islam remember in mecca muslims were a few

and the early muslims like abu bakr or omar like even though umar slightly later but ali ansari abubakar omar let's say these people from early islam they actually just transmit a few hadith only and most of the hadith are coming from people who come almost 20 years after islam has has already arrived like abu hurairah comes in the last two years maybe of islam two three years of islam with the prophet three is a stretch but okay two even two i don't think he fully it's if you're counting full years i don't think

but anyway the point is that so and i'm not saying he's transmitting this hadith but the people that come even after so where are they getting this knowledge from now we don't know so okay so some people will say well that's fine uh because all sahaba we're just going to it doesn't matter because we're just going to say it's fine because all sahaba are fine and trans you know acceptable but we have to when we're talking about islam origin stories so far you know if it's going to be appear to be

questioning the prophet and disrespectful then obviously our honor and love for the prophet salallahu comes first and we have to question that look wait a minute okay at that time they were not muslim so who's telling this story you know it's like uh it doesn't really make much sense if if a person you know like if i say to you well you know oh yeah you know when you were like somebody's saying like imagine i'm saying about you that oh i don't know how old you are but let's say i say oh yeah you know when farooq was 12 he one day said this so people might say well okay but how do

you know you went when he was 12 and and you don't even know him from before this so i said yeah but but i know somebody else who knows somebody else who knows somebody else who but i said but at that time there were no muslims so you know there was so yeah so i think these are interesting questions does it change the the first does it change anything i don't think it changes much in terms of revelation we know that the revelation came we know it came uh in the uh when it did it was very um it had like a very overwhelming impact on the prophet we know that the prophet

uh was comforted by khadijah we know that the first revelation was ekra we know this we know so people say but how did it exactly happen what were the incidents you know does uh so the prophet is reporting that he's feeling all this pressure and people say well the angel is squeezing him but we know he is feeling pressure he's feeling physical pressure he's feeling spiritual psychological mental biological he's feeling pressure he's feeling squeezed because the experience is doing that now

sure some people have neatly put it out like okay first he said this then the angel said this then he said this then the angel said this then and they've got a nice full conversation but the chances are that conversation in the way people are saying it nobody was there and the prophet was in a state of being overwhelmed when he comes back and he is overwhelmed with revelation for at least one and a half year and there ain't really muslims so is it likely that we're going to have a precise accurate time stamped kind of uh

conversation of what was going on in the cave i don't think so i think these things are done with good intention but people telling other people like maybe somebody is telling their children how islam began after the time of the prophet and they've heard from someone and they've heard and they're putting it in their words but they know that the first verse we all agree that the first verse is icra that was revealed and and they know that the prophet initially felt obviously was challenging and they're putting it and maybe some people have put it in their words and they've come up with it in this conversation

so that's how i would view these things but it's fine there's nothing wrong if somebody would ask me is there something wrong in reading this conversation or teaching it like this sure you know you can teach it there's nothing wrong with it you could say well look this happens what are the chances that it was a mirror image that it happened 100 like this sentence was said and this sentence and this sentence i think that that's probably going to be very difficult that it was like that when since nobody was there to report these things but sure is the the gist of it the overall gist going to be captured in this story yeah

it is in in this narration it is so that's how i see it but as to what ramadi sabha said i'm going to have to watch what has said and then i can comment on that but oh sorry we never got to karnataka right sure yep go for what what's going on right now since i mean the judgment has already been given yeah yesterday i think yesterday morning

that it's not uh it's not an obligation what's not an obligation the hijab the hijab as in uh i mean i actually don't know don't know the diff uh classification before sorry what some people yeah what what the court said i mean uh i think they asked people to prove it uh from the quran i think i think that but uh they came to the conclusion that it it is not an obligation in the religion so you can't wear it in an educational institution you can't

wear it yeah i mean uh you can see a head i think but the face nikab is uh not allowed that i'm sure of it okay so they've because what i was aware of was the yes uh the school had started this uh some of them politically kind of um um fueled and they had started this with the with the nepa and the hijab yes and then the issue they would refuse the girl's entry into college then the issue was taken to a local council or something and and i think

they supported it but they said we gotta wait till it goes to court to the has it been to supreme court or was it gonna go to supreme court or no it went uh actually it was the right move to do uh to go to the court yes of course because people are not good even though people think that uh yes we can resolve it but people are not that uh open intelligent i guess yeah okay i mean people i think they are open-minded but they are not really yeah

it's good to to live in some obscurity yes i actually i came across your videos uh i think one and a half years back when i was actually going through islam spoke at birth and that time i came across your videos which was i don't have the word for it it was like madness because what was this guy even saying and i thought you were actually drinking alcohol that time because you used to have it but then i thought okay maybe he's very learned person who is not a muslim but he knows so much about islam

but then i came to know that you are actually muslim [Laughter] i mean i don't mean any disrespect no no no no no it's it's you know it's good to to to understand and to experience what other people experience and to be fair you know in hindsight i you know things i guess we all live life and we reach where we are and that's why we can see from where we are and i do think as well that um this is why one of the reason i kind of stopped that show is because i did feel that it was

not on a path to where i want to be and not on a path to where i want things to go so yeah and and i don't think if i'm gonna be fair that um like you mentioned i i obviously on purpose entertain certain things and i didn't really help the situation um yeah i allowed those kind of jokes so naturally you when you're saying look i thought you were drinking alcohol because sometimes i would crack those jokes and so therefore it's it's in memory it was not it was not judgmental no it's not judgmental it was obvious that you you were a

knowledgeable person it's just that i did not think even for a second that you must be a muslim i was sure of it that okay of course this guy knows what he's talking so let's listen to him oh wow okay yeah i mean uh it must be a few months you have you had to put up that prelude uh there is no second coming of israel islam

it's quite old but that's not when i saw it and yeah i was pretty sure of it that even if i listen to each and everything in this guy says i'm not going to accept that this particular thing that is going to return i mean what is he even talking about sure but now times have changed i have changed i i do yes i mean i don't accept everything you say even even now but i don't think i do either i think i keep changing my own mind every now and then yes yes

i expect yes i it was really interesting because when i went through your monday nights and you actually have one monday night when you actually tried to uh reason it out how no alex sarah was living for 950 years there was a time and then later i came across the video where you have actually put out a cortex from the monday nights another monday nights where you have said that no he was not living for 950 years and then you started that you captured

i don't i i yeah i guess that's it i think i i can't remember how many of my own views have changed but i know a lot have changed over time yes i mean this was a clear-cut one because uh i was pretty sure that you are not going to go within what do you say i don't remember the word for it i mean it's clear-cut i would say

you will not say that it might not happen or it might be a different understanding sure sure yeah i i think you know what it is is that this certain things which we don't think about in much detail it's like we have a belief but we don't really it's not in you know it's like how jordan peterson speaks about certain things he says high resolution and low resolution and so it's like we have many beliefs which are low resolution and we've not really looked into them but once we do we bring them high resolution

then they get unsettling if they're to be unsettling or maybe they're fine but it's at that point we question and there's many things like that that for so many years i may have not really brought into high resolution with myself and when i did it then either affirmed or unsettled and i thought hmm okay well what do i actually believe about this and the more i thought about them then and obviously you need to research as well and research changes with years you know you you read something here you learn something there it kind of keeps

adding up so yeah but yeah farooq no epic i really appreciate you sharing sharing these sentiments and thoughts it's it's it's really great to listen to the can i ask another question it's a personal one but we are going to wrap up quite quickly it's been four and a half hours i just uh wanted to know the update regarding the the attack which happened oh right okay sugar and sugar i mean

uh said anything about this no i have i have i have i've spoken about it quite quickly have you yeah yeah i've spoken on quite a few of these shows actually so okay that's why i must have missed it yes so what yes alhamdulillah no that's good uh what we do know is that um there was arrests there was uh there are charges charges being pressed so alhamdulillah as far as i'm concerned i do hope that they get what they deserve in terms of uh the full weight of the law so i have spoken to the officers they visit obviously here the the system

takes a while so before when the arrests are made to i think the arrests were made within certain weeks and then it can take easily about a year uh for pros you know for prosecution and yeah so that's going on so that's that it's still as far as i'm aware when i spoke to the officers um they're pressing charges and just waiting with them yeah okay but good i mean the way i see it is um obviously you see each thing from its own perspective what those people did was

incredibly it was in and of itself no it was no it was so despicable from a from the utmost kind of degree obviously and and they themselves i guess should and deserve the consequences of that that said that said the event uh unbeknownst to them to the people who did it the perpetrators it triggered a chain

of of series of events after it which were not which were linked to this but not of it but more so what you have uh in exponential causation so let's say when this happened obviously people are finding out then other things let's say i'm connecting with people like i'm connecting with you but obviously this is the show but let's say the real world in so many things um that was so much goodness came out of it as a consequence in spite of it in spite of it being very horrible so alhamdulillah in a way i was i won't lie when it happened i couldn't envisage any

goodness to come from it and i could only see as a very dark and terrible kind of uh chapter in my life but it actually turned within i would say at least about a few weeks it turned to to blossom and then it continued to blossom so powerfully that till today i'm i'm seeing like all the warmth and the benefits and i don't mean from this but just from following it and the connection with people and including actually this show is one of the fruits is that i took such a big break and uh and then i i kind of really realigned

my own thoughts and just people as well you know the amount of um a really warm connections i've made with people on a very personal level that are still right now uh going on very meaningfully in my life uh all followed from this so it is true you know innama that with difficulty comes ease and sometimes we can just see the tragedy but maybe behind it allah has hidden uh some blessings yes yes yes i have actually uh seen that in one of your videos that you said i really can't explain it but it just happened sometimes

you said that about uh i think spending uh on things that if you give it give it to someone and it actually comes back in some mysterious way then okay i can't explain it but that's what it is so true it is true it is true there's sometimes things that are mystical but they happen and and you think wow you know what actually as horrible as this thing is but you know what this there's just like allah unlocks for you just a whole new level and even my i have to say like it took me on a different level of consciousness um and i think i can't

like a whole new plateau like there was an absolute paradigm shift in consciousness in the months that followed and part of that was me kind of just not doing certain things and focusing on mindfulness and meditation and other things and um and it really took me to a different level which i'm so grateful for because i really see the headspace and the heart space that i'm in and my level of consciousness and i see it from before like when you said that show and i don't like where i was then i don't like it although you see what like now when i see some of the monday nights thing i

don't i don't i don't like it so i i think to myself it's interesting how i feel the change it's almost like years went by honestly like it feels like in those five months something like five years went by and so i'm just you know i have to say you know shukran lilla uh yeah and the lord works in mysterious ways man he does you know what we better we've got to wrap this up because it's kind of like four and a half hours and i really there were other people i did want to bring them on but it's just gone on for so long nobody's going to

watch the damn show it's too long they're going to be like they're going to be like yeah i ain't watching that no i do watch almost all of your shows but it's it's a little weird because i'm used to listening to you in 2x speed yeah no that's fine not even 1.5 i mean i do speak quite with a lot of uh yes yes yes so i think it must speed it up yeah so yes but this is it i i every week say to myself you know what nobody's gonna watch these things if it's too long you gotta just do two hours i say this to myself you know it's like it's been a month i actually i have been trying to get on

because each and every day uh i mean uh i get the youtube note notification then i'm sleeping that time and when i actually try to join you're already done with it and you say okay we have to wrap it up he says every day i say i have to forget you but every day i forget this thing i think i forget what i'm supposed to forget but yeah so you know on a quick side note that i noticed the viewership in

india has increased quite a bit actually of course there's quite a bit i mean it's overtaken uh what is it canada and it's it's uh it's it's quite it's alive ranks i think number three like the most viewership following i mean when you say viewership in canada actually it also means the uh people who actually already know hindi or urdu many of them already know hindi or urdu and

youtube analytics i was just seeing this yesterday actually i just clicked on it after ages and it showed that like the most viewership is from the uk then followed just after by the states the u.s which i knew uh but then number three was india i was like wow and then i was like wow i didn't expect them canada was like number five because there was one point it was like the uk us canada for viewership and and then i think number five four

was pakistan and then it was canada i was like wow okay it's interesting i'm getting a different kind of following i don't it's hello well it's good man because people who had that problem with your uh laugh or um making jokes on others uh right now you don't have that i mean you do earlier yes you were doing a little bit like you had that professor i don't remember i don't remember his name uh uh and when he was saying that i used to talk to female stuff and you said you know oh you talk about the mind trap i had

doctor [Laughter] you know the jokes you got to do some kind of no i i actually showed your uh videos to one of my cousins he said yeah you know at least a person could be like yeah at least i spent most my life smiling and laughing yes yes you wouldn't be sad on the way out you'd be like because otherwise that's going to be one hell of a regret huh okay gosh if only i if only i laughed more

ah that's gotta hurt let's go ahead may allah you know what may allah make everybody smile and laugh i mean always because it's it's something which is so it costs nothing but we forget about it that you know just to smile and laugh it's free and it's actually so healthy um it cures you know if you ever feel it cures so it can cure illnesses almost like if yes yes yeah it does amazing stuff

and as you've heard uh i really went on way too long today nobody's going to watch my damn thing yeah people are going to be like yeah [Laughter] anyway much love to all of you guys you know i seriously um [Music] i can't believe you guys are still online all these hours may allah bless you all keep you all smiling spread the love um if you do want to reach out instagram is the place um definitely drop me a message there do follow me as well you know sometimes i'll have some people

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now you know what it is i have to yeah i have to i have to i have to do this to force myself to commit believe me uh my you know my nufs it is nafsun abhiya it doesn't um i get to otherwise like ah like like ah forget it you know and i'll just get distracted but i have to force myself to commit take care people may allah keep your blessed much love as always

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