Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth: Session 126

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so Allah in the hamdulillah wa kafa was salat wa salam o allah rasool mustafa already live in october woman me hodong me today will be our third annual medina testify were bad for salam my own animus and become a marhaban bienvenidos a todos warning lights lovely people and of course autumn swagatam right so what is going on what is going on people all right what are

the fittin and facade saying the fittin and facade people the fittin and facade right so what are my demons telling me as since the myth has it that demons inspire me they give me the impart their knowledge to me so in that case let's let's see people what's going on what's the the Wassa Wassa the waswas are saying right well oh I've got some drink you know somebody said to me they they said why is it that you drink from a

pint glass why I mean seriously to what extent will people object dunya are local to our curry sauce for Beatriz girthy these people will not let you be right so what's going on people what's

going on can i befriend the demons to hell yeah so according to is part of the alleged pact of mine with the demons is that i must do the devil sign uh-uh there you go to my homies the demons out there it's amazing what kind of a fairytale people believe in and that's their actual belief system it's a shame and some of these people

can otherwise be referred to sometimes as intelligent people it's it's embarrassing people it's embarrassing right right yes you was my teacher in school was I released that name rings a bell you doing it you're doing it you're doing it right so what else is going down let's take some questions some of the things I'll be looking at today a bit later on will be all right I'll be taking a look at the hadith that a lot of people use they state that they state

that the Prophet allegedly said that and it's transmitted as in the Prophet taught so it said in ailee's hadith about that if this Deen would be built upon the voice of reason then we ought to wipe the lower part of the hoof of the sock and not the upper part but the Deen is not built on reason so this this ether is the technical word but it's say you can call it a hadith generically speaking it's a teaching alleged teaching of said in our little yellow on

so we'll take a little look at that later on whoa a little look at that later on almost a tongue-twister so and we'll go into dismantling and showing that once we dismantle it this one fraud you know this one this one not authentic you know this one not nice so we'll show that how the hadith is actually unacceptable week why if I Eve will come to that a little later on also we'll take a little look

at this this bollywood actress saira was seeeeemji from Bollywood those of you that know her from the movie dangle and secret superstar so she's she's a young actress won awards and things like that Muslim Kashmiri but she recently just yesterday I believe or unless it was the day before but I just thought yesterday she made this kind of social media statement she released a statement

across several platforms dissociating herself from the world of Bollywood I mean and somebody may say well what's so important about that well why does it get discussed on Monday nights with Mufti it gets discussed because she cites as her reasons for leaving religion and how a man in her words has become compromised this then triggered an entire storm and we'll talk about that and my thoughts what I feel about this statement of Zyra interactions what do I think

general somebody may say I'll be too corny who are you to be but since every other every other Gangu Teli out there is giving an opinion on me we might as well just you notice that saying you know - ok - Khun Mae ha ha ha some people are having a discussion you know that and and some third person just just gave his comment it's a bit like that mean you know you've got that black guy

in the studio and and he says sorry sorry who are you who are you what's your name yeah you've probably seen the meme and it's a bit like that so he gives his opinion and they say well you and he says no I'm just making haha so anyway people really yes I will be speaking on the Zyra or seem issue a little later on and then maybe if there's any other masala - for the masala segment be masala masala we can chat about that as well what's this what's happening with the

hasanat development and the Mufti Bank [Music] so we'll speak a little bit about that little later on right so what is Islam's view on abortion Philip si esta pasando si esta pasando what's going down Philip I don't know if essays Spanish by the way I'm just blogging parodies but what

does Islam have to say about abortion what does Islam have to say about abortion what do we think Islam has to say about abortion let's let's have a democratic approach let's vote no right okay abortion what is the Islamic view you know so I discussed this a little while back and some people got offended I don't know why some some guys got offended I'm thinking well I don't know why you're getting offended I mean

you're just a case you yourself embody an argument for abortion had of your parents sensibly taken that choice they received humanity and the homo sapien species some disappointment today nevertheless a bore right now in my understanding and I'm saying my understand yet some people say why does he say in my understanding a and I say in your dad's understanding of course I'm gonna say my

understanding what a dumb objection why does he say in in my understanding well that's because I'm the one talking of course it's gonna be in my understanding thought cello oh this is my humbleness in my understanding right first right okay so before I go into my understanding let's give a oh I'll give a summary a backdrop and then an explanation okay and in that an

elaborate explanation covering some of the finite some of the issues that are often asked so I believe abortion is permissible so just to sum it up it is permissible now and I don't believe people need to be micromanaged so some people will say to me yes it's permissible under this this give the caveat you know give the caveats out there that this is the condition to make

it permissible I'm saying yes those conditions are common-sense commonsensical nobody takes an abortion or undergoes an abortion for a joke so it's there's no need really trying to micromanage micromanage people in saying well oh but have you got a but have you really thought about it well what do you think a person nobody just gets up and says well what should i do today Navin got much on I know I'll just get an abortion I mean it doesn't work like that so whoever is undertaking an abortion is

obviously undertaking it because they've thought it through that it's not it's going to be there's going to be certain problems whatever the problems are but they've thought it through so I am NOT in the game of trying to micromanage people and I don't believe Islam is interested in micromanaging people the clergy often are trying to micromanage people because it's an attempt to exercise power over people so it's permissible now I'll go into what the all amount of the past had said so the ala ma of the past when

discussing matters of abortion and this when I'm saying past now I'm talking up to a thousand years ago some prior to that okay so we're talking a very long time ago so keep that in mind people because it's important why is it important because you have to remember how was abortion performed in that day and age that's an important point to keep in mind because these things were often life-threatening I mean they can still be today in certain but often there's a lot of safety nets present today so a person you know it's not

usually in shuttle lights not usually in most for most people who are stuck in such difficult predicaments it's not life-threatening right so the scholars of the past the math hopes that you have the four schools of suddenly thought you've got the the Hana fear the Molly Kea the Schaffer a and Hana Beulah right so these four schools of so many thought the Hana Thea and the Hana Beulah seem to have these two methods the Hanafi method and humbly methods seem to be quite clear in saying that there is a

kind of grace period in in terminating the the pregnancy up to four months 120 days now this so that's the Hanafi method and the humbly method they seem to and they do they they do have reasons they do stress the reasons all you know should be some kind of but the reasons are quite arbitrary and they fluctuate so they go from which everybody agrees life threatening nobody has a problem with that - you know it could be causing certain difficulties it could not be right up until it's just

family planning and you know it's not the right time or as in this day and age people say maybe the woman is studying maybe she's got a career maybe it's just you know she just doesn't want a pregnancy right now it's going to cause a lot of other issues or whatever is and they disagree with the actual conditions they all agree on the fact it's life-threatening but they disagree on the others that said the methods do allow up to 120 days they base this on the hadith of insolvent that the soul is blown into it's infused into the fetus

and then in the hadith the Prophet Sal Allahu alaihi Salam has said after 40 days the soul is blown in it's infused into in sold into the fetus and they say well that's fine now in certainly Wyatt it says after 40 then 40 then 40 the soul is breathed into the fetus so that way they get this number 120 from the male Kia often in the past many of them went with the forty days because they said well the the rear whyatt of the hadith most of

them all has said 40 some said 40 40 40 maybe that was an emphasis of just 40 so we're gonna stick on the safe side in the went with 40 and many of the Schaffer yeah also went with 40 but some of them took it to a higher level and started to say well the moment like Imam as early and a few of the Schaffer yeah started to say the moment there's been there's been conception and fertilization it is Haram unless it was life-threatening life-threatening it is haram to have an abortion categorically so you have some extreme LMR like that

holding that for you so that's the and that's what they've based it on this hadith now what is my understanding on all that first of all so after just to add to that after 120 days so after four months they pretty much agree they pretty much agree that an abortion is not allowed so that's their understanding of the past and remember this people were saying this about a thousand years ago and I keep that in mind okay because it is it is important so sometimes people have asked a

question like oh what if a woman was raped and she was pregnant and she didn't manage to get an abortion up until after four months and many of these scholars became they struggle to give grounds of permissibility because they said oh well the skull is set up to up until 120 days and now that's passed that's it and you know we can't say anything and you're gonna have to keep the pregnancy and so on so that's the background to this muscle ah however today in this day and age there are other allama there will be certain

orlimar from al-azhar and other places who have given the fatwa that look it doesn't work like that anymore nowadays there's a lot of techniques in place a lot of medical practice if there was an issue and and an abortion was required it can be performed and it doesn't have to be restricted to 120 days whatever is deemed medically safe I'm in line with that view that whatever is deemed medically safe they can go with okay they do not need to be restricted to 120 days I don't buy the

whole thing of you know that is the soul and so on and you've now killed a soul whereas if it was prior to 120 days then it wasn't a soul and I think this argument to me is week because they amongst themselves all disagree according to them you see the same guilt could be afforded to these orlimar the hanafis and the humble ease what the Shaffer is say they say oh but the soul is after 40 days so you've still killed us all and so I think look there's no point emotionally guilt tripping people it's up to them you do

not need to micro you do not need to micromanage people ok if a people choose to terminate the pregnancy in my understanding they can do so I'm not saying that they need to do so okay there's a big difference between saying that something is permissible in Islam and something must be done so I'm not saying that that it must be done abortions must be done that would be ridiculous it would be absurd what I'm

saying is it's people it's their own choice okay and I that's my understanding now people will say well you know Oh up until what point can this be done is it one day before is it one day and they'll try and guilt-trip you with certain things I would say look listen everybody agrees everybody agrees that even though we do accept that there is life there I'm not saying that you know people will try and say that do you not recognize there is life there is

life but then life is a spectrum see plants are alive that that's life animals are alive that's life humans and fetus a fetus is not in my understanding the same as a an actual human being it is in the process of becoming a human being people may disagree with me that's fine but that's my perspective I feel that a fetus is in the developmental stages of becoming a human being so it has not yet reached that state now if it was terminated on route that

sounds a bit lethal terminated I'm the Terminator from from the future I'll be back right so I don't mean in a but if it was aborted for some reason then I don't feel it's the same as saying oh it's okay to murder someone not to me that's a dumb analogy to me okay to some people it may make sense they may say yeah that's just the same as getting a three-year-old child in murdering a three-year-old child I think

like I don't know what I don't know what you're smoking me but I think either you can pass it around and everybody can smoke it and then we can be on the same level no so I that's except to me these things are permissible and people can't and I know Americans especially are very passionate on the issue of abortion in all honesty I don't know why why the Americans are so passionate about abortion but they seem to be really really passionate about it but yeah but

I guess each to their own right so right so let's move on so I hope that summed it up abortion to sum it up I believe it is permissible and I believe you do not need to micromanage people you do not need to run a set of rules and regulations by them they understand what it is nobody does these things for a joke they must have been a reason that was valid that was pressing for them to go and do that they must have been so ok right let's move on people is it possible to

pray us our earlier Mohammed bah-bah what kind of a name is baa well is it possible to pray us on earlier well Mohammed bah all right it it is it is it is possibly you can bring us our into the whole time if there was a need like some kind of urgency or something you can combine the prayers and you can bring by combining you can either bring it forward

or you can delay the lowering to our some time likewise with Maghrib and Isha you can do the same right fro deef robbery asks a question if you get time oh we've got a start Adam kelwick chef Adam Kovac is in the house and was Alan chef those of you who I'm sure you're all familiar with chef Adam if you're not you need to be following Chef Adams page keeping in touch with immigrated scholars on the ground doing grassroots efforts people humanitarian efforts often I believe

these may even currently be in Yemen right now it's often in Yemen doing a lot of charity work always receives updates small videos and I think you'd you your religion to start your religion I mean you're doing things which I found to be honest I could never I just cook I cannot do okay for no reason except just being pathetically lazy I guess I cannot do these things so you remind us of what we ought to be like so Hey Ya Allah Ya Allah right now okay coming back to the question if you get time if Ibrahim was

not thrown into the fire why did allah subhanaw taala tell the fire to be cool because most likely the fire would have been impacting as in if he was tied up some way it would have still caused heat in the house arrived most table lathe clips doing it doing it is music halal Haram I mean normal music so I'm not talking about music containing fowl lyrics took my normal music the Aria normal normal Kelly what is no more music

KSS or what what is that you see music is permissible people it is not haram anybody who says music is haram must bring a clear conclusive Delisle from the quran and sunnah to prove an establish that it is haram there is not a single not one la whatever there isn't a single sorry hadith saying that music

is Haram not a single Oh not a single let alone a couple there isn't even a single sorry I need to say music is Haram so there are many hadith which are all weak so yes people believe in it that it's Haram which is fine why do people believe that music is Haram if there is not a single sigh here these two prove its Hara I've explained this before it's actually quite easy that once you understand the ontology of religion you start to realize that

people presume religion is something which has come to that religion by its very nature is anti desires it is aunty luxury it is anti entertainment it is aunty I'm not saying it is but people they say a an underlying presumption that people go with that they readily by so this it doesn't even you know this kind of stuff you don't need to be Muslim to have that underlying presumption so this is is

what I've referred to previously as the ontology of religion like if you went to people and asked them what do you think religion would demand from you religion with the capital R now without even having studied a specific religion they will tell you certain things like they will say my understanding is religion with a capital R would demand worship it would demand rituals it will demand sacrifice it will demand so so these are things that people can just come up with without having any knowledge of a religion and what they would assume is

that religion is a form of asceticism it's a form of non dunya weenus okay not being of the world so a kind of immaterial 'no so they like a hermit that kind of asceticism becoming ascetic so entertainment they would assume religion does not like entertainment without having studied religion people who can straightaway arrive at that that understanding that religion must not like similarly they would assume that religion does not like desires hence

it's interesting like sexual activity is deemed it's kind of looked down upon in many religions now ironically in Islam actually it's not it's quite neutral but in later Islamic development like especially in the last 200 years since the British kind of and colonial colonialism a lot of Muslims have taken on the that kind of Christian value of demonizing sex as well so within Islam they see sex as something embarrassing

or dirty or they see these things now but this is an inherited kind of belief system that many Muslims inherited was under colonial rule for our by the West who and then ironically the West actually moved away from these values and the Muslims got stuck with them but then in in a surprise in almost in a shocking turn of events the Muslims instead of debunking them is Lama sized them and retrospectively projected them onto Islam so that's an interesting study in

in and of itself I think so people can easily arrive at these conclusions and music is something that they would assume surely must be Haram but there's nothing in Islam to say music is Haram okay so I hope that makes sense there's nothing to say that bad lyrics are Haram bad lyrics are not Haram sure they're not like there's a time and place for everything you know this this etiquette add up okay so we're not stupid you know people are are human beings I mean they

have a sensibility about things they understand like so this etiquettes for different place there's etiquettes in how you talk to certain people you're not going to you're not going to speak to your parents in the way that you speak to your friends you're not going to turn up to work the way you I don't get ready to go to sleep you're not going to so I mean people recognize that there's a time and a place Lee could Lima Armin ma on as it said in Arabic that everything has a set time and place

for things and an etiquette to go with it so yes music musical lyrics the lyrics now you're not going to for example use explicit lyrics around children people generally don't do that you're not going to use them around in front of your parents for example it doesn't matter how old you are people generally won't do things like that they have a sense of etiquette have some decency about them but lyrics explicit lyrics in and of themselves are not haram I mean even sexual and all kinds of things they're not

Jara mommy they may be not liked by the Sharia I mean it wouldn't encourage things like that but it wouldn't deem it Haram Haram is a very high bar people um some people have made it way too easy they trigger-happy on Haram Haram Haram Haram Haram ah this is not how Haram actually was Haram is a very high kind of measure so lyrics about things like sex or crime or fighting or drugs or things like this I'm not good but they

necessarily I mean they're not good but they and people might look down on them but then that doesn't make it Haram so you have a lot of you have a lot of Arabic poetry which is all you know just completely layered with just sex and Wars battles and fighting killing and pride and and it was and this poetry has been treasured by the by the Arabs and by Muslims some of it was read in the mosque of the Prophet they would read it just to chill out like so this inside

hell bihari they say that they say that we would sit in the masjid and often recite jahiliya poetry amongst ourselves how you doing are you doing chilling all right people roughly you're doing it you're doing it those of you tuning in you can click like click share' people get it out there so right now somebody said I think music is a red herring I'm not sure what you mean by that I mean red herring to

what I'm just answering the the question and is explaining that there's a misconception that certain things are not Haram and including lyrics including lyrics which are explicit or not Haram so I hope that makes some sense cool somebody what's this why is the aura of an EMA the same as a man isn't that conflicting with the emphasis the role of hijab for women free women have to cover up while slave girls are allowed

to walk around with no shirt on now that's the place where all the football all the scholars need to hang out they'd like we're just holding a verse here and you all these slave girls prancing topless what our life those people [Laughter]

religion huh you know this this topic of slave girls is a really fascinating one from many aspects obviously all the guys now are just absolutely tuned in they like they're like what's wrong with you this is Islam its Islam we're learning goddamnit see the topic of slave girls is it's it's so kind of revealing in

many ways Freudian slip it's so telling in many ways that most the skull is not all most the skull is the way they dealt with the topic of the slave girl right it's it's so strange because they just kind of just all went like they just legitimized everything and nobody had a problem with it it's just like yeah and and

and and the other guys like of course that's common sense and the other chef is like yeah of course it's common sense it's not only common sense it's Islamic and it makes my heart they said duh I even think I remember a hadith about it this is this is but it's so amazing because look when it comes to it when when you think about it when it comes to it the crux is when it comes to the crux of the matter it was simply really if we're gonna be honest it was just it was an issue of

pragmatism realism and just I suppose sex so which is as real as it gets so they just said fine what's the problem is get on with it forget all the the moral high-ground the ethics the religiosity they just said don't worry we'll make everything fit and they did and it's what's amazing is

that they actually pulled it off pull off the stunt they actually pulled it out and I'm not trying to right now justify I'm not trying to pass any judgment on it I'm just observing what's happened that the scholars of the past they just they've managed to pull it off like they just said well here comes because if you think about it now you would think let's let's pause for a moment imagine we go back to that

ontology of religion the religion which you know thinks desires are bad and the with a capital R and he thinks you know it looks down on sexual practices and and it thinks entertainment is bad and he thinks like material and as an ascetic that ontology of religion the essence of religion to many people if you go back to that you would think that they would never be able to pull this off you know this issue of the slave girl you think that with that mindset like with music for example you could tell that they weren't clearly

motivated enough to legitimize music like I suppose meant some of them listened to it and others didn't music wasn't the kind of the way music is today because music today is a huge thing for many people in their day to day lives but in the past it wasn't as big of a thing I mean it was good for people but it wasn't this what it is today that's what I'm saying so they didn't really they weren't as motivated to legitimize music some of them did like it as them and a few other all of my legitimized music said look it's not Haram but when it came to

things like slave girls they just all got in line and just organized themselves and just worked and everybody just accepted it like they just said yeah and they even gave it a religious veneer that oh what we're doing this is actually a good religious act and it's amazing that they actually pulled it off I got a salute them seriously that is such a difficult task to pull off if you think about like no think

about it today most Muslim cultures accept polygamy they accept that polygamy is Islamic leave Ali most Muslim cultures accept that they don't practice it though look how hard it would be to pull off polygamy even though most Muslim cultures accept that it's permissible you know Islam allows it and yet most even Imams and all these people can't pull it off and when they do try to look at house and had he tried to pull it off with Ahmad the line is he's other

well the sisters are a sister what did this guy how can you I don't know how people can call it I'm now you can call any woman sister that isn't your actual sister but you know that's a different discussion but calling your wife sister that's a naughty naughty game going on there but so people can't pull off polygamy and in the past they managed to pull off slave girls and they did it not only confidently but they said it's a religious act and they do it loud and proud and that ladies and gentlemen is

the power of religion so yeah I mean and the thing that they said about so the question that was being but I always think that one of the fascinating things about slave girls is as well is that the discussion of modesty goes completely out the window so all of a sudden these scholars don't seem to care about you know that a woman must be covered up and she must be a ninja and she must be like this and only her eyes and even her eyes are a fitna you know some humbly photo I

said just cover one eye one eye is enough to see the world or god damn it [Music] so you got some re are like trying to be religious and they're just looking at things like a pirate but this is the unfortunate to that extent people went oh my god you know we mean oh you know you can't look at women you can't do this oh my god are you looking at my women God don't look at them oh but yeah when it came to slave girls everything went out the window so there was no discussion of covering them up in fact they could walk they could technically

walk around topless I don't I don't think they definitely they did walk around but I don't think they did I think that's an exaggeration because men are men you know and the most the biggest BS is people say in the books oh yeah but it's okay she's a slave girl who desire you're thinking and every every guy reading the book is like yeah that's the biggest black are you mind of course

they would desire him why wouldn't they decide the men are hard-wired that way they they cannot think differently okay it's impossible for men to think differently so much yeah yeah from millions of years evolution are I of the Mara Bob break like I got yeah how are we gonna get the break so suddenly it's not gonna think about it doesn't work like that they the male especially on visual perception huh thoughts or what the WHA it's not too much you know this

much so you can see that that definitely wasn't true and they seem to say yeah I think generally they didn't walk walk around topless and things but I think they do they probably walked around in kind of working clothes gear so for example they they probably the arms were uncovered maybe the lower part of their legs were uncovered like working a tire so if you're working cleaning things doing all that kind of stuff and obviously with that cleavage would have been showing so they won't have walked around with a kind of because you got to remember in

the past they just had like a like a hole to stick your head in don't take that out of context right in the cloth and they would have just obviously had a veil to put around here like at the worktop kind of thing so these women that were working wouldn't have been wearing the put day and doing things like that wearing headscarves and veils so they would just be working so that kind of stuff would be showing now so hence they the scholar said yeah it's fine it's fine and for some reason absolute no no was the navel to the knee and you think me caps I don't know what

kind of sick games those colors will be why is the the kneecap a no-no so this colors were like yeah you can see their breasts but kneecaps tawba tawba you know stuff from LA ha it took me like I have some fear of God why would you see their knee cap full it's like what kneecap but the knee cap is apparently the part of the aura that they're not meant to be uncovering and according to some I know there's the falafel but anyways always a fruitful

discussion bringing in the the EEMA and the slave girls and it's something which I think today a lot of people are then stuck in trying to explain right let's move on let's move on can you give me oh hey mom our son is in the house Alan Alan people imam hassan from Gloucester doing it doing it Phillip si is interested in the almoravid Empire and their version of Islam so I don't have to do the research myself a charm can

you give me this information I don't have to do the research myself of course Arthur youif was all better when I've got nothing better to do it's okay you just you don't do any research I'll do it of course of course my time is useless I've got a whole lecture on Al Andalus from rise to fall watch it it's on YouTube it's in about 12 or 13 lectures and it's in quite some considerable it's in considerable detail so you should enjoy it

inshallah right so what else is going on somebody had asked about gelatine gelatine people in in my understanding gelatine is permissible it's not haram why and I'll come to just to explain to shed some light on it the question is that gelatine when it's extracted I mean I know it's taken from different sources whether it could be from pigs it could be taken for bovine I mean you could be

taken like from beef origins and cows and there is plant gelatine as well but the issue is that in order to extract and produce this kind of gel-like substance the the kind of synthetic process that is undertaken the way the bones and the other elements are crushed and then the additives what's mixed to it and how the whole transformative undertaking that

happens it changes its fundamental structure so this at the the net result which is gelatine no longer is what it began with and this initially is called esta holla so it's the harlot or Mejia so you change the essence essence or the essential properties of something that he undergoes a partial chemical change that product no longer carries the initial ruling so if alcohol

the way alcohol according to many people is not only haram but it's majus its impure according to many people if it's transformed into vinegar it becomes purer so it's not just the issue of it not being an intoxicant the substance is now pure why is it pure because it's undergone esta hala a substance transformation similarly the many massage like if knobby Dean in the hanafi madhhab mentions in his room I thought for example and other methods mention this as well that if a pig dropped into a

salt mine and and the salt surrounding the body that this the the meat of surrounding the peak it dissolved the pig over time let's say took I don't know whatever a year and now or several months and now the body of the pig has completely disintegrated into the salt mine that salt is permissible according to all methods even though it's a pig disintegrated into it so no matter have says that that is haram now and they all

accept that that is halal because there's been a chemical change there's been a structural change a transformation of properties so it's gone from this pig structure into that same thing with alcohol into vinegar same thing with many and they use the hadith I mean this is I'm not saying this is has to be the you know so forceful as evidence but a lot of the methods use this they use the hadith that the martyrs on the day of judgment

they blood will smell like Musk now that's inside Bihari and Imam Hardy brings that hadith to substantiate the point that when something undergoes a transformation its value changes as well because in the dunya many Allah MA although I would disagree with them on this point but many Allah ma consider blood to be impure I don't agree with them on that but there are many I would say the majority of the ulama who consider blood to be impure now based on

that the martyrs rising and blood smelling like musk and that being a a praise for them could only make sense if it was no longer impure that's the evidence that they're drawing from this hadith to me that's not so much of a big hadith but you can use hadith like the Prophet saying in tell me the name or name o aleikum hello Hamrick um that the best of your vinegar is the vinegar of your alcohol so that's a hadith intermedia that the Prophet said that that was the best vinegar that they liked that was from

spirit vinegar an alcoholic vinegar that so you can see that once something undergoes a structural change it no longer carries the same ruling there is it the laughs on this issue but that's the ruling that I go with that for many of the Ummah have said in recent times many of the fatwa boards many of the great scholars of al-azhar and you're gonna get many people are thou we've been Bey and all the masalas har and fatwa forum of Europe and all of these boards modern day Allah man contemporary all Imam many of them will

go with the fact that gelatine is not harm the salafiyyah might consider it Haram and the open knees and people like that probably do consider it Haram but besides them most of the enlightened world the enlightened scholars of this day and age they will all pretty much consider gelatine to be permissible so I'm in line with that why the Ottomans and the Sultan's are never quoted in the Masjid right so that's a good question actually

because there you see the Ottomans first of all what why Ottomans do you mean the Ottoman the actual rulers or the appointed scholars I'm not sure what exactly you mean but it is true that the Ottoman Ottoman scholars are some of them are times referred to like mark you're going to have like what you have a few Mustafa Sabri and a few of the mullahs and that are from the time of the Ottomans and and arguably even zidle co3 is from the time of the Ottomans in recent Hanafy Phaeton

you're going to have quite a few that are from that time but they hardly ever quoted especially in fact and the reason being is I think they weren't as strict as maybe the later hanafis want would like the hanafis to be so to the Hanafy method the Hanafi method is one of the most control-freak methods that you can find it is a method on its like if it had a personality it would be a it would be somebody with OCD and extreme

paranoia kind of schizophrenia going on with the hanafis so if you were to give it a kind of personality that's the kind of personality you'd give it especially the indo-pak version of the hana fear today which does hugely represent the hanafis in the world they seem to seal the deal with it Nobby Dean so and he's rather Matar which they referred to as Futaba Shammi who is from almost about just under 200 years ago now he he

writes this they claim he is the seal he seals everything there's nobody caught him until maja 13 and you know he's the last of he's everything so it's difficult finding maneuverability in the hanafi madhhab obviously mom abu hanifa himself was a legend but the but the hanafi madhhab today in all honesty is a nightmare it's everybody in its trapped the scholars are trapped the public is trapped you

know everybody is it's just thinking there's no and then they've been brought up for so long honey and it's been so reinforced that it's difficult thinking from a different perspective this is why the my lackeys are people don't get me wrong don't get it twisted folks that people did try to sabotage the Malachy method as well they tried and but it wasn't as successful so there was always a kind of free spirit still floating within the Maliki matter within the school of Medina people like from the last century you can still get all these amazing Maliki legends saying

hey Varsha as even our shoot Sheryl Islam in Tunis you know it you're gonna get sure a lot of us in Morocco yeah yeah who let in Mauritania all these kind of free spirits great legendary epic free spirits so the meth lab well and this is in recent times it was difficult to kind of lock it down to control everybody because the clergy love doing that they love controlling people right so somebody said don't confuse the extreme

cultural practices of the theses with the rulings of the hanafi madhhab al-azizia saying that that's true we should not confuse the culture with religion that said that said if I am to be honest and if we're to be objective the openly the desi practice of Islam according to the Hanafy method is a mere to true picture of what even Abidine is presenting in his rudder matter so if you read rudder Matar it is what the desi

culture is is very similar it's not maybe identical is obviously a splash of culture but it's very similar it's not like let's say modern-day Turkish hanafis and rudder might are they would be worlds apart but the rudder Matar ignore Burdine and they see Hanafy is same to same same to say that's a problem pakhi same person this one seemed to same same person right so right so what's the questions

people what is the question what is going on mm-hmm we can't speak about hanafis Hanif he met her no don't get me don't get me wrong I love Imam Abu Hanifa Imam Abu Hanifa is epic it's one of my favorite absolute favorite which the heads it's a shame that his mother completely not in person but in principle betrayed him his mother is

like the Judas if Imam Abu Hanifa is Jesus as a as a similar to you then the method is Judas and this is and you can you can imagine the Last Supper is if Nabi Deen Ana fees are gonna love me after this can the outer change over time the aura the aura is what you ought to cover I suppose perspectives on it can

perspectives perspectives perspectives people can you just give me 20 seconds I've just got to hang on people hang on hang on I'm

Baucom our dived back into action people I apologize I apologize wholeheartedly is that to do a detour they oh my god anyway come back right people so let's take some questions let's take some questions what else is going on what's bothering the people miss enter what's going on what's going on let me take some questions I've been posted here mm-hmm come on people's people's people's where

does it say right okay I'd been asked this question about in surah bakra right apologies apologies June 8th apology he said that was more than 20 seconds lo siento lo siento lo siento right so it says we there's a verse in surah Baqarah which talks about slaughtering a cow

that is true for the removal then to strike the dead man with some of it okay was this a miracle what is the connection between the cow and the man being revived now surah al-baqarah those of you that don't know is means it's the surah named after the cow now know that sounds strange but that's basically surah in the Quran was simply they didn't come like they weren't revealed you have to remember how the Quran was revealed it wasn't revealed in a way that okay today this is the chapter and this chapter is titled this and this is

it was revealed to as a message now people remembered it through a particular story that was a particular a point that was poignant okay that kind of stood out that was salient and so in Surat al-baqarah which is the longest word of on the story of the baccarat of the cow is is kind of a salient aspect therefore the whole surah kind of has taken that name just to remind people all that's the surah we're talking about I don't believe that the names of the surah were talki fear as in I I mean there's extra laughs in this issue some scholars

believe the names of the surah were divine and other scholars field the names of the surah were kind of each deity as in maybe the Prophet referred to it as that so people understood which surah was I'm more inclined to that understanding that the surahs the names of the surah were not defined they were just as as a point of reference that's what they were so Surat al-baqarah in the it's there's many many things going on but there's a a brief story about Bernice Rahil and this incident where they told to go find

a cow and they have to sacrifice this cow now it does mention about doing something about striking the meat now it mentioned that it's a very famous story about they then say oh yeah olan arabic you be yelling i'm a he you know that oh yeah Musa pray to your Lord so he explains to us what kind of a cow they kept asking questions you know so every time that a question it would get more complicated for them so they'll say how old should the cow pee what should it be

you know Milo knew ha what's the color of it and then every time they would say this then God would stipulate something so they would now it would become more and more restrictive so eventually they find this this kind of cow and they sacrifice it and they strike the meat now there's an assumption it doesn't say any way in the Quran does not say in suratul baqarah so you can so you'll have let's see if I can just bring it up

so you'll have here look a little bit lemon Shaitaan regime bismillah r-rahman r-rahim wait all mo sadly homie in Allah ya tomorrow yeah Moodle commenter's bajo back on our that when Moses said to his people that God commands you to sacrifice a cow called were tataki Donohue's huwa they said do you take us to be a joke all I was a belaying akuna minal ja he mean he said I seek refuge from acting as one who is ignorant Carlo to learn Arabic 'you be yellin amahi that you know then pray to your Lord I'll ask him explain to us what kind of

a cow Allah in now we are following now microtonal afar even will have bicker I wanna be in a Celica for valium my tomorrow that he says that it is a cow that is not so old and is not totally young like an absolute carve it is something in between that and just do as you are commanded to do hollows are in Arabic hey you by yelling I'm alone they said ask you Lord what what color my long all I know you're cool in a Bock rotten Safra about the unknown wah it's a sort of Matheny he said that it's a bright kind of yellow that will that is pleasing because some yellows they can

be repelling like they they demonstrate a sense of poisonous nurse a venom must nature but this is a sort of mouthing it's a kind of yellow that pleases God in Arabic are you beg yelling am i they said oh but you know we need more clarity in the baccarat a Chaba elena they said there's so many cows with ha are you - right because there's so many cows we don't know which one well in nine shall Allah mustered alive we're almost there

so all I know you're following a baccarat tool a saloon to zero although that is kill Hassan Salameh last year - feeha he said that the next that it's not one that has been driven so hard by work and does not kind of plough the fields and it's not one there's no blemishes in it and things like this that it's kind of just so basically it's not one that's been driven to the ground it's not worked on the field it's not done more and more rules are being added all Arnage it's a bill Huck you got a rake

Bunny Wailer they go right now you're on to something they said to Moses further Baja lamarka do you final and then they sacrificed it but they almost they barely managed to sacrifice it wife battle Tom Nelson Federer Tom fear Allah whom origin mark on thumbtack you know this is this is now the verse because up until this point Allah has not mentioned anything about them killing somebody and why they was finding this cow but Muslim scholars have connected the two now a lot doesn't

say that these two incidents are net by necessity connected now here allah says you see beginning this verse by saying what if and remember when I told Tom Nelson Fattah remember when you killed that there was a body that was and you killed somebody and then you got into a dispute over it Allahu Maharaja Mac until tomorrow and yet Allah was to expose that which you were planning on consuming adorable hooby bother her now from here

people say that they make that connection with the verse of the cow because he Allah says and we said strike it with some of it and a feminine pronoun is used it so they hear the the understanding is it is referring to the cow although Allah hasn't said that but that's fine we can go with that but Allah says and he said strike with it strike the him or the person the cope with it cathartica you hear la mota way Eureka Mayer de la allakum talking and that is how

Allah brings things to life and brings the dead to life and he shows you his signs and in the hope that you may be people of intellect some article you become ambassador Li and then Allah goes on to say and then you still your hearts hardened after that now this you see this verse doesn't state any way that the dead body came back to life but what happens right what happens is that there was an assumption Muslims assumed that

Oh a lie saying oh this is how Allah gives life so also maybe he's saying that because the dead body was brought back to life and then people all of a sudden came out with these fanciful stories they began to say oh do you know what happened they struck the dead man with a piece of meat the dead man sat up and he pointed to his murderer and this was a miracle now miracle stories always work wonders with people as you can imagine people love miracle stories so this story then took off and became popular otherwise it

is not mentioned in the Quran like that it's not mentioned in any authentic hadith like that and if you see in the tuffsy if there is the tafseer of rashid river when he's quoting his chef as well Muhammad Abduh when he's explaining this verse of the Quran he mentions that if you look at the Jewish Bible and the Jewish laws that they did this as a ritual now you may say well that doesn't make much sense that why would you get a cow and or why would you get some meat and tap the meat on a dead body but it's

actually part of the Jewish Scriptures and he actually brings the Jewish Scriptures and you can google them so there was a ritual that the Jews used to do now that ritual is simply quoted now the Jews do have many rituals in fact the Jews the Jewish practice is so I mean I I will probably feel obsessed with rituals that they have so many like meaningless reach because rituals by their definition are meaningless but they don't have a kind of rationale to them they just rituals so this was not a miracle it was simply a ritual okay so I

hope that answers the question there was nothing about the person being brought back to life it was not a miracle okay but the story about them going to find the cow was quoted why was that quoted because it was to show that how human beings at times have complicated for themselves a simple affair that something in essence was quite simple but you tied so many knots on it that the whole thing became complicated but it was by your own doing that you did that so that was the message in those

early ayat that we just went through OspA halal may I borrow tan Anil mazaa who knows avital Baraka subhanAllah it's gone it's gone I have not claimed to be sitting here with Baraka but there's an understanding that look people have this understanding that joking or laughing is a bad thing that you know a feeling that you know

that this kind of having a jovial attitude cannot be associated with being serious and therefore it's it's almost assumed that it's an inability to be intelligent or to be of knowledge because knowledge necessitates this kind of the samba serious kind of Oh porky are we about to kill someone why the somber attitude

who said that knowledge can only be conveyed like that it's a good point who said it you know people say yeah but it doesn't befit knowledge said who says who who said that I mean you know it's just it's that thing isn't it that oh because you said it I must accept it yeah why I and I get the fact that many Olimar wrote in their books that this is how knowledge must be always transmitted with and don't get me wrong when you're dealing with complex issues obviously you're concentrating you're serious and you're and that makes sense that you're not cracking jokes because you're trying

to get to the bottom of something you're trying to unravel unpack an issue and it's intense so I get that but when you're conveying something why must you always be very somber spirited why and I'll tell you why I know why the feel that one of the reasons the clergy loved that is because I think when everything is serious it creates a an atmosphere where people can't question what you're saying because if everything is very somber and

almost daunting it creates like an or striking atmosphere like everything is tense and I say you know it's that kind of very preacher and the ruling is this it makes like the audience can't question what's being taught so the teaching becomes confessional it becomes dogmatic and whereas if we're joking and laughing and relaxed it's easy to question my authority and this is why the scholars didn't like this kind of

spirit of being always law you know being jovial because they felt and they write in the books that oh it's gonna make you lose Authority because you see it and that and that's all it really is it's just Authority otherwise each to their own you have your own personality I have mine you know somebody if they wish to if they're very serious then they can convey things in a serious manner and likewise in a jovial manner otherwise some of the greatest which they Hadean like Sophie an authority who's an epic what's the heat a contemporary of Malik Imam Malik and Imam Abu Hanifa was known to not only

crack jokes during his gathering not only crack jokes during his gathering but he would fall over stamping his feet so there you go right what's a question right let's take oh let's take some that I've been piling up on Facebook people will say why has he ignored the Facebook questions did somebody just say can't somebody just say empty talk empty talk I mean

block right Claire Jones as we are equal absolutely absolutely this is this is all it is often it's just power politics that's what it is whoa how comes a break away Shia sect was able to steal the black stone in the cab and take control of the harem area when Allah previously destroyed approaching army of birds dropping pellets widen

alhasan pellets on those that mutilated the black stone akbar has asked a very interesting question that's an amazing question if Saleh said most easily and voila gee Mary John right may Allah bless you I mean me right so this is a very interesting question people I want you to pay attention to this sort or field I'll interrogate for fara Buca we also have a field do you not see how you'll load it with the people of the elephant

which was Abraha the Abyssinian would come over now this thing why is it that that happened there and it didn't happen with the kilometer so the kilometer were sect a sub sect within the Shia so you have the on them within them you've got a sub sect of the I believe non-existent today but the parameter of the Shia now there was a time when they attacked and they

attacked maka a micked they stole the black stone he goes the black stone it's going off and they run away with it and they kept it for over two decades Billy's in the house are I doing it Billy doing it so the Haram eater kept the black stone for over two decades and eventually some of the Muslims did manage to capture it but it was broken and smashed and and then they just brought back retrieved pieces of this

black stone even today the black stone is just small pieces it's not actually a you know the actual black so so the black thing that you have is not actually the black stone if you look into it you're going to see small kind of just pieces of shiny black stone against a greater black setting the black setting is not the black stone it's only those pieces in the so and you can google it right now that is so first of all about the parameter stealing the black stone that is a fact that they did steal the black stone and they kept it for a few decades a quick point on what

is the blacks the Blackstone people is nothing sacred okay we need to understand that okay I think it's important there is no true sanctity to the Blackstone the only thing was that the Blackstone happened to be in the Kaaba and the kaabah happened to be the place we which which is the Qibla for the Muslims which has then been made as the Templar for Muslims and is attributed to ibrahim ali

salaam so what we do know is that these practices these rituals were affirmed as in acknowledged by Islam and they for kept alive and validated there is no this black stone thing most likely okay so brace yourselves people brace yourselves this is no need to get scared by the way when I say this is a brace brace turbulence you know some turbulence so the black stone most

likely was part of a pagan god but it most likely was associated by association part of a pagan god culture in pre-islamic times so we know that in petra the main god which some argue is hooble oh what they called they also refer to him as zou Shara or do Shara now and some have argued he's the same as Baal Shamin

but the point is that the main god that they had was a big black stone okay now this black stone that they had as the main God to represent the main God was then also replicated later on in the because remember Petra is probably with the all Arabs kind of centuries before because this is hundreds of years before Islam so the or maybe talking I don't know maybe 600 years before Islam at this point these are the people that really set up that that kind of formed that legacy that other Arabs then start to

copy okay they are like from the out there arabesque they they're not from they claim their lineage to be from a one of the the children of a smile but not the one the arabs come through so they are like they used to speak Aramaic but these to write in a their script is today the Arabic script that's the way they kind of get it from the Arabs got it from so Petra we know that they were like the kind of capital that other Arabs later took from now we know that in the centuries that followed Petra obviously lost its

importance it was not in the time of the Prophet Petra was not an important place at all but other places were like Hara which had taken a lot from Petra and were the offspring of the Arabs that later ruled Petra that the new queen and then you have the luck mean but I don't want to get distracted here but the point is many places took a black stone figure as a God many of them including but if close to Mecca had a big cube a black cube black cube which they addressed as the God lat and they would close put a cloth overlap

and it was also a cube kind of object in some ways a bit similar to I suppose presumably maybe the Kaaba but probably a bit smaller now this kind of figured that and they were probably about twenty different covers that emerged so the Kaaba in Mecca was not the only Kaaba okay but the Kaaba in Mecca is by our understanding we claim that that legacy belonged to ibrahim ali salaam and the other cat but they would they were just dedicated to their gods they weren't dedicated so the one in that if was dedicated to lat

and these other ones were dedicated to other gods they weren't dedicated just to like Allah in that sense okay whereas this the Kaaba is dedicated to Allah the one in Makkah that we have today so the black stone most likely that many of these places had a black stone which was usually one of the gods so it's very likely that the black stone was probably a remnant of that that over time lost its importance so like what happened is maybe the kourosh incorporated it into the corpus of the

Kaaba the body of the Kaaba and then over time it was just seen as a wholly special stone and it lost that importance as the God just as Safa and Marwah were two gods they were you had they weren't it was south and niala there were two lovers that came and apparently you know committed to God that had sex in front of the cabin they weren't meant to and therefore they were turned to stone and therefore people did the running between them as a form of a kind of expression of their love I guess

and also a remembrance that you're not meant to do certain things in front of the Kaaba but over time that meaning kind of got lost and then people just stuck with the general ritual and so what happens is that with this is why many of the Ansar from Medina when they came to Makkah they refused to do the Safa and Marwah so ought to be and all these people bring it because they said that this was a practice the Quraish invented and the Arabs invented from

jahiliyyah is to do with nur Allah and Issa the goddesses and the God and the goddess it's nothing to do with Islam so an Ibrahim Ali Salaam and so they refused then this was many of the Sahaba they said that we won't do the Safa Marwah thing this is not you know this is from pagan practices but then there's the verse in the Quran saying that look what that meaning has gone now and this is why when I say to people about things like Halloween and Christmas and people get off they flare up like oh my god oh my god Halloween but its original practice hundreds of years ago was to do with

witches and you say well you know but then suffer mother what most likely was to do with gods and goddesses pagan gods it wasn't like but the point is that this you see II had lost its practice and then hence this verse of the Quran that in Asif our Marwat am insha Allah but now it is deemed a remembrance of Allah fermented agua be Amana so who today understands them to be symbolic of ace and a worship to God fermented oh wow least this is not from you know the term Torah Heon this is not

from Torah that don't understand this to mean voluntary speakers Safa Marwah is not more voluntary in neither Imran or Hajj so it's Lisa Monta tawa a Bahama comment enough Allah be hema la yaani Montana Fela Bhima ya any man hath a barometer attend Lila that whosoever considers them to be a worship for Allah for in a logic Iran Ali then indeed Allah is grateful for them you know towards them for the worship because so in a similar way the black stone was a

most likely was part of a pagan god practice but in the generation maybe just before the Prophet and so on had lost that importance but he was still kept as a like a holy thing they don't know why it would like obviously the pagans probably knew why it was holy but they generally was just seen revered so Muslims kept that practice that oh you know what we'll just leave it there in the Kaaba and they and they'll use it as a point so the Prophet would do the roughly then begin you know so when you're doing the Tawaf it's a point to symbolize something that's

what it has nothing holy or special it's not a stone from God it may have been a meteorite most of the black stones by the way that the Arabs used to use for the gods were were black because they were volcanic kind of remnants that's why so the black stone may also be a volcanic remnant or it may be a meteorite I think is probably one of those to the Saudis unfortunately won't let it it won't let people conduct any tests on it it's a shame but I wish they did so we could know what it was so the fact that the kilometer took it away and broke it and whatever

in all honesty is no big deal I mean it's not a nice thing don't get me wrong I'm not saying it's a nice but it's not something like oh my god in fact say Nomar said that he said that I know that you're just a Hodja you just a stone Latin for let alone you know you cannot cause me any harm you cannot cause me any benefit this was the statement of signa Omar or the alarm and he said that yes but I saw the profit out of kind of like he I saw him kiss you so I'm just going to do that

now remember the Prophet never taught them that the black stone was holy but out of the prophets general upbringing and the prophets general practice that since the stone just now symbolized that the house the Ka'bah symbolized baytullah and this was a part of it and that that practice the Prophet kisti just as a ritual it was not something done as this is a holy stone it was not a holy and it is not a holy stone is this just a stone there is nothing special about it apart from that that it's got this history associated with it

Muslims today obviously crazy over they beat the hell out of each other to get to the black stone some point I guess in time was perhaps a pagan was perhaps a pagan god no I'm joking okay hey brah but it's amazing huh that people they beat themselves and they do all this to get to it but there's no harm in in these things because today what does it symbolize it symbolizes a ritual to God and we as Muslims we

submit with that ritual and that's fine that's what it is that's all it is a submission it's not really you know you gotta be you know this is where these are the stories all fall apart oh no that this is what it was and there was a you know when you go from the Kaaba up there's going to be the other Kaaba there's gonna be this heaven right above a there's gonna be all these old stories none of these things are real I mean I mean the problem with all this kind of belief is when you look into the evidence it's gonna all fall apart and and then if you believe so firmly in these little folktales your mind might

collapse it might it might not I mean because once you realize well actually this is just all stories so this is why I feel it's better to go with the truth seek the truth people and the truth shall set you free Allah so I hope that answer somebody said the story about Roger Ali Salim and a smile going between the seven and seven times between what is it's often Marwa in all

honesty I think that's made up it's very difficult come on like we have to be reasonable here that how what it seems is that later on when Islam spread to the other Arab kingdoms in the Middle East some of the Muslims in order to show the Arabs that we are one and two have a familial bond with them they overemphasize the link of Abraham aleihsalaam because all Arabs claim descent from Abraham so obviously if I'm like if I'm approaching let's say I'm approaching an Indian

non-muslim let's say I'm approaching an Indian non-muslim now and I want to speak about a message but I want to build a good bond with them so I suppose I will I may speak in Urdu or Hindi same thing I mean I'm because you automatically you're showing some similarity you're showing that we're not that different you know we've got similar roots we've got similar so it's at that time that when the when Islam spread into what was the Hassan II Kingdom the Christian Kingdom of the Arabs in in parts of Shan today which would have been Damascus Jordan Lebanon

or the Levant Palestine all this was pretty much under there's a sunny Kingdom and on the east side was the Lambie Kingdom here are and all these are the places now when the Arabs went there they obviously stressed that look we are one that you guys believe in Jesus we also Arabs our link is Abraham and the Prophet Muhammad SAW Allah Ali Salim he came with this message and that made the message more palatable to the Arabs at the time who accepted it and and I think that's when they invented the story of Ali Salaam running for safa marwah

so they could add an Abrahamic link to it otherwise it makes no sense because yes it is true that Ismail Ali Salim would have been there but this thing that okay she couldn't find water and she struggled that sounds reasonable that she may have struggled because she couldn't find water but this thing that she ran seven times looking for water and what are we doing we're celebrating that is that what we're doing we're celebrating the struggle of and how does that link into a remembrance of God like what does that have to do with God like if she ran seven times and who said she ran seven times and where did you get

like how do we know she ran seven times nobody was there so so this point of saying the whole world really what we're commemorating here is a mother's despairing spirits when she couldn't find water and thought her son was gonna die so she ran seven times and that's and God really liked that running that's making God look so evil God like that running so much that he said everybody run like that and in that what

we're saying that God said he said like yeah I like this Jocelin job that's that doesn't make any sense so why would why would God do that I mean I get the fact that she would have struggled but the fact that somebody said it was precisely 7 and then now God loved that so much that he said everybody run till eternity or pronounced off our Marwa doesn't make

any sense I mean this most likely clearly it seems like this part was made up it was this part was Abraham ax sized if you like so it was Abraham a sized by the the the Muslim Arabs that wanted to connect with the other Arabs and they wanted to show them why is our Makkah Cobham important because to the Christians why why do we care about your Makkah oh because it's of Abraham and any created that link ok so that's most

likely what happened cool people right the Samson think no I'm not saying some some might not have the smile ELISA Lam and know slightly some some story I believe most likely is true I do believe that that small I mean I believe that's true Allah alum but I believe it's true but the Zemzem story doesn't have to be connected to running seven times of pronounce of and marwah it's just that you've been told that so remember that it's not like the Zemzem isn't even on Safa and Marwah so it doesn't even so

this because the whole point is what they trying to say is these were two hills two hillocks and you've got a smile a tsunamis they're crying and so suffer are so Hajer is running up this mountain looking can't see anyone now she's running down up that mountain looking can't see anyone and she's running down up this mountain looking can't see anyone and she does this seven times but by then Zamzam begins that's the story that part the running and all this I'm not convinced with that neither were many Sahaba many Sahaba rejected it from Medina they said this was not nothing to do with Abraham this was made

up by the kafar of Quraysh and why should we follow it and even Allah when speaking in the Quran about Safa Marwah doesn't say it's because of Hodja he doesn't say oh yeah in the Safa Marwah mention a Hodja in Amman you know whatever Sat my being a human this an ID Allah didn't say that he just says yes people use this to remember God today so whosoever does this as a ritual act of worship and Allah is grateful that's what Allah says the rest what I'm trying to say is that story seems to be manufactured the son something most

likely I believe did happen that this this this spring and that is also mentioned in the Bible as well this about this spring close to Ishmael so these things already had a precedent and they had a history but the running thing just doesn't add up doesn't add up that's now a mandatory part of Imran Hajj just because Roger was distressed and she was running up and down that God got so happy with the way she's running it said he said I'm gonna make everyone run like that that just sounds all sadistic that just

sounds so absurd that's just like you can imagine the Angels going so you know that's it doesn't sound that doesn't sound like that's not how rituals would be done so okay I hope that shed some light and make sense people right let's let's take a look at the verse because I've got to speak about Zyra

what seem as well somebody said hey I'm just being real anytime I'm not trying to you know because the problem is people are so sensitive as well you know people like oh and you must remember old times Allah addresses the issue of Safa Marwah in the quran and he does not make any association with abram so there's a big question but it's very unlikely at anything to do with ibraheem alehissalaam just as auto-fire I'm not

sure I'm still researching into the history of Arafah where RFR comes into it because I don't think that was linked to ibrahim ali sanam either but anyway that's for a different day we'll unpack that on a different day as the poet says cuddle me Lovato soldier didn't get a reason phone call tomorrow if I get time I'll untangle your hair to soldier deity reason funk oh oh oh so that today today

I'm a bit distracted in untangling time itself so tomorrow when I have time I'll look at that amazing here and untangle it today I'm a bit busy and that's what the poet says right so let's take a look at right so there's this hadith I want to go over this hadith somebody said what is the kaabah blackstone special and his followers the prophecy was chosen to bring back the real rituals of the Kaaba Safa and Marwah and Blackstone is that possible

no because it's not possible because you have to remember when Ibrahim aleihsalaam goes to Makkah there's nobody there it's nothing it's it's just a valley with you know with nothing so it's not that old already there but yes about there is this understanding that he builds a place for remembrance easier for Ibrahim al-khawaja the middle date-y smiled at him and he's my is my build a house for remembrance now that we believe is the Kaaba okay now the so far Marwa isn't mentioned about him but it is mentioned

in the Quran so this is my point when Allah mentions he he should Allah would have just said that because why is Allah men ship because the Companions rejected it some of the Companions from Medina said we're not going to practice of our Marah it's not from it's from pagan practices so Allah reveals verse is telling you so you don't need to guess you can just read the verses Allah say suffered Marwa today our symbols for remembering God so whosoever considers them to be an act of worship Allah is grateful there you go case closed Allah could have said oh this was from

the time of Abraham he he built it and he did this and he did that but he didn't so there's no point guessing that's my that's my point right right okay so this this hadith people there's a hadith that I'd like to discuss and this is used by many people to say we cannot use reason and they transmit a saying of seminar leader of the law on where he states that but if this Deen was by reason

Deno bilaval llama sauna ass fella thing that we would have wiped the lower part of the hoof of the sock but we wiped the upper part so using this hadith or and I say hadith loosely because it's really a statement of the sahabi but of earlier of the Ilan but they're saying that Ali learnt it from the Prophet therefore it's carries that standard right okay just unpacking this this hadith is or this tradition is unacceptable it is

utterly weak life people it is life we cannot accept this this hadith or thought first of all let's begin with the fact that according to the school of Medina which is voiced by imam malik we do actually wipe the lower part of the sock just to start off with so point pehle point right second point let's take a look at the hadith people say yeah of the a belief gadget what does mostly Abu layth know in the words of Sagar Siddiqui the legend poet who was

always a drunk he was always drunk people say look at this drunk look at this what does he what does he know about God that's what they would say so souther says in one of his poems he says ow exid's Dhaka a hollow Mehmed Hoshi men that come let us prostrate in this state of intoxication Alex such Dockery Allah murmured Ho Chi Minh locating Sagar code ayah Allah he said people claim that souther doesn't

seem to remember God so whilst in a state of intoxication let's fall into situate see coming back to the point so this thing of this hadith by signally rhodiola one this hadith people is found in 12 approximately 12 different narrations okay the majority of these narrations is three in adult okay there's one in Solana Dharma and there are eight in the Muslims of Ahmed okay so the same

narration same said entirely same kind of thing one from the muslims of ahmed is so brief that it doesn't give much teach it just says he did said an ally did you do and wiped it doesn't mention one so you can remove that one one in the in abu dawood says exactly the same so brief you can remove that one that leaves two in abu dawood we're going to take a look at one which is confusing okay it begins by stating that said 'no i lee began to wipe over the feet so it begins by using the word feet and ends with the

word sock of a bit confusing confusion confusion but we'll hold on to that one the seven narrations in muslim of ahmed all none of them mentioned wiping over the sock they actually mentioned wiping over the feet which is what the shia are do or they believe you can you can do it's permissible according to the shia teachings because they Denali used to do it now none of them mentioned the sock the whole faith they mentioned wiping over the other main over the feet the one narration endure me not only does it

mention that wiping over the feet Abu Muhammad army the scholar of hadith after it states this teaching was then abrogated it was munsoo by the verse of the quran that about wash your feet so you can see that this eight narrations we've got now there's five narrations we've got the intoxication is playing in now right so we've got eight narration seven in the most environment one incident under me all mentioning that you wipe over the feet not the sock we're only left with

one clear narration in abu dawood just one we said Miley mentions this that oh if the Dean was with the Arkell then we wouldn't be wiping over the wiping over the we'd be wiping off the bottom of the sock but we wipe off the top and he doesn't mention foot here he mentions sock okay so we've got one narration now first of all we know that that wasn't the practice because in Medina the practice was that people actually wiped under the sock as well that's the school of Medina the other thing is this hadith is transmitted from Ali

it goes from him you've got up to hey it may is Eid and from him this hadith all of these narrations by the way they all the same they come through the same it's the same event from Ali from Abdul head going through either they rest on Abu is a possibie ie or a lavish a boy's heart the severe eight all that much these two people these two are those scholars of hadith that destroyed hadith for a loofa it has been transmitted that they are made they are not only seen there are people of third lease and every single

rewire here does not mention that they heard it that least means when you can blog at times and you pretend you hurt when you didn't hear so none of them mentioned they heard it's all on Ana voice half the survey I they say his memory messed up he had dementia he would mix things up at an older age at mosh was known for blacked so many different hadith he was pulling one of the worst kind of mood early scene you have and it's the famous saying is my absurd a hadith ah Alan Kufa the the hadith of Kufa was not destroyed and corrupted except by two boys half casa

bi and slightly junior to him how much and that is who this hadith this whole thing rests on these are the the pillars of this hadith so this hadith is clearly clearly inadmissible bye-bye Eve people live so there you go that's not so this anybody who says if the dinos buy Apple then we do this say first of all bring a Sahara Sahara so hey Eddie not this live right so there you go right I hope that answers that right now

I'd like to take a look right so I'd like to take a look at this issue right this discussion of Zyra was seen right zero has seen people and why is this important

Zyra Waseem is a award-winning bollywood actress young I think just 18 starred in major movies like Bengal I think secret superstar and I don't know if she starred in any others but she released a statement a lengthy statement that was shared all across social media where she announces her separation from the Bollywood industry and highlights the reasons for doing so which is what made this a potential

controversy let's see she states that it was too damaging to her Iman to and she uses the term Iman and her relationship with Allah to remain within bollywood she says she did try but she found herself in such a long struggle and such a consistent battle of the Nets of the of Mohammed of prohibited haraam acts and and eventually and she found despite

having been met with fame popularity and a role model status for young people she's a she's nicly from Kashmir Indian Kashmir so you can imagine Kashmir which unfortunately you know may Allah grant ease to its you know the civilians there they are unfortunately majority of them are oppressed most of them suffer from depression because of the ruthless brutality of the occupying forces so you can imagine that the people did the difficulties they're going through in Kashmir they were amazing I think still an

amazing people so and then amongst them women who are further suffering so I mean men everybody's suffering and women are suffering even more but the victims of on many occasions rape and things like this and and just other kind of targeting and subjugation within society so too many women worldwide young women especially teenagers especially and especially Kashmir ease she was a role model so she backs dissociates herself from Bollywood and one of the key factors she highlights is that there was

an absolute loss of Baraka in her life now this has become hot news everybody is in in that pod world is then discussing it what are my thoughts on and she's got like six kind of pages that she writes so first of all I would like to say that look any person is entitled to do whatever they like in life okay their life is their choice good or bad we all have to make our own choices in life okay so that's just to clarify that that I wouldn't be anybody to question anybody on their choices I

mean I could give my perception my evaluation what I might do if I was in their position or what I think they order but their choice is this that's a given okay just to clarify that point another point I'd like to highlight is that I think it's very brave as well coming out and stating religion as a factor and stating these things is not easy it's not easy for anybody to state things like look haram and loss of Baraka and things like these are the cause for why I i'm dissociating myself

from this field or industry so i think that takes a lot of courage so she's definitely somebody I I applaud the courage element because I think that's not an easy thing to do I also would like to say those of you that have read this statement right those of you that have read this statement of us I was actually quite shocked in a pleasant way how much she knew about Islam like I don't mean in a you know I don't mean to be disparaging but I I was shocked how much she

was quoting and how many Islamic terms she was using and things like this I wouldn't have assumed that somebody not I wouldn't have assumed she was learn it in Islam and therefore wasn't let's say an actress in Bollywood I would have assumed that her knowledge of Islam or to to quote things like that would have been to that aptitude but it was so it's very impressive I was impressed impressed okay yeah but that said that's it okay put that aside right now what do

I feel about this and do I think she did the right thing do I think my thoughts on this whole thing and those of you that are also contemplating I think that some not just Zyra anybody who is above the absolute struggle stage so in life if you take Maslow's hierarchy you're struggling to make a living you're struggling to survive many people in the world are just struggling to do that somebody asked who are we talking about we're talking about a Bollywood actress a Kashmiri Muslim actress who Zyra was

seen who's departed from all dissociated Azhar from Bollywood stating her reasons as religion and that it wasn't viable to be a to adhere to the religion truly and be within bollywood so now coming back to my point that I think anybody that rises above the absolute struggle survival mode within life that these people that get an opportunity to think and reflect about life they will unquestionably go

through an existential angst a kind of existential suffering or more suffering seems like a harsh word for me to use but it is it is true it is a kind of turmoil everybody's going through it that has if you're not submerged in just simply trying to survive if you're trying to just simply survive in the world then you your mind doesn't have the leisure it doesn't have the the opportunity to really dabble in these affairs but the moment you do you rise above that you know you've got something

going you could be in life or whatever it is you start to contemplate about life what am i doing what is the purpose why do I feel a restlessness I feel an unease going on and we as humans we have that within us we have this this kind of this this this turbulent aspect to ourselves which sometimes manifests itself in manifests itself as a self

sabotaging element almost but that's a different discussion so people start to question what am i doing in life why am I not feeling at ease why am I not feeling at peace with myself so if you in your life happen to be in many let's say in certain atmospheres nonreligious like let's say you work in like her she works in an entertainment industry oh if you work in I don't know you could just be submerged in work like you work in a in a club or somebody works in I don't know they've runner

even if it's not like so entertaining they could just be they they're drowning in business in commerce they everything is about business negotiation money money money money money everything is about that so what happens is because they're not associated with religion there's an assumption that that may be the cause for my restlessness so that you see people then assume that the reason for this restlessness is my distance from religion now Matt o giver

I'd like to add a caveat here not all businesses or not all occupations are the same some may trigger more heightened angst than others so for example you could be a doctor which could be very stressful but it's also kind of rewarding because you're but then you might be fed up with the bureaucracy but being an actor or being somebody in an entertainment industry there's there's always a huge facade anyway it's all about its deceptive it's never really true you're always being fake you're always being constantly fake

to to the public and everybody behind the scenes is always kind of cutthroat in any kind of entertainment industry you can imagine that that people will always be cutthroat behind the scenes they'll be very cruel they'll be very kind of big there'll be a lot of bickering a lot of poison a lot of toxicity so living in that for a young person would be much worse than just being in it just let's say completely submerged in business but still or any kind of feel that you're submerged in and if you feel the angst you may think the reason for this is my distance from

religion and a lot of people do that and they then completely give up f everything to come to to to embark on this ship of religion now that the issue is any kind of certain whole transition will always bring some peace of mind so when you make a transit like this let's say you take people like Cat Stevens use of Islam when he made a transition from being a kind of a huge massively popular

singer into Islam into a spiritual path naturally any kind of transition into something spiritual will bring some sense of calm that's inevitable but the question is one year from today two years from today that angst will return because that angst is part of the journey we have to understand that that is that we are this kind of this this trouble that we carry with us this is

part of being human this is that restlessness that Allah has placed within in son that Allah mentions that that we have created inside me Nigel that he's created from this kind of unease and will never truly I mean maybe some people in life a minority of people will be an absolute peace but this is part of the journey and that that sense of I need a like I I need a goal or I need something I mean that

don't get that can be a good thing it can drive us towards something but I feel this is my personal thought I feel that sometimes this ship of religion that we think is the salvation isn't necessarily what it seems to be it is often a mirage that said that said I want to clarify here that yes some industries are more ruthless than others and some industries are very toxic so I can imagine that the entertainment industry is very highly toxic compared to something like being in the medical industry which I still

believe would be toxic but maybe not as toxic as so some are more than others so I accept that if you calm down in whatever you're doing you would always find a sense of peace but is it that by jumping on like like I gave the example of Cat Stevens who many decades later then resorted to music and I I think he I think personally it's a great job that he went back to music but it's a shame that he could have conveyed his message to millions I mean when he left the music industry I never used to listen to her me now uh probably wasn't born when

he was in his peak but I feel that at that stage he had millions of fans who I don't mean preaching but just a human message to them he could have worked wonders but now when he returned to music I'm sure most of his fans from that age of either probably they must be really old and they don't really constitute that scene anymore so and the younger people don't know who he is and things have moved on so I don't know I think these things are tough decisions for people personally I would have thought that it's probably better to get

to keep representing Muslims to be a part of a certain industry and to show if you can obviously if there's if the toxicity levels are unbearable then that's fine but I would feel because there are many Muslim actors in in Bollywood and India is becoming unfortunately increasingly divided on furiously fundamental whether it's hate crimes towards Muslims you know may Allah grant ease to all Muslims I mean I I personally India is a great country I would love to

visit India but I don't know how they would take to me but because of the ethnic you know divide but I I would I think India is amazing but I am so disappointed in the the kind of fundamentalism that seems to be sweeping the country this fire of hatred against Muslims and they seem to be lynching Muslims there was another just recently another killing in India over you know attacking a Muslim and and all these things and I think that these people who represent Muslims like I think the three the three cons in the in the industry in

their industry have done massively for giving Muslims some representation even though they're not very religious people but still they've brought that that name that face and they do speak sometimes I've heard shadow Han speak about Allah and speak about Islam in his own way but at least somebody's doing something and I I don't know I feel that that there's a lot more benefit there is a hadith we it's transmitted in it's transmitted in a few books and namely what comes to my mind is amount the how he brings it as well

in his musculars are discussing it that you have a hadith that the Prophet said that a time will come when a person will take his sheep and flock with them to the mountains and he will kind of isolate himself from people because he feels that people have become too corrupt but the Prophet said but the blessed people in that time are those men you harlot on us those who mix with people despite the corruption who settled with them and yet hold on to some understanding of the faith even if

is compromised but I feel that you see being human human we are human by our social connection and that you know that you may not be a Muslim and you may be you know this person may be a Christian this person may be Jewish this person may be a Hindu this person may be an atheist that that I I'm a Muslim that we can coexist that I can express this understanding of Allah to them show them this journey that I think many people have struggled and found this is what I feel was the true only message of Islam

was to show people that God which you think is an impersonal God is actually a personal God and to bridge that gap because people believe because the Arabs and other people believe that God yeah he created the world but what would he do with us he doesn't want to know us he's to transcendence but bridging that divide between the impersonal to the personal that Allah he is a hammer rhyming with you that he is that

bringing him back into our lives I think that to me that that is probably a much greater step not to say that people need to do you know if they feel something is too toxic for them and they want to make a take a step it's their lives they can do or whatever they please but but that's my thoughts and I want to also express emphasize this point you know that look we all feel this turmoil you know it's like I was responding to somebody messaging me from Kashmir actually today on this issue and I

mentioned this line of ellipta this restlessness bear hoodie base above me Holly good storages keeper da-da-da that this restlessness is not without any reason Holly but there is something that we're on to that that this is a cover for a veneer that in son you know we have this within us and I think that this coming back to what I said earlier on I think sometimes this restlessness that we have it can lead to a sabotaging kind

of color aside to us as well and this what some Muslims will in some in Muslim culture that we will they will divide between the nerves you know stemming from the Quran quoting Yusuf Ali Salim Omar over on FC you know I don't justify my claim innocence for myself for my nerves in enough service that the nafs is something that will just always drag me down it will make me kind of sabotage things so you have an even if you look at psychology people like Freud looking at the lead the ego and the super-ego

dividing these things into that kind of nufs that same sabotaging kind of culture something that drives you and in psychoanalysis Freud spoke of what has come to known to be known as the death principle and the pleasure principle so the pleasure principle is what drives us and the death principle it's this restlessness that we have and the irony is that the restlessness will only stop once we did it doesn't see that's the irony so it's that hence it was kind of termed the death principle it kind of drives people to the end and we see that

in other cultures even that that have then made gods out of this like if you look at Hinduism the the trio that they have the main you know Brahma Vishnu and Shiva that you will see that the the creating God the God that puts something into existence Vishnu the the one who preserves but then Shiva the destruction like the sabotaging because you can see how humans have projected this feeling out thee on two on two things that and you've got the the line of harley where he says

alright slipped my mind but but he has a beautiful line as well speaking about about how up until that as long as a person has life he will always have this kind of struggle this lump okay now we may we may think that look once I have this it will all go away but it is but it will still be there you know some people think or once I find the perfect partner then my life will be beautiful and you'll be amazing but once I have the perfect job then it will be amazing

you know once I have the and like life goes on you see with these mini token victories but the truth is that that struggle is part of life that whole you know it's part of of being human it's human all too human so I think we don't need to sometimes it is it is troubling it is you know and we all go through I go through it I go through it people I know truly that would be honest with me they go through it I think maybe I feel it calms down a bit I feel it's not as

bad now as it was before when I was going through a lot so I think it's it's not something to be afraid of okay and embracing when I've been asked for advice I've said maybe you seen for me it was about seeking knowledge why because knowledge will always keep developing it will always keep as you are developing so it's a true companion you know whereas if you set a goal on a person and people may not be you know this like people like I said people say if I have that if we're a couple if I

find the perfect partner then we're awesome but then you're developing at different stages so you will then five years from today maybe a different person and that couple hasn't moved on and this is another issue with today's social media you know I see on Instagram all he's perfect amazing you know the other day I was on the Instagram and I saw these okay it comes up on your kind of the feed thing amazing kind of photos of of these couples and and you'll see beautiful pictures of what look like glamorous amazing couples and the issue

is that really this kind of a lifestyle the problem with it is it's always fake like and I don't mean that they don't have I'm sure I hope that all these couples do have you know love and affection but it becomes about just showing the world and then you become known as that but deep down you're struggling you're struggling with this reality you're struggling with conflict you're struggling with your own angst and anxiety so yeah I just feel that and I kind of feel for sometimes people like I see and I think this is just a slow

and this is just a car crash in slow motion you know because these things are unsustainable it's like that has an odd thing you know it's all about the amazing couple that they were on the or then the amazing triangle that they were the amazing Bermuda Triangle that they were right and on that note it was a mostly maintain his life had said I've

never I've never ever seen never ever met or mob the law and then somebody's released the photographs where they're standing together taking photographs [Laughter] internet is a crew her omnia must be thinking ha ha ha ha oh now what to do [Laughter]

solemn dunya poppies and sarpy right people with that I'm gonna leave you to it have an awesome inshallah week ahead of yourselves take very good care of yourselves remember mean you're kind to us and if anything do an act of kindness towards humanity wasalamualaikum grommet alight Allah o barakat Oh