Monday Nights with Mufti #200| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth

All right people. All right. for people.

And as always, Wow, whoa. I'm uh exceptionally, [laughter] you know, as the saying goes, that's the that's the the story of my life, people. Ah, God. I mean, it's a good thing I'm not working for someone.

[laughter] [gasps] Ah, I think I'd be fired on. Uh, [laughter] [gasps] right. So, what is going on? Let me do a quick sound check. Um, let me bring up [snorts] Look at this straight away. Is it sunnah? Is it sunnah to drink any?

Right. So, let me just check what the Facebook people are saying. Right. Ha, you're doing arowdy froy. All right. Naneshi controversial rea as always. Right.

So people, let me just check. Look, the sound is fine. I'm getting a uh it's all good. You can hear me. Um, see just as we're starting we've got somebody saying MUI MUI, have you got any Sahag tips? They're asking me.

[laughter] [gasps] [laughter] See, this is what happens as soon as I start. toba toba people. So what's going on? Let's check first of all what have I got here going right

a new requirement this people those of you let me share some news make a declaration as to why they need to travel this reason for travel will be checked by carriers after departure approach madam deputy speaker effectively on arrival already in the passenger location anyway Anyway, enough of her. [laughter] Enough of her.

That's enough. Basically, that's her brain wave. people recently that people who are traveling will be asked that uh where are you traveling? [laughter] Aa cha cha. I mean you think with the amount of lying the government has done [laughter] they would know that people have the art and the ability to lie.

[laughter] She said, "Well, h going on a holiday is not a valid reason." Well, I'm going on work then. [laughter] So, that's what's going on, people. That's what's going on. But, uh, we've also had, if I just bring up I saw Allah Allah.

Look people, somebody sent me this when misses your super chat people. [laughter] [gasps] Right. So that's what that's what happens.

That's the emotions when I miss people's super chats. So, but much love to you all. This is a uh it's a jubilee. Allah Allah Allah a jubilee session people. This is the 200th. [laughter] This is the 200th people.

Not 200th session people. 200 session Allah Allahbar vah vah you know it's uh if if it wasn't for lockdown I'd definitely be doing this in in person hosting people food shoot you know party so but [clears throat] unfortunately it is what it is but I am so humbled with all of this all of your

your love people that you show. I have to say it's uh people check this out. [laughter] I poured my coffee in here and I almost burnt my lip. I didn't realize how hot this uh how hot the rim [laughter] you I'm speaking about this you know what it is your dirty mind people you know this okay that's that's that's a lot better.

I almost I tried to take a sip as I was walking in and burnt my lip. [laughter] So people that this is is a path I set out on my on my own. I just set out but people joined along the way and so it became a caravan.

Allah Akbar Allah Akbar people. So I dearly appreciate all of that and there's inshallah so so much more [laughter] to achieve yet. This is uh just the this is just the beginning people the beginning.

So in the words of where he says he says you know if I was looking for some just mediocre you know something in life just to get by then that's a different story basically.

He says uh but I what I'm seeking is an immortal kind of glory and that he says the likes of me can attain [laughter] you're doing it. You're doing it. So people, [sighs] let's wake up.

Let's wake up. So what is going on, Mente? What is going on? So let me just [snorts] check that everything is in order here. See what else I have. All right. Nope. [laughter] people.

Someone sent me this one moment. Uh, look at this. [laughter] I have to say that uh I'm getting I'm receiving quite a few of these edits. They definitely bring a smile to my face. So, those of you that are doing them, you know who you are.

Keep it going. I've also started up finally finally people, I've uh started up the uh on YouTube. I mean, I I've not put much listings. I've just started it up [laughter] MUI's merch. So, inshallah in time to come, we'll get all of that on there.

So, that's something interesting. Um, and also I'm in the process of having uh an entire revamp of all my equipment. So to take it to the next level, inshallah. So that stuff half of it is here. I say half, but certain things are here, certain things still remain.

Uh, in terms of quality, I'm still waiting on the orders and I'm waiting on some of my techie people who are still awaiting their vaccine. Too afraid to come out. [laughter] God damn it. You know who you are. You know who you are. So, but inshallah, this is the reason I'm saying this is because it's, you know, it's been 200 steps here. So, just some ideas of what's to come.

Inshallah. Inshallah. And in addition to that as well, I do aim to um I'm no good at this, but I aim to do a few um do a certain of the things like uh some reviews. I mean that I'm good at, but what I was about to say was a bit of a bit not too much so I don't get distracted, but a bit of this gaming.

I'm going to uh do a bit of that just I'll have to learn how to do it but and kind of stream it just to kind of mingle with some of those uh people out there. And we'll speak a bit about that today anyway because um it's interesting. I mean not that it's directly linked but uh the whole Wall Street thing and you know GameStop and all of that.

So that's a totally separate topic. I just from the word game [laughter] my mind shut off there but yeah so these are some interesting things to come inshallah people people what is preoccupying your precious minds let's take a look let's take a look people let's see so you can haram this black or white oh check this out people So,

so right. Okay. So, right, let's take some of your questions. What I did want to do today as well was deal with some of your questions if I can. What is going on people? Right. So, how to get over was invite Mui Faruk?

Who is uh Miq? I take it is the son of Farukq. [laughter] That much I figured out. Oh, you're doing it. Salman Moin with the super chat. Much love. Much love. So, what we'll take a little look at today is I will be looking at this uh verse of the Quran discussing the story of um um of I was I don't know why I was about

to say yachj matj because I played the clip. Right. So taking a look at uh Habil and Kabil the the sons of Adam and the story uh of or when I say story but the mention really of um the crow or the raven and what is that about? You see because it um

so that's something I'll take a look at. Right. Let me just put that there. Right. So, uh why this raven? Is this something uh so magical? Does it break the laws of nature? But what are some other messages that could be taken away? Some lessons um some archetypal features that are being mentioned implicitly in those verses or in that particular verse about this raven comes.

So, I want to take a little look at that. I did want to say some words on this whole um this whole thing of uh of um this modernday trading. I want to speak a little bit about that. So what on earth is all you know I don't mean what on earth is it all about but it just goes to show how out of sync the Islamic f is but it also shows some just shocking kind of uh mind

blowing and boggling um realizations of what human beings are now capable of doing and what does money mean right now. So I think that's uh and it really we in this recent example of Reddit versus Wall Street, we find a you know an ex an an amazing case study if we reflect on it.

So that's something I think it's definitely worth this is coming back on. Let's go. Right. So, um, yeah. So, that's something definitely I want to take a look at. But what are some of your questions? Somebody said something about the mods. I'm not sure what you're saying about the mods. I'll take a look.

Right. So, people's peoples. All right. Let's load this up. So, what is bothering you people? What's on your mind? Somebody kept asking about Nab. [laughter] Can I drink alcohol?

Can I drink alcohol? That's the question basically. Relax. Relax. Relax. So, I can't pay. What's all of these? Can men wear gold? Yes, I've answered that. Uh men can wear gold in my understanding [snorts] and I've got a whole video on it explaining why gold and silk are not haram.

Uh according to several scholars, and I find myself in line with those, but it was that the prophet did discourage this for a for a good reason in his time. because he was trying to prevent this um luxurious sedentary um chilled out kind of lifestyle because the people needed to be on a persistent or a consistent state of standby.

It was a very volatile society. It was uh they were things like they I mean they were in essence a warrior uh society. They I mean if you say society but a warrior kind of civilization. They had a warrior lifestyle. People survived off raiding other towns or other villages or um tribes and it was extremely dangerous.

So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam discouraged a a kind of in the in the moment in his moment sallallahu alaihi wasallam he discouraged a um a settled settled outlook on life. He needed the community to be on alert. And there were several attempts.

There were major attempts, coalition attempts to completely wipe Medina off the face of the globe. So it's not that the prophet was just imagining these things that were in his mind. These things actually happened. Um and the attempts were very powerful. And if it was not for the sandstorm that kind of blinded these people and lasted days um I mean that's in the Quran speaks of the the means the coalition and if it wasn't for that the coalition the part these kind of groups that got together would have caused you know near

fatal damage to Medina. So yeah. Uh right. What is going on? What is going on? Right. Are people saying that there's uh are the mods are the mods asleep today?

[laughter] Hey, let's get uh uh let's turn one two people into mods. There you go. Um who else is here that I recognize? Well, we've got one now.

So, I'll I'll check for some of the the names I recognize. Right. So, super chat Idris. A you're doing it. You're doing it. Much love. How did the prophet and early Muslims view the Torah and Bible a source of knowledge, benefit, etc. And did that view change over time?

It's a good question. I definitely feel that the you see the early Muslims viewed the prior scriptures as a as a a source of insight clearly. I mean that's evident from how they refer to them in how they even do sometimes using them.

It doesn't mean it has to be right but it was their attempt to understand things. Uh there's Omar definitely held the Torah Torah in very high light um in very extremely high regard uh right so these um you know so the you clearly yes there is the hadith from the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam that he tells Omar that what are you doing why are you spending so much time invested in the Torah you know, you should be focusing on

what's going on, learning the learning the faith as it's being revealed. And the prophet said, look, if Moses was alive today, he would be following the revelation, which is the Quran. So, yes, of course, but that wasn't to dis prior scriptures, but it was simply a matter of uh prioritization.

Okay? So the Quran was to be prioritized naturally. It revelation was unfolding in real time. So the people around wahi around revelation had to be um focused. But yeah and I think over time Muslim the Quran does not state that um that prior scriptures have been entirely corrupted.

It doesn't say it like that. So, okay. So, this because I've been asked this question as well that look are the does Islam believe that the Quran and the sorry the Torah and the Bible are corrupted? So, this is a layered response.

Okay. So there is a core message in the Torah [snorts] and in the Bible the whether it's the you know the Old Testament and the New Testament there is a core message there as far as Islam is concerned in my understanding the Quran does not dismiss that it's been corrupted. It does not make that claim um necessarily and I don't feel it does.

Some people might argue I don't feel that is what it's saying that they've lost the message. So the message was something else and they've completely lost it. That's not true. Um however, however, and this is where there is a a caveat to it. there's a layer as well if if you want to see it as a layer that the way Islam sees it is that yes it has undergone certain transformations.

So naturally the Bible, the Jewish Bible, the Torah, um it's, you know, it's it's gone linguistic transformations. It disappeared in terms of writing. It's rewritten after Babylon. Um so several hundreds of years it's missing. People are rewriting it. So naturally, you can imagine uh people are changing certain things.

they are um you know maybe they're reconstructing from memory certain parts of it several parts of it in fact the whole thing is reconstructed from memory but I mean certain stories certain explanations may be altered so in that and then they've then the book has undergone uh translations which have given different renditions of meaning.

So in that sense, yes, the Bible, so when people say, you know, has that been changed? Yes, it has been changed. Has it been corrupted? If that's what you mean by corrupted, as in certain words have changed, certain stories may be um differently represented, some may have been, you know, they may have been certain false memories, certain things like this.

Then yes of course if that's what you mean by corrupted then that is true that has happened and biases may have influenced as well stories but if you mean the entire message is is gone there is no message left at all in the Bible or in the Jewish Bible uh the gospels no that's not the case um there you know there's plenty of room for valid me uh you a valid message that is still there in in the scriptural sources but it's in this perspective it's been corrupted if

you want to use the word corrupt. Um so yeah definitely in terms of certain words nuances translations rewriting from memory false memories maybe changing certain stories um and in a in because the Bible is huge so in so much of it that would have happened but the message would still be very much valid that's my take on all of this right let me just right chip You're doing it with the super chat.

Much love. Much love. Opinion on near-death experience. NDEs. NDEs people. NDEs. Gateway to a or just chemicals in the brain. An opinion on mangi and how to convince LGBT to Islam. [laughter] Chip. Chip is on a mission to get the whole LGBT community [laughter] and bring them into Islam.

H right so uh first of all NDEs near-death experiences I definitely feel these are valid portals. These are not just [snorts] um you know some chemicals in the brain. Um I don't let me This is actually a good book if you're interested in that.

I don't know if you can see it from there. Um but it's called A Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience by Pin Vanam LL. So that's Pim Van L. and I went to his presentation and he demonstrates how uh he's one of the leading cardiologists in the world and he shows several um he has certain I believe in the book he does as well.

Yeah, he does have certain kind of chart MRI scans and I'm just trying to see if in his presentation he had loads, but he has one or two in here as well. But the point is that what he's showing is that these people who went into cardiac arrest um whilst in hospital, so they were already there.

they managed to uh they would have a lot of in this critical ward they would have a lot of that um the facilities the machinery and uh appar to be conducting um electrongrams [laughter] you think I don't know what an electrongram is [laughter] so these EECGs where they are basically reading the brain waves and uh doing all this kind of stuff and scanning these people and doing all kinds but and he has many many participants and you they vary the tests and but basically what

they find is from these people who report a near-death experience there's a huge overlap in in the findings and including atheists or regardless of their religion race faith gender any you name it regardless of all of that they still had very similar experiences. Now things like for example the light, seeing a light, moving towards it, a tunnel, stuff like this.

These are very overlapping kind of uh experiences that these people have. The other very interesting thing is he demonstrates how brain activity had almost ceased in most of these people. So how were they having these experiences? So, but I mean you can read his book and uh look into that. But I definitely yeah I'm I'm very um you know I do feel that these things are a portal and NDE near-death experience that's obviously a very um intense and that's the final

[laughter] frontier before death. So yeah, but not many people would experience that to that extent. But other things like uh psychedelics and DMT for example, ego death, even with psilocybin and stuff like this, they also can mimic a kind of near-death experience or this sense where people experience a sense of dying.

And it's it's very overwhelming. It's not um but it you know if a person has the breakthrough in it it can be very um it it can be not just peaceful but it can it can be very meaningful to the to the person because and and and a huge sense of relief can be experienced but yeah so these are

things I definitely that's my take on mangi I you know what I I haven't I I don't really know much about it's a her I take it yeah I don't really know much about her I'll have to um I'll have to check out some stuff and then comment on mangi Right.

But I I have years ago I think I saw some some clips. I can't even remember what they were about. So yeah, some said one more super chat. I'm I'm getting to it. How would you respond to non-Muslims who say that disregarding any controversial hadith about the prophet is an attempt to whitewash Islamic history?

Yeah, that's a very good good question because yes, of course, um it it could be seen like that, you know, from their perspective, it [snorts] could be seen that um you know, when you find something um when you find something when you find blemishes, flies in the ointment, the only reason they're there because they're true.

this is their um assumption and in fact uh I think the the way it's argued by uh people you know like Shah and and other people is that the fact that Muslims mentioned them shows that they're true because otherwise they would have been motivated to hide them.

So this is a a reason and to be fair from a you know a um at face value that's a valid sense of um analysis that's you know that that's a to look at something from that perspective you're obviously ascribing you're trying to uh assume understand motives and you're thinking well you know this person why would he mention something that is problematic for Islam and the only reason he would do so is because it must have been true

and that sounds uh as a very you know that's quite a cogent argument to the at face value. However, aha. You see, upon closer inspection, if you're going to be fair, what you have to do is you have to think that that's true.

But can I as a person think of any motive for people to have fabricated that hadith? And you see this is what they don't do or they don't do fairly. I I mentioned a while back there's an academic I'm in touch with.

Haven't spoken to him now for a little while. I should reach out again. But we had an amazing discussion on the age of Aisha and he isn't a Muslim. He's not a Muslim but he's doing his PhD on the age of Aisha. and we had a discussion for maybe about three four hours. We spoke incredibly insightful discussion. I did ask him to come on to mine trap but I think at this stage he wanted to keep a a very low profile.

So this person he actually began as I don't want to misrepresent him but I as as a as an Islamophobe. It began as somebody picking holes in Islam, going for the the the general arguments, you know, Islam bashing. But, uh, it's amazing, you know, it's amazing that, um, you, you know, one who gets fixated with Islam, [laughter] it's interesting.

Islam has an ability, a kind of prowess to to pull in those who even if for negative reasons become fixated on it. And I I think that's actually an incredible feature of the faith. But still this person he after a while many years and he knew all these arguments you know these kind of hide what are those uh the the hide park debating argument he knew all of that stuff okay why did Muhammad do this then why did he do that why did

he marry a six-year-old girl it's in Bkari it's in this he knew all of this stuff now he said he reached a certain stage he started to academically study all of this and He did his masters and then he started and then later his PhD. But it's only before his PhD that he he realized one day he kind of he had this internal dialogue where he asked himself could I because he would follow this line of reasoning as well that this has to be true.

The prophet married a child has to be true because why would Muslims make it up? because it's an insult to Islam. It's an insult to the prophet. So for Muslims to make it up would mean that you know they wouldn't do that. So if anything they would hide it. the same reasoning that Shah and others have have kind of uh and this is actually surprisingly the same reasoning from a different perspective but that these modern-day neotraditionalists have these um you know these kind of selfieminded people that this is but they have it in a more simplistic way but the same kind of

thing. So he said, "I started thinking about this and and I thought that look actually I can think of reasons why people would make it up and and this is what initi this this moment of epiphany is what led him to then dig deeper and research profoundly this topic.

But there were several reasons and he he started to just think about it and it's very similar because when we had our conversation a lot of our findings I mean my my theories on all this stuff were very similar to what he later on arrived at but obviously from a non-Muslim perspective but this whole political thing because I I had said as well that look if you think about it right that there Is this uh you see history has to be chosen and

you have to remember that people are in the you had Bunny Umeya and then you had B Abbas and most history gets written down in the Abbisid era. Now there were just two main versions of history. Who do you take the Omeayad one or the Abbisid one? And the abbisid is current and you can't really choose the because you'd end up getting persecuted and during the first century and and so much of Islam that is when they they stop in 131 Hery now nobody's writing history up until then.

So the problem here is what about people who weren't happy like the mainstream Sunnis? You have to understand mainstream Sunni was not really Abisidin inclined. Now they were okay with Abbisids but they weren't really you have to remember look the Abbisids were Shia.

Don't forget this in their origin they were Shia. They later on, you know, give give the boot to the Shia and become kind of independent and attach themselves to Sunnis and then become kind of like first of all pseudo Sunnis and then just Sunnis later on. But initially the Abbasid movement rose like when it rose from and to overthrow Bunny, it was a Shia movement.

It was not a Sunni movement. So they and they were very clear about about the and about and about all of these. They weren't for they weren't like the mainstream Muslims. They they were the Shia Muslims. But the only thing is because they overtook and you see it comes to when it comes to the crunch who overtakes first.

So as it happens the people who overtook first because these were bunny hashim. here all the the main clans of Hashim. So which is the prophet's clan but with them you see as you come down they're all part of bunny hashim but then they're like from the prophet his uncles and their sons and so on and obviously the prophet's uh offspring via Ali but then you've also got Abbas who's the uncle of the prophet and Abbas and his offspring and and so on and so you've got all of the these are all part of the Shia movement but it's the Abbasids

who make it first. So when they sees the throne, they think, "Well, actually, you know what? I kind of like this throne." [laughter] So they were like, "You know what? Actually, [laughter] it's like I could get used to this." And then they're like, "Well, who's at the door?" The Sorry, sorry, who gone?

Who? [laughter] Aborn. It's one of those. Sorry. Who? Who are you again? So, so what happened is they kept it for themselves. Now, when they kept it for themselves, who are their number one threat? Their number one threat are the aloh, the fatim, the the children, the offspring who are part of the same Shia thing.

But those who come through Fatima and Ali, why are they a major threat to them? Because even though you see those who are closest to you, they make the worst enemies. So this is the problem. They were one and these guys did a power grab and they're in control. So the first the biggest threat is not Bunny Umeya who you overthrew. They're the secondary threat.

The first threat is the sidekick that you just overthrew because he in this case the Fatimin had a more they had a greater claim to the throne because remember they they're saying we're the offspring of the prophet and you're the offspring of the uncle of the prophet. So even though you're related but we're closer still.

So this is why the Abbisids then turn to persecute them [laughter] in drama. Yeah. It's like proper saga going on. So they turn and you know uh what's the what's that poem? Yeah.

Yeah. What's it that you see that when you are I think that's it. But when you're betrayed or you suffer from the hands of those who are close to you, that is worse than being chopped up by you know this sharp super sharp sword.

So the point is that this now when the Abbisids become Sunni [snorts] at this point history starts getting documented. So historians who should they side with? This is the this is an important question. Do you go if you promote bunny omea version the main you know the earlier version of Islam then these guys are going to be upset.

If you quote their version their version is really like the Shia version but except it's now moving away from the Shia. But there was another narrative you see and that narrative was the Zuberid narrative because there was also power in the house of Zubered. He had ruled uh Abdullahbn Zuber had ruled for a substantial amount of time at and at a particular point considered to be the main ruler of the Islamic world.

So and he is you know the the the nephew if you like of of Aisha and so and he's like from the mainstream Sunni thing. So this was also a perspective. So it became important as well for people that were part of this Zuber thought to always promote Aisha because Aisha extends legitimacy to the Zuber perspective because she is their aunt.

It is usually her nephew who is always learning from her and teaching. And Urwa is the father of who? to Hisham and Hisham then he is the one who transmits all these hadith and it's interesting that even some of the Abbisids as they become Sunni if you like it may have been in their interest to push this Zubid as well because the other because their own historical angle would have been Shia which they distanced themselves from and the earlier Sunni version would have

been omead and they don't want to be part of that. So this Zubered thing may have been a a bridge and hence uh Mansour I believe it was Mansour he commisss Hisham and gives him a very generous grant and he brings him to uh uh brings him to Baghdad I believe or brings him back to Iraq and and he comes on three occasions but he's commissioned and even when Hisham passes is it when I believe when Hisham passes away, the caiff uh comes to pray for him.

And so there there seems to be this very clear bond between Hisham and the caiff. So anyway, I'm I'm the reason I I'm getting distracted is to show that yes, it is true that line of reasoning as some orientalists have said is is is a good point. But it is also true if you think deeper, you will find many motives for some of these a hadith to have been fabricated.

I hope that um helps. Uh, you should invite Daniel Hakaju to talk about the Islamic history. It's just not fair. [laughter] [laughter] It's just not fair to hear your side and not the other.

Aa your side. My side. [laughter] [gasps] My side. Your side. Acha chaa. [laughter] Well, I don't think this is my side of Islamic history. This may be my analysis on what was going on in Islamic history, but this is not my side of Islamic [laughter] history.

And Danny Boy is more than welcome to come anytime he wants. I have invited Danny Boy on many an occasy an occasion. If I can find it right here. [laughter] The great the genius Danny Boy. Danny Boy mentally challenge my boy mental boy. [laughter] So I have invited Danny Boy on many an occasion.

However, Danny Boy does not have the fortitude. I I hear I hear I'm I mean I still am extending [snorts] a warm welcome to Danny Boy if you hear this. Come on y come on Minecraft trap. Let's have a discussion on what [snorts] whatever you'd like us to speak about.

Huh? Islamic history. Um speaking of Danny Boy. Right. So All right. So Danny Boy has uh posted this that what he said is any sh so those of you that don't know [snorts] China has now come up with another COVID test which involves swabbing.

[laughter] But as the person said you know your side they say your side but backside [laughter] your side offside backside. Okay. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. Near side, offside, backside. So, the the problem is that China has now said, "Look, we've got a new swabbing technique, people." and [laughter] these tests.

[laughter] Go get into Ru. [laughter] Well, on the bright side, he's like, he's like, "Huh?" He's like, "Wait a minute. If this is my thermometer, then where's my pen? [laughter] He's like, "Huh, Dr.

Sub, if you've got both your hands over here, then [laughter] so right. But Danny Boy, as as clearly, you know, look people, you know, if anybody is concerned about the rectal well-being [laughter] the rectal well-being of this um the final frontier that can never never be that can never be damaged right or never ought to be damaged because after that

as I've explained in the past beyond the sphincta is just kufur [laughter] because you know the way they speak always about LGBT and gays and they'll be like anything but anything but gays. They'll be like, you know, if a person turns homosexual, they'll be like there is that is that is just the ultimate that is the greatest of kufur in their in their books [laughter] and they get really concerned like you [snorts] know

so yep. So you know [cough] [clears throat] Danny Wise has got that for this um so as you can see look anyh that says this is halal must demonstrate by having it done to himself first. [laughter] So Danny boy as you can see has uh [snorts] he you know what he is uh fair play to him.

You know it's good to know someone's got your back. [laughter] They have concern for your back. So they go where are you from backside? Where are you from? [laughter] So it's like yeah I'm going [laughter] it gives a whole new meaning to cover my back.

This is uh so yeah, but that's Danny Boy's uh so you can't say that's halal. Uh this new COVID testing. [laughter] I don't know how they're going to do how how the drive-throughs are going to work though. [laughter] Do you just kind of like lean out of the window? Just [laughter] just lower the window and just kind of like just just fit your your rear royal self through there and then just drive through [laughter] and they just swab it.

[laughter] Oh god. Boy, this is uh too I think co is just it's get it's become too much you know too much too much. So but the question is can is it is it permissible to to do that to have a swab test like that and the answer is of course if if that you know if that's the test that's the test say a G-spot.

Is that the Is that the G-spot? [laughter] Well, if you come out of the test uh kind of in a state of bliss, then uh you know, well, h you know, maybe a is that why who put that there? Was that is that done by by God? [laughter] It's like, so yeah, but it's it is not haram.

Relax. I know Danny Boy is overprotective of the of the the kind of rectal intrusions against this ummahes, [laughter] which is good to know. Good to know. Uh so, but it's not haram. A colonoscopy [laughter] is not haram.

You know, [laughter] you're like, "No, I'm just getting it done recreationally." [laughter] Anyway, so it's not haram now. Right. So, well, I've missed some super chats. Roses are red. My perception is pink. Long story short, I love you. I think va va va va va.

Please give us a love poem. Highi high low. Pesto sterone has got the low. Let's see if I've got a poem for you guys. Yeah, I did. I have one here somewhere. I had some poems. Right. So on moment,

what's this one? Well, they're not here. So they they are not here. I thought they were there, but nope. [snorts] Uh we'll do a poem. Don't Don't worry, man. Don't have I got any books over here? No. Hi.

H high that you from the most all striking kind of most powerful poems written in love. Shall I shall I read a bit of a snippet? This is in Arabic though.

And then Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Oh, there used to be actually one here. Have I read this before? this this you know I I used to read this book when I was first I I mean I bought this when I was first in Damascus. I think it was around that time.

So wow. So over 20 years ago how time flies people how time flies. But he in here has a poem in here by this poet called Rashid Salim ali and he's he's contempor or was contemporary I take his he's passed away but um he he has this poem about this girl that he's fallen fallen for fallen but I won't read the whole thing cuz the

thing about Arabic poems is they write them, they're too long. [laughter] You know, it's like people don't have that. But he says, "Allah Hi.

Hi. Hi. Hi. He [snorts] says this incredibly attractive girl as though Allah when he was setting out her beauty did it without it was there were no there was no calculation as in here calculation meaning he didn't hold back unlimited infinite levels of beauty says Brazilian hi hi [laughter] Latinas but Brazilian where she lives is

Brazilan but she's also an Arab. Now there's a lot of Arabs that live in Brazil and South America argent um over there in South America, right? So and then he goes on to speak of her cheeks and the redness and hi hi hi hi hi and then her eyes and he says that those if you you know if you if they they could strike you dead but out of beauty.

That's what he means. See, it's weird because when you translate some of these things, he says uh goes on to praise her Allah. Allah Allah says, "And the day I was going to leave, she couldn't hold back her patience anymore.

So she wrote a book to me, a message. Sorry, she wrote a message to me. Says, "And she folded it up in a handkerchief that came to me to unfold a hidden dua." She said that you know for the love of God don't come back soon come back quick [laughter]

says that you've you're taking with you our hearts. So if you can so come back as quick as you can. But you see the the twist here is she's actually the wife of his friend.

So he goes on to mention he says uh see he he mentions it later on. He says says, "But this beloved, not beloved in that sense, but this beloved is she is one who has a husband that is somebody who is reasonably dear to him." So he says

somebody who has shown me so much love like the husband not not she's also showing love but his love is different different one you know different one so he says he says you know if one day both the heart and the mind or and the and the brain and the intellect cry out to you.

It's better that you respond to the intellect. And he says, uh, yep. Allah Allah Allah.

He said I I wrote to her saying that you know you having you would be Jenna but I prefer the adab instead. says, "I'd rather have a pure love that isn't tainted with betrayal." Oof. Oof. You could make a uh a movie out of this. [laughter] So, what is going on, Mente?

What is going on? Let me bring up your Thank you for doing these streams, Harun. Much love to you, Shukran. Right. So MUI right what is your what are your thoughts?

What is your thoughts on MUI Abdul Rahman Ysef Manger? Right. Um Mangera Sahib. Yeah. You see Mui Mangera. Yeah. Yeah, I mean I don't have negative kind of views on him or anything, but he is from the the kind of you know that Hanfi Theoi kind of crowd that you're going to get.

He is very talented. He's very intelligent. He is very um you know from that kind of he's probably one of the leading um talents really in if you want to call it academia uh teachings and expeditions that's really other I don't who else I mean you're going to have people like Riyadhak you're going to have uh but he's from that same school as in that same kind of uh league as them and he's seen as very kind of ilme academic does his research

but it is ultimately very closed theobi uh kind of thinking it's not something you know they would never think out of the box they wouldn't really be down with other people going out of the box I mean my impression of him is he's not as um you like he gets some of these other nut cases and stuff like that.

He's not like that. But he is very loyal to his school of Diab. Okay. So he there is that dogma clearly and he wouldn't really ever teach outside of that dogma. But he's not like some of these people who, you know, they don't even know very much or they don't.

Um, so that's my kind of thoughts. It's a shame really because I feel that you know in many ways if you're not part of the solution, you're still part of the problem. Um, I have actually in the past I um I did a uh a course I delivered a kind of a conf participate in a conference alongside him.

It was um in the Netherlands. So Netherlands of B Netherlands. Yeah. So and it it was good. And to be fair, he was very respectful and um yeah, but he was I remember he was at one point uh somebody cuz somebody took a photo of us and he came and he said uh he was like, "Are you going to put those photos up on social media?

Please, can you not put any photos with me in there?" And [laughter] I was like, "Yeah, okay." But you do know this is a recorded event that's going to be on social media. You do know that. So yeah. Yeah. That's the that said many years ago in uh Damascus before I became Maliki I was Hannfi and I one of the people I did actually study with was him.

So you know and I'm grateful for that. I'm grateful he he obviously can't remember it. I spoke to him about it and he was like, uh, I don't remember at all. You know, that's fascinating when you think about it. Yeah, [snorts] I was very early in my journey. So, very early. I had um just turned 18. I you know, flown off to Damascus, new country.

And I wasn't, you know, growing up, I think [snorts] we were, relatively speaking, we like that little community or whatever within I mean, we were within Birmingham, but we were in an area called Hansworth and just maybe it's just people or generally, but also people I was around were very sheltered. I don't think we had a um kind of um you know that I mean that's a different discussion in and of itself but so flying off to a new country doing all of these things were almost unbelievable but they they

happened alhamdulillah and it was a big step but when I was there within maybe four or five months of me being there I had signed up to actually within about four months I signed up to Damascus University and that's where I met him uh Dr. or I think he's a doctor Mui Ab Manger he's uh let me just see Abdul Rahman Manger I thought for a moment I thought you say Abdah Abdah Abdul Rahman so I met him and it's interesting that he had turned up to Damascus University and the

whole you know the whole ga and and he was I don't know what whether he used to study there or not but he wasn't in in my class but I used to see him sometimes so I started speaking to him and and uh I remember he he told me that he had graduated from this alim course. So I said okay what you know tell me about that. So he started telling me oh and he was really proud of the Indian uh ilmi heritage you know the what the ilmi what the subcontinent this have produced and they obviously some things that it's unquestionable there is you know credit

where credit is due so he goes off really you know saying you don't understand we study bkari we study abu cover to cover we study all these things and he was one of the first people to actually kind of inspire me a bit like that like I want to do that as well. I was already on this path to learn but I wasn't um but one thing he definitely inspired me to do and that I'm grateful.

So this he kind of did this this Dra hadith thing but not fully. That was somebody else I met after him who kind of really he had just come back from Pakistan and he he told me about all these things and that really did it for me. But at this stage there he raised interest but he had this one day he was carrying this is Muy Manger he was carrying this large certificate he's kind of walking around in he had it rolled up and he was carrying it in Damascus University so so I go up to him just shake hands and chat and uh and I said what's that and he and he he opens it it's like this

you know this massive um um eaz he has in the Quran. So he says, "This is my jazza in the Quran." So I said, "What's that?" And he and he says, "Well, you know, this goes back to the prophet and I've read it to this person. I've read the whole Quran and then he's granted me this." And I said, "Well, how how do you how does somebody get that?" And he said, "Well, you know, you should memorize the Quran." And you know a person like I suppose he wasn't saying it to me you should memorize but he was just saying you know a person should memorize and then if they've memorized they could get

an e jazza. So that really made me think wow like I would really like that. I thought that that's just I you know it just I suppose Allah kind of puts it in your heart and but he was that person that kind of first showed me that and mentioned that and even though at that stage I didn't think I could do it I just thought wow I would love to be able to receive that and so it kind of created this mam this this presence of it in my in my mind this value with it.

Now then there was this in my class in my Damascus Arabic class there was this American black guy really kind of cool you know I wish I could really connect with some of these people now I the I suppose the shame part is I don't even remember that guy's name now but because he wasn't we weren't always together in the same class and stuff but he was the he was from America I remember that and he was Um, and he very had this kind of swag about him.

He was a convert and so this is the year 98. Um, and he was and he was doing hif now. I totally didn't expect it. You know, me sheltered stereotypical, you know, back then. And and here's a convert and I last thing you expect is convert is memorizing the Quran. And so so I'm chatting to him.

We used to really get on and chat and but he seemed really for me at that time he seemed really liberal, laidback and I and I used to think wow that like how come he doesn't get disturbed by all these like music and all these things because I had been taught haram haram haram haram haram going to go to hell hell hell hell. So this guy one day he's uh that I'm with who's in my class.

He had this small little Quran just a Jew or something and he was reading it. So I I said to him, "Ah, mashallah, you reading the Quran." And he said, "No, I'm just going over what my lesson is today." So I said, "What's your lesson?" So he said, "Like what it is is every day I memorize a certain portion of the Quran." So this smacked me in the face. this this metaphorically like I'm telling this was such a wakeup call for me.

It was like a [laughter] I was I I was like what? And he said like I'd memorize um a certain portion of the Quran every day. So I here's this guy you know and I'm being judgmental here. This is back then, 1998. Um, cuz I was in the full th and all of that kind of stuff and wearing jeans, wearing a t-shirt, cool guy, you know, got that swag American, you know, like that kind of almost like that Will Smith kind of effect, that kind of person.

And and and he's telling me, "Oh, by the way, I I memorize a portion of the Quran every day." I said, "Well, how how where do you memorize it?" And he and he said anyway he said like I'll he said he said like for example on the way to uni he said I will just when I catch the bus he says I've got half an hour I just go over it then I go over it again during the day and I said how much do you memorize?

So he said like uh so he kind of opens the the musaf and he says look I uh you know like I'll do half a page and I just do about half a page a day. So I have to say wahi I felt on one hand so inspired and on the other hand I felt so embarrassed [laughter and gasps] cuz I thought you know why am I why was you know this is so embarrassing for me.

I thought like in my mind cuz I kind of felt that look here is a person who's embraced Islam. Yeah, he has enough motivation to learn the Quran and what about me? I've come here to study Islam and I'm not memorizing the Quran and I thought and this guy can do it on the way to uni in a bus.

So from that day I began memorizing and alhamdulillah I then memorized the Quran. But I uh the reason I mention this story is because uh those two people for memorizing the Quran I am you know indebted to them I guess for that. So I actually did tell Mimi Manger this when we met in Netherlands. I told him but he he he couldn't remember it.

He was like he said I I remember going to uni. I remember having that certificate. You're right. I remember I used to carry it with me rolled. He could remember all the details, just couldn't remember me. I'm like, "Ah, don't worry about it, man. Don't worry about it." So, and this other brother, I don't I wonder, honestly, I don't even know his name, which is embarrassing now. But, uh, yeah, I would love to reconnect.

I mean, I wonder if people know people who were in Damascus in the late 90s. If so, put us in touch. Cool, guys. Let's uh move on to some of your questions. There's another super chat coming through. All right, Dervish, you're doing it, man. You're doing it. Much love. Much love.

Right. So, have you heard of Paul Williams? Who's Paul Williams? Paul Williams sounds a bit familiar. What's is that? Uh, [gasps and snorts] is that a mus? Right. I'm probably mixing him up. What's your opinion on Imm Shibi?

Uh, I imam Shabbi is a legend. Absolute legend of uh the Islamic heritage. There's two Shhatabi. I mean there's two popular shabbis by the way. There's Abasim Ahatib and there's Abu Isak ai. Both are from which is in Muslim Spain. I do have it's quite a few years old but it's still you know if you're into history I have an an audio series of Andalus the history of Landelus on YouTube.

It is an audio. I may redo it at some point but so it is a bit old. um the equipment I suppose record actually you know it's it's definitely audible and and everything but obviously back then I think I must have done it in 2013 or something so but it's still if you're into it you can check it out it's 12 different lectures on the history and the rise of and fall of Muslim Spain now I imi so Abdul Kasim is the one who has the you know the kat book so whenever you're hearing ing about these uh Quran discussions the varants and so on they

quote shibi that or the his famous poem that's a different person this guy is is different his name is Abu is and he's the famous Maliki scholar and he's the kind of real founding father of massid today you know this whole objectives of the it was always within the maliki mab Anyway, the objectives of the Sharia, but he kind of he writes his book and makes it it becomes a thing, [laughter] you know, before,

you know, it it may have existed, but he really brings it to life and everybody after him is just indebted to him. So, yeah, I absolutely love him for that aspect. Obviously, he's Maliki, so there's that, you know, there's that bond as well, right? So, look at this.

What is Hey, my patriarch is in Damascus. Who's your patriarch? [laughter] All right. So, Lebanon is beautiful. Lebanon is beautiful. I Yeah, I I mean I was in Damascus. Somebody said Mia Khalifa is from Lebanon.

[laughter] Well, well, that's good to know as well. [laughter] Right. So, yeah, people who've popularized the hijab, huh? [laughter] You know that's a discussion that people I I guess really we Muslims are not ready to have but a discussion is that you see the hijab has become a highly sexualized fetishized uh genre.

[laughter] You haramis don't act like you don't know. [laughter] [laughter] any the first person says catch him he go to his history [laughter] so I mean I wouldn't know if I hadn't read about it [laughter]

history delete delete [laughter] so But yeah, now it's interesting. That's a discussion people ain't prepared to have. But in [snorts] all honesty, you see this, it's a game changer because [laughter] game changer. It's a capernican moment. Capernicus. So you see because hijab and have become highly sexualized especially the hijab

in just pure as a pure sexual fetish. You see in these circumstances it would really pose the question that okay so if hijab was in essence to desexualize but in this day and age and I you know and these things [laughter] I mean it's just naive people like like us who don't know about them.

Where am I? Well, yeah. [laughter] Unlike us simple folks, but the rest of the world knows this, right? So, what you know, would you is it still something which should be pushed by those who say push it? Obviously, I don't believe the hijab is mandatory anyway, but and I've got a video on that, the hijab, what we're calling the the head covering.

But those who do believe that, what about this? Because this is I mean you could just play dumb. You could just put your head in the sand. But the truth is that it is highly I mean you know it's something that is it's not just like a few people. You you'll be surprised. So my sources tell me I hope they're not lying. I mean I don't know the what what this you know what's [laughter] it's it's what it's [laughter]

so uh but seriously that you see that that this is a conversation though that needs to be had that well is it still something of modesty I would say today it's not something of modesty I would say today it is just represent resents either a cultural. See, this is the irony. It represents a cultural dress. It represents culture or it can and it may be a a minority, but it's a growing minority, a fringe if you like.

It represents a sexual fetish. So, so now you're going to have these people who, for example, let's say they watch this kind of porn, sickos. lot of disgusting, despicable, despicable people. But you're going to get these people now when they go out and see normal women, regular women, let's say, I don't mean kind of not sexualized, just dressed normally.

That's just normal for them. But when they're going to see a woman with hijab, it's going to trigger a sexualized look towards that woman because they only see that kind of stuff or they see a lot of it. Sorry, not only but they see a lot of it only associated with a sexual fetish. So the mind, the brain would have that association. So it's so in these circumstances should these things still be pushed forward by fatawa and you know the shar and I would argue that under those circumstances it shouldn't.

So I mean it can obviously I mean if people want to still do it as part of the culture they can do it but there is this this understanding people need to be aware of that all the other you know when you're meeting Tommy Tom Tommy and and what they uh a lot of people they they they non-binary they are seeing uh that you see the mental associations H you naughty naughty hijab.

They're going to be like you teasing meal. [laughter] So people, this is a conversation that Muslim scholars are not prepared to have. But it's the truth, man. Hard truth, but I'm just being honest about it. [laughter] Ah, right. So, right. Somebody says, "Ah, par Paris is beautiful."

So surah, what's this guy on about? [laughter] See, some people in the comments are saying some Mhm. See, they they're giving their expression. Here's one person right there. Catch him. Catch him. [laughter] Right. So he's definitely one of those few million views. He's he's is one.

He's one. Right. So uh somebody said according to my research the hijab is sexy. And you see you can understand that because it's a kind of uh because it kind of has this connotation of innocence and it has this connotation of uh this kind of chastity.

um it does have that connotation obviously that's what it's there for but hence it's a taboo and taboss are what get sexualized so that's the that's the chaa giving you the the perspective right so zulfi says my super chat flat earth 101 Isaiah says for real flat Earth info.

Jesus is a flatearther. Chu with a motu says, "Mutty, can you put on a hijab? I want to see what you look like. [laughter] What? This what going on here? This one. Hijab on men fetish. [laughter] End the times any cuz end of times.

End of times cuz end of times let me see. Right. So Gali swearing to me on my chats.

Right. So ban visual adultery reinstate mutah could be. Right. So what else is going on people? What else? Any plans on coming to Bradford soon? Yeah. Wouldn't mind. But lockdown lockdown. Mui g take your [ __ ] [laughter] scandal.

You know this one. These people, these people are trying to get me done over. This is where, you know. Mhm. What about a fetish for men in burkas instead? You see, but it doesn't work as much the other way because you see it's [snorts] men who drive a lot of these things because they're cuz for men for the most part, it's always visual.

Muy misses my super chat. Let's find this guy's super chat. Yeah. How would you respond? No, I've done that. Uh, gateway. I've done that. Roses are red. Thank you for doing these streams. Miy, what justice between wives means? Does it mean equal sex or just material things?

Or spiritual things? Like, uh, I like the split. Spiritual or material? [laughter] Uh cuz I cannot be equal in my feelings for both. Still I want to do polygamy. Ah you're Travoski S. You're doing it man. You do [laughter] [gasps] see these things are the equality means I it it doesn't mean a uh a mirror.

It means a fairness based on that understanding that you have. So whatever that fairness is. That's what it would would mean. So for example, some people may not be expecting certain things. Some people may be expecting something else and some people. So whatever it is, you have an understanding that is fear. Uh and you're not oppressive.

Hi Mui Salam from Wisconsin. Hadith that describe the end of times say there will be no one left who believes in Allah. This a sahi hadith. You see most hadith to do with the end of times these es um you know apocalyptic hadith most of them are usually made up. So as Imm Ahmed said that's there certain genres that have no basis in sunnah and one of them was the ash right the the the kind of end of times and the signs that will come the sorry the yeah the

ashat and the fitan right so this is $5 just for sharing that story and taking me down memory lane I love the studying hs days miss those days well jawad you're doing it you're doing it. Yeah. Much love. Much love. It's fun to share some memories sometimes, huh? Claire, you're doing it as always. Pleasure to have you online.

If Muhammad Bucks, right, I think I've caught up with all of those super chats now. Yep. Believe so, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I mean these things they memories, huh? Memories. [laughter] Ah, right.

Speaking of memories, have did I tell you, you know, I was chatting with [laughter] some of the lads it came up, right? So we were speaking about the the the the my [laughter] encounter encounter with the Egyptian uh al-mis the Egyptian police police [laughter] [gasps] I don't know if I've told you have I told you guys this uh this this story [laughter] right so okay I tell you what let me tell you what the hell

I've got to cover the other topics, but let's I'll share a little story with you. Yeah, Egyptian police. [laughter] Egyptian police. So, this I must have told you guys the time when I got kidnapped when I was in Cairo. So, but I won't go into all of that. That another day. That's the uh the whole you know emotional roller coaster turbulent uh event.

But anyway so I was there on this kind of imam's training course. So this is going just under a decade ago. So this is going about what about eight years ago? Eight no maybe about nine or eight years something like that. So anyway, following that, following the the kidnapping thing, so the Alazar, we were guests at Alazar.

So they had said uh you know, they were obviously very you know what the hell. Yeah, I mean the kidnapping thing I' I'm sure I've mentioned that. But I'll mention that another I'll go into that some other time. But that that was like I got kidnapped and and robbed and so on and then they kind of just dumped me at this god knows this this bloody outside of Cairo. But the whole thing was that um Alazar were really kind of like whoo in a huff and a puff and you know this is obviously a disgrace and a dishonor to because these people have come from England because we had gone there formally.

It was a there were a group of imams and doing training and I got [laughter] I got kidnapped on the first night I didn't know it's bloody crazy. This is after the revolution. You see after the revolution for about a year there was a lot of there was a a massive spike in crime cuz the police was a bit neither here and neither. They they didn't know what their future was going to be.

So people had kind of obviously work had been impacted and crime and robbing and theft and kidnapping and all this had risen like massively. So anyway, forward [clears throat] the story. So Lazar like you know what the hell? What the hell? We need to uh we need to kind of uh sort this out. Let's take you to the police.

[laughter] [gasps] So anyway, they get this topnotch lawyer and they they make an appointment and they sent take take me there to the station. So go into this room and it's a massive long room. Yeah. So probably something like let's say I don't know at least probably about 10 at least about 10 m long 5 m wide like quite a reasonably large enough room which is pretty much empty and there's just one desk right and you've got this copper sitting there this inspector and he's got that kind of scarf on and he's sitting there and he's got his kind of

like [laughter] legs up his feet up on the desk and he's got this old school TV and he's just watching that. Yeah. And he's got like his coat on and a scarf on. It's a bit nippy. And that's all he's doing. So, we go in now. Me, there's someone else. There's there's uh the lawyer. We go in. They've got this appointment. They turn up and he sits down and he tells me that look, listen, I'll do all the talking.

Don't worry. You just sit there and, you know, let me handle it. So, I said, "Yeah, cool." So, we go in and he's he sits in front of the car park and he's talking to the car and the carper ain't interested. He's just like so annoyed to that, you know, this guy's disrupting my TV viewing. [laughter] So, he's sitting there like this. He's got both he's got both kind of feet up on the desk and he's like, you know, like this.

And so this guy says to him, "Look, uh, you know, uh, you know, please, you know, this is what's going on. This guy got this happened. He got kidnapped. You know, he's from blah blah blah blah blah." So he's doing this whole kind of, uh, he's trying to give him the spiel. So that guy says, "Yeah, first of all, he tries to ignore him and then he can't. He says, okay, what?" So he says, "Look, uh, this is the thing." Now I had some detail because I remembered that what had happened was you see because the kidnapping the plot was the thing was done by this taxi driver and somebody that was in on it with him his kind of

friend. So they had taken me first of all I had asked them that take me to this kind take me to a restaurant or something. So they had taken me to this place this matam. Now what had happened was at that place that guy had seen like my wallet and stuff and that's where he must have thought that you know what let's get this. [laughter] So anyway I told them that look why don't when I was at that when I was at that restaurant the waiters knew this this person because the way they greeted him and stuff.

So you know that's that's clear in there. You just go to those waiters ask them that's your point. So, so this officer, he's sitting there and he listens to the solicitor, the lawyer, and he goes, "Hm." He he goes to him, "You shh like, okay." He asks me, right? And I tell him, "Look, if we go to that restaurant, we know." He goes, "Uh, I didn't ask about that." [laughter] He says, "I've asked you when they kidnapped you and dumped you.

Where did they dump you?" So, I had obviously come to learn the road that I was dumped on. It was called Mansuria. So it's outside of Cairo going to this town called Mansuria. So he goes, "Ah." So he opens up this map and he goes, "Where where were you dumped on this map?" [laughter] So I say, "Look, I I I don't know.

Like, you know, I'm uh obviously I'm not from here." And so he goes, "No, no, just take a guess. Where do you think you were dumped on this map? [laughter] So I said, "Well, I don't know." Like the guy said to me that you're still a bit far from Mansour because I had asked for directions along the way. And so I said, "I don't know. Was I about here, halfway, or I don't know where was." So he said, "Ah," he said, "Yeah, see it goes to the lawyer.

Look, he's he's about here." Okay, now this is out of my jurisdiction. So, you need to go to the other [laughter] you need to go to the other police station and let me get back to watching what I was watching. So, now the solicitor gets all what the hell like basically he's told us get lost. So, the solicitor says uh he gets on the phone, calls some superior, and then he hands it to him.

He says, "Yeah, you know, you it's your dad on the phone. [laughter] this guy, "Yes, sir. Yes, sir." You know, somebody says to him, "Listen, you better help this guy and do all of this, you know, whatever." So, this officer goes, "Okay." So, he says to me that, "Do you remember where you got dropped off?" So, I said, "Look, I I don't." Yeah. But he goes, "No." He goes, "Basically, okay, we're going for a drive.

You like to me?" He goes, "With me. The others can follow behind in a police van. [laughter] So I said, "All right, cool." So I'm riding up front. I'm driving with this copper. Yeah. He's got this kind of like Jeep 4x4. We're driving down and he he goes to me, "Look, um, okay, we're going to get on track to that road and then you start give giving me directions." So I said to him, "Look, I I won't be able to remember.

I'm telling you now. It was my f I hadn't even been in the country for 12 hours. How would I?" But surprisingly I actually started recognizing the place you know I actually shop myself. I didn't think you know you start recognize oh yeah I do remember that shop. I do remember this. So as we're driving he says to me look um you know when you went to that restaurant. Yeah. He says be honest with me.

Did you have a little uh [laughter] the odd brandy? Did you have a little to drink? So I said, "No, no, no. I don't I don't drink." So he's like, "What?" He's like, "You don't." So he kind of like he he he stops the car [laughter] and he goes to me, "What?" So I go to him, "Look," I thought, "Damn, you know, this guy's going to get offended.

He probably drinks." I said, "Look, I don't cave if people drink, but I don't drink." So he goes, "Ah, okay." So then he starts kind of driving. [laughter] So we start chatting and he's asking me surprisingly I'm remembering a lot of the way. I honestly did not think I could but I when I was there I actually started recognizing yeah I remember reading that uh this I remember seeing this game shop. I remember yeah reading this this big billboard and so we're driving along driving along and so I said to him um you know what I was obviously I was very upset about the whole incident.

So I said to him, look, um, of I go to him, look, listen, um, if we catch the guy, [laughter] [gasps] I said, if we catch this guy, uh, um, cuz he was kind of like saying, you know, these Haramis and whatever, he was kind of badmouthing him. So I said, look, if we catch him, could you give me give me five minutes with him?

You know, it's Egypt after all, [laughter] you know. So some tender loving care that I could also give to him. So he said um so he goes look yeah no problem no problem. You know if we catch him we're going to he goes I'm going to give you five minutes with him. Then he goes what we're going to do is uh he goes uh he goes we're going to get him ali we're going to urinate all over him.

And he goes to me, "You are going to take a piss. You're going to take you're going to urinate all over him." Okay. So I said, I said, "What?" I said, "No, no, no." So he slammed emergency brake, slammed the car to a standill. He goes, "What?" So [laughter] I was like, "Whoa, what?" And he goes, "You're not going to take a piss over him." So I was like, "Uh, no.

I don't want to." He was like, "What?" And he got really worked up. [laughter] So he goes, "What?" So I go to him. Oh, okay. Okay. I go, "Okay, I'll [laughter] I'll take a leak as well." He goes, "Good." He goes, he goes, "We all we're going to all [laughter] we're going to take a collective leak over this guy." you okay?

Okay. So, I go, "Okay, man. We're going to All right. All right. We're going to [laughter] Nabul Ali." Then he starts driving off. But anyway, that's I I just wanted to share that. What happens is we get to this point where he says, "Uh, do you want to go left or right? Where do you go here?" And I said, "Look, I honestly can't remember." So, he stops the car and he says to me, he says, "Look, listen, you're Muslim." Yeah, I'm Muslim.

He goes, "You're Pakistani?" "Yeah, I'm Egyptian. We're brothers." He goes, "You know, we're Muslim." So I go, "Yeah." He puts his arm. [laughter] I thought, "Is he about to take a leak?" I thought, "Does it start here? Is this the He goes to me, look, you can be honest with me." Yeah.

Were you drunk at the time? [laughter] I go to him. Look, I wasn't drunk at the time. I'm I'm telling you, I wasn't drunk. He goes, I don't get if you weren't drunk, why can't you remember at this point whether the car went left or right? I said to him, look, I thought [laughter] I said, look, I honestly can't remember. I'm surprised I remembered all this. So, I said to him, look, uh, you know, I don't know.

So, he goes to me, okay, I've got an answer for you. So, I go, what's your answer? He goes, "Look, I'm going to pull up over there. You and me are going to get out the car. You're going to point to this place and say they dropped you off here." Okay. So, I go, "Okay." He goes, "No, no." He goes, "But this is our secret." Okay. He goes, "I'm not going to tell them that you don't know. [laughter] This guy's acting like he's doing me a favor." So, I was like, "Uh, okay.

I don't." He goes, "No, no. So," he goes, "Don't worry." He goes, he goes, I I got you. I got you. So he jumps out the car and he goes. So I step out the car. He goes. He goes ah here. Aa cha cha. So the van pulls up and he goes, "Yeah." He goes, "We've got the spot. We've got the spot. He was here. They dropped him off." So the the lawyer goes, "Okay." And he goes, "And this falls under the jurisdiction of that police station." [laughter]

So you guys need to go there. [laughter] Ah, Egyptian police. But people al this is the this is the fond memories. There you go. Let's move on people. Let's move on. Right. So sayy shukran. May Allah bless you too.

Right. Shukran for the super chat. You're doing it. You're doing it. Right. Golly auntie says, "Blow kiss at musty." Well, right back at you. Right back at you. I don't get it. Don't worry about it, man. Don't worry about it. Are you practicing Muslim? Why do you drink with your left hand? [laughter] I'm practicing the art of drinking with the left hand.

For the record, this is actually my right hand. As you can see, this these writing They are. Obviously, you guys can't read Arabic. [laughter] Not you guys, but that person definitely can't. But yeah, Mui on fleek. All right, you're doing it. You're doing it. Right, let's take a look people at Let's get to some more of the serious stuff. People are like, "Yeah, does this muty ever have a [snorts] people?" All right.

So, I'd been asked about this. I thought, look, let me shed some light. This is those of you that don't know to do with the verse in Surah Maida, I believe it's verse 31, uh speaking about the two sons of Adam. Now, Allah doesn't mention who they are, but Abel and Cain, the the classic story that you have right there, and it's followed by Cain murdering Abel.

And so Allah mentions regimen and narrate onto them the story of the two sons of Adam um rightfully so when they both offered a sacrifice but it was accepted from one now it's interesting that here even Allah uses the word in the what is uh the passive sense that it was accepted.

Not saying that um we accepted it even though that's obviously the understanding here that Allah accepted it. But it's interesting that what did acceptance mean? They were obviously associating a meaning with it. But that acceptance would have been some kind of ritual that they would have come up with. You understand? So they both do something and then whether one of them this happens to it, one of them floats, the other sinks or one this happens, one that happens.

You see they would have been meanings that they would be naturally associating. Obviously ultimately Allah is you know the ultimate planner of things in that sense. So, but it's interesting that Allah mentions he said I will kill you. He said God accepts from those who have God consciousness.

Now here he says he said look one of the brothers he demon like he refuses to take up violence. He says look if you extend your your hand to me with harm I will not meet you with harm. So I won't fight back. Um he said that I fear God you know that should I be responsible for bloodshed.

He says, he said, "I would rather that you, you know, you take the sin or you take the responsibility, this crime, if that's what you want to do, and you bear its responsibility and you will suffer damnation for that. But I'm not going to kill you in return or fight back." Now,

So he Cain Mo obviously doesn't mention here but the general story is it's Cain he his he justified to himself murdering his brother like his his self got the better of him and he killed his brother and he became of those who have lost or who have suffered loss in this world.

Now this part here it mentions. So here then Allah mentions a crow, a raven comes.

Allah says he sends it. Now obviously here in the sense that Allah is ultimately in control of things. This raven seems to search about or do something with the earth. Okay. Now, so this so Kane can learn from this or he comes to learn from this event of what this raven is doing that how to cover up the ugly state of his brother.

He and he says to himself, he has this internal dialogue that what have I done that, you know, he says that can I not be at least like this raven, this crow that you can see here? Um, could I not at least be like like that and cover up the ugly state of my brother? Now, first of all, right, just mentioning here one moment.

So, just to kind of sum up what's going on and then I'm going to go into certain insights. You see, this verse mentions that a raven turns up. It's not too clear. The verse is not it's not totally ambiguous, but it leaves a lot. It leaves room for different interpretation, different readings of what is happening with an overall similarity like there's a huge overlap in what's happening but the detail there's so much room for interpretation.

I I don't just mean interpretation but in how to read it. So it could be read as an example that you read that this raven turns up and it says which actually means to kind of search in the in the earth. So it's doing something to the soil and it says now so he may or it may show him.

Now we know it may show Cain. But who may show Cain? the raven or god may showc who's trying to teach here. In my understanding, this is talking about God. Um, but some people have understood from it the raven. Now then it mentions he the raven is doing this so that he [snorts] or it may cover the ugly state of his or its brother.

So once again is it that the raven there was a dead raven there and this other raven comes and it's doing something it's observing and it's doing this. Is this in a way so that the raven may cover the other raven? Or is it that Cain learns from this so he may cover his own brother? Once again, because the verb doesn't mention the subject, you could be reading it as the raven.

You could be reading it as um as Cain. Both readings are equally valid. They're not like one is invalid. These are these are not interpretations. These are readings. how to read the actual verse. Who is it going back to? And you can see here that as I uh will show you that look um oh right no right no right so um Ashur highlights these differences as

well that I've that I've mentioned by the way he mentions this um And he highlights that look this is uh you can take either of these meaning he says look either is valid but it most this so this is the understanding that I'm looking at okay that they've had this this fight he's killed his brother he's he's left him in a very ugly state because it mentions so that this ugly state to look at is called so in Arabic and he's there.

Now, why a raven? I think it's incredibly interesting that Allah mentions this. Some people have understood from this that, oh, Abil Kain was the first person to invent a grave. Prior to this, humans didn't have graves. I don't think that's true. Uh because human beings have been burying uh their dead for about 100,000 years now.

I mean prior to the cognitive revolution and there's some thoughts on whether neanderals some may have had some kind of funerals as well. So I don't think it's this some have a lot of you might read this in taped in the past they said oh maybe he's the first person to invent a burial. I don't think that was the case at all.

And I think the fact that Allah has mentioned a is very interesting. You see kids the whether it's going to be a crow or a um a raven. Now ravens are usually slightly larger than crows. These are you see these are very fascinating creatures. Incredibly fascinating.

Now in recent times crows have been associated with negativity been associated with death or bad news or something uh a disaster or something uh this is what they've been in recent times associated with. But if you go far back in history several millennia you will see that crows were actually uh associated with with life.

with uh with life and resurrection and spirit and it was actually they were seen in a very positive light previously. uh it is only in the last you know two centuries just under sorry not centuries two millennia that you have this kind of negative rep that they start to get um and maybe because people freaked out because of them and stuff like this but generally they were seen really revered in ancient history and they seem to also represent an archetypal

feature. Now, why many people overlook the fact that crows are some of the most intelligent creatures on earth? I mean, obviously not human keeping human beings out of the picture. But as far as animals are concerned, crows are incredibly intelligent.

Okay? They can do things like uh they have abilities such as uh as keeping track of numbers recognition. They can facial recognition. So humans we have a certain region in our brain called the FFA facial uh fusififor area which recognizes faces human faces. But crows are amazing at recognizing human faces.

They they have unparalleled features. um they they have been they at problem solving at empathy at emotions. If I show you uh as an example some fact right here that this is fascinating that look that ravens these and ravens and crows are from the same family which is called corvids a bit like covid [laughter] but they can spot a cheetah and this check this for a sense of empathy and justice you know it's it's it's very

fascinating so you get uh that Not only can they spot the birds, they work together for equal amounts. Now, if they notice another raven taking more than his fair share, they immediately lose trust and won't cooperate with them in the future. That's now here's another fun fact. You see that they use hand gestures to hold up objects to get each other's attention.

Aside from uh primates, they are the only wild animals that can communicate in this way. So just think about that. Check this for crows are quite similar to humans and visit their aging parents. Wow. that that that's I mean just just the thought of that right that even after they've left the nest now more fascinating than all of this people

crows the concept that crows hold funerals for their dead now what what exactly does I know and that's something which may seem strange but you you'll have so many articles and things on this. But what I'm what does that mean, by the way, when they say crows hold uh funerals for the dead? Now, it it doesn't mean necessarily a funeral the way we understand a funeral.

But what when crows see a dead crow, one of them will land and they give off this alarm which calls a bunch of others and then they stand around this corpse, this dead crow and they just observe it. They just stand in this kind of silence just kind of observing it. Sometimes for between 15 to 30 minutes they'll just stand there. And this is it's called a mob.

Okay. Uh even and [laughter] A crowd of crows is called a a murder which is unfair really. I mean they people have been unfair to to crows. They have the intelligence by the way it's been argued of a six or sevenyear-old human child. That's how intelligent they are. And they've done studies nowadays with computers where they have to uh they have to kind of like uh t tap the screen and they have to recognize things and and they pass all these tests.

Unbelievably. Um, but what coming back to the funeral thing, they stand around this, you know, this mob called mobbing. They stand around this dead and just observe. And it's interesting. Scientists still ain't exactly sure why they do this. And one of the reasons is that they learn from this dead crow. They see that is there any reason how it got killed?

And they kind of learn from that and pass it on to other uh other crows as well through certain cries because there's been experiments where people certain researchers have uh so they will go and feed certain crows. So they kind of get them coming to them. Then they will turn up with a particular mask and they will present they'll put lay down a dead crow and within minutes the crows will start mobbing.

He'll one will land, send off the alarm, others land, and they notice that person with the mask. Now, whenever they see that person with the mask, they see that mask, they will send off that alarm. And researchers had made other people wear that mask and walk around and they will send off the alarm, but not with other masks or with other people. So one theory is that they are learning why this comrade of theirs has fallen.

Another reason which I think um is also there is this sense of empathy. I mean, it's not just me. Other researchers have said it, but we they obviously it's hard to prove these things. But what you just saw about how they visit even their appearance after having left the nest, they come back, this sense of empathy that crows have ravens have.

I feel that there is this sense of that empathy, it kind of has this shocking effect on them. And this if this were the case that look a crow lands by its dead let's say if this was the uh the was in this case as many mufas say that there was a dead crow but you see maser said that oh maybe two crows came and fought and one killed the other it doesn't say anything like that and I I doubt that that's what happened but there may have been a dead crow

and a crow comes and it lands close by and it observes it. Uh because it says and it kind of seeks out what's happened to this and then it stands in this kind of like almost like a sorrowful remorseful stance. Like if you see you can go on YouTube and watch um crows uh at a what they kind of wake or their funeral.

They it seems really and sometimes yeah they can be wild as well. Sometimes they do things like uh they may even um you know have h have sex or whatever copulate with the dead crow but that's in it's only been reported like 4% of the time. The majority of the time they won't they'll they'll just observe when they do. And this you see what witnessing that in this raven triggers this sense of remorse in Cain or at least momentary remorse

where he feels that damn like look here is a bird and how it stands over it almost seems to honor and dignify its dead with a bond that is still lasting and here was I like you know not only have I killed and left him you know so in an ugly state like he how he killed him it doesn't mention but it mentions that he's in a horrible ugly state bleeding he must be maybe torn up or you know whether he stabbed him as they as they would have with those tools and cut

him up or whatever he did and here's me just couldn't have a kid and this triggers that sense of uh remorse for us and then he feels that look the least I can do is honor him uh rather than having scavengers just come and feed off his remains.

So it's not that he didn't know what a grave was. He did know what a grave was, but he wasn't interested until he kind of feels this sense of remorse. But it's incredibly interesting that the Quran uses this this verse to highlight the role of a crow or a raven. And because even in its archetype, ravens are incredibly powerful that you know it's been argued that men have because it's only it's only beyond really you get certain um uh insects

that things like bees or things that have colonies like ants and termites who will do things like remove the dead and bury the dead. But that's more so for hygiene purposes because of the colony. But otherwise to be kind of um in a state of shock and almost empathy for their dead is only displayed by crows, corvids.

It's displayed by dolphins and elephants mainly. This is not I mean you'll get it in primates but primates because they're so close to humans. But generally in the mammal kingdom it's not like that except with crows. I mean I mean they're not mammals but I mean except with obviously elephants, dolphins and then crows uh or ravens corvids. So, it's I thought this was definitely worth sharing those of you that I did have as well for you, but I may have uh not I did have a

clip actually. I don't know if it's here. I probably haven't brought it up here, but let me see. Actually, if it's here, I will um I will sh bring it up and show it. But it's to do with right.

No. Right. Okay. Here's the clip. Uh I have got it here. Let me show. It was just about ravens. I thought, well, that would be interesting just to show you guys um that the ability of to to mimic as well is incredibly fascinating. Um just

here it is. Okay. Huh? [laughter] Right. What this one, man. What this one? Uhhuh. Uhhuh. Uhhuh. Why is it not playing it? Oh, there it is. Uh, okay.

Right. That should work now. If I If I bring this clip up now, check this out, people. This will I'll just bring this up here. Um, can you see them? They have the ability to mimic speech. I'm all right. You all right?

You all right? I'm all right. I don't think you guys can hear me, right? She just wants a head. Oh, I see why. Um, one more. I'll have to I did want to share that because it was worth it was [laughter] I know what's I'll share it as a uh it doesn't let you I think with the media for some reason it doesn't let my it doesn't let the audio come through as clearly.

So I'll share it. Where's it gone? Here it is. as a browser thing. Now, check this out, people. This is a a raven. You all right? You all right? You all right? I'm all right. You all right? And just check how they see how they can mimic speech.

She just wants a head kiss. Wow. Wow. I've [laughter] been teaching her so long to do that. That's one of the first times I actually caught [music] that on camera. She's given us a kiss as well. Um, are you all right? [laughter] Say, are you all right? Mischief for you.

It's amazing. Yeah. Good girl. And again. Go on then. Sing for us. Go on. Wow. So that people I thought that that's definitely something fascinating.

Let's get rid of that. So I thought definitely I'd share that share my thoughts on it. Um what is going on here one? Right. So let me just bring up your chats. [snorts] Yeah. Yeah, I mean that the raven not crow. Yeah, I mean these they're both corvids.

They're both from the same kind of family. I mean they are slightly different in species in terms of size and the way their tails are, but they are in essence both equally intelligent. So and they can both mimic speech, human speech, just like how parrots do. They can even mimic sentences and um so right. So, let's move on people.

Somebody said that's not a raven. You kina aa. [laughter] It's a parrot in blackface. It's not. It's not. They're not parrots. You see, you just you just don't know if you just go on to YouTube, type um crow mimics mimicking speech or just crows speaking and you'll see that they're actually crows and ravens.

Right. So people, let's move on. [cough] Yeah. Right. Whoa. people. Right now, those of you, let's speak a bit about trade in the modern world, people. Allah, Allah, Allah.

Look at that, people. Look at that. Wall Street versus GameStop. What? Did you guys catch the drama? It's been crazy. Wow. Let me give you my a quick summary. [snorts] So, what's been going on um is basically you have these high-end Wall Street

Wall Street guys who, you know, have their tactic have their tactics, sorry, in in the way they trade and, you know, they they they quite there's a lot of kind of snobbery about them and and they have of rightfully so I think a terrible reputation.

They were challenged recently by this um what you have Wall Street betting on Reddit. Now this was basically a bunch of people. It's it's it's a Reddit thing that they've got with I think over they had over a million subscribers who don't like the way the Wall Street kind of um hedge fund people are operating.

So they decided to do something about it and it was crazy. So to understand how what what this is about you have to have a bit of uh a tiny amount of kind of knowledge of how trading whether it's with stocks and shares or in the crypto world how these things work with margin trade.

So margin trade is to where you put down a certain amount and the broker will leverage it and meet it with whatever you put down times whatever. So let's say you can do this in cryptocurrency as well. If I put down, I don't know, £1,000, I can only buy with £1,000 worth. So the profit I make is only from £1,000. But if I trade by margin, what that is is I put down £1,000.

Now, let's say the leverage is times three in, you know, common in, let's say, Binance or cryptocurrency, then I would have £3,000 worth of buying power. So, let's say I paid if in the normal sale I paid £1,000, I've got, let's say I made £100 profit. Yeah. Or let's say overnight or in two nights, I made £100.

But if I had bought with £3,000, it would have been exactly three times the amount. So what you do is you leverage it. You have greater profit and then you repay the leverage. Now obviously with this as well the risk of of the jump of for losses is equally great. So, but you don't actually end up owing the debt because what happens is as your margin amount that you put down starts to get eaten into due to the losses, the the broker will just liquidate whatever you've put there and because they won't [snorts] want to lose their amount.

So, you don't actually lose more than what you put down and you can put stop- losses and things like that into place. But anyway, that's important to understand for what actually happened because then you have this ability on margin trade to sell for sell short. Now what what does that mean? So what that means is you see in normal trade you you sell I mean it's it's it's for long trade as in you're buying.

Yeah. I mean you can sell something you have but you can't sell something you don't have in normal trade but in margin trade and in these kind of hedge fund uh kind of tactics you can so you sell short so what you do is normal buying is that I'm buying these shares of this company because it's going to profit it's going to go up and my shares will go up and then I can sell it but what you can also do with this kind of leveraging is you can sell short you can say I'm buying this with the hope that this is going to drop in price.

It's going to plummet. So what you do is you borrow the asset. So you know you're borrowing. Let's say obviously these are shares and you know uh abstract entities but let's just say it was a phone. So you don't need the phone to sell it. like I want to like I think this phone is going to lose pro profit. So this company is going to lose profit.

So what I do is I say well ah okay uh I would like to sell 100 of these phones right now. So I want to loan 100 phones. You get it? Like let's say I want to loan these shares particular ones not the money but these shares once I get these let's say these let's say this phone is now £100 and I've got a 100 I'm going to sell them.

So I've loaned them and I'm going to sell them but with the with the hope that this company is going to sink. So I sell them 100 for 100. I've got that this company sinks to let's say by 50%. Now I buy back a 100 and repay the loan to you and I have 50% profit. So this is called selling short.

Now the the problem with this is you can actually cause companies to plummet because when these huge bankers and these Wall Street guys get behind this and they you see because it's not just one person these people are like an alliance and they they kind of you know wield a lot of power because they will say things like okay we're going to short sell we're going to sell short on this company like Tesla, they tried to, you know, short Tesla.

They said, "Right, and they announce it." So people who have shares get worried and start to sell. So it fulfills their prophecy and that company loses radical shares and and money and they tried it. This is why Elon Musk obviously hates these people who short trade and and he uh because they tried it on him and this is why you know he's part of the saying that this is a crime except you know this is it's ridiculous that this is even possible.

So what now okay you understand that now fast forward. So, what it is, some of these Wall Street guys, they said that they we're going to short sell uh GameStop. And this is like a bullying tactic because what happens is you could cause the company to almost crash. So, and yes, you may make money in the process, but the company goes, you know, can go bust.

So, this is what they said. Now, some of these guys on Reddit, this WBS, this this kind of forum, this group that they've got, and they've got a reasonable following as well of over a million people, they said, "You know what? A big FU to these Wall Street bunch of, you know, stuck up whatever they are. Let's start buying shares in GameStop." Everybody buys shares in GameStop so we can inflate the value.

Because you see what's interesting, pause this for a moment. Go back to what I was telling you about short selling. You see when you buy long like normal trade, you see I I put down £1,000 and buy some shares in Tesla, let's say. Now, I'm hoping this is going to go up and my profit is unlimited. As long as it can go up, I keep profiting.

If it goes down, the maximum I can lose, let's say worst case the whole company collapses, never happens, but let's say can happen in some cases, I will lose my £1,000. So my loss still is finite, but my profit is potentially undetermined. Selling short has the opposite.

You see your profit is limited like as in it's I mean it's sure it's good like it's but you know there's a number but if that company starts making profit you will start becoming in debt in debt like without a limit. So now you come back to this thing. So these guys said look let's start buying shares. buy shares everyone because what's going to happen is the price gets inflated and these guys all these kind of fool street guys that you know I've got the head up the royal end they will fall into loss and because they're going

to get indebted they have to buy back the shares because you remember you've loaned I've loaned a 100 of these and sold them already so I need to buy back a 100red to sell them back but now the price has gone much more before what I bought it. So this is what started and then you get obviously so many people just jumped on it.

So the price of GameStop just rocketed taking it into the top 500 companies of the world. It became, you know, like a huge, it became a unicorn [laughter] company. So you've got and these people that these bullies, they obviously in turn got bullied. the whole thing got collapsed uh because they you know they they lost millions and millions and it really backfired and on the back of that as well you've got uh Dodgecoin overnight just rocketed because they said all of a sudden because there was this spur people said let's buy dodgecoin and

dodgecoin was originally a cryptocoin that was made as a joke it was it didn't represent anything it was a a meme and overnight it just rocketed and Elon Musk you know it's amazing he made one tweet he just said two words buy dodge and wow the power everybody that night was a roller coaster I'm telling you those of you that were awake that night uh on crypto it was just wow it was seriously it was so gripping the whole thing you could see it I mean the crypto world isn't

normally like that but that that's not a normal night on but it was just going and whoa you put money in put money it's people made millions people I mean that were made I'm I don't I'm not saying regular people but people made loads of money people made thousands regular people made thousands and thousands overnight but certain people would have made millions millions and The interesting thing is this is all being made on the back of let's say dodgecoin which represents nothing.

So for once like we are witnessing money being made out of nothing representing nothing. I mean, it's just wow, you know, [laughter] but yet it's made so many people much richer than they were before it. And that's just wow, you know, when you think about it, it blows the mind honestly. Uh it's it reminds me I shared this with some people as well.

I said it reminds me of the quote from this from that Netflix documentary on India's billionaire bad boys where one of the guys who trades in diamonds and he says you know he asks the question he says what's the price he says what's the value of a diamond what is the value of what value would you give what is the value of a diamond and he and he gives the answer he says it's the price the last person who bought it was prepared to pay and and that's in essence how value is created.

Now I say this because the the theat of is so out of sync with this world. You know they have not caught up. It's they've not even caught up with you know this is money 4.0. We're almost at, you know, this kind of cyber money. They're still talking about bartering.

[laughter] The Fickbooks are still talking about bartering. You know, I trade this sack of corn for that sack of, you know, they're not even they haven't even reached up properly to to money, let alone digitalization, let alone this crypto phenomenon. They haven't even this is way beyond. And so people I suppose our tradition when it comes to transactions needs to be kind of uh bumped up and updated.

Um but I thought I'd share that it's incredibly fascinating to show how the concept of money has changed because in the prophet's time sallallahu alaihi wasallam money was based on just hard assets. Now, hard assets are incredibly finite and it's almost like a zero sum game that you there's only so much gold in this whole vicinity.

Now, unless we raid another area and bring in more gold, this gold is stuck. So, it's only going to rotate amongst certain people. Whereas, we are now in an age where money is being made literally out of thin air. You see, the whole narrative has changed. So those rulings can't apply. You see that was for where a time where it was only hard assets that were financial tradables that was fiat or that was equity or that

was today it is abstract and it is literally being created in front of us out of meaningless nothing. meaningless abstract concept like dodgecoin. So yeah, that's some food for thought. I do believe all of this is permissible. Obviously, there's regulations, but this kind of trading, whether it's uh CFDs and stocks or shares or whether it's going to be um forex or whether it's going to be crypto, whether it's going to be margin trade, isolated, cross

margin. I I believe all of these things are permissible but obviously one needs to know as well be sensible and learn and have you know you you got to have your kind of um an assessment of your losses have stop losses I mean there's all these things are in place they're already there that you can have a risk management you can and a loss you know damage control that look I'm prepared to lose like in business you're prepared to lose people say oh it's like a gamble But yes, but you know risk was not why things were made haram in Islam.

You see very few things were made haram because of risk that nothing risk was not the thing. Mkhhat in Arabic was not why gambling was made haram. Gambling was made haram because of the other harms that it was doing socially to people. Not because of risk. that just as ribba was not haram because of risk but because of the level of exploitation unfettered exploitation that was around it because otherwise trade has risk.

All these things have risk, right? So it was never it was in so in the f books they always say that which leads to um aggressive disputation potentially bloodshed as in fighting would be made haram. But in a day and age where there's regulations in place and there's rules and there's and you can do damage control a person like a shop, you could say, "Look, I'll tell you what, I'm going to open this.

worst case it's not going to work. I need six months rent beforehand. You know, you do a risk assessment. You say, "Yeah, well, you know what? I okay, if I lose it, I lose it." You know, if I don't make anything, I don't make anything, but I'll I'll, you know, I'll give it a shot. It's the same thing here. You know, you you put down certain things for trade, you take whether it's margins or whatever, you you place or whether it's regular trade, you place a stop-loss, say, you know what, if it hits this much, I can take that loss.

It's okay. But this is I hope it I make this profit. This is what I'll go for. And you know the rest is [laughter] shall I say luck, right? Or whatever is in your NAS. But I hope that makes some sense. Some people had asked me about these topics, but I definitely thought this is very relevant. This whole Robin Hood phenomenon because Robin Hood was obviously the platform they were using to to to do the trades.

So, which was aligning itself with Wall Street. And then you've got Reddit and this kind of uh particular subreddit kind of uh forum or platform where these nerds or whatever, but but these young people managed to, you know, cause managed to to kind of overturn [laughter] the plotting and planning of uh Wall Street and caused them to suffer in millions, literally millions and millions overnight.

That's what that's what they what they did. Wow. [laughter] Wow. Wow. Says that those who at sunrise were, you know, people who sat on thrones by nightfall became criminals as in by sunset just within the turn of a day.

That he says in moments we've seen people's fortune flip. Right people let's all right let's move on but there are wars now on currency and trade I mean there will always be wars on money as in people are fighting always for more assets but people who are trading are not waring with each other.

So in the past if you went to the their markets and did something in which could lead to a it could lead to an altercation. This was deemed haram because in the past the person in the market stall carried a sword and you carried a sword and when he said mm- I think you know blah blah blah blah blah and and there is no regulatory board there's no government there's no council there's no laws in place like that there's yeah there's tribal kind of loose overarching uh rules but that's it would just take out his sword and say

well Okay. [laughter] Well, there's one way to determine this. Oh, you thought I was going to pick up the calculator. [laughter] The sword. So, this kind of stuff doesn't happen. You know, you're trading, you're on your app, you're on your PC, you're trading. Nobody's going to come knock on your door with a sword to kind of kill you because you brought some Bitcoin and it profited.

So these kind of things are not haram as far as the world is concerned. Yes, ultimately there will be certain, you know, there will be certain people who are always playing some games and doing things. That's just the way of the world, right? So, let's uh let's move on people. Let's move on.

Right. So, that's I did want to cover gin possession people. Gin possession. But were there any quick questions to take before I move on to that? Stop banning me and my wife Kali auntie please. Goracha and Kali auntie sal [laughter] right let me check what the Facebook people are up to.

Facebook Mente. What awesome. [snorts] Right. So, yep. Uh supporter replying said it's not because a large number of people are buying the stock.

that they're buying it and holding it. Yeah, but buying it obviously if you buy it and you don't sell it, it is obviously a genius [laughter] manu the shorters have to buy the shares they shorted back. Obviously that's what I was giving the example when I was saying look if I sell this now then I have to buy them back.

Remember that's what I was saying. And obviously if the price has hyperinflated then I'm at a loss because if I have to buy it back to repay it and you know I could lose millions because you don't understand the the hedge funds that that are involved. I mean this is they're not trading at a low level. This is Hannah says we're super well behaved. Muti [laughter] are there any hadith?

All right. Salim says namaskarum. All right. All right. All right. Salam mi a question. Right. What is going on? What is going on? All right. So, people seem to be chilled, right? Let's see. What are some of the YouTube questions? Uh, how can I transfer my stocks onto there from Robin Hood?

[laughter] Acha. That's the concern, huh? That's the concern. I'm trying to teach you guys about the dean. [laughter] [gasps] Right. So, Mhm. Look, see, Fahad Alam says, "My how are you?" Look at that. see a person who's who's concerned about my well-being right there whilst all the other haramis are distracted.

He's uh saying how are you? I'm good. I'm good. Alhamdulillah. [laughter] Look at this. There you go, Emmy. Emmy goes, "Make me a mod." There you go, Emmy.

You're a mod. [laughter] Yeah. Somebody had made a a post saying, you know, if or sorry, they sent me a message saying, you know, if Muy Abu was was stocks, I'd buy so many shares [laughter] because of, you know, his legacy for the future. I was like, he said, I hope you live to see your legacy.

I was like emotional. [laughter] I get the emotional, you know, this one. This one not nice. No, it's right. So, that's uh Look at all of this. Can I have this status back, please?

Please. Yeah. Okay, that's enough for today now. Right. I've done two what? Three mods today. Yeah. This is because it's the 200th episode. [laughter] So, what is going down?

There you go. So, yeah. Okay. All these [laughter] Mis everyone except me except me. You know what?

Yeah. Gio, look at this final one. That's it now. Enough done for today. Karima, I've put you on as well. There you go. Right. So right now people, what's your opinion on Zimbabwe? That's a rather odd question. What's your opinion on Zimbabwe? [laughter] I don't know if I have an opinion on Zimbabwe.

Hell yeah. Of course you do. Of course. What does a mod do? [laughter] What does a mod do? mod. Ah, it gives you ultimate. It gives you prestige. You if anybody's talking out of line, you can put them straight and you can uh just make sure you know there's control.

Right. So, uh, right. What is going on? So many new mods. Well, that's good, you know, because sometimes I do these surprise visits. I just come on and you know and sometimes my timings but there's always somebody at some part of the globe that's that's awakened. So now these people are quite diverse right now. What is going on?

Mods can't time out of the mods. Lol [laughter] Miy if they ban me they ban me for quoting you here. No, don't ban Abu Safur for quoting me. [laughter] All right.

So, what is going down? [snorts] Mi Gur Chacha says Miy should I marry a Hyra Hyderraadi? Should I marry a Hyderabadi women? I think you mean a woman. Hyderabadi. Should Gur Chacha [laughter] marry a chachi from Hyderabad?

Well, I don't know. We could run a poll. You send in your picture [laughter] and then we'll do our analysis of whether or not. Right. So Karima say I'm going to ban all the men on here. Noba Karima control this one.

No manhating. You can't be manhating. There's only hate on those people who are who are out of order. Don't hate on this one. Too much too much. Right. So what is going on? When MUI when is atab returning? Those of you that haven't watched my uh latest mine trap people, it was with Sheh Atabek. Do check it out.

It It was reasonably I mean short compared to the general mind traps, but it wasn't that short. I mean it was over an hour and a half long. I think 1 hour 35 minutes. But uh it was incredibly fascinating and an amazing opportunity to get Shehabek on. We discussed many things from mortgages from Shehikh Atabik's perspective to culture mulvies and the you know kind of cultish dogmatic uh hold on religion to uh Shehabek's debate or discussion with the beloved sheh.

[laughter] So do check it out people. Definitely check it out and like it, share it. Spread the love people. Spread the love. So uh Ramy said, "I won't bore you with another harami question." [laughter] Ah, Ramy, you're doing it, man. That's a Ramy question. [laughter] You know, the worst is uh uh not this isn't aimed at the the SH himself, but I'm just saying the name uh Ramasur

[laughter] [gasps] I'm sure the sheh is a is an imam and a sheh I'm sure he's a great person but that name [laughter] you see sur in in in in our lingo means uh a pig and na would mean of uh so this would could be understood two ways.

If you said rainasur [laughter] that would mean that you know either you're saying uh that this person is that he's a pig child of a bastard [laughter] or you're saying he's like a he's a pig but of the bastard.

kind, you know, like woof, you know, the [laughter] [gasps] when I first heard that name, I was like, "Huh? What?" Huh? Yeah. It's who can you imagine? They introduced. They go. [laughter] They go.

Now we're going to invite. This is Immunas. [laughter] [laughter] This is uh so anyway. So names ah names can be very interesting you see and sometimes obviously in different cultures they can mean different things but I I get actually very intrigued by names you know I find it's interesting you you can read a name and you think wow you know like you you can just from

a name you get intrigued. I don't know if that's just me because I'm [laughter] losing the plot or is that people in general, but I I I I find names very intriguing and appealing and they have this an appeal factor to them, I think. Right now, MUI, when is the next meetup? Soon.

Soon. Miy are tattoos haram. So, the next meetup I will do either I may even do it this week. If not, then next week I will see. If I don't do the mine trap this week, then I'll do a meetup. Right. So, there's 200 mods, someone said. [laughter] Ah, right. So, what is going on? What is going on?

Uh, Mariam said, "Yeah, I get intrigued, too." Yeah, tattoos are not haram for men. Now, how can God be timeless and yet perceive time? Wouldn't that introduce time to the timeless state? But what makes you think God perceives time? Isn't the perception of time simply our perspective of affairs?

Right? So, a bit like like as a poor analogy, let's say I'm reading a book. Now on this book at this stage let's say I don't know Abdullah is has set out on this journey and blah blah blah blah blah and at this stage on this page you know Abdullah has is in the new city now and he's doing this but really there it is it's all flat but it's the reader that is seeing it in

a linear format not from this perspective just like that this this is not a linear format if I'm just looking at it you see so what I'm trying to say is it's perspective we perceive events in a linear state of time it does not mean that time is like that or that this linear format is being perceived from other dimensions as we are perceiving it to them to God it would just or to even other entities.

It could just be flat. So, yeah. Mhm. Right. Okay. Let's move on to demonic possessions, people. Demonic possessions.

Right. So, gin possessions. I'm going to uh show you a clip that was sent to me now. And correct me if I'm wrong. It's once again the same same person we had a few weeks back or maybe a month ago, I can't remember now on uh on the masala segment [laughter] where he was speaking about the bathroom

and where unfortunately the it can become a hands-on [laughter] a place where there's a all hands on board a hands- on deck. people. Oh, it was deck. Oh, you're spelling it with an E. [laughter] I thought it's the vowel I misunder mistake.

Mistake. [laughter] Yeah, you said all hands on deck. Aacha [laughter] mistake. Okay, mistake. So now this person was speaking about that. Now here he is with another person. I don't know if the other person is a sheh or whatever.

I don't even know this person's name. I don't know who he is. But he's doing this whole thing about gins possessing people and the the harm that they can do. And then they can also end up [laughter] a bit of the love the love can happen in people. So what this one let's see people oh one minute let me add a little bit of spice to that and correct me if I'm wrong the mash have advice and told us that most of the people that be possessed by gins are those who spend long hours in the bathroom those who talk in the bathroom.

Those who stay on their phone in the bathroom, those who sing in the bathroom, those who masturbate in the bathroom for a long period of time, whatever this by this little, you think it's minor, but is made 100%. If you go in the bathroom and you don't protect yourself, if you don't see that protection, you're vulnerable there for an hour. They're watching you on your own. We're protect your room. [clears throat] They're going to sleep at night. They're going to possess you.

They'll destroy you. They'll destroy your hygiene. They'll destroy your destroy. with you fall in love ashik people. [laughter] [gasps] But seriously people, you know, you go into the to the bathroom, you spend like [laughter] an hour in there and the Jiny is like before you know it, the Jin is like [laughter] the Jin is coming to destroy you as a as a lover.

This people this is the this is the problem. Now I want to show very quickly some clips of the problem with believing in all this kind of nonsense. There is no such thing as gin possession and you know these are unfortunately mental health issues but you know in the name of it what goes on.

So you will see here that oh sorry this is one example. [screaming] [screaming] I think she's doing leg raises, but

she just that gin looks chilled out. What the hell? Okay, talk about Chuck. [laughter] This is a This is a new take on So you can see there let me show you another uh example of that people now just one moment right so just so wait there just so we

can understand that look these are some cases where you have absurdities yeah here's another example but you know sometimes what's so bad is the abuse that goes on during all of these. Are you Muslim or a Muslim or Muslim or a kafir? Don't bully me. I don't bully you.

Are you Muslim or are you Muslim or are you a Muslim or you going to leave? Yes or no? That means get out. Landlords here. Get out. [laughter] What's going on?

Leave this body. Yes or no? Don't bully me cuz I'll bully you. You leave this body. Yes or no? I don't know what he puts on her head there though. This [screaming] I don't know what that is. Are you going to leave this body? Yes or no? Is that like something taste? Are you going to leave this body?

Yes or no? Right. So, are you Muslim or [laughter] this guy is just obsessed with you Muslim orafir? Right. So, you've got this. So, this is the uh Right. So that's another clip there. Another brief clip. Enough punishment.

This one also mashallah embraces Islam. The words of Allah, my Lord and your Lord and the Lord of everything. Mashallah. Accept Islam. Believe in your Lord. Oh, Jin accepts Islam. Jin goes, "Uh, do you mind? It's salah time." [laughter] Open the mouth of the mouth.

Open the mouth. Open the mouth. Open the mouth. [laughter] Right. So, Right. So, [laughter] anyway, that one, the jin got battered that much that he became a Muslim. Mashallah. [laughter] Do do male gin men also get uh do male gins also get circumcised upbe you know something [laughter] but here's one this is another clip where you know what this is actually very sad because this is you know this

this is the kind of abuse and nonsense that gets perpetrated in the name of religion that we're trying to help Right. So, you've got All right. Now, to be honest, I I would be terrified as well.

I mean, you see You know, he puts that in burns her as well with this. I don't [clears throat] you know

feel like it's tough for a lot. [clears throat] Yeah, this utterly atrocious kind of behavior. You see this is what happens people that you know when these beliefs are allowed

to permeate. Now I'm not saying look I get the fact that people may say oh we think we're actually helping them and I I I I I even I don't doubt that. I do accept that in their mind they do think that we're helping this person. you know that in their weird way they may be sincere but it's not on man this kind of like torturing someone like this abusing them burning them you know that poor girl is going to grow up clearly with I mean whatever mental health she's going through now is only going to be

amplified even if momentarily she thinks this jin has left her these beliefs are nonsense okay they They have no basis in Islam. The shaitan is not that powerful. It is very clear in the Quran that Shan says on the day of judgment in surah Ibraim that all I had the only power I had was to give you ideas like as in just you know just whisper and the rest was all you.

He does not have the power to physically cause death or harm or or beat you up or possess you and make you go sick and doesn't have these powers. Right? So this is all in your mind. But the problem is this is so widespread. You know, may Allah make things easy. Um on that there was another uh on a slightly uh here was a person who had uh figured it all out really.

So this this is how to do gin exorcisms. [laughter] [laughter] Ah, your fire gun. Oh, den. Oh, den.

[laughter] So, you could come back and see. See, this is why these things are so dangerous, people. [music] This is what happens people.

[laughter] I just had to put that in there. This is the problem people. This is the problem that you know this nonsense of the jin becomes an ashik Romeo Jin are you teasing me [laughter] it's like Jyn's like sir cha you're going to spend another hour in the bathroom [laughter]

Jyn goes I hope you've got protection otherwise he goes protection. I've got [laughter] he's like don't worry [laughter] [gasps] that's is that's the time where people when you come out of the bathroom like [laughter]

so people those of you sickos that go into the bathroom and spend an hour in there a sal [laughter] you know how the gin The gin man is looking at you there. He's thinking [laughter] phone again. Huh? Touching the Are you touching the You're like You're like, "No, no. I was just This is This is I was just He's like He's proper carefully watching.

Is it just the touch or does he get a little delicate?" this [laughter] the moment he get he's like oh a chacha just hold back guys hold your horses hold your horses he's just doing [laughter] [panting] [gasps] so this is the kind of nonsense that we have people you know what let's wrap this up it's been awesome you guys have been epic uh if you haven't already uh if you haven't already liked, subscribed, shared

bit of sal, then you know what? Next time you go to the bathroom, don't don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. Take your time. Take your time. [laughter] So, do make sure you do that. If you haven't watched the Shehabic uh mind trap, uh do so. It's on YouTube. Check it out. People can watch out for this week's most will be Thursday night.

It'll either be a mind trap or a meetup. So, you can watch out for that. And um yeah, if you want to show extra love and support, you know, [laughter] you know, kabi kabi it uh [laughter] [gasps] get things right in life.

So, if you want to show extra love and support, you can make your way to Patreon and Barcad shower shower your love. Don't worry about it. [laughter] And to all my patrons out there, Miss Patreon is the spanol. It's not a Miss Patri some just to clarify that. my patrons Gio Gio Medan.

So people take very good care of yourselves till next week. Any questions reach out to me on Instagram. But other than that, chill man. Have an awesome week. I'll see you soon. Much love. All right. [laughter] Pony this one no this one no happening you know [laughter] [gasps] where is it man where is it what is going on man what is going on cello what's this then What about