Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth: Session 118

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in alhamdulillah wa kafa or salat wa salam o allah rasool mustafa ala IBAD Allah Dean of Taba Oh mummy who da master or be sorry Almudena dr. Farber Al Salam allahi al l own animus and become more marhaban running lights bienvenidos a todos people bajalia Shama deed and swagatam swagatam awry so what is going on people what is happening what is happening ha

talk to me talk to me people look everybody to those of you tuning in you know the drill people you know the drill click like click share spread the love the facade and the fittin alright so about Nisa rays evade an asylum become enormous Adnan up Imran what I'll be sin the hey alright so I'm here how you doing mind out would people

that would take it's not dowdy brahim from the underworld [Laughter] alright so what is going on New Zealand on board New Zealand is rocking right now people Jacinda has killed it ah she's done it people she has slated the whole thing it's she's white she's a game changer for leadership you know the

interesting thing is if prior to let's say Adam prior to the shooting uh a week before even days before if anybody had asked that who is the prime minister of New Zealand nobody would have a clue they'd be like New Zealand their prime minister but I have to say she is she's definitely and um she's obviously she's amazing but you know what it is she's very confident and

secure about herself which is which isn't that common surprisingly in leaders so leaders are usually trying to seek validation from other leaders worldwide but she's very secure about herself she doesn't need that kind of validation that she's managed to stand up the way she has and I think everybody is just right now she's probably the world's most famous leader right now everybody is totally just enamored by her leadership skills so I think that's awesome

that said people I would like to say right so I would like to say about Justin badge first of all it's it's name just sounds sold this he doesn't me it's like when I first heard it I was like what her name's what Jacinda sorry ecology Caesarea cal dis energy it sounds like this is the surname is gonna be cool just cinder cool so yeah I

wanted to say that so you've got whereas most of the world are totally in awe of her leadership skills then you've got this to these two contingents running parallel Muslim contingents either side you've got on one hand on one hand right you've got a bunch of Muslims now trying to say right mashallah mashallah mashallah she is about to embrace Islam mashallah mashallah

now sister Jacinda just has to say the Shahada mashallah mashallah for God's sake oh yeah horses mate hold your horses calm down okay she's got good manners she's represented herself as a great leader and she wore a hijab or ported the part on her head right but just calm down I mean Oh some guys they're giving her Dawa now poor ladies probably thinking

for God's sake these guys just don't get it do they if any more people start giving it our she probably joined the far-right we've got to understand that just because somebody is a good human being it doesn't mean that you start trying to convert them to Islam oh just say to say the Shahada could join the crew this obsession that some Muslims have in wanting to wishing to convert everyone they really need to grow up

we've got enough Muslims seriously what is it like 1.8 billion or something I mean in the world and what is the point anyway all we do is we bring people on and we scare a bunch of like 50 times more we scare off and the remaining majority we declare deviants and there's like 10 left in the world who are upon the Huk Huk wonder ha what is the point of this kind of yeah

so you've got that contingent running on one side and on the other side I've seen some Hezbollah Eve making some statements here's what the reader like the I mean they like the kind of I don't know the the psych ward contingent of the Muslim Ummah that they like the Bukhari with the you know like they've got some serious psychosis but the Muslim Omar seems to still have them along like don't know

don't worry just keep taking these antipsychotics and you'll be okay and the psychosis has turned into a kind of dementia so they they keep thinking that we're in some Caliphate some Abbasid Caliphate from I don't know like nine hundred years ago so they keep forgetting anything al Mamoon and was dying an asura belad so these so I saw

some post by some of these HT and they were on the other end that people you know it doesn't matter all these Muslims are praising Jacinda Orden and at the end of the day she's from the coup for the coup for the coup for the coof system you know the cool she's from the cool system that could any coup far and it you know the cook them so so they post were like brothers and sisters we have to remember that

this is not a sherry I you know the Sharia this is just in the Orden with the modern the modern New World Order this is a cool system so we will be all sorry wrong sorry we're Muslims today the that can be the crecer and the stop whoa so yeah so you read this stuff and you think

why do we have to disproportionately get like as Muslims get the get the mentally in our share like why can't we have just like normal people have like a certain percentage only that are mentally why do you have to have a disproportionate that's like a handicapped child that's not fair that's that yeah Lord this ain't fair how are we supposed to how is this Dean supposed to represent if we're disproportionately we've got like the the mentally on our side in a

huge disproportionate measure that's that's us not and the worst part is they think they're really intelligent Oh God genius idea I know I'll cool them to Islam oh my god oh my god yeah so what else is going on in world news people what else is going on

this I've read somewhere in Netherlands I think it was in Netherlands I read it on social media it was a newspaper saying that they're going to introduce a law to say that for naturalization so when you take up residency and you become naturalized you take up citizenship that you must shake hands so that's the handshake not that handshake but the citizenship handshake is

mandatory so if you decline the handshake they will decline your naturalization so they were to basically no passport you know this on you must sake of the yeah it was shake at the hand you know that's what they ought to do I mean I don't know what this craze is by the way with Muslims like we're not allowed to some Muslim sorry we're not allowed to shake hands and you know not difficult mmm what they ought to do is go shake

their hands and just do that wander and then go welcome you welcomed me to the Netherlands right so there is nothing you know look there is nothing in the Quran Oh son and that states shaking hands with the opposite gender is Haram okay nothing laughs okay as surprising as that may sound there is nothing not one sorry sorry hadith right from the Sunna that is that

can stand that cannot be criticized not one and there's nothing in the Quran in fact there's arguably hadith which demonstrate the contrary this hadith of which and I've got a whole segment on this on YouTube where I'm speaking about I've covered it previously in depth and I go through the few hadith that they do provide people who back that argument and how all of them are clearly weak there isn't anything and the the statements and the actions of people like a worker or the Alon Omar ordeal that they were taking they add that they

were shaking hands with the opposite gender and things like this so people there is culture I accept this Muslim culture but there's nothing I don't think people need to freak out you know if somebody's gonna shake your hand you shake the goddamn hand it's I'm not saying take the hand and do something with it uuuugh nothing led to you had armies I'm saying that you just shake the hand is you know like a decent human being just shake that right so you don't need to

kind of do anything with the hand like the person's not noticing and then he's like huh where where did my hand escape huh huh it's like yeah and then after a while they like Eli wiping yeah he got that hand coming down and he's trying to naturalize some more citizens and you've got a hand coming down like this right so I think there's nothing people need to stop freaking out over stuff that is not stuff to freak out over stop

creating a scene stop being drama queens right so they couldn't shake the goddamn hand there's nothing to it okay you don't get pregnant by shaking hands so yeah that's uh that's interesting what else is going down people this law is also wrong they claim the handshake of secularism and custom to shake hands upon agreement to meet selective approach the meaning of secularism it is look I think if we can't shake hands we

can just hug them instead of course don't shake her hug them say Jackie Jackie come here yeah oh yeah Islam kögel Iligan that's what they ought to do that would be like can you imagine that whoever he is let's say some minister whoever he is he's trying to shake hands and there's some his woman Maccabi whatever and he's like and she's like girly like judge darling and she's like

I tell you they'll probably change the law the next day he'll probably be like oh my god this is it these are my I see my life flashing right before my eyes so yeah they are a reaction these laws I know they are a reaction because some people are just fed up but we have to understand you know I think look you know what it is I think we are too often the minority so we don't see the picture from the other end the truth is that

look if you let's say even if you take Muslim areas let's take let's say us wherever we live in the West wherever that is whether it's the UK your America I don't know wherever in Europe so let's take the UK as an example good example let's say we've got Birmingham all right represent all right but let's say you've got now Birmingham the heart of England people the heart the heart of England

right so now you go to the heart of Birmingham AL and the heart is clearly under cardiac arrest it's got so much cholesterol in me it's like Adam rock is like Pakistan capital in I mean Birmingham might as well be part of Pakistan but the point is Allen rock is the the dense the dense it's all those clotted up arteries now let's just say you take a Muslim here Muslim areas now imagine let's take

people who are quite yeah this is a mental experiment a thought experiment let's say some Hindus started to move in right now Hindus to be fair let's say Indian Hindus they same kind of you know very similar features to us as Pakistanis let's say same very similar culture we Rorty holy biryani we all you know this is same culture same kind of language so there isn't even those differences now imagine these Hindus started to move in and they are living let's say in a

certain part of alum rock and they started to live more and more densely but then they all started to walk around wearing the orange saffron you know those kind of saw me outfits and they all started to wear the bright red marks and every time you saw a Hindu he's wearing this bright red mark on his forehead and he only comes across in the orange suits and and whenever you see them he's he says like they walk up and down album Rock Road let's say saying oh oh you know Hari Krishna Hari Rama Hari

Krishna Hari Rama let's say they're doing all these things and they walk around with the agar buddies and they kind of like the incense sticks and it but they're not harming anyone they're not harming anyone they're not kind of like doing but they're doing this let's say I guarantee you despite our such proximal similarities to Indians to Hindu Indians despite our ethnicities almost really just being very similar despite our language similarities our cultural similarities Muslims would become incredibly intolerant towards this I

guarantee you that if they started to do it in if one guy did it wouldn't be a problem if 2/3 people did it but imagine they started to do this in the hundreds that every time you see them there is o no Masha God number whatever is and they're just moving incense sticks and they're just walking around and wearing those things and they're saying Jess Siobhan and all of these I guarantee you it would start to frustrate a lot of Muslims because Muslims will say look we haven't got a problem with you practicing Hinduism but why does it have

to be so in our face all the time now this is the same kind of problem that we're doing with non-muslims in this country you see now we are doing the same thing like we are just so being in people's face you know we're like it's not enough to say Allah what were we must have a larper plastered on the bus boards and we must have a lorry in every way and we must have and yet we're not even culturally the same as these

people we don't have the same cultural background we're ethnically different we've got a different skin tone I mean like we are doing that exact same thing but to a greater extent so you have to understand why it does annoy people naturally we just run that thought experiment and be honest with yourself would you tolerate a large Hindu kind of contingent like that that moves in that kind of become so in-your-face Hindutva Hindu like very clear clear hard-line

Hindu always dressing always in your face drawing the Hindu symbols everywhere sticking them up would you accept that within your own areas and the truth is you wouldn't a lot of I I think the majority of Muslims wouldn't in this country and I'm speaking about in this country if it was in a Muslim country they'd probably lynched them I mean that's the shows the tolerance levels so we have to understand that yes the people are reacting in Europe as well they are we are triggering the far-right and these things but not entirely but partially we are to blame as well

partially right so right so what is going on people we've got Robin sing Saint party to see greater to see we create Arjun up to see be great all right so okay awesome Abu late saw him all right you do what's the Islamic position on karma Hasib Amara's asked a question karma people is when we say like because I've done something bad something bad will happen to me in Islam there is no

karma now ironically although in our books we do state that but in practice most Muslims seem to believe in karma which is really weird because karma is actually a Hindu and a Buddhist kind of belief structure in which your deeds come back and want you now to some extent this can have a reality on the ground regardless of religion like your deeds coming back to what you could mean that look like I commit a crime and now I get caught out for the crime so my

deeds have come back to haunt me and by that standard obviously nobody would disagree with that because that's just the laws of the world that's just the way of the world the laws of nature it could be that I for example you know I've robbed somebody today and then they find out and and then they retaliate and so I don't mean karma at that level because at that level that's just following the natural laws but I mean karma in the in the sense of people will feel that like let's say I've been a bad

person in some but I will get punished in an unrelated way nothing to do with the actual incident they're not talking about the so I don't know like let's say I commit to I cheat somebody out of something now somebody will cheat me out of something this is how most Muslim many Muslims I don't know about most but many Muslims seem to believe this like what goes around comes around in some ways it helps them not do bad things so I guess it has a good side to it I mean

Islamically it it's not upheld there's no beliefs in fact chef our weenies for what Kidani writes explicitly at the beginning that we as a lasagna he says who do not believe that our sins decrease our risk he says we do not believe that so our risk what God our provision what God has written for us which we which we don't know by the way what that is but whatever God has written for us does not go down by sins so because I've committed sins and

therefore I'm poor that that's not the authentic Islamic belief structure that that Allah takes away our risk because of now there is something so but there is some islamics talk about blessings now people then can easily mix these up they can say well Oh surely well you don't have blessings if you commit a life of crime and that is true so people who are living a wretched lifestyle in

terms of let's say dealing drugs they living off the living off crime that surely the Baraka of the the the live of the livelihood of these people will be taken away now what is Baraka you see it's more a from an Islamic perspective it's more a it's a subjective experience something that you will experience in something that you are never quite content it's a contentment that is removed that we believe that Allah doesn't bless those people that they don't have and remember the thing is in

Islam there is this concept that the door are the prayer of the Muslim the oppressed is heard by God if you are oppressing people they are crying out against you now we do believe that Allah and if he chooses and and he answers those prayers that you may see some consequences to that now how will that consequence be we don't no because we don't know the future you see so I'm not saying I want to be clear here because this comic question can be

quite confusing I'm not saying that you can't be tested in this world through different things you can be and Allah may be testing you because you've been oppressing people that may be the case it doesn't have to be the case but it may be I mean these are things we don't know because we don't know how the mind of God is working I also do believe that if you do good things like giving charity that there are more blessings in your risk in your provision this sounds counterintuitive you think well what on earth are you on about if I give in charity how do i how do my I don't know

how does my wealth and things get blessed but it actually seems to work as bizarre as it sounds I mean you know if you if you if you try to try it give out in humanitarian courses and you'll see wealth come in sometime from places that you don't expect now one may say well that was gonna happen anyway okay maybe well we don't know until it happens the Islamic argument would be that that was from Allah that that was a blessing so people so for example in the Islamic sources taking care of your parents increases in your risk in the Islamic

understanding so these kind of things but when I said karma I maintain general karma like like let's say I don't pray and now because I don't pray that's a sin now because I've lived in sin this is according to some understanding therefore Allah is reducing my risk and he's punishing me like that this kind of thing doesn't happen according to Islamic sources like that that's what I was trying to explain I hope that makes sense right so people what else I will be taking a look at later on by the way

there's this issue of nikka with non-muslims people if you're thinking of opening up that gene pool and diluting the gene pool even further these intermarriages as opposed to the intra keeping it in the family is that just Pakistani is a sauce permitted for non-muslims I read the hanafis extend it to non-muslims other schools do not right

now do you need a separate nakai if you have a legal registration you have witnesses we gave a gift make vows what's the difference right okay that's a good question generally within Islam there are certain social structures I do I I accept what you're saying that first of all there are different social structures so you have a civil marriage and you have Anika they are not actually the same thing in Islam just as a civil divorce is not at the lock and at the lock is not a civil divorce and Anika is

not a civil registration civil registration is not any car so these things are separate institutions if you like now one could say well by in theory are they not covering a similar thing they kind of are in theory there is an overlap a huge overlap they kind of are they expressing a sense of Union for example but they're actually clearly stating that we don't have you see like a civil registration we'll make it very clear that we are we are nothing to do with religion this is not we are not

endorsing any religious affirmation they make that very clear that this is just simply a legal act of registration that's all it is so it's difficult categorizing that as Anika although I would argue and I will discuss this more later on that you know can Anika in broad terms I would say that that could qualify as Anika if you accept everything to qualify as in the car so for example

because I've said what is the difference in this day and age in boyfriends/girlfriends in it not being Anika how is that different from the or fee or FEMA car not the Russ minica because the orphan Iike was simple simply an acceptance with exclusivity now how is that different with boyfriend/girlfriend today that are exclusive that cohabit that live together how is that not differ how is that any different from just two people sitting in a room having two witnesses and saying you know Camilla took a bill to saying this how

is that any different really in the real world I think there it isn't and people so if we to accept the whole broad spectrum then I think this too will fall in three but if we're only to accept this and reject the broad spectrum then I think you can't accept this either that they must be consistency but by default I'm just speaking about how the you see because Muslims are a social community they're not just it's not just me who you or whoever the question is it's not just so Muslims generally

speaking do not acknowledge the legal registration to be a religious ceremony neither do the religious sorry neither do the registration people claim this to have any relevance with any religion so because of that because neither are embracing the other like even the civil people will be very clear that this is nothing to do with religion and we're not and do not mistake it to be religious they will be very clear if you ask them so so I would say that you saw as things stand you should get a Nica definitely and the civil registration is

up to you if you want to get the civil registration or not so that's my advice see the problem is the civil registration is if personally I'm not really for civil registrations because this is my opinion and people can you can disagree with it because I don't believe that that a state should tell you when you can end your relationship I'm against like authoritarian perspectives like I don't

accept people to be very controlling of people's private lives I think I feel that we have a sacred sacral sankt as well right to to have privacy to have our private lives that these things should not be administered by the state that's my personal that's the kind of human being I am that said I understand when people say well you know well if women don't do any care all men then they don't have rights I think this word

is misleading because I think what it means is really they can't claim half the property of the other person you see so what I advise people this is my advice they do not need to follow it I say that look people should earn for themselves and prepare for themselves and I think in that sense if a woman is going to marry somebody and if they're not going to have a similar iteration then she should just be very clear that if she's after like if she wants security in terms of the property then she should just have her name on the property as well or she should work and

put money aside and get her own property as well and put her on rent and you know I think that remember everybody's an independent person in this in this society men and women they're all independent and I think like so if this is my understanding that let's say if because what you get is well people will go through a divorce and I speak to so many going through divorces they have to wonder relationship ends then they have to go for another year and a half to court that is the most bizarre thing I can ever why would you want to do that

so that's my take on things I'm not an advocate of civil registration I think like people should just have relationships but they should respect the rights they should respect both couple have them you know if they want to work they can work they have the right to work they should be working and both should be looking for themselves in terms of investments as well that's that's what I think but my views these are my views yeah not everybody obviously follows my views in the words of Harley Baccarat Hans you know make a

cockroach you know what utter nonsense do i blabber away in this insanity of mine kuch Nizam Jai Ho darker echoey you know God really nobody will understand anything that's just my that it's not about the somebody said patriarchy I'm not about the patriarchy whoa what just happened there people what just happened there right that got once I was I have to

share that again yes sir Lam all right so people I've got no idea what just happened there I'm trying to share that again let's see that just suddenly clumped out on me just sure that well anyway let's go to the next question people as long Salim become more rotten aura people otra vez otra vez we are back right don't know

what that was I think it was just maybe the internet connection when I don't know but he just completely shut down it's conspiracy people is a conspiracy so what are some questions so what is going on people what is going on get on and off all right clear and Louis Allen shukran muchas gracias muchas gracias this is part 2 people going down part 2 you know some people get really agitated by me doing this so I have to do it more

and more often feed the agro people right so all right so pay your bills clear said pay your bills yeah but it's not as fun when you don't pay your bills you got to live on the edge right can you say that all right so let's take some questions people can you say that in reality each man is just an

argumentum ad populum are there scholars who critiqued each ma all these scholars who critiqued each man upon a mine or a scholar yes alone do I have to look around for scholars who have critiqued each ma hey I is sitting right here I have criticized each man

you know this one time I was in al-azhar you know Jeremiah's ha yeah so in Cairo so we were having this lesson with this share and the share who was speaking about some topic and he mentioned some hadith I'm trying to recall now what the hadith was but it was a really popular one a really popular hadith and everybody really knew this hadith so and he said now I'm like in heaven hadith yeah I mean Phil happy got a life and he caught by a foul on the map so he said

this hadith in reality it's just weak like Allah ma have declared it weak and he carried on talking so I was like wow okay I thought that was like an you know like a a widely generally like unquestionably popular and accepted hadith so so I was intrigued so at the end of the discussion I said cher has the kurtal Haditha jaan-e-mann Holloman Lavina yeah knee not a to huddle heavy falafel so I said like you know you mentioned this hadith so who were the scholars that critiqued and weakened this hadith

so he goes Anna because the of to Anna he said I declared it weak I am the ulama I thought la each style actually equal each style so so when you're saying who are the olomana that critique Tajima i am the owner mother critique teach man now a lot of people have critiqued each ma it Mao was a was

a joke it reminds the myth of the folk aha and I've got a segment on each ma by the way many people critiqued it from the Salaf people think Imam Shafi he was actually supporting each ma I read his argument differently I've read that Imam Shafi knees rissalah is critiquing the each month so it's interesting how you read what Imam Shafi saying because he's saying who are how do we each man means consensus now there is no first of all consensus on what the definition of consensuses there is no each man on his

map so the argument ridiculous from the word goal so and Imam Shafi is kind of throwing a few spanners in he's showing the argument but then he throws a few spanners in at the end and just leaves it he's like and then it's like that so music comes on you know I can saw at the end when everything's unraveling and Imam Shafi just walks away you know like as that door shuts and the guys like everything makes sense now jigsaw is unraveled and Imam Shafi just walks away

that's the so he he throws a few spanners in by trying to say that well it's an consensus of the scholars how do we even determine who the scholars are and then he says because there's no scholar except somebody considers image ayat so he says we have no kind of unanimous understanding on who the scholars are so how like this is a spanner major spanner in the works then he throws another spanner by saying well we do these scholars exist like do they exist in the desert do things has

somebody actually gone out and counted all the scholars in the world how could you even do that so these are some major Spanish that Imam Shafi throws in the in in this whole equation and then Imam Ahmed just kills it he just he discussed I got this dollar he says manage my for workers it whosoever claims each man is a liar liar this one liar you know this one isn't so and the irony is you can't get any

more explicit than that and then they just like no but really really he's like Kathy they're like number really really and everybody just ignores what he said so quick like wow yeah and then other people it has them obviously rips the whole argument of each Marta pieces show Kenny problematizes the whole thing I mean many people have spoken up all right people this is a conspiracy now now I'm on conspiracy mode a reading of

this this noise possibly this cannot be happening these people this is a conspiracy this is now now and I'm a conspiracy theorist what is going on god damn it what is going on how can this happen to me three times

surely is this to fulfill the Sunnah what is going on people what is going on should I just as clear had said earlier on just stop paying my bills yes Salaam Mark Zuckerburg what is Maha Maha Yaffe yeah he embraced Islam this I've got no mistaking that this is taking the mick - no I don't know what are these people I think you know what let's get on with

some of the the major stuff because this seems to repeatedly disconnect maybe it's Facebook maybe it's Facebook maybe it's some viruses wait a minute what websites have I been going on I thought he can't so well here we are

people that we're back right now is there such thing as religious narcissism whoa what a question what what a beautiful question the brook the beautiful brother has asked a beautiful question that's the time when you're kind of that's cognitive dissonance you know in the mall Rishabh he's saying the beautiful brother and you're thinking oh am I gonna get done in some am I gonna receive more than

just simply an answer the beauty the beautiful brother you know the beautiful brother has asked a beautiful question you're thinking oh god ease up please please Cary's up no no not those motherís adays again right so so yes of religious narcissism it depends what that means really religious narcissism is in just the gratification of its own ego is that what you mean by it or I don't know what exactly because I can think of many kind

of permutations to what that could mean is it compulsory to place something before first before we place something in front of us whilst praying is it okay - yeah Mars Mars place something in front of us also a praying yeah how do you how do these people manage to stay focused yeah you don't have you can pray anyway you are however you want you do

not need to place something in front of you people play something like they'll they'll stand something erect my my and no pun intended in front of them and they'll just like me I know this is my suit or I'm gonna pray towards know so try yeah doesn't mean it's not the same word as like kamasutra that's a different word altogether just for those of you who they easily distracted I know that from my audience is the easily distracted this is the Arabic word

that's the Sanskrit word okay so it's not different you know this one different so people feel that you need to put something up and you need to pray to it that is not true at all people just pray just relax pray wherever you are just pray and as to walking in front of that person well I mean I don't know why you have to walk him directly in front of the person but if you leave enough space for the person to be able to do so dude then that's fine you can walk from in front and it doesn't mean because I'm praying now

from here to right on the globe 360 that nobody can walk in front of me that would be crazy so it's like just because I'm praying I mean what do I think of how much space do I think I'm gonna need talk about religious narcissism that's like well what do you think like you're like 20 foot tall that you need all that space up to let the just