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salah salat salaah namaz salaat namaaz as-salah al-salah salawat fiqh fiqah fikh hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis ahaadith malik ibn anas malik bin anas imam maalik imam malik ibn anas al-bukhari imam bukhari sahih al-bukhari sahih bukhari saheeh al-bukhari saheeh bukhari imam al-bukhari jumu'ah juma jumma jumah salat al-jumuah friday prayer imaam prayer leader qiblah kiblah kibla direction of prayer ramadhan ramzan ramazan ramadaan eid al-fitr eid al-adha eid ul-fitr eid ul-adha eidul fitr eidul adha bakra eid bari eid choti eid festival ka'bah kaabah masjed masaajid masajid usul al-fiqh usool usool al-fiqh usul ul-fiqh usool ul-fiqh legal theory maaliki malikite malikiyyah maliki school muftis haraam forbidden mubah mubaah mandub mandoob mustahabb mustahab sunna sunnat sunan prophetic practice riba ribaa sood usury shirk shirq mushrikin polytheism iman imaan eemaan eeman hasad hasd akhirah akhira aakhirah akhirat hereafter jahannam jahanam jahannum koran quraan al-quran ayah aya ayat ayaat aayah aayat wahy wahi wahee sahabah sahabi sahabiyyah sahabiyat as-salaf salaf al-salih salaf us-salih al-salaf early generations makka mekka madinah al-madinah madeenah yathrib salafism wahhabi wahabi wahhabism sufis soofi tasawwuf tasawuf tasawwof tariqah tariqa tareeqah turuq tareeqa ulema ulamaa dawa dawat da'ee invitation umma ummat madrasah madrassa madaris madrassah religious school nikah nikkah nikaah nikah nama nikahnama hijaab hejab hijabi in sha allah insha'allah in shaa allah insha allah inshaa allah alhamdulilah al-hamdu lillah alhumdulillah alhamdulillaah hamdulillah ma sha allah masha'allah masha allah mashaa allah bismillah ir-rahman ir-rahim bismillahir rahmanir rahim bismillahi bismillah al-rahman al-rahim as-salamu alaykum assalamualaikum salaams salam alaykum wa alaykum as-salam peace greeting barakat barkat baraqah shukr shukar shukur duaa duaas supplication deen al-din ad-deen ad-din rahmah rahma rahmat

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foreign folks they're fried let me just check that we are alive all right I take it you can hear me all fine and well one momentico let me just get a confirmation whilst I do that I'm just gonna go into uh settings I'll just hear if you guys

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drop a message that you can uh all right so I take it you can hear me fine and well all right Bismillah people

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foreign and I thought

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you know when you just you kind of your you kind of liked almost almost like jet lagged and I'm and then a side of you thinks yeah I because I was thinking it's Wednesday night

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but then I'm thinking ah you know it's ah it's just one of those days you know I don't know if I should go live tonight that's the time you have to do it people hey you know when you when you second guess yourself

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when you doubt yourself whatever it is in life that's the time that you step forward Allah foreign with that thought that is

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[Laughter] wow that is something huh he has a the couplet before that where he says wow

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I hope Allah has blessed you all I mean and he has he certainly has you know it's a this month that has you know there was something I felt special this Ramadan after a while you know I I think it had been quite a while you know if I dear say

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I think in the years that had I I don't know I I been feeling for a few years a not quite the the connect that I would have liked to have felt in Ramadan um you know a few years back

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dear I say you know Allah forgive us that it may have even felt like a drug you know that yeah but last Ramadan there was something of the last Ramadan there was

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somewhat of an Awakening somewhat and this Ramadan was just very different in in a very positive way and I don't mean by that that I sure you know I I try to reconnect with the Quran I try to in in in a personal way but like I could have done a lot more I could have done I just like every other person out there in my own way lazy in my own way

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pathetic but I'm not talking about the quantity of things that were done I'm talking about the quality of experience yeah and I tell you great I felt by the end of Ramadan you know there was a um there was the moon sighting issue at

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the end I you know is there a Ramadan without that but after years here you know after years God when it approached and it was unexpected I was not expecting there to be because everybody began Ramadan together on dare I say that you know with MBS in Saudi Arabia things are slightly changing

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and I didn't think there would be a unexpected announcement of an early Eid but lo and behold there was apparently a sighting from the towns of suder and tomato in Saudi Arabia now in years the first time

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I felt now I you know I I want to fast like a longing that Ramadan is longer and it was for many people I mean I did the 30 days of Ramadan and we but the point being that this but I felt

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and not just for me for people I felt a a cleanse of sorts a spiritual an emotional lens a physical I try to watch my diet watch what I eat a mental a social cleanse I felt it's crazy how I'm telling you there have been portals unlocked during this Ramadan the

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blessings of which will continue to flood our way we will experience it throughout this year I mean yeah but more importantly I thought yeah let's see how the Jamar is doing Allah

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so I got you have an atrocious day night routine I mean I mean may Allah give me a steady schedule to be fair part of what enabled me to do this late visit tonight was the fact that tomorrow in the UK is uh for the most part is a teacher's strike so there's no school [Laughter] so I thought yeah since I'm not going to

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be dropping off my young and to school tomorrow are a little lying although I do have other work and appointments but still I thought he had a little extended why not let's indulge a little Survivor so who do we have online people Kevin Kylie what a name doing it Kevin Mubarak Amy

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Lucy marhaban and me assalamu alaikum we've got all right who have we got here foreign why not why not

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Scorpio how you doing how you doing right Bilal khaja what is going on there's a question here right yes I mean I mean of course of course um

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what is Daniel Daniel not our beloved Daniel from the United States another Daniel Allah keep up the logical rational kind funny flattering me with his words if only there were more people there are there's many people that we are all in many ways but a reflection of each other yeah watching from Houston

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wow Houston we have a problem huh the good old phrase I wonder if people just go around Houston saying that so let me I will be taking on some live chords look at this uh let us hope portals will open for all during Ramadan they were they were it's there's been what's

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this thoughts on the Danny Boy versus inspiring philosophy debate what was the inspiring philosophy debate I I missed these things you know I don't uh just okay yeah unless somebody sends something to me I've kind of I don't find these things that fascinating on their debates and their um I don't find them very meaningful

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I don't even think necessarily A lot of people are that talented in debating but that's a different discussion but I don't find these things very rewarding I don't feel any Baraka in these things so I don't really watch them if somebody sends something to me and maybe if it catches me on a day that I just happen to be lounging about I might actually end up watching it I might so yeah I've not heard of this debate so I don't know what happened in it what were the key

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things maybe somebody will very cringy somebody said it's a debate about what about child marriage uh you know what's that the the allegory of the crabs in a bucket huh you put a crab in a bucket and it tries to and provided it's not

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impossible to climb out of the crab just crawls and crawls and crawls and tries to make its way up but he put a bunch of crabs in the bucket and as one goes up the others kind of pull it down and break its legs so it's like uh this is it huh this is the this is a reflection that's of the Muslim Community at large huh and there's

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child don't tell me for the love of God that they're justifying child marriages I hope not but I dread yes uh basically Daniel was arguing that child marriage is okay um

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yeah you know it's what's this he said his youngest four-year-olds it's permissible ah honestly disgust me to the core you know people say these things they

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no sense of Haya and shadowman you know these [Music] we have to not let these people ruin your you know let them not provoke you with their toxicity because it's very toxic people right they have they're very Radioactive

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and you know I I honestly I wow I would not be sitting in a conversation with someone who's trying to justify to me that a four-year-old that you can marry a four-year-old that person is either mentally deranged or they need to be put in a cage

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now that person is not hmm because you can't that's not a logical conversation to be hard that is just a disease that is disguised as some form of dialogue or discussion or Academia there is no Academia in pedophilia right there is no logical

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discussion about it it's disgusting is a disease okay a mental disease it doesn't matter if the person prays five times a day it is a matter of the person is not a Muslim it doesn't matter what faith they are a part of this is not a discussion to be had yeah may Allah give and just you know me Allah bless the Muslims to to with his light that they may find it you

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know I don't understand why people gravitate towards such um you know just such words of monstrosity like why do people find comfort in that live it I don't know I don't want to know I don't want to know so yeah so hmm

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it is um but you also find you know in a way it's these things are a reflection of a a much greater issues because you have to remember that these people that go around saying these things they are only in that position because the people Empower them the people want to watch them they like them that these people have an immense following

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so people obviously like them they you know people support them fund them and so yeah so I guess it's it's it's not the just these particular individuals it's the people at Large yeah hmm but hey let's not preoccupy our Minds with these people

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this is Johnny experienced trauma that generally causes a sense of lack of control in life control that particular rendition of Islam your male life he suffered trauma I've heard about you know his sister and the tragedy may Allah bless her afterlife may Allah Grant him his army make things easy for him make things easy for his family I mean these things are for anyone these things are um catastrophic tragedies that would turn anybody's entire existence on its head

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Okay so you know may Allah make things easy and soothe soothe that pain sometimes there is a that you know and this isn't about him specifically this is just generally you know there's this saying that that hurt people hurt people

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that there is a pain that sometimes people have and they may be justified in having their pain but unless they relinquish unless they heal unless that pain they allow through those wounds the light the transcendental light to reveal itself

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they unintentionally un you know unwillfully visit that pain onto other people around them hey let's you know may Allah Grant healing to each and all I mean I mean

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right let's not there's a lot of comments about Daniel let's enough enough don't don't you know you know if you can't speak well of someone just be silent let them be let them find their own paths you know at most what you can do is you can make the art for someone may Allah you know may a lot bless them with his light it's a different paradigm

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yeah let them be focus on yourself you know yeah right did you watch the marathon interviews nobody didn't laughs what are the difference do you have beef with Muhammad hijab to I have beef with Muhammad now I don't have beef with Muhammad my

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yeah no I don't know I have been in touch with Muhammad hijab for nice you know I it's been maybe coming up to almost two years now to thunder and we do have some mutually good friends so some you know good friends of mine are also good friends of his uh but no no I don't I think what you're referring to

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is probably the incident that about which is about two years ago and yes I was very upset very upset with Muhammad hijab at the time um and one to other people yeah because it was wrong you know it was very irresponsible what they did and they you know maybe not with the maybe they I accept you know they said that look we didn't

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want you know that's not what we ever intended but they really fueled at the time a very powerful hate campaign against me very powerful hate that means you know obviously Muhammad hijab has a huge following huge so for him to make short videos cutting out a I think a 15 second clip twisting it and and then even saying I'm not even aware I said these words that that was highly irresponsible at the time highly and it wasn't just highly irresponsible it

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actually it um it catalyzed the entire hate that was going on so yes I at the time did hold him in part responsible although I accept he wasn't directly involved and I also accept that he you know may not have wanted something like that to have happened I accept that but it's also undeniable that his role catalyzed what happened he was one of the catalysts

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unbeknownst you know sure people do things but they you know maybe they don't think before they do the kind of how huge this will go so yeah so at the time I was but that's about that's now just going about two years ago but you know there's something in our theme we have this concept called toffee which is connected to the word tawa Folk in Arabic a coming together

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and in Psychology in jungian Psychology you have this uh this thing that I'm explaining explained by Carl Jung a synchronicity synchronicity that a series of events comes together in a way that they may not be a direct cause and effect between them but they come together in a way and Carl Jung referred to that as synchronicity in his lectures and and this in Arabic this tawa Folk okay

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on this I must say that that at that time after the incident I did um you know I for a while took a break and uh from social media I just spent more time with my with my family but I also spent more time just um reflectively on things and I also sought the council in those weeks and months that followed and sued

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uh the Council of certain you know spiritual people and one of the best advice you know that that was worth its weight in gold to me at the time was that I have to learn to let go that I must not Harbor and it was one of the most difficult things to do at the time that I must not Harbor negativity towards people that this

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if I can overcome that hurdle if I can do that that then and only then will there be a different arm and it was incredibly difficult at first but I did I learned to let go of it all and I what I was advised by this person it's very you know who's whose spirituality I

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take dearly and he said to me that look to let go you must make Dua for them because it costs you nothing to make Dua for them but if you can wish well for someone in their absence with nobody around just you can do it and you don't even like them let's say let's say you're angry with someone like this person as you know I've had an argument with them or that person I've had a rail with them or this person has had a conflict with you or they fired you from work or they've done this to you or they've done that to you or maybe

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you've but you have this ah in your heart that's the last person on Earth you want to wish anything well for but if you can do that if you can do that you will see the floodgates of Allah's Mercy open upon your world but you must you know it's crazy because it's it's like it costs you nothing yet it's as though it costs you your life and the world to do it but if you do it

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everything around you will start to transform and and that's something that I then went through that if I can call it a journey and yes so I by the end of it um yeah I did you know I had no uh ill feelings towards anyone I you know and I did I messaged all of these people many people I messaged and some maybe direct and some through people I messaged them so and I

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expressed this and that I've you know let go and I do make Dua may Allah bless them and you know keep them happy I mean so yeah so yeah so coming to that's now probably been about you know over a year and a half ago so it's been a long time and yeah and I saw you know the person that said that to me they weren't they were wrong you know you need faith in life isn't it they said to me you will see

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a universe of Allah's Mercy opening upon you in ways that you could never have imagined just take the step I'm so glad I did I wish them well Nami so yeah coming to the question um

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foreign [Music] you will always be the one and that changed my whole outlook on religion it is a law that changes and it is you that takes the step in that direction see there is a beautiful hadithi that when my person takes one step

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towards me or her will Come Running towards you that is Allah I see yeah so right Andrew barroco what a name Morocco I like it from a third-party Christian Perspective why do people hate on the mat doesn't us so much that such fascinating akrida in my honest opinion

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um all right so that's a fascinating question or have been a an incredible and invaluable contribution to the Islamic Legacy of intellectual thought unquestionably unquestionably I think what's happened along the way is people have you know because of sectarianism the sectarian turf wars have naturally done a lot of damage to to any religion any and Islam is no exception to that you

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know sectarianism is a cancer and yeah it and and the way that said you know it's interesting because if you if you take a look at the matazilla despite right now now there is something which people forget to they are all too quick and forgetting were extremists like you have to remember that as well but the latter day Mata Zila kind of uh I think they tried to shy away from the extremism angle they didn't denounce it because they still write in their books

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about it like how the Abdul-Jabbar in is you have to remember the first principle of the first they have the first principle is that if you commit a sin any sin in Islam you are no longer a Muslim so that that is a goddamn extremistry they they say you're not exactly a full-on curfew but you're not a Muslim either so they invented a Purgatory state known as and this is the first hustle of the usual so that's the first principle that

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all matazilla must abide by now that you know as far as principles go is bloody extreme yeah so they were extremists however I think with time they they didn't deny that extreme element of them but they kind of delved more and more into um intellectual um you know kind of debates and um yeah just Wizardry one could say intellectual

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Wizardry they were phenomenal in there so some of the leading grammarians were all matazilla the nahuyan uh it's you know the people of surf you had they were phenomenal in the the kind of reasoning and logic and and not to forget that people like um yeah what is uh

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you know um the uh God it's on the tip of my tongue foreign let's not forget that it's it's been documented in uh in in our times as one of the contributory thoughts to towards quantum mechanics of the future

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was one of the the the um the kind of precursors to quantum mechanics it's it's great you know it's like these people they were something yeah you know of and and what's fascinating is the early ulaman did not for generally speaking called him would not refer to these people as car Foods they would referred sure they considered them you know a different sect they themselves were a difference act there's no denying that but they but they were not called car Phil like

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people didn't say these people are car fields and maybe some people did but the most of the imams and the early ulama of this ummah did not declare them kofar so that's very telling as well how the ummah um you know how it liaised with one another of course and other people yeah

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right it is amazing to learn from Allah bless you how can anyone need counseling during struggles no matter being a spiritual teacher how knowledgeable you are how anyone can meet counseling professional help during struggles yeah no of course every but we all need it you know um I think you know there's a beautiful verse of the Quran

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that remind one another why that a reminder it is of benefit to those who have faith so of course of course you know um yeah we all I must say I do I really value as well you know beyond just like

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the kind of recourse I have to whether it's going to be spiritual guidance from certain people or whether it's going to be just counsel from Friends like I do value my circle of friends it's a very you know it's it's it's a priceless kind of uh comfort in life to have true friends that are on not only all is it a very healthy space of like-minded individuals

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but it's also people who who grow and they want to watch other people grow they don't carry Envy hatred negativity toxicity um yeah I don't think I I'm a very social person so I I can't imagine life without a healthy Circle of friends they say you are the average of what you know of your five friends if you just select five like you are an average amongst them so it is imperative that you have a

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healthy circle of friends people that you can connect to people that you can just have an honest conversation with people that you can throw your thoughts up they won't just shut you down you know people that won't break you down it's important the amount of people this is another tragedy that I I see so many people who don't actually have a circle of friends like they have like they have friends but they're not actually like solid solid kind of friends they're just like maybe they have what one two friends

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that they could I don't know maybe go somewhere with or something but not in the true meaning of the word which is um which is a shame really which is a shame yeah I would that's something I would advise everyone that cultivate grow a circle of friends if you don't have one grow it you must have a circle not just one or two a circle of friends and maybe you know

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you have common interests you have maybe common goals maybe you're different you don't have to have the same type of girls like maybe everybody what everybody wants to prosper and Thrive and be successful but the manifestation of that may be different for different people you know for you it might be one thing for that person it might be you know maybe they they want to prosper in a career maybe this person in a business maybe this person in an art maybe this person you know but there's a yeah and it so that is something really important

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yeah right did I miss let me see some questions that I missed what's this Mufti Sab those negative videos inadvertently directed me to your channel and I've learned a lot respect for you I hope people could make their own mind up rather than being swayed well may Allah bless them I mean I mean uh right

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right what are we uh some people would would I go on a Resort a retreat or Resort if all expenses were paid for message me with it once it's done

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yeah how was my eat yeah it was good it was good aha all right what is uh friends don't grow on trees Mufti yeah of course not you have to cultivate them yeah cultivated people right what are the sources that permit earrings for men

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right I've got an old I've got an old video that goes through all of that in detail so you can just watch the video yeah it will yeah let me all right Nifty Sab your advice regarding approaching prayer with gratitude has made me value prayer much more just like I love the Hashem Allah bless you for those that um aren't we that I did make a book um

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in the last for the last 10 nights of Ramadan I put a uh it's it's a brief ebook I'd put it up on my website www dot muftiabulays.com and you can go there and just sign up for it and just follow the instructions and it'll download and it'll come to your email and it was just some five simple steps to make any Dua come true so they are simple yet highly effective steps

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so yeah if you haven't already signed up and when you go for the book to the website It'll ask you to sign up and what I will be doing as well is uh more um I will be sending kind of I will be sending certain insights and thoughts uh via email to the emails I get um in the coming weeks inshallah so do sign up if you haven't already one you can get the book and that's great but two you'll also be a part of that when I do start sending out emails

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all right so hmm did I did I share the uh the link no I didn't right okay see here's me thinking I've already shared it all right okay others sign ups paused I I okay excellent Scorpio do you look into that awesome um all right I've shared the link how to join the show MD

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Al Amin who's saying [Music] all right what are your thoughts on pray Allah to look dark assalamu alaikum love from wherever that is but Allah bless you I mean amen [Music]

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right what is going on people [Music] right oh God hi hi you know what I should have done is brought a bit of uh a bit more Mufti have you read the cosmic serpent I have by Jeremy Nabi yeah it was a brilliant book um

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I it was that book was recommended to me and the whole class uh when we were on a psychology conference um by Dr David Luke and I must say it was during it was you know during his kind of his seminar his kind of presentation that he brought that book up the cosmic serpent it is I absolutely loved it it it does have a slight build up to it that you know you can halfway if you don't finish it it's you can kind of

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miss the point so he is going to tie up all the Loose Ends but towards the end of the chapters I mean towards the end of the book so you can kind of halfway be thinking Hmm well where is this going and what's the but he ties it up pretty well in the end and I was very impressed so yeah I loved it absolutely um

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mostly can I gift a friend of fragrance of course yeah of course you can gift a friend a fragrance uh right speaking of fragrances and I'm well into my fragrances but I was just discussing with someone that it's been a while now I've not come across something so you know just wow you know like that they all seem to still be the more or less the classics and I haven't really come across anything so spectacular of late maybe I'm just getting out of

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sync with some of the things I need to um yeah I need to kind of like maybe explore more but yeah I do you know I do love the uh tiziana trenzi kind of house cook um collections they some amazing spectacular stuff right there but once again nothing knew that caught my attention

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all right what is this Ali Javed I just love music so much but I struggle so much because I'm sinning I tried to stop listening just can't quit your videos literally changed my life thank you okay may Allah make things easy huh

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foreign [Laughter] what's the uh what's the the other ah yeah slipped my mind but yeah I slipped my mind the poems [Music]

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We are following you from Bangladesh Allah Allah greetings from the brothers who follow Malik of Bangladesh may Allah bless you all I must say I'm very yeah I'm kind of so just just ecstatically joyful of how the school of Medina has um in these recent years been spreading its light into the east yeah I like Bangladesh I'm really wowed

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by that and and Pakistan as well to some extent but I feel that some of the brothers in Bangladesh or some of them they are really on it like I'm just really impressed with them like they've got a channel dedicated to it they've had stuff they've concentrated effort it's just wow it's yeah who'd have thought who'd have thought you know something else on it on a separate note that I've been really um so drawn to in these recent times

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exploring the legacy of the early Muslims to the Indian subcontinent and by that especially the the you know the great Legends the Sufi legends that went there I'm telling you something something happened in the collective consciousness around the kind of you know if we're talking like maybe uh the 600s

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600 700 this Evra something happens that is so huge like you see all these people emerging you know from the from the lake sorry 500s going into the 600s into the 700s this era you will find the likes of these great saints that emerge you know this time of people like um you will see

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you'll see but you'll also see since the time of Abdul qadri learning but you'll also see the Indian subcontinent um Scholars who are like these Giants emerging like um you'll you'll get who I was really exploring his whole Legacy and it's just been so wow he emerges from the from the near East and at the same time as people like Rumi

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and all of these people are all this is that era and then he comes to India and it's amazing like it comes to this place ajmer in Rajasthan and he travels through and um it's just wow that this whole Legacy what they set into motion you have around that era you have people like uh shajal whose uh junior to um

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but who goes off to Bangladesh and you'll have people that come after you'll have people like um um uh you and you've probably heard these names like you'll have nizamuddin oliya you'll have uh Baba Farid you'll have all of these people and there's so many more that are emerging and many of whom by the way um you'll have bahautin Zakaria these

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people were part of the Sahara bringing that there and you have this whole Enlightenment era of Islam and it's interesting somebody was mentioning music in the comments that it was actually um who they argue introduced music into the chisti kind of order the Sufi order as a part of the dawah and at his hands they say like approximately something like 900 000 people you know like whether these numbers are exaggerated but

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countless people Embrace Islam and it's like wow and even though these people were Scholars but it wasn't the Academia that was bringing people it was this light that they brought with them it was that Humanity the character the love that they stood for that this is what really made people Rush towards them and I've just honestly it's so wild just going through this

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stuff this Legacy yeah it is something amazing and I think this stuff isn't truly um in its you know with you with due diligence I don't feel it's actually spoken of much or taught like I feel these great figures who introduced Islam into these huge you know areas that were people in swathes you know came to Islam I feel that this isn't really taught to people like the Indian subcontinent

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it's like we have a huge Amnesia of what happened with Islam like we have the last 150 years where there's going to be these splits and people will say oh there's been the these groups and denominations and this that you'll have that madrasa and the Really madrasa and the aliyadis madrasa and it's as if you go back and then they'll they'll just be silent almost and then they'll say well they'll shall we Allah a few hundred years back if you go to the 1700s and then it'll just be quiet again but these people were huge you know

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these were the real people that brought Islam to to that region on yeah you know the great Amir khasra he's from the generation after he's influenced by an uh by the students of um you know huaja minotin and so these people share is a huge figure and I feel that these things really should be explored I will in coming time inshallah share some of these things more with you and and how they are all so intricately tied together

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so yeah let's um write what is going on [Music] right we've got a bunch of people let me check that may have tuned in let me just check and bring up that we have indeed

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all right we've got here let's see who do we have forgoti assalamu alaikum well how are you doing I'm good I'm good where are you joining us from yeah I'm from Dhaka Bangladesh and I'm from the market group that you just spoke about in Bangladesh so it's really nice to see you just after the heat perfect Allah bless you in Aid Mubarak to you and everyone there Masha love ah so wow

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you're a part of that you know I've been really uh wowed by your efforts in Bangladesh you know I really admire them this that the way you guys have kind of pulled together with this effort for the school of Medina I I feel that even though in your time this is probably just you know it's it's it's exciting it's learning it's developing and you know it may even be fun but in the years to come this will be a legacy this this will have a inshallah a generational uh blessing in Baraka um

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yeah yeah did you mind if I ask you I was going to answer What attracted you guys to the school of Medina all the way in all the way in in Dhaka yeah how did the light from Madina the school of Medina how did you guys catch it over there talk to me sure sure so there's a symbolic uh aspect to this so the mother of the school of Medina spread towards the West Islamic but it's ironic that uh the mushrik where the sun is supposed to rise from

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there so I thought we thought it was time that something happened and and as you were speaking about I mean Sufism I love it yes said that uh the one of the signs of the Judgment Day that many signs the Sun would rise from the West he interpreted this as that the knowledge and so yeah everything is happening from the West there was something it something has to happen from from the Bay of bengalia wow watching the sun rise with this whole

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Legacy from there is something else yeah definitely and um the theoretical aspect of this I mean the academic side of things is that uh I personally am a truth Seeker I was going to different schools and interpretations of Islamic law and jurisprudence and went through their philosophies the methodology I mean the usul and found that and also through my journey I found out that there are many I I would say I don't know if it's the right word holes loopholes I mean something that other methodologists couldn't explain fully but I find found that the school of

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Medina and basically your lectures helped me a lot I mean the methodology that we have for for differentiating between Sunnah and hadees and how the practice it should be given more status on a should be held with more strength this is something that resolved for me a lot of questions that I had for example bukhari Muslim this books and how they did not reflect many of the things that we people here we are mostly hannifies here doing but but the approach of this

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it explained a lot of things for example the the Hadith collection that that movement that you speak about quite often and the problems that it had it definitely tried to solve many problems but it was not foolproof so everything came together and I think this is the way forward and also the scholars leading Scholars of the Maliki effect in the East and in the west basically I mean in the Arab world and also in the western I mean Europe and America there are some people that we look up to for

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where you live in England they are definitely people who have I mean great great vision and I think they speak to our hearts directly and people here they have a lot of baggages and they don't see through that so I think all of this as you say tawfiq synchronicity it all came together and we think that yeah let's just start with it oh wow I'm glad shukran for sharing that with me because I I appreciate that that's uh yeah and it is something because you know it's not just a um

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you know this is not just something like this is not a sect or a denomination or a this is an entire Legacy dating back to the very era of the salaf and it's something that has so much uh it's full of legitimacy and and just and and just so much uh wisdom and and knowledge as well and you know somebody sent me this somebody sent me the the other day of video and yeah who was it who was it

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that sent it to me but they they but it'll come to me but they said oh look um you know um I think oh I think it was from um Germany but it was the video clip was by uh what's his name uh the American Saudi I believe is Saudi but yes so now he's asked a question that why did Imam Malik pray with his hands at the side and so his hands were broken yeah yeah so he goes on to explain

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you know with his Infinite Wisdom uh as as the true you know wise man that he is he says look uh he says that what it is is that Imam Malik because he opposed the ruler of the age he was beaten had his shoulders dislocated and because his students some of them or many of them were not very intelligent this is what he actually says he says because Imam Malik's students were not very intelligent they couldn't tell so they thought oh Imam Malik's praying with his hands at the side and they thought that must be the

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Sunnah so they started praying with their hands at the side not aware that Imam Malik can't lift his hands because his arms are dislocated right so this is yeah yeah it was so you know a person listening to this doesn't know whether to laugh or cry at the at the state of and then he said look we don't follow anybody you know we we respect we don't disrespect the imams we respect them but we only follow Quran

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you know you gotta love the slogans that they say because they're so catchy you know like we only follow Quran but the truth is now you see this the truth is that that's not the case like they are not it's not that they are following Quran or Sunnah sure they everybody is following Quran or Sunnah but they are following the interpretation of the Quran was Sunnah as dictated to them by the scholars who of recent times let's say maybe people like

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what they mean you know manager the Saleh who was dictated by their teachers going back to Muhammad Abdul wahab and then really just building this movement from the interpretations of ibnetsami and even okimo Josiah that is all it is it's not that you see it's not that they have some kind of a special access to everybody that reads something is reading it through a through a lens like there's no such thing as an unadulterated unfiltered access to Revelation it

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doesn't work that way every person that reads the Quran reads scripture or reads or accesses the Sunnah they are accessing it through a lens through a kind of the and the lens may be their lens or it may be one that their shares have given to them so but it is always a lens and it's so surprising that a person that this very concept is beyond reach for them like to be unaware of One's Own biases is it's it's that's like that's so

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crippling and so infantile to be that unaware that so for a person to think I unlike the rest of the people I have unadulterated unfiltered pure uh access to the Divine as the divine intense that's well that's not how it works because however you see when I read the Quran or you read the Quran we're reading it with our eyes with our minds that are understanding what's being said now each person will always have some filter some lens some biases just as we all do just as the school of

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Medina has its own biases which are the Medina biases but it's not so everybody has another question is will you choose you know choose your tools like choose your butt choose your lens but the claim that I have no lens is one of you know delusional grandiosity like that that is just like somebody that is so blind to their own biases that they don't even realize it's like no everybody wears a lens we are all wearing a lens we're wearing one according to the school of Medina you're wearing one according to the school of

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you know the ulama of of najt and of you know the the salafi school let's say you're wearing one according to that so that's fine you know you you welcome to yours we're welcome to ours they will come to this but to have this thing that you know oh Imam Malik and his students must have been pretty dumb that they uh you know like it is through his students that they had these Hadith in bukhari you know the these same students that he's calling dumb are some of the

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greatest declares all these people thicker you know this they these people it is through this that the Hadith Legacy reaches the mahadithin project right Abdullah was one of the greatest of his time the student with Malik for 30 years you know to to just I I I heard that and I thought yes I don't know whether to laugh or cry and yeah yeah sure very nicely put one common thing that also uh the school of Medina reconces between many of the things is

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that one pattern that you'd see when you present the action or the animal of a mother and these salafis would say maybe the Imam this Hadith didn't reach the Imam for other schools it's quite difficult to say uh that well it may be the case that the Hadith didn't reach him and so he did not act upon this but for Imam Malik the muata is a living example of this he has the Hadith and it's he says that we have an ammo a continuous uh action a practice and we think that it's stronger so we'll go with this so for Imam Malik and the school of Medina it's quite

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straightforward so this epistemological consistency that uh the Malik mother mother has I think is a great strength yeah absolutely and it's not to say that the you see it's like when this is the whole point that it's not to say that the other opinions if based on Hadith are not based on Hadith Imam Malik never rejected you know never said he said but you know they may be when when he's asked that look oh the Adan is different or how come you guys do this different or how come for example uh there's a walk to the world in uh in most of the methods that you're not allowed to pray

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during this you know the Zenith prayer now in Medina they said that there's no such Amal upon this right so there is no such thing I mean obviously there's a walk to the world but it's not Haram to pray in what does the world because that's how the people of Medina from the time of the Prophet were doing it so now this is this is the Medina it's the living creation of Medina so the school of Medina is not to say that well you guys don't have a valid practice but it's to say that sure but this is the tradition which my teachers that Imam Malik is saying

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inherited from their grandparents who were the companions who lived right here and were buried here and this is where the Prophet lived and passed away right here so we have the living tradition so his point is well sure I'm not trying to say you know you welcome to you know and have yours you know but this it's you know a beautiful thing is um when the person says to him that uh you know I want to learn about Islam and he says you know uh you know he says you know that why

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that you must then take up residence Bill Medina foreign came here it was revealed in Medina inherited in a collective practice and taught here now show you we accept people had different perspectives and they went off but you know if you had to pick one yeah and it also goes to show you the

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importance of context so not Malik was saying that you you don't only need the text but you also need the context so here's the action here is the city here is the practice here's the environment things that were like this so it gives that context that is missing from a just text only reading and you know just to and I'll wrap this because I know we've spoken a lot now but just because I began by giving the example of Hakim and saying when he was asked about subtle and he came up with Imam Malik's shoulders were dislocated you see this just goes to show the lack of scholarship

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like it just goes to show like look so for example the fact that either this person doesn't know or selectively conceals but that you could look through them you know you could look through them much more of Noah we you could look through the books of each man you could look through the you know the uh you could look through you could look through any major comprehensive uh book that gives detail of different aqual you could go through the tamheed of you could go through you would know that when it came to dropping the hands at the side which we call sadal in the

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Malik and the others call it irsan right the uh saddle that this was practiced that this was not only transmitted from certain companions but let's just say whose mother was it it was said it was you know it was transmitted from from uh you've got it from laithub and sad you've got it from um Ibrahim if I haven't mentioned him but also one of the opinions within the humbly method like you've got you've got obviously it's the method of Imam Malik like what

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were all of these people's shoulders pulled out I mean was and this this thing that Imam Malik's shoulders were pulled out is absurd I mean whether his shoulders got injured in the in the beating I don't you know me it's possible but generally his shoulders during his lifetime were fine like whether they were injured or not during a particular thing I don't know but the point is during his lifetime he lived a reasonably healthy long life his shoulders were working fine he could move his arms you know he used to teach right up until his final you know his final kind of dying moments he would hold a class he would have the books he

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would kind of bring students in he would trade he was a successful Trader he was not dislocated and like disabled sitting at home he wasn't I mean whether he had injuries he did have injuries uh during that point but they weren't in the some people have said that some people have argued I get it that's something because Imam Malik uh refrained from attending the Masjid for the last 25 years of his life so so people try to make sense of that so he wouldn't really go to the jummah or anything now so the issue was that

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well why did Imam Malik not do this and so some people said uh when they asked Imam Malik his actual response was he just doesn't want to talk about it so now the some people said well maybe he suffered from incontinence like maybe his bladder got damaged when they whipped him and beat him and so some people tried to come up with this as an now that's not the response that Imam Malik himself gives when they ask him so because he continues to teach at home he teaches every day in fact he has three segments of the day he divides it into he teaches Hadith he teaches he sits

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outside he has his kind of chair he sits inside and does the Hadith and so now he himself in one of the narrations speaks about the he says he hints to words that if he's that he sees things he's not happy with and he's the type of person that he feels that he can't be silent like he will just you know he'll get irritated and he'll just speak and so you know what he's not going to even put himself in that position so this is what it hints towards that's called The Yacht shows in the tortable madari but I just thought wow like how can you not know

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all of these ulama in Islam had this position of and just think it's one person's but yeah and an awesome Name by the way thanks thank you so right okay we'll stay in touch Allah bless you salaam alaikum Bangladesh with the whole Medina School Revolution going on over there we've got here Muhammad Muhammad Hussain I take it right let me

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just assalamu alaikum Muhammad Hussein I can't hear you uh I think you might have it on mute how are you I'm good I'm good you see where are you joining us from you had it on mute but although I'm sure we could have still heard you from our hearts and souls that are connected for sure I'm also joining you from Dhaka Bangladesh I was going to Ben and it's excited you just messaged me that um our series on live so you know what I'm

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gonna I'm gonna have to visit Dhaka Bangladesh oh I was just like okay I can go to the bank later I have to connect with uh don't worry see whilst you're sitting here gracing us with your presence and more Allah is putting barakah in your bank account don't worry about it I was uh you know we are trying to spread us School of Medina in our country and it's been three years and we're always in depth to you because the first response and support uh gave to us

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is you because we had this issue with you know the mudawana issue and we had I made a video on it yeah yeah that was the first one and then mashallah we've got uhbal yeah such I'm so I'm so happy and glad honestly really it gives happiness to my heart that you have access to share sidiq pal because you know Chef Sidi Iqbal is sometimes uh you know he's he's just because he's low profile and he just does his thing and sometimes he's like well no I just do this and this is all I teach and you know he's not so

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sometimes if like I asked him on the show can some other people join your class and he said no and I thought wow so this is you see so I'm so glad that you guys have that yeah this because I the thing is amazing about him is his humbleness he's really humble whenever I message him he replies back and he never knows anyone's messages like um it's really amazing because I can imagine like how many people is messaging him every day and you know I think yes

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yeah for sure exactly you know years ago let me tell you you know uh Muhammad you know years ago yeah you know you know in our slightly up Giovanni you know when we were slightly younger shall we say I sometimes um right I would you know I'm into I've always had this thing that I I love learning like rare and interesting kind of things that are like wow okay eye-catching and they're gems like you don't expect them and and I would end up learning all these kind of inner descents and differences and

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amazing opinions that some you know Malik is had in the possory school of the malikis and in the baghdadi school and in and you know this one time I remember learning something quite like unique that I was like so like I know oh like does I doubt it any people you know would know this kind of stuff you know you get a bit you know in in the days of when knowledge is is a bit it's a bit fresh and often we get beguiled by the ego you see so I was thinking uh yeah

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what I know so one of the days I went to visit and when I was there at his house so you know by the way where he lives in Birmingham was the street where I grew up so now now I obviously live on a different end of the city but that's the street where I grew up so I I went to but this is at a later stage where I've done all my Mufti studies and everything and I'm Maliki so I'd gone to visit him and this one time in between whilst I'm talking I thought time to kind of undrop drop my you know like drop an illum bomb I thought I thought I'm gonna surprise

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him and I said to him you know I said uh you know I was reading about uh and I open up this muscle honestly I was shocked to know that not only did he know the Masala he knew the people that I was speaking about like historically he knew that I was really I was humbled I thought yeah here's me thinking I'm some kind of like a oh like I've I'm doing it but there honestly he he isn't he isn't he is an ocean in what he what he has I think there are the best uh the best part and the scary part of him is

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whenever he says that um I never take any gifts from students yeah yeah because it doesn't take yeah yeah never I tried to uh text him several times and I stopped that's uh I want to give you something and I stopped because he would say no so I was really scared the suits and I was uh yeah that's that's the thing I was trying and he doesn't and he doesn't take any he doesn't charge he doesn't uh you know years ago in my teens I started studying Arabic with him and at one point I started working so I was having some you

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know for the time some money coming in and so I said to him oh I should I took some money to pay him and I must have been only 17. and he said to me I remember like I was sitting in his front room and I put some money out and he said to me what's that for so I said sure you know it's to kind of pay you for and he said he said put it away and he said that I and he said like he said to me don't do that don't do that again and he he just said to me that look I don't uh I don't take money for for this and yeah and until today he has you know in

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all right he has the right to every person like it's not you know look in Islam I know that Malachi have written on this quite uh extensively um that you there's no harm in Islam in um in taking in charging for your time there's no harm like in fact it's a better value and it frees people up because obviously they have to make a living they either have to be out there working or they can whilst they're teaching charge and then that allows them to free time that in fact it even makes people like to be honest I I personally feel it makes people more committed

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you know when like like let's say for example if I was to open like look down here we've got my patreon now my patreon offers one-to-ones with people now but it will charge them now very openly when I've been asked about this I've said one I value my own time but two I know only people who are serious and committed are gonna come I would get anyone that would just jump like if I just said you know what I'll just teach yeah I'll just be on here I'll get everyone just coming and they'll just be time wasters there'll be people who just want to argue with you there'll be people who just want to uh debate there'll be people who just want to maybe just I

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don't know just they've got nothing better and they'll be genuine people as well but you see when you put up some value on it it filters everything else but but that said Iqbal has been consistent in these last you know almost like I don't know 30 years office foreign so it's amazing that we we can connect with this kind of people and thanks to you that we actually got his name from you on Monday night for one of the Monday night so yeah but because it really in a in a bad situation because

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we didn't have any uh teacher no and we are trying to kick-start uh uh you know that's a very big thing yeah it is yeah and he's I'm so glad I'm honestly I'm so glad alhamdulillah that he's uh yeah that you guys have that access but yeah awesome stuff I was saying I appreciate it and yeah much love to you guys man in Bangladesh Dhaka I and I see this sun just shining from there that you know what some point some point we're gonna have to come visit

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we'll try to sponsor the whole trip foreign yeah that's it's been a lot on that but you see it's just coincidental it was just Serendipity people that's what it is this was unplanned it was this tawfiq and synchronicity we have Lucy wind

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Jones oh salaam alaikum Lucy yeah I'm fine thanks mifty and you um yeah I've been sharing in Discord about some monuments facing Mecca like ancient British and Irish monuments that have alignments to Mecca on them okay I've not seen that did you share it on the group did you yeah yeah I shared it on Discord so I'm just trying to okay yeah well I'll check that later but yeah sure if you can screen share that would be great yeah

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yeah so I'm just yeah this is the furthest I can zoom into here I I cannot yeah just yet Okay Okay so we've got that there what are we looking at talk to us Lucy okay so where the hands icon is that's one stone at Stonehenge on one side of the stone circle and here's another stone at the opposite side and that aligns to the Qibla is it is it not to the Equinox as well as well yeah yeah I think so but there is an Irish monument that aligns just to that is that the Qibla as well

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yes sorry is this Stonehenge or is this an island this is Stonehenge as Amesbury locations so the Stonehenge I think these uh like you know the these far out kind of uh megaliths that are standing I if I recall correctly I believe they also uh align perfectly with the Equinox yeah um they they do so so surprise so if Qibla is also in that direction wow okay

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yes it is is it yeah the Kibler is the same direction as per the diagram wow okay that's very fascinating indeed so people if you're visiting Stonehenge and you're not sure which way the cribler is don't climb on top just don't knock over those Mega lit structures it'll kind of knock them over in a domino effect but right at least you now know that that they are pointing towards the people were there any others as well or

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was it just this one okay I'm just trying to find a diagram of Dom beg I might be mispronouncing the Irish Gaelic I'll just need to screen share again so I'm just going I'm just going to um okay I'm just going to the here just waiting yeah this scumbag spring this like Stonehenge it follows the same pattern there's these two stones let me add one moment right there we are right okay so where is this Dom bag Stone Circle in Ireland I might be missing okay wow okay there are

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slightly different and it is not towards the Equinox so the kimchi oh yeah it doesn't show the Qibla or exactly but it's not towards the Equinox which thus proves my thing which way which way would the Qibla be here okay it's going to be that where the red line is yeah where the red line is here and it starts from this Stone here where my mouse pointer is to this Stone here yeah okay that's the Qibla yeah and yeah I um yeah it was it was quite a shock when I discovered this and yeah I yeah I

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actually found it out through through some dreams I had but I don't have to go okay I don't wish to go down the rabbit hole of dreams and stuff as that's a whole other rotations yeah and yeah I had I kept on having dreams about monuments having alignments to macarons then I realized I did my research and realized Stonehenge has an alignment to Maca I saw various prophets piece of people upon them in dreams not that I anyway okay I'm just embarrassed that I told said that but it is it is no need to be embarrassed

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not at all yeah lonzetta just said I'll use Stonehenge as a Sutra you know sutras were people basically they have something in front Souls people can pass by and they pray so yeah well okay I see right yeah this uh hmm some people have said that it's a miracle at what's your take on that what the the directionality of these things and the Qibla is that or something oh are you talking about something else oh the exact same

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topic on stage okay yeah right well I wouldn't say that well first of all I mean these things would see the question is some of these structures May predate uh depends on our understanding of how far back the Qibla is going but the obviously the very recent Kaaba they would clearly predate all of them um going back several thousands of years now I'm sure some of these structures would predate uh Ibrahim now

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who's we're placing let's say Ibrahim approximately about 4 000 years ago so some of these May predate that now the question would be that okay was there a so some people have argued that their Ibrahim is already uh building the Kappa on a structure that already uh even if it doesn't wasn't fully there but he's kind of dug out the foundations of something that was there and he was built on top of that so you know what is

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so this now so if there was a previous or probably existing Foundation that was built by someone before so now some people have said that may go right back to Adam Ali Salam or may go to other people or he may go to other people let's say before Ibrahimovic but the point is that okay let's say so now the question is that these point to like one of them with the Equinox let's say it's pointing to uh the same

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direction as Makkah do I think that they um that is a miracle miracle I would think it's more asynchronicity of events that it's more a Harmony that you know prior people had with relation to uh you know Direction and a kind of a sanctity of directions so you do find that this is you know if you go about many thousands of years there seems to be people are more in tune with that so even that now this is the thing

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you see even the Kappa that is then built so the Kappa is built in a certain shape now it's very likely that what was the foundations that let's say Ibrahim is building upon was not in the shape of a cube that was just some Foundation which Ibrahim al-islam is building then as a cube but you see the direction of the Kaaba itself like I don't mean I mean the actual Kappa itself so Ibrahim has built it or in a way that you see the wall that the Kaaba points towards

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the the it points towards the star so hail which is cannabis now and that's an important point so in in the Arabian Peninsula after uh Sunset cannabis is the uh arguably the brightest star that you see right on the horizon so it's in that direction so all of the classical the very classical Muslim Scholars who speak about how to find the direction of the Qibla before you had compasses so before composite so compasses don't appear till a few

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hundred years after Islam so prior to that how were they determining the Qibla now they will say well okay broad Direction so you have to remember that in the time of the the prophet sallallahu the the the way of orienteering direction is very different to how we have it today so today we have a very clear thing like north east south west and these directions and then some people then broke them off into you know the the kind of uh Northwest Northeast and so on but you have to remember in the time of the Prophet sallallahu these directions

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don't exist like that you don't even have the NorthEast Southwest like this so you just have like they will say that they they will say the direction that the sun rises from the direction the sun sets in and then you have a you will have the shemal and you will have the the the South now the shemal and the South the North and the South if you like which becomes the North and the South later on but the shiman was also at the left because it was on the left

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side but it you see these things were often named after a certain wind that would come from that direction yes so and this was actually you know the more you go so for example genuine is a wind that would come from that direction and then this Lake that's the name that's what actually genuine means but later on as it went on to take the meaning of self but it's difficult for us to imagine because these things are such a given in our lifetime but in the prophet's time they didn't have these directions like

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just head north and do this and do this so how would they be guided how would they so they would go with the the Natural Body the natural order of things around them like the direction the sun rises the direction the sun sets they would use them the Stars see they would look at stars and say this particular star this constellation is in a particular place at this time of the year so we know to head in that direction so this is because compasses are not appearing till centuries later so Sohail was a very important Point as

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well that many of the very early Muslim um you know orienteers if you like that gave directions on how to find the Qibla they would often say that you look out for sahil now cannabis by the way in the northern hemisphere can't be seen like we can't see it in the northern hemisphere but you can see in the southern hemisphere so this is an important so when so there is a very natural order of things that is tied together obviously as time progressed we've forgotten that even Muslims we don't fully today know how they did it

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so when you ask Muslims today that how did the Muslims of the past before they invented the Australia before they invented the compass how do they used to find the directions and the qiblers and like they'll just say like they'll say well they clearly did it we know they did it because they built mosques in that direction and the foundations of the mosque still exist in some places but how did they do it we don't exactly know because it's like the new knowledge replaced the previous knowledge and so it kind of almost wiped it out so

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people don't exactly know how but arguably I would say that it was most likely it was all to do with constellations mm-hmm that's that's how they did it and so this is you see also Dan Gibson where he Dan Gibson was wrong in his Makkah uh question where he's trying to say Makkah was Petra but but you see where he lists in his uh book The 160 masks that he goes and he tries to check their foundations and and he shows the maps and why out of all of these masks all around the world the

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ancient masks the foundations are pointing towards he feels that that direction but they're more so he feels pointing towards Petra than makkan he and some art with Makkah and he's and this is his hypothesis which I've got a video debunking that yeah but even in that he will say for example he says well he's been researching or what have the Muslims said how did they used to figure out the direction of the Qibla because these like there's an ancient mosque in China for example the foundations point to it like how did they know which part of the world was that direction so so he just he'll say as well that they don't we don't seem to

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know how they did it but we just we just like we know that they did it though but we've lost there's a disconnect and I I've I've said that it is most likely through the constellations that's what they they did it with yeah yeah I know so my my dad helped me do some calculations regarding it and explained loads of complex mathematics as yeah he's yeah he used to be an expert in that field so he yeah he said he gave some really complicated Summers about how to calculate that based on longitude and

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latitude yeah but you have to keep in mind that this at the time of early Islam there is no longitude and latitude and it predates all of this stuff so it doesn't exist at that point so this is why today people it's you know we we have so many filters that we can't even understand the world the kind of the very organic world that in which the prophet lived and we think we understand it but we have so many filters because those The Companions and those people they had a way of

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understanding the world which is like to us we have to remove so many things to get to it yeah yeah okay yeah like somebody you see somebody said here that um like uh they could have just moved them in the wrong direction by accident that's ridiculous that's absurd it's far too you see it's far above Pro like it's impossible that they built them just like yes they didn't just say oh you know it's in that direction and they got it right everywhere they went it doesn't work like like you couldn't do that now like

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you couldn't like I could like if somebody just like let's just say you walked in let's say you just walked in a countless you know in like what appears to be for a while a never-ending field let's say you walk through a desert with directions appear equally uh confusing and confounding so you so you're not clear there's no landmarks events like you can't get Tower there and some ocean this so you don't know what direction you're walking in now let's say you did that for a couple of days

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but you wouldn't know uh what what direction you're going in you just know I'm just walking in this direction because especially now you take away the compass and you take away even the concept of north east south west you take that away like you don't have these words in that way then how do you keep track and they clearly did I mean you know you have like sahaba reaching China and you'll have so they people clearly knew what they were doing the question is well we just don't know how they did

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it so people today and it's it's an arrogance you know this is an arrogance that we have today that we somehow think the people of the past were stupid it's like we think no but we do but people do you know people think and you know Graham Hancock speaks loads about this that we somehow think that people in the past were very primitive and therefore because we read books and we have computers we are somehow so far more sophisticated now in some things that may be true like obviously they didn't have computers so yes in this kind of

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Lifestyle we are but they were incredibly intelligent and intricate in their Affairs but in certain things like like for example when it came to Nature they were so intelligent that we are so disconnected from that like we wouldn't like we we just can't fathom the the way they could understand things yeah it actually is more difficult to read canaya former and hieroglyphs says they have more letters or characters whatever you call it than the commonly used alphabets today because of the vast number of characters

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used so it's so I I agree with you on that and yeah so so and also can it forms a bit more difficult to read because each what is it each character represents at least two letters or can represent one letter or two letters and yeah not not to die anyway that not to Diamond expert engineer for men hieroglyphs some more com are possibly are you just being are you just being humble Lucy that not that you're an expert in that well not as if I've got any PhD in it come on I'm sure you can you can

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decipher the hieroglyphs and yeah but there's there's a determinative at the end of each word and then there's the sounds that make up the word so that's what so for example there it would be a bit like having a letter and then a determinative so a bit like the letters c t and then a picture of a cat would indicate that's a cat and that's that would be like the English way of of reading the words cat if it were but in hieroglyphs it's it's different but or it would be like a bit like almost

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saying I'm assuming like let's say the letter H but then a picture of a cat but to understand that it's hot in this case uh like like they they would use I'm I'm under the impression that obviously they would also like you would have a kind of like a pictogram but also the symbols would at time not just be they wouldn't just be kind of like they wouldn't just be pictograms sorry they they'd be like ideograms so you would have uh they would lean in on words but not always just be symbolic like pictures of things but maybe they're just taking a certain

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uh what is it a certain syllable from that word and therefore using that picture but putting this letter so you have it which is quite very complex I mean you know if we had to read like that today how fast would our reading be here and and also it's it's possible for a human to learn either kneiform or hieroglyphs maybe even both like some people have because the Chinese script which involves oh thousands upon thousands of characters to be fluent it probably requires at least seven nine seventy thousand or something or maybe even ten thousand to be depending on the

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levels I'm so wowed by you know I should in short life God willing wants certain preoccupations clear up take back up you know the the Mandarin because I've just been so wowed by the language just the fact that people can read it which they clearly can but I'm just so wild I can never get over that yeah yeah it's amazing yeah yeah and also the and as I was reading a book by uh one author who said that some of these ancient Stones were called saracen stones or assassin Stones referring to

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Muslims or also known as saracens in medieval Europe yeah but I think some of these would predate Medieval Times wouldn't they they were very ancient yeah but maybe that Muslims discovered them first or they had an interest to them and thereby became Associated Affiliated to saracens um but obviously the Muslims wouldn't have invented these things because these things would be very ancient kind of structures um yeah but I'll just uh I'll wrap this up but just a very simple uh Point somebody did ask about the Dan Gibson thing I do have a

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video explaining it is on YouTube explaining how and why Dan Gibson was wrong and it's called a reply to Dan Gibson and I explain how you see that the reason why these people get um where they managed to get to with their hypotheses it's because some of the things that they're saying do actually correlate to reality like as in there are half truths or partial truths in their hypothesis but just so I mentioned from the very get-go in that video that

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Dan Gibson in certain things he is right but he's right for the wrong reasons so this is the point now you see so to the imperceptible eye like to to people it's those half or partial truths that Mesmerize them but if you put the whole picture together you actually realize he's wrong but he's got this this this information right and this was the real answer so I do go into the history of that and I explain why these things were the way they were and even those structures why some of those structures were Point aligned more aligned towards Petra than

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they were to Makkah and the reason for that and why did Makkah have the same name as Petra as why was it fashioned in the same direction as Petra all of these things that go into it and it actually makes a lot of sense once you read the actual history and the the ancestral uh you know uh grandparent the great great grandparent of the Prophet salallahu The ancestral uh and his whole Legacy and how he lived in Petra and returns and and his whole struggle in you know what was then this very uh this settlement of

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Makkah how he re-establishes it and builds it Fashions it in the way that he had seen in uh in Patron the and hence names it um because that was also called um so it's not actually just as many people for example went from England to America and named cities after like New York is named after York and you'll get New England and Cambridge and uh you'll guess a Birmingham Alabama so the point is that people rename things after they it's not to say if a person for example

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I don't know let's say in in time to come in the future they said well oh actually there was no Birmingham in Alabama it was actually just Birmingham and England and people mistook that let's say all of this gets eradicated they say well people mistook it because look you know Birmingham was really like this and so so all of these things it's not that there isn't a um he actually catches on to certain partial truths he just doesn't know it like he thinks oh he's he he's kind of unlocked some other mystery but it is a fascinating mystery on why Makkah was fashioned in that way because this is going generations and

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generations and generations before the prophet because there is a and when Jose has to take over there's a huge battle which he just about he wins that battle but in that battle there is a huge obviously the Makkah is just a small settlement but there's Devastation you know there's obviously destruction to whatever little settlement that there was so he rebuilds it and he rebuilds it in a way to fashion and to mirror the settlement that he knew from sham which was Petra hence they referred to this Kaaba as the kabasham yeah because it was then fashioned in that

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way so so you get this whole now people catching on to these words like why was the Kappa called the Kaba shamia because it was called that because not because it was in charm but because it was resembled or it was fashioned by the great great ancestor of the prophet in that way the settlements okay yeah so um right I hope that uh makes a lot of sense but I've got a very detailed video and you can watch that right let's wrap that up oh I just remembered as well that you know when we're speaking about

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the winds and how the winds were named after directions in Spain the uh it was the levanta was named was the name of the wind in that that came from the Levant and you have in the in in The Alchemist he's referring to it in the you know the the protagonist he speaks often of the Levant the wind coming from uh you know coming from the East but it's from the Levant region so they name it in that direction I just remembered that just when as I thought I'd mention it as a

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point right okay we'll catch shukran for joining us Lucy Allah bless you um we'll catch up soon people that was Lucy from Wales of right it has got um right yeah

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uh I you see somebody mentioned that there's an article that debunks the whole Dan Gibson thing I think I don't know if anybody else caught on to this whole so when I responded to the Dan Gibson Theory I'm not aware of anybody that responded in that way I'm not saying that to kind of pick myself up um but I'm not aware of anyone that responded in that comprehensive so people just responded by saying Dan Gibson was wrong

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but they didn't argue for where he was right because he's not just 100 wrong in what he's saying he's obviously presenting facts now you could say well this is wrong but then how do you answer those facts you need to answer them so I don't know but at the time when I looked everywhere so you do have the mathematical explanations and you have other things and um you have the article written by what was it Dr you know the mathematician but so they do disprove his theories but they don't answer they're not coming from an Islamic point to answer well what does uh how do you answer his points about

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you know Makkah being referred to in a in the as a Charming Essence and having these names of reflecting the names of Petra and having all of these things I hadn't come across anyone that so that was something that you know by the grace of God Allah what can I say it you know Allah you know he teaches he teaches us you know he teaches us because so that was something that was when I was really as as just so zoned into what he was doing and trying to understand it that

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this with the research that I was conducting this was what re what kind of adorned on me this realization that ah and then when I started to explore that it all started to make sense everything fell in place I thought wow okay now it all makes sense now there's an answer to every question that he's put forward so as opposed to just saying well you're wrong but answering all these questions it all kind of came into into play yeah okay uh right people we're going to Let's

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we've got uh right it's it's got very late you know what let's wrap this up people I've got it's gonna be sober now and I've got also a reasonably early start it has been a pleasure as always Allah bless you all um right I'll just see some of the comments right

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yeah right let's see I've answered all of that no point going into it right so guys if you do need to uh Reach Out sure message me on Instagram I do try to respond um if you need a more focused detailed uh interaction then you can go to patreon.com forward slash malm uh that's m-a-l-m and you can book a one-to-one consultation from there you can also be part of the Discord

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emailing out to some of my insights people let's call it a wrap Allah bless you all yeah take very good care of yourselves remember me in your to us and try to say a kind of R for people so everybody can ask for themselves but true you know the the art of giving is the essence of Dua is if you make it for someone else Allah

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